[Avodah] Malachim and mistakes

[Prof. Levine]

At 12:09 PM 10/10/2011, Yosef Skolnick wrote:
>To which they respond: You don't understand the torah with the 
>requisite depth.... Tos may have used pathagareon theorums from the 
>greeks or they could have derived it from the hilchos of how a 
>sukkah works.  It is not so unreasonable to think that if the greeks 
>figured it out then so could we at some point.

Deriving it from the halachos of how a sukkah works and finding  it 
in the Torah are two very different things IMO.  Indeed, one can 
figure out the Pythagorean Theorem from studying geometric figures 
that are not succos.
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