[Avodah] reality

[David Riceman]

RSN (citing someone):

<<in general, whenever Chazal make a scientific statement, they are not 
talking about the observable universe but rather the "real" universe.>>

RMB:

<<Chazal don't speak of reality as it is, but reality as we are able to 
experience it directly.>>

See the beginning of the sixth Be'er in Be'er HaGolah (in Rabbi 
Hartman's edition try p. 145). The Maharal's formulation is that Hazal 
spoke, not about the laws of nature, but about the divine laws which 
induce the laws of nature.

Compare the Ramban on Shoftim 18:9.

David Riceman