[Avodah] RYBS on the moon

[Eli Turkel via Avodah]

When the first astronaut landed on the moon and it was broadcast across the

world, a number of Jews didn?t want to believe it was possible, because of
what it says in

Tehillim 116

R? Yosef Scheinberger (from the Eida Chareides) was visiting New York at

the time and went to visit Rav Soloveitchik at his apartment on YU campus

to discuss this issue with him, and he said that many of the residents in

Meah Shearim were depressed over this and maybe the Rav could provide

guidance.

Rav Soloveitchik answered based on a Ramban (very beginning of Bereshis)

where the intention of the

pasuk is that the moon stars and sun are part of the creation of ?????, as

is everything else mentioned during the 7 days of creation. The angels and

celestial upperworlds are never mentioned in the Torah, and those are the

things created when it says differently That is what the pasuk in Tehillim

means  includes the moon and stars.

R? Scheinberger shared this explanation with the residents of Meah Shearim

and they were appeased and were grateful to the Rav for his explanation.

see divrei harav p243 for the Hebrew pesukim

-- 
Eli Turkel
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