[Avodah] Shitas R' Tam

[Marty Bluke]

With all the discussion of R' Tam with regards to lighting Chanuka candles,
I would like to raise the following. R' Tam's shita has always really
bothered me. The Gra's question of hachush machish (reality contradicts R'
Tam)  is so powerful and obvious I don't understand how the Rishonim could
have said what they said. Did they never go outside an hour after sunset and
see that it was pitch black and you could see hundreds of stars? It is clear
from the Gemara that tzeis is an astronomical phenomenon because the Gemara
gives other astronomical simanim besides the shiur in mil.
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