[Avodah] Shitas R' Tam

[D&E-H Bannett]

Re R'ZS comment<< It is simply not possible to ignore the 
latitude, and to pretend that X minutes after sunset it is 
just as dark at 52 degrees as it is at 32 degrees.  It's 
obvious that the farther you are from the equator, the 
longer it takes the sun to
sink a given number of degrees below the horizon, and 
therefore to reach a given degree of darkness.>>

Of  course it is possible and quite logical.  Your error is 
that you labor under the misconception so common today that 
the earth is a ball rotating around itself and also around 
the sun.  If you go back to our ancient and well proven 
tradition of a flat earth with the sun going around it, the 
light disappears all over at the same time.

It might still be nice to be able to decide if chakhmei 
Israel are correct that the sun goes above the raki'a at 
night or it goes under the earth as the chakhmei haumot 
believe.  Either way, however, the sun vanishes from all the 
earth at the same time.


bivrakha,

Claudius Ptolemaeus