[Avodah] zman hadloko erev Shabbos and motzoei Shabbos
T613K at aol.com
T613K at aol.com
Sun Dec 31 17:57:52 PST 2006
RZS writes:
>>So it remains theoretically *possible* that the stars visible before
4 millin are all what Chazal called "gedolim", and only the ones that
become visible then are "beinonim", and perhaps the "kochavim ketanim"
are ones that are too small or distant for us *ever* to see with the
naked eye <<
>>>>>
I don't buy it. There is no way Chazal could have spoken of "kochavim
ketanim" and intended the average person over the last 2000 years to understand
that term to mean "invisible stars." It is just too implausible.
--Toby Katz
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