[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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