[Avodah] Shitas R"T

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 11:26:22AM -0500, Zev Sero wrote:
: I have heard (but not seen inside) that R M Kasher wrote an essay
: showing that Chachmei EY knew the earth was a globe, while Chachmei
: Bavel did not.

I do not understand how. Even I was able to dig up evidence that the
Ptolmeic model was accepted by Chazal in Rebbe's day. The only evidence I
found for a flat earth were R' Eliezer and R' Yehoshua, two generations
before, and R Chiya, a talmid of Rebbe's (who still believed in orbits,
just around a flat earth).

None of these three tannaim were Babylonian.

Tir'u baTov!
-mi

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