[Avodah] [Areivim] Mezuzah in Space

[Simon Montagu]

On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 8:39 PM, Moshe Y. Gluck <mgluck at gmail.com> wrote:

> (On Areivim:)
> > On Thu, January 29, 2009 10:18 pm, Moshe Y. Gluck wrote:
> > : http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1059409.html
>
> R' MB:
> > Are the concepts of mezuzos and mashkof well defined without gravity
> > defining a "down"?
>
> Well, I think we had better get some clarification on this before we send
> the first Israeli spaceship up. :-) Can an artificial gravity (caused, say,
> by a rotating spacecraft) make "down" and "up?" Alternatively, AIUI, a
> spacecraft that is orbiting a planet is still under the influence of that
> planet's gravitational pull, even if weightlessness reigns inside. Maybe
> "Down" in that case would be towards the planet it is orbiting.
>

IMHO "down" and "up" in this context should be correlated to the relative
position of one's head and body when entering the room, not gravitational
pull as such.
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