[Avodah] maps

[Micha Berger]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 5:38am EST, Rich, R Joel wrote:
: Does anyone dispute this position? If not, how is it explained by those
: who hold the no errors in mesora theory, that the mesora (our
: forefathers lived there) was lost?

I mentioned a number of times in the past my take on RDLifshitz's position
on kinim ein lahem piryah verivyah. That the beitzim have no halachic
mamashus, being invisibly small, and the visible goreim that allowed it
to grow to visible size was the meat.

I think my recent post (written before I got to this post by RJR) takes
a similar approach to this question. We think scientifically, products
of being moderns. We therefore take the notion of whether or not maggots
lay egges or whether Bavel is to the NE as objective statements of
what's actually out there. However, Chazal were more concerned with the
subjective, how we relate to what's out there.

And just as RDL managed to provide meaning to Chazal's statement even
with today's science, my answer inadvertantly reflects an answer to
RJR's question as well. R' Chanina wasn't wrong, he was speaking of
the travel route leaving Israel being NE.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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