[Avodah] [Areivim] Mezuzah in Space

[Micha Berger]

On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 5:01am PST, R Simon Montagu wrote:
: 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.

That would parallel how we define which side of the doorway is "right",
on the right side when one enters -- based on how the doorway is
generally used.

In which case, it's not a doorway, it's a trapdoor. Generally astronauts
swim through them, head first. (The international space station isn't
spun to proceduce a centrapetal force to imitate a local gravity.)

To back off from my original statement bit, R' Chaim Davis noted that
it may be years before any "room" in space is dalet-al-dalet anyway.
So much for it being lemaaseh...

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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