[Avodah] Some Interesting Remarks About Birchas HaChama

[Rich, Joel]

We thus see that the entire exercise is actually symbolic, because the
reality differs with the facts of astronomy, as the chachomim who chose
this calculation (rather than the more exact one which is used to keep
Pesach in season, for example) certainly understood.  But if the more
exact calculation were used, there would almost never be a time when the
sun could be said to be at the same position as it was that first yom
revii.  (See R'Bleich's discussion in the ArtScroll volume.)  The
chachomim exercised this discretion to give us an opportunity to thank
Hashem for the orderly continuance of the orbits of the celestial bodies
(think of it as thanking Hashem for passing the law of conservation of
angular momentum), which otherwise would not have been possible. 
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In the shiur on YUTORAH he makes the same point but expands the thanks
to include all "natural miracles" 
KT
Joel Rich
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