[Avodah] birchat hachama

[Zev Sero]

Micha Berger wrote:

> 2- The "location" the sun returns to has no physical meaning. No one
> ever believed that Shabbetai was in some special location during the
> hours it rules. The planets, sun and move weren't believed to be in some 
> physical 7 hour cycle that brought each one to a special place in order
> to have its power.

I take the gemara's calling that hour "Saturn" to be no more significant
than any contemporary reference to Saturday.  The gemara is using it (in
this instance) as no more than the name of that hour.  It's what the hour
was known as in the local culture.


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