[Avodah] Do gentiles have more teeth than Jews? Do they have less?

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 04:49:22PM -0500, Prof. Levine wrote:
: The end of the post at 
: http://parsha.blogspot.com/2009/06/do-gentiles-have-more-teeth-than-jews.html 
: says,
: 
: "But how can they [the gedolei Yiaroel] really judge this, when they 
: likely would not recognize all the places that Chazal's statements 
: diverge from science, and quite possibly are not familiar with all 
: the relevant sources, not really caring that much about the 
: intersection until it becomes a hot-button issue? ...

"They don't care that much about the intersection..." Now, assume that's
beshittah, and perhaps that's the answer to your question. The don't see
the need for a correspondane between reality and halakhah that you're
taking for granted.

IOW, it's more relevent that Chazal said they have more (or fewer)
teeth than whether or not they actually do.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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