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CM:
> So essentially (according to these sources) the answer to what I asked
> was: Yes, (advanced/ultimate) science is (somehow) embedded in Torah, but
> too deeply to be uncovered by mortals (cf. chukim) and thus unreasonable
> to expect Chazal to have advanced scientific knowledge based on their
> prowess in limud Torah and therefore not a lack of emunas chachamim
> to believe they were only aware of the state of science available in
> their era (contrary to [some of] the chareidi position[s]). Is that
> essentially it? 

Re:
> and thus unreasonable to expect Chazal to have advanced scientific
> knowledge based on their prowess in limud Torah

And perhaps unreasonable to also presume that they lacked insight of a
the genre of
Jules Verne or
Gene Roddenberry or 
Isaac Asimov into how technology might eventually evolve.  

IOW why presume an absolute minimalist knowledge of those people
possessing their own great insight in addition to access to of Divine
Wisdom? Or or as the Maharal calls it Chochmas Eloki..



On a different tack

Today A young man who likes to daven a really long sh'moneh esrai missed
the m'gillah reading @ the minyan because he was still davening.

IMHO this is classic mosif that is gorei'a

M'vatlin h'oavdoah liqrias m'gillah, maybe he could have cut his davening
to finish by the end of laining?

Frelichen
RRW
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