[Avodah] Just one Hashem in Heaven

[Arie Folger]

RMB wrote:
> But in the case of shamayim, all derashos about eish+mayim aside,
> I think it's sham+ayim, yeilding "thereness". There, as in not here, a
> place I am not at. Thus shamayim is a term referring to places I
> can't reach.

That is exactly how R' Yaakov Meidan, quoting R' Yoel Bin Nun, in the
former's shiurim on Kohelet, interprets shamayim, from shamim,
"theres" or as you put it, "thereness."

I don't recall which shiur it was in, but the series is available here:
http://torah.libsyn.org/index.php?post_category=%D7%9E%D7%92%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%AA%20%D7%A7%D7%94%D7%9C%D7%AA

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