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[Zev Sero]

On 24/06/2011 10:28 AM, Saul Guberman wrote:
> I am not sure how this footnote explanation is any more of a stretch than a piece of paper falling from heaven.

We start with the tradition that there was a piece of paper.  That's not
a stretch, that's what the Or Zarua says.  Then the Keter Shemtov comes
along with an explanation about how it doesn't really mean what it says,
and they really made a goral, but then they made up a story about a piece
of paper falling from heaven because they were so confident in the goral
that it was "as if" that had happened.  Come on, how is that *not* a
stretch, compared to taking the Or Zarua at his word?  What exactly is
difficult about believing that the Anshei Knesses Hagdolah saw a piece
of paper fall from heaven?  Again I come back to the basic question: are
we Jews or Protestants?  Do we believe that there is a Higher World and
there are miracles or not?  What kind of Jew believes such things to be
impossible?

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