[Avodah] Rakia, Maaseh Bereishis, Halachah

Micha Berger micha at aishdas.org
Tue Jun 28 14:37:13 PDT 2011


On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 04:45:43PM -0400, Lampel wrote:
> The Rambam also says that the Torah uses the words rakia (cloud region)  
> and shamayim (celestial region) interchangeably, using each one for the  
> other. So, another nafka meena: if your reshus would be directly under a  
> star, would you own it?

No star is stationary over one point on the earth.
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Tir'u baTov!
-Micha



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