[Avodah] sun and moon

[Lisa Liel]

On 8/26/2011 12:26 PM, Zev Sero wrote:
> On 26/08/2011 1:16 PM, Micha Berger wrote:
>> But the Rambam tells us his theoretical basis, and it's Aristo's impetus
>> theory. Dismissed science.
>
> Where does he tell us this? I don't see it anywhere. If his only reason
> were Aristotelian physics then they would not have to be intelligent;
> they would only need whatever it is that Aristotle thought an animal
> needed in order to move itself. There was certainly no cause to conclude
> that the celestial bodies are more intelligent than people, and only a
> bit less than angels!
>
> And in fact there is no connection between his belief that the tzeva
> hashamayim are intelligent and the need for a motive force to keep them
> moving; on the contrary, he uses that argument to prove Hashem's existence
> in the first place. It's Hashem, he says, that keeps the galgal moving;
> not the galgal itself. Asserting intelligence on the part of the galgal
> tends to undermine his argument rather than support it. Therefore he must
> have had a completely different reason for asserting that it's intelligent.

ויום השביעי משבח ואומר: טוב להודות לה'.

Would you actually contend that a piece of time speaks and praises?  I 
mean, literally?

Lisa