[Avodah] sun and moon

[Arie Folger]

RZS wrote:
> When a prince transforms into a frog, is he not the same prince afterwards?

Princes do not turn into frogs, and the Midrashim are not Disney
animated features or fairy tales (unless you want to be darshen the
fairy tales to mine them for moral import; some of them, after all,
are based on wisdom literature, sometimes even lifted out of the
Midrash).

-- 
Arie Folger,
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