[Avodah] Malachim and mistakes

[Prof. Levine]

At 09:18 AM 10/10/2011, you wrote:
>RYL says:
>Â
> >> There is an attitude that one often hears today, "Everything is in
> >> the Torah."Â  When I hear someone say this, I ask, "Where do you find
> >> the Pythagorean Theorem in the 
> Torah?"Â  This is always met with silence <<
>Â
>Funny you should bring that example up, and 
>right before Succos.  The concept  can be 
>derived from Tosafos Succah 8a s.v. kol amsa.

But when they assert that everything is in the 
Torah, they mean literally in the Torah itself.

I would be willing to wager that the Baalei 
Tosafos knew Greek mathematics and got the 
theorem from there. >:-}   Of course, I cannot prove this. YL


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