[Avodah] R' Nissim Karelitz's Beis Din: Kohanim cannot fly from Ben Gurion

[Zev Sero via Avodah]

On 31/10/16 14:52, Micha Berger via Avodah wrote:
> But what if the person were buried on Mars. Would "above" be a wedge
> starting at the center of Mars? Or would it be defined by the rapidly
> changing line from the middle of the earth? How geocentric are we?

Lich'ora we are very geocentric.  Everything in Torah seems to support 
such a view.  This is the Eretz where man was created and the Torah was 
given, and where the Machon Leshivtecha is located.  Thus it is the 
privileged point of view from which the rest of the universe is to be 
regarded.


> More likely RET is correct, and someone so far above the source of
 > tum'ah that the human eye can't see it isn't tamei. Just because
 > that seems consistent to me with halakhah in general.

Then no grave should be tamei because the body is covered and thus 
invisible.  It seems to me that the rule that invisible things are 
treated as non-existent applies only to things that are invisible in 
themselves, not merely invisible to you because of your distance, just 
as we don't apply it if they're merely invisible to you because of your 
blindness, or because your eyes are closed, or because it's dark.


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