[Avodah] ukimtas

[Eli Turkel]

On Wed, Apr 01, 2020 at 03:21:26AM +0000, Rich, Joel via Avodah wrote:
> When Rishonim read ukimtas into the gemara ...                 how often
> were they stating a tradition vs. using their own logic?

On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 11:19 PM Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org> wrote:
> I'm going to cut-n-past RETurkel's post from 28-Feb-2017, "ukimtahs":
...
>> Rav Michal Avraham has a lengthy article (in Hebrew) justifying uktimtot.
>> If anyone wants the article let me know (eliturkel at gmail.com)

>> His basic argument is based on a physics analogy. Any standard physics book
>> will present Newton's law of motion. However, in practice this law never
>> holds, there is friction, gravity and a host of other complications. A
>> physicist would answer an ukimta...

There is also a lengthy different approach from Prof. Menachem Fisch.
If anyone is interested I will try and dredge up the article (Hebrew)

Eli

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Eli Turkel