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<DIV><BR>RZS writes:</DIV>
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<DIV>>>So it remains theoretically *possible* that the stars visible
before<BR>4 millin are all what Chazal called "gedolim", and only the ones
that<BR>become visible then are "beinonim", and perhaps the "kochavim
ketanim"<BR>are ones that are too small or distant for us *ever* to see with
the<BR>naked eye <<</DIV>
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<DIV>I don't buy it. There is no way Chazal could have spoken of "kochavim
ketanim" and intended the average person over the last 2000 years to understand
that term to mean "invisible stars." It is just too
implausible.<BR><BR></DIV></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT lang=0 face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF"
PTSIZE="10"><BR><B>--Toby
Katz<BR>=============</B></FONT></DIV></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>