<div dir="ltr">On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:26 PM, Zev Sero <<a href="mailto:zev@sero.name">zev@sero.name</a>> wrote:<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
How do they deal with "mekom ha'aron einah min hamidah"? That's an open<br>
breach of the laws of ordinary topology; is there some fancy Einsteinian<br>
formula that can explain this without resorting to "Hashem is not bound<br>
by anything"?</blockquote></div><br>There's an essay in _Encounter: Essays on Torah and Modern Life_ (published by AOJS) that makes precisely this observation, that the anomalous dimensional effects of exceptionally high levels of kedusha manifested in halachos throughout Shas appear to be strangely analogous to the effects of exceptionally high velocities described by the special theory of relativity. On my blog, I summarized a few of the points that the author made.<br>
<br><a href="http://haprozdor.blogspot.com/2008/02/dimensional-oddities-in-mishkan.html">http://haprozdor.blogspot.com/2008/02/dimensional-oddities-in-mishkan.html</a><br><br>Joshua Meisner<br></div>