<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Zev Sero <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:zev@sero.name">zev@sero.name</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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The problem with taking "yom" non-literally is not that it doesn't fit<br>
the words, but that it undermines the basis for Shabbos.<br></blockquote></div><br>No more than taking "yad" non-literally in "behozek yad hotzianu miMitzraim" undermines the basis for tefillin.<br>