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<DIV><FONT lang=0 color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10">In a message dated 8/2/2011 9:20:40 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
gershon.dubin@juno.com writes:</DIV>
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<DIV><<This gets off Mesorah material, but I am sure that there were
many travelers in the desert, caravans that passed through, and they named the
places where they could rest, probably oases and wadis that had water in the
winter. The Sinai is not all endless sand like the Sahara.
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<DIV>You were apparently not listening that carefully to last week's
haftorah. See Yirmiya 2:6; the Gemara also learns from this
pasuk that anyplace that Adam Harishon determined should be settled, was,
and vice versa. The implication is that Midbar Sinai was a complete
wasteland. </DIV>
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<DIV>Gershon<BR><A href="mailto:gershon.dubin@juno.com">gershon.dubin@juno.com</A></FONT></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV>But it is <STRONG>/not/</STRONG> a complete wasteland. </DIV>
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<DIV>You could just say the Gemara is wrong, or I guess you could try to find a
different understanding of what a "wasteland" means here.</DIV>
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<DIV>It is not settled territory and would not support farms and
cities, but it supports travelers, and travelers certainly named oases,
springs, mountains and wadis that they visited as they traveled.</DIV>
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