They make a big deal of this as a great proof of the Shechinah’s revelation, etc. ![]() From here, they say, we have a proof that Chazal and the author of the Zohar were inspired by the Shechinah or the Divine Spirit, who revealed secrets about the build of the planet Earth to them. ![]() A clarification of Chazal’s knowledge about Earth’s shapeĪlthough we, Daat Emet, usually refrain from writing about things which have no practical Halachic implications (for our rabbis have already said: “We do not rely upon the words of Aggadah,” as we wrote on the portion of Vayeshev, see there), let us now deviate from our usual practice, because Jewish religious spokesmen, especially outreach people, are wont to wallow in delight about the knowledge preserved in the Talmud and the Zohar (on the book of Leviticus, see below), as though Chazal, in their era, knew correct things about Earth (such as its being spherical) while Gentile wise men of that period didn’t know this at all.
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