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Comments (0)When the rabbis-of-old mused about the nature of the universe, their telescope was the Tanakh (the Bible), their philosophical society the pathways of Yavneh and Babylon. Without advanced technology, with no peering devices beyond their own eyes, they used the latest - which is to say the earliest - source of knowledge they had, the texts of their tradition. They asked: “On what does the earth rest? How does it stay up, stay put, stay stable? What supports it?” (Even framing the question was a leap of faith, what with the physics of globes and planets and space and gravity being such a grand mystery. Which it remains today, even with all we know.) For answers they turned to the words in the Bible. “The world rests on its pillars,” they answered, “for it says: ‘God shakes the earth… read more
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