Rambam Mishneh Torah: Hilchos Yesodei HaTorah Chapter 3

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi YY Jacobson’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

peri gimmel halocha alef i prepared also a few images which will show up here on the stream on the video which i hope will make the learning uh easier to comprehend and understand says the rambam the spheres heim are called the heavens the firmament the habitation and the skies those are various names for the gal gallim a gal gal means a sphere and the rambam says vahem tisha gal galum these are nine spheres if you look here at the image see this image you see it's like a ball that's what the rambam calls a sphere imagine nine invisible balls one tucked into the other he says tisha gal galum there are they're invisible as we shall see nine spheres so to speak one ball in another ball and another ball in another ball and as he's going to say the earth is in the middle in the center gal gal hakara of mimenu the closest sphere to the earth is the sphere of the moon you see in this image you could see a picture of earth planet earth since the closest sphere is the sphere in which you have the moon the second sphere which is above it who gal gao is a sphere shaboy which contains the planet means star but here it means the planet which is called the translation of is star or planet and here we were referring to the planet known as mercury which in hebrew language is called the planet of koichev koikov means a star now they're all called kerkhov all the planets but this is also individually called by the name planet and star next gal gal shlishi the third sphere shalom is yet above it and thus more distant from the earth

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1. 0:32peri gimmel halocha alef i prepared also a few images which will show up here on…
2. 6:18this revolves each day from the east to the west and it surrounds and encompasses all…
3. 12:10planets not rotating in empty space the orbit is not an empty space but rather the…
4. 18:07southward um and also analyzing their distance above the earth it's possible to figure out the…
5. 24:01depends if you're in the northern hemisphere southern hemisphere our summer is their winter their winter…
6. 29:53the names are based on the shapes that appear to be formed by the stars below…
7. 35:43now imagine i'm here at earth now look at this be now concentrate i'm moving against…
8. 41:37small ones which the earth surpasses in size so the ram is telling us now that…
9. 47:40in august 1969 and what he discovered he discovered a rocky surface and there was one…
10. 53:25surah ishaina the first of these forms which again we're not talking about physical form we're…

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