Episode 11: Chapter 6b - The Creation of the World (Day Four)

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

per v. We're holding in the middle of the per uh just a few points that have to do with what we spoke about last week. The first point is Rabbi Hakad raised an issue that we say um Sakama not on the day that's the actual date of the astronomical vernal equinox. So if you look at the Wikipedia article, what does that mean? What? Use some words which I have no idea what they mean. It it it the equinox is the day that the night and the is the one of two that the night and the is the one of two days during the entire year that the day and the night is exactly equal, right? 12 hours which would Yeah. Yeah. Exactly 12 or bar 12 basically exactly bar 12 hours but yeah but um the what's it called? So that's the date of the of the equinox, right? But we don't say on the day of the equinox. So, how could it be that the day of the equinox is supposed to be Tufas Nissan, but we say a few days later? It was I but we say a few days later? It was I think it was the equinox is March 20 20th or 21st. 20th or 21st year and we said I believe was on like April 8th or something, right? So, it's like it's like two weeks later or so. So, how how does that work out? So, if you look in the Wikipedia article about Sakama, it explains it explains this an the answer to this question. And basically the answer is that there's two different ways to calculate the there's what we call of and the of those are two in the

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1. 0:02per v. We're holding in the middle of the per uh just a few points that…
2. 6:15debatable but the point is that these ideas represent some sort of deeper cabalistic um system…
3. 12:27and he breaks the windows of the heavens. He bring he takes the sun from its…
4. 18:40middle is gonna start from start from which is what we called before the equinox the…
5. 24:58quest to show that no the sun isn't really God really Hashem is God then that's…
6. 31:07360 for no 91 and 91 is 3 364. Okay. 3 91 doesn't get to a…
7. 37:16of the creation of the sun when it first came out. Yeah. But we we we…
8. 43:32longer at night in the west the sun in the times of the spring and the…
9. 49:49Let's translate it. It goes to the south and it turns around the to the north…
10. 56:02truma and parishes truma explains this um in a in a different way. This is appropriate…

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