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The Wise Scientists of Chelm and the Setting of the Sun
Sunday, November 13, 2011 @ 06:11 PM
Credit: ESA/NASA/SOHO (Published 2/17/2011)*
Some time ago, in the Old Country village of Chelm, the wise men were studying Torah. It was Shabbat B’reishit, or, as it was known in Chelm, Shabbes Breshis. The men — and it was just men — were focused on Chapter 1, Verses 14-18, where it is written that on the fourth day of the first biblical week God made two big lights, the Sun and the Moon, and set them in the expanse of the sky. They were trying to figure out how there could have been an evening and a morning on each of the three prior days without the Sun. read more
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