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From: levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy)
Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish
Subject: Re: 360 Billion Jews Want Israel Today -- or, Standing Room Only
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Date: Sat, 7-Sep-85 03:04:14 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep  7 03:04:14 1985
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In article <1189@brl-tgr.ARPA>, matt@brl-tgr.ARPA (Matthew Rosenblatt ) writes:
>>
>> >(4) Concerning those empty, barren hills, on which cities are rising :
>> >The Talmud makes mention of a Jewish king who had established on each of 60
>> >hills, 60 cities - an enormous population. (I think that it may be found in
>> >Gittin, among the discussions of the destruction of the Temple.) (A. METH)
>
>And that's not all!  The same Gemara in Gittin says that at the time of one
>Roman attack, there were 600,000 towns, each of which held as many Jews as
>took part in y'tzias Mitzrayim (i.e., about 600,000).  That's 360 thousand
>million Jews, 360 billion according to the American convention.  This is
>not a Midrash, but a Gemara.  The fact is that the "rules" of physics
>and ecology are the creations of G-d, who can alter them locally and
>globally, and has done so, especially in cases concerning His people.
>
>					-- Matt Rosenblatt

Amazing.  Looking in the geographical index of the dictionary on my desk,
I see that Israel's area (modern) is 7993 square miles.  With 360e9 Jews
that comes out to about 0.62 square foot per Jew.  Simply amazing.
--
Dan Levy
AT&T Computer Systems Division, Skokie
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