Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site 3comvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!oliveb!3comvax!michaelm From: michaelm@3comvax.UUCP (Michael McNeil) Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish Subject: Re: 360 Billion Jews Want Israel Today -- or, Standing Room Only Message-ID: <222@3comvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 16-Sep-85 04:02:43 EDT Article-I.D.: 3comvax.222 Posted: Mon Sep 16 04:02:43 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 18-Sep-85 02:49:34 EDT References: <3780073@csd2.UUCP> <387@ttrdc.UUCP> <1189@brl-tgr.ARPA> <400@ttrdc.UUCP> Organization: 3Com Corp; Mountain View, CA Lines: 36 [``Yaaaaargh!'' (Munch, chomp, *belch*!)] 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 I find it extremely difficult to believe that the feisty Jews of Roman times (who provided us with the word ``zealots'' and the doomed-but- defiant image we have of Masada) could not have *easily* defeated all the might of Rome, had they had but a fraction of the *360 billion* people which Matt here suggests. Compare this figure to an estimated total population of *100 million* or so for all of the Roman Empire! Surely the Jews could have managed to kill a single Roman for each of *3,600* Jews killed or enslaved! (Unless, of course, ``G-d'' altered the ``rules of physics ... in cases concerning His [sic] people.'') ________________ Michael McNeil 3Com Corporation "All disclaimers including this one apply" (415) 960-9367 ..!ucbvax!hplabs!oliveb!3comvax!michaelm