The sun's disk/ the sun/ solar sphere

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The sun's disk/ the sun/ solar sphere

The sun's disk/ the sun/ solar sphere

The orb of the sun. A poetic epithet for the sun.

("Rabbi Yehoshua answered and said (to Rabbi Eliezer): You are better for Israel than the sun's disk. For the sun's disk is in this world, and the Rabbi is in this world and in the world to come" - Sanhedrin 91a; and likewise: "And they shall be made as one, resembling a single woven fabric together with the sun's disk and the Psalms" - H. Hazaz / Shelulit Geniza, 131)

Translation

Expression (Hebrew)

גַּלְגַּל הַחַמָּה

Definition (Hebrew)

כַּדּוּר הַשֶּׁמֶשׁ. כִּנּוּי מְלִיצִי לַשֶּׁמֶשׁ.

("נַעֲנָה רַבִּי יְהוֹשֻׁעַ וְאָמַר (לְרַבִּי אֱלִיעֶזֶר ): טוֹב אַתָּה לְיִשְׂרָאֵל יוֹתֵר מִגַּלְגַּל הַחַמָּה. שֶׁגַּלְגַּל הַחַמָּה בָּעוֹלָם הַזֶּה וְרַבִּי בָּעוֹלָם הַזֶּה וּבָעוֹלָם הַבָּא"- סַנְהֶדְרִין קָא ע"א, וְכֵן:"וְנַעֲשׂוּ כְּאֶחָד שֶׁהוּא דּוֹמֶה לִהְיוֹת אָרוּג אֲרִיגָה אַחַת עִם גַּלְגַּל חַמָּה וּמִזְמוֹרֵי תְּהִלִּים"- ח.הָזָז/ שְׁלוּלִית גְּנוּזָה, 131)

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