Timeline for Rav Sa'adyah Gaon Rolling in Snow?
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| Feb 28, 2022 at 2:20 | comment | added | Yaacov Deane | And if you you the section I mentioned to you above, he’s explaining that you don’t need snow or even precipitation. You leave shallow trays of water on the roof over night in winter and simply collect the ice in the early morning. If you collected enough of if, and found a way to store it in some kind of cold cellar under ground, it could last you far beyond the winter. At least some in earlier generations figured out how to have ice and probably shaved ice (like snow) without ever knowing about refrigerator freezers. | |
| Feb 27, 2022 at 22:41 | comment | added | Harel13 | I'm pretty sure סידורו של שבת doesn't say it was daily. Just that it happened over a certain period of time (=winter, presumably). | |
| Feb 27, 2022 at 22:29 | answer | added | Deuteronomy | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 27, 2022 at 18:04 | comment | added | רבות מחשבות | My intention was to ask about the daily part, not that it never ever snowed or got cold there. How many days a year on average does the temperature drop below zero there? | |
| Feb 27, 2022 at 13:51 | comment | added | Harel13 | To add to @YaacovDeane, Google Iraq and snow and you'll find that it does snow there sometimes. More peculiar to me is that the סידורו של שבת refers to a particular source as basis for what he said - חוה"ל שער עבודת האלוקים פ"ג which as far as I can tell refers to חובות הלבבות, and yet I did not see any mention in that chapter of snow or Rasag (he is mentioned in ch. 4, though). | |
| Feb 27, 2022 at 12:44 | comment | added | Yaacov Deane | If you read in the comments above your citation in the linked page from the Ben Ish Chai, he explains how a person in a place like Bagdad can fulfill this service in actuality, but only during the winter months. He emphasizes that you don’t need it to snow or to live in a cold climate. That even in Bagdad one can make sufficient ice during the winter months. | |
| Feb 27, 2022 at 7:34 | history | asked | רבות מחשבות | CC BY-SA 4.0 |