פירוש על ברכות 116:11

Rashi explains this to mean "shooting stars." Other commentators hazard "comet." The 'Aruk translates Zikin "comets" and K. di-S. "shooting stars." They both probably mean "shooting stars." On this astronomical passage, see Brodetsky, J. R. II. pp. 167 ff.

See p. 74 n. 2.

M.: b. Judah.

There are "seven heavens of which the first, Vilon, was merely a 'curtain' which was withdrawn by day and replaced by night, thus alternately exposing and hiding the Sun, which, together with the moon, planets, and stars, was fixed to the second, Rekia'." Brodetsky, loc. cit. p. 171.

It is merely an error of perspective (Brodetsky).