Volume 43: Number 20
Mon, 24 Mar 2025
Subjects Discussed In This Issue:
Message: 1
From: Danny Schoemann
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2025 15:21:29 +0200
Subject: [Avodah] Re: standard measures?
RMB:
> I don't know what he would do with a kezayis. Would he follow R Chaim
> Volozhiner, because the nearest thing to a subjective olive is using
> the more available olive in NCyour own region and time?
I'm pretty sure it's a Mishna - to use a medium sized olive, each chochom
using what he has available.
(R Yehuda says to take the biggest and smallest you can find and divide
volume by 2. Counterargument: how do you know you found the biggest and
smallest? Safer to use a medium sized one.)
But embarrassingly so I cannot locate this Mishna. Even electronically.
(I usually finish Shas Mishnayos thrice yearly. But for round 41 I decided
to use Kehati again, and it's taking me 9 months.)
Also see the the Rambam at the end of Keilim ch. 17 (last sentence) where
he writes:
Ein medakdekim b'chol hashiurim ho'eilu shekoolom hen midivrei sofrim.
(When measuring strange shaped earthenware ovens we don't measure very
accurately is it's Rabbinic impurity.)
Obviously not applicable across the board.
Kol Tuv
- Danny
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Message: 2
From: Yonatan Kaganoff
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2025 22:15:30 -0400
Subject: [Avodah] Carrying the aron (ark) while walking backwards
According to the Rambam in *Hilchos Klei ha-Mikdash ve-ha-Ovdim Bo*
(???? ????, ????? ??? ????? ???????? ??) 2:13:
????????????????? ?????? ??? ???????? ?????????? ??????? ???????? ???????
????????????? ?????? ?????????? ????????.
When [the Levites] carry the ark on their shoulders, they should carry it
face to face, with their backs pointed outward and their faces inward.
Thus those in the front will be walking backwards so that they won't be
turning their backs to the *a**ron*.
However, I don't recall ever seeing a depiction of *Bnei Yisroel *traveling in
the desert or of Yehoshua crossing the *Yarden *with those carrying the
the front of the *aron *walking backwards.
Why not?
Yonatan Kaganoff
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