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A cubit, by a cubit, by a height of 3 cubits. And the rabbis measured the measure of the water necessary for a mikveh at 40 se’a.
The Talmud cites a discussion related to the topic of measurements. Rav Ashi said: Ravin bar Ḥinnana said to me: The table of the Temple, upon which the shewbread was placed, was comprised of assembled parts. For if it should enter your mind that the table was firmly connected and could not be take
The Talmud responds: What is the difficulty? Perhaps the priest would immerse it in the sea that King Solomon built, which was a very wide mikveh, as it states: “And he made the molten sea of 10 cubits from brim to brim, round in compass” (I Kings 7:23). As R' Ḥiyya taught: The sea that Solomon bui
We learned in the Mishnah that even with regard to the poorest of Jews, the charity distributors should not give him less than 4 cups of wine. The Talmud asks: How could the rabbis establish a matter through which one will come to expose himself to danger? But wasn’t it taught in a baraita: A person
Rav Naḥman said that the verse said: “It was a night of watching to YHWH” (Exodus 12:42), which indicates that Passover night is a night that remains guarded from demons and harmful spirits of all kinds. Therefore, there is no cause for concern about this form of danger on this particular night.