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The Mishnah elaborates: There are 10 tenths for the loaves of leavened bread, a tenth of an ephah per loaf. And there are 10 tenths for the loaves of matza. And among the loaves of matza there are 3 types: Loaves, wafers, and those poached in water, 10 loaves of each type. Consequently, there are
And in the Jerusalem measure there were 30 kav, 15 kav for the loaves of leavened bread and 15 for the loaves of matza. The Mishnah elaborates: There are 15 kav for the loaves of leavened bread, 1½ kav per loaf. And there are 15 kav for the loaves of matza. And among the loaves of matza there are
Talmud: The Mishnah teaches: The flour for the loaves accompanying the thanks offering would come from a measure of 5 Jerusalem se’a, which are equivalent to 6 wilderness se’a. The se’a referred to in the Bible when the Jewish people were in the wilderness is smaller than the se’a used later in Je
The Talmud asks: And as for the bat itself, from where do we derive its measure? If we say that we derive it from that which is written in the same verse: “That the bat may contain the tenth-part of a ḥomer,” and since one ḥomer consists of 30 se’a, one bat is equivalent to 3 se’a, there is a diffi
Rather, derive the volume of the ephah from here, from a subsequent verse, where it is written with regard to separating teruma: “And the set portion of oil, the bat of oil, shall be the tithe of the bat out of the kor, which is 10 bat, even a ḥomer; for 10 bat are a ḥomer” (Ezekiel 45:14). The ve