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or grape, or cluster of grapes, would bring it to the Temple and a priest would hang it on the vine. R' Elazar, son of R' Tzadok, said: There was once an incident and 300 priests were enlisted to lift the vine in order to move it, due to its immense weight. This description is an exaggeration, as a
With regard to Shmuel’s statement that the rabbis exaggerated with regard to the weight of the Curtain, it is as we learned in a Mishnah (Shekalim 21b) that Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel says in the name of R' Shimon the deputy High Priest: With regard to the Curtain, its thickness is one handbreadth.
Its length is 40 cubits, corresponding to the height of the entrance to the Sanctuary, and its width is 20 cubits, matching the width of the entrance. And it is made at the cost of 92-thousands, i.e., 820,000, gold dinars,and two new Curtains are made in each and every year. And the Curtain was s
§ The Mishnah teaches: The priests began raising logs onto the altar to assemble the arrangement of wood. Wood from all the trees is fit for the arrangement, except for wood from the olive tree and from the vine. The Talmud asks: What is the reason that wood from these trees is not fit for the arra
The Talmud raises an objection to the explanation of Rav Aḥa bar Ya’akov from a baraita: The verse states with regard to the wood of the arrangement: “And the sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire upon the altar, and lay wood in order upon the fire. And Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall lay the pie