[Avodah] How many Korban Pesachs could be sacrificed in 1 day?

Lisa Liel lisa at starways.net
Mon Sep 2 20:46:07 PDT 2013


On 9/2/2013 7:23 PM, Kenneth Miller wrote:
> R' Marty Bluke asked:
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>>>> 1.2 million korban pesachs seem to be a very problematic number.
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> Remember that we're talking about a place where the Keruvim were in a room 20 amos wide, yet there was ten amos of empty space on each side. Is it such a stretch (heh, no pun intended) to think that this could apply to time as well as to space?
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> In a place where "they stood crowded, but bowed with plenty of space," I have no problem imagining that the avodah was done carefully, and yet, when each person left, he found that almost no time at all had passed.
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> Akiva Miller
>    
I'm hesitant to attribute it to a miracle when Chazal specifically 
included the bowing thing and didn't mention this as a miracle.

Lisa



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