[Avodah] text of Alenu

[Eli Turkel]

Micha wrote

<<And you may have noticed I tend to post versions of #3 in every discussion
of historical analyses of Judaism. This comment is a sibling to my
assertion that it's up to a halachicist, not a historian, to decide
whether more information about what a kezayis /was/ has halakhah lemaaseh
impact on what a kezayis /is/.>>

going from intrepreting texts to deciding on the kezayit is a big stretch.
Though CI  agrees with Micha ROY certainly doesnt. The sefardi/yershulami
shiur of kezayit is based on the mesorah of EY/Eygptian Jewry on what the
Rambam held when he said that a reviit is 27 drams of water and so a dram
is 3.3 grams and a betitzah is 57 cc. ROY concedes that since we now know
that the Arab dram changed over time and so a dram is 2.83 grams and a
beitzah is 50cc.
Hence, these poskim certainly take into account historical facts.

In addition we have the famous Ramban who changed his mind about the shekel
once he came to EY and actually saw an ancient shekel that agreed with
Rashi.

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Eli Turkel
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