[Avodah] Lulov Pockets

[Zev Sero]

Micha Berger wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 12:51:46AM -0400, Zev Sero wrote:
> :> As noted last time we discussed this coin, Bar Kochva only needed one
> :> hadas and one aravah -- as he would follow shitas Rabbi Aqiva.
> 
> : But that's not what the coin seems to depict.
> 
> But the idea isn't mine. I got it, complete with the Rabbi Aqiva
> connection (only needing one of each) from the Biblical Archeology
> Review.

Look at the picture itself, though.


> All I could find by Google were copies of a Jm Post article citing our
> RAZivotofsky and R Ari Greenspan to this effect.
> 
> But it would seem that people who actually saw such coins are okay with
> this interpretation of their image.

What makes them more expert than any of us at what the picture actually
looks like?  Surely we're each equally capable of looking at it.


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