[Avodah] Kazayyit size

[Micha Berger]

On Sun, April 13, 2008 11:03 am, D&E-H Bannett wrote:
: I wrote some years ago on the list about the measurements
: made by R' Avi Greenfield on the sizes on a circle of hand
: matza of 1.8 mm thickness

: Mishna Brura:             60 cc    20.5 cm diameter
: Shiurin shel Torah:       50 cc    19 cm dia
: Chazon Ish (in Kuntres)   33 cc    15 cm dia
: R' Chayyim Na'eh          27 cc    14 cm dia
: Chazon Ish at his seder   17 cc    11 cm dia
: (l'fi R' Ch. Kanievsky)
: R' Chayyim Benish          7.5 cc  7.4 cm dia
: R' Chayyim Volzhiner       3 cc    4.7 cm dia

I am amazed that we can't agree on the shiur of a kezayis within the
nearest factor of 20 (60 cc vs 3 cc)!

Also, I presume that the CC didn't eat 60cc of matzah any more than he
drank a MB shiur of matzah. Otherwise his lema'aseh length wouldn't
cube to what the CC used for volume. Like the CI, who also shows a gap
between sterile theory and practice as informed by what his father
did.

SheTir'u baTov!
-micha

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