[Avodah] length of the aron

[Eli Turkel]

There's an essay in _Encounter: Essays on Torah and Modern Life_ (published
by AOJS) that makes precisely this observation, that the anomalous
dimensional effects of exceptionally high levels of kedusha manifested in
halachos throughout Shas appear to be strangely analogous to the effects of
exceptionally high velocities described by the special theory of relativity>>

It was only when one measured the aron in kodesh hakaodashim that it seemd
to have no length. Obviously when the leviim carries it the desert it
had a length.
Similarly when the kohen gadol came in on yom kippur and threw the blood
he saw a regular aron and the blood landed in front (in the middle?)
of the length
of the aron. When the phlishtim captured the aron it doesn't seem they noticed
anything unusual about the aron until it effected outside activities.

So whatever the gemara means it does not mean that the aron had no length
which in fact is given explicitly in the gemara.

-- 
Eli Turkel