[Avodah] length of the aron

[Alan Rubin]

Message: 10
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:44:11 -0400
From: Zev Sero <zev at sero.name>
Subject: Re: [Avodah] length of the aron
To: Eli Turkel <eliturkel at gmail.com>
Cc: avodah <avodah at aishdas.org>
Message-ID: <488913CB.7030908 at sero.name>
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Zev Zero  wrote:

> Of course it had a length.  The Torah gives that length.  And of course
> it had that length in the KhK just as it did outside it.  And yet it
> didn't take up space in the room.  From the wall to the aron was 10 amot,
> the aron itself was 2.5 amot, from the opposite edge of the aron to the
> other wall was 10 amot, and yet from wall to wall was only 20 amot.

Can we try a thought experiment here? Someone takes a 20 Amah length
ruler into the KhK clearly marked in half amah divisions and lies it
against the Aron. What do they see? What numbers are adjacent to the
edges of the aron?

Alan Rubin