[Avodah] length of the aron

[Alan Rubin]

 > The gemara doesn't say.  I would *guess* that if you looked at the
 > aron then you would see that it starts at 8.75 and runs until 11.25,
 > but that if you then looked the space between it and the northern wall
 > you'd see that the northern edge was at the 10 mark, with all of its
 > length south of 10, while if you looked at the space to the south of
 > it you'd see that the southern edge was at the 10 mark and the whole
 > length was north of 10.
 > But that's just a guess.  I don't suppose we'll ever have the
 > opportunity to carry out the experiment for real.

Scanning along the length of the ruler this just does not work.

I guess we'll have to leave the Gemara schwehr.

Alan Rubin