[Avodah] The shape of the Menorah of the Temple

[Zev Sero]

Micha Berger wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 02:50:45PM -0400, Zev Sero wrote:
>> Indeed the Maaseh Choshev is almost the first sefer to claim that the
>> arms were round; but he explicitly says that his basis is the fact
>> that the Rambam says "nimshachim ve'olim" and doesn't say "ba'alachson".
> 
> But we both know his basis is the fact that every record of the menorah
> (certainly in his day, and I would argue today as well) as it existed
> shows curved arms.

We certainly don't both know this.  Where did you get the idea?
He says his basis is the Rambam; why doubt him?  He doesn't mention
having seen any ancient pictures, so why do you assume he did?


> He was searching for a way to assume that as many rishonim as possible
> weren't wrong (as determined by non-mesoretic evidence).

How do you know this?


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