[Avodah] The shape of the Menorah of the Temple

[Micha Berger]

On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 01:23:51AM -0400, Zev Sero wrote:
>> 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?

I just meant that as a human being living in the world, he was far more
likely to have "common knowledge" as his baseline than to have approached
the Rambam with a clean slate.

Add to that his use of archeology to attempt identifying the kelei shir
used in the BHMQ.

So, someone with concordist approach to relating Torah to science, faced
with massive archeological evidence for one position, "just happens"
to read the Rambam so that he dovetails with that position?

I didn't take that possibility seriously.

:-)BBii!
-Micha

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