[Avodah] Are there any chemists on Avodah?

Zev Sero zev at sero.name
Mon Jan 10 17:16:05 PST 2011


On 10/01/2011 6:04 PM, Hankman wrote:
> This of course leaves my final question unanswered for which you can
> give a simple (if very tedious for the actual workers building the
> mizbeach) balabatishe answer that they were extremely careful in the
> placement of each stone in the huge 32 X 32 X 9 (roughly) amo volume.

The mizbeach was not solid stone. It was four stone walls surrounding
a hollow that was filled in with earth.  So the work would have been
tedious, but less so than you imagined.

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