[Avodah] Should Shiurim be Corrected to Archeological Data

[Arie Folger]

RMicha Berger wrote:

> Here's a link to the AhS, to tempt people into making sure that
> what was a big chiddush to me was what RYME meant.
> https://www.sefaria.org/Arukh_HaShulchan%2C_Orach_Chaim.363.32-35
>
> The AhS opens se'if 34 by saying "lo nitenah haTorah lema'akhei hashareis"
> and no two people will end up measuring exactly identically. There is
> a limit to the precision halakhah expects of us. And this is what he
> is saying in the previous se'ifim, with a margin of +/- 1/48 (1/2 etzba
> per ammah). And then 34 continues with this argument about individuals'
> arms -- but that's much more than 1/48.
>
> And thus -- don't take my word about peshat in the AhS without checking
> yourself!!!
>

The AhS absolutely says what you report about him. And indeed he is only
speaking of anatomical measures, and we do not know what his position would
be regarding other shiurim.
-- 
Arie Folger,
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