<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 8:53 PM, Micha Berger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:micha@aishdas.org" target="_blank">micha@aishdas.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">So, I'm in Y-mi Makos (2:6, vilna 6b).<br>
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I don't understand the geometry of EY implied by the placement of the<br>
arei miqlat.<br>
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The 3 cities separated be'eiver hayardein have to be due east of those<br>
in EY proper.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Where does it say due east? I'm looking at that Yerushalmi for the first time, so I could be missing it, but all I see is that they have to be "mechuvvanot" like two rows in a vineyard, which suggests diagonal lines to me.</div>
<div><br></div><div>If you look at <a href="http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%91%D7%A5:MapCitiesOfRefuge.svg">http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%91%D7%A5:MapCitiesOfRefuge.svg</a>, that works out well for the southern four. We would only have to assume that Golan is shown too far south to have all six aligned in three more or less parallel and equidistant diagonal lines.</div>
<div><br></div><div>That would still mean that ever hayarden on the map you refer to doesn't extend far enough north, but I think that that's the case anyway: Devarim 3:8 says mi-nahal arnon ad har hermon.</div></div>
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