Pesach-time it’s common for people to start discussing how much matzah and wine one is obligated to eat, so why should I be any different? ... All that aside, here’s my own suggestion for how to compute a historical kezayis. On one of the sides of the presumed Even Shesiyah, the rock under the Dome of the Rock, there are two holes 43.7 cm apart, and there is a niche in it that is 131 cm = 3 x 43.7 cm long. Two slabs of rock used in the eastern wall are 2.6 m long, six times 43.3 cm....
Posted on: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 02:25:42 +0000