Kommentar zu Kelim 17:10
רַבִּי מֵאִיר אוֹמֵר, כָּל הָאַמּוֹת הָיוּ בֵינוֹנִיּוֹת, חוּץ מִמִּזְבַּח הַזָּהָב וְהַקֶּרֶן וְהַסּוֹבֵב וְהַיְסוֹד. רַבִּי יְהוּדָה אוֹמֵר, אַמַּת הַבִּנְיָן שִׁשָּׁה טְפָחִים, וְשֶׁל כֵּלִים חֲמִשָּׁה:
Rabbi Meir sagt: Bis auf den goldenen Altar, die Hörner, die Einfassung und den Sockel des Kupferaltars waren alle amot von mittlerer Länge. Rabbi Yehudah sagt: Die für den Bau verwendete Elle war eine von sechs Tefachim und die für die Schiffe fünf Tefachim .
Bartenura on Mishnah Kelim
כל האמות היו בינונית – which a cubit that is six handbreadths in length.
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Introduction
Our mishnah continues to deal with the size of the cubits used to measure various parts of the Temple. In today's mishnah we learn that there were two different size cubits, one of six handbreadths (this is the cubit referred to in yesterday's mishnah) and one of five handbreadths.
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חוץ ממזבח הזהב – that was a cubit by a cubit.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Kelim
Rabbi Meir says: all cubits were of the moderate length except that for the golden altar, the horns, the surround and the base. According to Rabbi Meir, everything in the Temple was measured in the moderate length of the cubit, the one that was exactly six handbreadths, and not the longer length mentioned in yesterday's mishnah (six handbreadths and one fingerbreadth). The only exceptions were the golden incense altar, the horns of the outer altar, the surround (a protrusion around the outer altar), and the base of the altar. All of these were measured with the five handbreadth cubit.
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והקרן – of the bronze altar. For it had on its four corners four stones of a cubit in height and a cubit by a cubit in thickness. And that cubit was with the cubit that was five [handbreadths in length].
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English Explanation of Mishnah Kelim
Rabbi Judah says: the cubit used for the building was one of six handbreadths and that for the vessels one of five handbreadths. Rabbi Judah says that all of the measurements made in the building of the Temple itself were based on the six handbreadths cubit, while those used for making the vessels, used the smaller cubit of five handbreadths.
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והסובב והיסוד – of the bronze altar. And in the third chapter of [Tractate] Middot, they are explained (see Tractate Middot, Chapter three, Mishnah one).
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אמת בנין – such as the wall of the Temple and the altar of the burnt-offering.
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אמת כלים – such as the Ark, and the table and the Golden Altar. And the Halakha is according to Rabbi Meir.
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