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SACRED CUBIT(AMAH)
Petko Nikolic Vidusa
Kitchener, Canada, 2010
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SACRED CUBIT (AMAH)
Sacred Cubit
= Hebrew
Amah
This measurement have been preserved in the structure of the Great Pyramid andin the Bible. The Great Pyramid was built using the Sacred Cubit, the same unit of measure used by Noah, Moses, and King Solomon.
Sir Isaac Newton
It may be of interest, albeit of no halakhic import, to note that, based uponJosephus¶ description of the circumference of the pillars of the Temple, therenowned physicist Sir Isaac
Newton postulated the length of the ³sacred´ cubitto be between24.90and25.02inches
as distinct from the ³profane´ cubit of 20.60658189 inches that he believed was the measurement employed by theEgyptians in construction of the Great Pyramid. Newton¶s calculations are thesubject of his ³De magnitudine
cubiti sacri
.´ An English translation of that essaytitled ³A Dissertation Upon the Sacred Cubit of the Jews and the Cubit of Several Nations: in which, from the Dimensions of the Greatest Pyramid, as taken by Mr.John Greaves, the ancient Cubit of Memphis is determined´ was published in theMiscellaneous Works of John Greaves, Professor of Astronomy in the Universityof Oxford, ed. Thomas Birch, II (London,1737),405-433."
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M
oses Sofer
Teshuvot Hatam Sofer* states that the length of a fingerwidth is a ³zoll.´ Since a biblical amah is equal to 24 fingerwidths, the length of
an amah
(sacred cubit)according to Hatam Sofer equals
24 zoll.
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zoll (Germany)
=1.03700787402
inches
24
zoll =
24.88818897648
inches (
25
inches)Amah = Sacred CubitAmah = Hamah = one of the three words for the Sun
----------------------------------------* Moses Schreiber (1762 - 1839),, known to his own community and Jewish posterity as Moshe Sofer, also known by his main work Hatam (Chasam) Sofer (
Seal of the Scribe
and acronym for
C
h
idushei
T
oras
M
oshe
Sofer
).
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