Sunday, October 19, 2025

Calculating the Wine Libations

On Succos in the Beis Hamikdash they famously offered 70 bulls corresponding to the seventy nations of the world. Along with each bull came a wine libation of 6 lugin per bull, which is a volume equal to about 3 liters (or one and a half soda bottles, for those of us in the US). This comes to about 210 liters in all, and that is not even counting the wine libations of all of the other communal offerings that were brought over the holiday. What was the fate of all that wine?

Sunday, October 5, 2025

Tamid Photo Essay in Lego® #27

The Shot

Tooting Their Own Horns

The Kohanim sound the trumpets upon the Table of the Fats