If the boards around the chatzer were 10 amos high, how could the curtains be 15 high?
"(i) Answer #2: "Kela'im Chamesh Amah" refers to their height (the curtains on each side of the Pesach were 15 Amos higher than the rest of the curtains around the Chatzer, 20 Amos in all; the Torah does not say how wide they were)."
David Hirsch, Jerusalem
Firstly, the only boards I know of were around the Mishkan itself.
Secondly, I did not write that there were curtains 15 high. There were curtains 5 high, and curtains 15 higher, i.e. 20 high.
And finally, what is the connection between the boards and the curtains, that it is difficult if the boards around the chatzer were 10, and the curtains were 15?
Please explain your question better.
Pesach Feldman
Dear Rabbi Feldman Shlit"a,
Thank you for replying.
Correct. "I did not write that there were curtains 15 high." My question should've been, "If the boards around the Mishkan were 10 amos high, how could the curtains be 20 high?"
My mistake may be that I thought that the boards were holding up the curtains. The boards around the Mishkan were 10 high. The curtains around the chatzar were 20 high. How were they held up?
b'Chovod ha'Torah,
Dovid Hirsch
Shemos 27:10 mentions "Amudav", i.e. pillars for the sake of holding up the curtains. Presumably they were the same height as the curtains.
Pesach Feldman