Equipment point

The device was a Jewish measure of length and corresponded to five hand widths . ( Jad haChasaka Hilchot sefer Torah cap.9,9)

• 1 piece of equipment = 17.245 Paris inches = 206.94 Paris lines

The building part , also a Mosaic, Hebrew or medium cubit, was six hand widths.

• 1 building space = 20.694 Paris inches = 248.328 Paris lines

If half a finger to a finger's breadth were added, the measure was called handyman

• 1 Artisan = 21.556 Paris Inches = 258.675 Paris Lines

Constraints:

• • 1 hand width = 4 finger widths = 3.449 Paris inches
  • 1 finger width = 7 barley grains (placed close together)

literature

• Benedict Zuckermann: Annual report of the Jewish theological seminar: The Jewish system of measurements and its relations to the Greek and Roman. Grass, Barth and Comp., Breslau 1867, p. 20.
• Wilhelm Hauck: Theological annual report. 3rd year, issue 1, Julius Riedner, Philadelphia 1868, p. 171.