Commentary for Bava Batra 197:6

כיצד הן עומדין רבי יוחנן ור' אלעזר חד אמר פניהם איש אל אחיו וחד אמר פניהם לבית ולמ"ד פניהם איש אל אחיו הא כתיב (דברי הימים ב ג, יג) ופניהם לבית לא קשיא כאן בזמן שישראל עושין רצונו של מקום כאן בזמן שאין ישראל עושין רצונו של מקום

R. Ashi demurred: Their wings might have been overlapping each other!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' So that together with their bodies they did not occupy more than twenty cubits. ');">¹⁵</span> How did they<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The Cherubim in the Holy of Holies. ');">¹⁶</span> stand? — R. Johanan and R. Eleazar [are in dispute on the matter]. One Says: They faced each other; and the other says: Their faces were inward. But according to him who says that they faced each other, [it may be asked]: Is it not written, And their faces were inward?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' II Chron. III, 13. ');">¹⁷</span>

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