Commentary for Eruvin 41:19

ואמר רב חסדא דריש מרי בר מר מאי דכתיב (ירמיהו כד, א) והנה שני דודאי תאנים מועדים לפני היכל ה' הדוד (ה) אחד תאנים טובות מאד כתאני

roll; the length thereof is twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof ten cubits',<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Zech. V, 2.');">³⁷</span> and, when you unfolded it, [its extent] is twenty by twenty [cubits], and since it is written: 'It was written within and without',<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ezek. 11,10.');">³⁸</span> what will be [its size] when you split it?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And place the written surfaces face upwards side by side.');">³⁹</span> Forty by twenty cubits.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Which equal 40 X 20 X 4 = 3200 quarter sq. cubits or sq. spans (v. infra n. 5) .');">⁴⁰</span> But, as it is written: Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Isa. XL, 12.');">⁴¹</span> etc. , it follows<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As a span equals half a cubit and as a sq. span consequently equals a quarter of sq. cubit, and since the size of the entire universe is only one span sq.');">⁴²</span> that the entire universe is [equal to] a three thousand and two hundredths part of the Torah.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. supra n. 3.');">⁴³</span> R'Hisda further stated: Mari B'Mar made this exposition: What [is the significance] of the Scriptural text And behold two baskets of figs set before the temple of the Lord;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Jer. XXIV, 1.');">⁴⁴</span> one basket had very good figs, like the figs

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