Commentary for Menachot 196:1
דוחקין ובולטין בפרוכת ודומין כמין שני דדי אשה שנאמר (שיר השירים א, יג) צרור המור דודי לי בין שדי ילין
They pressed against the curtain and bulged out as the two breasts of a woman, as it is said, My beloved is unto me as a bundle of myrrh, that lieth betwixt my breasts.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cant. I, 13. As the staves bulged in the curtain they obviously pointed eastward.');"><sup>1</sup></span> But whence do we know that the staves lay along the breadth of the ark?
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