Commentary for Rosh Hashanah 47:20

אמר אביי לא אסרה תורה אלא שמשין שאפשר לעשות כמותן כדתניא לא יעשה אדם בית תבנית היכל אכסדרה תבנית אולם חצר כנגד עזרה שלחן כנגד שלחן מנורה כנגד מנורה אבל עושה

and if the witnesses had been tested, but they had no time to say 'sanctified' before it grew dark, the month is prolonged', which implies that it is prolonged<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., New Moon is not declared till the thirty-first day.');">²²</span> but that [the new month] is not sanctified [later in the day]. [This is not conclusive, since] there was a special reason for mentioning the prolonging. You might think that since the Beth din and all Israel saw it [the new moon] everyone knew that it had appeared and therefore the month should not be prolonged. Therefore we are told [that this is not so]. <big><b>MISHNAH: </b></big>R'GAMALIEL USED TO HAVE A DIAGRAM OF PHASES OF THE MOON ON A TABLET [HUNG] ON THE WALL OF HIS UPPER CHAMBER, AND HE USED TO SHOW THEM TO THE UNLEARNED AND SAY, DID IT LOOK LIKE THIS OR THIS? <big><b>GEMARA: </b></big>Is this allowed, seeing that it is written, Ye shall not make with me,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ex. XX, 20.');">²³</span> which we interpret, 'Ye shall not make the likeness of my attendants'? - Abaye replied: The Torah forbade only those attendants of which it is possible to make copies,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'like them'. Out of the same or other materials.');">²⁴</span> as it has been taught: A man may not make a house in the form of the Temple, or an exedra in the form of the Temple hall,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ulam, the hall leading to the interior of the Temple, v. Mid. IV, 7. All exedra had only three sides, but since the fourth side of the Temple hall had a very wide entrance it is not counted. V. Tosaf. a.l.');">²⁵</span> or a court corresponding to the Temple court, or a table corresponding to the [sacred] table or a candlestick corresponding to the [sacred] candlestick, but he may make one

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