Commentary for Shabbat 196:4

בשלמא למ"ד כשם שמלמטן עוביין אמה כך מלמעלן עוביין אמה היינו דכתיב (שמות כו, כב) ולירכתי המשכן ימה תעשה ששה קרשים ושני קרשים תעשה למקצעות דאתי פותיא דהני ממלי ליה לסומכא דהני אלא למ"ד מלמטן עוביין אמה מלמעלן כלין והולכין עד כאצבע האי עייל והאי נפיק דשפי להו כי טורין:

Now, on the view that just as they were a cubit thick at the bottom, so were they at the top, it is well: thus it is written, And from the hinder part of the tabernacle westward thou shalt make six boards, and two boards shalt thou make for the corners of the tabernacle:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ex, XXVI, 22f. ');">⁶</span> thus the breadth of these comes and fills in the thickness of those.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since the Tabernacle was ten cubits in breadth, and these six boards accounted for nine only, the additional two boards, one at each side made up the deficiency, whilst the extra cubit left in each fitted exactly over the thickness of the board ranged along the length of the Tabernacle, ');">⁷</span>

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