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SHI'UR KOMA: THE MEASURE OF THE BODY, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the measure of the stature spoken in the book of measure
Subject(s): Bodies; Mysticism - Judaism


This is the measure of the stature spoken in the Book of the Measure

"Great is our lord and much power"

236,000 leagues the height of the Creator be He blessed The measure
of his league is 3 miles and the mile is 10,000 cubits and the cubit is 3
spans and the span fills the whole world and there is another accounting
besides this a thousand thousand myriad myriad and six-hundred
thousand myriad and nine thousand myriad and sixty-two myriad thirty-nine
hundred leagues and thirteen leagues and a third of a league and
Rabbi Ishmael ben Elisha the high priest noted that the measure in all is
two thousand myriad leagues of a myriad myriads one thousand leagues
high one thousand thousand myriad leagues broad The measure of his
league is three miles and the mile is ten thousand cubits and the cubit is
three spans and the span fills the whole world as it is said "The skies
with a span you set up"


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