Komentaryong Sumisipi para sa Ezekiel 45:11

it contained three thousand It contained this amount, but in I Kings (7:26) it is written: “It contained two thousand baths.” The heaped measure was a third, for a bath is three seah, as is said: (Ezek. 45:11): “The ephah and the bath shall have one volume.” Thus you have six thousand seah. This equals a hundred and fifty purifying pools for four thousand seah equal a hundred mikvaoth. And we find also for the remaining two thousand seah fifty mikvaoth, and even if you divide the vessel according to the measure that the Rabbis computed, namely a cubit by a cubit by the height of three cubits for a mikvah, you will find the same: for the height of three cubits, which was square, and which was ten by ten from its brim to its brim, are a hundred mikvaoth, and for the height of two cubits, where it was round, ten by ten from its brim to its brim around equal fifty mikvaoth, because a square is a fourth more than a circle.

a ḥomer of barley Scripture states elsewhere [Ezekiel 45:11] that there are exactly ten batim in a ḥomer . In the same place, a bat is said to be equivalent to an ’efa . Thus, land seeded with an ’efa of barley would be valued at five sheqalim . This too is a decree of the King, concerning the wealth of His servant.

Two thousand bas. [The equivalent of] six thousand se’ah, for a בת is equal to three se’ah, as it is stated, “The איפה and the בת [should] have one measurement.”⁴³Yechezkeil 45:11. Thus, [six thousand se’ah] are found to be one hundred fifty ritual baths of purity; four thousand se’ah for one hundred ritual baths, and the two thousand [se’ah] for fifty ritual baths.⁴⁴See Maseches Eruvin 14b. And even were you to divide everything according to the measurement by which the Sages measured, an amoh squared by three amohs high for each ritual bath, you will find it to be the same [as follows]: [The lower part of the sea was] three amohs high [by one hundred square amohs] equaling one hundred ritual baths. The [upper part of the sea was] two [amohs high and] round [with a diameter of ten amohs and contained sufficient water for] fifty ritual baths, because the square is greater than the circle by one quarter. [And in Divrei Hayomim] it is written, “it capacity was three thousand bas.”⁴⁵II Divrei Hayomim 4:5. Our Rabbis explained it refers to a dry measure, since the overflow was one third of the capacity of the receptacle.⁴⁶See Maseches Eruvin 14b. The Gemara explains that the heap that is above the top is half the volume within the container, i.e., 2000 liquid measures =3000 dry measures.