Torah Measurements - Why Don’t We Measure With the Size of an Actual Olive?

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Shay Tahan’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

obvious question that one must ask himself how is it possible that this cup of one ounce is a kazai because it means the size of an olive kazaite size of an olive like a zai like an olive when you put the olive inside such a cup it takes very little space you can put maybe four of these or maybe five of this inside so that's not if hazal said this is the measurement that's not the measurement that we're measuring by and that shouldn't be what we measure because i should be the size of an olive and this is a regular size olive so why is it that we're measuring in such a way well the grass is another thing as well and that is that a kebiza has two kazetot which means a kazite is twice an excise so obviously the scheme learned that cabeza

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1. 0:00obvious question that one must ask himself how is it possible that this cup of one…
2. 0:30the measurement that we're measuring by and that shouldn't be what we measure because i should…
3. 1:02is the measurement that we go by and half of that should be what we call…
4. 1:32but that is considered to be half of kabata a one ounce two kabatim or two…
5. 2:02because it is a third of a quebec and therefore that if one wants to eat…
6. 2:32doesn't run into any questions with the but if he wants a simple catamaran he should…

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