Food in the aron kodesh?!? (Shabbos14a)
In yesterday's daf, Shabbos 14a, it says that a sefer is Tamai because they used to put Teruma near the seforim, and the Chachamim wanted to stop them from doing so. Rabbi Rothchild in the torah journal Kol Hatorah (semi-annual journal from England) asks that "Ma'alin BaKodesh V'Ain Moridin" - an Aron Hakodesh may not be used for lesser purposes, so how could they have stored Teruma together with a Sefer Torah (or Nevi'im) in the first place. One answer he gives is that the Ta"z says that if the Sefer Torah is in the Aron, it's okay, it is only prohibited to use the Aron for other purposes if the Aron is not there. Others disagree with this.
Doneel (a new reader) sent me this to post on his behalf.
posted by David @ 12:32 PM
2 Comments:
Keep in mind that in those days they didn't have books so instead they had seforim which were the same as our sifrei torah and noviim. The way I understood it, is that they kept the seforim and the terumah food on the same shelf, the same way we can sometimes do with books.
IMO, the seforim had kedusha, so they ought to be kept in a special Aron, as they deserve.
Anyway, thanks for your comment.
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