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Solomon's shamir. Solomon's shamir, according to Eberhard Werner Happel, 1707 [1] In the Gemara, the shamir (Hebrew: שָׁמִיר šāmīr) is a worm or a substance that had the power to cut through or disintegrate stone, iron and diamond. King Solomon is said to have used it in the building of the first Temple in Jerusalem in place of ...
Solomon's shamir. In the Gemara, the shamir (Hebrew: שָׁמִיר šāmīr) is a worm or a substance that had the power to cut through or disintegrate stone, iron and diamond. King Solomon is said to have used it in the building of the first Temple in Jerusalem in place of cutting tools. For the construction of the Temple in Jerusalem, which ...
The Gemara in Sotah (48b) says that according to all opinions, these stones may be cut only by the Shamir. It must be that the Shamir existed in the times of the second Beis ha'Mikdash. However, Tosfos does not explain why the Gemara here makes no mention of the use of the Shamir in the cutting of the stones for the Mizbe'ach in the second Beis ha'Mikdash.
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sha'-mer (shamir; Sameir): (1) Mentioned along with Jattir and Socoh (Joshua 15:48) as one of the cities of Judah in the hill country. Possibly it is Khirbet (or Umm) Somerah, 2,000 ft. above sea-level, a site with ancient walls, caves, cisterns and tombs not far West of Debir (edh Dhatheriyeh) and 2 miles North of Anab (`Anab) (Palestine ...
May 22, 2018 · Answer: The shamir is one of the things created at sundown on the sixth day of Creation (Mishna h Avos 5:6). The Talmud (Pesachim 59a) tells about its power to cleave stone, but doesn’t describe the process in detail; the commentators (Rashi on Pesachim, Rambam on Avos) explain that it was a worm that could cleave stone by looking at it.
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