The camera site is chosen based on the size of the uterus, and an attempt is made to keep at least 10 cm (one
handbreadth) between the fundus or top of the presenting fibroid and the camera trocar site.
He was eulogized by the champion of European Orthodoxy Rabbi Moses Schreiber (1762-1839), known as the Chatam Sofer, who praised him as having earned the respect of "the Emperor and his ministers" and not having allowed "others to rule over him." Rabbi Schreiber alluded to his steadfastness in the face of Napoleon's demands as follows: "After having revealed one
handbreadth, he concealed two
handbreadths." (17) Others, like Lazare Wogue (1817-1897), a French rabbi who advocated a genuine practice of Judaism, were more reserved in their praise.
What clemency of the divine has turned the enemy's spear one
handbreadth from our throat and driven it fatally into the breast of the beloved comrade at our side?
In the 1400s, a Venetian mariner wrote that cotton cloth spun by the women of the Senegal River was a
handbreadth and that the Asante strip-weavers spun bands of cotton that were three fingers wide to be sewn together to form a pantjes, or sash (Gilfoy 1987).
He and the ruins of the pla ne lay buried in a
handbreadth of snow, but it was no longer falling.
The water was now aglitter with topaz highlights from a sun that stood a
handbreadth above the horizon.
Few laws relate to the walls of the sukkah, other than establishing a minimum number and maximum and minimum height.(34) That four posts of a mere
handbreadth in diameter may serve as "walls" and that the walls may be made from almost any substance suggest that they are of secondary import.(35) The skhakh, on the other hand, is meticulously regulated.(36) In elucidating these and other laws the talmudic commentaries conclude that skhakh and shade are the essence of the sukkah.
It was still there; it clung to the nails that had been left in the walls; it found a resting-place on the remaining
handbreadth of flooring; it squatted beneath the corner beams where a little bit of space remained.
My estimate is that the molding was one
handbreadth (one-sixth of a cubit = 7.2 centimeters) wide and 0.1 centimeter thick.
Indeed, You have made my days as
handbreadths, and my age is as nothing before You; certainly, every man at his best state is but vapor.' (Psalm 39:4-5).
The days of a generation in the ecumenical movement are--to use the psalmist's words--just "a few
handbreadths" (Ps.
According to TJ Megillah 1:12, the original gold-plated wooden beams of the Tabernacle were laid on top of a stone wall 10
handbreadths high.
It's often remarked that her trademark grid of close lines makes a tone of gray when seen from a distance, but there are other, irreconcilable scales: the slightest waver of the hand to the line's long sureness, or graphite slipping off the rounded mesa of a single thread compared with the cool eighteen
handbreadths of the entire canvas.
This measuring method (see Figure 3) is used for flat areas and gentle gradients of up to ten
handbreadths within six cubits, corresponding to an angle of 16.1 degrees.
