Measure for Measure Episode 2: Olives
Ministry of Ideas
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What's the Standard Egg Size?
The medieval rabbis worked to calculate the size of matza required to be eaten on Passover by the size of an olive via the size of a dried fig. Chickens lay eggs at different sizes, so what's the standard egg? The religious tradition is to eat a little more than whatever the biggest calculation led you to.
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