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Rabbi Levi said, and some say it was Rabbi Yoḥanan who said: "This matter is a tradition handed down to us by our ancestors: The space occupied by the Ark of the Covenant and the cherubs is not included in the measurement of the Holy of Holies in which it rested, as miraculously it did not occupy any space at all. “
Rabbenai says that Shmuel says: The cherubs stood miraculously and did not occupy any physical space, as it is stated:
“And five cubits was one wing of the cherub, and five cubits was the second wing of the cherub; ten cubits from the tip of its wings until the tip of its wings” (I Kings 6:24).
We explore the subject of the Keruvim in ancient near east and by chazal.