mesurah

A Talmudic unit of liquid capacity, perhaps about 9 milliliters.  But see the chart link to a chart showing relationships between Talmudic units of capacity.

Leviticus 19: 35

Sources

If the Torah cared [for proper measure in] a mesurah which is one thirty-sixth of a log, how much more...

Israel W. Slotkin, translator.
Baba Bathra, 89b.
in Isidore Epstein, editor.
The Babylonian Talmud. Seder Nezikin, volume 2.
London: The Soncino Press, 1935 (reprint ed. 1978).
Page 369.

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