The solution to the shiurim problem – but you won’t like it

It will probably not be a big chiddush to anyone reading this that eggs didn’t halve in size. What many people, including myself until recently, however, do not sufficiently appreciate is that the textual arguments for doubling of volume shiurim in the modern era are actually very strong, indeed, from a certain perspective, irrefutable. What is also underappreciated is that apologetic arguments made by defenders of the premodern shiurim are weak and belied by archaeological evidence. So I set out to find out what’s up, and I’m pretty sure I did, but, like I say, you probably won’t much like it. Anyway, here it is.