[BlueDragon]

And some women wove cloth and some women were virgins and there was a temple. Put it all together and give it a shake and there’s the temple virgins.

That's about the size of it...failing to be as advertised.

[count-your-change]

Indeed. Little wonder Jesus said what he did about the endless burdensome traditions of the rabbis.

[annalex]

Put it all together and give it a shake and there’s the temple virgins.

Except 2 Macc 3:19-20 puts the virgins secluded in the temple, and common logic says that work around the temple would not be done by married women or widows.

There is a parable about three blind men examining an elephant. One touches a leg and says "it's a column", another -- the tail and says, "it's a rope", a third, an ear and says "it's a pelted skin". The conclusion should not escape them: it is an elephant.