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by Rabbi Geoffrey W. Dennis

This unclean bird was a bearer of bad omens. For this reason the roof of the Temple in Jerusalem was covered with spikes to keep ravens away. Bar Channah claims to have seen a giant raven, bigger than the "fort of Hagronia." (T. Baba Batra; En Yaakov).