Beis Hamikdash Topics

Having just spent the night of  Yom Kippur  in the  Avtinas Chamber , the Kohen Gadol  would begin the Avodah of the day by immersing in a m...

The next chamber I would like to explore is the Avtinas Chamber. This was an elevated chamber located directly above the Water Gate on the s...

After the weaving was complete, the cloth on the lower beam needed to be transferred to another location (a larger chamber on the Temple Mou...

In a previous post I detailed the design of the paroches curtains according to the opinion of Tiferes Yisrael . Using that description we ...

The  Chamber of  Shekalim (background) near the northwest corner of the Courtyard As described in an earlier post , there were 13 coll...

The Chamber of the Spark (בית הניצוץ) was located at the Spark Gate (שער הניצוץ) in the northern wall of the Courtyard. This chamber consist...

Although the Courtyard was open to the sky, there was a portico, or roof, along the inside of the walls around all four sides   which jutted...

During the service of Yom Kippur the Kohen Gadol immersed in two different mikva'os a total of five times. The first of these was do...

The Temple had a complex plumbing system which supplied water to many different locations. In this post I would first like to examine the ei...

I wanted to reexamine one detail from my model of the Muchni – the sturdy wooden machine which raised the Kiyor  [Laver] from the well of...

Last week I came up with the following diagram and accompanying equation which describes where along the main Ramp of the Altar the minor...

SUMMARY   It is possible to determine mathematically where the minor ramp to the Yesod branched off from the Main Ramp based on the dim...

In an earlier post I included this image of the interior of the Antechamber. Here the large curtain of the main entryway is partially open ...

The floor level of the Antechamber stood 6 amos above that of the Courtyard. These first 6 amos of the building’s height were occupied by ...

The Torah makes special note of the fact that one aspect of the Tabernacle's construction - the spinning of the goat hair - was done by ...