Beis Hamikdash Topics

I am preparing a new presentation for this summer called Timeline of the Tamid which will be a walkthrough of the entire morning  Tami...

The Gemara on Menachos 96b states that on the three Festivals the Kohanim would raise the Golden Table of the Showbread for the people [g...

How many people could fit into the Courtyard at one time to bring their Pesach offering?

The southwestern chamber of the Hall of the Fire was known as the Chamber of the Lambs. This room was where the Kohanim maintained a supply...

Kohanim inspect the Courtyard by torchlight. Each morning the Kohanim would do a walk-through of the Courtyard to make sure that all th...

Jbrick , the company which brings you Jewish-themed custom LEGO sets, is now expanding. They are introducing new sets which you can view on ...

The southeastern chamber of the Hall of the Fire was used on Fridays to bake the lechem hapanim [show bread]. In this chamber the Kohanim...

One of the great mysteries of the Temple era is how the lechem hapanim [show bread] was baked. These were the twelve loaves of unleavened b...

Why did they need to remind the Kohen Gadol that he was like a  shtick holtz — a piece of wood?

Finding a red cow that meets all the halachic requirements of a parah adumah was a rare event in Temple times. In fact, from the constru...

Three 1- amah measuring sticks. The Chamber of Shushan Habirah [the Capital] served as the repository for two different measuring stic...

On Thursday, December 25, 2014, I presented a slideshow at Kehillas Kol Torah in Baltimore. The head of their night seder chaburah , R...

One of the more shocking discoveries made by the Maccabees after expelling the Syrian-Greeks from the Temple was that the Outer Altar ha...

I am pleased to announce that Yitzy Kasowitz, a colleague of mine in the field of LEGO ® -inspired Jewish education, has started a new com...

Off to the west of the main Altar's ramp, next to the silver table which held the utensils for the sacrificial service , was a marble ...