Beis Hamikdash Topics

We are taught that the ram's horn, or shofar , we blow on Rosh Hashanah has tremendous mystical powers. In the Beis Hamikdash they too...

After building a simple Lego model of the Second Temple (more about that here ) I decided to put together a set of all three Temples at th...

It is widely known that techeiles (the blue dye) comes from a sea creature called the chilazon . Many hundreds of these animals had to be...

The last four posts about techeiles were taken from a paper I wrote in college titled  The Search for the True Blue. In that paper (Part...

Modern Production Elsner's breakthrough was the cause of great excitement among those Jewish scholars involved in this field. As a re...

The Science of Tekhelet Since the publishing of Rabbi Herzog's findings the chemical pathway for the production of the dye precursors...

Jewish Scholars and Their Search for Tekhelet There have been but two serious attempts to rediscover the authentic Biblical dye of tekhel...

Inspired by an interesting discussion I had over Shavuos, I am reprinting a paper I wrote for a college chemistry class (circa 1997) on th...

King Solomon asked Hiram, King of the Phoenician region of Tyre, to provide almog wood for use in the construction of the First Temple. Th...

The Jewish Lego® company JBrick has put out a new building set of the Beis Hamikdash . Containing over 1300 genuine Lego® bricks, this is...

Thanks to Paul Wellington for posting my latest LEGO  mikdash creation on ArchBrick . This is a LEGO architecture blog for all fans of LEG...

In honor of the month of Kislev and the  chanukas habayis [rededication of the Temple] that took place on Chanukah , I have prepared a new ...

Every Temple vessel was immersed in a  mikveh  to sanctify it prior to its first use. In a  previous post  I discussed how the very large Pa...

In the Second Temple era a Kohen Gadol named Ben Katin devised a machine that was used to lower the Kiyor [laver] into a well of water ea...

SUMMARY   After seeing a first printing of Tiferes Yisrael's commentary to the Mishnah, it was necessary to come up with a new, reduced...