Beis Hamikdash Topics

On Chanukah we celebrate the miraculous defeat of the Syrian-Greeks by the Chashmonaim. Part of the miracle was that the Jews found a single...

     Once upon a time, toward the end of the Second Temple era, King Agripas wanted to take a census of the Jewish people. He told the K...

Wishing all of our readers a very meaningful and enjoyable yom tov .

The windows of the Sanctuary Building in the First and Second Temples were built backwards — they were wide on the outside and narrow on the...

Now that I finished revising the minor sanhedrin courthouse I used Bricklink Studio to put together a Lego® version as well. Even though ...

It's not that often that I get to see Lego® and the Beis Hamikdash come together (outside of my own house, that is). Last week Bnos Yi...

The Temple was a place where miracles occurred on a daily basis. Although the physical structure of the Temple was taken from us, the supern...

In the last post I explained that something was not quite right about how I depicted the judicial scribes of the Temple's sanhedrin c...

I was revisiting my computer models of the Temple's sanhedrin courthouses when I came across a point that required further investigat...

 What is brown and sticky and was brought back just for me from Eretz Yisrael ?

Bricklink.com , the website that hosts one of the best online Lego® marketplaces, recently released a new version of its building software...

Nearly every single statue, relief, or carving that we have from the ancient world appears in the natural color of the material used to prod...

This post contains the answer to last week's puzzle, a description of a handsome gift given to the Temple by a monarch, and some creat...

What object in the Beis Hamikdash was shaped like an octagon, made out of gold, and displayed prominently for all to see?

The last post discussed the thirteen shofaros , or donation boxes, distributed throughout the Azarah for the collection of coins from the ...