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Sha'ar Harachamim

5/21/2021

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  In the present day east wall of the Har Habayis, around 200 feet to the north of the dome of the rock, is a sealed up double gate, called Sha'ar Harachamim-The Gate of Mercy. Through this gate, Moshiach is going to enter Yerushalayim. The Arabs put a cemetery right in front of it, and people say they did that so Eliyahu Hanavi, who is a Kohen, can't enter, because then he will become Tamei. (The Arabs didn't know that a kohen is allowed to walk over a non-Jewish grave, as long as he doesn't touch it. [Rambam, Hilchos Tumas Meis, a1:13) 
   But who made this gate? when? and why?

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Where Was the Beis Hamikdash on Har Habayis? (part 4)

5/15/2021

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    The Mishnah (Middos 2:1) says that the Har Habayis had the majority of the empty space in the south, the second biggest in the east, third in the north, and the least in the south. most Meforshim explain that this means the empty space between the Azarah walls and the walls of Har Habayis, and this is how I made my calculations of where the original Har Habayis was. However, there is another opinion, (R' Yehosef Ashkenazi, brought by the Meleches Shlomo, this opinion is also brought by Maharam Kazis) that it means the space between the Har Habayis walls and the walls of the Azarah and the Ezras Nashim.

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Who Built the Kosel Hama'aravi?

5/9/2021

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In a previous post, I wrote that the Migrash of Har Habayis went until the western wall of the present day temple mount, the Kosel Hama'aravi. However, there is a problem with saying that, because the stones of the Kosel are all Herodian-style stones (stones with margins and smooth bosses), and there are no seams to mark the beginning of Hurdus's extension, so it can't be from the time of Shlomo Hamelech.
    
    In order to solve this problem, I will point out something strange about the Kosel. The southern wall of the present day Har Habayis is 2.25 meters (27.7 ft.) thick (The Quest, page 69). The eastern wall is 2.88 meters (9 ft. 6 in.) thick (Survey of Western Palestine-Jerusalem, page 238). The western wall, however, is almost double that, it is 4.60 meters (15 ft.) thick! (The Quest, pages 25, 29). 
     
   It seems that the reason for this is that originally the Kosel was built by Shlomo Hamelech. Hurdus, when he rebuilt the Beis Hamikdash, added another wall right in front of Shlomo's, hiding Shlomo's wall. For this reason, the Kosel is almost double as thick as the other walls, because it is really two walls. (A possible reason why Hurdus did this is because this wall was by one of the main streets of Yerushalayim, so he wanted it to look smooth.) For this reason, we daven by this part of the Kosel, and not opposite the Kodesh Hakodoshim, because right here the wall is partly from the first Beis Hamikdash.      
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Explanation of my Lego Model-part three

5/2/2021

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  • The Shiltey Hagibborim (chapter 25, page 21d )writes that Lishkas Hakeilim (Tamid 3:4) was right next to the Beis Hamoked. 
  • In Kuntres Hamoded (vol. 2, 1:10) he writes that Lishkas Nidvas Keilim was near Lishkas Hakeilim (mentioned in Shekalim 5:6).
  • The Tiferes Yisroel (מדות פרק א' יכין אות נ"ו) says that the Rovdim in the Beis Hamoked were the roof of the rooms in the corners.
  • The Tavnis Heichal (2:24:222)writes that the walls of the Ta'im were plated in silver.
  • The Ta'im and the Rovdim around them are based on the Bartenura.
  • The Meiri (Middos 2:6) as well as the Rambam (in his drawing of the Azarah) say that all the gates in the north and south of the Azarah were in the western half of it.
  • The Tavnis Heichal (2:26:246) writes that the sloping roof on top of the Heichal went twenty amos higher then the Heichal (so the total height is 120 amos).
  • The Ezras Kohanim (in his picture by Middos 1:9) puts Lishkas HaParoches in the southwest corner of the Azarah.
  • In Kuntres Hamoded (vol. 2 1:21), he writes that the office of Elazar, the man in charge of making the Paroches (Shekalim 5:1), was near Lishkas HaParoches.
  • Yosifun (wars 5:5:6) says that the outer walls of the Heichal were plated with gold, and where they weren't plated, it was made out of white marble, so it looked like a snow covered mountain from afar.  
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