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During the period of the Second Temple, its name was changed to the Chamber of the Parhedrin, derived from the word for "official." This was because the High Priests were changed each year in the manner of royal appointees. This chamber had a wooden door and was therefore called the Chamber of the Wood. (Sources: Yoma 8 and 11).
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Mar 8, 2018 · I, pp. 1-5, this man, “the officer of the temple mount,” is said to be in charge of twenty-four watches, or guard posts, located at important spots about the Temple courtyard. In Tamid , ch. I, pp. 1-12, it is said that this officer, second to the high priest, was in charge of three groups of priests who guarded the Chamber of Abtimas, the Chamber of the Spark, and the Chamber of Fire.
Order of Service. The Tamid Sacrifice. The Abattoir. The Incense Service. Honor to the High Priest. Officers. The affairs of the Second Temple were managed by a board of fifteen appointed officers ("memunnim"). The Mishnah records the following names of officers of the Temple without stating their respective periods of activity; but it is ...
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What does Shushan, the name of Persia’s capital city (made famous through its role in the Esther story), have to do with the eastern gate of the Temple? We’re told that when the Persian king Cyrus (Koresh) allowed Ezra to rebuild both the Temple and Jerusalem, he was worried about the possibility of a Jewish rebellion. To remind his Jewish subjects...
Just inside the eastern gate (Sha’ar Shushan) was the first of the Temple Mount’s three courthouses (according toRashi – BT Sanhedrin 86a – this first chamber was just inside the soreg; the small fence that surrounded the Courtyard). This one (like its twin inside the Women’s Courtyard) housed a Sanhedrin of twenty-three judges. In a large basilica...
Aside from the eastern wall (which, according toRashi,rose to a height of only six amos), the outer walls of the Temple Mount were impressively high. Different accounts place the height anywhere between forty and seventy amos – that’s well over one hundred feet up! The walls were five amos thick at their base, but narrower towards the top. It might...
As the main part of the city of Jerusalem lay to the south of the Temple, there were two entrance ways along that wall: Chulda’s Gates (Sha’arei Chulda). It was through these gates that most of the pedestrian traffic to and from the Temple passed. In fact, during the later years of the First Temple, Chulda the prophetess stood near this wall and ur...
The Women’s Courtyard (Ezras Nashim) was so named, not because it was used by women any more than by men, but because under normal circumstances, this was as far west (i.e. as close to the heichal) as a woman would go. The courtyard (whose walls enclosed an area 135 x 135 amos) had a chamber built into each of its four corners (Middos 2:5) and cont...
There were seven entrances to the Jews’ Courtyard (seeMishna Middos, ch. 1,Mishna 4). On the other hand,Mishna 6 in the second chapter of Middos tells us that there were thirteen entrances. So what do you do? Which do you believe? As usual, there are various approaches to choose from, but we will stick with that of Rebbainu Tam (Kesuvos 106a) who s...
This gate had two names (just to confuse you). The name, the Gate of the Spark (Sha’ar Hanitzotz) refers to the twenty-four hour flame that was kept burning in the gateway should the eternal flame of the main altar have needed replacing. The other name, is Sha’ar Yechaniya, named after the great Judean king, Yechaniya. Now, of course, Yechaniya als...
This gate, like the Sha’ar Hanitzotz, had more than one purpose. It, too, had a balcony on the outside from which a priest stood guard over the Temple Mount. Above the gate itself were two rooms. One,Bais Avtinus, was used by members of the Avtinus family who were expert at preparing the ingredients for the incense (ketorus). The second room contai...
To the west of the Women’s Courtyard lay the Azarah (main courtyard). This courtyard’s forty-amah-high walls enclosed the Temple’s main buildings. The most noticeable structure in the Azarah was the Antechamber (Ulam) and behind that, the heichal (known, for some reason, as the Hearth). These two adjoining buildings towered over the rest of the Tem...
1 hour ago · The high priest is referred to by a number of titles in the Hebrew Bible; the title kohen gadol did not become dominant until well into the Second Temple period. [ 1 ] In addition to the title of "great priest" ( kohen gadol ) [ 2 ] which later became the standard Hebrew title, the term "head priest" ( kohen harosh ) was used, [ 3 ] as was "anointed priest" ( kohen mashiach ).
Jan 4, 2022 · Answer. The tabernacle built by Moses and, later, Solomon’s temple were divided into the Holy Place and the Most Holy Place (or Holy of Holies). To understand these places, it will help if we first understand the concept of “holy.”. At its most basic meaning, holy simply means “set apart” or even “different.”.
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Sep 24, 2009 · The high priest’s most significant task was entering the Holy of Holies chamber on Yom Kippur to attain atonement for all of Israel. At this time, our sages tell us, the holiest elements of creation converge: 1 Yom Kippur, the holiest day; the Holy of Holies, the holiest location; and the high priest, the holiest individual. 2.
