פירוש על מלכים א 8:65

[Stretching] from the entrance of Chamos. Located in the north of Eretz Yisroel.

To the Brook of Egypt. Which is opposite it, in the south, [as is delineated] in [the section entitled], “These are the travels.”³⁹See Bamidbar 34:5, 8. There, Targum Yonoson Ben Uziel identifies the “Brook of Egypt” [מצרים נחלה] as the Nile River.

Seven days. Of inauguration.

And seven [more] days. Of Succos.⁴⁰The Rabbis in Maseches Mo’ed Katan 9a, deduce from the redundancy of this phrase [“seven days and seven more days”], that one is not permitted to combine one שמחה with another, e.g., one is not allowed to celebrate a wedding on Chol Hamoed. It is found that they ate and drank on Yom Kippur.⁴¹See Maseches Mo’ed Katan 9a and Rashi there.⁴²They began to celebrate on the eighth of Tishrei and continued for the next fourteen days. Thus, the third day of the dedication was Yom Kippur, the tenth of Tishrei.