Pemikiran Yahudi Yehezkiel 40:31: The Third Beit HaMikdash

The gate to the southern portion of the Inner Courtyard was in the center of its wall, opposite the gate of the Outer Courtyard. This is derived from the verse,¹Yechezkel 40:28-29. “And he brought me to the Inner Courtyard through the southern gate. He measured the southern gate according to those measures” – i.e., the angel used the same measures here as he used when measuring the first gate (i.e., that of the Outer Courtyard). “Its cells, its pillars, and its vestibules were of those measures. There were windows in it and in its vestibule all around. It was fifty cubits high²As mentioned in sec. 3 above, although the term ארך usually means, “long,” here it means “high.” and twenty-five cubits wide,” i.e., there were 25 cubits between the edge of the cell on one side and the edge of the cell opposite it. “There were palm-like coronets on its pillars and its stairway had eight steps.”³Yechezkel 40:31.

There was one difference between the structure of the inner gate and that of the outer gate: the vestibules. The vestibules of the outer gate were inside the gate, while the vestibules of the inner gate projected out from the gate into the outer courtyard. The gates were built in this manner so that the vestibules would be opposite each other, and would be attractive. This is implied by the verse,¹Yechezkel 40:31. “Its vestibules were toward the Outer Courtyard.”