Pensamento Judaico sobre Ezequiel 40:2

There was a gateway in the middle of the eastern side of the wall surrounding the Women’s Courtyard, which is called Shaar HaEisun, “the Gateway of the Entrance.”¹Yechezkel 40:15. The term “eisun” has the same root as the phrase, “asa boker,” “the morning came.”²Yeshayahu 21:12. This gate was called “the Gateway of the Entrance” because it was the primary gateway for entering and departing the Beis HaMikdash. One who entered through this gateway would prostrate himself directly opposite the Holy of Holies.

“Opposite the border of the kohanim,”¹Yechezkel 48:13. to the south, was the portion granted to the Levites. Their portion was between the Beis HaMikdash and the city. The city will be to the south, as the verse states,²Ibid. 40:2. “Near it, there were building[s] resembling a city.”