Pensamento Judaico sobre I Reis 6:10

Rashi equates the side-chambers described here with the balconies that existed in the Beis HaMikdash built by King Shlomoh, as will be explained below. Concerning the balconies, it is written:²⁶I Melachim 6:10. “And he built the balcony… it was five cubits high.” Similarly, Rashi comments on the term הגזרה,²⁷Yechezkel 41:12. “Targum Yonason translates it as בְּצוּרְתָא, ‘the tall structure.’ I say that this term refers to the tall edifice of the structure. The low cells around it are called בנין, ‘the building.’ ” Thus, it is obvious that Rashi does not think that the side-chambers were the same height as the main structure of the Beis HaMikdash.