Pensamento Judaico sobre I Reis 7:2

“He built the House of the Forest of Lebanon.¹This building was a royal palace built by King Shlomoh, and was not part of the Beis HaMikdash. True, our Sages (Yoma 39b; Pirkei d’Rabbi Eliezer, ch. 49) used the term “the House of the Forest of Lebanon” to refer to the Beis HaMikdash. Nevertheless, the building itself was a palace used by the king. It was one hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high, [supported by] four rows of cedar columns.”²I Melachim 7:2. Each row of cedar columns was 100 cubits long, and there were 50 cubits between the first row and the last one, this being the width of the palace. “There were cedar beams (כרתות) above the pillars.” The pillars had openings between them like exedras do. Thus, the beams were like lintels over the door posts.

I have also recorded whatever corrections have to be made regarding the errors in Rashi’s commentary. I have also shifted from the description of the Future Beis HaMikdash to the clarification of certain errors found in the description of the buildings constructed by King Shlomoh. For I have seen elements in the building of the House of the Forest of Lebanon⁴²See I Melachim 7:2 and commentaries there, which discuss this building which was constructed by King Shlomoh. and the bases⁴³Ibid.:27. which are difficult to understand, I will write their explanations in short.