Komentaryo sa 1 Mga Hari 6:4: Rashi & Tze'enah Ure'enah

That were open [wide] on the outside and closed [narrow] on the inside. Our Rabbis explained [שקופים] as an expression of looking, an opening, an observation;⁷It was made of a glass-like substance.—Metzudas Dovid. open on the outside and closed on the inside, narrow on the inside, not in the usual manner of other windows⁸Alternatively, חלוני means “sockets” into which שקפים [=“horizontal beams”] were inserted. The sockets were open only on the inside and did not go all the way through the wall, i.e., they were אטומים [=sealed] and not visible from the outside of the building. which are made for illumination,⁹They are therefore constructed narrow on the outside and widening towards the inside to allow the light to spread out as it enters. to indicate that it was not in need of illumination.¹⁰See Maseches Menachos 86b.

“He made windows for the House” [6:4]. He made windows in the Temple, but the windows were not like other windows, like those of our houses. The Talmud says in [tractate] Menahot: Rabbi Abin the Levite said that the windows of other houses are made long and wide on the outside and smaller on the inside, so that light should come inside from the world. However, the windows of the Temple were the opposite. They were wide and long on the inside and smaller on the outside. The Temple gave light to the outside, to the world. That is to say, the Temple caused the whole world to have enough light. The Holy One says: I do not need light from the Temple, since the sun in heaven is in a case, but in the month of Tammuz it comes out of its case and causes great heat in the world, awaiting that the grain should ripen from the heat of the sun. The Holy One says that the person cannot look directly at the sun and when he cannot see the light of My creatures, then what do I need your light from the Temple?¹⁰Yalkut Shimoni, I Kings, Remez 182. I did not find the source in tractate Menahot.