Kaisipang Hudyo sa Ezekiel 40:32: The Third Beit HaMikdash

“And He brought me to the Inner Courtyard via the east.”¹Yechezkel 40:32. “And he measured from the lower gate…” to the upper [gate]; “it was 100 cubits.”²Ibid.:19. Thus, the width of the Outer Courtyard from its eastern side to the eastern wall of the Inner Courtyard was 100 cubits. Rav Yitzchak Abarbanel writes that the phrase, “Before the Inner Courtyard from the outside,” implies that the measurement was made from the outside and did not include the gate to the Inner Courtyard. The same applies to the southern side, even though Scripture mentions only the east and the north.

“And he measured the gate according to those measures.¹I.e., with the same measures used for measuring the gate of the Outer Courtyard. Its cells, its pillars, and its vestibules were of those measures. There were windows in it and in its vestibules all around. It was fifty cubits high,²As mentioned above in sec. 3, although the term ארך usually means “long,” here it means “high.” and twenty-five cubits wide.”³Yechez­kel 40:32-33. This means there were 25 cubits between the edge of the cell on one side and the edge of the cell opposite it. “Its vestibules were toward the outer courtyard. There were palm-like coronets on its pillars, and its stairway had eight steps.”⁴Ibid.:34.

“And he measured the gate according to those measures.¹I.e., with the same measures used for measuring the gate of the Outer Courtyard. Its cells, its pillars, and its vestibules were of those measures. There were windows in it and in its vestibules all around. It was fifty cubits high,²As mentioned above in sec. 3, although the term ארך usually means “long,” here it means “high.” and twenty-five cubits wide.”³Yechez­kel 40:32-33. This means there were 25 cubits between the edge of the cell on one side and the edge of the cell opposite it. “Its vestibules were toward the outer courtyard. There were palm-like coronets on its pillars, and its stairway had eight steps.”⁴Ibid.:34.