Kaisipang Hudyo sa Job 41:8: The Third Beit HaMikdash

For this reason, our Sages mentioned three instances in which the building of the Second Beis HaMikdash reflected Yechez­kel’s vision. Significantly, these three instances were each in a separate section of the Beis HaMikdash: the Outer Courtyard,³⁷This area was known as the Ezras Nashim in the Second Beis HaMikdash. the Inner Courtyard, and the building of the Sanctuary. These three areas parallel three sections of the Spiritual Cosmos: what is below the sphere of the moon, the galgalim (the heavenly spheres), and the chariot of the Throne of His Glory. The Final Beis HaMikdash will seamlessly connect our world with the spiritual realms so that “one will draw close to another and no [foreign and impure] spirit will pass between them.”³⁸The wording is borrowed from Iyov 41:8. The bracketed words “foreign and impure” are additions not found in that verse. This is not the place to elaborate on this concept. Nevertheless, we see that when they built the Second Beis HaMikdash, they incorporated one element that resembles the ultimate and eternal Beis HaMikdash into each of its sections.