Kaisipang Hudyo sa Jonas 3:3: The Third Beit HaMikdash

The narrative in Yechezkel states that Jerusalem will occupy a square measuring 4500 measuring rods by 4500 measuring rods (i.e. 27,000 cubits by 27,000 cubits, or 13 ½ mil by 13 ½ mil), a distance that a person could walk in about a third of a day. It is not at all far-fetched to say that the city will be that large. Indeed, Nineveh was,³⁵Yonah 3:3. “a three-day walk [wide].” How much more so can this be said of Jerusalem in the time of the Redemption, when many nations will stream to her. Certainly, it could be a ninth of that size. Indeed, Rav Yitzchak Abarbanel³⁶See Abarbanal, Yechezkel 45:1. states that the city of Egypt was larger than that in his day.