ייִדישער מחשבֿה אויף יחזקאל 40:16

“There were narrowing windows to the cells”⁷Ibid.:16. and to their sidewalls towards the inside of the gateway. The term “sidewalls” refers to the structures at the sides of the two entrances to the chain of cells that opened to the gateway. The verse continues, stating that the windows were “all around facing the inside,” i.e., to the wall, to the inside of the Women’s Courtyard.”⁸I.e., they extended through the wall that surrounded the courtyard and opened to its inside (see Rashi’s commentary to Yechezkel 40:15).

“Its pillars were 2 cubits.” The pillars were round, treelike structures made from hewn stone. They stood at the end of the vestibule, with one attached to the right wall and the other attached to the left wall. These pillars took the place of doorposts. The diameter of each one was 2 cubits. Thus, including the pillars, the vestibule jutted out 10 cubits from east to west. Each of the pillars was 60 cubits high.¹Yechezkel 40:14. At the top of each pillar, was a coronet resembling a palm tree, as stated in the verse,²Ibid.:16. “On each pillar, a palm-like coronet.”