How to determine the horizontal dimensions of thirty rooms on the pavement

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The logic of determining the size of buildings in the inner and outer court of the temple complex in accordance with the prophecy of Ezekiel. Important! Sorry for the clumsy machine translation.

Buildings should have a size of 30 by 40 cubits. 30, because this is the maximum size, when we need to place 3 buildings on the length of 100 marked fence space 100 by 50 cubits.

 



Buildings on the pavement can not have a length of 50, because 50 is the width of the pavement. The width of the space marked by a fence of 100 by 50 cubits, along the western wall of the outer court, also does not allow the length of the buildings on the pavement to be equal to 50. The prophetic width of the approach to the buildings in the inner court from the side of the outer court fence determines a similar width of approach to the fenced buildings on the outer court, so for all other buildings on the pavement of the outer court, the width of the free space on the pavement is 10 cubits. So the buildings on the pavement also have a size 30x40 cubits.

Note that the "hehal" is the temple itself, consisting of the inner building of the "tabernacle" and the outer rooms with 30 rooms on 3 floors, located on a separate foundation. "Hehal" does not include the porches behind it, so 100 cubits of free space behind it is measured from the base "hehal", which is 90 cubits from the east to the west. Therefore, the 20 cubits referred to by Ezekiel are uniquely determined, and this uniquely sets the length of 40 cubits for buildings in the courtyard, taking into account the galleries on both sides of these buildings.




The galleries near the buildings in the courtyard are located on two sides, because otherwise it is not justified to place the premises for the Levitic choir on the 3rd floor of the buildings. The logic of architecture here is this: prophecy points to a narrower size of the third floor of buildings in the courtyard, because the upper part of the galleries is wider than the space occupied by the pillars of these galleries. Galleries should not touch the buildings in the courtyard, because the galleries themselves go one surface of their pillars to the outer courtyard, which makes their level of holiness equal to the level of the sanctity of the outer courtyard. All buildings in the courtyard should have the same facade, but the two buildings that are located in front do not have galleries, which makes it possible to make balconies on these buildings on the third floor - for singers and for trumpeters in shofar.