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that it will be greater in years, meaning that the Second Temple will stand for a longer period of time than the First Temple. And the Talmud comments that this is true and that is true, meaning that the Second Temple was taller than the First Temple and also stood for a longer period of time.
The Talmud asks: If so, if the Second Temple building was taller, then to separate between the Holy of Holies and the Sanctuary in the Second Temple they should have made a wall 30 cubits high and then made a curtain for the rest of the height, the 70-cubit difference in height between the First and
The Talmud continues: But they should have made a wall as high as can possibly stand by itself, and then should have made a curtain for the rest of the height. Abaye said: The rabbis learned as a tradition that the partition separating the Holy of Holies from the Sanctuary should be built either en
§ A dilemma was raised before the rabbis: Do the measurements given in the Mishnah apply to them, the thickness of the materials themselves, and the plaster with which the materials were coated, or perhaps just to them without their plaster? Rav Naḥman bar Yitzḥak said: It is reasonable to say the
The Talmud asks: But doesn’t the tanna teach with regard to bricks that this one provides 1½ handbreadths, and that one provides 1½ handbreadths? Evidently, the tanna lists even an amount less than one handbreadth. The Talmud answers: There mention is made of half-handbreadths because they are fit