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§ The Mishnah teaches that the Chamber of Avtinas and the Chamber of the Spark were upper stories. Concerning this, a dilemma was raised before the rabbis: Were these halls actual upper stories? Or perhaps they were merely very tall, built upon pillars, and therefore were like upper stories.
The Talmud explains: Come and hear a resolution, as we learned in a Mishnah that discusses the 7 gates to the Temple courtyard (Middot 1:5): There were 3 gates that were in the north, and the first of these was the Gate of the Spark. It was like a portico [akhsadra], and there was an upper story b
The Talmud asks: From where are these matters, that the priests and Levites kept watch on different stories, derived? This is derived from a verse, as A baraita states: The verse states that God said to Aaron: “And your brethren also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, you shall bring nea
The baraita asks: Do you say that the verse speaks of the Levites’ accompanying the priests in your service, of the priests keeping watch, or is it only stating that the Levites should accompany the priests through their own service of bearing the sacred vessels? The baraita explains that when the
§ With regard to the third place in which the priests would keep watch, the Mishnah states: In the Chamber of the Hearth the ceiling was round like a cupola, and it was a large hall.