Study Yoma folio 16A with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
the southeast chamber in the Hall of the Hearth was the chamber in which the shewbread was prepared. The northeast chamber was the chamber in which the Hasmoneans sequestered the altar stones that were desecrated by the non-Jew kings when they sacrificed idolatrous offerings. The northwest chamber
As we learned in a Mishnah in tractate Middot: The dimensions of the women’s courtyard were a length of 135 cubits by a width of 135 cubits, and there were 4 chambers in its 4 corners. And what purpose did these chambers serve? The southeast chamber was the Chamber of the Nazirites, as there the na
The northwest chamber was the Chamber of the Lepers, where lepers would immerse for purification. With regard to the southwest chamber, R' Eliezer ben Ya’akov said: I forgot what purpose it would serve. Abba Shaul says: They would place wine and oil there for the meal-offerings and libations, and i
So too, it is reasonable to conclude that the mishnayot in tractate Middot are in accordance with the opinion of R' Eliezer ben Ya’akov, as we learned in a Mishnah there: All the walls that were there surrounding the Temple Mount were high except for the Eastern Wall, as the priest who burns the red
The Talmud seeks the opinion according to which this would be feasible. And we learned in a Mishnah: All the entrances that were there in the Temple were 20 cubits high and 10 cubits wide. And we learned in a different Mishnah describing the layout of the Temple: Inside the eastern wall of the Templ