Explanation of my lego model-part one

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Mendel Lewis
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In the next few posts I will go through some parts of my (virtual) Lego model, explaining it and bringing sources.  

The whole Beis Hamikdash from the northeast corner
Sha’ar Tadi
eastern Ulam (מוזכר ביוסיפון פרק נ”ה)
third floor of eastern Ulam
second floor of eastern Ulam
gate of eastern Ulam with sword on top
the eastern Sha’ar Chuldah
  • The silver doorframes are based on Yosifun chapter 55, and Wars 5:5:3. 
  • In Yosifun chapter 55, (also in the letter printed in Shevet Yehudah, from Marcus consul) He writes about four large halls on the four sides of Har Habayis, The east one having three floors. I only made two floors, because these halls were mostly outside the square Har Habayis, so their floor was lower than the floor of the square Har Habayis, like I wrote in a previous post.
  • Yosifun also writes, there that on top of the door from the hall to the Har Habayis, was a gold sword, weighing a kikar, on which was engraved והזר הקרב יומת ,”the stranger that comes close will dye”
  •  I made the floor of the Har Habayis blue, white, and green based on how Elchanan Eibshitz, in his book “הבית השני בתפארתו”, explains the Gemara that says that Hurdus’s Beis Hamikdash was blue, white, and green.  

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 Hashem said to Yechezkel, “Its reading in the Torah is as great as its building. Go and say it to them, and they will occupy themselves to read the form of it in the Torah. And in reward for its reading, that they occupy themselves to read about it, I count it for them as if they were occupied with the building of it.

(Tanchuma tzav 14
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