Mishkan. And Shlomo Hamelech made in the Beis Rishon, and the people the בני הגולה made in the בית שני, ושאוסיד לעוסויס and one that will be in the בית שלישי, כולם 10 אמות גובה כולכם עליהם. It's 10 אמות high. וזה שכתוב בתורה ושלוש אמות קומתו. I in the Torah it says המזבח is three אמות high? מקום המערכה בלבד, it's called that's only the area of מקום המערכה. We'll see later that there are three sections to the height of the מזבח. The one is one section is called the יסוד, and then you have as it was recalled later, the the the the middle the middle part. Yeah, here Oh, here he has a three the three. Yeah. And we'll see we'll learn it now. And then, actually, it's four parts, if you want. Then you have the מקום המערכה. The the סובב, we go like this: there's a יסוד, the סובב, מקום המערכה, and then the fourth part are the קרנות, the corners. So, from the the סובב on That's what he says. The I mean the after the סובב, the מקום המערכה is three אמות. Okay. המזבח שעשו בני הגולה וכן העתיד לבנות The מזבח that the second בית המקדש had and the third בית המקדש will have, מידת אורכו ורוחבו, the width and the length, which means it was a square, ל\"ב אמות על ל\"ב אמות, 32 אמות, 32 אמות. So, the מזבח this way is 32 by 32, 10 אמות high. Okay, now we're going to go to the חשבונות. At the bottom. Huh? At the bottom? 32 by 32 at the bottom? Yeah. Okay. Yeah, yeah. We'll see. He's going to make all the חשבונות.

י' אמות של גובה המזבח, the 10 אמות of the height of the מזבח, מהן באמה בת ה' טפחים, some of the אמות is an אמה of five טפחים, ומהן באמה בת ששה טפחים, some are the אמה of six טפחים. And most, as we'll see, most בכלל an amah is known as six tefachim. Two of the amot, only two out of the 10, were amot of five. So, like this, if you have 10 amot, had it all been six tefachim, 60 tefachim, so the mizbeach would be 60 tefachim high. Because two of them were אמה בת ה' tefachim, five tefachim, so there's 58. So, it is 10 amot high, but only 58 tefachim high, and he's going ושאר כל אמות הבנין, בכלל all the other times in the Beit Hamikdash, whenever we speak about an אמה, באמה בת ששה טפחים, a regular amah wherever, is six tefachim. Okay. So, the גובה כל המזבח נ\"ח טפחים. So now that we said that there was not all were six, some of them uh he said two of the amot were only five, so we're missing two, so it's 58. Okay. וכך היו מדותיו וצורתו. This is going to be the measurement of the צורה of the mizbeach. עלה ה' tefachim, you had on the bottom the bottom part, like I've heard there were three parts, that's good, this is the יסוד. On top of the יסוד, they built another section, on top of that section, they put another section, and on top, the poles. The

bottom part was five tefachim high. עלה ה' טפחים וכנס חמישה Then it went in a little bit. In other words, the second part was a little bit narrower. Five tefachim went in. So, yeah. וכנס חמישה No, it was five tefachim high, the bottom part, after Then it went in five tefachim on each side. Five or six? No, five. This one is five. So, again, עלה ה' tefachim and Yeah, it doesn't say here that it went in an amah. Doesn't say the Here it's just talking about an amah. This amah was an amah of five. This, what stuff can you call an amah? You could call it an amah if you want, but anyway, this is also five. זהו יסוד. Okay. Now, On all sides, yeah? On all sides it can went in five? Huh? But we'll see, it's Yeah. We'll see, it's in the in the בריבר. It's kedai, you know what? If you have a smaller sefer Smaller sefer? Not that with the same size. No. It needs uh Oh, oh, like this. Yeah. Okay. So, if you have this, this is all sides sticking out, but let's say It's all for apart. There is a little even bigger. Oh. אטאזוי אטאזוי. Here we have. Okay. Now, this one is not so Well, this have a Chumash. This one. Now, I'll put the siddur on top, so we'll go like this. We'll go like this, like this, and like this. You can sit on a Chumash, but we're holding it We'll hold it like this. It's for technical purposes. Yeah. Here are the horns. Okay. They're called horns? Yeah, קרנות. They're called קרנות. Corners. Down corners. Corners. Oh, horn. They're called קרנות. Okay. Anyway, so here you have like this, you see? This is five טפחים high. It went in five טפחים this way, then it went up, and it went in again, and went up. And then these four had corners, lit- little קרנות sticking, okay. That was just for design purpose, see? No, this הכל בכתב מיד ה' עלי השכיל, that's uh It's for design. The Oibershter gave a ksav. Ksav. The Oibershter's ksav. So, again, עלה ה' טפחים, it was five טפחים high, וכנס חמשה טפחים, it went in five טפחים, זהו יסוד, this is the יסוד. נמצא now רוחב, from now on, the next piece, since the first piece on the bottom was 32, he said, 32 by 32, now the sec- second one is how high? Let's see if you can figure it out. If it went in five, 10 because it's five on both sides. Right, so now it's now, so now נמצא it comes out רחב שלושים אמה ושני טפחים. It's it's 30 אמה and two טפחים. 30 אמה, no. 30 אמה and two טפחים על רחב שלושים אמה ושני טפחים. And the width was 30 אמה and two טפחים. Why 30 אמה? Because it was 30 We had We had before We had And minus 10. Minus 10 from both sides. Okay. עולה שלושים טפחים, so this was only one this was only five טפחים. This is five טפחים. Now this

next piece went up 30 טפחים. That's six אמות high. Yeah. Then וכונס, after it went up this, it went in again חמישה טפחים. Right. זהו סובב, this is called the סובב. This is called the יסוד, this is called the סובב. עולה י\"ח, this one is an 18 טפחים. Now, this 18 tefachim is מקום המערכה it's called. And 18 tefachim is three amah. That's what he said before that three when it says in Chumash three amah, it means the מקום המערכה. Okay, so this is three amah. נמצא, comes out now, what was the width over here, the width and the length? 5*4=20, not 10. No. It's minus six. You said, went in three? Went in five again. Oh, it went in five again? Yeah. It's back to 10. So נמצא שמונה ועשרים אמה וארבעה טפחים. It's 28 amah and four טפחים על כ\"ד אמה וד' tefachim, by 24 amah and four tefachim. עולה י\"ח טפחים, so he repeats it again. It's not so clear why he does it, but now he repeats it. This was 18 טפחים, וכונס Now after it went up the 18 tefachim, now וקרנות זווין של י\"ח Now these 18 tefachim at the corners of of the 18 tefachim had each corner had a בניין חלול had a little thing built on top which was hollow. It was sticking up, but it wasn't solid. It was hollow, מרובע and empty. It was square לכל ארבע קרנות in each קרן. How much was a קרן? ומקום הקרנות, אמה מזה, אמה מזה The place of the קרנות is amah. So this was an amah by an amah, this was an amah by an amah, this was And in between, see, the area between the קרנות, how much is this area? An amah. We need three dimensions. You need a height, a width and a a height, a width and a and a and a length. An אמה על אמה. A קרן was an amah by an amah by an amah. Fine. Right. And the place and you have an area right this קרן and this קרן, what's in between? There's a line. So the area in between was an amah. So the מקום הקרנות is an amah. Huh? No, yeah, I don't mean the length, the width. This line is 'cause some some pictures they even have like a line there. Oh, you see? This this line between this קרן and this קרן, like this קרן and this קרן, there's a line here. This line for the It wasn't It wasn't raised over here. No, this was the קרן was raised. The קרן, the rest was flat. Flat, yeah. The rest was flat, this was flat, but this area is called the מקום הקרנות, is a line of an amah. וכן That was one amah up, it was a good That was an amah up, it was a That's how to get a cheshbon of 10 amot. It's a good point, though. Make a cheshbon: one amah, 30 amah, that's 31, and then 18, 50, 48, uh, 49. 49, and then And then, no, five and 30 is 35 and 18, 35, 45, 54 54 18 50, 50, 50, Since I got the iPhone, I forget the cheshbon. one amah and 30 amot, 31, and 18 31 and 18 is 49. 49, 49, and then One more. and one more amah here. 50 It has to be נ\"ח, up to נ\"ח. Yeah, so what maybe beat the cheshbon. נמצא שלושים אמה ושני טפחים עולה ה' tefachim, okay, then עולה שלושים טפחים, oh, You keep saying amot. I said amot. I meant, I mixed up amot with tefachim, right. I mixed up. We have 58, we're looking for 58 tefachim, that's what we're looking for. 1, 5 5 tefachim, 30 tefachim, 18 tefachim, and then one tefach, and then and then five tefachim. It's 58. So now you had an amah for the מקום the קרנות. וכן מקום רגלי הכהנים. Then after this line here with the קרנות, there was another line, and this is whenever it says that the כהן would walk on the מזבח, and he said he walked פנה וסב, and he turned right turned left, where did he walk? There was a There's another line here. You're thinking of the picture of a line. Yeah, after this line, you have another line. That's another amah. This is called מקום רגלי הכהנים, אמה סובב, also all around an amah. That was etched into the stone? Yeah, yeah. נמצא מקום המערכה, so it comes out that the מקום To put on the on the horn, to the קרן? Yes, the the amah was different. We said that the bottom one was five and the top one was five. That's how you get to 58. Otherwise, it would be 60. Okay, so now נמצא it comes out the מקום המערכה, this area, how wide was this? רחבו עשרים וארבע אמות וארבעה טפחים, 24 אמה and, because the bottom was 32 אמה. The very bottom here all the way around is 32. This is 24 and four טפחים על עשרים וארבע אמות וארבעה טפחים, a 24 אמות and four טפחים. Did you say that the that it slanted in because the אמה אמה by that by אמה, both אמות were different, one was six and one was five? Which was the width Right, okay, yeah. Only the height is the five. Right. זריקת הדמים is always on the יסוד or also in the סובב? No, no, there's sometimes in the סובב. There's the סובב, there's a line here, we'll see. גובה כל קרן וקרן חמישה טפחים, the height of each קרן is an אמה, but what kind of an אמה? An אמה of five. וריבוע כל קרן אמה על אמה, and the ריבוע, the square, is an אמה על אמה. וארבע קרנות חלולות היו תוכם, and the each these corners were hollow in the middle. וגובה מקום המערכה, we said already that. How high was its last third section called the מקום המערכה? י״ח טפחים. So comes out like this. נמצא, what he's trying to bring out, is חצי גובה המזבח. What's half of the height of the מזבח? If the height of the מזבח is 58, how much is the half? 29. 29. נמצא חצי גובה המזבח, כ״ט טפחים מסוף הסובב ולמטה. Look at It's there's you count 29 from here, it'll be the middle, and it'll be 29 to the bottom. Now, in the middle here, what happened by that middle? חוט של סיקרא חוגרו באמצע המזבח, there was a line painted all around the מזבח, exactly in the middle, a red line painted in the middle, כששה טפחים מסוף הסובב ולמטה, which comes out it's about it's six טפחים from the top of the סובב. The סובב was in the middle. If from the top here was one אמה was the קרן, and 18 is is is this, so it's 19 אמה. No, 18 טפחים, I mean. This is five, wait, again I'm counting. Five טפחים plus 18 טפחים 23. 23. And then, if we want to get to 29, how much more do you have? Six. That's what he says. The

חוט הסיקרא, which is in the middle by the 29, happens to be six טפחים down from the top of the סובב. That's exactly in the middle. And what was the purpose of this חוט הסיקרא, of the line? להבדיל בין דמים עליונים לדמים תחתונים. When you sprinkle the blood, certain korbanot you had to sprinkle the blood on top half of the mizbeach. Why color it red? They pick a color like blood, they don't know where the blood went. No, you could see where you're spritzing it, the kohen. No, but they they washed down the place every night. Yeah, yeah, it was a thin red line, and when you threw it, this was red. ונמצא גובה מן הארץ עד מקום המערכה תשע אמות פחות טפח. So it comes out that the height till the מקום המערכה is nine amot. Till here is nine amot missing a tefach. Why missing a tefach? Because the bottom one was only five, not six. Now, we're saying like this. Some of them are not six tefachim. Yeah, we just said that, some are five. But some are only the two, only two two of the tefachim, the bottom tefach and the top and the קרן טפח. Why do they call it an amah? Why don't they just say five tefachim? Cuz it had to be had to be ten amot. But a tefach a tefach is a finger, it's a hand's width. Be'erech. So is that an actual measurement of a tefach? Sure. Nowadays? The amot, well, in them times, that's what everyone was. Well, they're different, so what's that, as average, huh? So now what we If you want to know how we measure it nowadays, so it all depends on what an amah is. So an amah,

some hold there are different shitos nowadays. One holds an amah is about 18 in. One hold an amah is 22 in. There's the biggest shiur, 24 in, the Chazon Ish says that 26 in, I don't know where the shiur is. But that's what an amah is. It's 28. So if you have it 24 if an amah is 24 in, 2 ft, We hold like Rav Chaim Naeh. Rav Chaim Naeh. Rav Chaim Naeh makes it not so big, 18. A little bit over 18, I think. It's 18 and 1/2 or something. That's the real, but lefo'al, when it comes to tallit katan, when the din is has to be an אמה על אמה, we we have 24, we try that 24. But the Alter Rebbe speaks Alter Rebbe doesn't talk about inches. He was metric. But he holds by the bigger. How do you know? No. Okay. יסוד המזבח, now we said that the bottom part, the bottom section, which was only five tefachim high, was the biggest share, which stuck out. He says, לא היה מקיף מארבע רוחותיו כמו הסובב. See the סובב and this, on all four sides the סובב stuck out. So this was laying like in the middle, stuck out. But by the יסוד it wasn't like that. אלא היה היסוד נמשך כנגד כל רוח צפונית ומערבית.

Only צפון and מערב it was sticking out, yeah, and ואוכל בדרום אמה. And here, and only it went like this. It only went out one אמה. One אמה, this. One אמה and one אמה here. Yeah. ובמזרח אמה אחת. The קרן דרומית מזרחית, this corner, לא היה לו יסוד, didn't have a יסוד. Now, that's not pashut, not everyone agrees to this picture. Most of them do. Some say, cuz the Rambam says a לשון that this corner didn't have the יסוד. So some say that יסוד went like this, till here. Just the corner didn't have. See, this went How does it become a square then according to that שיטה? A corner overall a square. No, but this block is a square. It's not a square. This sticks out. You just make a line here. Are you saying the סובב was in the and also was right on these corners? Some say, but the Rambam says the last corner, this corner didn't have a So this picture shows it didn't have it all. All that stuck out was one אמה. But you could say one אמה stuck out means this way an אמה, till here, till here and till here. So this was also here. The only part that did not have a יסוד was this corner. Bottom alone. Only the corner. This picture shows that it had only a little bit on each side. Here was full, here was a little bit, and here was nothing. So most of this did not have. So when we count 32 by 32, we're counting from here to here and from here to here. Right, it wasn't all four sides. Well that's for sure. That's right, everyone agrees it wasn't four sides. But the she'eilah is how much did it come out here? So angenumen mostly is this pshat, that it came out only one little bit here, this way, but most of it didn't have. Okay, well that's different. Which which way were they facing from What you see here now? Yeah, I know. Yeah, but when you're doing the avodah, which what's the front? What's the front? Here, let's if here is the קדש הקדשים, oh, okay, here is the קדש Here's Here's Here's the building. Here is the קדש הקדשים, here's the קדש, here's the אולם. Where's the מזבח? So the כבש was right here. Right, so which so which side So it's this is מזרח? This is מזרח. This is מזרח, okay. It's like that. This is מזרח. So you'd see these two sides and this would be the front. That would be the front. Yeah. Okay, ובקרן מערבית דרומית, in the corner of מערב דרום היו שני נקבים. Here they have a picture. There were two holes. כשני חוטמין, like the two holes of a nose. Two noses, thin. והיו נקראין שיתין, they would call it שיתין. Why? שהדמים יורדין בהן, because when they would spritz the blood and the blood would lower down, they would go down there. And not only that, most of the time, we say in davenen every day, that certain you have to spritz this corner, that corner. But what do you do That's only a spritz. ושירי הדם, what do you do with most of the leftover? על היסוד. You would on the yesod. So where would you pour it? You'd pour it over here. And it would come down this, and it would drain. ומתערבין באמה, there was like a canal of water going under the בית המקדש, and this would come down, ויוצאין, and this would flow out לנחל קדרון. What about the shit'in for the water and for the wine? No, no, that's not the water. The water is different. Where did the water יין ושמן? So wine was where was the where was the water, so the נסוך המים was on the top. מים was on the top. Well, this is on the bottom. In the yesod. This is on the bottom. Yeah. This is about the yesod. No, but this was Wait, where was this put? And no, here they There they had two. This was for the dam, not for the not for the wine. That was on top. That was on top of the mizbeach. The water? Water and the wine. And they and they had and they had two holes: one was bigger, one was thinner. The reason was cuz the wine goes slower, and this goes faster, so the water was a much thinner thing, so they should come You said? You would pour on the yesod? Yeah, we're gonna look at all three ways. But the the מים, it doesn't No, the the dam, some dam. The dam! He's talking about the יין. Not about the נסוכים of the יין. fine Well, the same place where they had the יין, they had the מים, but just different holes. How would he know? He's a Rabbi Ross would know, he's a kohen. That's how he would know. Okay. What about What about the ashes? The ashes are on top of the mizbeach. No, but they cleaned them all. Every morning they took some of the ashes and and dropped it on the floor Okay, let's let's go vayter. למטה בקרקע למטה ברצפה, on the floor, באותה קרן, at the same corner where you had the two holes, היה מקום אמה על אמה, there was a place, cuz we said that the floor of the בית המקדש, of the azara, had squares like this of of tiles. So there was one of them, one of these tiles was an אמה על אמה, טבלא של שיש, it was a tile of marble, וטבעת קבועה בה, it had a ring, שבה יורדין, that you could pick it up, that was like the the sewers, you could go down to the shit'in and like this to clean it if it got stopped up, cuz this was like the the the plumbing system, so that it goes out. So they had a little place there and it would go down. Then והכבש היה בנוי לדרומו של מזבח, on the south side of the mizbeach there was the ramp. Okay, what's the the ramp? ארכו שלשים ושתים אמה על רחב שש עשרה אמה, it was long 32 אמה, and it was wide 16 אמה. So the width of the of the of the kevesh was thinner than the mizbeach. It was a kevesh to the mizbeach, but it didn't take up the whole space of the mizbeach. It was only טז אמה, and the mizbeach was, we said, לב. Right? There it was less, but still. Yeah. והיה אוכל בארץ שלשים אמה מצד המזבח. It was 32, but how much did it take up of the ground? This way was 32 from the top to the bottom. How much was it here? So he says how much it took up. It took up 30 אמה. That means it was pretty steep. It was pretty steep. If within 30 אמה you have only 30 you have 32 here, if it was Not steep? No? The steeper it is, the longer it's going to be. No? Shorter. No, the shorter it's going to be. The steeper, the shorter. When it's very, when it's not steep, it goes long. But that doesn't look like a big unless the picture is wrong like this. No, I'm just thinking if you don't need to see the picture. How much if you have 30 this way and 32 this way? Doesn't sound very steep. Doesn't sound steep? No. In my mind it

sounds steep. Right. If you'd go straight this way you would go 30 30 טפחים, 30 אמות. If you go this way you'd go 30 אמה, and if you go this way, it gets longer. Exactly. If this is 32 and this is 30, it depends, this is 30. This is 30 and this is 32. So what is it? Is it steep? And this is that means it's still, because they are very close. It's about four אמות high. That's 32, that's 30. If this is 32 this way and it's 30 this way, it's the other way around. It's 30 this way and it's 32 No, it's 30 this way and 32 32 this way and somewhere around four אמות high. No, what do you mean it wasn't?

No, it was Oh it was 10 אמות high. 10 אמות high which was 32. The base, the top. That's what he's saying, it's 10 אמות. 10 אמות? 10 אמות. It was nine אמות. 58 טפחים. What are you talking? Nine אמות, no? Minus the six of the כיור. Yeah, but it was it was nine because the the קרן didn't count, it came up to the מזבח not to the קרן. So to have this 30 and this 32 It's wrong, it's wrong, I'm sorry. It's wrong the way you read it. It doesn't say 30 on the bottom. It says It's 30 on the bottom that it's hovering over the ground. That's what you're saying. That's what it said. But it doesn't say that the bottom of the triangle was 30. It says it took up from the ground 30 אמה, no? 30 on the bottom It took up 30 אמות from the bottom, and it was the height 32, to 10 טפחים high. Or nine טפחים, nine טפחים. This is what it is. No, that's a No, no. Not what it is. Read it. The

picture doesn't have it so steep, but Okay. Yeah, אוכל בארץ. That means it took up on the ground, real estate. Not 32, 30 was 30 was on the ground. No, no, no. No, no. Huh? It was high nine אמות. It was nine nine אמות high. And it says here, no, so nine אמות high, and it was 30 on the ground and 32 this way. It was a miracle. I don't know. I'm happy we cleared that up. I don't think so, funny place from here to here. What's the problem? I don't think so. Nobody knows math. Where's all the the big mathematicians here? What's the difference? It says what it is. It is what it is. 30 on the ground, 32 going up, that's nine high. 30 to the top. Are you into construction? Is it steep or not? 30 to 30 is this. What's the difference? Wait, can you walk up it or can I walk it? Can I run up it? I can run up it. Well you can't, I can. That wasn't the question. The question was is it

steep? It's a relative term, steep.