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Building of the Temple
Laws of Worship of God
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David said, “Here will be the House of the L
ORD
and here the altar of burnt offerings for Israel.” David gave orders to assemble the aliens living in the land of Israel, and assigned them to be hewers, to quarry and dress stones for building the House of God. Much iron for nails for the doors of the gates and for clasps did David lay aside, and so much copper it could not be weighed, and cedar logs without number—for the Sidonians and the Tyrians brought many cedar logs to David. For David thought, “My son Solomon is an untried youth…
I Chronicles 22:1-9
Rabbi Yudan said: During all the seven years that Solomon built the Temple, he did not drink wine. Once he had built it and married Bitya daughter of Pharaoh, that night he drank wine. There were two dances there, one a celebration for the building of the Temple and one a celebration for the daughter of Pharaoh. The Holy One blessed be He said: ‘Whose [dance] shall I accept, of these or of those?’ At that moment, it entered His mind to destroy Jerusalem. That is what is written: “For this city has been a cause of My wrath [
api
] and of My anger [from the day that they built it until this…
Vayikra Rabbah 12:5
Another matter, “have you seen a man diligent in his labor,” this is Solomon son of David. “He will stand before kings,” as he was diligent in the construction of the Temple; that is what is written: “He built it in seven years” (I Kings 6:38), and another verse says: “Solomon built his palace in thirteen years” (I Kings 7:1). Is the result that the construction of Solomon’s palace was finer and more elaborate than the construction of the Temple? Rather, this is what they said: In the construction of his palace, he was indolent…
Shir HaShirim Rabbah 1:1:5
When Solomon built the Temple
and
sought to bring the Ark into the Holy of Holies,
the
gates clung together
and could not be opened.
Solomon uttered twenty-four songs
of praise, as in his prayer there are twenty-four expressions of prayer, song, etc. (I Kings 8),
and
his prayer
was not answered. He began and said: “Lift up your heads, O you gates, and be you lifted up, you everlasting doors; that the King of glory may come in”
(Psalms 24:7). Immediately, the gates
ran after him to swallow him…
Shabbat 30a:7
David gave his son Solomon the plan of the porch and its houses, its storerooms and its upper chambers and inner chambers; and of the place of the Ark-cover; and the plan of all that he had by the spirit: of the courts of the House of the L
ORD
and all its surrounding chambers, and of the treasuries of the House of God and of the treasuries of the holy things; the divisions of priests and Levites for all the work of the service of the House of the L
ORD
and all the vessels of the service of the House of the L
ORD
;…
I Chronicles 28:11-19
If we apply just a little intelligence to the problem we will find that there is no problem at all. We must realise that Solomon did not build either his Temple or its furnishings according to arbitrary considerations. He was not motivated by the desire to erect a magnificent edifice which would confer glory on its builder. He followed instructions received from the prophet. The prophet told Solomon that the very measurements he told him about were an ancient tradition (Chronicles I 28,11) where David handed Solomon the exact blueprints of the Sanctuary he himself had not been allowed to build…
Or HaChaim on Exodus 25:9:17
“On the seventh day…” – that is what is written: “Lift your heads, gates…” (Psalms 24:7). You find that when Solomon built the Temple, he sought to bring the Ark into the chamber of the Holy of Holies. At that moment, the gates clung together. Solomon uttered twenty-four supplications, from the verse “For will God indeed dwell…” (II Chronicles 6:18) until “Now, rise, Lord God, to Your resting place, You, and the ark of Your might…” (II Chronicles 6:41), twenty-four verses, but he was not answered…
Bamidbar Rabbah 14:3
That is what is written: “The words of Lemuel the king” (Proverbs 31:1). Why is Solomon called Lemuel? Rabbi Yishmael said: On the very night that Solomon completed the labor of the Temple, he married Bitya daughter of Pharaoh. There was rejoicing there, in the celebration of the Temple and the rejoicing over Pharaoh’s daughter. The rejoicing over Pharaoh’s daughter overshadowed the rejoicing over the Temple. That is what the parable says: Everyone flatters the king. That is why he is called Lemuel, because he cast the yoke of God’s kingdom from upon him…
Bamidbar Rabbah 10:4
§ The mishna taught:
From
the time
when the
First
Temple was destroyed the
shamir
ceased
to exist.
The Sages taught:
This
shamir
is the creature
with which Solomon built the Temple, as it is stated: “For the house, when it was built, was built of whole stone from the quarry”
(I Kings 6:7). Now
these words
should be understood exactly
as they are written,
that King Solomon took whole stones and shaped them by having the
shamir
do the cutting. This is
the statement of Rabbi Yehuda.
…
Sotah 48b:10-11
Then Solomon began to build the House of the L
ORD
in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where [the L
ORD
] had appeared to his father David, at the place which David had designated, at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
II Chronicles 3:1
In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites left the land of Egypt, in the month of Ziv—that is, the second month—in the fourth year of his reign over Israel, Solomon began to build the House of G
OD
.
I Kings 6:1
...Rabbi Ishmael said, the same night that Solomon had completed the Temple, he married the daughter of Pharoah and there was a great celebration in the Temple. And the celebration of the Daughter of Pharaoh rose above the celebration of the Temple. As it is said, “That it is always so that people flatter the king”. In that moment God thought of destroying it [the Temple] as it says (Jeremiah 32:31) “The city has aroused My anger and My wrath from the day it was built until this day; so it must be removed from My sight…
Midrash Mishlei 31:1
§ The mishna teaches that the Chamber of the Hearth was
surrounded
by
rows of stone
that protruded from the walls and that served as benches. The Gemara asks:
What are
these
rows
of stone? They are rows of
chiseled stones by which
the priests
ascend to
another row of
stone,
where they could lie down. The Gemara asks:
And would they split
the
stones
in the process of building the Temple?
But isn’t it written: “For the Temple, when it was being built,
was built
of whole stone
made ready at the quarry…
Tamid 26b:7-8
It is further stated there:
“It is not for kings, O Lemoel, it is not for kings to drink wine;
nor for princes to say: Where is strong drink?” (Proverbs 31:4). The Gemara provides an explanation of the meaning of each part of this verse.
“It is not for kings”:
Bathsheba
said to
her son Solomon:
What have you to do with kings who drink wine and become intoxicated and say: Why [
lamma
] do we need God [
El
]?
The Gemara continues to explain the verse.
“Nor for princes [
rozenim
] to say: Where is strong drink?”
This means that
one
like…
Sanhedrin 70b:5-6
The sacred of his father Dovid.
That which remained of the silver and gold dedicated by his father. But the Midrash explains that Shlomo did not wish to use any of those dedicated materials for the construction of the Beis [Hamikdosh]. And I heard from [Torah] scholars of Yisroel who said, because Dovid knew eventually it would be destroyed; so that the idol worshiping [nations] should not say that their idols are mightier for they took their revenge upon the Beis [Hamikdosh] which was built of the plunder and destruction which Dovid plundered from them…
Rashi on I Kings 7:51:1
Seventy thousand men who carried loads.
To bring the stones from the mountain to the city, and there were [an additional] eighty thousand who quarried them from the mountain, totaling one hundred fifty thousand [workers]. And they were all proselytes who were drawn, [i.e.,] they converted because of Shlomo’s greatness and his hospitality. And it is likewise written in Divrei Hayomim, “And Shlomo counted all the proselytes and they were found a hundred and fifty thousand. And he made seventy thousand, etc.”
Rashi on I Kings 5:29:1
... Another explanation. “And all the work that king Solomon had wrought in the house of the Lord was finished.” (Melachim I 7:51) What does ‘all the work’ mean? It was built by itself, rising and floating up – thus it does not say when the house was built, but rather “And the house, when it was in building…” (Melachim I 6:7) “…was built of stone finished at the quarry (masa)…” (ibid.) What does ‘finished at the quarry’ (masa nivne) mean? R’ Brechia said: the stone picked itself up (nosah atzma), rose up and was built by itself…
Pesikta Rabbati 6:1
However, the shrines were not removed; the people continued to sacrifice and make offerings at the shrines. It was he who built the Upper Gate of the House of G
OD
.
II Kings 15:35
The Gemara asks:
And are there no more
miracles performed in the Temple?
But didn’t Rav Oshaya say: When Solomon built the Temple he planted all sorts of precious golden fruits there, and
these
brought forth their fruit in their
appointed
season
like other trees,
and when the wind blew them
the fruit
would fall, as it is stated: “May his fruits rustle like Lebanon”
(Psalms 72:16). This indicates that fruits grew in Lebanon, which the Sages interpreted as a reference to the Temple, which was built with cedar trees from Lebanon…
Yoma 21b:2
To the ceiling.
He made the walls of cedar until the ceiling to cover the walls of stone in order to coat it with gold.
Rashi on I Kings 6:16:2
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