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TEMPLE of Solomon
Mystical Structure :

The process of the erection of Solomon’s Temple began, under the direction of Priest-architects, Levites, and skilled Phoenicians builders and workmen, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign.

The building followed the model of Moses’ Meeting Tent (Tabernacle) and preserved faithfully its imprescriptibly religious Judaic proportions :

In the following, the biblical or antique cubit is presumed to be approximately 50 centimeters = half a meter.

-Moses’ Tabernacle- :

Kadosh Hakadashim (Holy of Hollies) :

5 x 5 x 5 = Perfect Cube

Length : 5 meters x Width : 5 meters x Height : 5 meters

-Solomon's Temple-  :

Kadosh Hakadashim (Holy of Hollies) :

10 x 10 x 10 = Perfect Cube

Length : 10 meters x Width : 10 meters x Height : 10 meters

-Moses' Tabernacle- :

Hekhal (Holy Place) :

Length : 10 meters x Width : 5 meters x Height : 5 meters

-Solomon's Temple-  :

Hekhal (Holy Place) :

Length : 20 meters x Width : 10 meters x Height : 15 meters

(Judaism regards the dimensions and proportions of both the Tabernacle and Temple, prescribed by the Bible, as matters of Halakha, religious Law :

The dimensions of Herod's Temple are presented extensively by Flavius Josephus and in the Mishnah Tractate Middoth, although Herod's Architecture completely desecrated the Mystical Structure of the Temple, originally intended to welcome the Shekinah coming down on earth.

The dimensions of Solomon's Temple are presented in the Bible, but are neither presented nor discussed in the Mishnah.)

To the very specific religious Jewish architecture prescribed by YHWH to Moses, Solomon added a Syrian architectural concept that he borrowed from the pagan temple of Ain Dara, with its two columns supporting the porch and its annex surrounding the pagan temple (see archaeology study of Ain Dara temple).

This annex surrounding Solomon's Temple had a total height equal to the three storeys of the annex : 9 meters.

One can suppose that this annex, which did not exist in Moses' Tabernacle, had been wished by the priesthood, and would, perhaps, explain the unorthodox and unproportional height of 15 meters of the walls of the Hekhal (multiplied by 3 instead of being multiplied by 2 as all the other measures), in order to install, in their upper part and above the annex, the equivalent of windows for the daylight.

For a complete Study of the Religious Measures of Moses’ Tabernacle and of the three successive Jerusalem Temples, and for the detailed examination of the significance of the radical evolution of these Religious and Mystical Measures : see Natan's Book On Line.

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