## Rashi on I Kings Chapter 6

###### Rashi on I Kings 6:1:1
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**בְּחֹדֶשׁ זִו.** הוּא אִיָּר, דְּאִית בֵּהּ זִיוָא לְאִילָנָא, וְכֵן תִּרְגֵּם יוֹנָתָן: זִיו נִיצָנַיָּא.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**In the month of Ziv.** This is Iyar because the trees have blossoms. And [Targum] Yonoson translated this similarly, “the bloom of the buds.”


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:1:2
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**הוּא הַחֹדֶשׁ הַשֵּׁנִי.** לְמִנְיַן הֶחֳדָשִׁים, שֶׁהֲרֵי נִיסָן רֹאשׁ הַשָּׁנָה לֶחֳדָשִׁים.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Which is the second month.** When numbering the months, because Nissan is the beginning of the year for [counting] months.


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:1:3
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**לִמְלֹךְ שְׁלֹמֹה.** מוּסַב עַל הַשָּׁנָה הָרְבִיעִית, רְבִיעִית לְמַלְכוּת שְׁלֹמֹה, וְכֵן הוּא אוֹמֵר בְּדִבְרֵי הַיָּמִים: וַיָּחֶל לִבְנוֹת בַּחֹדֶשׁ הַשֵּׁנִי בִּשְׁנַת אַרְבַּע לְמַלְכוּתוֹ.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Of the reign of Shlomo.** Referring to “the fourth year.”¹ It was the fourth year of Shlomo’s reign. And similarly it is stated in Divrei Hayomim, “And he began to build in the second month [on the second day] in the fourth year of his reign.”²

footnotes:
¹ I.e., it does not mean “the second month of Shlomo’s reign,” rather it means the second month of the fourth year of Shlomo’s reign.
² II Divrei Hayomim 3:2.


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:2:1
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**שִׁשִּׁים אַמָּה.** הַהֵיכָל וְהַדְּבִיר יַחַד.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Sixty *amohs*.** The Sanctuary and the Holy of Holies together.³ and the Holy of Holies was 20 *amos*.

footnotes:
³ The length of the Sanctuary was 40 amos


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:3:1
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**וְהָאוּלָם עַל פְּנֵי.** לִפְנֵי הַהֵיכָל בִּכְנִיסָתוֹ.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**The entrance hall along the front.** In front of the entrance to the Sanctuary.


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:3:2
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**אָרְכּוֹ עַל פְּנֵי רֹחַב הַבָּיִת.** אֹרֶךְ הָאוּלָם לְרָחְבּוֹ שֶׁל הַהֵיכָל מִן הַצָּפוֹן לַדָּרוֹם. כָּל מִדָּה הַיְתֵרָה קְרוּיָה אֹרֶךְ, וְהַפְּחוּתָה קְרוּיָה רֹחַב, לְפִי שֶׁבַּהֵיכָל מִדַּת מִן הַמִּזְרָח לַמַּעֲרָב יְתֵרָה, קְרוּיָה אֹרֶךְ, וּבָאוּלָם שֶׁמִּדַּת מִצָּפוֹן לַדָּרוֹם יְתֵרָה בּוֹ, קְרוּיָה אֹרֶךְ מִן הַצָּפוֹן לַדָּרוֹם, וּמִן הַמִּזְרָח לַמַּעֲרָב קְרוּיָה בּוֹ רֹחַב.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**[Twenty *amohs*] long along the front of the width of the Beis Hamikdosh.** The length of the entrance hall was along the width of the Sanctuary, from north to south. All larger measurements are referred to as the length, and the lesser are referred to as the width. Since in the Sanctuary, the measurement from east to west was greater,⁴ versus 20 *amos* from north to south. it was called the length, but since the entrance hall’s measurement from north to south was greater,⁵ versus 10 *amos* from east to west. [that which is] called the length, [is the measurement] from north to south and [the measurement] from east to west was called the width.

footnotes:
⁴ It measured 40 amos
⁵ It measured 20 amos


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:3:3
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**עַל פְּנֵי הַבָּיִת.** לִפְנֵי הַבַּיִת, לְצַד מִזְרָח לְצַד חוּץ.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Along the front of the house.** Was in front of the house on the eastern side, on the outside.⁶ mentioned in v. 2 above.

footnotes:
⁶ I.e., it was in addition to the 60 amos


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:4:1
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**שְׁקֻפִים אֲטֻמִים.** רַבּוֹתֵינוּ פֵּרְשׁוּ: שְׁקוּפִים לְשׁוֹן רְאִיָּה וּפְתִיחָה וְהַשְׁקָפָה, פְּתוּחִים מִבַּחוּץ וַאֲטוּמִים מִבִּפְנִים, קְצָרִים מִבִּפְנִים, שֶׁלֹּא כְּדֶרֶךְ שְׁאָר חַלּוֹנוֹת אֲחֵרוֹת הָעֲשׂוּיוֹת לְמָאוֹר, לְהַרְאוֹת שֶׁאֵינוֹ צָרִיךְ לְאוֹרָה.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**That were open [wide] on the outside and closed [narrow] on the inside.** Our Rabbis explained [שקופים] as an expression of looking, an opening, an observation;⁷ open on the outside and closed on the inside, narrow on the inside, not in the usual manner of other windows⁸ which are made for illumination,⁹ to indicate that it was not in need of illumination.¹⁰

footnotes:
⁷ It was made of a glass-like substance.—Metzudas Dovid.
⁸ Alternatively, חלוני means “sockets” into which שקפים [=“horizontal beams”] were inserted. The sockets were open only on the inside and did not go all the way through the wall, i.e., they were אטומים [=sealed] and not visible from the outside of the building.
⁹ They are therefore constructed narrow on the outside and widening towards the inside to allow the light to spread out as it enters.
¹⁰ See Maseches Menachos 86b.


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:5:1
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**יָצִיעַ.** אפנטי"ץ בְּלַעַ"ז (יָצִיעַ), וּשְׁלשָׁה שֵׁמוֹת יֵשׁ לָהּ, יָצִיעַ, תָּא, צֶלַע כַּךְ מְפוֹרָשׁ בְּבָּבָא בַּתְרָא.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**A chamber.** *Apentec*, in O.F. It has three names, יציע' תא' צלע, thus is this explained in [Maseches] Bava Basra.¹¹

footnotes:
¹¹ 61a.


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:5:2
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**אֶת קִירוֹת הַבַּיִת סָבִיב.** כְּלוֹמַר כְּנֶגֶד הַהֵיכָל וּבֵית קָדְשֵׁי הַקֳּדָשִׁים הוּא הַדְּבִיר, עָשָׂה צְלָעוֹת מִבַּחוּץ, לְדָרוֹם וּלְמַעֲרָב וּלְצָפוֹן, וְסוֹף הַמִּקְרָא הוּא פֵּרוּשׁ לְרֹאשׁוֹ, וַיִּבֶן עַל קִיר הַבַּיִת, סָמוּךְ לְקִיר הַבַּיִת, יָצִיעַ סָבִיב, כֵּיצַד עָשָׂה? אֶת קִירוֹת הַבַּיִת לַהֵיכָל וְלַדְּבִיר, עָשָׂה צְלָעוֹת.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Around the walls of the Beis Hamikdosh circling all around.** I.e., against the Sanctuary and the Holy of Holies, which is the דביר, he made chambers on the outside at the south, west, and north. And the end of the verse explains its beginning. “He built against the wall of the Beis Hamikdosh, [meaning] near the wall of the Beis Hamikdosh, a chamber round about. How did he make it? “Against the walls of the Beis Hamikdosh, [i.e., against] the Sanctuary and the Holy of Holies, he made chambers.”


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:5:3
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**וַיַּעַשׂ.** כְּמוֹ עָשָׂה, וְכֵן: וַיְהִי לִי לִישׁוּעָה, כְּמוֹ הָיָה לִי לִישׁוּעָה.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**And he made.** He made. And similarly, “He was [ויהי] my salvation,”¹² means the same as “He was [היה] my salvation.”¹³

footnotes:
¹² Shemos 15:2.
¹³ The word ‘יהי’ is in the future tense but the ‘vav’ converts it [="ו" המהפך] to the past tense.


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:6:1
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**הַיָּצִיעַ הַתַּחְתֹּנָה.** בְּכָל רוּחַ וְרוּחַ הָיוּ הַתָּאִים שְׁלשָׁה זֶה עַל זֶה, וּמִדַּת אָרְכּוֹ לֹא נֶאֶמְרָה כָּאן, וּבְמַסֶּכֶת מִדּוֹת שָׁנִינוּ: שְׁלשִׁים וּשְׁמוֹנָה תָּאִים הָיוּ, חֲמִשָּׁה עָשָׂר בַּצָּפוֹן, חֲמִשָּׁה עַל גַּבֵּי חֲמִשָּׁה, וַחֲמִשָּׁה עַל גַּבֵּיהֶן, וְכֵן בַּדָּרוֹם, וּשְׁמוֹנָה בַּמַּעֲרָב, שְׁלשָׁה עַל גַּבֵּי שְׁלשָׁה, וּשְׁנַיִם עַל גַּבֵּיהֶם, הַתַּחְתּוֹנָה חָמֵשׁ, וְהָאֶמְצָעוֹת שֵׁשׁ, וְהָעֶלְיוֹנוֹת שֶׁבַע, לָמָּה? כִּי מִגְרָעוֹת נָתַן לַבַּיִת סָבִיב חוּצָה, קוֹמַת הַתָּא חָמֵשׁ אַמּוֹת, וּכְשֶׁעוֹלֶה כֹּתֶל הַהֵיכָל חָמֵשׁ אַמּוֹת, גּוֹרֵעַ אֶת עָבְיוֹ, וְכִנֵּס בּוֹ אַמָּה לְפָנִים, וְהִנִּיחַ עַל אוֹתָהּ כְּנִיסָה רָאשֵׁי קוֹרוֹת גַּג עֲלִיַּת הַתָּא, שֶׁהִיא קַרְקָעִית לְאֶמְצָעִית, וּכְשֶׁעוֹלֶה עֶשֶׂר, כִּנֵס אַמָּה, לְהַנִּיחַ רָאשֵׁי קוֹרוֹת עֲלִיַּת הָאֶמְצָעִית, שֶׁהִיא קַרְקַע הָעֶלְיוֹנָה, נִמְצֵאת אֶמְצָעִית רְחָבָה מִן הַתַּחְתּוֹנָה אַמָּה, וְהָעֶלְיוֹנָה רְחָבָה מִן הַתִּיכוֹנָה אַמָּה.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**The bottom chamber.** One each side there were three [tiers of] chambers, one on the other. The measurement of its length is not stated here, but in Maseches Midos¹⁴ we learned that there were thirty-eight chambers, fifteen in the north, five on top of five and five on top of them, and the same was in the south. And eight in the west, three on top of three and two on top of them. The bottom ones were five [*amohs* wide] and the middle ones six, and the top ones seven. Why? Because he made depressions in the wall of the house round about on the outside. The height of the chamber was five *amohs,* and as the height of the wall of the Sanctuary reached five *amohs,* he decreased its thickness and recessed it one *amoh* inward, and on that recess he placed the ends of the beams of the roof at the top of the chamber which served as the floor of the middle one. And as the wall reached [the height of] ten [*amohs*], he recessed it [another] *amoh* to place the ends of the beams of the roof of the middle [chamber] which served as the floor of the upper [chamber]. Thus we find the middle [chamber] is wider than the lower one by one *amoh*, and the upper [chamber] is wider than the middle one by one *amoh*.

footnotes:
¹⁴ 4:3.


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:6:2
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**לְבִלְתִּי אֲחֹז בְּקִירוֹת הַבָּיִת.** שֶׁלֹּא לְדַבֵּק רָאשֵׁי הַקּוֹרוֹת דֶּרֶךְ נְקָבִים בְּקִירוֹת הַבַּיִת, שֶׁקִּלְקוּל הַחוֹמָה הוּא, וְאֵינוֹ דֶּרֶךְ נוֹי.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**So that [the beams] would not be attached to the walls of the Beis Hamikdosh.** In order that the ends of the beams do not attach [to the walls] through perforations in the walls of the house, since this deteriorates the wall and it diminishes its beauty.


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:7:1
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**בְּהִבָּנֹתוֹ אֶבֶן שְׁלֵמָה מַסָּע.** כְּמוֹ שֶׁהִסִּיעוּהָ מִן הָהָר עַל יְדֵי הַשָּׁמִיר, כְּמוֹ שֶׁהִיא בָּאָה מִשָּׁם, נְתָנוּהָ בְּחוֹמַת הַבִּנְיָן, וְלֹא סִתְּתוּהָ בִּכְלֵי בַרְזֶל, וְאַבְנֵי גָזִית הָאָמוּר לְמַעְלָה, מַחֲלֹקֶת הִיא בְּסוֹטָה (מח ב).

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**When [the Beis Hamikdosh] was being constructed it was built of whole stones carried [from the quarry].** As it was removed from the mountain, through the worm [=a שמיר],¹⁵ which was in the Garden of Eden. [i.e.,] as it came from there they set it into the wall of the structure,¹⁶ and they did not chisel it with any metal tools. And the “stone” mentioned above,¹⁷ is a controversy in [Maseches] Sotah.¹⁸

footnotes:
¹⁵ See Mishnayos Avos 5:6. Radak indicates that Shlomo sent an eagle to bring him the shamir
¹⁶ That is why it is called אבן שלמה [=whole stones], because they were used exactly as they arrived, without being cut or chiseled.
¹⁷ 5:31.
¹⁸ 48b.


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:7:2
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**וּמַקָּבוֹת.** דלוט"א בִּלְשׁוֹן רוּסְיָא (פַּטִּישׁ).

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Hammer.** *Delutta*, in Russian.


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:8:1
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**פֶּתַח הַצֵּלָע הַתִּיכֹנָה אֶל כֶּתֶף הַבַּיִת הַיְמָנִית.** יוֹנָתָן תִּרְגֵּם תִּיכוֹנָה זוֹ כְּמוֹ תַּחְתּוֹנָה, לֹא תִּיכוֹנָה בֵּין עֶלְיוֹנָה לַתַּחְתּוֹנָה, שֶׁבְּחָמֵשׁ תָּאִים שֶׁבַּדָּרוֹם הָיָה לָהּ פֶּתַח אֶל הַחוּץ בַּשּׁוּרָה הַתַּחְתּוֹנָה, וְזֶה (הַתַּרְגּוּם) וּבְלוּלִים יַעֲלוּ עַל הַתִּיכוֹנָה.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**The entrance of the bottom chamber was in the right side of the house.** [Targum] Yonoson rendered תיכונה as the “bottom,”¹⁹ and not as “between” the upper and lower [ones], because the five chambers on the southern side had an opening to the outside in the bottom story. And this (is the meaning) “and by a winding stairway they went up to the middle [chamber].”²⁰

footnotes:
¹⁹ It cannot mean the middle story because you would not have an entrance to a building that is one story above ground level.
²⁰ Thus indicating that תיכונה was the “bottom” story.


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:8:2
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**הַתִּיכֹנָה.** תִּרְגֵּם יוֹנָתָן: מְצִיעָתָא, כִּי הַתָּאִים הַלָּלוּ לֹא הָיוּ פְּתוּחִים אֶל הַחוּץ. שְׁלשָׁה פְּתָחִים הָיוּ לְכָל אֶחָד, כָּךְ הִיא שְׁנוּיָה בְּמַסֶּכֶת מִדּוֹת (שָׁם), אֶחָד לַתָּא מִן הַיָּמִין, וְאֶחָד לַתָּא מִן הַשְּׂמֹאל, וְאֶחָד לַתָּא שֶׁעַל גַּבָּיו. וְלִמֵּד כָּאן, שֶׁאֶחָד מִן הַתַּחְתּוֹנִים שֶׁבְּכֹתֶל דְּרוֹמִי, הָיָה לוֹ פֶּתַח אֶל הַחוּץ, וְדֶרֶךְ אוֹתוֹ פֶּתַח נִכְנָסִים לְכֻלָּם, 'וְצֵלָע הַתִּיכוֹנָה' דִּקְרָא, לֹא תִּיכוֹנָה בֵּין עֶלְיוֹנָה לַתַּחְתּוֹנָה, אֶלָּא תִּיכוֹנָה שֶׁבְּחָמֵשׁ תָּאִים שֶׁבַּדָּרוֹם הָיָה לָהּ פֶּתַח אֶל הַחוּץ בַּשּׁוּרָה הַתַּחְתּוֹנָה, וְזֶהוּ תַּרְגּוּם 'וּבְלוּלִּים יַעֲלוּ עַל הַתִּיכוֹנָה', שֶׁלְּמַעְלָה הֵימֶנָּה, מַשְׁמָע דְהַצֶּלַע הַתִּיכוֹנָה לְמַטָּה.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**The bottom.** [Targum] Yonoson rendered “the middle,” because these chambers were not open to the outside. There were three openings to each. Thus is this taught in Maseches Midos,²¹ “One was to the chamber on the right and one was to the chamber on the left and one to the chamber above.” And it teaches us here that one of the lower [chambers] on the southern wall had an opening to the outside and through that opening²² they entered all the chambers. And the “middle chamber” of the verse, is not the middle one between the upper and the lower [ones], but the middle one of the five chambers on the southern side which had an opening to the outside in the bottom story. And this is the meaning of, “and by a winding stairway they went up to the middle [chamber],” which was above it, signifying that the תיכונה chamber was below.

footnotes:
²¹ 4:3.
²² The southern side is called the “right” side, because a person standing inside the Beis Hamikdosh at its entrance and looking out would be facing east and the southern side would be to the right.


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:8:3
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**בְּלוּלִּים.** תִּרְגֵּם יוֹנָתָן: מְסִבָּתָא, וְהוּא שֶׁקּוֹרִין בִּלְשׁוֹנֵנוּ וויי"ן בְּלַעַ"ז וּבִלְשׁוֹן אַשְׁכְּנַז ווינד"ל שטיי"ן, וְשָׁם הַמֻּרְגָּל שווינד"ל שטי"ג (מַדְרֵגוֹת לוּלְיָנִיּוֹת), וְהוּא בִּנְיַן עַמּוּד אֲבָנִים עָשׂוּי מַעֲלוֹת מַעֲלוֹת, וְהַהוֹלֵךְ בָּהֶן דּוֹמֶה כְּמַקִּיף סְבִיבוֹת עַמּוּד, וְעוֹלִין בּוֹ כַּמָּה וְכַמָּה אַמּוֹת גָּבוֹהַּ, וְאֵין צָרִיךְ לְשֶׁפַע כִּשְׁאָר סֻלָּם, כִּי הִקִּיפוֹ הוּא שִׁפּוּעַ.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**And by a winding stairway.** [Targum] Yonoson rendered, a winding staircase [=מסיבתא], and that is called in our language [O.F.] *vis*, and in German, *vindelstein*, and the commonly used name is *schvindel stieg*. It is a structure of stone pillars made [in the form] of many stairs, and one who goes on them is likened to one spiraling around a column, ascending many *amohs* on it without needing the inclination of an ordinary ladder, because its spiral serves as its incline.


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:8:4
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**אֶל הַשְּׁלִשִׁים.** כְּמוֹ אֶל הַשְּׁלִישִׁים.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**To the third.** [שלישים means the same] as to the third [=שלישיים]


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:9:1
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**וַיִּסְפֹּן.** לְשׁוֹן כִּסּוּי תִּקְרָה.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**And [he] covered.** An expression of a ceiling covering.


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:9:2
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**גֵּבִים וּשְׂדֵרֹת בָּאֲרָזִים.** שְׁתֵּי תִּקְרָאוֹת, אַחַת עֲשׂוּיָה לְנוֹי מִלְּמַטָּה, וְאַחַת שֶׁל לוּחֵי אֲרָזִים מִלְּמַעְלָה, שֶׁל גֵּבִים הִיא הַתַּחְתּוֹנָה. וְתִרְגֵּם יוֹנָתָן: בְּהַנְתּוּכִין, וְלֹא יָדַעְתִּי מָה הֵן, וְשָׁמַעְתִּי מִשְּׁמוֹ שֶׁל רַבִּי מְנַחֵם זַצַ"ל, שֶׁהֵם נְסָרִים אֲרוּגִים נָאִים כְּמִין צוּרָה, וְקוֹרִין לוֹ בִּלְשׁוֹנֵנוּ צילי"ד (תִקְרָה) (וּבִלְשׁוֹן אַשְׁכְּנַז גהימל"ט), וְהִיא לְשׁוֹן 'שָׁמַיִם ', 'שְׁמֵי קוֹרָה'. וַאֲנִי אוֹמֵר, שֶׁהֵם לְבֵנִים חֲלוּלִים, וְהֵם כַּחֲצִי קָנֶה עָגֹל, שֶׁעוֹשִׂין לְכִסּוּי בָּתִּים (בִּלְשׁוֹן אַשְׁכְּנַז דעק ציגל — רְעַפִים).

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**With decorated boards and connected planks of cedar.** [There were] two ceilings, the one made for beauty was below, and the one of cedar planks was above; that of paneling was the lower one. And [Targum] Yonoson rendered [גבים as] בהנתוכין, but I do not know what they are. I heard in the name of Rabbi Menachem, blessed be the memory of the righteous, that they are boards woven beautifully in the form of a design, and it is called in our language [O.F.] *celed*, and in German, *gehimmelt*, and that is an expression of “heavenly,” [meaning] the highest part of the beam. But I say, they are hollowed bricks, and they are like half a round reed, which are used as coverings for houses. (In German, *dek* *tzigel*.)


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:9:3
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**גֵּבִים.** לָשׁוֹן אֲרַמִּי: גּוּבְתָּא דְּקַנְיָא, וְהֵם הָיוּ (לְמַעְלָה), וְהַשְּׂדֵרוֹת (לְמַטָּה).

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Paneling.** In Aramaic it is גובתא דקניא which were (above) and the planks (below).


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:9:4
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**וּשְׂדֵרֹת.** לוּחֵי אֲרָזִים סְדוּרִים לְמַעְלָה מִן הַגֵּבִים, לִדְרִיסַת הָרֶגֶל, כְּשֶׁעוֹלִין לִרְאוֹת בְּבֶדֶק הַבַּיִת. וְכֵן תִּרְגֵּם יוֹנָתָן: וּשְׂדֵרוֹת בָּאֲרָזִים: וְעֵילָּא מִנְּהוֹן (רוֹצֶה לוֹמַר, מִן הַגֵּבִים) סִידְרָא דְרִכְפַּת רֵישֵׁי שִׁרְיָתָא אַרְזַיָּא, וְרִכְפַּת לְשׁוֹן תְּכִיפַת, וַחֲבֵרוֹ: עָבֵי שְׁחָקִים, תִּרְגֵּם יוֹנָתָן: מֵרִכְפַּת עֲנָנִין קְלִילִין.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**And connected planks.** Planks of cedar arranged above the paneling upon which they walk when they go up to repair the building. And similarly, [Targum] Yonoson rendered ושדרות בארזים as, “above them (i.e., the paneling) was an arrangement of a succession [דרכפת] of cedar wooden planks,” and “רכפת“ is an expression of a succession, comparable to, “clouds of heaven,”²³ which [Targum] Yonoson rendered, “a succession [=מריכפת] of light clouds.”

footnotes:
²³ II Shmuel 22:12.


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:10:1
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**חָמֵשׁ אַמּוֹת קוֹמָתוֹ.** שֶׁל כָּל אֶחָד וְאֶחָד, הֲרֵי גָּבְהָן חָמֵשׁ עֶשְׂרֵה אַמּוֹת, לְבַד עֳבִי הַתִּקְרָה.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Five *amohs* high.** Of each one. Therefore, their total height was fifteen *amohs* besides the thickness of the ceiling.


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:10:2
[Rashi on I Kings 6:10:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/6:10:2)

**וַיֶּאֱחֹז אֶת הַבַּיִת.** הוּא כִּסּוּי הַגַּג הָעֶלְיוֹן, וְהַסִּפּוּן הָאָמוּר לְמַעְלָה, הוּא תִּקְרַת הָעֲלִיָּה.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**And he covered the Beis Hamikdosh.** That is the upper covering of the roof, and the covering [=והספון] mentioned above that was the ceiling of the upper story.


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:15:1
[Rashi on I Kings 6:15:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/6:15:1)

**מִבַּיְתָה בְּצַלְעוֹת אֲרָזִים.** קִירוֹת אֶרֶז אֵצֶל קִיר הָאֶבֶן, כְּדֵי לָטוּחַ עָלָיו זָהָב, כְּמוֹ שֶׁהוּא אוֹמֵר לְמַטָּה (פסוק כא): וַיְצַף שְׁלֹמֹה אֶת הַבַּיִת פְּנִימָה זָהָב סָגוּר, וְאִי אֶפְשָׁר לָטוּחַ זָהָב עַל גַּבֵּי הָאֲבָנִים, כִּי אִם בְּעֵצִים וּבְמַסְמְרוֹת.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**With panels of cedar.** Boards of cedar against the stone wall in order to coat it with gold, as it states below, “And Shlomo covered the inside of the Beis Hamikdosh with refined gold,”²⁴ and it is impossible to coat gold on top of the stones, without wood and nails.

footnotes:
²⁴ Below, v. 21.


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:15:2
[Rashi on I Kings 6:15:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/6:15:2)

**קִירוֹת הַסִּפֻּן.** קִירוֹת הָעֲלִיָּה.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Beams of the ceiling.** The boards of the attic.


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:15:3
[Rashi on I Kings 6:15:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/6:15:3)

**אֶת קַרְקַע הַבַּיִת.** הָרִצְפָּה כֻּלָּהּ.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**The floor of the Beis Hamikdosh.** The entire floor.


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:16:1
[Rashi on I Kings 6:16:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/6:16:1)

**אֶת עֶשְׂרִים אַמָּה מִיַּרְכְּתֵי הַבַּיִת.** עֶשְׂרִים שֶׁהֵן מִסּוֹף הַהֵיכָל וָהָלְאָה, וְהָעֶשְׂרִים שֶׁבְּסוֹף הַבַּיִת, הֵן שֶׁל בֵּית הַכַּפֹּרֶת (דְּהַיְנוּ קָדְשֵׁי הַקֳּדָשִׁים).

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**The twenty *amohs* at the end of the Beis Hamikdosh.** The twenty [*amohs*] which were at the end of the Sanctuary and beyond, and the twenty [*amohs*] which were at the end of the building, they are the house containing the Ark cover (i.e., the Holy of Holies).


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:16:2
[Rashi on I Kings 6:16:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/6:16:2)

**עַד הַקִּירוֹת.** עַד הַתִּקְרָה, עָשָׂה קִיר אֶרֶז לְכַסּוֹת קִיר הָאֶבֶן, לָטוּחַ עָלָיו זָהָב.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**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 6:16:3
[Rashi on I Kings 6:16:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/6:16:3)

**וַיִּבֶן לוֹ.** אוֹתָם עֶשְׂרִים אַמָּה.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**He built it.** Those twenty *amohs*.


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:16:4
[Rashi on I Kings 6:16:4](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/6:16:4)

**מִבַּיִת לִדְבִיר.** לִפְנִים מִמְּחִצַּת אַמָּה טְרַקְסִין, הַמַּפְסֶקֶת בֵּין אַרְבָּעִים לְעֶשְׂרִים, וְאוֹתָהּ מְחִצָּה קְרוּיָה דְּבִיר.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**On the inner side of the partition.** Inward of the “Amma Traksin” [partition], which separated between the forty [*amohs*] and the twenty [*amohs*], and that partition is called “Dvir.”²⁵

footnotes:
²⁵ Also, “Dvir” sometimes means the Holy of Holies. See Rashi in v. 5 above and also the Metzudas Tzion there.


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:16:5
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**לְקֹדֶשׁ הַקֳּדָשִׁים.** הִבְדִּילָן לְאוֹתָן עֶשְׂרִים אַמָּה.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**For the Holy of Holies.** He designated those twenty *amohs*.


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:17:1
[Rashi on I Kings 6:17:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/6:17:1)

**הַהֵיכָל לִפְנָי.** לִפְנֵי הַדְּבִיר לְצַד הַחוּץ.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**That is the Sanctuary before it.** In front of the partition towards the outside.


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:18:1
[Rashi on I Kings 6:18:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/6:18:1)

**וְאֶרֶז אֶל הַבַּיִת פְּנִימָה מִקְלַעַת פְּקָעִים.** פֵּרוּשׁ, וְאוֹתָם קִירוֹת אֲרָזִים שֶׁעָשָׂה אֶל הַבַּיִת פְּנִימָה, לְכַסּוֹת קִיר הָאֶבֶן, קָלוּעַ הָיָה בְּצִיּוּרֵי קְלִיעוֹת וְצוּרוֹת פְּקָעִים, כְּמִין כַּפְתּוֹרִים, פְּקָעִים, למויישייל"ש בְּלַעַ"ז (פְּקָעוֹת, כַּפְתוֹרֵי נוֹי).

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**The cedar of the inside of the Beis Hamikdosh was carved with designs.** This means, that those cedar boards which he made for the inside of the building to cover the stone walls, were carved with figured carvings and forms of fragments resembling knobs; פקעים are *imosjjls,* in O.F.


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:18:2
[Rashi on I Kings 6:18:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/6:18:2)

**וּפְטוּרֵי צִצִּים.** תִּרְגֵּם יוֹנָתָן: וְאַטּוּנִין שׁוֹשַׁנִּין, צוּרַת שַׁלְשְׁלָאוֹת.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Of buds and blossoming flowers.** [Targum] Yonoson rendered, “and cords and flowers,” in the form of chains.


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:18:3
[Rashi on I Kings 6:18:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/6:18:3)

**פְּטוּרֵי.** לְשׁוֹן חֲבָלִים, כִּלְשׁוֹן גְּמָרָא, כְּמוֹ כְּפִיטוּרֵי בְפִי וֵשֶׁט.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Buds.** [פטורי is] an expression of cords in the language of the Talmud, as in, “as the rope through the loophole.”²⁶

footnotes:
²⁶ Maseches Berachos 8a.


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:18:4
[Rashi on I Kings 6:18:4](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/6:18:4)

**צִצִּים.** לְשׁוֹן פְּרָחִים, כְּמוֹ: וַיָּצֶץ צִיץ, חֲבָלִים וּפְרָחִים. וּמְנַחֵם חִבְּרוֹ: פְּטוּרֵי, לְשׁוֹן: פֶּטֶר רֶחֶם, וּכְמוֹ: יַפְטִירוּ בְשָׂפָה.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Blossoming flowers.** [צצים is] an expression of flowers, as in, “and it bloomed [ויצץ] buds [ציץ],”²⁷ cords and blossoms. But Menachem related פטורי as an expression of, “to open [פטר] of the womb,”²⁸ and as in, “they open [יפטירו] the lip.”²⁹

footnotes:
²⁷ Bamidbar 17:23.
²⁸ Shemos 13:12.
²⁹ Tehillim 22:8.


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:18:5
[Rashi on I Kings 6:18:5](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/6:18:5)

**הַכֹּל אֶרֶז אֵין אֶבֶן נִרְאָה.** תַּרְגּוּם: כָּל בֵּיתָא חָפֵי נִסְרִין דְּאַרְזָא לֵית אַבְנָא מִתְחַזְיָא.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**All was cedar [wood] no stone was visible.** [Targum Yonoson rendered,] “the whole building was covered with cedar boards, no stone was visible.”


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:18:6
[Rashi on I Kings 6:18:6](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/6:18:6)

**מִקְלַעַת פְּקָעִים.** תִּרְגֵּם יוֹנָתָן: גְלַף חֵיזוּ בֵיעִין (פֵּרוּשׁ, חָקוּק כִּדְמוּת בֵּיצִים עֲגֻלִּים).

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Carved with designs.** [Targum] Yonoson rendered, “and engraved was a resemblance of eggs.”³⁰ (Meaning engraved in the shape of round eggs.)

footnotes:
³⁰ Alternatively, פקעים are designs of fruit.—Metzudas Tzion.


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:19:1
[Rashi on I Kings 6:19:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/6:19:1)

**וּדְבִיר בְּתוֹךְ הַבַּיִת.** מְחִצַּת אַמָּה טְרַקְסִין.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**And the Holy of Holies within the Beis Hamikdosh.** The “Amoh Traksin” partition.


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:19:2
[Rashi on I Kings 6:19:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/6:19:2)

**לְתִתֵּן.** כְּמוֹ לָתֵת.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**To place.** [It has the same meaning] as לתת.³¹

footnotes:
³¹ Knowing that the Beis Hamikdosh will eventually be destroyed Shlomo “prepared ]=[הכין” for the moment by excavating under the Sanctuary a chamber that was hidden in deep and winding tunnels. The chamber was large enough to accommodate the Ark which would be hidden there right before the destruction. See II Divrei Hayomim 35:3 and Maseches Yoma 52b.


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:20:1
[Rashi on I Kings 6:20:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/6:20:1)

**וְלִפְנֵי הַדְּבִיר.** לִפְנִים מֵאוֹתָהּ מְחִצָּה, חָלָל שֶׁל עֶשְׂרִים אֹרֶךְ, וְשֶׁל עֶשְׂרִים רֹחַב.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**The inside of the Holy of Holies.** Within that partition was an area of twenty [*amohs*] long and twenty [*amohs*] wide.


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:20:2
[Rashi on I Kings 6:20:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/6:20:2)

**וְעֶשְׂרִים אַמָּה קוֹמָתוֹ.** כְּלוֹמַר, עֲלִיַּת שֶׁל בֵּית קָדְשֵׁי הַקֳּדָשִׁים, נְמוּכָה מִשֶּׁל הֵיכָל.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**And twenty *amohs* high.** I.e., the height of the Holy of Holies was lower than that of the Temple.³², and the height of the Temple was stated as thirty *amohs* in v. 2 above.

footnotes:
³² The height of the Holy of Holies was twenty amohs


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:20:3
[Rashi on I Kings 6:20:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/6:20:3)

**וַיְצַפֵּהוּ.** לַדְּבִיר, הִיא הַמְּחִצָּה.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**He covered it.** The Sanctuary, [i.e.,] the partition.


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:20:4
[Rashi on I Kings 6:20:4](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/6:20:4)

**זָהָב סָגוּר.** פֵּרְשׁוּ בּוֹ רַבּוֹתֵינוּ: בְּשָׁעָה שֶׁנִּפְתָּח לִמָּכֵר, כָּל חֲנֻיּוֹת אֲחֵרוֹת נִסְגָּרוֹת. וְיוֹנָתָן תִּרְגֵּם: דְּהָב טָב, רוֹצֶה לוֹמַר: מִי שֶׁיֵּשׁ לוֹ מִמֶּנּוּ, סוֹגְרוֹ לְעַצְמוֹ.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Refined gold.** Our Rabbis explained this [סגור], that at the time [this type of gold] was offered for sale, all other stores were closed [=נסגרות].³³ But [Targum] Yonoson rendered this as “good gold,” i.e., he who possesses this gold “locks” it [סוגרו] for himself.³⁴

footnotes:
³³ See Maseches Yoma 45a. The other stores were closed because no one would want to buy regular gold.
³⁴ It is so precious that he keeps it closed up all the time.


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:20:5
[Rashi on I Kings 6:20:5](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/6:20:5)

**וַיְצַף מִזְבֵּחַ אָרֶז.** הוּא מִזְבַּח הַקְּטֹרֶת. וְתָמֵהַּ אֲנִי, וְשֶׁל משֶׁה לָמָּה נִגְנַז.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**[He] covered the altar with cedar wood.** That is the [golden] altar of incense, but I am perplexed, why was Moshe’s [golden altar] hidden?


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:21:1
[Rashi on I Kings 6:21:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/6:21:1)

**אֶת הַבַּיִת.** בֵּית קָדְשֵׁי הַקֳּדָשִׁים.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**The [inside of the] Beis Hamikdosh.** The room of the Holy of Holies.


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:21:2
[Rashi on I Kings 6:21:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/6:21:2)

**וַיְעַבֵּר.** לְשׁוֹן בְּרִיחִים.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**And he attached bars.** [ויעבר] is an expression of bolts.


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:21:3
[Rashi on I Kings 6:21:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/6:21:3)

**בְּרַתּוּקוֹת.** שַׁלְשְׁלָאוֹת.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Chains.** Chains.


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:22:1
[Rashi on I Kings 6:22:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/6:22:1)

**וְאֶת כָּל הַבַּיִת.** כָּל הַהֵיכָל כֻּלּוֹ.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**And the whole Beis Hamikdosh.** [I.e.,] the entire Sanctuary.


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:23:1
[Rashi on I Kings 6:23:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/6:23:1)

**עֲצֵי שָׁמֶן.** (תַּרְגּוּם:) דְּאָעֵי זֵיתָא.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Olive wood.** [Targum Yonoson rendered,] “olive wood.”³⁵

footnotes:
³⁵ עצי שמן literally means “oil wood.” Rashi indicates they are identical. However, in Nechemya 8:15 they are listed separately.


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:23:2
[Rashi on I Kings 6:23:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/6:23:2)

**עֶשֶׂר אַמּוֹת קוֹמָתוֹ.** וְרַגְלֵיהֶם בַּקַּרְקַע עוֹמְדִים, אֶחָד מִצָּפוֹן לָאָרוֹן, וְאֶחָד מִן הַדָּרוֹם, סוֹכְכִים עַל הָאָרוֹן וְעַל בַּדָּיו, אֹרֶךְ הַכְּנָפַיִם מְכַסִּים מִקְצָת (רֹחַב הַבַּדִּים), שֶׁהָאָרוֹן הָיָה נָתוּן אָרְכּוֹ לְרָחְבּוֹ שֶׁל בַּיִת, וּבַדָּיו בּוֹלְטִין בְּפֶתַח הַדְּבִיר בַּפָּרֹכֶת שֶׁכְּנֶגֶד הַפֶּתַח, וּבַדָּיו נְתוּנִין בְּרָאשֵׁי אָרְכָּן, כְּדֵי שֶׁיִּהְיוּ שְׁנֵי לְוִיִּם יְכוֹלִים לִכָּנֵס בֵּינֵיהֶם, כְּשֶׁנּוֹשְׂאִין אוֹתוֹ בַּמִּדְבָּר.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Ten *amohs* high.** And their legs were standing on the ground,³⁶ one was on the north of the Ark and one on the south, covering the Ark and its poles. The length of the wings covered part (of the poles’ width) since the Ark’s length was set to the width of the Temple, and its poles were protruding at the entrance of the Holy of Holies into the curtain which was at the entrance. Its poles were set at the ends of the Ark’s length, in order that two *Leviyim* should be able to enter between them, when they were carrying it in the wilderness.

footnotes:
³⁶ Unlike the cherubim that were made by Betzalel which were on the cover of the Ark and faced each other . See Shemos 37:9.


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:24:1
[Rashi on I Kings 6:24:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/6:24:1)

**עֶשֶׂר אַמּוֹת מִקְצוֹת כְּנָפָיו וְעַד קְצוֹת כְּנָפָיו.** כְּשֶׁהֵן פְּרוּשׂוֹת, נִמְצָאוֹת כַּנְפוֹת שְׁנֵיהֶם שֶׁהָיוּ נוֹגְעוֹת זוֹ בָּזוֹ, מְמַלְּאוֹת כָּל חֲלַל עֶשְׂרִים אַמָּה, וְגוּף הַכְּרוּבִים אֵינוֹ מִן הַמִּדָּה, וְעוֹמֵד בְּנֵס.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**It was ten *amohs* from one end of its wings to the [other] end of its wings.** When they are spread, the wings of both [cherubs], which touched one another, filled the entire space of twenty *amohs*; and the bodies of the cherubim are not included in the measurement, and stood miraculously.³⁷

footnotes:
³⁷ See Maseches Bava Basra 99a. Alternatively, the wings were attached to the cherubs in such a way that the two wings of each cherub touched each other without any space between them. Thus a miracle was not necessary.—Radak.


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:27:1
[Rashi on I Kings 6:27:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/6:27:1)

**וַתִּגַּע כְּנַף הָאֶחָד בַּקִּיר.** צָפוֹן.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**The wing of one touched the wall.** The north[ern wall].


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:27:2
[Rashi on I Kings 6:27:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/6:27:2)

**וּכְנַף הַכְּרוּב הַשֵּׁנִי נֹגַעַת בַּקִּיר.** הַדָּרוֹם, סוֹכְכִים עַל הָאָרוֹן וְעַל בַּדָּיו.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**And the wing of the second *cherub* touched the other wall.** The southern [wall]; they covered the Ark and its poles.


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:27:3
[Rashi on I Kings 6:27:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/6:27:3)

**וְכַנְפֵיהֶם אֶל תּוֹךְ הַבַּיִת.** וְרָאשֵׁי הַכְּנָפַיִם אֲשֶׁר בְּאֶמְצַע הַבַּיִת.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**And their wings which were inside the chamber.** The tips of the wings which were [towards] the center of the room.


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:27:4
[Rashi on I Kings 6:27:4](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/6:27:4)

**נֹגְעֹת כָּנָף אֶל כָּנָף.** שֶׁכָּל חֲלַל הַבַּיִת עֶשְׂרִים.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Were touching wing to wing.** Because the entire space of the room [i.e., the Holy of Holies] was twenty [*amohs*].


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:29:1
[Rashi on I Kings 6:29:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/6:29:1)

**וְאֵת כָּל קִירוֹת הַבַּיִת.** קִירוֹת הָעֵץ.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**And all the walls of the Beis Hamikdosh.** The wooden walls.


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:29:2
[Rashi on I Kings 6:29:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/6:29:2)

**מֵסַב קָלַע.** מֻקֶּפֶת צִיּוּרִין.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**He encircled with figures.** Surrounded with drawings.


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:29:3
[Rashi on I Kings 6:29:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/6:29:3)

**פִּתּוּחֵי מִקְלְעוֹת כְּרוּבִים.** חֲקוּקֵי צוּרַת כְּרוּבִים וּדְקָלִים וַחֲבָלִים וּפְרָחִים.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Carved figures of *cherubim.*** Engraved forms of cherubim, and [palm] trees, cords, and flowers.


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:29:4
[Rashi on I Kings 6:29:4](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/6:29:4)

**מִלִּפְנִים וְלַחִיצוֹן.** לְבֵית הַכַּפֹּרֶת הַפְּנִימִי, וְלַהֵיכָל הַחִיצוֹן.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**From within and without.** [I.e.,] for the inner room of the Ark cover [i.e., the Holy of Holies], and for the Sanctuary, the “one without.”³⁸

footnotes:
³⁸ Even though the Sanctuary was also located “within” the Beis Hamikdosh, however, relative to the Holy of Holies it is the “one without.”


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:30:1
[Rashi on I Kings 6:30:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/6:30:1)

**וְאֶת קַרְקַע הַבַּיִת.** כָּל הָרִצְפָּה.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**And the floor of the Beis Hamikdosh.** The entire floor.


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:30:2
[Rashi on I Kings 6:30:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/6:30:2)

**לִפְנִימָה וְלַחִיצוֹן.** לְבֵית הַכַּפֹּרֶת וְלַהֵיכָל.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**In the inner and outer [chambers].** For the room of the Ark cover [i.e., the Holy of Holies] and for the Sanctuary.


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:31:1
[Rashi on I Kings 6:31:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/6:31:1)

**עֲצֵי שָׁמֶן.** עֲצֵי זַיִת.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Olive wood.** Olive wood.


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:31:2
[Rashi on I Kings 6:31:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/6:31:2)

**הָאַיִל.** אֵילֵי הַפֶּתַח, הֵם הַמְּזוּזוֹת שֶׁמִּכָּאן וּמִכָּאן, עֲשׂוּיוֹת עֲגֻלּוֹת, כְּמִין אֵילִים אֵילָיו וְאֵילַמָּיו (נֻסְחָה אַחֶרֶת: אֵלָה וְאַלּוֹן) וְכֵן בְּכָל בִּנְיַן יְחֶזְקֵאל, סִפּוֹת הַפְּתָחִים קְרוּיִים אֵילִים.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**The lintel.** These are the lintels [=אילי] of the entrance, these are the doorposts from each side that were made round, similar to אילים,³⁹ איליו,⁴⁰ ואילמיו⁴¹ (other texts: אלה' ואלון), and similarly in all of Yechezkeil’s structure[s],⁴² the doorposts at the entrance are called אילים.⁴³

footnotes:
³⁹ Yechezkeil 40:21.
⁴⁰ Ibid. 40:9.
⁴¹ Ibid. 40:10.
⁴² See Ibid. 40.
⁴³ See Rashi Ibid. 40:9.


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:31:3
[Rashi on I Kings 6:31:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/6:31:3)

**מְזוּזוֹת חֲמִשִׁית.** הַמִּפְתָּן הָאֶחָד, וְהַמְּזוּזוֹת מִכָּאן וּמִכָּאן שְׁתַּיִם, הֲרֵי שָׁלשׁ, וְהַמַּשְׁקוֹף שֶׁעָלָיו עָשׂוּי כִּשְׁתַּיִם כָּזֶה כָּךְ שָׁמַעְתִּי. וַאֲנִי אוֹמֵר, מְזוּזוֹת חֲמִישִׁית, חֲמִשָּׁה צְלָעוֹת הָיוּ לִמְזוּזוֹת, וְלֹא הָיְתָה מְרֻבַּעַת, וְאֵינוֹ מְדַבֵּר לֹא בַּמִּפְתָּן וְלֹא בַּמַּשְׁקוֹף, שֶׁלֹּא מָצִינוּ מִפְתָּן וּמַשְׁקוֹף קְרוּיִין אֵילִים.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**The door-posts.** [The door frame consisted of five parts.] The threshold is one, and the side posts on each side are two, totaling three, and the lintel which is on it was made in two, like this. Thus have I heard.⁴⁴ But I say, מזוזות חמישית [refers to the] five sides that each of the door posts had, and it was not four-sided; and [the verse] is speaking neither about the threshold nor about the lintel, because we find neither the threshold nor the lintel called “אילים.”

footnotes:
⁴⁴ Alternatively, it was the fifth of a series of doorways of the Beis Hamikdosh encountered by one entering from the outside.—Ralbag.


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:32:1
[Rashi on I Kings 6:32:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/6:32:1)

**וַיָּרֶד עַל הַכְּרוּבִים.** הָיָה מְרַדֵּד הַזָּהָב טַסִּין דַּקִּין לְשָׁקְעָן בְּפִתּוּחֵי הַצּוּרוֹת, לִהְיוֹת שׁוֹקֵעַ בּוֹ בִּמְקוֹם הַחֲקָק, וּבוֹלֵט עַל הַבְּלִיטָה, שֶׁלֹּא יְהֵא הַזָּהָב מְבַטֵּל אֶת הַצּוּרוֹת, וְיִהְיוּ צוּרוֹת הָעֵץ נִכָּרוֹת בַּזָּהָב.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**He hammered upon the *cherubim.*** He spread the gold in thin sheets [in order] to sink them into the engraved forms, so that it be recessed into the engraved places and protrude on the protrusions, so that the gold does not ruin the figures, and so that the figures in the wood are distinguishable under the gold.


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:33:1
[Rashi on I Kings 6:33:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/6:33:1)

**מֵאֵת רְבִעִית.** מְזוּזוֹת הַהֵיכָל הָיוּ רְבוּעוֹת, וְכֵן תִּרְגֵּם יוֹנָתָן: מִן אַרְבָּעָה סִיטְרֵיהוֹן מְרַבְּעִין.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Consisting of four parts.** The side posts [i.e., the entire door frames] of the Sanctuary were square, and so did [Targum] Yonoson translate, “from their four sides squared.”


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:34:1
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**וּשְׁתֵּי דַלְתוֹת.** כָּל אַחַת כְּדֵי חֲצִי רֹחַב הַפֶּתַח.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**And two doors.** Each [door] was half the width of the entrance.


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:34:2
[Rashi on I Kings 6:34:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/6:34:2)

**שְׁנֵי צְלָעִים.** תִּרְגֵּם יוֹנָתָן: תְּרֵין צִירִין, צִיר הָעֶלְיוֹן, וְצִיר הַתַּחְתּוֹן.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Two [rounded] hinges.** [Targum] Yonoson rendered “two hinges,” an upper hinge and a lower hinge.⁴⁵

footnotes:
⁴⁵ Alternatively, צלעים means “sides,” i.e., both the inner and outer sides of the doors were overlaid with carvings.—Radak.


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:34:3
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**גְּלִילִים.** (תַּרְגּוּם:) סְגַלְגַּלִּין.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Rounded.** [Targum Yonoson rendered,] oval.


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:34:4
[Rashi on I Kings 6:34:4](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/6:34:4)

**וּשְׁנֵי קְלָעִים.** אַף זֶה מְתֻרְגָּם צִירִין, לְשׁוֹן קְלָעִים. אוֹמֵר אֲנִי, שֶׁהוּא לָשׁוֹן אֲרַמִּי, לְשׁוֹן כְּנִיסָה, שֶׁהוּא נִכְנָס בְּחוֹר הַמִּפְתָּן.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Two [rounded] hinges.** Also this is rendered [by Targum Yonoson] “hinges.” The expression קלעים, I maintain, is of Aramaic derivation, an expression meaning “entrance,” because the hinge enters into the cavity of the threshold.⁴⁶

footnotes:
⁴⁶ Alternatively, קלעים are curtains, meaning that the doors folded in the same manner a curtain does.


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:35:1
[Rashi on I Kings 6:35:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/6:35:1)

**וְקָלַע כְּרוּבִים.** עַל הַדְּלָתוֹת.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**And he carved upon them *cherubim.*** On the doors.


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:35:2
[Rashi on I Kings 6:35:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/6:35:2)

**מְיֻשָּׁר עַל הַמְּחֻקֶּה.** הַזָּהָב מְכֻוָּן עַל חִקּוּק הַצּוּרוֹת, שׁוֹקֵעַ בִּמְקוֹם שִׁקּוּעוֹ, וּבוֹלֵט בִּמְקוֹם בְּלִיטָתוֹ, שֶׁיִּהְיוּ הַצּוּרוֹת נִכָּרוֹת בּוֹ.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Fitting precisely upon the carvings.** The gold was fitted onto the carved forms; recessed in the place of its engraving, and protruding in its place of protrusion so that the carved forms are [clearly] distinguishable [in the gold overlay].


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:36:1
[Rashi on I Kings 6:36:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/6:36:1)

**הֶחָצֵר הַפְּנִימִית.** הִיא עֶזְרַת הַכֹּהֲנִים וְעֶזְרַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, וְהִיא הָיְתָה לִפְנֵי הָאוּלָם, וְקוֹרֵא אוֹתָהּ פְּנִימִית, לְפִי שֶׁהָיְתָה לִפְנִים מֵעֶזְרַת נָשִׁים (וּבַמִּקְרָא לֹא מָצִינוּ כָּתוּב 'עֶזְרַת', כִּי אִם בַּמִּשְׁנָה).

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**The inner court.** This was the court of *Kohanim* and the court of Yisroel, and it was [located] before the entrance hall, yet he calls it “the inner one” because it was inward of the women’s court. (In the Biblical text we do not find written “עזרת” except for in the Mishnah.⁴⁷)

footnotes:
⁴⁷ See Mishnayos Midos 2:5,6.


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:36:2
[Rashi on I Kings 6:36:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/6:36:2)

**וְטוּר כְּרֻתֹת אֲרָזִים.** נִדְבָּךְ שֶׁל קִירוֹת (מְחֻטָּבוֹת) עָשָׂה בַּחוֹמָה.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**And a row of cut cedar beams.** A tier of (cut) beams made [part of] the wall.


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:37:1
[Rashi on I Kings 6:37:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/6:37:1)

**בַּשָּׁנָה הָרְבִיעִת.** לַמֶּלֶךְ שְׁלֹמֹה.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**In the fourth year.** Of Shlomo Hamelech[’s reign].


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:37:2
[Rashi on I Kings 6:37:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/6:37:2)

**יֻסַּד בֵּית ה'.** הוּחַל יְסוֹדוֹ.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**The foundation was laid— of the Beis Hamikdosh house of Adonoy.** Its foundation was begun.⁴⁸

footnotes:
⁴⁸ I.e., construction of Beis Hamikdosh began.


###### Rashi on I Kings 6:38:1
[Rashi on I Kings 6:38:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20I%20Kings/r/6:38:1)

**בְּיֶרַח בּוּל.** הוּא מַרְחֶשְׁוָן, שֶׁהָעֵשֶׂב בָּלָה בַשָּׂדֶה, וּבוֹלְלִין לַבְּהֵמָה מִן הַבַּיִת, מִלְּשׁוֹן: וַיָּבָל לַחֲמוֹרִים.

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**In the month of Bul.** This is [the month of] Mar Cheshvan;⁴⁹ [when] the grass in the field decays, and cattle is given fodder from what is stored, from the expression “and he gave fodder [ויבל] to the donkeys.”⁵⁰

footnotes:
⁴⁹ The Flood [מבול] during Noach’s time began in the month of Marcheshvan.
⁵⁰ Shoftim 19:21.