Heichal - Inner Room of the Temple

Entry of an impure person while service is being performed internally

Dimensions of the Temple

The entrance was 20 cubits tall, 10 cubits wide: Eruvin 2a

The purpose of the Heichal's doors was to create privacy within: Eruvin 2b

The design atop the doorway: Eruvin 2b-3a

Placement of the initial, temporary walls, which were made of interwoven segments: Megillah 10a

Personal benefit from the Inner Room: Pesachim 26a

The purpose of the room is internal, and so benefit from shade cast externally shouldn't be a problem of Illegal Use of Sanctified Property: Pesachim 26a

On the 17th of Tammuz an idol was set up [by the Jews] in this room: Taanit 26b

The arrangement of an idol, by Jews, in this room, was a major cause for the downfall of the Jews: Gittin 7a

The Babylonians entered this room on the 7th of Av, in the Destruction of the First Temple: Taanit 29a

The Roman "Turnus Rufus" plowed over this room: Taanit 29a

The sources for the maximum size measurements of the entrance to an alley in which one may carry on Shabbat are the dimensions of the entrance to the "Heichal" room of the Temple or the "Ulam [Azarah]" room of the Temple: Eruvin 2a-3a

The relative sanctity of various areas of the heichal and the azarah: Zevachim 14a

The north-south position of the entrance from the heichal into the azarah: Zevachim 53a-b

The sin-offerings brought in the heichal - chataot hapnimiyot

Could services meant for the heichal be performed in the Azarah: Eruvin 2a; Zevachim 14a

Shechitah is not performed in the heichal: Zevachim 14a

Removing an [impure] crawling creature found in this room during Shabbat: Eruvin 104b-105a

King David sanctified the floor of the azarah and heichal in the Beit haMikdash: Tosafot Zevachim 24a "Hoil"



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