The Eschatological Temple

[ . . . ] two hundred and eighty cub[its . . .] [ . . . th]ese blocks alongside [the] city wall [ . . . ] [ . . . ] the south, and half [ . . . ] [ . . . ] the blocks [ . . . ] [ . . .…

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from…

Then I stood still, looking at that ancient house being transformed: All the pillars and all the columns were pulled out; and the ornaments of that house were packed and taken out together with them…

But in the last building [i.e., the Temple], which will be built in the future in our lives and in our days, what is said about it? In the days to come, the Mount of the Lord’s House shall stand firm…

[The Shekhinah departed from the Temple in ten stages: . . . It went] from the platform of the House to the Cherubs, as it is written, “Then the Presence of the Lord left…

When I think of this, I pour out my soul: how I walked in the shade of a canopy, moved in procession, to the House of God with joyous shouts of praise (Psalm 42:5). R. Yudan and R. Nehemiah [said]…