בית המקדש · Beit HaMikdach

Mizbeach

The salt on top of the altar

מלח שבראש המזבח

Melach

See it in the tour

The third place of salt, on top of the altar. There they salt the kometz of the menachot, the levonah and the ketoret, the minchat kohanim, the minchat kohen mashiach, the minchat nesachim and the bird olah.

Dimensions

  • on top of the altar

Sources

  • Menachot 21b“בְּרֹאשׁוֹ שֶׁל מִזְבֵּחַ – שֶׁשָּׁם מוֹלְחִין הַקּוֹמֶץ וְהַלְּבוֹנָה וְהַקְּטוֹרֶת, וּמִנְחַת כֹּהֲנִים וּמִנְחַת כֹּהֵן מָשִׁיחַ וּמִנְחַת נְסָכִים, וְעוֹלַת הָעוֹף”

Project decisionChoices of the tour: its position, on the southern walkway strip east of where the kevesh arrives, and its size. The source names the place, not the spot on the top.