בית המקדש · Beit HaMikdach

Ezrat Nashim

The Thirteen Shofarot

שלושה עשר שופרות

Shelosha asar shofarot

See it in the tour

Thirteen trunks “shaped like a shofar” — narrow at the top, wide at the bottom, so that no hand could be slipped in — lined up, in the tour, along the east wall of the Ezrat Nashim, on either side of the gate.

Dimensions

  • thirteen
  • narrow at the top, wide at the bottom, so that no hand could be slipped in
  • along the east wall of the Ezrat Nashim, on either side of the gate

Sources

Project decisionTour's choice: their material, bronze, which the Mishna does not specify, and their place along the east wall of the Ezrat Nashim, on either side of the gate.