By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com We are living in difficult times.  Firstly, the loss of countless lives.  Secondly, the impending economic disaster; the loss of jobs, the blow to the businesses – some of which have changed forever.  The massive depressions and shalom bayis issues that COVID-19 has wreaked. Yes, we certainly do need the Geulah.  And here is how to bring it about. The Chofetz Chaim has written in numerous places that the studying and clarification of the halachos of avodas HaMikdash is the means through which Geulah will come.  That being the case, and the fact that each of the 3 regalim contain the Mitzvah of being oleh regel – we can certainly gain a lot by studying these halachos. There is a positive Mitzvah in the Torah to go up to the Beis HaMikdash, when we are pure, and to appear in the Azarah of the Mikdash.  Eventually, the Mitzvah was to take place in the Azarah of the Beis HaMikdash.  This Mitzvah is found in Shmos 23:17 and is read on the Yomim Tovim.  We are, hopefully, all familiar with it:  “Shalosh p’amim bashana yer’aeh kol zechurcha..” Indeed, Klal Yisroel was commanded in three Mitzvos for each of the three regalim.  The Mitzvah of re’i’yah (and bringing the korban olah along) appearing in the Azarah, the Mitzvah of Chagigah – celebrating (along with the Korban Chagigah – see Dvarim 16:15), and the Mitzvah of Simcha (along with Korban shlamim of simcha – see Dvarim 16:14). WHAT ONE SAW BEFORE ENTERING THE AZARAH Where was the Azarah?  What did one see before entering the Azarah? The entrance to the Beis Hamikdash was on its eastern side. One first had to enter the Ezras Nashim, which was the first courtyard of the Beis Hamikdash. The Ezras nashim was a huge open area, and had a separate chamber area in each of its corners. THE FOUR CHAMBER AREAS OF THE EZRAS NASHIM One chamber, in the north-east was used for storing wood and for checking that it didn’t have worms.  Another, in the south-west, was used for storing the oil that was used both to light the Menorah and for mixing into the Korban Mincha offerings. It was also used to store the wine. A third chamber was for the former Metzurayim who came to be metaher themselves after they were healed and could immerse in the Mikvah that was in that area.  The fourth, in the south-east section, was for Nezirim who had completed their period of Nezirus.  There they shaved off and burned their hair.  They also cooked their offerings there. The Ezras Nashim also contained a room where the lower Sanhedrin of twenty three judges sat. THE EZRAS YISROEL The next courtyard was past fifteen half-circle steps that led to the Gate of Nikanor which was the entranceway into the Ezras Yisroel, where only men who were tahor could enter.  It was called Shaar Nikanor because he, Nikanor, paid for the huge doors made out of brass. It was made in Alexandria, Egypt.  This area, the Ezras Yisroel, was where the Sanhedrin haGadol of 71 judges sat and ruled.  At the end of the Ezras Yisroel was the duchan, a three-step stage where the Leviim played their musical instruments and sang the shir shel yom. […]

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