"Rabbi
Levi said, 'The following statement is a tradition that has been passed
down to us from our fathers: The space taken up by the Ark is not
included in the dimensions of the Holy of Holies. Miraculously, it did
not take up any space at all inside the Holy of Holies.'"
-- Talmud Bavli, Megillah 10b
The Gemara continues: "This was also taught in the following Baraisa: 'The Ark which Moses constructed had ten cubits of space on each side between it and the two walls of the Holy of Holies.' And it is written 'And the area in front of the partition was twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide.' (I Kings 6:20) This teaches that the Holy of Holies measured twenty cubits by twenty cubits in total."
To clarify: the length from the edge of the ark to the wall of the Holy of Holies was ten cubits in each direction. But how could this be so if the ark itself was 2.5 cubits by 1.5 cubit? Therefore, the ark did not take up any space at all inside the Holy of Holies.
The answer is that the ark only exists in a higher dimensional space, but can be accessed from the center of the Holy of Holies.
It is not a METaphor to say that the Holy of Holies must be the third central ventricle of the brain and that the ark must be the pineal gland. It's the other way around: the human anatomy is a MITaphor of the architecture of the Temple.
-- Talmud Bavli, Megillah 10b
The Gemara continues: "This was also taught in the following Baraisa: 'The Ark which Moses constructed had ten cubits of space on each side between it and the two walls of the Holy of Holies.' And it is written 'And the area in front of the partition was twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide.' (I Kings 6:20) This teaches that the Holy of Holies measured twenty cubits by twenty cubits in total."
To clarify: the length from the edge of the ark to the wall of the Holy of Holies was ten cubits in each direction. But how could this be so if the ark itself was 2.5 cubits by 1.5 cubit? Therefore, the ark did not take up any space at all inside the Holy of Holies.
The answer is that the ark only exists in a higher dimensional space, but can be accessed from the center of the Holy of Holies.
It is not a METaphor to say that the Holy of Holies must be the third central ventricle of the brain and that the ark must be the pineal gland. It's the other way around: the human anatomy is a MITaphor of the architecture of the Temple.
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