Huldah Gates - Temple Mount, Jerusalem

The Mishnah which is a written collection of the Jewish oral traditions, describes the five gates of the Temple Mount as follows: The two Huldah gates are at the south, used for entry and exit. Kyponus in the west, used for entry and exit. Taddi at the north, not used. The eastern gate, on it Shushan capital shape. Why in the south two gates, while in all other directions 1 gate only? The first reason is: tradition - To the south of the Temple Mount located the City of David. This is the area of Jerusalem at its early stages, where King David and the Israelites lived in 1,000BC. Hence, from the days of the First Temple, the residents of Jerusalem arrived to the Temple Mount from the south, hence the main entrance to the temple area was from the south and therefore there are two gates there. I will add that the Shiloh Pool in the south of the city played an important role in everything related to purification and bathing. After purifying themselves, the Israelites ascended from there, from the south during pilgrimage to the Temple Mount.
The power of the tradition was so strong that even a thousand years later, when Herod expands the temple mount and rebuilds the temple, he established the entrance and exit gates to the temple mount from the south, even though in his days, the urban center of Jerusalem was in the upper city, west of the Temple Mount.

Yehuda Holtzman

[wizzardofpaws]

If only we could step back in time and see it in all it's glory.

[awdat]

0:56 That behind you. are three entrances some idiot tried to make in the wall, many centuries later. When he tried to make tunnels up to the Temple Mount he struck bedrock and gave up, and closed the entrances