Mesorat%20hashas for Zevachim 110:8

מאי לאו דאיכא קמייהו שמונה לא דגבהו נינהו שמונה

- Come and hear: For it was taught, R'Jose B'R'Judah said: There were two wickets in the knives' recess and their elevation was eight cubits, in order that the whole of the Temple court might be made fit for the consumption of sacrifices of higher sanctity and the slaughtering of sacrifices of lower sanctity.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The ulam (v. Glos.) overlapped the hekal by 11 cubits on each side. Now, the sacrifices had to be slain in front of the hekal, corresponding to 'before the tent of meeting', and this would apparently not include the area directly in front of the overlap, in which there was a special recess for the knives. By means of wickets set in the ulam on either side the whole of the area facing the ulam, including the overlap, was thus made fit.');">⁹</span> Does this not mean that [an elevation] eight [cubits high] stood before them [these wickets]?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Which proves that such leaves it technically open.');">¹⁰</span>

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