Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Talmud for Yoma 49:7

ואי סלקא דעתך כולה בחול פייס במזרחה והא בעינן (תהלים נה, טו) בבית אלהים נהלך ברגש וליכא אלא שמע מינה חציה בקדש וחציה בחול

said: Nobody could sit in the Temple Court except the kings of the House of David.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In Deut. XVIII, 5: The Lord hath chosen him out of all thy tribes to stand to minister in the name of the Lord, against which II Sam. VII, 18: Then David the king went in and sat before the Lord.');"><sup>11</sup></span> Furthermore, if you could think that the whole cell was outside holy ground, how could the count take place on its eastern side, is it not required: 'In the house of God we walked with the throng'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And this enthusiasm, as explained before, was created by the count.');"><sup>12</sup></span> and this would not be [the house of God]! Hence [the inference is valid]: It is half on holy ground, half on non-holy ground.

Jerusalem Talmud Pesachim

Did not Rebbi Ḥiyya state, “nobody could sit in the Temple courtyard except kings of the Davidic dynasty”247Babli Yoma 25a,69b, Soṭah 40a, Tamid 27a, Sanhedrin 101b; Yerushalmi Yoma 3:2, Soṭah 7:7.? And Rebbi Immi said in the name of Rebbi Simeon ben Laqish, even the kings of the Davidic dynasty could not sit in the Temple courtyard. Explain it that he leaned on the wall as if sitting. But is it not written, King David came and sat before the Eternal2481Chr. 17:16., etc.? Rebbi Ayvo bar Naggari said, he concentrated249Since in Mishnaic Hebrew יִשׂוּב דַּעַת means “concentration”. for prayer.
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