1)

What is "Sha'ar ha'Tavech"?

1.

Rashi (from Yerushalmi Eruvin 5:1): It is the middle gate, the gate of the Azarah - Sha'ar Nikanor 1 , in the east [of the Azarah]. It is between the gate of Ezras Nashim and the gate of the Heichal. It is where they are Mechatech (decide) Halachos. About this it says "Mekom ha'Mishpat Shamah ha'Resha" (Koheles 3:16).

2.

Radak: It is the gate of the middle wall. It is proper to say that it was a gate of Yerushalayim 2 , for [Sarei ha'Kasdim] stayed there after they breached [the outer wall of] the city - "u'Va'u v'Nasnu Ish Kis'o Pesach Sha'arei Yerushalayim" (1:15).


1

I.e. in Bayis Sheni it was called so. (PF) Radak - it has six other names. Refer to Melachim II, 11:6:1:1*.

2

I.e. a gate of the middle of the three walls around Yerushalayim. (PF)

2)

What is the significance of the officers camping in Sha'ar ha'Tavech?

1.

Rashi: This fulfilled "u'Va'u v'Nasnu Ish Kis'o Pesach Sha'arei Yerushalayim 1 " (1:15).

2.

Malbim: They came inside the [outer] wall. Malbim (1, citing Mahari) - even though the wall was breached in Tamuz, they did not enter until the seventh of Av. Yisrael fought them until then, until hunger pressed them.


1

Rashi explained that Sha'ar ha'Tavech is a gate of the Azarah. Radak learned from the verse that Rashi cites that it is not a gate of the Azarah, rather, of Yerushalayim!

3)

Why are Nergal and Sar'etzer repeated in this verse?

1.

Radak: Perhaps there were others with these same names.

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