All the gates of the Holy Temple were twenty cubits high and ten cubits wide. * The doors were overlaid in gold. The Shushan Gate's lintel was lower than the Temple Mount wall. This enabled the priest who stood on the Mount of Olives and officiated in burning the red heifer to look above the gate, and gaze directly through the eastern gate of the WomenÕs Courtyard. In this manner the priest was able to see into the entrance of the Sanctuary, thus fulfilling the requirement that he must "face the Tabernacle" while preparing the red heifer.  Holiness
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