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Our chapter narrates the thirteen years that Solomon took to build his own palace in Jerusalem. This is referred to as the \u201cLebanon Forest House\u201d because it was built of \u201ccedars of Lebanon\u201d —\u00a0 \u201cwith four rows of cedar columns, and with hewn cedar beams above the columns\u201d (I Kings 7:1-2). To undertake the massive metalwork in his palace, Solomon brought Hiram from Tyre (verse 13-14). With the help of this renowned artisan, Solomon set up two bronze columns \u201cat the portico of the Great Hall. He set up one column on the right and named it Yakhin, and he set up the other column on the left and named it Boaz\u201d (verse 21, compare II Chronicles 3:17, Jeremiah 52:20-22).<\/span><\/p>\n

It is curious that columns, no matter how impressive, should be given human names. According to a late Midrashic text (Midrash Tadshe, Chapter 2, as reworked by Radak to I Kings 7:21) \u2018Yakhin\u2019, was so named to express the hope that the Temple complex should be established forever, as it says: \u201cas the moon, it shall be established (yikon) forever\u201d (Psalms 89:38). \u201cBoaz\u201d was so named as an expression of strength, since this name can be read as a contraction of two Hebrew words \u201cBo \u2018Az\u201d (\u201cin it is strength\u201d), as it says: \u201cThe Lord will give strength [\u2018oz] to His people\u201d (Psalms 29:11). The Hida (Haim Yosef David Azulai, died 1805) interpreted these two names to teach the moral lesson that one who prepares himself (Yakhin) spiritually can override the strong (Bo \u2018Az) temptation to sin. Malbim interprets these two names to indicate that God establishes the Laws of Nature by means of His strength (Bo \u2018Az), but also will be prepared (Yakhin) to employ miracles that override the Laws of Nature.<\/span><\/p>\n

Unfortunately, these two impressive bronze columns were destroyed, according to Scripture, when Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, conquered Jerusalem and destroyed the First Temple: \u201cThe Chaldeans broke up the bronze columns of the House of the Lord, the stands, and the bronze tank that was in the House of the Lord; and they carried the bronze away to Babylon\u201d (2 Kings 25:13).<\/span><\/p>\n

But Yakhin and Boaz live on in what are known in archeological terminology as \u201cSolomonic Columns\u201d, i.e. helical columns, characterized by spiraling twisting shafts, like corkscrews. This depiction of Solomon\u2019s two columns goes back to at least to the 4<\/span>th<\/span> century Roman Emperor, Constantine the Great, who brought a set of columns, thought to have come originally from Solomon\u2019s Temple in Jerusalem, to Rome for reuse in the original St. Peter’s Basilica. Four such twisted columns support Bernini\u2019s 17<\/span>th<\/span> century Baldacchino, the centerpiece of the present-day St. Peter\u2019s Basilica in the Vatican. Such \u201cSolomonic Columns\u201d are also found in other churches and in synagogues, particularly flanking the Ark, and on the title pages of many traditional Hebrew books.<\/span><\/p>\n

Image: At right, two of the Solomonic columns brought to Rome by Constantine in their present day location on a pier in St. Peter’s Basilica. 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