Note to moderator: Read the answerline carefully. The Brazen Sea, described as circular with a circumference exactly three times its diameter, could be found in this location along with the Bread of Faces. This place is contrasted with the Land of Israel in the final verse of the folksong Dayyēnū. The ‘amīdā must be recited facing this place, which was built using stone cut by the shāmir worm. Prayer slips called kvitelakh fill cracks in the only surviving western one of the Herodian retaining walls surrounding this place. After it was desecrated by Antiochus IV, kosher oil unexpectedly burned for eight days in the second one of these places in the miracle of Hanukkah. For 10 points, what holy building was originally built in Jerusalem by King Solomon? ■END■
ANSWER: Jerusalem Temple [or Bēt-ha-Mīkdāsh; or the Temple in Jerusalem; accept bayt-ul-Maqdis; accept First Temple or Second Temple; accept Temple of Solomon; accept Temple of Herod; accept Holy Temple; prompt on Temple until “Jerusalem” is read by asking “where?”, but accept afterward; prompt on Temple Mount or Hār ha-Bayit or al-Ḥaram al-Sharīf or al-Aqṣa or Jerusalem or Yerūshālayim or al-Quds by asking “what building in it?”; prompt on the Holy of Holies or Kōdesh ha-Kodāshīm by asking “which is thought to be in what larger structure?”; prompt on Western Wall or Wailing Wall or ha-Kōtel ha-Ma‘arāvī or Kosel or Kotel or Ḥa’iṭ al-Burāq or Buraq Wall until “western” is read by asking “what larger structure did that form part of?”; reject “Al-Aqṣa Mosque” or “Dome of the Rock”]
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