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Imagine Jerusalem in the days before Sukkot during the Second Temple period — not as a pilgrim, but as a resident watching your city triple in size. Drawing on archaeology and ancient Jewish and rabbinic sources, this episode reconstructs the physical transformation of Jerusalem: the stepped pilgrimage roads, the Pool of Siloam, the mikva'ot, the Temple Mount bazaar, the dove-raising installations, and the housing question that may explain the sukkah itself. We distinguish carefully between what the evidence shows and what has to be inferred, and we sit with the mundane human experience that religious texts often leave out. Episode #991737 — open it directly at myweirdprompts.com/991737