[familyop]

"You know, I've always wondered about toilet facilities in Jerusalem in the days of the Temple. Since Jerusalem represented Machane-Yisra'el (the encampment of Israel), did one have to leave the city every time one needed to relieve himself? I mean, they didn't have modern sewage facilities back then and . . .

. . . Am I making any sense, people?"

Yes. My best guess is that they had toilet facilities outside of their blocks. Dwellings were often built into close, modular clusters then and there.

[Zionist Conspirator]

Yes. My best guess is that they had toilet facilities outside of their blocks. Dwellings were often built into close, modular clusters then and there.

That might apply to any other ancient city, but my question regarding Jerusalem was predicated precisely on its unique status as Machane-Yisra'el. I'm guessing that in the wanderings in the Midbar people had to leave the camp to releave themselves, and since Jerusalem inherited the status of "the Encampment of Israel" then it would have inherited all the stringencies that went along with it.