The Scent of the Temple Built, Ruined, and Built Again

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 115:13

Another interpretation: this teaches that the Holy One, blessed be He, showed him the Temple built, destroyed, and rebuilt. "And he said, See, the smell of my son" (Genesis 27:27) - behold it is built, as you say, "My sweet-savor offerings shall you observe to bring near" (Numbers 28:2). "Like the smell of a field" - behold it is destroyed, as you say, "Zion shall be plowed as a field" (Micah 3:12, cf. Jeremiah 26:18). "Which the LORD has blessed" - behold it is built and made perfect in the time to come, as you say, "For there the LORD commanded the blessing, life forevermore" (Psalms 133:3).

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