WE BUILT IT: New 3D Experience Lets Users Walk Through the Beis Hamikdash Hashlishi
Fifty years after the Rebbe launched the campaign to learn Hilchos Beis HaBechirah during the Three Weeks, The Moshiach Office at Merkos 302 is launching a first-of-its-kind educational platform that allows users to walk through the Beis Hamikdash in a fully immersive 3D experience.
The Beis Hamikdash 3D Experience, available at TheAlef.co/bhmk, is an interactive tool designed for shluchim, teachers, students, families, and communities. The platform currently includes a detailed experience of the Second Beis Hamikdash and, as its centerpiece, a never-before-produced fully immersive walkthrough of the Third Beis Hamikdash as described in Sefer Yechezkel. The First Beis Hamikdash experience is currently under construction and will be added to the platform as well.
The project was two years in the making and was led by Rabbi Mendel Lewis of BeisHamikdosh.com, whose extensive Beis Hamikdash resources have helped thousands of learners visualize and understand the structure and details of the Batei Mikdash. Research was conducted by renowned Beis Hamikdash expert Rabbi Yossel Meijers to create an experience that is not only visually impressive but also deeply accurate, well-sourced, and usable for real Torah learning.
“This is the first time there is a fully immersive experience of the Beis Hamikdash Hashlishi,” said Rabbi Shlomie Naparstek, Director of The Moshiach Office. “Until now, the Third Beis Hamikdash was something most people learned about from pesukim, diagrams, and descriptions. This tool allows you to actually walk through it, room by room, with the pesukim and explanations guiding you along the way. It makes the Beis Hamikdash clear, visual, and alive in a way that has never been available before.”
The platform allows users to explore the Beis Hamikdash room by room, see how each area is laid out, and understand what each part is and how it functions. Along the way, users encounter clear explanations, diagrams, sourced background information, and comparisons between the Third and Second Batei Mikdash.
The Second Beis Hamikdash experience also includes multiple views and explanations based on different shittos, including the Rambam, Rashi, and others. This makes the platform especially useful for anyone teaching or learning Hilchos Beis HaBechirah, Mishnayos Middos, or general Beis Hamikdash studies.
An additional feature of the launch is the accompanying educational toolkit, The Angel’s Journey. The toolkit follows the tour of the Beis Hamikdash as shown to Yechezkel Hanavi and includes a clear translation of the relevant pesukim, explanations, visual indicators, and a ready-to-teach class experience aligned with the 3D tool.
The experience was successfully tested in several Chabad Houses, where it was used as both a class platform and a visual learning aid. Educators can use the tool to present a full Beis Hamikdash class, guide a group through the 3D walkthrough, or support ongoing learning of Hilchos Beis HaBechirah. Families can use it at home, teachers can use it in classrooms, and shluchim can use it in Chabad Houses for adult education, youth programming, Three Weeks classes, and Moshiach and Geulah learning.
“This year marks 50 years since the Rebbe launched the campaign to learn the laws of the Beis Hamikdash during the Three Weeks,” said Rabbi Mendy Kotlarsky, Executive Director of Merkos 302. “The Rebbe taught that learning about the Beis Hamikdash is not only an act of study; it is an active part of rebuilding it. At this milestone, it is especially meaningful to give shluchim and communities a tool that brings that hora’ah to life in a way that today’s learners can see, understand, and experience.”
The Rebbe emphasized that when the Beis Hamikdash cannot yet be physically built, learning its laws is itself a form of building. The campaign to study Hilchos Beis HaBechirah during the Three Weeks was therefore not merely educational, but redemptive — a direct way to take part in the rebuilding of the Beis Hamikdash and hasten the coming of the Geulah.
The new 3D experience was created with that mission in mind: to make learning about the Beis Hamikdash more accessible, more visual, and more tangible for today’s generation.
“Every detail mattered,” said Rabbi Levi Raskin, Project Manager. “The goal was to create a tool that a shliach could open in a Chabad House, a teacher could use in a classroom, or a family could explore at home — and immediately feel that the Beis Hamikdash is not distant or abstract. We wanted the user to be able to follow the path of Yechezkel Hanavi, understand each stage, and connect the visual experience back to the sources.”
The Beis Hamikdash 3D Experience is produced by The Moshiach Office at Merkos 302 and is available through The Alef, the Chabad House source for Inyonei Geulah Umoshiach. The experience will also be available for Anash shortly through the Tut Altz platform at TutAltz.com/bhmk.
The platform is available for a one-time cost of $19, providing users with unlimited access to all the Beis Hamikdash experiences. This week, plans will include the first 48 hours free of charge.
As the Three Weeks begin, the Beis Hamikdash 3D Experience offers shluchim, educators, families, and communities a new way to fulfill the Rebbe’s call:
To explore the Beis Hamikdash 3D Experience, visit: TheAlef.co/bhmk (shluchim/Chabad Houses)
About The Moshiach Office
The Moshiach Office at Merkos 302 develops tools, content, and educational resources to help shluchim, educators, families, and communities make Inyonei Geulah Umoshiach clear, accessible, relevant, and practical. Through platforms such as The Alef and Tut Altz, The Moshiach Office creates learning experiences, campaigns, and resources that bring the Rebbe’s call for Moshiach education to life.
About The Alef
The Alef is the Chabad House source for Inyonei Geulah Umoshiach, providing shluchim with ready-to-use classes, tools, content, and programs to teach Moshiach and Geulah in a clear, engaging, and accessible way
