Vayakhel-Pekudei - 2nd Portion

Join as we learnish for parishes vayak the tow reading of as mentioned yesterday when the Torah reading in a in a non- leap year where vayakud are together this is where we're going to start however on a leap year this would be the third Torah reading but this is the second Torah reading for paras vakil and puk Verse 30. Yesterday we told we learned as Moshe commands the Jewish people about bringing the items for and the skill needed for the building of the tabernacle. Today we continue with the appointment of those that were going to be in charge of this and how the Jewish people go about building the tabernacle. Verse 30. Moshe tells the Jewish people see that God has now singled out the son of Uri, the son of the tribe of Judah who was this was the son of Miriam. So technically speaking, this was his great nephew. Verse 31, God endowed with him a divine spirit with wisdom with with insight and with inspiration and with all types of craftsmanship. If you look at the words like verse 32 and to deise woven to deise plans to deise woven designs to make with gold with gold, silver and copper. Verse 33 also with the art of setting gems. to be able to insert them and with carving wood to do all kinds of skilled craft. Verse 34, and he also has given with him somebody to help him. He gave him also the ability to teach this wisdom how to do it. I'm sorry. And he gave him the ability to teach in his heart as well. Done. He and the son of to the tribe of Dun was from the tribe of Dim. They were small. They were not considered from the most popular or important tribes in the tribes was from the children of the maidervants. However, God puts them on the same balance on the same plateau, same level as when it comes to building the tabernacle came from the greatest of tribes, the tribe of Yehuda because this is what Job says that the rich or the more important in front of God is not considered more important in front of God. Both of them are equal and therefore both of them contribute together to the building of the tabernacle. Verse 35, God has endowed them with wiseheartedness to do every work of craft to carve and to weave with the turquoise with the purple with the with the scarlet tool with the and to be able to uh to weave as well. all this artisan weaving to do the proper work and to be able to think and under know every kind of work what was going on verse uh chapter 36 verse one in fact the word when it talks about knowing thoughts according to some of the commentaries explains that what does it mean that they knew thoughts that they knew actually what intent a person was donating something. Were they doing it because of peer pressure? Were they doing it because they generously wanted to? And based on that was where they used that gold, silver or copper in the holy temple. Chapter one, chapter 36 verse1 together with all the wise-hearted people that God gave them wisdom and understanding them to know how to do it all the proper work to whatever God commanded. Verse two, all the intelligent people that God gave them with wisdom in their heart, whoever was endowed and uplifted to be able to their heart to do it to bring them close to do the work to do it. Verse three and they took from before Moshe. They took all the donations that the Jewish people brought for the work of the holy service to do it and they brought it and they kept on bringing it further contributions continue bringing more donations every single morning. Verse four and all the wise men who were doing the work each person from which work they were needed from what they were doing their work that they were doing verse five they said to the people are continuing to bring more than is needed more than what we need to be able to work with for the works that God commanded us to Verse six, Moshe then commanded and announced and gave a order throughout the camp saying they should not do any more work to the donations of the holy donations and the people were then prevented from bringing any additional any additional items. Verse seven They were withheld. They were no longer able to bring. Verse seven, the people's work sufficed for all the work they have done to do it. And not only that, there was a surplus. This is probably the only time in Jewish history that there was a surplus in a building campaign. And there was still more money that the extent that they ever told somebody when they made an appeal and they said, "Stop giving money." Only time in history. The fact that the Jewish people brought so much was enough. Meaning they had enough what to do with to be able the ones that were building the tabernacle for all the details that had to be done. They had plenty and even a surplus in order to achieve all the things needed to accomplish. What does the word mean? Like he made his heart hard. says that he made it difficult meaning in this case that the Jewish people did it again meaning the surplus how much there was extra and there was plenty and all the wise people that were doing the work making the tabernacle at this point they first made the 10 tapestries which were made out of twined linen glass shiny twine together with turquoise wool purple wool and red wool They made them with kubim meaning that there was woven into them the design of eagles each on one side and a lion on the other side and that's the way they made them. Then we continue verse uh nas. The length of each one of these tapestries was 28 and it was wide. Four each one of these tapestry tapestries one measurement for all of the tapestries. Verse 10. And he connected the five one to the other. And the other five went to each other. Verse 11. And he made these loops of turquoise at the edge of one of the tapestries by its edge in order to be able to connect it with the other one. And therefore matching it is the matching on the other side. So too he did on the other edge of the other tapestry on the opposite side counterpart to it. Verse 12. There were 50 loops that were made on each one of the tapestries and 50 loops were made on the other side of the tapestry which was on the other side facing it. The two of them were exactly facing one another and they were opposite each other. Verse 13 and he made 50 hooks and he connected these two tapestries one with the other with the hooks. And now the tapestry became one entire tabernacle, one entire piece to cover the tabernacle. Verse 14. And then he made the goat skin which was going to be as a covering on the tabernacle. 12 different tapestries were was made. The length of each one was 30. Four wide. Was the width of each one was the same measurement for all 12. Verse 16. And he connected the five on their own and six on their own. And he made 50 loops at the edge of each edge facing the other one. Then made another 50 loops on the edge of the other tapestry which was facing the second one. Then he made copper hooks 15 to connect these two tapestries is the second one as to make them one. Verse 19. Then afterwards he made a cover on top of the goat skin which was made out of dyed red skin ramkin. And then afterwards on top of that as we learned with two different opinions as we learned in parasuma. Then on top of that was the takash skin which we mentioned that this takash the animal was extinct and was only there for the purpose of the holy temple building the holy tabernacle. Verse 20 then they made the planks for the walls of the tabernacle with standing up straight. There was 10 cubits was the length of each one of these planks. A cubit and a half was the width of it. Each plank There were two pegs that were coming in the bottom of each one of the planks protruding each one next to the other. This is the way it was done for all the different planks of the tabernacle. For the planks for the tabernacle 20 planks for each side for the southern side for each one of these 20 planks you had now 40 silver sockets went under the 20 planks. two sockets per plank for the two pegs that were protruding from the plank and two sockets for every one of those planks for the two pegs that were protruding and went directly into the socket. Verse 25. And now for the other side of the tabernacle which was on the north side. So to made 20 planks for there as well there were 40 sockets. Two sockets under each one of the planks. Two sockets under each plank. Verse 27. Now for this western side of the tabernacle there were six planks. Then there were another two planks were on the corner which cornered off to each one. And that's what made it cornered and rounded it off the side and make it flush against each other. Verse 28. Uh verse 29. And therefore now they wanted the the that the uh plank should be flushed on the bottom as well. It should be flushed on the top that each one should be able to hold each other. Therefore they put a ring. There was a ring that would hold each two of the planks. This is what they did for the two on the edge to make everything flushed and properly cornered. Verse 30. So now you have if you have the two at the end and the six in the center gives you a total of eight planks on the west on the west side of the of the tabernacle. And then the also had the sockets were 16 because you have now you have two sockets per every beam. Verse 31. Then he made brackets which would then hold crossbarss which would then hold the beams in place as well. So you had uh five beams that five crossbars that were made for the planks on the one side of the Mishkan and another five um crossbarss which were made for the other side. Then there were another five that were made to the west as well. 33 And then he made the inner crossbar which that was a full length of the for the went inside. So the other two were on the outside while this one was on the inside which went from edge to edge. According to some there was a commentary that explains that it actually miraculous was that it bent when it came to the back and it came out the other side was the same one. Others want to say that it was the same just an inner one on each one of the sides and they joined each other. Uh verse 34 and the planks he then coated with gold and its rings as were made out of gold. They would hold these brackets and therefore he coated those brackets with gold as well. those co crossbarss with gold as well. He made the curtain was made out of Turkish wool, purple wool and red scarlet and linen which was twined woven in a special way that it was with woven that it had kim and he made it woven in the design of the kim with on one side one appearance and on the other side something else. That's what it means when he wo it kubim. Verse 36. And then he made four pillars of aaced them with gold. His hooks were gold and made for it four silver sockets. Then he made a curtain for the entrance of the tent of gathering which was made out of Turkish purple scarlet linen and all woven twined linen. Verse 38 had planks. its beams I'm sorry were five is it hooks and then they were then based coated with gold however their sockets in this case were five of copper now that we know this actual structure that was made once the structure and home was made we then can go on to make the actual uh items that were needed to go into the structure chapter 37 verse1 by yas made two and a half cubits long cubits height. Why does it say that was the one that made it? Didn't all the smart people make it? So therefore, he tells us because he dedicated himself so diffic so hard on doing the work. Therefore it was called therefore was called by his name. Then what did it and he coated it with gold from the outside and the inside and he made a gold crown around it. Verse three and he poured on it four gold rings on his four sides two rings on one side has two rings on the other side. And he made for its poles which were made out of and he coated them in gold. And then he put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to be able to carry the ark. Verse six of and then he made a cover which would be out of pure gold and a half cubits long one and a half cubits wide. crewman from it protruding was the two made out of one piece of solid gold on the two edges of the of the cover of the of the ark. There was one protruding image coming out of one side and the other was protruding from from the other. He took and he made these uh coming out from the actual piece of the capus as God commanded. They should be banged out from the gold that was made of the actual cover. Verse 9, I'm sorry. Verse eight. There was one crew on one side. Another was on the other side. He did it from the cap. He made these and it's two sides, two edges. Verse 9. And these crew they looked like they had springs wet aloft la on top of them so that their wings shielded their cover on the cap and they were both facing one another tore the towards the cover of that was on top of the ark. That's where the face of the kubim were verse 10. Now that we finished the ark which was the first item mentioned we go now to the second item which was the table. made the table also made out of wood two cubits long one cubit wide cubit high coated it with gold pure gold made for it the golden crown and he made a rim around it a gold rim all around it and on top of that rim they put a gold chain and he poured for it four gold rings and they put The four rings on the four side which were at the four legs of the table the rings were very close to the frame this way it should be balanced when they carry the table. Verse 15 and he made the rods out of wood and he coated them with gold to carry the table and he made the vessels on the table as it's shelving to its supporting frames shelving tubes and it's um it's I'm sorry it's again was its bread forms esapo of its spoons of its supporting frames and the shelving tubes. They should all be pure gold. This concludes the Torah reading for Monday Pares