Vayakhel-Pekudei - 5th Portion

Join as we learn together Kish for Thursday parases Vayak and Pakud when Vayak and Pakud are combined on a nonan leap year. Uh we are now in the second part of the Torah readings meaning there are two Torah readings combined Vayak and Pakud. So this would be the second part of the second Torah reading for the fifth day of the week, Thursday parases fakud. Yesterday we learned about the calculations of what the gold and silver were used for and copper. Today we continue with the making of the garments, how they were instructed, and how they actually made the garments for the coingal and the kanim. Chapter 38 verse two. Chapter 39 verse2. And they made the aphot was made up of gold of turquoise wool purple wool shani and scarlet wool mazar and twined linen. I'm sorry that's continuing into verse three. And they hammered as the sheets of gold. Then they cut it into threads that it should be intertwined together with the turquoise wool and within the purple wool between and in the scarlet wool within the linen. This was a woven design. The very fact that they were able to take the gold and intertwine it with the other materials. Verse three, Rashi. The word mean comes from to the when God spread out the heavens that he's in the second day of creation. It was the heavens above and the heavens below and he took the heavens and spread them out over the water. The same terminology is used and the tarum uses that he hammered it made it into they would take the gold and they would make it into small sheets of gold. Over here the Torah is telling us hey how would they actually intertwine the gold threads with the other types of material threads and therefore the Torah explains us how it was done. They would take the uh gold uh the gold they would make it then into very thin thin sheets and then they would cut the sheets of gold in lengthwise making it And each one was intertwined. This is the way it was made in the breastplate and in the as it says in those items the material was also of gold as well. So how is it done? You would have one gold strand with six strands of turquoise. So you had one gold together with six of the other kind of the material because each one of the other materials it was double six the and the gold was a seventh which was interwoven with the other one. So you have a total of 28 threads in each one of them. Four kinds four times six plus you have the se the seven of the uh the seven strands of gold. So you make that that six times uh six of each one because in each one there was a strand of gold which makes it a total of 28 strands as we explained this previously in the Torah reading of Tava when we spoke about the garments of the high priest of how God commanded Moshe to make them. Verse four, the belt they made attached to it shoulder straps which were attached on both sides on both of its two ends was connected. Verse five, and the belt that was fastened above it was made up of the same items, gold, turquoise, purple, scarlet, and linen twine like God commanded Moshe. Verse six, and then they made the onx stones that they were surrounded that they had in them. They were encased with gold. They were then engraved with this as a signant ring. The names of the Jewish people of the tribes were engraved on each one of those stones. And then they took those gold stones that were then had these encased gold settings and they put them on the shoulders of the should be used as stones of remembrance for the Jewish people. God commanded Moses. Verse eight. And then they made the breastplate. This was made into a woven design. It was made similar as the aphod was made with the same materials are made up of gold, turquoise, purple wool, scarlet wool, and of linen wine. Verse 9, the breastplate had to be made into a square. It was then folded. Is how they made the breastplate. It was a span long of It was a span long and a spand with it was folded over. Verse 10 and then they filled it with they filled it then with four rows of mountain gemstones. The first row was contained chameleon, emerald and topaz. Then the second row verse 11 and the second row was kbuckle sapphire and a diamond. Verse 12ishi the third row was zone agate and ameth sorry for the misprononunciation but that's the way we understand it. And the fourth one is was aarine onyx and jasperish. All of these were then mounted and encased in gold settings. How they were inserted and encased from around it was gold around it and then it sat in these gold inserts. Verse 14. And these gems had the names of the 12 sons of Israel 12 of them on their names. They were like engraved as a signant ring each person according to his name. According to the 12 tribes, there were the 12 tribes that were on each one of the 12 stones as well as it also had as we mentioned in par this way. It also mentioned all one all of the letters of the alfet were on it because as you know in the 12 tribes there were two letters of the alipets that are not in any of the 12 tribes which is andess and as sin as they were holy. So therefore with the names of you then had all the olive pet on the stones of the verse 15. Then they made on this breastplate uh they made gold chains that were braided were braided like quartz made out of gold. Verse 16. And then they made two gold settings with two gold rings coming out of it. And these two rings then were set on the two edges of the of the breastplate which from there as we're soon going to see in the next verse the gold chains were coming out of and they put these two gold braids into the two rings which were on the edge of the breastplate. Verse 18. Then they attach these two ends of the two braids and the two settings. They attach those to the shoulder straps of the aphod that were facing him. So the shoulder straps came from the front back folded over to the front. Verse 19. And they made two gold rings and they put them on the two edges of the breastplate which were on the fa on the edge of the faces of the aphod on the inner part of the breastplate. That means within there was a fold inside the fold they would put those two rings from it the two chains would come out and then connect to the top shoulder straps as we see in the next verse verse 20. And then they made two gold rings and they put them on the two shoulder straps of the aphod on the bottom from facing that means if you were facing a the person wearing the aphod on the uh next to wear they were joined above the shoulder above the belt above the belt of the aphot. So you had two rings on the top, two rings on the bottom, two rings on the top of the a on the shoulder straps of the aphold which then connected with the chains to the two rings that were coming out of the breastplate. Two rings on the bottom of the breastplate that were connecting to the belt of the aphod which kept it in place like Rashi explained in para that it shouldn't shake from place to place. Verse 21. They link the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the aphot using a turquoise thread that it should stay on the belt of the aphot. And the breastplate should never move from uh the like God commanded Moshe. This concludes the fifth Torah reading for parasake and puk