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But to build the structure there was of course a need for wood. Where did the Israelites find long beams of wood in the desert? \u00a0The midrash asserts that the beams of wood, and specifically the <em>bariach hatichon<\/em>, the central bar, the sort of backbone of the mishkan, were planted generations earlier.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Nachman said: Jacob [stopped in Be\u2019er Sheva on his way down to Egypt] to chop down the trees that his grandfather Abraham had planted there. <br \/>\nOn his deathbed, a second midrash asserts: Jacob was saturated with prophecy \u201cand said to his sons: in the future God\u2019s presence will dwell in your midst, and he told them about [the wood necessary] for the central bar.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The midrash is not just attempting to source the wood in a location where such wood was unavailable, but more significantly to teach that the tabernacle, and our temples as well, must be built upon the foundations of our ancestors. Everything had changed from the time that Jacob\u2019s family of seventy descended to Egypt, but the central pillar of the mishkan, representing the core of who we are as a people, must remain true to the open tent of Abraham. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">God\u2019s presence in our midst only occurs when it is rooted in welcoming strangers into our tents. Many generations later Isaiah envisioned the full messianic redemption and described God\u2019s temple as \u201ca house of prayer for all peoples,\u201d a vision certainly rooted in the wood and welcoming spirit of Abraham.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>cover illustration by: Crystal Eye Studio\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n","image":{"ID":43647,"id":43647,"title":"shutterstock_472880980","filename":"shutterstock_472880980.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/shutterstock_472880980.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/sourcing-the-wood-for-the-tabernacle\/shutterstock_472880980\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"shutterstock_472880980","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":43646,"date":"2018-11-10 22:42:12","modified":"2022-06-02 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