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After reporting on all that had been done in erecting the <\/span>mishkan<\/em> <\/span>(tabernacle), the Torah declares: \u201cAnd Moses saw (<\/span>vayar<\/span><\/em>) all the tasks (<\/span>kol ha-melakhah<\/span><\/em>), and behold (<\/span>ve-hinei<\/span><\/em>), they had done it (<\/span>asu<\/span><\/em>)\u2014as the Lord had commanded, so had they done\u2014and Moses blessed them\u201d (Exodus 39:43). To the attentive reader, the links to the creation story are unmistakable: \u201cAnd God saw (<\/span>vayar<\/span><\/em>) all (<\/span>kol<\/span><\/em>) that God had done (<\/span>asah<\/span><\/em>), and, behold, (<\/span>ve-hinei<\/span><\/em>) it was very good (Genesis 1:31). In the one case, God looks and sees, while in the other Moses does; in both cases, everything has been completed just as God wants. There seems to be a deep connection between God\u2019s creation of the world on the one hand, and the Israelites\u2019 construction of the <\/span>mishkan<\/em> <\/span>on the other. <\/span><\/p>\n

On one level, the implication of the coupling of the construction of the <\/span>mishkan<\/em> <\/span>and the creation of the world is that the <\/span>mishkan<\/em> <\/span>is intended to serve as a microcosm, a world in miniature. <\/span><\/p>\n

To understand what this means, we ought to consider one more literary link between the two stories: The final chapter of Exodus contains seven instances of the expression \u201cjust as the Lord had commanded Moses\u201d (Exodus 40:19,21,23,25,27,29,32), which serves a similar function to the sevenfold repetition of the phrase \u201cAnd God saw that is was good\u201d in Genesis (Genesis 1:4,10,12,18,21,25,31). Bible scholar Jon Levenson draws out the relationship between the two repeating formulas: \u201cThe theological substance of the two similar refrains is a pointed insistence upon the correspondence of the object constructed with the intentions of God. The [<\/span>mishkan<\/span><\/em>] and the world both result from the perfect realization of divine commandments, and nothing that God has commanded falls short of his expectations.\u201d The <\/span>mishkan<\/span><\/em>, like the world, is a perfect realization of God\u2019s plans.<\/span><\/p>\n

Except that in reality\u2014and according to the Torah itself\u2014the world as we find it falls far short of God\u2019s hopes and expectations. In a world overrun by chaos, the <\/span>mishkan<\/span><\/em> is intended to serve as one place in which everything unfolds according to the divine plan\u2014\u201cjust as the Lord had commanded Moses.\u201d Amidst all the world\u2019s brokenness, then, there is to be one place, at least, in which God really is present. 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