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In our Chapter, the priests are commanded to cover the Ark of the Covenant and other sacred implements with \u201c<\/span>Tahash <\/span><\/i>skin\u201d (Chapter 4, verses 6, 8, 10, 11 and 12). Among ancient and modern commentators there seems to be no accepted consensus about what exactly is referred to by the Hebrew word <\/span>Tahash<\/span><\/i>. The most common translation today is \u201cdolphin\u201d, though the narwhal maybe be what is more precisely intended. <\/span><\/p>\n

Indeed, dolphin and narwhal skins seemed to have been used quite extensively in ancient Near Eastern religions, in the Mediterranean area. Other candidates for identifying the <\/span>Tahash <\/span><\/i>vary as widely as the badger, the dugong (manatee, sea-cow) and various goats and antelopes. For the Rabbinic Sages, the very obscurity of the word <\/span>Tahash<\/span><\/i> was an invitation to apply their creative imagination. According to the Talmud (Shabbat 28b) the <\/span>Tahash<\/span><\/i> that existed in the days of Moses was a unique creature \u2013 in our time now extinct. It had a single horn in its forehead (i.e. it was a \u201cunicorn\u201d). <\/span><\/p>\n

The biblical <\/span>Tahash <\/span><\/i>made itself available as its skin was needed to cover the <\/span>Mishkan<\/span><\/i> (Desert Tabernacle). When it was no longer needed for this purpose, it was hidden away until it will reappear in the Messianic Era, as suggested in Ecclesiastes 1:9 \u201cThat which has been, is that which shall be\u201d (see Ecclesiastes Rabbah 1:28 on this verse). <\/span><\/p>\n

From ancient to modern times the color of its skin has also been a matter of debate, ranging from purple to orange. According to Midrash Tanhuma (Terumah 6) the <\/span>Tahash<\/span><\/i> was a miraculous animal whose skin had six different colors. It was also of marvelous size because each sheet of <\/span>Tahash <\/span><\/i>skin had to extend the entire length of the <\/span>Mishkan<\/span><\/i>, 30 cubits, about 45 feet (see Exodus 28:8 and 14). Indeed, the biblical <\/span>Tahash<\/span><\/i> remains an ideal object of contemporary creative imagination.<\/span><\/p>\n

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