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But wait. The third? The first had just been destroyed: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">wouldn\u2019t this nation to whom Ezekiel was prophesying, 25 years into their Babylonian exile, be more interested in knowing how to build the second temple? <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why, Ezekiel asks God (according to <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Midrash Tanchuma, Tzav<\/span><\/em><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 14), are you showing me this and asking me to prophecy about it now? Wouldn\u2019t it be more effective to get these instructions when we finally return to our land, ready to rebuild? That question implies that, in fact, Ezekiel may not have realized at first that this is not the next temple he\u2019s being shown, but the one after the next.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When Ezekiel ask his \u201cwhy now?\u201d question, God\u2019s response (again from <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Midrash Tanchuma<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) is to tell Ezekiel that studying the building plans is as important as the construction itself. As it turned out, those who undertook the task of studying those plans learned far more than engineering specs. As detailed and specific as these plans are, they are actually incomplete: some of the dimensions include length and width, but not height; or height and width, but not length. And some parts of the instructions are so complex as to be indiscernible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are differing opinions about who is going to build this Temple: man, or God. Rambam proposed a hybrid answer.\u00a0 Man, precisely the Messiah, would build those elements for which the construction can be grasped by human intellect, while God will provide the rest. So, studying the plans entailed not just understanding a set of measurements, but reading between the lines and appreciating the significance of what was left out.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These chapters do far more than teach a nation in exile how to build a temple. They represent the nature of our partnership with God, in which He gives us instructions to fulfill our role in this world and the assurance that if we learn and execute that well, He will fill in the blanks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Finally, by presenting the plans for the third temple before the second one has been built (and destroyed), God puts His faith in one generation to work towards aspirational goals for some future generation. 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