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At the end of chapter 39, the people bring all the finished pieces of the Tabernacle to Moses for final approval.\u00a0 This seems like a prudent last step in the building of the Tabernacle. When doing any construction project, it is important for the owner to review all the work done to make sure everything is in proper order. But this scene also evokes three verses from the time of creation. \u201c<\/span>Thus was completed<\/span><\/em> all the work of the Tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting. The Israelites did so; just as God had commanded Moses, so they did\u201d (verse 32).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This first verse in the section uses the same word from the last day of creation in Genesis. \u201cOn the seventh day God <\/span>completed <\/span><\/em>the<\/span> work that had been undertaken: [God] ceased on the seventh day from doing any of the work.\u201d (Genesis 2:2). The second verse in the section uses the same word \u201cbrought\u201d that is used in Genesis 2:20 when God brought all the animals before Adam to name. \u201c<\/span>Then they brought<\/span><\/em> the Tabernacle to Moses, with the Tent and all its furnishings: its clasps, its planks, its bars, its posts, and its sockets\u2026\u201d(verse 33).\u00a0 \u201cAnd God formed out of the earth all the wild beasts and all the birds of the sky, <\/span>and brought them<\/span><\/em> to the Human to see what he would call them; and whatever the Human called each living creature, that would be its name\u201d (Genesis 2:20). The last verse in this section is a mashup of two verses in Genesis. \u201cAnd when Moses saw that they had performed all the tasks\u2014as God had commanded, so they had done\u2014Moses blessed them\u201d (verse 43). \u201c<\/span>And God saw all that had been made<\/span><\/em>,<\/span><\/i> and found it very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day\u201d (Genesis 1:31) \u201c<\/span>And God blessed the seventh<\/span><\/em> day <\/em>and declared it holy\u2014having ceased on it from all the work of creation that God had done\u201d (Genesis 2:3).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The connection between these verses is intentional. The Tabernacle was a creative effort bestowed on the people by God. They were given the ability to create their own \u201cworld\u201d for God to inhabit. God specifically made this a project for the people themselves, and not Moses alone as was the case with the Ten Commandments. By having the people build the Tabernacle, God\u2019s hope was that they would love and protect the creation in the same way that God loves and protects the divine creation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":"","post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"Creation And The Tabernacle","tile_main_caption":"In Genesis, God created a place for humans to dwell. With the Tabernacle, the people create a place for God to dwell","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":"","tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_link_for_pay":"0","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","links":false,"send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Torah","book":"Exodus","chapter":"39","chapter_main_number":"89","date":"20251231","wall_id":"89"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"370","name":"Divine\/human","old_id":"770"},{"term_id":"384","name":"God","old_id":"784"},{"term_id":"558","name":"Creation","old_id":"958"},{"term_id":"668","name":"Tabernacle","old_id":"1068"}]},{"order":3,"id":"105466","color":"#f7e9e9","size":"1","name":"We Are More Than What We Are ","post_title":"We Are More Than What We Are","slug":"we-are-more-than-what-we-are","old_id":"105466","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":46656,"post_title":"Molly Morris","slug":"molly-morris","old_id":"46656","first_name":"Molly ","last_name":"Morris ","description":"Molly Morris holds a Masters degree in Leadership and Community Engagement. Her particular area of interest is biblical leadership. Molly participates in the 929 initiative with a dedicated group from the Beth Avraham Yoseph of Toronto congregation. \r\n\r\n","short_description":"Molly Morris holds a Masters degree in Leadership and Community Engagement. Molly participates in the 929 initiative with a dedicated group from the Beth Avraham Yoseph of Toronto congregation. \r\n\r\n","credit":"","image_url":"","hide_writer":false,"link_for_pay":false,"image":{"id":92561,"alt":"","title":"molly morris","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/molly-morris.jpg","width":2192,"height":2488,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/molly-morris-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/molly-morris-264x300.jpg","medium-width":264,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/molly-morris-768x872.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":872,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/molly-morris-902x1024.jpg","large-width":902,"large-height":1024,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/molly-morris.jpg","1536x1536-width":1353,"1536x1536-height":1536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/molly-morris.jpg","2048x2048-width":1804,"2048x2048-height":2048,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/molly-morris-1057x1200.jpg","post_full_size-width":1057,"post_full_size-height":1200,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/molly-morris-370x420.jpg","home_baner-width":370,"home_baner-height":420}},"tags":false},"related_cahpter":"89","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content_description":"From origins to destiny, we are a point in time\r\n\r\n","post_main_content_content":"

In Exodus 28, God provided details on how the clothing for the <\/span>Kohen Gadol<\/span><\/em> (the High Priest) should be made, and in chapter 39 those instructions are carried out. Among the garments fashioned is the all-important breastplate, the <\/span>choshen<\/span><\/em>. This was far more than part of a costume; it was the medium through which the priest and God communicated. Through this very first communications board, the priest asked a question, and, in conjunction with the <\/span>Urim<\/span><\/em> (\u201clight\u201d) and <\/span>Tumim<\/span><\/em> (\u201ccompleteness\u201d) \u2013 a slip of parchment with the name of God placed behind the breastplate - the board lit up in a pattern to spell out God\u2019s answer. This, we are told, was the oracle used by the <\/span>Kohen Gadol<\/span><\/em> to manifest his prophecy.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The commandment to make the <\/span>choshen<\/span><\/em> was given along with the purpose of the stones embedded in it: \u201cThey shall be on Aaron\u2019s heart when he comes before God (Ex. 28:30).\u201d Rashi explains that this refers to the <\/span>Kohen Gadol<\/span><\/em> carrying with him a symbolic representation of the nation\u2019s declaration to submit to God and Torah. Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein writes that rather than reminding God of the nation\u2019s devotion, perhaps the stones serve to remind the <\/span>Kohen Gadol<\/span><\/em> of whom he is representing. According to Adlerstein, the <\/span>chosen<\/span><\/em> stones reminded the priest to take the needs of all his people to heart.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Each of the stones embedded in the <\/span>choshen<\/span><\/em> bore the engraved name of one of the twelve tribes of Israel. Maimonides explains that the first stone also bore the names of our forefathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and the last stone was also engraved with the words \u201cthe tribes of God\u201d (<\/span>Hilchot K'lai Mikdash<\/span><\/em> 9:7<\/em>). Those extra words on the first and last stones, ensured that every letter of the <\/span>alef-bet<\/span><\/em> was represented on the <\/span>choshen<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

There may also be significance in the fact that the names of the twelve tribes alone did not represent all of the people adequately. Who we are, at any given moment in history, is defined not just by the \u201cnow\u201d but by where we have come from and where we are going. The <\/span>choshen<\/span><\/em> represents that whole timeline. When the <\/span>Mishkan<\/span><\/em>, and everything within it was being made, including the vestments of the high priest, the twelve tribes represented the people as they physically were at that moment. But the inclusion of our forefathers represented where those twelve tribes came from, and \u201cthe tribes of God\u201d is a statement of everlasting persistence. We will always be God\u2019s people, in all moments of history. That is the path we need to stay on or work to return to, both personally and nationally. 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By the time we arrive in Exodus 39, all of the vessels of the Tabernacle have been fabricated, all of the cloths have been woven, all of the clothing sewn. The metals have been tallied, the priests garbed, and the work inspected. The chapter ends: \u201cMoses saw all the work, and they did it \u2013 as the Lord commanded it, so they did. And Moses blessed them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This closely echoes the end of the Creation narrative in Genesis 1: \u201cAnd God saw all that He had made, and found it very good. \u2026 And God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The divine act of creation ended on Shabbat. But the world was still raw. The human act of creation culminates here, with the construction of the Tabernacle. The raw materials of the world \u2013 the acacia wood, the goat hair, the precious metals, the stones \u2013 are forged into a composite home, a sacred dwelling. Once the Tabernacle was complete, this second great act of creation comes to an end.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

With the mandate to build the Tabernacle, God has handed off the job of creation to humankind, and in so doing shifts the focus from sacred time to sacred space. The last act of divine creation is the Sabbath; the climax here is the earthly resting place for the divine. When God\u2019s act of creation is described, what he completes and what he blesses is a fragment of time; when human creation is narrated, they create, complete, and give sanctity to a fragment of space.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

When sacred time and sacred space meet, such as on the Day of Atonement, the cosmos can be altered. But this is for Leviticus 16.<\/span>
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The Israelites have finally completed the work of building the Tabernacle. We then read: \u201cSo all the work on the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, was completed. The Israelites did everything just as the Lord commanded Moses \u2026 So Moses blessed them\u201d (Ex. 39: 32, 43).<\/span>
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\r\n<\/span>The passage sounds simple enough, but to the practised ear it recalls another biblical text, from the end of the creation narrative in Genesis: \u201cThe heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. On the seventh day God finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done\u201d (Gen. 2: 1-3).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Three key words appear in both passages: \u201cwork,\u201d \u201ccompleted\u201d and \u201cblessed.\u201d These verbal echoes are not accidental. They are how the Torah signals intertextuality, that is, hinting that one law or story is to be read in the context of another. In this case the Torah is emphasizing that Exodus ends as Genesis began, with a work of creation. Note the difference as well as the similarity. Genesis began with an act of Divine creation. Exodus ends with an act of human creation.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The closer we examine the two texts, the more we see how intricately the parallel has been constructed. The creation account in Genesis is tightly organised around a series of sevens. There are seven days of creation. The word \u201cgood\u201d appears seven times, the word \u201cGod\u201d thirty-five times, and the word \u201cearth\u201d twenty-one times. The opening verse of Genesis contains seven words, the second fourteen, and the three concluding verses 35 words. The complete text is 469 (7\u00d767) words.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The account of the construction of the Tabernacle is similarly built around the number seven. The word \u201cheart\u201d appears seven times in Exodus 35: 5-29, as Moses specifies the materials to be used in the construction, and seven times again in 35: 34 \u2013 36: 8, the description of how the craftsmen Bezalel and Oholiav were to carry out the work. The word terumah, \u201ccontribution\u201d appears seven times in this section. In chapter 39, describing the making of the priestly vestments, the phrase \u201cas God commanded Moses\u201d occurs seven times. It occurs again seven times in chapter 40.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

A remarkable parallel is being drawn between God\u2019s creation of the universe and the Israelites\u2019 creation of the Sanctuary. We now understand what the Sanctuary represented. It was a micro-cosmos, a universe in miniature, constructed with the same precision and \u201cwisdom\u201d as the universe itself, a place of order as against the formlessness of the wilderness and the ever-threatening chaos of the human heart. The Sanctuary was a visible reminder of God\u2019s presence within the camp, itself a metaphor for God\u2019s presence within the universe as a whole.<\/span>
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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>\r\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>\r\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>\r\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. It is as if God says to Moses and the Israelites: I made you a place to live, now you make one for Me. <\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":43233,"alt":"","title":"Ex31-The_Erection_of_the_Tabernacle_and_the_Sacred_Vessels","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Ex31-The_Erection_of_the_Tabernacle_and_the_Sacred_Vessels.jpg","width":672,"height":1049,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Ex31-The_Erection_of_the_Tabernacle_and_the_Sacred_Vessels-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Ex31-The_Erection_of_the_Tabernacle_and_the_Sacred_Vessels-192x300.jpg","medium-width":192,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Ex31-The_Erection_of_the_Tabernacle_and_the_Sacred_Vessels-656x1024.jpg","medium_large-width":656,"medium_large-height":1024,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Ex31-The_Erection_of_the_Tabernacle_and_the_Sacred_Vessels-656x1024.jpg","large-width":656,"large-height":1024,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Ex31-The_Erection_of_the_Tabernacle_and_the_Sacred_Vessels.jpg","1536x1536-width":672,"1536x1536-height":1049,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Ex31-The_Erection_of_the_Tabernacle_and_the_Sacred_Vessels.jpg","2048x2048-width":672,"2048x2048-height":1049,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Ex31-The_Erection_of_the_Tabernacle_and_the_Sacred_Vessels.jpg","post_full_size-width":672,"post_full_size-height":1049,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Ex31-The_Erection_of_the_Tabernacle_and_the_Sacred_Vessels-269x420.jpg","home_baner-width":269,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"Connections: Tabernacle and Creation - 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In this chapter, we recap the process through which the <\/span>mishkan<\/span><\/em> (tabernacle) was constructed and the priestly vestments manufactured. A recurring theme (seven times!) within the chapter is \u201cjust as God had instructed,\u201d culminating with \u201cMoses observed all the labor and behold they had performed it just as God had instructed, and Moses blessed them\u201d (v. 43).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

A similar phrase concludes an earlier production effort: Creation. \u201cGod blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, for on it He relaxed from all the labor He had performed\u201d (Genesis 2:3).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Moses blessed the <\/span>mishkan<\/span><\/em> upon the completion of its human labors, whereas God both blessed and sanctified Shabbat at the conclusion of His divine labors. Why the added ingredient of sanctification? Harold Fish, professor of English and comparative literature at Bar Ilan University, speculated as follows:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

And yet there is surely something wrong with a scheme that makes the \"very good\" (<\/span>tob me'od<\/span><\/em>) of Gen. 1:31 the moment of supreme aesthetic gratification that comes when a work of art has been completed... The moment \u2018when the artist steps back a little and surveys his handiwork with delight\u2019 would more fittingly correspond with the contemplative posture of the day of rest, when indeed there is a completion... the \"goodness\" of the six days carries us to the supreme moment of completion of the seventh day. \u00a0But when we get to that moment, we find not a moony space of aesthetic delight, not the category of <\/span>tob<\/span><\/em> at all, but rather that of holiness (2:3). \u00a0For God declares the seventh day not <\/span>yafeh<\/span><\/em> or <\/span>tob<\/span><\/em>, but <\/span>qadosh<\/span><\/em>. \u00a0For six days the work had been beautiful; to the seventh day, when it arrives, he awards the title of holy\u201d (<\/span>Poetry with a Purpose<\/span>, Indiana, 1988, p. 21).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It is also worth noting that the Sages saw the <\/span>mishkan<\/span><\/em> and Shabbat as so analogous that they stipulated that precisely the type of labor performed for building and worshipping in the former would be prohibited on the latter.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":64970,"alt":"","title":"is6-holy-holy-holy","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/is6-holy-holy-holy.jpg","width":428,"height":425,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/is6-holy-holy-holy-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/is6-holy-holy-holy-300x298.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":298,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/is6-holy-holy-holy.jpg","medium_large-width":428,"medium_large-height":425,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/is6-holy-holy-holy.jpg","large-width":428,"large-height":425,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/is6-holy-holy-holy.jpg","1536x1536-width":428,"1536x1536-height":425,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/is6-holy-holy-holy.jpg","2048x2048-width":428,"2048x2048-height":425,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/is6-holy-holy-holy.jpg","post_full_size-width":428,"post_full_size-height":425,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/is6-holy-holy-holy-423x420.jpg","home_baner-width":423,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"Connections: Tabernacle and Creation - 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Chapter 39 gives the impression of an avant-garde designer\u2019s offering for a winter fashion guide. The gold plates hammered into thread, wool died in brilliant hues of purple, scarlet and blue, fine linen, a plethora of semi-precious stones, pomegranate-shaped applique, all of these details that make up the majestic wardrobe of the High Priest who could sashay down a runway and not be out of place.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This passage is followed by the conclusion to the Tabernacle project, as all of the vessels, coverings, fastenings, structural elements and finally the priestly garments are presented to Moses who finds them fitting to be used for the Travelling House of God that will accompany the Israelites in their desert sojourn.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Are the events that unfold in the first year in the desert, as described in Exodus, in chronological order? According to Rashi, the story does not have to be read linearly. Nachmanides disagrees. For him, the atrocious tragedy of the Golden Calf leads directly into the command for the construction of the Tabernacle. According to this perspective, the existence of the very physical Travelling House of God can be seen as a compromise between God and the people. The Israelites were without their leader for 40 days, and that led to a sin of massive proportions. They craved a tangible connection and without it were adrift, lost in the sand that surrounded them. It is their humanity that tethers them to material world around them, and they seem to need those trappings of physicality to keep them grounded. Moses doesn\u2019t understand this need as he quite literally occupies a plane that hovers between the humans he leads and the God he loves.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Tabernacle of the desert is an attempt to give the people what they need, after they fail at the experience of intangible worship. Aaron, who was an instrumental character in the Golden Calf saga, is not left out as the priestly garments embody the \u201cform follows function\u201d ideology. Of course, the intermediary between the people and God should be garbed in breathtaking attire that includes the details of who the people are that he represents (plus a fantastic supernatural telephone pad built in to the breast plate!).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel famously wrote \u201cthe Sabbaths are our great cathedrals,\u201d implying the everlasting nature of our faith is dependent on time and not space which can be destroyed and taken away from us. He speaks of intangible worship, an ideal that was out of reach for the newly formed nation of freed slaves. 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\"From the blue, purple and crimson yarns did they make the sacred garments for serving in the holy place; they made Aaron's sacral vestments, as the Lord had commanded Moses.\" (Exodus 39:1)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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The wise of heart weave sacred garments and sacral vestment;<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But I, an unskilled tailor,<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Did not notice that as the ephod of time unravels,<\/span><\/p>\r\n

There are no <\/span>tzitzit <\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In the tunic of my prayers,<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Or how the stitches in my linen breeches<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Have become undone.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Only now do I see<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The needle I sew with<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Has not penetrated any cloth \u2014<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Not the cloth of <\/span>arvit<\/span><\/i>,<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Of <\/span>minchah<\/span>, <\/span>musaf<\/span>, <\/span>shacharit<\/span><\/em>,<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The cloth of <\/span>Lecha Dodi<\/span><\/em>,<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The cloth of <\/span>Shabbat<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In the faded fabric of worn-out time,<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Of wasted moments, hours<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Of snapped threads,<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Days of patch on patch, whole years<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Of tattered rags,<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Oh, if only five minutes \u2014<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Five fine-woven minutes \u2014 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Were I to dedicate to You,<\/span><\/p>\r\n

HaShem<\/span>. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\r\n

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A true leader delegates not out of greed, but out of humility, the recognition that there are people who can better do the job. This is the kind of delegating we've seen God demand of Moses over the course of the construction of the Mishkan. For the first 6 chapters of describing the Mishkan, it seems like it will be a one-man show, but gradually, God adds more players- Bezalel, Oholiab, and a whole team of artisans, each of whom contributes their unique talents, using raw materials donated by the entire nation. By the end, the delegating is so thorough that the Torah attests that it is the Israelites as a whole who create the Mishkan, and present it to Moses...who has ended up not yet doing anything at all!<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Now, if Moses had been the first kind of delegator, he wouldn't have minded. But he isn't, so we can imagine that it's hard for him not to feel left out of this momentous project. According to the Midrash, God steps in with a solution, telling Moses that if he will begin to lift the impossibly heavy beams, God will make sure the rest takes care of itself. This, then, is a third model of delegation. Not out laziness, nor out of inability, but out of the desire to allow space to empower the other. How fitting that this should close the long, and sometimes excruciating tale of the building of the Mishkan. 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  1. Service vestments and sacral vestments<\/em>. The service vestments are the regular uniforms of all the priests. The sacral vestments are the special clothes worn by the high priest over the service vestments.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. A sneak peek into the artisan\u2019s workshop<\/em>. How does one weave gold into fabric? \u201cThey hammered out sheets of gold and cut threads to be worked into designs among the blue, the purple, and the crimson yarns, and the fine linen\u201d (verse 3).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. No need to imagine<\/em>. 14 verses describe the design and creation of the <\/span>choshen<\/span><\/em>, that precious, glorious and important adornment. The description is so detailed that readers can close their eyes and envision the object.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. Precisely. Exactly. Unerringly.<\/em> 9 (!) times in the chapter it is noted that everything was done exactly \u201cas God commanded.\u201d They are indeed deserving of blessing.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  5. As in the Tabernacle, so in Creation.<\/em> There are many stylistic parallels between the story of Creation and the story of the building of the Tabernacle - and not by accident. 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