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\u201cThese are the records of the Tabernacle, the Tabernacle of the Pact, which were drawn up at Moses\u2019 bidding\u2014the work of the Levites under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest\u201d (verse 22). What are these \u201crecords\u201d? According to Rashi, the \u201crecords\u201d are a listing of the weights and amounts of the materials used in the Tabernacle. Ibn Ezra explains that this verse is really the concluding verse of the previous portion listing all the vessels in the Tabernacle.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Ramban does not like this answer because of the last section of the verse. Here it says that these were under the control of Ithamar, but Elazar was the priest in charge of the vessels. Sforno shifts tactics and posits that the phrase \u201crecords of the Tabernacle '' means that each individual vessel and utensil in the Tabernacle had a special name and special usage and were not listed using their generic names.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rabenu Bachya shifts a few words down and focuses on the double use of the word \u201ctabernacle.\u201d The Torah uses this double word to explain that there is a Tabernacle in the heavens that matches the recording list of everything in the earthly Tabernacle.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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In the previous parasha<\/em> we learned about the enthusiasm with which the Israelites offered their gold jewelry to make the Golden Calf and the devastating results of that episode. Now Parashat Vayakhel<\/em> tells us of their generosity in connection with the building of the Tabernacle and its furnishings: \u201cMen and women all whose hearts moved them\u2026came bringing brooches, earrings, rings and pendants. Everyone who would make gifts of silver or copper brought them \u2026.\u201d (Exod. 35:22\u2013 24). The people brought these offerings of their own free will, and even gave more than was needed. We sense here that the Israelites wished to atone for their grievous sinning in connection with the Golden Calf.<\/p>\r\n

The text of this parasha<\/em> refers to the laver in only one verse: \u201cHe made the laver of copper and its stand of copper from the mirrors [mar\u2019ot<\/em>] of the women [ha\u2019tzov\u2019ot<\/em>] who performed tasks at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting\u201d (Exod. 38:8).<\/p>\r\n

Why does the text stress the fact that the copper for the laver was to be taken from the women\u2019s copper mirrors and not from other copper donated for the Tabernacle? Why did Moses choose to use mirrors, objects of feminine vanity, for making the vessel in which the priests would wash and purify?<\/p>\r\n

Avner Moriah\u2019s painting hints at the answers.<\/em> Of all of the Tabernacle\u2019s furnishings mentioned in this parasha<\/em>, he focuses on the laver, a sign of sanctity for the priests according to God\u2019s command previously: \u201cMake a laver of copper \u2026. And let Aaron and his sons wash their hands and feet there \u2026that they may not die\u201d (Exod. 30:18\u201319, 21).<\/p>\r\n

The group of women seen next to the laver facing the High Priest in both sections of the picture are in matching dresses, standing very closely together. On the right, each one is carrying a round copper-colored object, which suggests a mirror. As understood from the word ha\u2019tzov\u2019ot<\/em>, the verse refers to women assembling to serve at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. Accepting their part in the Israelites\u2019 idolatry, which was punished by the death of so many of the people, the women, anxious to repent, were giving up their precious mirrors to make the laver for the priests\u2019 purification. Although it was not considered part of the Tabernacle furnishings, the laver was a very important part of the priestly ritual.<\/p>\r\n

In the image on the right, the women seem to be throwing their mirrors into a deep round vessel, under which we see a fire burning, so the copper will be melted down and then be used to form the laver. 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\u201cHe made the basin of bronze and its stand of bronze, from the mirrors of the women who crowded at the door.\u201d (Exodus 38:8)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Throughout the detailed accounting of the materials donated to construction of the Tabernacle and the use made of them, this is the only instance when the particular people who donated the materials is specified. Why are these women singled out?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rashi, based on Midrash Tanchuma (Pekudei 9), explains that when the women first attempted to donate their mirrors (bronze mirrors were common in ancient times) for construction of the Tabernacle, Moses was inclined to reject the offer, because mirrors are used primarily to enhance vain, external appearances. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

However, the Holy Blessed One disagreed, and instructed Moses to accept the mirrors: \u201cThey are dearer to Me than all the other contributions, because through them the women reared huge hosts in Egypt!\u201d He goes on to explain that when the Israelite men in Egypt were tired through the crushing labor, the women would bring them food and drink at their workplaces and induced them to eat. Then they would take the mirrors, admire themselves, and tease their husbands, until their husbands were romantically aroused. As a result, many children were conceived and born.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Many readings of this midrash focus on the women\u2019s role in building the nation: remaining hopeful, encouraging others and guaranteeing continuity. Those points are valid and important, but there is more. God affirms the value of mundane activities and the objects used for them. They are an essential part not only of building the community but also of serving God. Proverbs (3:6) will state explicitly that we are to know God in all our ways. 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The first ever crowd-funding campaign has succeeded, allowing each member of the Jewish community to have a part in the construction of holy space on earth. But there are donations, and then there are donations.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The most precious donation of all, according to the Midrash, is mentioned in chapter 38. It's not the expensive stones of the princes, or the pure gold that formed the holiest vessels, or even the half-shekel with its message of equality before God.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\"The daughters of Israel had mirrors that they would look at when they put on their jewelry, and even these they did not hesitate to bring as a donation to the Mishkan. And Moses was disgusted by them, because they are made for the evil inclination. God said to him: These are the most precious to me of all, for through them the women brought about many hosts of children in Egypt.\" (Rashi adapting Midrash Tanchuma)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Vanity mirrors? That's what forms the vessel which purifies the priests before their service, and holds the water which erases God's name in the Sotah<\/em> ceremony?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This Midrash connects us to an entire Midrashic world of alternative narrative, the untold story of redemption in which it is not God, or Moses or Aaron who are the main catalysts of redemption, but the 'righteous women'. Like little Miriam who argues with her father to lift the ban he had placed on having children, and the Jewish women who awaken their exhausted husband's desire \"under the apple tree\", defying slavery and oppression with their relentless dedication to life's continuity.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It may be a little obscene, Moses, but it is only this obscene hope that ensured that there was a Jewish people to redeem. 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The Torah when describing the making of the Mishkan, goes out of its way to emphasize the role women played in it. Kli Yakar (R. Shlomo Ephraim Luntschitz, 1550 \u20131619) makes the point that since the Tabernacle was an atonement for the Golden Calf, the women had no need to contribute at all, since it was the men not the women who needed atonement. Nonetheless, women gave, and did so before the men.<\/p>\r\n

Most moving, though, by far is the cryptic verse: He [Betzalel] made the copper washstand and its copper base out of the mirrors of the dedicated women [ha-tzove\u2019ot<\/em>] who congregated at the entrance of the Communion Tent. [Ex. 38: 8]<\/p>\r\n

The sages (in Midrash Tanhuma) told a story about this. The Egyptians sought not merely to enslave, but also to put an end to, the people of Israel. One way of doing so was to kill all male children. Another was simply to interrupt normal family life. The people, both men and women, were labouring all day. At night, says the Midrash, they were forbidden to return home. They slept where they worked. The intention was to destroy both privacy and sexual desire, so that the Israelites would have no more children.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The women realised this, and decided to frustrate Pharaoh\u2019s plan. They used mirrors to make themselves attractive to their husbands. The result was that intimate relations resumed. The women conceived and had children (the \u201clegions\u201d referred to in the word tzove\u2019ot). Only because of this was there a new generation of Jewish children. The women, by their faith, courage and ingenuity, secured Jewish survival.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The story tells us, as do so many other midrashim, that without the faith of women, Jews and Judaism would never have survived. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

From <\/span>Mirrors of Love, Covenant & Conversation, Vayakhel-Pekudei<\/em> <\/span>(5772)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

image:\u00a0Miriam<\/em>,\u00a0After Sir Edward John Poynter,\u00a0Dalziels' Bible Gallery,\u00a0Dalziel Brothers \/ 1864\u201381 \/ CC<\/p>\r\n

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Who were these women?<\/p>\r\n

Exodus 38:8 tells that the washbasin in the courtyard was made of copper, \u201cfrom the mirrors of the women who served at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting.\u201d Who were these women? They make one more appearance in the Bible, in a less positive context. The sons of the high priest Eli abused their power in all sorts of ways, according to 1 Samuel 2, including \u201clying with the women who served at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting\u201d (2:22).<\/p>\r\n

These two enigmatic references conceal more than they reveal. What were the women doing? The word tzove\u2019ot<\/em>, which I translated \u201cserved,\u201d is the same word used for all the people who \u201cserved\u201d in the Tabernacle. Were there women among them? Were women in the workplace, even in the Late Bronze Age, too challenging for men, some of whom mistreated them sexually? Why do we not hear of these women elsewhere? And why were their mirrors made into a washbasin? Was this an act of usurpation? Or of generosity?<\/p>\r\n

Sometimes, Scripture says nothing but \u201cinterpret me!\u201d<\/p>\r\n

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In speaking of the funds collected to establish the Mishkan (the Tabernacle) in the wilderness, the Torah records \u201cThese are the records of the Tabernacle, the Tabernacle of the Pact, which were drawn up at Moses\u2019 bidding\u2014the work of the Levites under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron the kohen (Exodus 38:21).\u201d \u00a0Why didn\u2019t the Torah just say that these were the records Moses drew up? Why all that extra verbiage about the Levites and about Ithamar?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The rabbis of antiquity were both careful readers of the Torah and skilled communal leaders. \u00a0It was a rabbinic enactment in Mishnah Shekalim that \u201cone must not appoint less than two people with control over the finances of a city or a community.\u201d \u00a0The reason for that law was that if only one person was in charge of the finances, he would be tempted to misuse the funds, to use them for personal gain, or he would be an easy target for bribery. \u00a0But a second overseer would be able to keep watch over the first, and vice-versa.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

If there must be two appointed in charge of any funds, asks <\/span>Midrash Sh\u2019mot Rabbah<\/span><\/i>, then what of Moses being in charge of the funds for the Mishkan? \u00a0Is it possible that Moses would violate halakhah (Jewish law)? \u201cThe answer is that though Moses was the sole treasurer, yet he called others to audit the accounts with him\u2026 namely, through Moses but \u2018under the direction of Ithamar.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

If even as righteous a leader as Moses, a man who spoke with God face to face, needed an established system of supervision and shared responsibility, then how much the more so do the leaders of our age, people who are fallible and imperfect like the rest of us. Moses, by example, set the standard not only in the realms of honesty, piety, and a passion for justice, but also gave us an invaluable lesson in how to avoid temptation. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

None of us can afford to fly solo. \u00a0When we attempt to go it alone, whatever the field or area, we leave a blind spot where our own faults, ignorance, or biases lurk. We make ourselves and those dependent on us victims of our own shortcomings. But when we join in communion with a larger group, when we link our efforts, our dreams, and our visions with our friends and our fellow Jews, then the strength of one neutralize the weaknesses of the other, then the temptations of each individual are held in check by the knowledge of certain exposure and embarrassment.<\/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":"One Is A Corruptible Number","tile_main_caption":"If even as righteous a leader as Moses needed an established system of shared responsibility, then how much the more so do the leaders of our age!","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":"","tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","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":"","old_create_date":"","tile_link_for_pay":"0","links":false,"send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Torah","book":"Exodus","chapter":"38","chapter_main_number":"88","date":"20251230","wall_id":"88"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"402","name":"Leadership","old_id":"802"},{"term_id":"528","name":"Honesty","old_id":"928"},{"term_id":"723","name":"Money","old_id":"1123"},{"term_id":"724","name":"Trust","old_id":"1124"}]},{"order":10,"id":"43776","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"2","name":"The Mishkan: Collecting the Shekels ","post_title":"The Mishkan: Collecting The Shekels","slug":"the-mishkan-collecting-the-shekels","old_id":"43776","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":36777,"post_title":"Ruth Schreiber","slug":"ruth-schreiber","old_id":"36777","first_name":"Ruth ","last_name":"Schreiber","description":"Ruth Schreiber: I am an artist whose work explores aspects of being female and Jewish in contemporary society. My subjects include family and relationships, ceremony and ritual, memory and death.\r\nI also like to explore traditional texts, especially the Bible, in new ways, and to shine a light on family material from the Holocaust.\r\nI studied art at a variety of institutions in London and California, and most recently at the Bezalel School of Art in Jerusalem. \r\nI work from my studio in Jerusalem, Israel. \r\n","short_description":"Ruth Schreiber is a Jerusalem based artist whose work explores aspects of being female and Jewish in contemporary society. \r\n","credit":"","image_url":"","hide_writer":false,"link_for_pay":false,"image":{"id":36778,"alt":"","title":"IMG_9976","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_9976-e1533306098104.jpg","width":2906,"height":2442,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_9976-e1533306098104-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_9976-e1533306098104-300x252.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":252,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_9976-e1533306098104-768x645.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":645,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_9976-e1533306098104-1024x860.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":860,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_9976-e1533306098104.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1291,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_9976-e1533306098104.jpg","2048x2048-width":2048,"2048x2048-height":1721,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_9976-e1533306098104-1200x1008.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":1008,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_9976-e1533306098104-500x420.jpg","home_baner-width":500,"home_baner-height":420}},"tags":false},"related_cahpter":"88","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_url":"","post_main_content_description":"Gold, silver, copper....","post_main_content_content":"

Ruth: Focusing on Exodus 38: 24-29, I have undertaken a little research and am fascinated by the accumulation of the gold (87,730 shekels worth), silver (301,775 shekels worth) and brass (212,400 shekels worth) for the Mishkan, and by the census of males aged 20 + (603,550 men), as determined annually by collection of a beka or half-shekel per head.
\r\nI have created an animation video-art work, showing these huge sums of shekels and half shekels being collected and accumulating.<\/p>\r\n

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If the extensive instructions for building the Tabernacle (Exodus 25-31) were not enough, the final chapters of Exodus repeat virtually the same intricate text a second time, when the Tabernacle construction is implemented. Ever sensitive to seemingly extraneous verses, words, and even letters, commentators twist themselves into knots in justifying why every ounce of biblical material is necessary. And while there are indeed some new formulations in the extensive reprise at the end of Exodus, this would certainly not justify the repetition of the Tabernacle construction in its entirety.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This question is only a question if we think of the Torah as a text merely to be studied and understood. In truth, the Torah is first and foremost a text performed when <\/span>parshiyot<\/span><\/i> are read in the synagogue. From a performative perspective, even if a text does not teach anything new, it still can have aesthetic value. Think of an experimental movie or play that stages identical scenes at different points in the piece, or better, a song, whose stanzas repeat throughout. 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In Egypt, this land of bondage,
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I\u2019ve brought him
\r\na pitcher of wine
\r\nand bowls of fish \u2013
\r\nwe stand together
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\u201cI\u2019m more beautiful than you,\u201d
\r\nI say with a mischievous smile and giggle.
\r\nThough grime streaks his face
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\r\n\u201cI\u2019m more beautiful than you,\u201d he says.<\/p>\r\n

I pick out wisps of wheat from his beard.
\r\n\u201cNo! I\u2019m more beautiful than you!\u201d I return
\r\nto our shining reflection.
\r\nHe straightens, stands taller than I, thrusts back his shoulders \u2013
\r\n\u201cNo! I\u2019m more beautiful than you!\u201d he laughs.<\/p>\r\n

With words, I arouse his spirit.
\r\nThrough our reflection
\r\nI arouse his desire.
\r\nThe high wheat conceals the place of our passion.
\r\nThe high wheat conceals the place I conceive.<\/p>\r\n

I feel my fetus kick,
\r\nI finger my brass mirror.
\r\nLittle do I dream
\r\nthat it will one day fashion the sacred laver
\r\nat the entrance to the Sanctuary.<\/p>\r\n

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  1. Mar\u2019ot tzov\u2019ot <\/span><\/em>- <\/span><\/i>huh? Our translation has \u201cthe mirrors of the women who performed tasks\u201d with a note that the Hebrew is unclear. Commentators throughout the ages have tried to answer the riddle, and fill in the backstory of this enigmatic phrase. The \u201cmirrors\u201d (which appears thus only here in the Tanach), are apparently similar enough to what we mean by mirrors, except that ancient mirrors were not made of glass, but of shiny metals which the polished. What about the <\/span>tzov\u2019ot<\/span><\/em>? Who were they? These were apparently the women who brought their contributions to the Tent. Why of all the contributions that were made this one receives special mention? Another question to figure out\u2026<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. Nice to meet you, Ithamar<\/em>. A new character from the ranks of the younger leadership, almost as an aside, \u201cthe work of the Levites under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest\u201d (verse 22). What is the work of the Levites? It probably includes\u00a0 keeping track of all the materials that are mentioned here.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Voluntary and mandatory<\/em>. Besides all the voluntary contributions, each according to their heart\u2019s generosity, the Tabernacle was established on the basis of a mandatory contribution, the half-shekel: \u201ca half-shekel a head, half a shekel by the sanctuary weight, for each one who was entered in the records, from the age of twenty years up\u201d (verse 26). This money, by the way, was used for making the <\/span>adanim<\/span><\/em>, the sockets.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. The official census<\/em>. The half-shekel tax was a sort of census. So how many males over the age of twenty were counted? 603,550 (verse 26). Not a few.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  5. Tentpegs<\/em> (verse 31). These, too, are needed. It\u2019s a tent - remember?<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>","post_main_content_image":{"id":86314,"alt":"","title":"Points to ponder","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","width":1000,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-768x768.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","large-width":1000,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","1536x1536-width":1000,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","2048x2048-width":1000,"2048x2048-height":1000,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","post_full_size-width":1000,"post_full_size-height":1000,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-420x420.jpg","home_baner-width":420,"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":"The Daily Summary","tile_main_caption":"Points to Ponder: Exodus 38","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Insights and questions for personal reflection and group discussion","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":86314,"alt":"","title":"Points to ponder","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","width":1000,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-768x768.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","large-width":1000,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","1536x1536-width":1000,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","2048x2048-width":1000,"2048x2048-height":1000,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","post_full_size-width":1000,"post_full_size-height":1000,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-420x420.jpg","home_baner-width":420,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","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":"","old_create_date":"","tile_link_for_pay":"0","links":false,"send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Torah","book":"Exodus","chapter":"38","chapter_main_number":"88","date":"20251230","wall_id":"88"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false}],"hide_acf":true,"home_image":false,"home_posts":false,"home_posts_title":"","posts_home":[],"static_cube_title":"","static_cube_brief":"","static_cube_color":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wall\/43625"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wall"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wall"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}