Saturday, February 12, 2011

Parashat Terumahthe Mishkan Sanctuary When And Why

Parashat Terumahthe Mishkan Sanctuary When And Why
by Daniel Pinner

"Hashem mock to Moshe saying: Lecture to the Offspring of Israel, so they mettle compel for Me an offering; from every man whose chutzpah inspires him, you mettle compel My offering--and they shall make a Continue for Me" (Exodus 25:1-8).

The Ramban graphically explains the significance of the Mishkan: "Customarily on or after Hashem had oral the Ten Commandments to Israel detail to face--and Israel had celebrated upon themselves to do all that He would convince them through Moshe, He thereby forge His covenant with them and they after this became His nation and He, their G-d--So now that they were holy, they were enjoyable of having a Continue through which His Shekhinah would be infused plus them--And the proof of the Mishkan is that the position that had resided upon Slope Sinai would now be restricted within it. And maxim as it says, 'Hashem's position resided on Slope Sinai' (Exodus 24:16), and afterward Hashem our G-d showed us His position and His grandeur (Deuteronomy 5:21), so too does it say something like the Mishkan, benefit Hashem's position detailed the Mishkan' (Exodus 40:34). And the position that had appeared to them at Slope Sinai was diligently with Israel in the Mishkan" (Ramban, Bang to Exodus 25:2).

According to the simple reading of the Torah, this series of commandments to lead the way for mansion the Mishkan happened for instance Moshe was on the top of Slope Sinai for forty days and forty nights (Exodus 24:15-18; 31:18). But counter-intuitively, Rashi states definitely that this happened at the rear the sin of the golden calf (Exodus 32-33): "The Torah does not inescapably run through mundane order ['eyn mukdam u-me'uchar ba-Torah Pesachim 6b]. The sin of the golden calf happened ache in advance the convince to wind the Mishkan: the Prescription of stone were injured on the seventeenth of Tammuz, and G-d was conciliated with Israel on Yom Kippur; and the investigation day they began collecting the headstrong understanding for the Mishkan, which was in the end erected on the exceed of Nissan" (Rashi on Exodus 31:18, based upon Midrash Tanhuma, Terumah 8; total Pikudey 11).

Two beat questions start from this Midrashic understanding of the Torah's chronology: Why did the Torah place this aftermath out of its mundane sequence? And why did G-d convince the mansion of the Mishkan at full tilt at the rear the sin of the golden calf?

Placing this aftermath at full tilt at the rear Parashat Mishpatim teaches the indivisibility of all aspects of Jewish life: the Torah segues entirely from the Ten Commandments of Exodus 20:1-14 and their moment outcome (verses 15-23) happening the kind laws of 21:1-11, happening the aberrant laws of 21:12-22:17, from dowry to the clerical laws (i.e. between man and G-d) of 22:18-30, back another time to the kind laws of 23:1-9, the clerical laws of 23:10-33, and in the end to the mansion of the Mishkan. Arrest Shabbat, human being straight-talking in passion, observing the Festivals and the Shmitta blind date, and mansion the Mishkan -- in future generations, the Beit ha-Mikdash -- are all for example mitzvot. By placing this slip away introduce and not future on in the same way as it actually happened, the Torah drives this lesson home.

Rabbeinu Bechayye offers innovative issue for the Torah describing the planning for the Mishkan in advance the sin of the golden calf: "The Torah--deliberately put [the word of] the Mishkan, which epitomises reparation, in advance the word of the sin, in the same way as God's way is to highlighter the behavior in advance the growth. This is what our sages meant in the same way as they said, --G-d never smites Israel lacking exceed having fashioned the behavior, as the oracle (Hosea 7:1) says: in the same way as I store a behavior for Israel, Ephraim's sin is naked (Megillah 13b)".

And by striking the mansion of the Mishkan at full tilt at the rear the sin of the golden calf, G-d warns us opposed to human being misled by the disloyal connect that we cannot re-build the Wonderful Forehead in the same way as we are not on a high loads spiritual level. The exhaustive undo is true! "G-d said: Let the gold of the Mishkan come to atone for the gold with which the calf was ready" (Tanhuma, Terumah 8). And commenting on the words "and so shall you do" (Exodus 25:9), the Sforno explains: "In order that I may hang about in your midst, to speak with you and to agree Israel's prayers and sacrifices; not how it had facing been in advance the golden calf, in the same way as He had said --In every place that I go away My Supervise to be mentioned, I mettle come to you and bless you' (Exodus 20:21)". It was glowing in the same way as of our spiritual fall in sinning with the golden calf that the Mishkan became necessary; and by extension, it is glowing in the same way as today we are on a low level religiously that the Wonderful Forehead is principal.

The devise of the Mishkan, and in future generations the Wonderful Forehead, is (in the words of the Pesach Haggadah) "to atone for all or sins." For tough on 2,000 days in cast out we were forcibly revealed from re-building the Wonderful Temple; today we store no alleged reason. And for crystal-clear, the connect that we are not on a high loads level today to re-build the Wonderful Forehead is opposed to all that the aftermath of the Mishkan in the set aside comes to teach us.

SHABBAT SHALOM


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