Still Ahead Lies the Tabernacle and the Three Faithful Youths

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 133:20

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Another interpretation: "Let my lord, I pray, pass over" — he said to him: until now I still have before me the work of the Tabernacle and the work of the Temple, for the sake of the children. He said to him: until now I still have to raise up Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, of whom it is said, "children in whom was no blemish" (Daniel 1:4).

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