The Pattern Shown to Moses and How Vessels Are Consecrated

"According to all that I show you." We learned there: one may add to the city [of Jerusalem] and to the Temple courts only by the word of a court of seventy-one. Whether one enters the [original] court or enters an addition to the court while in a state of impurity, he is liable, for one adds to the city and to the courts only with a prophet, and Urim and Thummim, and a Sanhedrin of seventy-one. From where are these matters derived? Rav Shimi bar Hiyya said: Scripture says, "according to all that I show you, the pattern of the Tabernacle and the pattern of all its vessels, even so shall you make it" - for the generations. Rava objected: all the vessels that Moses made, their anointing consecrated them; from then onward their use initiates them. Why so? Let us say "even so shall you make it" - for the generations! It is different there, for it is written (Numbers 7:1), "and he anointed them and consecrated them" - them by anointing, and not the later generations by anointing. Say, then: "them" by anointing, but the generations either by anointing or by use? Rav Pappa said, and so on. Rather, why is "them" needed? Had "them" not been written, I would have said that for the generations it is either by anointing or by use, since it is written "even so shall you make it." The Merciful One wrote "them": them by anointing, and not the later generations by anointing. (Rav Pappa said: "with which they minister in the holy place" - Scripture made them depend on service.)