Eleven Gifts for the Tabernacle and the Calf They Atoned For

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 424:1

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"And let them take for Me an offering" (Exodus 25). Eleven things made up the freewill gift of the Tabernacle. A hint to the matter: "It is eleven days' journey from Horeb" (Deuteronomy 1:2). When Moses came to rebuke Israel over the deed of the calf, the Holy One, blessed be He, said to him regarding the words "and Di-zahab" [the place-name read as 'enough gold'] (Deuteronomy 1:1): with eleven things that they offered freely for the work of the Tabernacle they atoned. Therefore they circled Mount Seir thirty-eight years, as it is said, "And we circled Mount Seir many days" (Deuteronomy 2:1). They donated gold, twenty-nine talents and seven hundred and thirty shekels. From it they made the ark, the cover, the cherubim, the menorah and all its vessels, the table and its vessels, and they overlaid the altar and made all its vessels of gold; they cut from it for the curtain, and overlaid the boards and their bars, and made rings and the hooks of the lower curtains.

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