Parshat Vayakhel

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The people bring offerings for the Tabernacle, Bezalel and the craftsmen begin construction. Exodus 35:1-38:20.

Chodesh: Ishmael at the Dawn of Creation

Other Texts Sifrei Bamidbar 145:1

The Torah tells us, "And in the beginnings of your months, you shall offer a burnt-offering to the L-rd" (Bamidbar 28:11). But what exactly is the purpose of this specific instruct...

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Holy Sanctuary and Jerusalem

Apocrypha The Book of Maccabees I 1:45

1 Maccabees 1 paints a stark picture: "Her sanctuary was laid waste like a wilderness, her feasts were turned into mourning, her sabbaths into reproach, her honour into contempt." ...

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Targum Jonathan on Exodus 31

Midrash Aggadah Targum Jonathan on Exodus 31

And the Lord Spake with Mosheh, saying, Look, Mosheh, I have called by name the good Bezalel: bar Uri bar Hur, of the tribe of Jehudah, and have fulfilled him with the Spirit of ho...

Sacrifice

Targum Jonathan on Exodus 35

Midrash Aggadah Targum Jonathan on Exodus 35

And Mosheh gathered together all the congregation of the sons of Israel, and said to them: These are the things which the Lord hath commanded to be done. Six days thou shalt do wor...

Sacrifice

Targum Jonathan on Leviticus 24

Midrash Aggadah Targum Jonathan on Leviticus 24

And the Lord spake with Mosheh,saying: Command the children of Israel that they bring of their own, pure beaten olive oil for the light, that the lamps may burn continually, on the...

Targum Jonathan on Numbers 10

Midrash Aggadah Targum Jonathan on Numbers 10

And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying: Make for thee, of thine, two trumpets of silver of solid material, the work of the artificer shalt thou make them; and let them be thine, wi...

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Pesikta Rabbati 7

Midrash Aggadah Pesikta Rabbati 7

And the one who offered his sacrifice on the first day was Nachshon ben Aminadab of the tribe of Judah (Numbers 7:12). Our Rabbi, the one who offered the sacrifice to the altar, ta...

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Seder Olam Rabbah 7

Midrash Aggadah Seder Olam Rabbah 7

"And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, On the first day of the first month shalt thou set up the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation. And thou shalt put therein the ark of ...

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Midrash Tanchuma, Pekudei 3

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Pekudei 3

For example, Bezalel, who built the ark, was extolled before the Holy One, blessed be He, and the angels. He was praised in the upper regions and in the terrestrial regions, as it ...