Parshat Vayakhel

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

Midrash Tanchuma, Vayakhel 3

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Vayakhel 3

And Moses said unto the children of Israel: “See, the Lord hath called by name Bezalel” (Exod. 35:30). Scripture states elsewhere: So shalt thou find grace and favor in the sight o...

Moses

Midrash Tanchuma, Vayakhel 4

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Vayakhel 4

See, the Lord hath called by name Bezalel (Exod. 35:30). Scripture says elsewhere: To whom then will ye liken Me, that I should be equal? saith the Lord. Lift up your eyes on high ...

Torah

Midrash Tanchuma, Vayakhel 6

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Vayakhel 6

And Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood (Exod. 37:1). Scripture states elsewhere: The opening of Thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple (Ps. 119:130). When...

Torah

Midrash Tanchuma, Vayakhel 7

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Vayakhel 7

And Bezalel made the ark (Exod. 37:1). You do not find Bezalel’s name associated with any vessel made for the Sanctuary other than the ark. All the other work and all the other imp...

Merkavah

Midrash Tanchuma, Vayakhel 9

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Vayakhel 9

And he made the boards for the tabernacle of acacia-wood (Exod. 36:20). R. Tahlifa of Caesarea said: The Holy One, blessed be He, taught man correct behavior. If a man desired to b...

Torah

God's Tabernacle

Tree of Souls

We pray to God. But…does God pray? And if so, to whom? The mystics have wrestled with these questions for centuries, and the answer, perhaps unsurprisingly, is layered and fascinat...

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Why Women Light Two Candles On The Sabbath

Tree of Souls

It's one of those customs that's so familiar, so deeply woven into the fabric of Jewish home life, that we might not always stop to ask why. But the reasons, as you might guess, ar...

CreationHeavenAdam & EveNoah & Flood

A Tabernacle For The Righteous

Tree of Souls

We get glimpses, whispers, from our tradition. And some of them are Take this one, about the skin of the Leviathan... So, picture this: the World to Come, Olam Ha-Ba. It's a place ...

MessiahAdam & EveCreaturesTemple

Repairing the World and the Tabernacle

Other Texts Kalach Pitchei Chokhmah 61:8

And one fascinating place to explore this is in the Kalach Pitchei Chokhmah, a Kabbalistic text whose name means "48 Doors of Wisdom." It speaks of a "new heavens and a new land," ...

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