Parshat Vayakhel

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

You Find That While the Israelites Were Making Bricks in Egypt

Midrash Tanchuma Midrash Tanchuma, Pekudei 9

These are the accounts of the tabernacle … and the bronze of the offering (Exod. 38:21, 29). The bronze of the offering (tenufah) refers to the bronze vessels given to a bride, for...

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That God, Does Not Deny the Righteous Man the Realization of His Plans

Midrash Tanchuma Midrash Tanchuma, Pekudei 11

And they brought the tabernacle unto Moses (Exod. 39:32). It is written elsewhere in reference to the verse: He withdraweth not His eyes from the righteous; but with kings upon the...

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The Sons of Aaron the Priest Shall Put Fire Upon the Altar

Midrash Tanchuma Midrash Tanchuma, Vayikra 5

(Lev. 1:7:) “And the sons of Aaron the Priest shall put fire upon the altar, and they shall lay wood in order upon the fire.” (Tamid 2:3:) All of the trees are proper for [altar] f...

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If Any Single Person from the House of Israel

Midrash Tanchuma Midrash Tanchuma, Achrei Mot 10

(Lev. 17:3:) “If any single person from the House of Israel.” This text is related (to Ps. 51:20–21), “Make Zion prosper in Your good pleasure; rebuild the walls of Jerusalem. Then...

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On Three Things the World Stands on the Torah

Midrash Tanchuma Midrash Tanchuma, Nasso 19

"And it was on the day that Moses had finished to erect the tabernacle" (Numbers 7:1). Our rabbis taught (Avot 1:2),"On three things the world stands: On the Torah, on the service ...

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Who Took You Out of the Land of Egypt

Midrash Tanchuma Midrash Tanchuma, Nasso 22

"And it was on the day that Moses had finished" (Numbers 7:1). Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi said, "The Holy One, blessed be He, made conditions with Israel before they left Egypt, that ...

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It Came to Pass on the Day That Moses Had Finished. Rabbi Johanan

Midrash Tanchuma Midrash Tanchuma, Nasso 23

(Numb. 7:1:) “So it came to pass on the day that Moses had finished.” R. Johanan said, “What is the meaning of ‘on the day that [Moses] had finished (rt. klh)?’ [Finished is] a wor...

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Moses Entered and Heard a Majestic Voice

Midrash Tanchuma Midrash Tanchuma, Nasso 25

(Numb. 7:1:) “So it came to pass on the day that Moses had finished.” R. Judah bar Simon said, “On the day that the Tabernacle was erected, Moses entered and heard a majestic voice...

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When Israel Stood Before Mount Sinai

Midrash Tanchuma Midrash Tanchuma, Nasso 26

(Numb. 7:1:) “So it came to pass on the day that Moses had finished.” R. Berekhyah the Priest Berabbi said,101Similarly Numb. R. 12:2. “Before the Tabernacle was erected, when Isra...

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