Mishkan VR mockup

how do you get cheating wood in the desert where nothing grows yaakov avinu knew that cheetanwood would be needed to build a mishkan eventually hundreds of years later so he planted shitem trees in mitsrayam in egypt and he told his descendants that when they leave that country they should take the sheet and wood with them and they would find out what it would be used for the the table and the menorah were opposite one another in the front part of the mishkan the eastern part of the mishkan they replaced a bit more than 10 amis from the entrance of the mishkan the shulkhan was on the north side two and a half hours from the north wall and the menorah was on the south side two and a half hours from the south wall in parshat titsava chapter 30 we'll learn about another mizbayach the mizbahzah of the golden altar on which they burned tyrus the incense twice a day that mizbayach was in the exact middle of the mishkan 10 ammos from the eastern entrance the posix says that the menorah was miksha mixture means that it was hammered sculpted chiseled and formed from a single block of gold not that they were separate pieces that were later attached to one another according to rashi even the cups of the wicks that hold the actual oil wicks and flame they too were formed from the same solid block of gold [Music]