SY - Vayakhel-Pekudei - R'vi'i - #4 - R Eli Kadi - Kiyor Nechoshet and the Accounting of the Mishkan

The Torah continues with which is the misb that was outside. It was covered with copper and that was carried also and they brought all the on there. Next thing that the Torah tells us is the koroshid. The kior is a very interesting item. The kor is a container, a vessel where the kohanim used to wash their hands and their feet before they served on it. From what was it made? It was made from marot. What is that? Marot is a mirror. It was rashi tells us what tell us that the ladies came to give their mirrors. This is a small pocket mirror that they would carry with them and they would apply their makeup and they would see how their hair is etc etc said I don't want that that's something that doesn't belong over here it's vain it's vanity told him excuse me I want those mirrors because those mirrors the young ladies when their husbands were working very hard for they would come with those mirrors And they would look at themselves, prepare themselves to be beautiful in the eyes of their husband. And then they would come to their husbands and tell them, "Look in the mirror. Who's prettier? I'm prettier than you." Since she made them, she brought up from the happiness, from the joke, from the fun. She made her husband's mood become better. She said, "The ladies saved the Jewish nation. Without them, we wouldn't be able to go out of mit." So that was the important part of the Mishkan before any aoda that cure was used by every single kohen. Then afterwards it tells us the balance of the of the and the Torah goes and starts telling us this is the accounting of the Mishkan. The Mishkan when a person does something especially when he does something for the public he has to give an accounting who was and to everybody he also gave an accounting he told them how much gold there was there was 29 zahav do you know what type of amount is that that's kara kesh each kar of of each kara kesh is 112 pounds 29 * 112 comes out to 3,248 lb plus a few other [clears throat] shikim that was there. A pound of gold is worth about $22,000. Total was over $70 million worth of gold. But this wasn't regular gold. This was gold that you would not find any place else in the world. It was worth in the billions. So he gave the whole accounting of what it was.