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Join us as we learn Kumish for Wednesday
Paresum
chapter 26 verse1 15. Yesterday's Torah
reading we spoke about the curtains and
the coverings of the the tapestries that
would cover the roof of the Mishkan of
the tabernacle. Today we're going to
talk about the actual structure, the
walls of the Mishkan. Verse 15.
And you shall make the planks, the
boards laish for the tabernacle.
They should be made out of acacia wood
vertically standing side by side as
Rashi will explain.
And you should make the planks.
really should have said
you should make planks. Why does he say
the planks?
It said by all the other things it said
you should make a table. You should make
ark. It doesn't say sim.
Why then also does he say the all the
other ones it says you make a table over
here. He says the planks
is referring to those beams that were
already set for it.
Jacobu already planted the woods, cedar
woods in Egypt. So when he died,
he told his children
that they should take it with him when
they leave Egypt.
And he told them
and he told them that God is going to
command you to build a tabernacle in the
desert. And that tabernacle you would
need from wood.
He made sure that this would be ready
for them to use.
And this is what we find in the in the
liturgy that there was a fellow that we
say on that there are some that say on
PES from a fellow by the name of
Matim
that was sprouted the great height the
uh cedar trees that were prepared
beforehand by those who were hastily
making it ready for the home to be built
which was Yakov and his dire
that Jacob was ready and eager to get
those cedar woods ready for the acacia
wood that would have to be used for the
building of the tabernacle.
These planks would be standing
vertically
that the length of the planks would be
standing vertical
and they would stand as the walls of the
tabernacle side by side the other
planks.
You shouldn't make the beams horizontal
like in the width of the beams, one beam
on top of the other, but vertical side
by side next to each other. An
interesting thing that we know that the
Reb talks about in his famous discourse
of bosani how the tabernacle which is a
divine presence of God in this world. So
too each aspect of the tabernacle
symbolizes of the uh absolute bringing
the divine pro presence into this world
and especially as this is seen
by the kroshim. The word kerishes in
Hebrew is made up of three letters kuf
shin which those three letters can mean
a plank kerish as well as it makes the
word a kesher to connect and as well as
the word sheer which means a lie. The
job of the tabernacle and the task of
the tabernacle and the divine presence
in this world is to transform the lies
in this world to a connection and making
it upright a connection together with
God. as well as the word shittita which
is the word shitim for aaca wood comes
from the wordus nonsense folly and the
fact that a tree of nonsense means
weighing to the wayside but God tells us
to take the make itim take the
foolishness and stand it upright meaning
that we have the ability to take the
foolishness of nonsense and transform it
into a foolishness of holiness as we
have the ability to take the lie and
transform it into something of a
connection with God. The entire job and
task of the tabernacle is transforming
the physical into spiritual. The Torah
now continues with the measurements of
each one of these planks.
Text 16 uh verse 16.
The length of each plank would be 10
cubits.
And the width of each plank would be one
and a half cubits.
It teaches us
that the height of the Mishk of the
tabernacle was 10.
From here we learnish the length of the
Mishkan.
There were 20 beams on the north and
south side
going from east to west. So that gives
you amma 30 ammas long because if each
one was an amma and a half was a cubit
and a half you have 20 beams that makes
it 30 cubits long.
Verse 17.
There were two arms, two pl for each
plank. There were two tenants, two
little arms that would come out of it.
As well as they were parallel to one
another.
This is what you would do to all the
planks of the tabernacle. What does it
mean?
Explains how they would do this.
For every plank there were two little
pieces that would come out on the
bottom. They were like pegs.
What they would do is they would cut out
from the beam in the middle
in the height of an
a quarter of an amma on the side and a
quarter of the handbreath on each side.
this way.
These are look like hands. They were
like pegs that came down from the center
of the beam. There were two little
pieces each side indented by a quarter
of an ammo. The actual engraving the
cutout
was a half of the beam in the middle.
What was the point of those two pegs?
And those two pegs though would go into
the empty salow sockets.
And the sockets were an amah.
They would sit straight. So
you had 40 sockets one next to the
other. There were 20 beams. Each beam
had 20 uh two pegs. That's 40 pegs for
the 40 sockets.
The actual width of the um cutout was
the was the size of the width of the
socket.
So you had the empty part of the socket
where this peg would go inside the
leftover the quarter of an amma around
it would cover the top of the socket. So
the entire beam was sitting on the
socket
because if not
because if not then you would have empty
space between the two of them and that's
the point of when the Torah says that
they should be matching up with one
another that there should be no empty
space and they should fit exactly to the
socket that it goes into mish. What does
the word mish mean? that these pegs
they were made like steps
that there were two pegs separate from
one another. Not that there was one beam
that would sit in it. You had two of
them separate from one another with a
space in between like a ladder
and there and the heads of them were a
little pointy
that they should be able to go into
properly to this hollowess of the
socket.
Just like a step of a ladder, the prong
of a ladder has these pointy parts that
go into the sides of the ladder. So too,
you have these pegs would fit into the
sockets. Exactly.
Verse 18.
like facing each other
exactly one to the other. Meaning
that the two pegs that are coming out
and you the cutout that you have should
be exact.
You shouldn't have that you're going to
have one peg that the one beam that the
peg isn't forward and one beam the peg
is backwards. They should all have the
exact measurements around it. And that's
why he enumerates a quarter space that
was underneath that they would cut out.
Then they would have the pegs coming out
and then a half a half a half a cubid
space in between.
Uh and this should be exact. So all of
them should be evenly made.
The the Aramaic explanation explains the
word pegs
and he calls it hinges because it looks
like the hinges that go into the door to
be able to keep the door closed so it
fits in what they would call today
tongue and groove type of thing.
Verse 18.
And then you should make these uh
planks, these boards for the tabernacle.
How many are you going to make?
You will have 20 planks
for the southern side.
The word
the word over here means side.
Every single side was called aa like it
says
translates to the south side.
Verse 19
underneath those planks you will have
then 40 silver sockets bases
that will be made under the 20 planks.
two planks, two sockets for every planka
for the two uh pegs that would be coming
out of the plank
and two sockets
under each plank
for two of its pegs.
Uh there's no rashi on this one. So we
continue on to verse 20.
And for the second side of the
tabernacle,
which will be on the north side, you
will do the same thing. Have 20 planks.
Verse 21.
You will have as well 40 silver sockets.
Two sockets under each one of the planks
and two bases under each one of the
planks. Two silver sockets for each
plank.
Verse 22.
What about for the back of the
tabernacle, which that would be the west
of the tabernacle
over there? You're going to have six
planks. Each one of those planks one and
a half cubits that will be fully exposed
into the tabernacle as Rashi will
explain. Mishkan means the end
being that the entrance of the
tabernacle was on the east.
So therefore the east is called the face
and the west is called the back.
This is the end because the face was the
beginning.
We're going to make six um six beams.
Six times one and a half gives you nine
amos width.
Now the Torah continues.
So you have now six that are visibly
seen fully in the actual tabernacle
and then you're going to make another
two which are going to go on the corners
are the corners of the tabernacle
in the back. So you have eight you have
six uh in the previous verse as we said
six which would be visibly seen then two
that would go into the corners.
Rashi explains what does this mean?
Two beams added beams each one for each
corner. One for the northwest corner and
one for the southwest corner.
So therefore you have a total of
you have eight beams one after the other
lined up one after the other.
Mishkan. The only difference is that
these two corner beams you did not see
on the inside of the Mishkan completely.
You only saw a half of each. So from the
inside of the Mishkan, you had only 10
Amas. You had nine amas for the six
times one and a half plus a half and a
half of the two corner ones
which would bring it to 10
because you have the on each side left
over was then on the sides of the Mishk
north and south.
So that the corner so when you look from
the outside of the tabernacle the corner
was even and but on the inside it was
less the space than it was on the
outside.
Verse 23
we just did that
and you make the two beams in the
corner. Verse 24.
You will make sure that the two planks
in the uh in the back co and and
everything should be flushed
and all the planks should be flushed at
the bottom.
So to on the top they should all be
flushed. They should all be even.
You will put a ring that will then
connect the two.
The same thing will also be done to the
two corners. That means as we mentioned
in Rashi previously that you wanted on
the bottom all the beams should be
flushed one together attached to one
another as well on the top it should be
flush and there was a ring that would
keep them in place that would keep the
two together. Rashi explains this and
says as follows.
All the planks should be equal should be
flush from the bottom.
That the thickness of the socket should
not create space between any of them.
This is what I explained previously in
verse 17.
That therefore they had to make the pegs
cut out properly that they should all be
even. So they sit in the planks and all
of them sit evenly in the planks.
And this is that why you had that empty
space around the pegs that they would
sit and cover the pe the the socket. So
all should be covered and sitting evenly
on the edge of the socket.
So to the beam that's next to it. So
thereby you have everything is sitting
evenly and flush to the socket and
there's no empty space between them. The
same idea would be
when you have then the corner beams. How
do you situate those?
Those would have to be cut out to its
width.
That means it's going to have to be cut
out towards the width of going to the
north or the south depending on which
side it is.
because you have the sockets that are
there and there's one socket going this
way and then there's the other socket
going that way. So therefore the sockets
are all going in the same direction. So
you would have that the beams will then
be cut the corner beam the pegs would be
going the opposite way of the beams that
were horizontal on the back of the
mushkin
elab.
Now, besides on the bottom of being
flushed to the sockets and making sure
that even the corner doesn't have any
extra space on the top as well, the
Torah wants that there should be
flushed. And how did they do that?
They had this ring.
Every beam on the top had a little
indentation that would be at the edge of
each beam.
That indentation
would be the thickness of this ring that
would sit on it
and that ring would then sit. You have
one ring beam to the other beam and the
ring that would sit by the both which
would be like this bracket that would
hold them both in place.
So it makes that it should be flush to
the plank that's next to it. Rashi
explains.
Rashi says, "I don't know if those rings
were always in the planks or they used
to take them out as well."
Or they would move them around.
The beam that was in the corner,
the one that was in the corner needed
one that was the thickness of the south
and the north
and then also the beginning of the one
that was on the west. So, because it was
a corner beam, it needed a special
corner bracket that would fit and be
aligned to the one that was either the
north or south as well to the one that
was on the west.
It would go into it and would keep it in
place
this way. So, if you had a corner beam,
on one side of the corner beam, it was
connected to the north or south wall. It
had that indentation and on the other
side of the corner beam it had an
indentation that would connect the ring
with the western wall. So this way your
corners were built and once your corners
are built it give support to the rest of
the columns.
This is the way you would do it for both
of them for both corners
for both corners that are for both beams
that are on the corner.
For the plank that was at the end of the
north wall and for the plank that was on
the west wall.
That's the way it would go for both
corners.
Verse 25.
So total you would have now eight beams
on your back end wall.
And the sockets would be silver sockets
16 sockets.
Two sockets for every beam
and two sockets for every beam.
What does this mean? These eight beams.
So as we mentioned this is talking about
the western wall.
This is what we mentioned previously
about making the six beams
and then you have the two beams on the
corners. So I give you a total of
which gives you a total of eight beams
on the western wall. Rashi gives us a
bottom line of what all the beams were
and how they worked. And he says as
follows and he brings it and quotes it
from the bryishna.
This is the way it's discussed in the
Mishna say the detail of how the beams
were made by the details of the
construction of the tabernacle. And the
Mishna says the following
they would make the sockets empty hollow
them out and then they would also carve
out in the beams on the bottom.
quarter of the hand breath, a quarter
cubid here, a cure a quarter cubid on
each side
and the indent and the peg was halfway
in the middle. The oscillation
and then they would make two pegs that
were looking like two legs that were
coming out of the beam.
What it means is not but the word is
supposed to be which means two steps of
the ladder
like two prongs of a ladder like Rashi
mentioned previously that a separate one
from the other
and they were on an indent
was on a slant so it would go easily
into the hollow socket
is like a prong that goes into the sides
of the hole. of the ladder. That's why
he uses the terminology regime which
means a like a prong of a ladder.
Then the continues
now goes back to the bry and says then
they would take that beam and put it
into the two sockets.
And then he would scratch then he would
carve out a little indentation on the
beam on the top
a finger off the edge and a finger off
the edge of the other side.
And they use the golden bracket to be
able to connect the two
so that the breams don't separate one
from the other. It says in the verse
that they should be flushed to one
another on the bottom.
This is the text of the Mishna and I
explained the ideas that are mentioned
in this Mishna according to the passages
that we just read.
Verse 26.
And now you're going to make uh
crossbarss
made out of wood, five of them
for the for the planks of one side of
the tabernacle. That means five um
crossbarss for each side of the Mishkim
says.
This is long poles that they would then
connect the beams as well.
Five for each side of the Mishkan.
These five
there were really only three. What does
this mean?
Because you had a crossbar on the top
and a crossbar on the bottom. Were made
out of two pieces.
One would go halfway and
the other one would go halfway.
They would put them on both sides on
these little rings that would come out
of the beams. They would put them
through half on one side, one half on
the other side until they would meet one
the other
middle crossbar.
So that would go inside the beams across
the whole length of the wall
would go from one end of the wall to the
other. As we're going to see in the
verse, it says
that the center crossbar would go from
edge to edge.
The top and bottom crossbarss had rings
on the outside that they would sit in on
the beams.
Every
plank, every beam had two rings that the
crossbar would go into. And then
they took by thirds. That means if you
take the beam and split it up into
thirds would be one would be in the
first top two and a half cubits and the
other one was on the bottom two and a
half cubits and then you would put have
those rings and that's where the
crossbar would go into.
And each part was on a quarter of the
cross beam. So if you split up the cross
beam, you had a quarter top you had one
cross beam. On the bottom you had
another cross beam and then you had the
center one that went in the middle.
The outside ones had rings on each one
which were exactly parallel and every
single beam had the exact same two
rings. So therefore the crossbar was
able to fit into them one on each side
to be able to meet. The middle beam,
however, was a hole with inside the
planks that they put a crossbar with
inside the beams, inside the uh the
planks, and that would go all the way
around from edge to edge of the beams of
the planks.
You have now the difference between the
middle one, that means the inside one,
and the outside ones. the outside ones
which were on the north and on the south
was 15 each because remember there were
30 am long and he's saying it met
halfway so each one was 15 four pieces
and the however the middle one was 30
that went from edge to edge from one
edge to the other
from east to west
and then there were five crossarss on
on the west wall.
They were six long
and however the center one was long 12
to able to take the whole width of the
eight beams that were there.
This is the way it's explained in the
bryer containing the construction of the
Mishkan
verse 28
and the center crossbar
which was full length
that went inside. They drilled drilled a
hole in the middle of the beams on the
inside
went from one end to the other. So you
had five beams total on each side. Two
beams, two beams on top, two beams on
bottom that met each other and then the
center beam that went inside from edge
to edge
theim. What are you going to do with
these planks? They're not just going to
stay acacia wood. The top of they should
be covered in gold
and the rings that are on the outside
should also be made from gold.
They should be to hold the crossarss.
The reason why you're putting the rings
on the outside, they're going to be
there to hold the crossarss.
And these crossbars should be covered in
gold as well.
Says
these rings that you're going to make on
the actual planks you
going to be rings to insert the
crossarss in them.
Not that the gold was stuck onto the
crossbarss.
Not that they took the cross bars and
then they coated it in gold. What they
did was they were like these two empty
pieces of gold, two hollow pieces of
gold. And what they would do is they
beam they would
in the actual ring there was a piece
that they would there were tubes and
those tubes were covered with gold and
they would fit the beams through those
tubes. So it was then covered with gold.
So not the actual be crossbar itself was
wood but they fed it through these gold
cross uh empty hollow tubes and this way
it was covered with gold.
because they would set it next to the
ring. So you had the ring in the middle
and then on both sides of the ring you
had these empty tubes that were set
there
and the length of them would then fill
the whole width of the beam.
The crossar would go in it and from
there into the ring
and from the ring it would go into the
second hollow part.
So if you would look on the outside of
the tabernacle, you wouldn't see wooden
poles, your wooden crossbarss, you would
see golden crossbars because all along
the beams, you had the hollow p the
hollow tube, a ring, and then another
hollow tube. So when you'd fit the
crossbar through it, you would fit it
through the tube, then the ring, then
into the other half of the crossbar. So
on the outside, these were protruding on
the outside. You saw these crossbarss.
However, on the inside of the Mishkan,
you didn't see any of these hinges or
any of these crossbarss or brackets. All
these brackets and everything was only
on the outside of the Mishkan. On the
inside of the Mishkin was smooth walls.
Verse 30ish.
And then you shall erect the tabernacle
according to its proper order
that I showed you on the mountain.
Once everything is complete, then you
should put it up
because I'm going to eventually show you
what is supposed to be done. So
therefore, whatever I'm going to show
you how it will be done, that's the way
you will eventually do it when it comes
time to putting up the tabernacle. This
concludes the first I'm sorry.