Terumah - 5th Portion

Join me as we learnish for Thursday the fifth Torah reading of Paras Truma chapter 26 verse 31. Yesterday we learned about the details of how the construction of the walls, the planks, the brackets, the sockets and its measurements of the building of the tabernacle. Today we continue with the opening the doorway and other parts of the tabernacle. Verse 31 and you would make a curtain which will then be made out of turquoise wool and scarlet wool, purple wool and scar and shani and scarlet wool mazar and twined linen. It should be woven a woven design. You should the should be woven in them. Verse 31. What does the word mean? A partition like the sages called it parid. A partition something that separates the king from the people. As we mentioned previously when he made the other curtain, each one of these kinds were then stranded. They were made up of six different strands that each one of these four kinds had in it, meaning the turquoise, the scarlet, and the wool and the linen. Each one of them was tw intertwined. And if together you had 24 strands old, intertwined one with the other. I already explained previously in verse one. This was a special type of tapestry that when they would weave, it would happen on both walls at the same time. that there were pictures from both sides. The two pictures as Rashi explained it could be a lion on one side and an eagle on the other and they were woven together. So what is the kim over here? Images of creatures of animals. Verse 32. What are you going to do with the skirt? You're going to hang it. You're going to put it on fourwood columns that are covered in gold. of their hooks would be gold and they would be sitting on four silver sockets. Where were these four poles? These four poles would be sitting in four silver sockets and they had hooks on them on the top of the beams which were bent towards above. They would have these sea hooks that would go up. In the hooks they would hold put a beam and on the beam is what they would hang the curtain on. These these hooks were called. The reason why they're called a VV because it looked like a VV because a piece that sticks out protrudes and you're able to sit something on it. The size of the curtain was 10 wide for the width of the Mishkan going from north to south. And it was the width of the height of the beams of the planks. It was put on a third going into the tabernacle. So you put a beam one curtain was put 10 amas a third into the tabernacle that means coming from the west that's where the holy of holy was the holy of holies was 10 by 10 10 amas with width and 10 amas long the other 20 amas was we are the minora the table and all the other things were it says you will put the curtain under the hooks which connect the two sections of the uh yuras of the two coverings that were on top of it and the width of each one of those connections was 20 amas. So as we explained previously the way they situated and they put them under. So if I put directly 20 amas where's the beam where the beams where the sections how they were separated the holy of holies from the holy because you went by the roof. The roof was 20 amas long where the connection was and by that connection is where you set the curtain to separate the two rooms as Rashi explained previously. um then when he spread them out on top of the roof of the Mishkan from the door to the westk if you go twothirds of the Mishk is 20 down and the second connection the second tapestry was already on the other third of the tabernacle and the leftovers was hanging in the back to cover the beams that were in the back of the tabernacle. Verse 33. As we just mentioned, where are you going to place this curtain? Underneath the hooks, the hooks that were connecting the two papistries. And then you will bring there on the other side of the curtain. It's the covenant, the ark of the covenant. And this curtain will then separate for you between the sanctuary which and the holy of holies. Verse 34. Once then you shall have them place the cover on the ark of the covenant in the holy of holies. So in of holy of holies, you're going to put the ark of the covenant covered with the krubim which is has the special cover on it and in it will be the tablets of the uh the the the two tablets. Verse 35 and then you're going to place the table on the outside of that curtain. So that curtain separates the holy of holies to the sanctuary and the manura will be opposite the table on the south side of the tabernacle on the south side of the tabernacle and the table will be placed on the north side. The tables on the north side a little bit away from the north wall two and a half cubits is going to be on the south side also moved away from the southern wall two and a half cubits in the golden altar will be slightly in the middle between in the empty space between the table and the manura. So if you take the sanctuary and split it in three, you're going to have the mo you're going to have the table on the north, the manora on the south, and then it will be the altar would be towards the middle will be towards it will pulled a little bit towards the east side. That means towards the entrance while the table and the minor are going to be more towards the west closer to the holy of holies. the is going to be closer to the opening but all of them are right away in the first half of the mishk. So for example if you go from the length of the mishk to the entrance towards the west is 10 then everything else is pulled towards the front. So you have the sanctuary 10 cubits deep. Then in the last 10 cubits closest to the west, you're going to have there the table, the altar, and the manura. Verse 36, now you're going to make another curtain. You're going to make a curtain which is screen for the entrance of the tent that's going to be made out of torque wool and purple wool and scarlet wool and linen. This is going to be an embroidered type of tapestry. The word means a curtain. This is going to be a curtain against the door. The entrance of which is going to block the entrance. The word which is brought in comes from the word to block up. What does this mean? A woven type of tapestry, an embroidered type of tapestry. The difference in this case would be that the images that were on the curtain on this front side will be the same image that's on the back side. The word raikim which means embroidery. It's a type of craftsmanship the the actual person is called an embroiderer not they're talking about an embroidery and he says a person who makes this type of stuff the size of this curtain was the same size as the curtain that was inside is 10 by 10 was 10 is wide and 10 is tall as the width of the actual entrance of the actual entrance of the tabernacle as well as the height of the planks. Verse 37. And then how is this curtain going to stand? You're going to make for this curtain. It's going to have five uh pillars, five beams of wood. You will coat them with gold. They would have golden hooks. However, this is going to be different. In the inside curtain, these sockets were silver. The outside curtain, which is for the door, those sockets are going to be five copper sockets. And those are going to be one cubit tall, one cubit wide, and one cubit thick. That they would be placed, these beams in it, that they should be able to hold up the curtain, the entrance for the tabernacle. This concludes the fifth Torah reading for Parius Tuma.