Terumah - 7th Portion

Join me as we learn kumsh for shabis the seventh Torah reading of paras chapter 27 verse 9. Yesterday we learned about the outer altar. Now that we're talking about the things that were outside today the Torah will tell us about the courtyard. You will then now make a courtyard for the tabernacle on the south side. There shall be where you're going to make nettings made twined linen for the courtyard. How is this going to be made? Twin linen 100 long for one side. What does the word clo mean? They're going to be web. They're going to make like a um which are usually hung on the boat that there'll be holes in it that they're woven one into the other. Not they're looped one into the other. Not like woven tight like we made for the ones on the actual tabernacle. The calls it like a that it had holes in it. The word every side is called a pale. What's going to be continues? You're going to have 20 beams. 20 pillars and then 20 sockets made out of copper. The hooks of the pillars and the bands on the pillars are going to be out of silver. Rashi continues and says, "If you can have a hundred, if the curtain has to be 100 long and you're only having 20 pillars, that gives you five, five cubits between each one, the sockets of the pillars of of copper. The sockets would sit on the ground and the pillars would be sit situated in them. They would make it like a peg, like beams, pillars, I'm sorry. They were long, six wide three and it had a copper uh ring on the top of it in the middle. And then they would wrap the uh the um they would wrap the curtain around with the hooks on each one of these pillars. And then they would hang the uh the hook through the ring that was on the curtain. The way they hang up the doors, they had a hook coming out of the beam. So if you have the beam itself on the beam, there was a hook on the actual curtain. They created these go these uh copper silver pieces that would be inside and in it a ring. And then they would hang each place what we would call today grammmits similar to that. And that's the way they would hang it on those beams that were coming out of it. And that's the way they would put up the uh partitions for the courtyard. Those are the hooks that they would hang it. The actual pillars was coated with different uh with beautiful strands of silver. Rashi says, "I don't know if the silver decoration was around the whole thing or is it just around the middle?" But this silver piece, the word kashuk means to be uh surrounded around it. So in this case, like a belt. So you had the beam which was made out of acacia wood. The beam was then coated in copper. Around it was silver decorations like a design, a rope of silver around it. On the top of it was a silver hook and then on the actual curtain there were these rings that would be able to have the grommets that would then hook on to these hooks. Verse 11. So too you should make on the north side claim the length of these curtains. It should be 100 long there should be 20 pillars 20 sockets of copper. The hooks on the pillars and the design around it should be of silver. Verse 12 and to the width of the courtyard on the west side the curtains will be 50 cubits long there you'll have 10 pillars and there you'll have 10 sockets the width of the courtyard which is now the entrance which is on the east will also be 50 cubits says the face of the the side of the east side is called meaning the face. Therefore, therefore, he calls the east side, the front, the west side, the back, and as people say, as we use it in the book of Deuteronomy, the outside, the last sea, which refers to the sea that's on the west 50. However, in the front side, those 50 amas were not closed completely with curtains because of there was the opening for people to get in. There were 15. There were curtains on one side. The other side had 15 because you had 50. So you have 15 on one side empty, 15 on the other side empty. So that gives you a total of 30. Then you had a 20 opening for people to get in. And that's what it says. That's why for the gateway of the actual courtyard was 20 because they made another curtain which was for 20 to cover the actual opening. Verse 14. This is what he continues what we just mentioned in Rashi before 15. There was 15 for the curtain on this side. There were three pillars for the 15 and three sockets. because like as you know notice around the whole entire courtyard there was always five between every pillar between the one that was on the corner on the north on the east south side. third one on the east five and therefore from each pillar to pillar there was five cubits from the second to the third were five cubits. So too on the other side going from the north from the from the northeast and then there were four pillars just for the curtain. And the reason why there were four in the front this was parallel to the four that was in the back. And for the other side claimed there was also 15 uh amos of curtain three pillars and three sockets. Well the and for the actual opening of the gateway as we mentioned there was a 20 courtyard that was able to move doorway for the opening you had a curtain which that was woven of. This was different than the rest of them because if you recall the rest of the curtains, there was a a tapestry that had holes in it. This one is going to be different. It had the the turquoise, the purple, and the scarlet wool. Vesh Masra and the twine linen. This was woven together. It's had four beams, four pillars, and four sockets parallel to the back, which also had four peams and four sockets. And this was where the entrance of the actual tabernacle courtyard was. Verse 17. All the pillars around the courtyard had these beautiful um lines of silver on them. They had silver hooks, but their sockets were were copper. Because previously when he talks about it in the verse, he only mentions about the north and south that they had the silver and the copper sockets. But for the east and west, he didn't enumerate and explain. Therefore, he enumerates it here that they all had copper sockets and they all the beams had the silver um design on it. Verse 18, the actual length of the courtyard was 100 of the width was 50 and the height was five. So you were able to see halfway of the of the tabernacle from outside the courtyard. The curtain was made out of a woven linen and its sockets were uh copper. Here he's telling us the whole north and west with 100. The courtyard on the east was square, meaning a square 50 by 50. The actual Mishkan itself, the tabernacle was only 30 by 10. And he put the entrance on the last three of the length of the actual courtyard that the actual Mishkan stood by the first 50 am of the inside and it ended by 30 that means behind the Mishkan. If there's 30 amas of the Mishkan towards the entrance, what do you have behind it? It's 50. So do you have the 20 empty? Yeah. From the west courtyard until the actual courtyard until the actual west of the tabernacle was 20 amos separation the width of the mishk was 10 centered and the width of the courtyard was 50. you have a 10 space because if it's 50 wide so you have 10 in the center 20 on each side. So therefore so too on the west you have as we mentioned it's a 50 by 50. So the backyard of the Mishkan if you want to call it was a 50 by 50 square. The height of the courtyard was five tall. That was also the width of the curtains. Their sockets were copper. over here is coming to tell us that even the ones of the curtain the the entrance way that also was copper sockets. That's why the Torah repeats it again to think, "Oh, maybe they were different color sockets and different material sockets." Tell us all the sockets were all copper. Verse 18, we just did verse 18. Verse 19, sorry. All the tools of the tabernacle and everything that should be made of it. And this is and all the pegs that were made with it as well. The and all the stakes that they needed to be able to hold down the curtains of the tabernacle were all made of copper. What does this mean? All the vessels that they needed. That means they needed tools. They needed different tools to be able to put up the tabernacle each time. If it was hammers, chisels or uh whatever may be any kind of tool that they made or needed was used that was made out of copper. These stakes, these are like shoes, stakes made out of copper. They would take it with ropes and they would hold it with the ropes, a stake and they would knock it into the ground so that the wind doesn't blow these curtains away. I don't know if the stakes were stuck into the ground. I don't know if these stakes were on the curtain and with the weight of them it held down the curtain on the bottom or with the ropes they pulled it to the side and therefore was then in the ground and that's what kept it going that the wind shouldn't blow it away but it seems like from the way the Torah talks about it that it was stuck into the ground because therefore they're called pegs stakes and stakes are usually in the ground. And this verse where it says in Isaiah that this is compared to a tent that will never move from its place and its stakes will never be uprooted forever. So we see over here the concept of a stake. Usually the stakes of tents were stuck into the ground to keep it in its space. This concludes the Torah reading of Parius Trum.