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Meshech Chochma — h-chochmah pekudei 2024 5784

Выпуск: Meshech Chochma — h-chochmah pekudei 2024 5784. Темы: parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: недельная глава, парша, parsha, פרשה, פרשת השבוע. Rabbi Immanuel Bernstein 2024 / 5784 MESHECH CHOCHMAH Parshas Pekudei Building the Mishkan by Day .‫ְּבּ יֹוֹם ַהַ ֹחֹ ֶדׁש ָהָ ִראׁשֹוֹן ְּבֶּאֶ ָחָ ד ַלַֹחֹ ֶדׁש ָּתּ ִקִ ים ֶאֶ ת ִמִ ְׁשׁ ַּכּן ֹאֹ ֶהֶ ל מֹוֵֹעֵ ד‬ On the day of the first month, on the first of the month, you shall erect the Mishkan, the Tent of Meeting. The Meshech Chochmah concludes his comment with the words, “‫ועיין פרק שני דשבועות‬ ‫ –מקרא אחרינא‬and see the second perek of Shavuos [where it derives this] from a different verse.” With this reference, he is alerting us to the fact that the Gemara upon which his explanation of our verse is based provides a different source for the idea of not building the Mikdash at night: ”‫מנין שאין בנין בית המקדש בלילה? Rabbi Immanuel Bernstein • Meshech Chochmah Parshas Pekudei - Building the Mishkan by Day | 2 The Mizbeach of the Ketores “Before the Aron” ‫ְוְָנַָתַ ָּתּ ה ֶאֶ ת ִמִ ְזְַּבּ ח ַהַ ָּזָּהָ ב ִלִ ְקְ ֹטֹ ֶרת ִלִ ְפְֵנֵי ֲאֲרֹוֹן ָהָ ֵעֵ ֻדֻ ת‬ And you shall place the Gold Altar for the incense before the Ark of the Testimony (40:5) On a straightforward level, the verse’s description of placing the mizbeach for the ketores “before the Aron” would seem to be relating purely to its positioning, i.e. As it says, “and on the day of the setting up of the Mishkan.”2 In truth, with this concluding observation, the Meshech Chochmah could be seen as raising a question: Why, in fact, did the Gemara derive the idea that we may not build the Mikdash at night from the verse in Bamidbar and not from our verse? Perhaps we may suggest that since there were many unique laws that applied on the first day of the Mishkan, as outlined in the beginning of Parshas Shemini, the Gemara preferred to cite as its source a verse which described the ongoing parameters of how the Mishkan was set up. The Rambam writes that the reason the Torah commands to offer ketores in the Mishkan is in order to offset the smell of the animals that are constantly being offered, including their slaughter, cleaning, and the burning of the sacrificial parts on the mizbeyach.4 However, later commentators vigorously challenge this explanation, raising numerous questions, for example: 1. Why is there such a severe prohibition against a pe

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Meshech Chochma

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15 марта 2024 г.

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Темы: parsha_commentary