A Message on the Parsha 5781
A Message on the Parsha 5781
Reckonings of the Tabernacle
Toward the Cover shall be the faces of the Cherubim
There will not be a plague among them when counting them
The covenant of the Oral Tradition
May my prayer be accepted like incense before You
תכון תפלתי קטורת לפניך[1] The Medrash states that of all the offerings, the קטורת, the incense is the most beloved before G-d. Says the Medrash,[2] Know, that even once the Mishkan was completed with all its vessels, [and] he [Aharon] had brought up all the offerings, set out the altar, the table and…
"They shall make for me a Mikdash and I shall dwell among them."
ועשו לי מקדש ושכנתי בתוכם The Rishonim debate whether the third and final Beis HaMikdash will be built by human hands, like the first two, or will descend from Heaven as a structure of fire made by Hashem's own hands, as implied by the verse, "מקדש ה' כוננו ידיך- The Mikdash, Hashem, that Your hands…