Parashat Vayakhel, 5774/2014 edition
I didn’t have much to say in the only previous Vayahkel/Vayak’hel post of mine that I can find.
Since this is one of what I dubbed the “vocabulary parashiot,” I might as well add another one to the list:
עֹרֹת אֵילִם orot eilim= goat skins
Exodus Chapter 35
כב וַיָּבֹאוּ הָאֲנָשִׁים, עַל-הַנָּשִׁים; כֹּל נְדִיב לֵב, הֵבִיאוּ חָח וָנֶזֶם וְטַבַּעַת וְכוּמָז כָּל-כְּלִי זָהָב, וְכָל-אִישׁ, אֲשֶׁר הֵנִיף תְּנוּפַת זָהָב לַיהוָה.
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22 And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing-hearted, and brought nose-rings, and ear-rings, and signet-rings, and girdles, all jewels of gold; even every man that brought an offering of gold unto the LORD.
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כה וְכָל-אִשָּׁה חַכְמַת-לֵב, בְּיָדֶיהָ טָווּ; וַיָּבִיאוּ מַטְוֶה, אֶת-הַתְּכֵלֶת וְאֶת-הָאַרְגָּמָן, אֶת-תּוֹלַעַת הַשָּׁנִי, וְאֶת-הַשֵּׁשׁ.
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25 And all the women that were wise-hearted did spin with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, the blue, and the purple, the scarlet, and the fine linen.
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More vocabulary:
יָּעִים yaim = shovels
מִּזְרָקֹת mizrakot = basins
מִּזְלָגֹת mizlakot = flesh-hooks (ugh!)
מַּחְתֹּת machtot = fire-pans—I think these will show up in a later reading, Parashat Korach.
כִּיּוֹר kiyor = laver (washbasin)
מַרְאֹת mar’ot = mirrors (comes from the same shoresh/root word as lir’ot, to see)
צֹּבְאֹת tsov’ot = “serving women”—who they were and what service they performed is not specified.
קְלָעִים k’laim = hangings
Okay, now that I’ve bored you, I should wake you up with links to more interesting divrei Torah/words of Torah:
Sorry--the original plan was to post those links here, but my office computer wouldn't cooperate, so I put 'em in the Comments section, and I don't have time to recreate them here before Shabbat. Git Shabbos/Shabbat Shalom.
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Okay, now that I’ve bored you, I should wake you up with links to more interesting divrei Torah/words of Torah:
Conservadox protests against wasteful Shabbat/Sabbath practices.
Rav Shai Held points out that there’s a difference between serving a master who degrades us (such as Par’oh/Pharoah) and serving the Master who cherishes human dignity enough to give us a day of rest.
Rav Dov Linzer explains that “ sanctity of time trumps sanctity of space,” which is why we don’t build anything on Shabbat, not even the Mishkan, but also points out that, as humans, we need the concrete as well as the abstract in order to worship.
Rav Shlomo Riskin discusses the two kinds of cherubim: the “sweet” kind and the “stern” kind.
Rav Jonathan Sacks talks about creating a community through a task that can be completed only if everyone works together.
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