{"id":455,"date":"2014-03-02T23:36:10","date_gmt":"2014-03-02T23:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=455"},"modified":"2014-03-02T23:36:10","modified_gmt":"2014-03-02T23:36:10","slug":"pekudei-5774-2014","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=455","title":{"rendered":"Pekudei 5774 (2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Drash Cards for Pekudei (5774)<\/strong><\/p>\n

by Marc Mangel<\/p>\n

\u2022 This is an example of why one cannot simply read the Torah literally in translation without commentary<\/p>\n

\u2022 I did not get past the first line, particularly the word ‘eidut’ (Miskan ha-eidut’) which was translated in my Chumash as ‘testimony’, but also elsewhere as ‘witness’, ‘pact’. Go from the worldly to the supernal<\/p>\n

\u2022 Abarbanel (witness): Levites (lead by Itamar) audited the use of gold (we are not told how the gold was used)<\/p>\n

\u2022 Malbim (testimony): Proof of the audit’s accuracy and that none of the materials used in the miskan were previously involved in a sin<\/p>\n

\u2022 Levi Yitzchak (testimony): Israel had regained the spiritual level that they had when they left Egypt<\/p>\n

\u2022 Sefat Omer (witness): God had forgiven Israel for the Golden Calf. \u00a0Art Green on this: “The insight that guilt is the great impediment to true religious life was well known to the Chassidic masters”<\/p>\n

\u2022 Isbizter (testimony): The mishkan is testimony that God not only exists but is involved in the physical world, something that idolaters deny<\/p>\n

\u2022 Levi Yizchak once more: The Gematria of the first three words is 86, the same as that of Elohim; the mishkan is our link to God<\/p>\n

\u2022 Maor V’Shemesh (testimony, pact): Gematria of ‘eidut’ is the same as ‘Talmud’. \u00a0When we study Torah we arouse the supernal worlds as they were when the Mishkan was first built. \u00a0As long as Israel is engaged in Torah study, the Mishkan is a testimony that they will not descend to Gehenna<\/p>\n

\u2022 Shalach: The Tabernacle in our world stood opposite that in the celestial regions. Perhaps this is the reason for “…the Mishkan; Mishkan of The Testimony\/Pact\/Witness”<\/p>\n

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Drash Cards for Pekudei (5774) by Marc Mangel \u2022 This is an example of why one cannot simply read the Torah literally in translation without commentary \u2022 I did not get past the first line, particularly the word ‘eidut’ (Miskan ha-eidut’) which was translated in my Chumash as ‘testimony’, but also elsewhere as ‘witness’, ‘pact’. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":51,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-455","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":456,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/455\/revisions\/456"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}