Parasha Vayakhel 5784
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This week we read Parasha Vayakhel, Exodus 35:1-38:20, which opens with Moses reminding Israel of the six day work week and the seventh day being a Shabbat of complete rest before Adonai. This is then followed by Moses relaying Adonai’s command that everyone of Israel who’s heart is willing should bring offerings of materials needed to build the Mishkan and Israel quickly and joyously participating in the provision of these materials. He then informs Israel that Adonai has chosen Bezalel and Oholiab and has filled them with His Ruach to head up the project of building the Mishkan, all its furnishings and the priestly garments.
In Exodus 36 we see the beginning of the construction of the Mishkan. But, specifically chapter 36 opens with Israel responding in such great force with giving from their hearts for the building of the Mishkan that Bezalel, Oholiab, and those working with them approach Moses saying the people have brought well more than enough and asked for them to stop bringing materials.
The rest of Exodus 36 through 38 detail the process of the building of the Mishkan and its furnishings, which was already specified by Adonai when Moses was on Mount Sinai and is now being executed by Bezalel and Oholiab.
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Principle: In the Ruach HaKodesh we are equipped and empowered to play a distinct role in establishing a dwelling place for G-d’s Presence.
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Exodus 35:4–11 (TLV)
Moses also said to all the congregation of Bnei-Yisrael, “This is the word which Adonai commanded saying:
Take from among you an offering for Adonai. Whoever has a willing heart, let him bring Adonai’s offering: gold, silver and bronze;
blue, purple and scarlet cloth; fine linen and goat hair;
ram skins dyed red, sealskins and acacia wood;
oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet incense;
onyx stones, and setting stones for the ephod and for the breastplate.
“Let every wise-hearted man among you come and make everything that Adonai has commanded…
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Then all the congregation of Bnei-Yisrael departed from before Moses.
Everyone whose heart stirred him and everyone whose spirit was willing came and brought Adonai’s offering for the work of the Tent of Meeting and for all its service as well as for the holy garments.
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“So Bezalel and Oholiab are to work, along with every wise-hearted man in whom Adonai has placed insight and understanding to know how to perform all the labor for the service of the Sanctuary, according to everything Adonai has commanded.”
Then Moses called Bezalel, Oholiab and all the wise-hearted men in whose minds Adonai had set wisdom, along with everyone whose heart stirred him up to come do the work.
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So all the wise-hearted men among them did the work. They made the Tabernacle with ten curtains of finely twisted linen, along with blue, purple and scarlet, with cheruvim—the work of a skillful craftsman.
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Adonai spoke to Moses saying,
“Tell Bnei-Yisrael to take up an offering for Me. From anyone whose heart compels him you are to take My offering.
“Have them make a Sanctuary for Me, so that I may dwell among them.
You are to make it all precisely according to everything that I show you—the pattern of the Tabernacle and the pattern of all the furnishings within—just so you must make it.
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Then Adonai spoke to Moses saying,
“See, I have called by name Bezalel son of Uri son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah,
and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with wisdom, understanding and knowledge in all kinds of craftsmanship,
to make ingenious designs, to forge with gold, silver and bronze,
as well as cutting stones for setting and carving wood, to work in all manner of craftsmanship.
Also look, I Myself have appointed with him Oholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan. Within the hearts of all who are wise-hearted I have placed skill, so that they may make everything that I have commanded you:
the Tent of Meeting, the Ark of the Testimony, the atonement cover that is to be on it, all the furnishings of the Tabernacle,
the table and its utensils, the menorah of pure gold with all of its utensils, the altar of incense,
the altar of burnt offering with all of its utensils, the basin and its stand,
the woven garments, the holy garments for Aaron the kohen, the garments for his sons to minister as kohanim,
the anointing oil, and the incense of sweet spices for the holy place. They are to make them just as how I commanded you.”
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“So Bezalel and Oholiab are to work, along with every wise-hearted man in whom Adonai has placed insight and understanding to know how to perform all the labor for the service of the Sanctuary, according to everything Adonai has commanded.”
Then Moses called Bezalel, Oholiab and all the wise-hearted men in whose minds Adonai had set wisdom, along with everyone whose heart stirred him up to come do the work.
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Principle: In the Ruach HaKodesh we are equipped and empowered to play a distinct role in establishing a dwelling place for G-d’s Presence.
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Now there are various kinds of gifts, but the same Ruach.
There are various kinds of service, but the same Lord.
There are various kinds of working, but the same God who works all things in all people.
But to each person is given the manifestation of the Ruach for the benefit of all.
For to one is given through the Ruach a word of wisdom, to another a word of knowledge according to the same Ruach,
to another faith by the same Ruach, to another gifts of healings by the one Ruach,
to another workings of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues.
But one and the same Ruach activates all these things, distributing to each person individually as He wills.
For just as the body is one and has many parts, and all the parts of the body—though many—are one body, so also is Messiah.
For in one Ruach we were all immersed into one body—whether Jewish or Greek, slave or free—and all were made to drink of one Ruach.
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(Comment on the next few verses discussing body parts, all being equally important even though they play different roles and functions)
Principle: In the Ruach HaKodesh we are equipped and empowered to play a distinct role in establishing a dwelling place for G-d’s Presence.
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So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with God’s people and members of God’s household.
You have been built on the foundation made up of the emissaries and prophets, with Messiah Yeshua Himself being the cornerstone.
In Him the whole building, being fitted together, is growing into a holy temple for the Lord.
In Him, you also are being built together into God’s dwelling place in the Ruach.
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Principle: In the Ruach HaKodesh we are equipped and empowered to play a distinct role in establishing a dwelling place for G-d’s Presence.
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