12/29/2016

Parashat 19 Portion 63 – T’rumah – Shemot/Ex 25:1-26:30 Yesh 66:1-13 1Cor 6:12-20


This Torah portion and the following four Torah portions all discuss the pattern(tavniet) and construction of the tabernacle – mishkan – This is the most discussed topic in the Torah.

The English word "tabernacle" is derived from the Latin tabernāculum meaning "tent" or "hut", which in ancient Roman religion was a ritual structure.
The word sanctuary is also used for the scriptural tabernacle, as is the phrase "tent of meeting". The Hebrew word mishkan implies "dwell", "rest", or "to live in". that dwelt within this divinely ordained structure.
We often refer to the feast of tabernacles as “sukkot” where we build “sukkahs” – the Hebrew word “sukkah” refers to a temporary structure.

Ultimately YHVH seeks to dwell with us permanently and not temporarly – see New Yerushalayim.

Rev 21:2  And I, Yoḥanan, saw the set-apart city, renewed Yerushalayim, coming down out of the heaven from Elohim, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
Rev 21:3  And I heard a loud voice from the heaven saying, “See, the Booth of Elohim is with men, and He shall dwell with them, and they shall be His people, and Elohim Himself shall be with them and be their Elohim.

This week’s Torah portion (Parashat Terumah), mirrors three of the technical terms of the Torah scroll:

Tabernacle
Torah Scroll
יריעות (yeriot) – The “curtains” that cover the Tabernacle (e.g., Exodus 26:32, 37; 27:10).
The pieces of parchment in the Torah scroll are called יריעות (yeriot), the same term as the curtains of the Tabernacle.
עמודים (‛ammudim) – The “columns” which hold up the Tabernacle and its accoutrements (e.g., Exodus 26:32, 37; 27:10).
The columns of the Torah scroll are called עמודים (‛ammudim), the same term as the columns of the Tabernacle.
ווים (vavim) – The “hooks” attached to the columns that hold up the curtains (e.g., Exodus 26:32, 37; 27:10).
The sixth letter of the Hebrew alphabet is called a וו (vav), the same term as the hooks that were attached to the columns of the Tabernacle.

Thus, according to this visual midrash, the Torah scroll is assembled in the same fashion as the tabernacle and is thereby a representation of it. 
The Torah scroll is itself a type of reminder of the Tabernacle, while there is no Temple. This idea is expressed visually in each and every Torah scroll by what is known as the  Vavei Ha‛ammudim.

I recommend the following teaching on You tube on this parashah by Messianic teacher Joel Allen.


Exo 25:1  And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,
Exo 25:2  “Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, that they take up a contribution(terumah) for Me. From everyone whose heart moves him you shall take up My contribution.
Exo 25:3  “And this is the contribution which you take up from them: gold, and silver, and bronze,
Exo 25:4  and blue and purple and scarlet material, and fine linen, and goats’ hair,
Exo 25:5  and rams’ skins dyed red, and fine leather, and acacia wood,
Exo 25:6  oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet incense,
Exo 25:7  shoham stones, and stones to be set in the shoulder garment and in the breastplate.
Exo 25:8  “And they shall make Me a Set-apart Place, and I shall dwell in their midst.
Exo 25:9  “According to all that I show you – the pattern of the Dwelling Place and the pattern of all its furnishings – make it exactly so.
Exo 25:10  “And they shall make an ark of acacia wood two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high.
Exo 25:11  “And you shall overlay it with clean gold, inside and outside you shall overlay it. And you shall make on it a moulding of gold all around.
Exo 25:12  “And you shall cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in its four corners, two rings on one side, and two rings on the other side.
Exo 25:13  “And you shall make poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold,
Exo 25:14  and shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, to lift up the ark by them.
Exo 25:15  “The poles are in the rings of the ark, they are not taken from it.
Exo 25:16  “And into the ark you shall put the Witness which I give you.
Exo 25:17  “And you shall make a lid of atonement of clean gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.
Exo 25:18  “And you shall make two keruḇim of gold, make them of beaten work, at the two ends of the lid of atonement.
Exo 25:19  “And make one keruḇ at one end, and the other keruḇ at the other end. Make the keruḇim from the lid of atonement, at its two ends.
Exo 25:20  “And the keruḇim shall be spreading out their wings above, covering the lid of atonement with their wings, with their faces toward each other, the faces of the keruḇim turned toward the lid of atonement.
Exo 25:21  “And you shall put the lid of atonement on top of the ark, and put into the ark the Witness which I give you.
Exo 25:22  “And I shall meet with you there, and from above the lid of atonement, from between the two keruḇim which are on the ark of the Witness, I shall speak to you all that which I command you concerning the children of Yisra’ĕl.
Exo 25:23  “And you shall make a table of acacia wood two cubits long, a cubit wide, and a cubit and a half high.
Exo 25:24  “And you shall overlay it with clean gold, and shall make a moulding of gold all around,
Exo 25:25  and shall make for it a rim of a handbreadth all around, and shall make a gold moulding for the rim all around.
Exo 25:26  “And you shall make for it four rings of gold, and put the rings on the four corners that are at its four legs.
Exo 25:27  “The rings are close to the rim, as holders for the poles to lift the table.
Exo 25:28  “And you shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, and the table shall be lifted with them.
Exo 25:29  “And you shall make its dishes, and its ladles, and its jars, and its bowls for pouring. Make them of clean gold.
Exo 25:30  “And you shall put the showbread on the table before Me, continually.
Exo 25:31  “And you shall make a lampstand of clean gold – the lampstand is made of beaten work. Its base and its shaft, its cups, its ornamental knobs and blossoms are from it,
Exo 25:32  and six branches shall come out of its sides: three branches of the lampstand out of one side, and three branches of the lampstand out of the other side;
Exo 25:33  three cups made like almond flowers on one branch, with ornamental knob and blossom, and three cups made like almond flowers on the other branch, with ornamental knob and blossom – so for the six branches coming out of the lampstand.
Exo 25:34  “And on the lampstand itself are four cups made like almond flowers, with ornamental knob and blossom,
Exo 25:35  and a knob under the first two branches of the same, and a knob under the second two branches of the same, and a knob under the third two branches of the same, according to the six branches coming out of the lampstand.
Exo 25:36  “Their knobs and their branches are of the same – all of it one beaten work of clean gold.
Exo 25:37  “And you shall make seven lamps for it, and they shall mount its lamps so that they give light in front of it.
Exo 25:38  “And its snuffers and their trays are of clean gold.
Exo 25:39  “It is made of a talent of clean gold, with all these utensils.
Exo 25:40  “So see, and do according to the pattern which was shown to you on the mountain.
Exo 26:1  “And make the Dwelling Place with ten curtains of fine woven linen and blue and purple and scarlet material. Make them, with keruḇim, the work of a skilled workman.
Exo 26:2  “The length of each curtain is twenty-eight cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits, all the curtains having one measure.
Exo 26:3  “Five curtains are joined to each other, and five curtains are joined to each other.
Exo 26:4  “And you shall make loops of blue on the edge of the end curtain on one set, and do the same on the edge of the end curtain of the second set.
Exo 26:5  “Make fifty loops in the one curtain and make fifty loops on the edge of the end curtain of the second set, the loops being opposite to each other.
Exo 26:6  “And you shall make fifty hooks of gold, and shall join the curtains together with the hooks, and the Dwelling Place shall be one.
Exo 26:7  “And you shall make curtains of goats’ hair, for a tent over the Dwelling Place, make eleven curtains.
Exo 26:8  “The length of each curtain is thirty cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits, one measure to the eleven curtains.
Exo 26:9  “And you shall join the five curtains by themselves, and the six curtains by themselves, and you shall double over the six curtains at the front of the Tent.
Exo 26:10  “And you shall make fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that is outermost in one set, and fifty loops on the edge of the curtain of the second set.
Exo 26:11  “And you shall make fifty bronze hooks, and put the hooks into the loops, and join the tent together, and it shall be one.
Exo 26:12  “And the overlapping part of the rest of the curtains of the Tent, the half curtain that remains, shall hang over the back of the Dwelling Place.
Exo 26:13  “And a cubit on one side and a cubit on the other side, of what remains of the length of the curtains of the Tent, is to hang over the sides of the Dwelling Place, on this side and on that side, to cover it.
Exo 26:14  “And you shall make a covering of ram skins dyed red for the Tent, and a covering of fine leather above that.
Exo 26:15  “And for the Dwelling Place you shall make the boards of acacia wood, standing up.
Exo 26:16  “Ten cubits is the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the width of each board,
Exo 26:17  two tenons in each board for binding one to another. Do the same for all the boards of the Dwelling Place.
Exo 26:18  “And you shall make the boards for the Dwelling Place, twenty boards for the south side,
Exo 26:19  and make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards, two sockets under each of the boards for its two tenons.
Exo 26:20  “And for the second side of the Dwelling Place, on the north side, twenty boards,
Exo 26:21  and their forty sockets of silver, two sockets under each of the boards.
Exo 26:22  “And for the extreme parts of the Dwelling Place, westward, make six boards,
Exo 26:23  and make two boards for the two back corners of the Dwelling Place.
Exo 26:24  “And they are double beneath and similarly they are complete to the top, to the one ring. So it is for both of them, they are for the two corners.
Exo 26:25  “And they shall be eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets – two sockets under the one board, and two sockets under the other board.
Exo 26:26  “And you shall make bars of acacia wood, five for the boards on one side of the Dwelling Place,
Exo 26:27  and five bars for the boards on the other side of the Dwelling Place, and five bars for the boards of the side of the Dwelling Place, for the extreme parts westward,
Exo 26:28  with the middle bar in the midst of the boards, going through from end to end.
Exo 26:29  “And overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold as holders for the bars, and overlay the bars with gold.
Exo 26:30  “And you shall raise up the Dwelling Place according to its pattern which you were shown on the mountain.

I recommend this following teaching on you tube describing the pattern and present day application of the tabernacle.



It is possible that this tabernacle still exist, it is hidden and will be revealed at an appointed time.

2 Maccabees 2Good News Translation (GNT)
Jeremiah Hides the Tent of the YHVH's Presence

2 We know from the records that Jeremiah the prophet instructed the people who were being taken into exile to hide some of the fire from the altar, as we have just mentioned. We also know that he taught them YHVH's Law and warned them not to be deceived by the ornamented gold and silver idols which they would see in the land of their exile. And then he urged them never to abandon the Law – Torah.
These same records also tell us that Jeremiah, acting under divine guidance, commanded the Tent of  YHVH's Presence and the Covenant Box to follow him to the mountain where Moses had looked down on the land which YHVH had promised our people. When Jeremiah got to the mountain, he found a huge cave and there he hid the Tent of the YHVH's Presence, the Covenant Box, and the altar of incense. Then he sealed up the entrance.
Some of Jeremiah's friends tried to follow him and mark the way, but they could not find the cave. When Jeremiah learned what they had done, he reprimanded them, saying,

No one must know about this place until YHVH gathers his people together again and shows them mercy. At that time he will reveal where these things are hidden, and the dazzling light of his presence will be seen in the cloud, as it was in the time of Moses and on the occasion when Solomon prayed that the Temple might be dedicated in Set apart splendor.