The dwelling place of YHVH with man is the focal point
of Torah. Every regulation, instruction and teaching of the Torah was intended
to prepare a dwelling place for YHVH amongst His people.
YHVH has chosen
to dwell in our clay vessels by placing His Ruach – Spirit – within us. Yet His
intention has never changed – YHVH still desires and prepares communities that
will more fully reflect His goodness and His nature.
It is no co incidence that in this Torah portion that
the number 50 appears in different forms, fifty being the number for the year
of Jubilee – a time for return and restoration of our inheritance in the Reign
and Rule of YHVH.
Ultimately YHVH is leading His people to the place –
The New Yerushalayim – where He will physically dwell with.
The whole purpose of
the tabernacle/dwelling place in the wilderness.
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.
We are building a
house of Yovel – Jubilee.
You shall make – 41
times
You shall cast – 2
times
You shall hang – 2
times
You shall overlay – 5
times
Totals – 50
50 loops for the
curtains
50 clasps
Inner sanctuary 100
cubits in length – 50x2
Inner sanctuary 50
cubits in width.
When people come to a
place where the pattern is according to Torah, they should be set free. Free
from sickness and bondages.
Our Torah
Portion.
Exo 26:30 “And you shall raise up the Dwelling Place
according to its pattern which you were shown on the mountain.
Exo 26:31 “And you shall make a veil (poreket)of blue
and purple and scarlet material, and fine woven linen, the work of a
skilled workman, made with keruḇim.
Exo 26:32
“And you shall put it on the four columns(ammudim) of acacia wood
overlaid with gold, their hooks(vavim) of gold, upon four sockets of silver.
Exo 26:33
“And you shall hang the veil( from the hooks, and shall bring the ark of
the Witness there, behind the veil. And the veil shall make a separation for
you between the Set-apart and the Most Set-apart Place.
Exo 26:34
“And you shall put the lid of atonement upon the ark of the Witness in
the Most Set-apart Place.
Exo 26:35
“And you shall set the table outside the veil, and the lampstand
opposite the table on the side of the Dwelling Place toward the south, and put
the table on the north side.
Exo 26:36
“And you shall make a covering for the door of the Tent, of blue and
purple and scarlet material, and fine woven linen, made by a weaver.
Exo 26:37
“And you shall make for the covering five columns of acacia wood, and
overlay them with gold, their hooks of gold, and you shall cast five sockets of
bronze for them.
Exo 27:1 “And you shall make an altar of acacia wood,
five cubits long and five cubits wide – the altar is square – and its height
three cubits.
Exo 27:2 “And you shall make its horns on its four
corners, its horns are of the same. And you shall overlay it with bronze.
Exo 27:3 “And you shall make its pots to receive its
ashes, and its shovels and its basins and its forks and its fire holders. Make
all its utensils of bronze.
Exo 27:4 “And you shall make a grating for it, a
bronze network, and shall make on the network four bronze rings at its four
corners,
Exo 27:5 and shall put it under the rim of the altar
beneath, so that the network is halfway up the altar.
Exo 27:6 “And you shall make poles for the altar,
poles of acacia wood, and shall overlay them with bronze.
Exo 27:7 “And the poles shall be put in the rings, and
the poles shall be on the two sides of the altar for lifting it.
Exo 27:8 “Make it hollow with boards. As it was shown
to you on the mountain, so they are to make it.
Exo 27:9 “And you shall make the courtyard of the
Dwelling Place: for the south side screens for the courtyard made of fine woven
linen, one hundred cubits long for one side,
Exo 27:10 and its twenty columns and their twenty
sockets of bronze, the hooks of the columns and their bands of silver,
Exo 27:11 and so for the north side in length, screens
one hundred cubits long, with its twenty columns and their twenty
sockets of bronze, and the hooks of the columns and their bands of silver.
Exo 27:12 “And the width of the courtyard on the west
side screens of fifty cubits, with their ten columns and their ten sockets.
Exo 27:13 “And the width of the courtyard on the east
side fifty cubits.
Exo 27:14 “And the screens on one side of the gate
fifteen cubits, with their three columns and their three sockets.
Exo 27:15 “And on the other side screens of fifteen cubits,
with their three columns and their three sockets.
Exo 27:16 “And for the gate of the courtyard a covering
twenty cubits long, of blue and purple and scarlet material, and fine
woven linen, made by a weaver – four columns and four sockets.
Exo 27:17 “All the columns around the courtyard have
bands of silver, their hooks silver and their sockets bronze.
Exo 27:18 “The length of the courtyard is one hundred
cubits, and the width fifty by fifty, and the height five cubits, woven of fine
linen thread, and its sockets of bronze.
Exo 27:19 “All the utensils of the Dwelling Place for
all its service, all its pegs, and all the pegs of the courtyard, are bronze.