Bar’chu
et YHVH ha-m’vorach, Baruch YHVH ha-m’vorach l’O’lam va-ed!
Baruch
ata YHVH Eloheinu melech ha-olam asher bachar banu m’kol ha-amim, v’na-tan lanu
eht Torah-to. Baruch atah YHVH, noteyn ha-Torah. Ameyn.”
(Bless YHVH the blessed One; Blessed is YHVH, the
blessed One for all eternity. Blessed are you, YHVH, our Elohim, King of the
Universe, you have selected us from among all the peoples, and have given us
your Torah.)
Shemot/Exo 38:21 These were the appointments (or notations) (pekudei) of the Dwelling Place, the
Dwelling Place of the Witness, which was appointed (or noted) (pukad) by the command of Mosheh, for
the service of the Lĕwites, by the hand of Ithamar, son of Aharon the priest.
These are the ones who
were enabled to give a full accounting for the construction of the Tabernacle. They
made sure all instructions and materials were correctly performed and materials
used accounted for.
The
title of our parasha “pekudei” comes from a root Hebrew word “pakad” if we
look carefully at the various definitions given in BDB (S6485) we will see that
this is a very complicated word and various scholars interpret it differently.
Perhaps this word in its “Pual” (perfect tense verb) form could mean – “to be
called to account or to be paid in full”. In the light of the perfect tense
verbs used in the last two portions, I
believe we need to look a little deeper at something which directs us to the
finished work of Messiah.
This
same root word “pakad” appears in the Hebrew translation of Yoch/John 19:30.
Joh 19:30 So
when יהושע took the sour
wine He said, “It has been accomplished!” And bowing His head, He gave up His
spirit.
ל וַיִּטְעַם יֵשׁוּעַ מִן־הַחֹמֶץ וַיֹּאמֶר נִשְׁלָם וַיֵּט אֶת־רֹאשׁוֹ וַיַּפְקֵד אֶת־רוּחוֹ׃
Directly translated could read: “Yahshua tasted the
vinegar and said peace has been granted and he bowed his head and so his spirit
did a full accounting (“vayifked” from the root “pakad”)
In the Greek translation of the above verse the word
“Tetelestai” is used for “it is accomplished”. This was an accounting term used
in those days when an outstanding account was fully paid.
“Pekudei” is a “pual” verb. This is the passive form of
the active “piel.” The implication is that this is an intense passive verb form
indicating that some intense action was taken on our behalf to make sure our
debt was fully paid for by someone beside ourselves.
So we too will have to give an account of our lives
before the Messiah.
Rom 14:10 But why do you judge your brother? Or why do
you despise your brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of
Messiah.
1Co 3:13
each one’s work shall be revealed, for the day shall show it up, because it is
revealed by fire. And the fire shall prove the work of each one, what sort it
is.
1Co 3:14 If
anyone’s work remains, which he has built on, he shall receive a reward.
1Co 3:15 If
anyone’s work is burned, he shall suffer loss, but he himself shall be saved,
but so as through fire.
1Co 3:16 Do you
not know that you are a Dwelling Place of Elohim and that the Spirit of Elohim
dwells in you?
1Co 3:17 If
anyone destroys the Dwelling Place of Elohim, Elohim shall destroy him. For the
Dwelling Place of Elohim is set-apart, which you are.
1Co 3:18 Let no
one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this age, let him
become foolish, so that he might become wise.
Exo 38:22 And Betsal’ĕl son of Uri, son of Ḥur, of the tribe of
Yehuḏah, made all that יהוה had commanded
Mosheh.
Exo 38:23 And with
him: Oholiaḇ son of Aḥisamaḵ, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver and designer, an
embroiderer in blue and purple and scarlet material, and in fine linen.
Exo 38:24 All the
gold prepared for the work, in all the work of the set-apart place – and it was
the gold of the wave offering – came to be twenty-nine talents and seven
hundred and thirty sheqels, according to the sheqel of the set-apart place.
Exo 38:25 And the
silver from the ones counted of the congregation was one hundred talents and
one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five sheqels, according to the sheqel of
the set-apart place:
Exo 38:26 a beqa,
half a sheqel for a head, according to the sheqel of the set-apart place, for
everyone passing over to those counted, from twenty years old and above, for
six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty men.
Exo 38:27 And the
hundred talents of silver were for casting the sockets of the set-apart place
and the bases of the veil: one hundred sockets from the hundred talents, a
talent for each socket.
Exo 38:28 And of
the one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five sheqels he made hooks
for the columns, and overlaid their tops, and made bands for them.
Exo 38:29 And the
bronze of the wave offering was seventy talents and two thousand four hundred
sheqels.
