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The Temple at Shilo

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the Mishkan, the dwelling uh literally or sometimes referred to as the tabernacle or the temple that they built in the desert. Um, Hashem tells Moshe when he's um on Mount Si that he should tell the people to build a Mishkan, a dwelling for Hashem. And there are, the Torah describes in great detail each item of the Mishkan that should be built. There should be an ark, which is a box essentially of wood coated in gold, where the tablets and the original Torah will be placed. um that will go in Torah will be placed. um that will go in an inner room called the Holy of Holies. There will be a um there will be a table um on which they would put this special U-shaped bread called leim hapanim translated English as showbread um that would sit there for a week and somehow miraculously stay fresh and then every Shabbat they would switch it out, eat the old bread and put in new bread. Um there would be a minora um which is um a candle made of pure um which is um a candle made of pure gold that they would um light every night. There would be a um small altar um co made of wood coated in gold that they would offer incense on. All these things would be in the building of the temple. Um then the outside the then the building of the temple itself um was made of poles um or beams of uh wood. Um it's the Hebrew type of wood is called

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  1. 0:48the Mishkan, the dwelling uh literally or sometimes referred to as the tabernacle or the temple
  2. 5:32the new month of um Adar. Adar is the last month of the 12 months when
  3. 10:18for Jewish temple worship. later after uh Solomon's temple would stand for 410 years after it
  4. 15:24also with presumably with stone walls and um and they put the ark of the covenant
  5. 20:00say that it's clear from the description that it is referring to Shiloh. It's a little
  6. 25:09pilgrimage to Shiloh, which it seems that Jews from all over the land of Israel would
  7. 29:46died and his two sons died, but we don't know what happened to the temple at
  8. 34:28called co coated in copper. It was just a frame of an altar while the center
  9. 39:39once the temple at Shiloh was destroyed, although they built the Shiloh was what we could
  10. 44:13destroyed, it lost its holiness and anyone can go there. It doesn't retain any holiness anymore.

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