Parsha Illuminated - Pikudei: Counting, Blessings, and Bells

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Hillel Shaps’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

so para illuminated for para PUD and I hope today to share three separate ideas from the paraa I think each one very interesting in its own right um and the first comes from the very beginning of the paraa so paraa PUD brings us to um finally the uh the mishigan is is is complete and uh and the at the beginning complete and uh and the at the beginning of the paraa there is a count of the of the all the items that they collected in order to create the mishan and uh and it begins these are the numbers of the mishan the mishan of the testimony a mosha that was counted by Moshe at the command of command of Moshe Etc now what are they counting so Rashi comments and I put on the sour sheet Rashi comments in this paraa these are the numbers in this paraa all the weights to the donations for the Mish were counted the of silver of gold and of copper and all its implements for all its work were also counted so uh so it's it gives an accounting of of all the of how much they they raised in their fundraiser for the mishan that's rashi's fundraiser for the mishan that's rashi's first comment then Rashi continues and Rashi notes that there's a bit of a redundancy in this first pk these are the numbers of the mishan the mishan of the testimony why not just say these are the numbers of the mishan of the testimony why does they have to repeat the word mishan twice says Rashi the word mishan is written twice this alludes to the temple which was taken as a security as a mhone by the

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2. 4:08that why is it over here says the mar and really this is a question posed…
3. 8:25here at the begin of par PUD because this is where the evil eye the aing…
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5. 16:37time and uh and the the pictures back on the on the sore sheet and the…
6. 20:48basically into which the the the walls the pillars of the mishun were placed so without…
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8. 29:10them so he's clearly using different words impar when this is so just keep note that…
9. 33:13thing back in pares truma but there's different ways to understand the chronology I think that's…
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