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The Building of the First Temple

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greatly appreciated and um let's get firstly to the para U this week's paraa is called Tuma and it begins a series of four or four and a bit Paras that speak about the building of the temple so it begins with Hashem telling Moshe to um tell the people to build a movable Temple that can be erected and um this assembled and disassembled easily and carried through the desert with them and the Torah gives the desert with them and the Torah gives very very very great detail about this Temple um that they're going to build in the desert uh starting in the next couple parts first with the instructions and then with the details of how it was actually built um and the Torah Begins by saying that everyone should give a should donate to this temple from the word truma truma means donate right same with the para and gives various things for people to donate they they actually later we'll see they made in a few weeks forward they do collect the money and people give more than they need right people give more than they need right they gave until they have to tell them to stop that they were too there was too much then um then Hashem gives Moshe instructions specifically what they should make uh first he tells them they should make an arc an arc is a box a box wooden box coated in Gold that is going to hold the Torah and the tablets and it's going to sit inside What's called the holy of holies the Inner Room of the temple on top of this box is going to be two cherubs and cherubs fear seem to be these angel-like figures so essentially figures with faces with with um wings um

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  1. 0:04greatly appreciated and um let's get firstly to the para U this week's paraa is called
  2. 5:48a big wooden alar um it's going to be Hollow in the middle just kind of
  3. 11:58temple so one of the 613 Commandments in the Torah is to build a temple and
  4. 17:33helped him and Saul became Furious and he killed the coim that had helped David and
  5. 23:44temporary temples now David and early on in his Reign Israel was still beset by enemies
  6. 29:54down it's on yafo and if you go from yafo to The Old City you're going
  7. 35:30who are going to help you right because they're expert tree cutters right the Jews didn't
  8. 41:40of the entrance were two giant pillars 20 cubits tall which would be very very big
  9. 47:26holes in the stone grooves in the stone in order for the wood to sit in
  10. 53:39Temple any other questions so the temple was completed in the 11th year of Solomon's reign

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