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In the final parashah of Exodus, Pequdei (accounts), the fulfillment of the instructions to build the tabernacle are completed. Yoel gives us some pertinent requirements and insights about the temple, priests, levites and more.
Torah Portion Pekudei: Exodus 38:21 – 40:38
Questions and Topics in this Podcast:
- Why Have the Accounting in the Bible?
- Observing Proper Boundaries
- Does the Torah Mandate Only One Temple?
- Requirements and Function of the Cohanim, Levites and Nazirites
- History of Temples in Israel
Other Teachings Mentioned In This Recording
This Week’s Haftarah
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3 comments
Sarah Yocheved
March 9, 2019 at 4:36 pmThank you Yoel. I very much enjoyed this Teaching re temple service and other alters/other minor temples. The only thing I have to complain about is when you refer to different Biblical events, or situations, that you would also give the Scriptural references. It’s not that that I don’t believe you, I do! But although I’m familiar with most of the examples you refer to, some are vague and some I don’t remember at all. I like to go back and read these things from the Bible. (English translations are all I’m able to understand, but I use five, and it helps.) I truly appreciate your Teachings, and I have learned a lot. Thanks again.
Jason Benfer
March 20, 2019 at 2:18 amYoel,
Thank you for producing the podcast. Thought provoking information and commentary.
If temples and altars could be other places couldn’t a Levite or Cohen be in service doing sacrifices today? Why does Judaism not practice this?
Shalom,
Jason
p.s. If it weren’t for using ר in place of R, I would have assumed you were a native English speaker from NJ.
Jeffrey Frye
March 18, 2023 at 11:43 pmMy only question is when Manasseh, Gad and Rueben were building a memorial to Yah in Joshua 22, why, and this is before the Temple where the Ark rested in Shiloh, did the rest of Israel get ready to go to war if they were actually building Altars? Especially quoted altars of sacrifice, and it was only when they explained that this wasn’t an altar of Sacrifice (to Yah or other gods), but a Memorial of remembrance that these Tribes are also of Yah, even though they reside on the other side of the Jordan. Now, I know that Elijah, himself, helped rebuild the altars of Yah in the Northern Kingdom, but that was because of the laws that were in place to persecute the families of those who went to Jerusalem for the Feasts. Also, Deuteronomy 12 is a problem, at least in my mind because where there were laws in Exodus for building altars, those would cease once Yah chose the Place for His Name to Dwell. That is the only place for Sacrifices according to at least my reading of the Torah, and feel free to argue this because I am posting this as a counterpoint for discussion. All what you have mentioned in Exodus, Joshua, Judges exists before Yah placed His Name in Jerusalem. Final, in Nehemiah 1:9 where Yah is going to fulfill prophecy and bring all believers to the Place where He has chosen His Name to Dwell.