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“As for you, son of man, describe to the house of Israel the temple, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and they shall measure the plan.”
With a few words about the Hebrew Calendar as we approach the end of the year, our discussion for Haftarah Tetzaveh focuses on the altar of burnt offering and the differences in Yechezqel’s description.
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“It was in the 480th year after the people of Isra’el had left the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Shlomo’s reign over Isra’el, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of YHWH.” Why even build a temple when there was already a mishkan (tabernacle)? We discuss royal ideology as we study this week’s Haftarah Terumah.
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“…they made the male and female slaves, whom they had freed, return; and they brought them back into subjection as slaves.”
An introduction on covenants precedes our study on Haftarah Mishpatim–Jeremiah’s prophecy against Israel for violating the commandment to release slaves in the seventh year.
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“Holy, holy, holy, is YHWH of hosts; the whole earth is full of His glory!”
Reminiscent of the revelation of YHWH at Mt. Sinai is Isaiah’s vision of YHWH in His throne room. Haftarah Yitro depicts this vision and ominous prophecy that is given.
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