The cherubim shall spread their wings upward, shielding the cover with their wings” (Exodus 25:17-20). In the heart of the Tabernacle (and of the Holy Temple) was the ark containing the tablets that ...

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From here to the end of the book of Exodus the Torah describes, in painstaking detail and great length, the construction of the Mishkan, the first collective house of worship of the Jewish people.

The first seventy-four chapters of the Torah are quite theatrical. The origin story of the Jewish people is a compelling tale, all the way from Creation to the Giving of the Torah. While some passages ...