Torah Portion Week 22 & 23 – Exodus 35-40 – Study Notes – 2024/2025

Torah Portion Week 22&23 Vayakhel and he assembled & Pekudei – Accounts

34-25

Exo 35:1-38:20 & 38:21 – 40:38

35)

  35:2-3 – Everything following this statement is about labor to make the tabernacle.

• The command for no fire is never repeated, nor is it given for perpetual statues
• The context of the fire itself is work
• Some commands were for that time only – Verses
  • Anger: Is 58:13-14 Septuagint
    • Targums (same verses)
    • Deut 32 & Sirach 28

• What about heating homes? Driving cars, electricity? – Verses
• Lawful to do well on the sabbath:
• Perhaps the gathering of the sticks, or the labor involved? – Verses
• Cooking on shabbat – Article
  
  

35:22 – Willing hearts built that temple, how much more the final? – Verses

35:35-36 – Proverbs 31 Women – Verses

35:34 – Teach!

36)

36:4 – Hard working, skilled tradesmen Are Vital! – Verses

Building the Father’s house – Just because you’re not a prophet, or teacher or evangelist, doesn’t make you unimportant! 1 Cor 12

37)

37:9 – Cherubim – Verses

• Throne/Ark – Picture

38)

38:24 – Expensive in todays money!

• 29 talents x 75lbs = 2,175lbs of gold x 16 ounces = 34,800oz x $2,500/oz = $87,000,000
• (this is without factoring the 730 sheqels)
• 120,000oz of silver x $28.45 = $3,414,000

39)

40)

40:2 – We are the tabernacle! first month – Verses

• Jer 38:8 (perhaps N.J. comes on the 1^st day of the 1^st month, then gathered for Passover?

40:36-38 – Cloud and fire once again! – Isaiah 4

YHWH’s house was in complete order, we should strive to be like him!