Torah Portion Week 22 – Exodus 35:1 – 38:20 Study Notes 2025 – 2026

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

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Exo 35:1-38:20

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  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
• • Anger: Is 58:13-14 Septuagint
    • Targums (same verses)
    • Deut 32 & Sirach 28
    • Some commands were for that time only – Verses

• 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
  • Exo 12:16
    
    

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

• Amos 9
• Rev 3

35:34 – Teach! (deut 6 & Abraham)

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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

• Boards, tenons, sockets…

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37:9 – Cherubim – Verses

• Throne/Ark – Picture

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