The Tabernacle

[Bandit]

The Tabernacle

Blueprint here:

http://www.gregwolf.com/map-temple-and-tabernacle.jpg

[Bandit]

Hi POH

it starts in exodus 25 where the people offer gifts for the tabernacle. i am still looking for an outline to kind of follow & will be adding quality images with detail as we go. i liked the blueprint above for showing the scale & you can zoom in.

i suppose if we can get all the materials to build it layed out that would be cool.
i saw mini models you can buy online but they all looked el cheapo.
if you know of a good outline & pages or commentaries that are organized & done up with class, let's locate & share those too.

this study will be a real blessing for me!

[pohaikawahine]

mahalo nui bandit for that great start .... this study will be a blessing for all of us and I'm very excited to get started .... I have to learn how to import the pictures because they are very helpful (the last time I posted a picture I had to get help from I-Brian and he worked on the photo so I could post it .... that was the one on the Hawaiian cross) ....


got to leave for work again, but I'll be back to this and the on-going parsha with renewed enthusiasm and like dauer said "having fun" as we learn .... aloha nui, poh

[Bandit]

hey Poh


Let me know if you think this outline from the Wikepedia is a good one to start with. everything else i have seen is too bias & not detailed enough for me to use.

there is a good start there & after we have the Tabernacle built, then we can find a better one for doing the outline for the priests & all the events around the Mishkan & altars.
if you know a better outline please suggest one

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabernacle#Outlines

Hebrew mishkan

The Hebrew word, however, points to a different meaning. Mishkan is related to the Hebrew word to "dwell", "rest", or "to live in", referring to the "[In-dwelling] Presence of God", the Shekhina (or Shechina) (based on the same Hebrew root word as Mishkan), that dwelled or rested within this divinely ordained mysterious structure....

....You must make the tabernacle and all its furnishings following the plan that I am showing you." (Exodus 25:8-9). Thus the idea is that God wants this structure built so that it may be a "dwelling", so to speak, for his presence within the Children of Israel following the Exodus.

[Bandit]

i need to drop this off as well.

http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/vi...tid=3&letter=T

jewish encyclopedia did a real nice job IMO. i like this drawing a lot & i hope they do not mind us using it here for study.
though it was made to be portable, the tabernacle was not a piece of junk. it was a very nice, creative structure made with all the best materials that could be found.

[pohaikawahine]

I think it is a beautiful structure and I like what you are doing with the outline .... looks very good to me .... aloha nui, poh

[Bandit]

Originally Posted by pohaikawahine

I think it is a beautiful structure and I like what you are doing with the outline .... looks very good to me .... aloha nui, poh

well, i dont really know what i am doing, i just know i like it. i mostly just read about it & wonder what it was like to build it & live around it in the camp of Israel. it feels like a part of me.
Dauer gave me a couple of recommendations for books that i will be checking out at the bookstore over the weekend.
next week we can look at all the fabrics, colors & materials & see how they may relate to other cultures & try to find hidden meanings in that.

Peace to you pohaikawahine, & have a nice weekend

[wil]

It is so inviting...

I feel drawn in..

and daydreaming imagine a spiritual video game where you build the temple like sim city and then learn ritual, prayers and scripture to continue to various levels of the video game....

[Bandit]

Builders- Bezalel & Oholiab

this kind of shows the wisdom & craftmanship that would go into the building of the Mishkan, the furnishings & utensils & the vestments.

"God spoke to Moses, saying: I have selected Bezalel son of Uri son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, by name. I have filled him with a divine spirit, with wisdom, understanding and knowledge, and with all types of craftsmanship. He will be able to devise plans as well as work in gold, silver and copper, cut stones to be set, carve wood, and do other work. I have also given him Oholiab son of Achisamakh of the tribe of Dan. I have placed wisdom in the heart of every naturally talented person.
They will thus make all that I have ordered, the Communion Tent, the Ark of the Covenant, the ark cover to go on it, all the utensils for the tent, the table and its utensils, the pure menorah and all its utensils, the incense altar, the sacrificial altar and all its utensils, the washstand and its base, the packing cloths, the sacred vestments for Aaron the priest, the vestments that his sons wear to serve, the anointing oil, and the incense for the sanctuary. They will thus do all that I command." (Exodus 31:1-11)

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we should also note that the instructions for the Tabernacle was given to Moses at some point on Mt Sinia & that there was a pattern for the different compartments, and a pattern for all of the furniture.
so i feel this pattern is important. we relate to a patterns from God for our lives & in life.

(Exodus 25:40) And see to it that you make them according to the PATTERN, which was SHOWN YOU ON THE MOUNTAIN.

[Bandit]

Just a quick look at the skelaton of the Tabernacle made from acacia.

Nice article with pics on Acacia Wood
http://web.odu.edu/webroot/instr/sci...f/pages/acacia

Acacia wood is mentioned only in connection with the tabernacle (Exodus chapters 37 and 38). The following items were made of acacia wood: the ark and its poles, the table of showbread and its poles, the brazen altar and its poles, and the incense altar and its poles, all the poles for the hanging of the curtains as well as the supports [boards]. In short, all the structural features of the tabernacle were constructed of acacia wood.

The genus Acacia includes more than one hundred species of trees and shrubs which are found mainly in the arid and semiarid regions of Africa where they are ecologically the most important plants. Here the acacia trees are often the only plants on an otherwise bleak and monotonous terrain. Several species of acacia grow in the Sinai but not all would be suitable for use in construction. One of the most common is Acacia raddiana and it seems likely that this could be the acacia referred to in the Scriptures.

It is interesting to note that one of the freewill offerings which the children of Israel could bring for the tabernacle was acacia wood (Exodus 35:24). Those presenting an offering of silver or bronze brought it as an offering to the Lord, and everyone who had acacia wood for any part of the work brought it.

acacia
(Saadia, shant in Arabic). Shittim in Hebrew, shittah in the singular (Isaiah 41:19). The shittah is probably Acacia albida, a tall tree with a thick trunk, now growing only in Migdal Tzavo'aya. The wood is very light and hard (cf. Abarbanel; Chizzkuni) and it does not absorb moisture. The Talmud states that it is a member of the cedar family (Rosh HaShanah 28a; Ralbag Radak s.v. Shut). The Septuagint translates it as 'decay-proof wood' (cf. Josephus 3:6:1; Philo, Questions and Answers 53), and this is supported by Talmudic tradition (Yoma 72a, Rashi

The portable tent-like structure that served the Israelites as a sanctuary during their wanderings in the wilderness and in the early period of their life in Palestine. It is chiefly in Ex. xxvi. and its parallel, ib. xxxvi. 8-38, that the oldest sanctuary of Yhwh is mentioned. Its fundamental part consisted of a framework of acacia-wood. Each board was 10 cubits long and 1½ cubits broad (an old Hebraic cubit measured probably, like the Babylonian, 55.5 cm.).

The north and south sides each contained twenty such boards (ib. xxvi. 18, 20). The western side consisted of six similar boards (ib. verse 22), with the addition of two more which were to join the western with the northern and southern sides, respectively, in a manner rather obscurely described (ib. verses 23-25). These forty-eight boards were fixed in silver sockets, two to each board, bymeans of "hands" ("yadot"), i.e., tenons, and they were kept from falling apart by five cross-bars on a side (ib. verses 26-28). The eastern side remained open.
{Jewish Encyclopedia}

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i wonder why the Tabernacle, being portable would sit & face a specific direction from North to South & East to West.
Anyone know why that is?

anyone who wants to put up the other materials, metals & dyes that were offered from EX. 25 & 26 please go ahead.
the passages are here:

Chapter 25 [1] : Materials needed, the Ark, the table for 12 showbread, the Menorah.
Chapter 26 [2] : The Tabernacle, the beams, partitions.

[Bandit]

Originally Posted by wil

It is so inviting...

I feel drawn in..

and daydreaming imagine a spiritual video game where you build the temple like sim city and then learn ritual, prayers and scripture to continue to various levels of the video game....

that would be very cool . a video game where you stop to pray & pick out scriptures as you build the temple & if you do something wrong in the pattern it corrects you before you can go on in the game.

i know they have videos out & online videos & software for sale in 3-D, it may be something like that.

[pohaikawahine]

aloha e bandit .... I'm back after a few days absence and will catch up on where you are at with all your research and great work .... I also think there is a specific reason for the use of acacia wood and want to reflect and look into this a little more .... for the enclosure in hawaii we would use 'lama' wood and there is a meaning in this name .... hmmmmmm .... this is really going to be fun and interesting .... aloha nui, poh

[Bandit]

Originally Posted by pohaikawahine

aloha e bandit .... I'm back after a few days absence and will catch up on where you are at with all your research and great work .... I also think there is a specific reason for the use of acacia wood and want to reflect and look into this a little more .... for the enclosure in hawaii we would use 'lama' wood and there is a meaning in this name .... hmmmmmm .... this is really going to be fun and interesting .... aloha nui, poh

i read where acacia is considered a hard wood, but does not absorb moisture like other hard woods. this would make sense because it was taken from the dessert. light weight to carry but sturdy & long lasting & i think they were all over layed with Gold. i find the 48 boards & the way they are divided inside the tabernacle interesting but have never been able to really understand this construction & why it was divided like that.
20 N. 20 S. 6 W. & 2 on the E & W bringing it all together, while the eastern side appears to have no boards except for the one used to connect the north & south.

i believe the outer wall that surrounded the tabernacle was also made of this wood.

here is a site with a replica in construction. not sure if this is what it really looked like.
http://www.wildernesstabernacle.com/photo_g1.htm

[juantoo3]

Go Bandit! Go Bandit!

Just thought I would let you know I have really appreciated this thread! You guys (Poh too) have done a great job with this one!

I can't wait 'til you guys get to the breastplate and the gemstones!

[Bandit]

Other Materials (from Wikepedia)

25:1God spoke to Moses, saying:25:2Speak to the Israelites and have them bring Me an offering. Take My offering from everyone whose heart impels him to give.25:3The offering that you take from them shall consist of the following: Gold, silver, copper,25:4sky-blue [wool], dark red [wool], [wool dyed with] crimson worm, linen, goats' wool,25:5reddened rams' skins, blue-processed skins, acacia wood,25:6oil for the lamp, spices for the anointing oil, and the sweet-smelling incense,25:7and sardonyxes and other precious stones for the ephod and breastplate.

25:8They shall make Me a sanctuary, and I will dwell among them.
25:9You must make the tabernacle and all its furnishings following the plan that I am showing you.


this tells me Israel came out of Egypt with many blessings. One place mentions the gifts & offerings were so abundant that Moses had to ask them to stop bringing them. in another place some of the people accused Moses of stealing, but Moses made it clear he did not steal anything & was able to account for everything that was given to build the Tabernacle.
Another place i read it took about 6 months to gather & actually put all the material together, yet when it was all finished the structure was raised & assembled in one day.

These different dyes came from what is believed worms & snails & different animals. so there were leather skins as well as wool & a different process for each of them. i am also pretty sure the curtains were done in partitions & they embroidered angels into the curtain like a tapestry. i think it was the curtains that gave the Mishkan most of its character because that is what you could see. These curtains were measured so they did not touch the ground when hung.

I know they used the silver for the sockets to keep the boards together. I think there was two sockets on each board of the Tabernacle.

I noticed there was two types of oil. One was supposed to be of olive oil that keeps the lamp lit at all times & Israel could bring this oil all the time to keep the jar inside full.
& the other was oil for fragrance.
30:23You must take the finest fragrances, 500 [shekels] of distilled myrrh, [two] half portions, each consisting of 250 [shekels] of fragrant cinnamon and 250 [shekels] of fragrant cane,

I bet a lot of people wanted to see inside of the tabernacle even though no one really ever went inside, except for the priests. if i were there, i would have at least peeked inside of the first chamber from time to time

Please- if i make any mistakes on this (which i am sure i will!), do correct me & tell me what you see & what is missing, because i want the Tabernacle to be perfect, inside & out.

I dont know what all these things mean & i do not know what the hidden meanings are on many of these things, so i need help in that department.

Lord prepare me

To be a sanctuary
Pure and holy
Tried and true
With thanksgiving
I'll be a living
Sanctuary for You