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Parsha Bites - פָּרָשַׁת יִתְרוֹ

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  • Yisro meets up with Moshe and helped Moshe setup a system for judging people, where as questions got more advanced they'd get answered by higher level scholars, until only the most advanced ones got answered by Moshe

    so everyone could get their questions answered

  • On the first day of Sivan the yidden arrived at mount sinai and Moshe ascended the mountain for the first time

    to converse with hashem

  • the Yidden heard the first 2 of the 10 commandments directly from Hashem and the last 8 they heard through Moshe

    for when hashem spoke the people's souls would leave them

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Parsha Bites - פָּרָשַׁת תְּרוּמָה

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  • The Jews are instructed to make a sanctuary which contains: a) a Mishkan: a structure of tapestries supported by beams with a curtain separating the קודש from the courtyard, and b) its vessels: the Aron, the Shulchan, the Menorah, and the external Mizbeach (placed in the courtyard).

  • The Jews are asked to donate the materials for the Mishkan: Gold, silver and copper; Wool (dyed: blue (formed from a liquid secreted in the Murex snail), dyed purple, and dyed with crimson worm), linen and goats’ wool; skins, acacia wood (which Yaakov planted in Mitzrayim, so that it will comfort his descendants while they are in the exile of Mitzrayim that he already planned the material for the sanctuary which they will build after their exodus).

  • The Jews are also asked to contribute: the olive oil for the lamp, spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet-smelling incense; precious stones for the ephod and for the breastplate.

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