Guiding Questions: Exodus 26

This is part of the Tanakh Yomi Project.

  1. Does the mishkan require a specific geographic location — a hillock, a stream of water, to be under a particular tree?
  2. Is the place made “kadosh” (unique) by what is done/placed there and not the converse?
  3. Is any place suitable for a kirvah center (a place to “draw closer” to God)?
  4. Is the mishkan “filled with God” at times or always?
  5. While Divinity is everywhere are there “somewheres” where one can specifically hope to draw closer to Divinity?
  6. Are any of the objects of the mishkan of non-natural origin — i.e. do the furnishings reflect man-madeness?
  7. Is there anything in the mishkan which is “supernatural” or is it an extension of nature, that is, of man’s world?
  8. Why is a mishkan built — what purpose(s) does it fulfill?
  9. Is the mishkan “God’s dwelling” and if so, how — and if not, what is it?

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Perek Yomi materials originally produced by the USCJ and Dr. Morton K. Siegel.
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