- What is the central furnishing of the kirvah center and how does it serve as witness to the Brit?
- The leader, Moses, plans, organizes, assembles (and will presently dedicate); how does this represent the aphorism “he who starts with a mitzvah is told be sure to finish it?”
- Does this center symbolize (encapsulate) Divinity’s presence?
- God is not geographically located, but can one “find” God anywhere near the kirvah center?
- Is it the awareness of the kirvah center as a place to “find God” limited to a particular class or group of functionaries (Exodus 40:38)?
- The former Habiru (Ivrim) are now fully B’nai Yisrael completely covenanted, (“brited”) and with God-liness in their midst, in what mode?
- The preparatory stages for the “going up” to the admat kodesh (the unique land) appear to be complete, since the “potential” occupants are kadosh and have become so in what mode?
- In the kirvah center why is water used for lavation and not incense or some other special composite?
- Why, generally, is the lavation of the face not included?
- And reviewing the construction of the overall kirvah center what is the connotation of the name Betzal – Eyl?
- How is it that the staff to serve is not the staff which builds?
- Who actually “places” the parts of the kirvah center?
- If (when) the Israelites will leave Sinai do they “leave God behind?”
- What is the indication of God’s ongoing concern?
- How are the “descendants of Abraham” different at the end of Sefer HaBrit as compared with what they were when they arrived, earlier on in the book, at Sinai?
- What is the “next step” for B’nai Yisrael?
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