Guiding Questions: Exodus 31

This is part of the Tanakh Yomi Project.

  1. Are technicians and shapers of material things regarded as “inferior?”
  2. Does Torah regard artistry as an extension of (or a form of) inspiration?
  3. Does the Torah denigrate physical labor?
  4. Is the teacher (in this case Mosheh) always the doer?
  5. Does the Sabbath rank even construction of the kirvah center?
  6. Is the Sabbath regarded not only as an ot (a sign) but an indigenous element of the Brit? Is the Sabbath, then, singled out per se as of special significance? Does the conclusion of the direction stress that the Brit (as encapsulated in Shabbat) remains the essential focus?
  7. In Exodus 31:18 what is meant by etzbah Elohim (the finger of God) re: the “tablets of witness?”

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