{"id":27649,"date":"2011-07-19T00:03:24","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/production.ou.org\/holidays\/the-three-weeks\/the_times_of_the_mishkan_in_the_wilderness\/"},"modified":"2020-09-08T11:50:28","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T11:50:28","slug":"the_times_of_the_mishkan_in_the_wilderness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/the_times_of_the_mishkan_in_the_wilderness\/","title":{"rendered":"The Times of the “Mishkan” in the Wilderness"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Mishkan\"In his Introduction to “Sefer Shemot,” the RAMBAN<\/a> indicates that one of the central themes in the second of the five Books of Moses is the regaining by the Jewish People of the level of closeness with the Divine Presence that had existed at the end of “Sefer Bereshit,” the first Book, between the Divine Presence and the “Avot<\/a>” and “Imahot<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

He writes:<\/p>\n

“\u2026And this Book was dedicated to the theme of the first Exile that was decreed explicitly, and the Redemption from it\u2026”<\/em><\/p>\n

“\u2026But that Exile cannot be considered complete until the day that they return to their place and to the level of their forefathers. And when they left Egypt, even though they had left the “House of Bondage,” they were still considered exiles because they were in a strange land, wandering in the desert.”<\/em><\/p>\n

“But when they came to Mt. Sinai, and they constructed the “Mishkan” and HaShem returned and once again caused His Presence to reside among them, it was then that they returned to the level of their forefathers, who had the secret Presence of G-d upon their tents, and they were the “Chariot” of G-d in the world.”<\/em><\/p>\n

“And then they were considered “Redeemed,” and therefore this Book ends with the completion of the “Mishkan,” when the Presence of HaShem filled it all the time.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Contents of the “Mishkan”<\/b><\/span>
\nIn very, very brief detail, the major holy artifacts of the “Mishkan” were as follows:<\/p>\n