Wednesday, March 1, 2017
Teruma #2- 2 Arons?
The torah commands the keilim to be built using the singular form of the verb. In Perek 25, Pasuk 10, however, Only the Aron is in the plural form According to the Kli Yakar, every Jew should of course be learning Torah all day and night. However, since this is impossible, two Jews can agree that one will learn Torah full time, and another will work to support him and earn a share of his mitzvah. The Aron Kodesh represents Torah learning, and since nobody can study Torah to the maximum capacity on their own, the action describing the building of the Aron is plural. Why else might the Aron be in the plural form?
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The Aaron was written in plural to describe the inside and the outside of the Aron. According to Rabbeinu Channenl this is to symbolize the righteous and intelligent man who portrays his righteousness and intelligence externally as well.
ReplyDeleteRav Steinberger says that we also find this plural language when Hashem says "v'assu li mikdash v'shachanti betocham" as opposed to "betocho", which is singular. "Betocham" is indicative of the heart of every Jew in which Hashem will dwell because of the Mishkan (whose purpose was to host the aron) that assists hashem in doing so.
ReplyDelete- Hannah
Liat Silver:
ReplyDeleteMaybe the command to build the aron is in plural form because there was a need to build an "aron" more than once. Technically speaking Moshe returned with the shattered luchot and then with the second complete set long before Bnai Yisrael started collecting for the mishkan and building the keilim. So maybe the aron for the mishkan was part of a command that included building a temporary aron (retroactively) until a permanent one was built.
Alternate theory: Maybe there were to arons to build so it was a larger project. Was one aron for inside the kodesh hakodashim and one that traveled before Bnai Yisrael when they went into battle? (family theories from Jerusalem)
Rabeinu bachya says that the reason the language is plural when it comes to the Aron is that Hashem said that for the Aron, everyone should engage themselves with building it - meaning that everyone has a part in building the Aron because the Aron Is meant to hold the Torah, so if everyone engages in the building of the Aron then everyone will get the zchus of writing a Torah.
ReplyDeleteRav Chaim of Voloshin, explains that by acquiring Torah, one "acquires" Hashem Himself because as the Zohar often states, Hashem and the Torah are one.
ReplyDeleteRabbi Sacks says that the Ark contained the broken first set of tablets and the whole second pair. The ark symbolized the Torah. It is referred as plural because everybody should get a share of the Torah.
ReplyDeleteThe Kli Yakar explains the Aron contains The Luchos Habris and The Luchos symbolize the Torah. The commandment to build the Aron is written in plural to portray that everybody has their own portion in the Torah and Each individual has to develop his learning skills.
ReplyDeleteChana Kolber
ReplyDeleteAccording to Ramban, the Mishkan was built for the main purpose of housing the Aron. So too, each Jew must make his/her own mishkan, or kli, to receive and house the Torah. The way to make a kli for yourself is by surrounding yourself by Torah and mitzvot and avodat Hashem. Maybe the Aron is written in plural because Hashem was not only telling Bnei Yisroel to build THE Aron, but to build another Aron, or Kli, for ourselves as Jews