Translated and abridged by Rabbi Chanan Morrison
Parshat Vayakhel
Do not ignite fire in any of your dwellings on the Sabbath(Ex. 35:3).
The Torah forbids 39 different categories of activity on the Sabbath. Yet only one — lighting fire — is explicitly prohibited in the Torah. Why? Why does the Torah qualify the prohibition of lighting fire with the phrase, "in any of your dwellings"? Is it not forbidden to start a fire in any location?
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