Adapted by Channie Koplowitz Stein
In Parshat Terumah Hashem gifts us with His desire to dwell among us. In order for Him to do so, He commands us to build Him a dwelling place according to His specifications. He begins to inform us of all the specifications necessary for the structure itself and for the vessels within. The first instructions regard the building of the Holy Ark which will house the two Tablets of the Law Moshe had just brought down from Sinai. While the box itself was to be of acacia wood, “You shall cover it with pure gold from within and from without.” In other words, as Rashi explains, the Ark is to be constructed of three nesting boxes, the middle box being wood and the inner and outer boxes gold.
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