Some translate pekudei, also the title of the Torah portion, as “appointments,” or the assignments given the artisans to ...

For the past few weeks we have been reading those Torah portions dealing with the commandments and preparations necessary for the building of the Tabernacle. This week, in Vayakhel, we read about its ...

A ccording to the Bible, David gathered building materials for a temple that was to replace Israel’s mobile house of worship, called the tabernacle, which had been built under Moses’s ...