Rung 1 of 8
The story
What happens, plainly.
Hashem tells Moshe to ask the people for a gift, taken only from those whose hearts move them: gold, silver and copper, blue, purple and crimson wool, linen, goat hair, skins, acacia wood, oil, spices and stones. "Make Me a sanctuary, and I will dwell among them." Moshe is shown the pattern of each piece. An ark of acacia wood, covered with gold inside and out, with a gold cover on top and two cherubim facing each other, their wings spread over it; "there I will meet with you." A table for the bread that stays before Hashem always. A menorah hammered from one piece of gold, its cups shaped like almond blossoms. Then curtains of linen and goat hair, coverings of ram skins and tachash skins, gold-covered boards standing in silver sockets, a curtain to divide the holy from the holy of holies, a copper altar, and a courtyard of hangings around it all.