“For the matter is very close to you, it is in your mouth and in your heart in order to do it” Deuteronomy 30:14
By Rabbi Gabriel Botnick
How fair are your tents, O Jacob/ your dwellings, O Israel! Numbers 24:5
“If [your servant] says to you, ‘I shall not leave you, for I love you and your home’ for it is good by him” Deuteronomy 15:16
“The cohen shall take some of the blood from the guilt offering” Leviticus 14:14
“[Betzalel] made the wash basin and its stand of copper from the mirrors of the women who served at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting” Exodus 38:8
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“[Jethro advised Moses] Establish ministers… Alleviate your burden and share it with them” Exodus 18:21-2
“And Jacob blessed his sons, each according to their blessing did he bless them” Genesis 49:28
“Jacob awoke from his slumber and said: ‘Surely God is in this place and I did not know’” Genesis 28:16
“And the people said, ‘Come, let us build for ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed across the face of the earth’” Genesis 11:4