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The Torah tells us about the setting up of the Mishkan, and the order that Moshe had to put down all the utensils, and says: ת־ק ָר ָָ֔שיו ְׁ ֶ‘ ַו ָּ֨ ָיקֶ ם מ ֶֶֹׁ֜שה אֶ ת־הַ ִּמ ְׁשכָָּ֗ ן וַיִּ ֵּתן֙ אֶ ת־א ֲָד ָ֔ ָניו ַו ָ֙י ֶש ֙ם א )81,04( ’מּודיו׃ ָֽ ָ ַיחיו וַיָ ֵּ֖ ָּ֖קֶ ם אֶ ת־ע ָ֑ ָ ת־ב ִּר ְׁ ֶוַיִּ ֵּ ֵּ֖תן א ‘Moshe set up the Mishkan, placing its sockets, setting up its planks, inserting its bars, and erecting its posts.’ The next possukim go on to describe a multitude of other tasks that Moshe did to set up the Mishkan. If you look carefully at the possukim, you will notice a pattern of a verb, followed by a noun, for every part that he set up: ת־אֲד ָ֔ ָניו ָ ֶ וַיִּ ֵּתן֙ א- he set up )verb) its planks )noun). This is a pattern that repeats up until possuk ‘כט. There, the possuk says - וְׁאֵּ ֙ת ִּמזְׁ ַ ַּ֣בח הָ ֹע ָָ֔לה ָָׂ֕שם “ – ל־מֹועד ָ֑ ֵּ ֶ ֶ ֵּ֖פ ַתח ִּמ ְׁש ַכַּ֣ן ָֹֽאהthe alter of burnt offerings, he placed, at the entrance to the Ohel Moed.” Here the noun, the “alter”, was placed before the verb, that Moshe “put”. Why here, of all places, does the Torah place the noun before the verb, rather than saying “Vayasem moshe es mizbeach haolah bepesach ohel moed” – “and Moshe placed the altar of offerings in the entrance to the Ohel Moed,” keeping to the
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TECHNICALITIES Rafael Hackenbroch format it has used until now? This is a question raised by the Netziv.
You can answer this with another question: The Torah describes the Mishkan’s utensils in the following order: Aron, Shulchan, Menorah, Mizbeach Hakatores, Mizbeach Hazahav, Masach Hapesach, Mizbeach Haolah. This seems to be going in the order from most inside to outside the Kodesh Hakadoshim. However, the Kiyor is mentioned last, when really it should come before the Mizbeach Haolah? Reb Chaim Brisk learns from this that when the possuk earlier on in Sefer Shemos says that the Kiyor should be placed between the Mizbeach and the Ohel Moed, it means that it can only be placed there after the Mizbeach is in place. That is why the possuk here says that Moshe had to place the Mizbeach first, as the Mizbeach must physically be there before you put down the Kiyor! That is why the Mizbeach Haolah has the noun before the verb, as really the Mizbeach is not being put down in the correct time, but rather being put down early, as only after you put down the Mizbeach, can you put down the Kiyor! Good Shabbos