Exodus35chapter 35

The Sabbath command at the head of this chapter is the second place in this span where Exodus is kept rather than only read. The lane's design block names Exodus 35:1 to 3 beside 20:8 and 31:12 to 17 as the verses behind the weekly rest. The third verse, which forbids kindling a fire in the dwellings on that day, is the verse behind the household practice of preparing light and food before the Sabbath begins. What a Jewish home does on that evening is carried by no file in this repository, so this card names the verse and leaves the customs to the pages that carry them.

The chapter repeats the commands of chapters 25 to 31 to the assembled people, and the classical readings turn on the order in which it repeats them. Rashi dates the assembly to the morrow after the Day of Atonement, when Moses came down from the mountain (Rashi on Exodus 35:1:1). He reads the placing of the Sabbath before the building as a ruling on which of the two gives way. The Sabbath was named first to show that the work of the tabernacle "does not set aside (supersede) the Sabbath" (Rashi on Exodus 35:2:1, citing the Mekhilta). On the kindling of fire he reports a difference among the Rabbis over whether the verse makes a separate negative command or teaches something else about the penalties (Rashi on Exodus 35:3:1). The garments of service he now reads as coverings for packing, used over the ark, the table, the lampstand and the altars when the camp moved (Rashi on Exodus 35:19:1). Malbim reads the women of the twenty fifth verse at length, and the corpus carries his English text. He says that the women "whose wisdom was in the spindle" spun with uniform thickness. Wealthy women who had servants to spin for them "also spun with their own hands, in order to (gain) merit in the commandment" (Malbim on Exodus 35:25:1, Sefaria Community Translation, CC0). Sforno notes that the materials listed here are the ones Moses had already told the people about (Sforno on Exodus 35:10:1, from Eliyahu Munk, HaChut Hameshulash, CC-BY). Rashi is quoted from the Rosenbaum and Silbermann edition of 1929 to 1934, public domain. Ibn Ezra comments at Exodus 35:6:1, 35:7:1, 35:8:1, 35:16:1, 35:20:1 and 35:21:1, and Malbim again at 35:24:1, cited by reference.

The corpus records forty places where the Midrash and the Talmud draw on this chapter, cited here by reference. The Sabbath verses are read in the Introductions to Tanaitic Literature at Mekhilta of Rabbi Ishmael 42, Sifra Torat Kohanim 437 and Mekhilta of Rashbi 77. Ein Yaakov carries them at Shabbat 1:25. The giving of the offering is read at Shemot Rabbah 33:8, 43:3, 50:4 and 51:2. Bamidbar Rabbah reads the chapter at 9:48, 12:8, 12:16 and 18:21. Midrash Lekach Tov follows it at Exodus 35:4:1, 35:6:1, 35:11:1, 35:11:2, 35:20:1, 35:23:1 and 35:26:1. Midrash Aggadah reads it at Exodus 35:4:1, 35:5:1 and 35:10:1. The women who spun are read at Ein Yaakov, Shabbat 11:3 and Midrash Tanchuma, Pekudei 11:4. Shir HaShirim Rabbah 1:12:1 and Bereshit Rabbah 94:4 read the leaders' gifts. The calling of Bezalel stands at Berakhot 55a:11 and Avot DeRabbi Natan, Recension B 43:25.