Commentary on Parashat Pekudei, Exodus 38:21-40:38
Every week, Julie Seltzer, artist and Torah scribe, bakes a challah depicting an aspect of the week’s Torah portion.
For by day, a cloud was over the Tabernacle, and a fire was in it by night. (Exodus 40:38)
כי ענן על המשכן יומם ואש תהיה לילה בו
There was always a cloud above the Tabernacle–when it lifted, the Israelites would know that they too should move. This was the way they traveled about the desert, always following the cloud of God.
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challah
Pronounced: KHAH-luh, Origin: Hebrew, ceremonial bread eaten on Shabbat and Jewish holidays.
Torah
Pronunced: TORE-uh, Origin: Hebrew, the Five Books of Moses.
