In preceding posts, we have looked at the theological context within which the correlation of the Ten Words with creation week comes to make sense. God made the world through the divine Word, and in binding Himself to the Children of Israel as Father, He gave them the architectural pattern of the tabernacle in which they would dwell as a single household. At the heart of that household was the ark of the covenant, the place of God’s rest- inside the ark was the Manna, the Rod of Aaron, and the two stone tablets on which the finger of God had engraved the Ten Words. In the corresponding objects of the Holy Place, the Altar of Incense is connected to the Ten Words. The Ten Words sum up the Torah for Israel and provide them a pattern or way of being within the cosmos according to divine intention. The world was created by the outflow of the divine Mind, expressed in speech. Adam, as the link between heaven and earth, ruptured the link of God to the world by turning his own operation away from God. Exiled from the place where man would draw near to God, no such place would be in operation until the day on which the liturgy of the tabernacle was inaugurated- precisely date-stamped in Exodus 40:2.
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