Spirituality Torah Portion/Synagogues Show Me The Bread Shabbat Terumah: Exodus 25: 1-27: 19; I Kings 5:26-6:13. T his week's Torah portion opens with the repeated instructions for building the Tabernacle, God's physical dwelling place among the Israelite nation. The detailed narrative calls for the creation of the contents of the Tabernacle (k'lei hamishkan), including the table that would stand across from the menorah in the inner court, upon which would be the lechem panim, the "show-bread" or better defined as "the bread of display" that was to be before God at all times (Exodus 25:30). Commentator Ibn Ezra understood this literally to be the bread perpetually set out before the Lord. Rashi took the phrase figuratively as "bread fit for dig- nitaries." There were to be 12 loaves (two rows Rabbi Jason A. Miller is assistant director of the University of Michigan Hillel Foundation in Ann Arbor. to understand that God does not desire of six) on the table at all times, perhaps nor need our gifts of food. Rather, we symbolic of the 12 tribes of Israel. The can nourish God with our acts of lov- Levitical clan of Kohathites were the ingkindness, performance of mitzvot, ones to bake the bread and then arrange tzedakah and prayer. the loaves on the table where they remained untouched for the entire In Second Temple times, the baking of the lechem panim became the job of week. On Shabbat, the loaves were Beit Garmu. The Garmu family mem- replaced by freshly baked ones and the bers were experts in baking this bread in old loaves were eaten by the kohanim such a manner that it did not become (priests) in the holy precincts. moldy, even after sitting out There are several lessons for for six days. They were an all of us to learn from the interesting group who main- ancient ritual of the lechem tained a family policy to panim. Everett Fox, in his never eat fancy bread, so that commentary on the Torah, no one would accuse Beit explains that the "table and its Garmu of feasting on the implements, like some of the lechem panim that they made other features of the (Tosefta Yoma 2:5). Tabernacle, are holdovers from The Garmu family kept a more blatandy pagan model, their expertise secretive, refus- where the gods were seen to RABBI JAS ON ing to teach others how to be in need of nourishment." A. MI LLER properly prepare the lechem While our ancestors Speci a 1 to the panim. The rabbis of the employed some of the conven- Jewish News Mishnah include Beit Garmu tions common throughout the among others who refused to ancient Near East, the fact pass along the instructions of Jewish rit- that the lechem panim in the Tabernacle ual to future generations. 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