Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site homxb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxb!houxm!homxb!azriel From: azriel@homxb.UUCP (A.HEUMAN) Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish Subject: 40 days and 40 nights Message-ID: <531@homxb.UUCP> Date: Mon, 25-Feb-85 23:00:28 EST Article-I.D.: homxb.531 Posted: Mon Feb 25 23:00:28 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 27-Feb-85 20:18:09 EST Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 16 At the end of Parshat Mishpatim (Exodus 24), Moses begins the fourty days and fourty nights together with G-d on Mt. Sinai. In Parshat Ki Tisa (Ex. 32) the fourty days and fourty nights end. What topics do the Torah explicitly describe as having been discussed during this 40 day encounter? - the collecting of donations to build the temple - the ark specifications - the table specifications - the lighting specifications . . . - the insence specifications - the designation of a supervisor - the working hours specifications. I tell you, even in those days it wasn't easy to contract someone to build your house in Israel.