parshaמפרשי הפרשה

אלשיך — ויצאו כל עדת בני ישראל מלפני משה / ויבאו כל איש

Why does the verse pointedly mark 'ויצאו... מלפני משה' immediately followed by 'ויבאו'? Why note the temporal proximity?

[Cohen frames the Alshich on this pasuk:] כי תכף ליציאתם מלפני משה מיד ויבואו כל איש כו' להביא הנדבה.

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אלשיך

Alshekh on Torah, Exodus 35:1

Q — Why does the verse pointedly mark 'ויצאו... מלפני משה' immediately followed by 'ויבאו'? Why note the temporal proximity?

A — The Alshich reads it as a measure of the people's eagerness: the bringing of donations happened *immediately* upon leaving Moshe — no interval, no procrastination. The seeming redundancy is praise. Bnei Yisrael, who had just come off the egel and the smashing of the luchot, now respond to the Mishkan call with such alacrity that 'ויצאו' and 'ויבאו' are essentially the same act. The pasuk is documenting teshuvah-in-deed: the same hands that gave gold for the egel give gold for the Mishkan, and they give it without pause.

כי תכף ליציאתם מלפני משה מיד ויבואו כל איש כו' להביא הנדבה.

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