parshaמפרשי הפרשה

רמב"ן — ככל אשר אני מראה אותך... וכן תעשו

'ככל אשר אני מראה אותך... וכן תעשו' — what is 'וכן תעשו' adding? Rashi: a command to all generations to build the Beit HaMikdash and its kelim by these specifications. Ibn Ezra: 'וכן תעשו' refers narrowly to the kelim.

ועל דרך הפשט אין צורך לכל זה, אבל בא הכפל לחזוק וזרוז, אמר 'ועשו לי מקדש', בית וכלים כמקדש מלך ובית ממלכה, 'ושכנתי בתוכם', בבית ובכסא הכבוד אשר יעשו לי שם, ככל אשר אני מראה אותך את תבנית המשכן הזה אשר אמרתי שאשכון בו בתוכם ואת תבנית כל כליו. וכפל 'וכן תעשו' כולכם בזריזות וחריצות, והוא כהכפל 'ויעשו בני ישראל ככל אשר צוה ה' את משה כן עשו', כי מפני שהיא צוואה אמר 'וכן תעשו'.

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רמב"ן על שמות כ״ה:ט׳

Ramban on Exodus 25:9

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Q — 'ככל אשר אני מראה אותך... וכן תעשו' — what is 'וכן תעשו' adding? Rashi: a command to all generations to build the Beit HaMikdash and its kelim by these specifications. Ibn Ezra: 'וכן תעשו' refers narrowly to the kelim.

A — Ramban rejects Rashi sharply: Shlomo's mizbeach ha'nechoshet was 20x20, not Moshe's dimensions, proving no binding tavnit-for-generations is intended here. He prefers a stylistic reading: 'וכן תעשו' is repetition for חיזוק וזרוז — 'all of you, with eagerness and dispatch, build this.' It parallels the doubled formula at the project's close: 'ויעשו בני ישראל ככל אשר צוה ה' את משה כן עשו.' A command voiced twice signals not new content but heightened urgency. The chiddush is grammatical-pragmatic: doubling can mean intensity, not addition — a foundational hermeneutical principle.

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