parsha bit: T'rumah

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Parshat T'rumah begins the description of how to build the mishkan, the portable sanctuary. The ark is topped by two cheruvim, facing each other. Why do they face each other? The rabbis say that the cheruvim represent the torah itself, which was given on two tablets -- one describing how we relate to God, and the other describing how we relate to each other. The cheruvim face each other to remind us that we have to do both, and that our relationships with other people have to mirror our relationship with God. (attributed to the Malbim)

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Cheruvim

[(Anonymous)]

Two questions:

1. What about the no-images?
2. What did the cheruvim look like? Anything in the Talmud about that?

Rob of UnSpace (http://www.unspace.net/)