About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 99. Chapters: Temple in Jerusalem, Book of Exodus, Ark of the Covenant, Kohen, Book of Leviticus, Menorah, Tabernacle, Moriah, Molten Sea, Cherub, Tahash, Third Temple, Korban, Holy anointing oil, Solomon's Temple, Hoshen, Shavuot, Kohen Gadol, Wilson's Arch, Urim and Thummim, Altar, Siege of Jerusalem, The Nine Days, List of significant religious sites, Shiloh, Counting of the Omer, Replicas of the Jewish Temple, Mercy seat, Tenth of Tevet, Holy of Holies, Ephod, Temple Denial, Rosh Hashanah, The Three Weeks, Kodesh Hakodashim, Mizrah, Seventeenth of Tammuz, Tablets of Stone, Angelic tongues, Herodian architecture, Brazen Laver, Priestly divisions, Bezalel, Moed, Me'il, Michnasayim, Simchat Beit HaShoeivah, Boaz and Jachin, House of Avitnas, Tzitz, House of Yahweh, Avnet, House of Garmu, Shemen Afarsimon, Beautiful Gate, Chanuyot, Mitznefet, Hekhal, Ketonet, Qalal, Western Stone, Solomon's Porch, Callisthenes. Excerpt: Tachash skins are a type of animal skins referred to in the Bible (Exodus 25:5, 26:14, 35:7, 35:23, 36:19 and 39:34; Numbers 4:6,8,10-12,14,25 and Ezekiel 16:10), and used as the outer covering of the tent of the Tabernacle and to wrap sacred objects used within the Tabernacle for transport. What the word 'tachash' refers to is a matter of some debate. According to the Babylonian Talmud and Rashi's commentary, the tachash was a kosher, multi-colored, one horned desert animal which came into existence to be used to build the Tabernacle and ceased to exist afterward. Wycliffe's Bible translates the word tachash as jacinth (hyacinth = blue, indigo, purple, violet). The King James Version of the Bible translates the word tachash as badger. Another hypothesis is that the Hebrew term "orot t'chashim" refers to very fine dyed sheep or goat leather, hence the Jerusalem Bible translates the term as "fine leather." A curren...
