Commentaire de citation sur L’Exode 35:22

We are told in the Zohar volume 3 page 196 that Moses assembled the men separately in order to separate them from the women seeing that Satan was present and Moses wanted to forestall giving Satan a pretext to harm the Israelites during such an assembly. Since women were not normally present when Moses explained Torah legislation to the people except when they brought the donations for the building of the Holy Tabernacle, Moses did not normally have to take measures to counteract the presence of Satan, the seducer. We have proof of what the Zohar wrote in verse 22 where the arrival of the men and of the women is reported separately, i.e. ויבאו האנשים על הנשים, "the men came in addition to the women." This is only emphasised because it was not the norm for women to participate in these assemblies. The best proof that in our instance Moses assembled the men and women separately is in the word בני, the males. If the men and women had been assembled jointly, the Torah should only have written: את כל עדת ישראל, and not את כל עדת בני ישראל.

עם═על With; comp. האנשים על הנשים The men with the women (Exod. 35:22)

with the kidneys [literally: on the kidneys] as in “the men came with the women” [literally: on the women] [Exodus 35:22]

The gold for the gold and the silver for the silver and for all the work (and I gave it) into the hands of the craftsmen the artisans, and this is what I prepared for the Temple, and although I amassed all this... and whoever of you... volunteers to consecrate himself today for the Lord to bring gold, silver, or anything for the building, on the model of (Ex. 35:22): “... all moved by their hearts: they brought brooches and nose-rings.”

and they placed it in the gate of the House of the Lord, to the outside so that all the generous people would be able to come and deposit the donation to the Lord therein.