Komentarz do Wyjścia 31:6

ובלב כל חכם לב וגו׳ AND IN THE HEARTS OF ALL THAT ARE WISE HEARTED [I HAVE GIVEN WISDOM] — and there are still other wise-hearted men among you (beside Bezalel and Oholiab) and all these in whom I have given wisdom shall make all that I have commanded thee.

ובלב כל חכם לב, who came forward to carry out this work G’d had already equipped him with the required talent to carry out the work.

I have also granted skill to all who are skillful: In Brachot 55 they (the sages) said that the Holy One Blessed be God only gave wisdom to those who had wisdom. (The Gemara asks) What is the basis for this? And thus the explanation is given that it is from Sefer Daniel (2:21) " “He gives wisdom unto the wise..." And the intention in this is that the root of wisdom is explained by two teachings/manners:1) logic and discernment 2) Learning and researching what others have already learned. And this is the explanation of the verse in Proverbs (4:7) The beginning of wisdom is—acquire wisdom; With all your acquisitions, acquire discernment. First comes the logical reasoning of the human as he behaves with learning - that he must first gain wisdom of others and afterwards he will be able to acquire wisdom learning one thing from another on his own intuition. ...

ואני הנני נתתי אתו את אהליאב בן אחיתמך למטה דן, “As for Me, here I have given him as an assistant Oholiav son of Achisamach of the tribe of Dan.” We read in the name of Rabbi Chanina in Shemot Rabbah 40,4 that no tribe was more exalted than Yehudah and none was less regarded than the tribe of Dan, seeing he was descended from one of the maidservants of Yaakov. G’d decided that Betzalel and a descendant of Dan should partner each other so that neither Betzalel nor his tribe should become haughty. All human beings are equal before G’d. The fact that the Tabernacle was built by these two architects was an important object lesson teaching this parity between the tribes in their social standing. Interestingly enough, when Solomon built the Temple this pattern was repeated seeing that the principal participants in constructing it were Solomon of the tribe of Yehudah, and Chirom the son of a mother from the tribe of Dan (compare Chronicles II 2,13).

And the other wise-hearted. . . [Rashi explains this] so we will not think they were all with Betzalel, helping him. If they were, why is Oholiav specifically mentioned, above the other wise-hearted? Therefore Rashi explains as he does, saying that Oholiav helped Betzalel with all the craftwork that Betzalel did himself. But the other wise-hearted merely did the craftwork that Betzalel and Oholiav gave them to do. Accordingly, the passage reads as follows: “I have designated Betzalel. . . and I have also appointed Oholiav to be with him. Furthermore, the other wise-hearted among you, and all those I have given wisdom to, will do all that I have commanded you.”

V. 6. וכלב כל חכם לב נתתי חכמה. Die Weisen sehen in diesem Satze die Wahrheit begründet: אין הב׳׳ה נותן חכמה אלא למי שיש בו חכמה, Gott gibt nur dem Weisheit, dem bereits Weisheit innewohnt, wie es ja auch (Daniel 2, 21) heiße: יהב חכמתא לחכימין ומנרעא לידעי בינה (Berachoth 55 a), d. h. Gott macht nur den zum Gefäße göttlicher Weisheit, der bereits die natürliche, menschliche Begabung der Weisheit besitzt und aus sich entwickelt hat. Von jenem Gotteswunder, das den Einfältigen von gestern zum geistvollen und begeisterten Gottesmanne von heute macht, weiß die jüdische Wahrheit nichts. —