Wyjścia 35:4 Komentarz: Rashi, Or HaChaim, Kli Yakar & Siftei Chakhamim

זה הדבר אשד צוה ה׳ THIS IS THE THING WHICH THE LORD COMMANDED me, לאמר TO TELL you.

אל כל עדת בני ישראל לאמור, "to the entire community of the children of Israel, to say;" In view of the word לאמור, we are entitled to ask to whom the Israelites were to tell these laws seeing all of them were assembled when they were informed of them?

This is the thing that the Lord commanded. In the portion of Matot, Rashi explained that all the prophets prophesied with So says the Lord, but Moses went beyond them by prophesying with This is the thing that the Lord commanded, because Moses saw the matter clearly with his own eyes through a clear lens [aspaklaria hame’irah]. And the reason Rashi did not explain this regarding what is said here “This is the thing” is because the Tabernacle is not an indication of his [unique level of] prophecy, since the Holy One, blessed be He, showed Moses the Tabernacle on the mountain, as it says According to all that I show you, the pattern of the Tabernacle, etc. (Exodus 25:9). Therefore, he said This is the thing that the Lord commanded, as if pointing with a finger at something he saw with his own eyes. And this does not indicate any superior quality that wasn’t present in other prophets, since Ezekiel also saw the entire pattern of the Temple.