Kaisipang Hudyo sa Mga Awit 104:30: Akeidat Yitzchak

Creation is divided into three main phases. 1) Creation of matter before the first evening. Its importance stems from the fact that something came into existence out of nothing. 2) Development of original matter into something organized and functional as well as the creation of creatures. Inasmuch as it now assumes a purpose, this phase is something new and important vis a vis the first phase. 3) Completion and self perpetuation of the entire creative process. Development of the egg into a living organism, the whole process of procreation in nature, is again an improvement over the original directive. At the building of the tabernacle, too, we find three stages to parallel the above mentioned phases of the creative process. They are: 1) The donation of the material; 2) Appointment of the master builder and performance of the work; 3) The actual erection of the tabernacle and its becoming functional. The latter was still to come, just as in the case of the universe or earth, its function was not to commence until the end of the actual process of creativity. In short, we have material, construction, and performance of purpose. Phase number three begins with the sixth day, "The heavens and earth had been completed." This means that phases two and three had now been completed. Parallel to this, we find in the report of the construction of the tabernacle the line "the whole construction for the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, was completed" (Exodus 39,32).