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Pekudei: Mishkan vs Mikdash

There is no mitzva that the Torah gives as much detail to as the Mishkan. There are entire Parshiyos dedicated to spelling out the smallest detail of how we are to make the Mishkan. Yet when it comes to building the Beis HaMikdosh, the Torah is strangely silent. It wasn’t until Dovid HaMelech was moved on his own to build a Beis HaMikdosh that any Nevuah about it was given. Why is the approach to these two very similar Mitzvos so different?

The Mishkan was something that Hashem instructed us to create. But since the impetus came from Hashem, not from us, the Mishkan couldn’t last. The only things that stay with a person are what they themselves. Since Dovid HaMelech, the quintessential Jewish king, was the impetus for the Beis HaMikdosh, it was far more permanent in nature, and it will therefore be rebuilt.

לע״נ דוד חיים בן ישראל דוב הכהן
לע״נ ר׳ חיים דוב בן ר׳ בןציון שלום