[Avodah] How Many Places Were We in the Midbar?

[Micha Berger]

Y-mi Yuma 24 has a machloqes between R Yehoshua ben Levi and R Yochanan
about the effects of decamping the Mishkan on the lecham hapanim.
RYbL says that the lechem hapanim are not nifsal during the masa'os,
and R' Yochanan says it is.

A recurring motif in Y-mi Shabbos is justifying the notion of qayamah,
whether in a qesher, in writing, etc... After all, the mishkan could be
dissembled and rebuilt at any time. Eg 7:2, 52b:

    What binyan was in the Mishkan?

    They would put the qerashim atop the adanim.

    And was it not lesha'ah?

    R' Yosi said: Since they camped and traveled upon Hashem's word,
    it is like it was le'olam.

    R' Yosi bei R' Bun said: Since HQBH promised them that He would
    bring them into the land, it is like it was lesha'ah.

    Others say: binyan lesha'ah, binyan.

I think R' Yosi and RYbL hold a single shitah -- that we really only camped
in one place in the midbar "where Hashem said so". Therefore building and
rebuilding the mishkan doesn't matter, and the lechem's time outside the
mishkan during traveling doesn't matter.

R' Yochanan holds like R' Yosi bei R' Bun.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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