<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">When it was time to actually erect the mishkan, the weight of the krashim, the wooden uprights, made the task virtually impossible. The workmen could not erect the Tabernacle because of its massive weight. They brought it to Moses. He asked God how it was possible for a human being to erect it. God told him to make the attempt and the Tabernacle would stand on its own, as if he had put it up. Therefore, the Torah states in the passive voice, <i>the Tabernacle was erected </i>(40:17), to imply although Moses tried to erect it, it stood up by itself, miraculously. (<i>Rashi</i>). </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">ri</span></font></div></body></html>