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Living and Giving

The Parsha in a Nutshell The parsha of Pekudei brings us to the end of the book of Exodus. Moshe orders all the donations given for the making of the Tabernacle to be counted, and a record is made of how each of the materials are used. The priestly garments are made. Moshe finally sets up the Tabernacle, and it…

Celebrate

…construction of the Tabernacle in Vayakhel-Pekudei is similarly built around the number seven. The word “heart” appears seven times in Exodus 35:5-29, as Moses specifies the materials to be used in the construction, and seven times again in Exodus 35:34–36:8, the description of how the craftsmen Bezalel and Oholiav will carry out the work. The word terumah, “contribution” appears seven…

The Social Animal

At the beginning of this parsha Moses performs a tikkun, a mending of the past, namely the sin of the Golden Calf. The Torah signals this by using essentially the same word at the beginning of both episodes. It eventually became a key word in Jewish spirituality: k-h-l, “to gather, assemble, congregate.” From it we get the words kahal and…

Don’t Sit: Walk

Sitting is the new smoking. So goes the new health mantra. Spend too much time at a desk or in front of a screen and you are at risk of significant danger to your health. The World Health Organisation has identified physical inactivity as the fourth greatest health hazard today, ahead of obesity. In the words of Dr James Levine,…

Building Builders

…of the Torah that cries out for explanation. The first thing that strikes us is the sheer length of the account: one third of the book of Shemot, five parshiyot – Terumah, Tetzaveh, half of Ki Tissa, Vayakhel and Pekudei, interrupted only by the story of the Golden Calf. This becomes even more perplexing when we compare it with another…

Fire: Holy and Unholy

The shock is immense. For several weeks and many chapters – the longest prelude in the Torah – we have read of the preparations for the moment at which God would bring His Presence to rest in the midst of the people. Five parshiyot (Terumah, Tetzaveh, Ki Tissa, Vayakhel and Pekudei) describe the instructions for building the Sanctuary. Two further…

Communities and Crowds

…Parsha in a Nutshell In next week’s parsha, Pekudei, Rabbi Sacks connects Shabbat and the Mishkan as holy time (Shabbat) and holy space (the Mishkan, or the Synagogue today) both institutions where we can rest and take respite from the chaos of the world and connect to Hashem. The Rabbis in the Talmud connect Shabbat and the Mishkan and learn…

The Social Animal

…‘the subtle ties that bind human beings to one another.’ In the wider essay for Vayakhel-Pekudei, Rabbi Sacks quotes Robert Putnam whose 2010 research found that regular attendees at a place of worship were more likely to help others, such as giving money to charity, engaging in voluntary work, donating blood, helping find someone a job, and other similar acts…

Communities and Crowds

Melanie Reid is a journalist who writes a regular column for The (London) Times. A quadriplegic with a wry lack of self-pity, she calls her weekly essay Spinal Column. On 4 January 2020, she told the story of how she, her husband, and others in their Scottish village bought an ancient inn to convert it into a pub and community…

The Spirituality of Song

…בַּתּוֹצָאָה And who will bear the consequence     בֵּין כִּי תִשָּׂא לְוַיַּקְהֵל Between Ki Tissa and Vayakhel עוֹלָם מַפְסִיק לְהִתְקַהֵל The world stops congregating לְהִשְׁתַּתֵּק לְהִסְתַּגֵּר Goes quiet, locks itself in יִשְׁמָעֵאל אֱדוֹם וְיִשְׂרָאֵל Ishmael, Edom and Israel     בֵּין וַיַּקְהֵל לִפְּקוּדֵי Between Vayakhel and Pekudei אֵין אִישׁ בָּעִיר וּבַשָּׂדֶה Not a person in the city or the…

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