After 18 weekly Torah portions and an incalculably long pre-history, our desert ancestors hear a first call to build a holy place for God. Chapter after chapter of Torah will describe the Mishkan in numbing detail... yet we no longer wander the desert with a relic from Raiders of the Lost Ark. Why is any of this relevant to us today? Because we're still a people on the go. Because we start by giving, we build for mobility, and the Sacred goes where we go. |