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Good morning, good Shabbos!

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It is the 21st of February, or the 4000th day of winter.

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And we are in Praschat Truma, and we're gonna have some fun with this this morning. We've got some good stuff for you.

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An invitation to put in the chat box the names of those for whom you're praying for healing.

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hold all of them in our hearts.

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As we make…

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A blessing for learning today.

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Baruch Atta al-Naiqa Olam.

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Blessed are you, Adonai, our God, source of all being. You make us holy and connecting command.

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And command us to immerse ourselves in words of Torah.

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We're diving this week into instructions for the building of the Mishkan.

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And this must be very important, because we're going to spend some weeks

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talking about doing it, and then actually doing it, and talking about having done it.

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And so a lot of our time and energy at this time of year goes into creating sacred space.

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together, and I can't wait to see where these texts will take us.

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Looks like we have 3 sections to read the… 4!

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For a section.

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Four sections this morning. Can we have four people read, please?

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Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, Tell the children of Israel to give me gifts.

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Take my gifts from all who make their heart willing.

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And these are guests you will take from them.

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Gold, silver, and copper.

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And blue, purple, and chrism.

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Yawn. Fine linen?

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goat hair, tanned ram skins,

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Dolphin skin, and a cilia wood.

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Oil for lighting.

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Spices for oil,

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And aromatic… aromatic?

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incense. Lapis, Luzi, and precious stones for the Kohan setting.

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Apron and breast piece.

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They will make for me a mikdash, and I will dwell among them in all I show you, the pattern of the Mishkan and the pattern of all its vessels, so you will make it.

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Make an arc of gopher wood two and a half cubits long, one and a half cubits wide, and one and a half cubits high. Overlay it with pure gold inside and out, with the surrounding rim of gold around.

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cast for it, four gold rings, and put them on its four corners. Two rings on one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it.

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Make poles of gopher wood and overlay them with gold. Insert the poles into the rings on the side walls of the ark for carrying the ark. The pole shall remain in the rings of the ark. They shall not be removed from it.

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put in the ark the witnessing that I will give you. Make a cover of pure gold, two and a half cubits long, and a cubic and a half wide.

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Make two caravium of gold.

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makes them have hammered work,

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the two ends of the cover.

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Make one carove at one end and the other carav at the other end.

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You will make the caravim from one piece with the cover at its two ends.

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The Caribbean will be wingspread above,

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Shielding the cover with their wings, they will face each other, the faces of the caravim,

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Turn toward the cover.

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Put the cover atop the arc after putting in the arc the witnessing that I will give you.

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There I will make myself known to you, and I will tell you.

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from above the cover between the two caravim atop of the Ark of Witnessing,

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All that I will command you,

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about the… I can't read the bottom line.

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Children of Israel.

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Alright, everything there was perfectly clear, right?

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So, what speaks to us this week, friends?

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Mm-hmm.

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For me, it's the incredible detail of this, which is…

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Um, much more detail than most of

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other passages.

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Um, it's like, um…

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instructions to… to your workmen, or instructions for how to do a craft, or…

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Um, it's…

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It just seems very unusual to me that it'd be this detail.

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And also, the beauty of what they're talking about.

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Of what the commandments is.

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Yeah, there's… there are a lot of beautiful-sounding ingredients here.

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And maybe this is a little bit like saying to the contractor, okay, so here's what I want in my kitchen.

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And let me tell you exactly what it is that I want.

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Cheryl, what are you thinking?

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I'm always amazed that about the rings and the poles that we always have to be ready to move.

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Yeah, that's what I see.

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You know, we're and and only then. is the… witnessing. I'm guessing the witnessing on the tablets?

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Only then. Only when you're ready to go, only when you can leave at a moment's notice.

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Yep, and it just…

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You'll see Rabbi David is highlighting the word for witnessing. It is…

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You have this important stuff.

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It is a doot, like, an aid is a witness.

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Um…

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Yep.

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In English, we might have a slightly different word.

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testimony.

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That does land differently, doesn't it?

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Yeah, but it does sort of indicate that. Take everything with you, and be prepared, as Cheryl said, to move.

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Be ready to…

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As a community. Don't leave anything behind that we may need.

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Beautiful. Delia, I see your hand.

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Um, yeah. Two things. Um… I don't remember the other parts, but I know the Mishkan is supposed to have body correspondences, and the caravim are the kidneys.

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So my favorite about keeping losing Qigong to keep your kidneys happy because God will be speaking to us in that space in between.

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And the other thing is, the connectors are called adanim, correct?

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Eventually, we're going to see the word sockets.

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Okay, but… but does adenine come in this part?

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Not yet, but it'll be there eventually.

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Not yet. Okay. Okay, then I'll talk about it later.

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Yeah.

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Alright, so I had not heard before the teaching that the Keruvim can represent… if the whole… if the Mishkan…

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is represented by or representing a human body, that the caravine would be the kidneys.

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So that's…

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new for me and really cool. Alright, what else?

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I'll give you that footnote if I look back on my dissertation, but I haven't looked back at it for a long time.

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If you're just joining, Shabbat Shalom.

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We've started the, uh…

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the second half of the book of Exodus, which some of us call arts and crafts.

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Holy arts and crafts!

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Holy Arts and crafts.

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I mean, the only other thing is, where do they get all this stuff?

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We need only one other thing. That's a question.

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Where… where did we get, right? Here's what God says to bring.

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Gold, silver, copper, blue, purple, and crimson yarn, ramskins, dolphin skins?

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Yeah, because we went by the sea, I thought.

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All of those, um, desert dolphins. That's definitely a thing.

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Yeah.

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Um, Ellen Ruth, I see your hand.

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I have a few questions.

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moving slowly.

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Um, who has God talking to, actually?

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And I'm feeling kind of…

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I spoke to Marsh, okay, spoke to Marsh saying.

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Um…

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And where is this taking place?

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He's on the mountain anymore, or…

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They're near the mountain, they're, they're out

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in the desert, you know, they're, they're out there.

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Wilderness.

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I… I don't know, as I focus on this, I keep on thinking that…

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Marsh took acid, and he's having a kind of dream, but…

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speaking Him to do all these things.

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I just… it feels very disorienting. I don't know why.

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Okay, so there's… there's a…

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a dreamlike quality, a fever dream, a vision, something.

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Um, Meredith, I see your hand.

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I mean…

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So, we go from this, you know, the mountain and the whole thing last week, and that really trippy, like, experience.

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And now we're…

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Making it concrete.

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So, we are building…

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a place for God,

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to be.

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So, it just… it's just…

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you know, we go from this very ephemeral kind of concept of God, and then we're bringing it down

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to the ground.

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And we're building a Mishkan, and God will be there.

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But God is everywhere, so why do we need a Mishkan?

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Great question that we should write that one down.

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I mean, right? Isn't that what…

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you know, spiritual practices, the ability to see God and everything.

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So what do we need in Mishkon for?

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Okay.

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One of the…

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What does God need with a starship?

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Yeah, yeah.

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Yeah.

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James Kirk.

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Right.

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Is that Star Trek VI? Star Trek IV?

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There's literally, there's literally…

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I…

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It's just Star Trek, Rabbi.

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It's just a stroke.

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There's a God epise, right? There's a not-so-God-God episode.

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Right.

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So…

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And God asks for a starship.

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And James T. Kirk asks,

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But so the… the…

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And it's hard to read it. It's hard to read this.

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Why?

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like, you know, it's a slog. You know, you gotta bring this and that, and you…

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It just…

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Right, so I also heard you saying something about concretizing, shifting from

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Yep. Mm-hmm.

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ethereal…

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Mm-hmm.

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to something we can touch, maybe human beings need something they can touch. Deanna just noted in the chat.

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Mishkan might be for us, not for God.

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And there's also a conversation in the chat about where are we getting all of these things? Jane points out, Midrush says, we took them with us when we left Egypt.

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pardon us on our way out. We'll take some of these delightful things that somehow we know we're gonna need.

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And James also pointed out, it says God will live among them, not

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In the Mishkan, so that's…

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Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

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Mm-hmm.

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We talk about it as a home for God. In fact, I think I said that last night in my Devar Torah, but…

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Mm-hmm.

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Mm-hmm.

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That's not entirely right, because it doesn't say that God will dwell in the building.

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Mm-hmm.

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Yes, sir.

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Tells that God will dwell among us or within us.

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Shahanti Bethucham, I will dwell within them.

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Joan, I see your hand, and then Ellen Ruth again.

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Is it going to say that, in fact, this… Kane.

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What do you mean, Joan?

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He, in reality. Well, that… What I mean is, there is a reality in… what you'deva pay.

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said to Moshe, it's aspirational. That this should… that this is the special… this is the specialness.

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of what God is asking for, the finest that could possibly be.

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So, it sets a tone. But we've just said it isn't the Mishkan itself that makes us who we are and what we are. So perhaps this is just… You know, like saying to someone, uh, you know, think of the finest thing that you would hope to accomplish. It doesn't mean you're going to do it, but it is a goal.

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Okay…

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So…

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And it sets a tone. And I'm… I'm asking you if it ever actually came to pass, or is it… Is it irrelevant?

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And, okay, so by the…

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Oh, I have thoughts about that, but…

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By the terms of your own quest, it is not irrelevant, because even if this never happens…

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God speaks to Moses, saying, Tell the children of Israel to give me gifts, take my gifts from all who make their hearts willing.

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So there's something about…

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The making of the willing hearts.

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Giving of gifts to God, giving of gifts to community, giving gifts to the sacred.

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And the Shalhantivatucham, and I dwell on them.

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You are on to something profound, Joan, and we don't have time.

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time right now to get into it, but lean in a little. Let's do it quick.

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You would think…

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out of Toro when laying this out.

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We had some control over Torah.

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God would give the instructions, and then immediately it would be built.

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That's not what happened.

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Instead, what happens is we have a whole bunch of instructions,

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Moses goes upstairs at the end of this tour.

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and gets the… the two…

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tablets.

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Upstairs meaning up to the top of the mountain to talk to God.

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Sinai.

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Right. For 40 days.

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gets the tablets.

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Next week's Torah portion.

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Where'd he go?

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He's been gone too long.

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Alright, we need another god.

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Then we meet another guy.

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Let's build with some golden calf.

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Now, they had not built this yet. They had built a golden calf.

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You've seen the movie, takes…

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They will bill…

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Right, right, right, right. Hang on. Smashes the two tablets.

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Take some drink and a whole bunch of bad stuff goes down.

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Rich.

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Moses asks for forgiveness on behalf of the people.

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God forgives them, brings Moses back upstairs, second set of tablets.

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Then the Mishkan is actually built.

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So one way to understand this is, well, we were going to get to it, but some bad stuff went down.

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Another possibility, though, is that this was never meant.

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to be built.

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It was only when the people showed they physically

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That something being the golden cat.

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That God said, okay.

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It's time to appoint yourself to Chief Architect, and here we go.

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And ultimately, the Mishkan was built, and it was turned on.

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And it went in the desert only.

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way to the land of Israel and crossed into the land, and…

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didn't happen immediately.

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I'm gonna ask all of us if you've got background noise, if you can kindly mute, thank you.

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So, Joan, you're onto something.

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And the mystics made a lot of this.

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that the Mishkan that was built was actually a Tikkun and a repair.

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A spiritual repair for the making of a golden calf.

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None of which has happened yet.

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By the way, for the record, right, we're not… all of that is next week and coming events. Right now, we are just receiving the instructions,

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tell the children of Israel to give gifts when… make their hearts willing, and here's what they should give.

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Cheryl, you haven't had a chance to come in yet.

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You know, I'm all for… esoterica and.

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what this could mean would mean means under the level, but I'm having a real hard time with what you just said.

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Okay.

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Which part?

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And that is because there are no unnecessary words.

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So what's this doing here?

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So that's another possibility.

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in Taha. And, you know, yeah, it's…

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And now the people are gonna prove it.

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Okay? What's another?

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God already knows that people need something. You know, and yeah, and… without having assigned an architect before he left to start the project. They didn't have a project manager. They had no one.

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I thought this was just a bad manager.

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Project managers are necessary.

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possible.

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Right? Well, I mean. One one would think that.

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And we're gonna see Matt Aaron. Aaron… Karen?

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Yeah.

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Erin gets a roll.

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Ron would have done it, but. you know, he gets kind of he gets gets kind of pushed around a little.

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you know. But if you don't assign someone before you go, and people have proved.

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Sure.

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Already that they need direction. you know. So that's… That's my take on this. I love the idea that that could be it, but it's just too drawn out and specific.

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Okay, and, and…

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And so here's another possibility.

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Huhan doesn't usually function like that.

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What if the second half of the book of Exodus doesn't happen in the order it's presented?

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Okay.

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Sometimes you hear us sing.

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Okay, I go with that. That works for me.

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So, sometimes you hear us…

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The time is not time.

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Sometimes you hear us saying, He will aim. There's no before or after in Torah. That's a rushing one.

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So, actually,

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But what if this is…

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pre-con.

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Yeah, that feels good.

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It's possible. It is possible. This is one of the key fundamental questions.

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exegesis that we're looking at here isn't where we expect it to go, but…

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We're in the air?

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I want to lift up from the chat, Meredith is asking, so are we saying that these instructions were given proactively

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Yeah.

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Because this was before the golden calf.

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Maybe…

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I mean, yes, the sequence as it appears in Torah, if we take it as

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These things happened in this order.

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We get the instructions,

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Then we're gonna get Moses go up the mountain and the calf.

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Then we're gonna get the repair…

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of the spiritual repair of our relationship with God.

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After the calf.

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And remember, it's not about us.

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the midrash thing. Who's Midrash?

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Rossi. And a lot of people followed. Yep.

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is, um, good for time out of order. to our time.

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And what's fascinating here is, again, it doesn't say, and I won it.

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Bethucham is among them, or within them, or…

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In, talk, within.

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So there's…

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You're taking the Hebrew series, this is review, but in Talk Amidst.

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There's…

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So there's some way in which building this structure

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This mikdash…

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will ready us for God being in us.

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I mentioned this in services impliedly yesterday.

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Spiritual community is the successor to the Mishkan.

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It's literally the Miktash. It is literally…

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It's what Kodesh is.

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We build a community. There's God in the community.

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Is God in the community? Because it has…

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physical things? No.

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No matter how beautiful our Torah scroll, or the…

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Silver breastplate on the Torah scroll, or the gorgeous Shabbos candlesticks, or whatever our objects are.

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Or our building, for those of us who have a building,

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That's not where God is.

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And then Delia, and let's see…

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else we got.

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As I dream into this part, I keep on thinking,

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that Moses was brought up in a palace,

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And that the Michigan is a palace that he's making

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For God. From his…

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Upringing, and I…

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keep on thinking that…

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God's voice is something…

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Marcia's experiencing inside himself, but not actually the voice talking to him.

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And so as most streams into what's necessary, from his upbringing of being in a palace, he's building a palace for God.

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Hmm, beautiful.

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Delia and then Susan.

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I keep looking at the spaces. The spaces between the caravim, the spaces within the Mishkan and the spaces within us, and Marsha put in the chat the relationship in the community, which again is the spaces.

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between us as the most important. And I just kind of also wanted to add that.

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The golden calf, according to Rabbi Gershen Winkler, was actually in… the temple, because it was the representative of the Age of Taurus. You know, we then went to the age of Pisces, now we're going to Aquarius. So there, even though we kind of malign it a lot because we've used it like kind of as an idol, it actually was a representative of their.

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astrological time.

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That would be in Midrash on a Midrash on a Midrash, Delia, because Torah… Torah, idly

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Good, thank you.

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We know the Golden Calf ceased to exist because Moses…

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grinds it up and makes the people drink it.

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you know. Ew.

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Right, right.

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a little bit of Torah magic there.

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Um, Susan?

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Yeah, I guess what really stands out to me is the whole power of agency.

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Having people realize they have something to give and giving them the opportunity to give it.

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So there's an empowerment in…

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saying, you have things to give, you have what to give to God.

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No.

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I have a… Lilith asks in chat, then why are we such detail-oriented people who make such beautiful objects and places?

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Which I think is a great question.

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And I just want to ask, um, since all of this description is so detailed,

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It's clear to everyone what Keruvim are, right? We know exactly what that word is.

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Yes? Question mark? Can anybody… what's a K-Rouv?

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Notice that it's for…

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Well, that's obvious, so what's it look like?

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An angel, a cherub.

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Okay, so, so, so does the…

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Well, yeah. I'm baby!

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a baby.

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Kidneys!

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There's so much going on here.

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It deals with wings!

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Okay.

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Wait, didn't you just say kitties with wings?

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A baby angel.

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I did, because Delia said they look like kidneys, but it says here that they have wings, and…

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like one of those indented bean things with, like, little wings.

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Ow!

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Yes, with wings! And also, somebody just said baby angels. Like…

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baby Angels, there is so much going on here.

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All right. Yeah.

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Like, little floating babies, right? They're all over the Renaissance.

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Yeah.

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There's so much going on here.

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Mm-hmm.

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Haven't we haven't we previously, I could be misremembering this totally out of my desire, but that they represented.

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Ooh, and Susan?

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Michael and. are the angel.

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Nika El, the angel of…

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Michael and… I know, I… but we do have Michael.

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Way, way, way…

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Roll back so much, stop.

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Okay, wait, angels, angels, stay over here, angels, good. Agency.

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Last Parsha.

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Be sad. Nah, I said the nishama.

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We will do, and we will hear.

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They talk about agency.

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There is active participation.

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People cannot spiritual for you.

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There is no such thing. Rabbi Rachel and I have a confession.

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There's no such thing as a PJ.

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We're not your professional Jews.

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We can't do for you.

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Judaism is being laid down here as a community of agency.

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You all bring the gifts. We do the building together.

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We will hear.

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Active engagement agency, so Susan, you're on to something there. It's really important.

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Should that be so?

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What's this about angels?

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Check it out!

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What was it that said, boy howdy, this is so detailed?

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Was that you, Natalie?

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Might have been, yeah.

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So here's all…

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Yes, yes.

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Thank you. So here are all these profoundly detailed…

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instructions at.

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Exactly this long, made of exactly this material, and then there's just this word, keruvim.

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Yet his pop… just…

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Like, oh, well, everybody knows what those are and what they look like, right?

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Yeah, just pop them on the cover.

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I'm sorry, what?

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Susan noted in chat, cherubs can also be fierce guardians, and I see James's hand popped up, too.

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So…

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We're gonna go to Cherubs, James.

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Ezekiel 1 and 10 tells us what they look like.

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We will, in fact, get there later this morning.

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I didn't want to spoil it.

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What are they doing here?

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What are they doing here? Right.

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You're not leaving the siding others there before and after a tour. Ezekiel came much later.

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So what are we doing here, Cheryl?

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trying to remember this teaching when we did the Kabbalistic version of Soulspa.

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Years ago. We know that Cheryl Beam are… level of angels, angels being messengers.

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Um, that what? The only has said about the space between is really important.

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They are facing each other, but they are looking down.

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There is a protection happening.

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It's so much more, and I just can't remember.

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Alright, so…

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You've touched on some beautiful things, and we've got

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We've got more for you.

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Getting ready to pull out my nose.

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Probably about time to move into texts.

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The angels take up all

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Great.

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Time, all the time, the angels take up all the time, don't they?

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Marshall.

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So, right, so the word for angel in Hebrew, malaach,

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They're the messengers.

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means messenger.

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There's no separate word for angels.

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Yep.

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And in this case, it isn't the word

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No, but don't we know like Kesach, we have serifs.

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We have different. We have different levels of these.

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Now, yes, now we're talking… you see, it's all about the angels, Rachel.

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Alright.

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That's… and that's gonna be a whole nother class that Rabbi David's gonna teach at a later juncture, all about angels and Angelology, so…

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I'm absolutely going to, but Cheryl's point.

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No, no, no.

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Angelology.

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Come up for a couple of minutes. It's only come up for a couple of minutes. We've done a half hour on this stuff. I just, you know.

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Yeah, I'm far being from me to take us away from the angels.

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Alright, so we've thrown in serifs, we've thrown in cherubs, we've got angels, someone named Michael,

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Something about Ezekiel.

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I mean, everybody into the pool.

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Again, notice the angels aren't doing the talking.

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It's the space between there, I will

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Make myself known to you, I will tell you from above the cover.

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Being the two cluvenine.

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In the negative space.

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Right, so Chair of 1, cherub 2, negative space in between, that's where the voice issue's forth.

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The cherubs themselves are not talking.

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That's right. We build community…

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Build sacred space.

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So that things can happen in a space.

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In the space. It's not about the thing.

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And everybody's hand is up. Oh, gosh. Uh, James, Marsha, Ellenruth.

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Not James, Marsha, Ellen Ruth.

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That space. I was studying. is… in one… Perspective.

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a space from which… God is standing like a foundation, and from where God can speak to the community.

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And in that… in that… the liminals, that space that's created. And then there are images, they're pictures where.

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They're standing facing outward. And then there's images where they're facing inward, and… One take on the.

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Guardian is that… You only need a guard if you're out of harmony, out of alignment. So when… Things are aligned, and the energy is in harmony in that space between.

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They can look at each other, and they don't have to worry about what's coming after them, because, you know, God is God, and, you know, God doesn't really need a, you know, a bunch of guards.

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What does God? What does God make for the starship?

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Notice, again, about the space.

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Yep.

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That's space.

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is bounded, and also infinite.

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As any sacred space, by definition, must be.

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Otherwise, how can it contain, quote, contain the sacred? You cannot take the infinite.

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And put it into finite. It doesn't work.

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So what do you call it? What's that word for? Is it SimSum?

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Mm-hmm.

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Okay.

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Simpson, right, self-contraction, God, in the Kabbalistic, one of the Kabbalistic notions of creation, God engaged in some self-contract.

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So that there can be space.

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In order to make space for us.

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Right? And into that space, God said,

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Let there be.

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And there is.

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In essence, we're gonna have a little traveling microcosm.

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In which God can speak.

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And that is one of the ways that our tradition understands the Mishkan, is that it is actually a microcosm of the whole universe.

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That it is creation in miniature.

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As is every…

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sacred community.

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with all the Mishagas.

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That is a term of art, by the way.

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Your sacred community has Mishagas?

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That's how I know it's a sacred community.

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That's how you know it's real. Right, exactly. And so…

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It's gonna go wrong, and it's gonna get messed up.

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And so we're just seeing the weird…

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Genesis 1.

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of the Mishkan here.

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words and crabs is shown.

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wisely intimated, that comes later.

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So there's… there's a deceptive

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hotness going on here.

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And then we'll see if there's any more.

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And then I want to move us into texts, please.

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As… as I look at the specifics of the passages we've read,

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I see it as a blueprint

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asking the question,

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How do we do spiritual? How do we build a spiritual life?

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And what I see…

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is… first, we have to contribute something.

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Yes.

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So, what… what's…

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what's here is…

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I was very, um…

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specific…

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Uh, material objects.

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But when we're building a spiritual life, it's not exactly about material objects.

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So I go…

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I go deeper inside of me what…

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Can I contribute?

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And the other part of this for me, the second part, is what can I contribute, and then

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working together in community to build that sacred space.

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Together.

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Exactly right.

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Yeah, it's showing up. It's love, it's care.

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Oh, yes, show up. Yes, that's exactly it.

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It's love, it's care, it is

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money. It is…

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Yep. Yep.

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Bring the challah.

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It is who's making the phone calls, it's who's hosting the party,

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Who's polishing the stuff.

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was taking out the garbage.

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It's all of the pieces, all a reflection of agency, and if you're not

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And… if you're not doing something,

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You're not making, and if you're not making…

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And how can you feel?

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a part, but off.

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Connected.

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And by the way, I don't know if we're gonna get to it,

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But Moses gets a problem that nobody

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else has ever had.

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The people won't stop giving.

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They won't stop giving.

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They give so much that God needs to tell Moses too much, too much, tell them to stop.

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Don't give to the building fund. Said no synagogue president, ever.

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Dayenu, yup.

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Dayu, right?

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God, God, God's self says, Dayenu, stop giving already.

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So, let's go.

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Wow.

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So we've got a couple of… we've got a couple of different areas of focus in the texts that we collected for y'all today.

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who wants to start us off with Shemotra Rabba?

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Take for me gifts. Open for me my sister, my friend.

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Song 5-2. How long must I travel without a home?

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So Torah says, make for me a mikdash, so that I need not be on the outside.

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So this is using a little piece of Song of Songs.

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A verse about love.

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To say, that's… that's God speaking to us.

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Yeah.

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God says, I need… I need a home!

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with y'all.

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By the way, uh, for traditionalists among us,

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Song of Songs is one of the ketoingu writings of the Jewish Bible.

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Traditionally, when is it read?

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Delia, you're muted, but I think you just said Passover.

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Which is correct, yep.

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Open for me, my sister, my friend, my sister, meaning my soul.

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God is speaking to the soul.

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What is mcdash the definition is different than Mishkan?

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So glad you asked! Yes, Mick Dash is a different word than Mishkan.

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Can anyone spot the root hidden in that word?

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I'll give you a clue, take the mem out.

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holy. Holy…

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Oh, Colleen, yeah.

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Make me a holy place, make me a holiness, a holy thing.

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Holy me, sanctify me.

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This? Yah, this shachanti Shochain, is to dwell.

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Closification.

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As in Shakina.

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So, the root of… right, the name Shechina is the god who dwells

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Within and among.

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So is the MEM there for Hebrew? Is the mem there one of those punch it up memes?

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The Kadesh, yup.

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It's a punch it up, man. It's an energy-pushing mem.

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It's not Lahaktish.

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It's not a go toward.

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Oh, cause to be holified?

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Um, we're about to have a grammatical moment.

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Man can be a prefix that means from. That's not the case here.

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mikdash. It is, um…

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It's pushing the energy of holiness.

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Kardashian.

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Sort of. Sanctify.

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Calls to be holy?

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Sanctify. It's not exactly causative, but it's close.

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This is awesome.

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In English, the two things are the same.

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This is also the root of… right when we make Kiddush.

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Over wine or juice, same root.

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And also the connection of marriage.

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is referred to as Kidushin.

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Sanctification…

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holiness-making…

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Uh-huh.

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So, Mick Dush…

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Tune in to…

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evokes all of these things.

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Make for me, a meektash.

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Now that you're leaving Egypt, make for me a meek dash, so I am not left behind on the outside, up there, somewhere else.

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And Meredith asks, what about the Kaddish? Yep, same…

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Same route. Sanctify men.

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It's Gadavi.

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Got it.

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Same route.

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Hmm.

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Magnified and sanctified. Holy… wholly made, made holy.

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May the great name be.

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Hebrew.

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holyified. So, that's what… that's what God is saying, make for me,

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A holy…

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A place of Holy Connection so that I don't need to be alone.

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So, I'm not saying very, Rashi comes forward, you know, thank you, Rashi, what's bothered me.

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That's the weak dash?

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Can you…?

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Yeah, can you scoot the, um, the…

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I'm sorry.

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The words have just thank you. Now we're all back.

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There we go. They're silly weak, Josh.

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Make me a mixt.

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Let them make to the glory of my name a house of kids who shop.

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What does that mean?

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House of Holiness.

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The glory of my name.

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Say. the name is one.

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And Emmett. Amet. Right? So.

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So, some of us may have heard

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Yes, Elvis may have heard the phrase, the house of love and prayer.

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Please say that in prayers.

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Amika Dash, that is not about those things, isn't a mikdash.

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It's what makes it holy.

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That's what makes it holy, which is why, you know, synagogues,

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churches, mosques, all spiritual life, while we're all human.

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We all have the stuff of communicanism, and…

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the Mishagas, right?

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It's not a garden club.

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Halifa Garden Club should be a house of women.

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Meektash has to be.

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to God.

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whatever that's gonna mean.

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whatever associations come.

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What's the challenge in that, if any?

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I've either then, or…

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You mean at this specific time in… What's going on? The context of events?

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Either then nor February 21st in the year 2026.

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Because I'm not convinced it was all that different for them back then than it is for us right now. They were also…

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Human beings with all of our meshuggas!

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Yeah.

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Why do you get to build it and not here, and… and…

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And you didn't take my gift, and…

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And I wanted my name on the building fund dedication first, and… and…

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Excuse me, you're in my seat.

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Why didn't you call her up for an Aliyah, and…

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Hmm.

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Right.

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And also, all you people who are doing the work of leading the community are doing it wrong, and I don't like how you're doing it, and I want you to do it differently, but I won't tell you how that actually is.

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Whatever it is, whatever it is, whatever it is.

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People and people.

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Right? And this is… this is not Rabbi Defense Day, it's just to say…

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This is… how do we do what we do?

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No. And the other side of it is these hard-headed people.

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His stiff-necked schmucks. I can't lead them through the wilderness anymore.

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They're not listening.

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You're right, you're not there.

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Well, hey, that's the book of Deuteronomy, Numbers and Deuteronomy, Moses is gonna lose it, but not yet.

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So all of these are the… are among the challenges of building a house of Kedusha, a house of holiness, of holy connection.

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And that's exactly the challenge that God is putting in front of us.

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Okay, so what's the difference between that and what if an ESRA comes and says, let them make? It is called a Miktash,

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Since its existence ends.

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the Mishkan of the Holy Name.

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So few words such big ideas.

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It's called the mikdash.

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Since it's very insistent.

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Give the Mishkanah a holy name.

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The very fact that this Mishkan exists.

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As a place for God to dwell, for the shechina to…

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Chachain.

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makes it… makes it so, yeah, Joan.

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By creating it, it's an acknowledgement. of the spirituality that is a goal.

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for the people. to have.

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Nice.

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Great, what else could we…

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You're not gonna be wrong.

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I can dwell… In the center of those two cherubs.

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Yeah, what else?

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in the space.

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you only have… I… I hesitate to say this. You only have that sense of holiness and awe.

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in a place. Well, it's it's agency. If the people.

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and recognize it. So… It is it's a miracle that so many congregations.

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survive, because there are so many challenges. Um, that that… that that holiness and that that spirituality will not be there.

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Yep. Yep.

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Yeah. Right, right.

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I want to lift up in the chat conversation happening. Cheryl says, why do we need an external something?

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And there's some great examples flowing of, of…

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why we might need… or why…

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What a physical or tangible space might do for us.

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And also, sure, in theory, we shouldn't need any kind of reminder at all.

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And yet we do.

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In an ideal world, we probably wouldn't, and yet… which is why we wear tzitzit. By the way, tzitzit, the fringes on our garments to remind us of the mitzvot, to remind us of God.

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Same principle.

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In theory, we shouldn't need them.

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But we need them.

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Look and remember, Mrs. I'll, look and remember.

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Take a blue thread and tie it around your finger. Look and remember.

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Here's another one.

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Mishkhan is the thing.

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That is built. It is also the indwelling.

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The thing is to dwell.

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Shekhina, it's the same word, it's the same root.

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can make a place for Shekinah.

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That is what I understand Evan Esler to be saying.

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Yep.

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But another way, Sharena needs us.

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Shrinen needs us.

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God, with all of God's power,

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And all of God's everything.

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cannot make a place for God within and among us. Only we can do that.

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Michelle, you're saying something, and…

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You cannot hear it.

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That was my point. Exactly. We make it within us.

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And to address what Deanna said about a sacred space, those things exist.

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Um… not necessarily structurally, but structurally as well, sacred spaces. It's actually why.

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the preparation one makes within themselves prior to prayer is more important than the actual prayer.

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Maybe so. Maybe so.

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Right.

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Maybe in two weeks, if you run me, we're going to do it completely unplugged.

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And we'll see what's different. Yup.

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Deanna, and then we're gonna go to the Midbarabha.

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I would argue that the making, the act of making,

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the sacred space, the sacred objects, etc., is…

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a way for me to put myself into that spiritual state.

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The doing ain't just to check.

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a box. It actually… there's an alchemy to it.

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I help make that. It's mine. I am at home there.

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And that's why folks who participate.

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It's participation, it's not a symphony that you sit back and watch.

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And listen, there's more engagement.

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Natalie.

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As the president of a congregation

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trying to think deeply about how… about the leadership.

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The next, the upcoming, you know, the succession and the need to develop leaders and to develop

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In a small synagogue, more… more…

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sort of commitment to… to the…

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the sacred community. This is very, very resident.

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It's the spiritualization of

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Yeah.

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Let's not call it leadership, let's call it co-creation.

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That's right. That's right.

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And of course, part of the challenge is that

00:53:00.000 --> 00:53:02.000
we're sort of preaching to the choir,

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Because you're here.

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Right, exactly, having this conversation with the people who are showing up and creating community together.

00:53:09.000 --> 00:53:15.000
And to explain to the people who aren't showing up for it why they ought to be showing up for it, because it's so good!

00:53:15.000 --> 00:53:16.000
Exactly, exactly.

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is, um… is our continuing challenge. I feel it with you.

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Okay.

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David, did you… Reverend David, do you want to do Bamid Bar Rabba?

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It's terrible, that's true.

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When the Holy Blessed One said to Mosh, They will make for me, um,

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Miktash, and I will dwell among them.

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Most said, Who can make a Mishkan for God in which to dwell in it?

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Behold, one king, 827.

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The heavens and heavens.

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Heaven cannot contain you.

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And… do I not fill the heavens and the earth?

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And Isaiah 66, 1. The heavens are my throne.

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The earth, my footstool.

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The Holy Blessed One said,

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I do not ask according to my potential.

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But according to their potential.

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When I want the whole…

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world cannot hold my glory or just one of my sons.

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Rather, I ask of you…

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Space you make for me.

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By your own hands. Thus Marsh called God,

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Psalm 911.

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The one dwelling.

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In the shelter of the Most High.

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God dwells in the world's concealment.

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Seeing all, yet unseen.

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Yearning to rest in our shelter.

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Psalm 911. 1.

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And that shelter, God rests.

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What's happening here?

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Moses says, you're so big.

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How can I put the Atlantic Ocean in a thimble?

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You want, I should make a Mishkon for you?

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And God says, I don't ask according to my potential, I ask according

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to their potential, your potential.

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What does that mean?

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How about God is doing that? contraction thing again.

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God is doing that contraction thing again.

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to me. Yeah, to make sure that the people.

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can understand, because… God could say a lot of things, and we'd be like, huh?

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So he is making it. He's contracting, or she, or it, the process, is… is… Coming to… face-to-face thing, so that there can be a relationship, because it's hard to have a relationship with someone that is talking to you and you don't understand them.

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Yeah.

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You may want to. But it.

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Yeah.

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Reb Zollman used to say it's hard to have a relationship with the god of galaxies and gluons.

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When we think in terms of the vastness of everything,

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Mm-hmm.

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It's very hard to be in a conversational…

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a love relationship with

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The universe!

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But God here seems to be saying,

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Make a space that is human-sized, human…

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conceptually sized, that you can wrap your heads around,

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And… some of my…

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Potential will flow into that space that you can reach.

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whatever space you make for me.

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more potentiality is.

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It will be finite by definition.

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and I'll make it work.

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That's somebody willing to meet more than halfway.

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What does the Cutsko rabbi say? Where is God?

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Where we let them in.

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whatever we let God in.

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Right. Right.

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Wherever you're living in.

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There's so much, there's so much richness, um…

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Deanna, you haven't had a chance to speak much?

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Then I'll move on to Schmut rabbit.

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I'm deeply touched by this.

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particular line. Rather, I ask of you,

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space you make for me by your own hands.

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God knows… God doesn't need a house.

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Right?

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We need a house.

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No, but let me say this, because that's not what I'm saying, Rabbi Rachel, with all due respect.

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My bad.

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God…

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is asking for us to make a house

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how do I say this? Um…

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It's not that we need a house, although I do think that's another part of it.

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It's that, uh…

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It's like asking your lover to do something for you.

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And that last line,

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God dwells in the world's concealment, seeing all yet unseen, yearning to rest in our shelter.

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It's like a lover to me, this particular language. It feels like that level of tenderness.

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That's the language of Kedusha.

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that God is asking for.

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And that's what Kadusha is all about, loneliness.

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clean this is like, whoa, wow, babe.

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But it's also…

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Sweet, tender.

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approximate.

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It can be bogs.

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It, in a sense, must be both.

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It's over there.

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And can't be in those tender spaces.

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what we just said.

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Whatever your space is, whatever you are, whatever you want…

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wasteland students.

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Build that.

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It's like God is saying,

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do this act of love for me.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And so maybe that explains a little bit about…

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Why should Rabba here?

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is gonna pick up.

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A lover.

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And all of these are…

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Although, in the context of marriage,

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metaphors.

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All of these are metaphors, right? I was not…

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God is not actually any of these things, but we're using human metaphors

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Because that's what our consciousness can hold.

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Who hasn't had a chance to read and wants to.

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Is that a parable of a king, Rabbi?

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Yeah.

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Okay. A parable of a king who had a daughter.

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Another king came to take her and go back to his land to marry her.

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The first king told him, My daughter, who I give to you, is my only one.

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I can't bear to separate from her.

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But to tell you that you can't take her,

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also is impossible, since she is to be your wife.

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Rather, do me this favor.

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Everywhere you go, make me a small room.

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So I can live with you.

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For I can't leave my daughter.

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So said the Holy Blessed One to Israel.

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I gave you Torah. I can't bear to separate from her.

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And to tell you not to take her is also impossible.

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So everywhere you go, make me a house,

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So I can live within it.

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Mishkan is the ultimate mother-in-law apartment.

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Or in this case, father-in-law apartment, I suppose, right?

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God can't bear to be apart from Torah.

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So God says, just make me a little place like…

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with you.

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A synagogue is an accessory apartment for the in-laws.

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With a capital I, in-laws.

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Yeah.

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Alan Rubin, Delia.

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Ellen Ruth.

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I'm sorry, but I had wanted to say something about the other passage we read about potential.

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Ellen Ruth, I'm gonna ask you to hold it until 11.

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Thank you.

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Okay.

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Delia.

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We also not appropriate, but you've mentioned Aaron and we call the ark the Aharon.

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No!

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Almost.

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Yeah.

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No, it sounds like that in English. It is not that in Hebrew.

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Okay, thank you. Thank you.

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Letters mean a lot.

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A home versus a.

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Okay.

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Different spelling, different word, but, okay.

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Okay.

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because it's because it's often our own. So it was kind of thank you.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Marcia, is it on this?

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It's the idea of the sukha. And another one of those symbolic spaces where, after… All the holidays and days together.

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God says. Come hang out here in this sukha.

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Shmin Yetzer and linger a little longer.

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Because I don't wanna… yes, I don't want to let you go.

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It's that same idea of being staying close. And it does kind of feel like that at the end, you know, you might be tired.

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But there is a yeah, I liked this closeness that we had over these many days starting at Rosh Hashanah.

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And I want to… and so the the it's a Mishkan.

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It's gone.

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The sukkah is… yup.

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When do you think it is?

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Of course it is.

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Yes.

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It's a little temporary Mishkan, where we dwell with God for a week.

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If you've been to Rabbi Rachel Suka or her synagogue Sukhah, or my sukha,

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There's a reason we call it an Ishkan.

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And it happens to have electric lights and some tinsel, and it's a little

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can't be, you know, no dolphin skins, but same principle.

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same principle.

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Same principle.

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Alright, Ellen… Ellen Frankel.

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Amazing!

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Who wants to read?

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I will. As to the hidden one reveals Shakina.

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The Holy One who dwells in this world. represents the mystical community of Israel.

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All Israel constitutes limbs. She is our intimate link.

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With God who dwells on high, and our companion as we wander in exile.

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As it is written. And let them make me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them.

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Not, I would dwell below. But among you, just as a wanderer would. In other words, wherever Israel wanders, I will go with them and I will dwell among them, but not in a permanent place.

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But another one?

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This also gets back to, right, the arc put the poles… keep the poles in the arc so we can pick up and move.

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We carry God with us wherever we go.

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Don't.

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It's an existential kind of wandering.

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Don't get stuck.

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Half a week, um, yeah.

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Don't get stuck. Don't get stuck.

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Don't get stuck.

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Um, Rabbi Rachel, just in the interest of time, is there something in the cult chumash that feels important?

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Alright.

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No, I think let's move to the Karuvim so we have a little bit of time for them.

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Alright, we have to… we have to honor the angel talk.

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So, here is…

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Just a reprint of Exodus 25, right?

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make the two crinkle of gold, make one at the end, the other at the end, and make them from one piece of the cover, and I'm gonna speak to you from

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Wait, okay.

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We have seen Kuvine.

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Once… before.

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Would someone like to read from Genesis 3?

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This is old school Susan.

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You are speaking in a…

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muted manner.

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profoundly spiritual, but silent.

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Okay. God sends humanity out of the Garden of Eden.

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to work the ground from which it was taken, humanity was driven out, and east of the Garden of Eden was stationed the caravim and the fiery, ever-turning sword.

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To guard the way to the tree of life.

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This is the only thing…

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has said about Kruvim until now.

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And I believe…

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So all we know about them is that there were some stationed at the edge of Eden,

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With a fiery, ever-turning sword.

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This is what we know.

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Does not sound really anything like what they sound like now.

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You need guards when the energy is gone awry.

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And, you know, God's like, I'm not hanging out here with you, not letting you in, either.

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Sure, yeah. So, some of the texts that we didn't have time for today, that we cut,

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Or our sages saying, okay, but what do they look like?

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We don't know what they look like. And a lot of people say, well, they look like… it looks like a boy, or like a child, maybe even a toddler.

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So, that might be where the Renaissance

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little floating-winged babies came from.

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But others say, no, obviously they look like a bird. They have wings. It says they have wings, therefore they are birds.

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So our tradition goes off on this whole tangent. A carouv looks like a boy, a carav looks like a bird, we're not really sure.

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Rabbi Rachel, can you continue for a second, please?

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And that'll take us to our next Ellen Frankel.

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I was listening, so…

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and we've cut out, like, hundreds of years of Midrash just to do this in 30 seconds.

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But if you want to know why Michelangelo painted,

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like cherubs with…

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Hoodie wings!

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on the top of the Sistine Chapel.

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It's Rambam.

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Rossi.

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Because one of them thought it was a boy in Aramaic, and the other one thought

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Yeah, Rob, yeah.

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So what we wind up with is little winged babies all over the Renaissance.

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Mid-Jewish Midrash is old.

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over the Renaissance pictures. Every time you see one of those little boys in a Hallmark

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hard.

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Right.

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They're the ones that go.

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for Valentine's Day.

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Oh, yeah, those ones too!

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That's… that's Jewish Midrash talking.

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And nothing more.

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What are these cherubs?

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Okay, we have 4 for Ellen Frankel, and then we're gonna spend some time with Ram Baum.

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That's how I read it.

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My mom dos.

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Our daughters ask, what exactly are these cherubim?

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They sound suspiciously similar to graven images, whose fashioning is forbidden in the Ten Commandments that lie in the Ark right under their feet.

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Natalie, you're muted.

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The sages in our own time explain, in reality, the Israelite cherubim

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Remodeled on the hybrid gods of their neighbors, the Egyptian Sphinx, the winged man-Lion god of Phoenicia, the winged bulls of Assyria and Babylonia.

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The rabbi subject.

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No, they were made according to God's precise instructions. They were to be of hammered gold,

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of one piece with the cover.

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With their wings spread out above, shielding the cover with their wings . Rather than facing the priest or turning heavenward.

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They shall confront each other, the faces of the cherubim being turned towards the cover.

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25, 20.

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Lilith teases, "In a culture so repelled by idolatry, how startling to find these graven images inhabiting the innermost sanctum of holy space. And in a religion so hostile to dualism, how intriguing to find two such images embracing each other to make up.

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I'm going to make it even harder.

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The cherubs will make another appearance.

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Guarding…

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the first temple.

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If you've ever been to the New York

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public library near Bryan Park in Manhattan.

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They've got too big.

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Alliance.

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one over here, one over here.

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that, that notion.

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comes from the first temple.

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Because they had to chair it, and we know that because it says so in 1 Kings in describing this whole thing, and in 1 Chronicles.

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Menloss goes and says…

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Of these cherubs.

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Sometimes they had sex.

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Then they liked what the people did,

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They faced each other.

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So God could speak from between wings.

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Well, they didn't like the people's behavior.

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They phased away from each other, so God could not speak.

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These chariots…

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I'm gonna keep coming back.

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Come back, and come back. And as James mentioned, Ezekiel's gonna have

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And yet, the question we asked from the very beginning still holds.

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doesn't tell us what they are, and yet

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God, in the instructions, seemed to think, you know, chapter after chapter of clear instruction.

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Well, by the way, just put your chairs up there.

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Therefore, it has to be.

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that either we are meant to jump down this rabbit hole,

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Maybe ANDs.

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The people knew

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They were.

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And didn't need an explanation.

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I like to imagine.

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And it's really just to imagine the possibility that maybe our ancestors

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Distracted by modernity.

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We're wired to see and know things that we know

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longer are.

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That doesn't mean that we've got little Michelangelo.

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You know, with flying wings, you know.

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Running all over the place.

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What if they're messengers and…

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What if we miss the message?

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So often.

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Now, my bioines.

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He is a rationalist.

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And yet, one of the…

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Foundation text.

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that Maimonides put down the Mishna Torah.

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In its very beginning.

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says, as a rationalist,

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I must believe in angels.

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I'm gonna say that again. As a rationalist, I must believe in angels.

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Not only must I believe in angels, but to Cheryl's point, here are the 10 levels of angels.

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And number 10, by the way, is, um, Yishin.

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Which means… people…

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Was it getting right?

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men, human beings,

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Peace. Paints.

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We are actually one of the 10 levels

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Angel.

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Divine, divine transmitters.

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a messenger of God?

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Did you know that you woke up this morning that you are in the 10th class of divine transmitters? Did you know that when you woke up this morning?

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Because you wouldn't know.

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How would you live your life if you knew that you were one of the 10 classes of divine transmitters?

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Out speaks between.

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10 seconds to let that sink in.

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This is not a drill.

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Ben, can I have two people?

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to read from Maimonides, this is a guide for the perplexed.

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This is a text that…

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Amonadies Road is a series of letters to someone.

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Delia, I need to stop you. Your audio has gone silly.

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images, which they can be to your friends.

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I'm sorry about that. Can someone else please read?

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polytheists built temples to stars and set up in those temples the image which they agreed to worship because it was in some relation to a certain star or portion of one of the spheres.

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Therefore, we were commanded to build a temple to the name of God, and to place therein the ark with two tabs.

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Let's…

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tablets of stone on which they were written the commandments. I am your etc, and you will have no other god before me, etc.

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Naturally, the fundamental belief in prophecy precedes belief in Taha, and for without.

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belief in prophecy. There can be no belief in Torah.

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But a prophet only receives divine inspiration through an angel's agency, as in God's angel called Genesis 22:15.

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God's angel said to her, Genesis 16:11, and other innumerable instances. Even Moses received his first prophecy through an angel, and an angel of God appeared to him in the flame of fire.

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That's the brain bush.

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Exodus 3 2. It is thus clear that belief in the existence of angels precedes belief in prophecy, and the latter proceeds belief in Toha.

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Gotta buy angels to buy anything else, keep going.

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From the preceding remarks, it is clear

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that the belief in the existence of angels is connected with belief in the existence of God.

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And belief in God and angels leads to belief in prophecy and Torah's truth.

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To firmly establish this creed,

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God commanded Israel to make over the ark

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The form of two angels.

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The belief in the existence of angels is thus inculcated into the people.

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And this belief is in importance next to the belief in God's existence.

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It leads us to believe in prophecy and Torah,

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And oppose idolatry.

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Had there been just one figure of a Kuruv…

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The people would have been misled and mistaken it for God's image that was to be worshipped, like the heathen.

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Or they might have assumed that the angel was also a deity, thus adopting a dualism.

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By making two keruvim,

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And distinctly declaring Yud-Heh-Vav-Heh is our God, Yud-Heh-Vav-Heh is one.

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Moses clearly proclaimed the theory of the existence of a number of angels,

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He left no room for error in considering those figures as deities,

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Since God is one in number and created the angels who are more than one.

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logic.

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We say Shema, Yisrael.

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I Adonai is our God.

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I'll deny he is not too…

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The very fact that there were two cherubs atop the ark.

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is to tell us that that isn't God.

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Not all that matters is God.

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In fact, usually nothing that glitters is God, and yet we have

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This ark, full of…

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and gold cherubs, and gold, gold, gold.

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bold gold.

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That we are to make with our own hands, that means

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to take with us from Egypt in case we happen to meet it on the

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Can't we just know that God is woman?

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Why do we eat all this artifice?

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We live lives full of artifice, why do we… why do we need more?

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Bring it, bring it.

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Uh, reassurance.

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Yeah.

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I remember my grandmother telling me since I was a young girl, all that glitters isn't gold.

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pads all backloaders isn't God.

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Right.

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Yeah, tell the rules.

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That's a little separate, but not.

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Maybe if we can communicate directly with God the way Moses does,

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Maybe angels are an intermediary.

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for us to communicate.

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What do you think about that?

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painting, beeping.

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Maping. Maybe.

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Yeah.

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Rabbi Lauren.

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has something to say about this.

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Because this is about the angels, but it's also about us.

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Anyone else want to read?

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When we stray from the core principles of Via Hafta.

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Love your neighbor as yourself.

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In the image of God.

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And seeing everyone as Bissellum Elohim, the carol… The caravan faced away from each other. What a powerful teaching that this is not just a literal turning away from each other, but a spiritual one. God's voice, God's instruction, cannot penetrate between those whose back turns towards the other.

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It is as if that negative space between people keeps the divine from entering, or even propels it back.

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Taking the core of this teaching that God speaks through the space between us when we face each other, and cannot be present as we turn away, how can we make the divine more manifest in our lives and in the world?

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That emphasis there is hers.

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I want to be clear, the bold-faced words, that was her emphasis.

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For us.

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God's voice cannot penetrate when we turn our backs on each other.

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And if we know that, if we really believe that, what does it mean about how we need to be in the world?

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Where you are.

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form of divine.

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Carrier Wave Messenger.

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Just a little lower than the crew name, so to speak.

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underlines for me why the, um… It has two different meanings, no matter.

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I'm sorry, there's something about your audio that's gone fuzzy, I can't…

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I can't make it out.

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I'm sorry, dear.

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Much better. Much better.

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Much better.

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And here.

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Is that any better? No better? Okay, okay. That the word Reacha has grammatically your shadow self.

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your neighbor and your relationship to God as a shepherd.

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There's a lot here. There's a lot of wordplay in there, yes.

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Love your neighbor as yourself.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Leviticus 19.

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tune in to a Torah portion coming very soon.

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Again, it's a metaphor. It's a reminder.

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But it only had the

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value of metaphor and reminder.

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If we pay attention to it,

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Give it that value.

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If all we see is a bunch of people,

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and on egg, and we don't treat them as divine carrier waves.

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God speak in the space between.

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That's why a synagogue is not a garden club.

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That means that people need to be

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We visioned to learn.

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reclaim that vision.

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I'm gonna lift up in the chat from Meredith. This underscores our need to always be in a receptive state toward each other and to the divine.

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And Jay and I will meet you.

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Right? There's an I-thou quality.

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Our next little text, um,

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She's from Rabbi David, is a beautiful teaching

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Noting that, right, the original Keruvim had that flaming sword keeping us out of Eden.

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But the caravim that we get now don't have that flaming sword.

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They're now placed without

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The sword that turns, that's on fire, that's so terrifying.

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Which suggests that the way to Eden

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We may not be able to find our way there on a map.

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But we can find our way there.

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By listening to God's voice.

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emerging between.

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And among, and with.

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And that brings us to our last tiny teaching.

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There I will make myself known to you, and I will tell you from above the cover, from between the two kuruvim.

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says about that tent of witnessing the Ohil Mo'eid,

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You might think the voice is coming from the whole tent,

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From above the cover, maybe it's coming from everywhere.

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But no, it says the voice comes from the two kuruvim.

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The eternal, as it were, contracted God's self to speak from above the cover.

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None will… because none of us can see God and live.

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So we know we don't get to see God.

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Even the angelic beings holding up God's throne.

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Don't see.

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God. But we can hear God.

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In the space between us.

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I might add something else.

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And it's about humility.

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All I need to hear the voice of God.

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Someone just came into my house looking, like,

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You did.

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Even the carrier wave.

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Can't see the hole.

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Therefore, none of us can.

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Therefore, none of us can, except maybe in the momentary glimpse.

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And then we can never express it.

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So when we think we know,

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And they might be right.

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We've got to hold it with a measure of that profound stability.

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Because none will see me in the loop.

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So at most, we can see a little bit.

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So as much as God is making God's self known,

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There's something really important about the communal function.

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Because we can see together what we can't sometimes see individually.

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And it also guards against some of the excesses.

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James?

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we talk about the voice of God.

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But…

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I would argue that God does not have a voice.

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Very good.

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Um, that… that implies sound, that implies…

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Uh, the motion of error, uh, things like that.

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Even at Sinai, I would say that…

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it wasn't heard in that sense.

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Um, he said I'd go a little more…

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Very good at James.

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symbolic. Um…

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I would say… I guess this is… this is the Romb Bomb in me.

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I would say we are talking…

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more about Da'at.

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We're talking about intellect.

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We're talking about…

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a knowingness.

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something… yeah, something that's more of a knowingness that goes beyond

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the concept of voice.

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and more into just a…

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Yeah. Yeah. Notice.

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purple text.

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It doesn't say there you will hear my voice.

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I'll make myself known.

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And I will speak with words.

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Bites in Hebrew.

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In Hebrew,

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Literally, I, I will make known myself.

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itself.

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So, I bless all of us.

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To make some space.

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I bless all of us.

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to be good antennas.

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And to allow the juice of Shabbat.

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And the juice of community.

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to attune us.

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So that we can hear.

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we can do.

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Good job is everybody, good Shabbos, everybody.

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Good job is French. We'll stick around.

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We're going… we're gonna stay on…

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Uh, next week is…

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Another fundatorial portion, and then the

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Captain has another Vantora portion. So we're gonna keep…

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way through the book of Exodus.

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And that was gonna be hits.

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Our shotg cell, which is Golden Calf.

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Pretty soon, not just yet.

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two weeks. But please join us for the journey.

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And, uh, if we don't see you next week, have a fun pouring.

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And, uh, for now, we will stay on.