WEBVTT 00:00:01.000 --> 00:00:09.000 Shabbat salaam, everybody, it is Pi Day, 314. 00:00:09.000 --> 00:00:15.000 And we're turning a corner into space. 00:00:15.000 --> 00:00:17.000 And just in time… 00:00:17.000 --> 00:00:21.000 I know we have dedications. 00:00:21.000 --> 00:00:27.000 For today's learning show. 00:00:27.000 --> 00:00:38.000 Today we're dedicating with your. Gracious approval for my cousin, Henri Goodhein passed away a couple of days ago. He. 00:00:38.000 --> 00:00:54.000 was from the French side of our family, and he was a Holocaust survivor. And I know there are not many left. He also was very generous with his time when anyone asked him to speak, he would go and speak. He leaves behind. 00:00:54.000 --> 00:00:58.000 for children. Many grandchildren. 00:00:58.000 --> 00:01:03.000 And many of us who knew him and loved him very much. 00:01:03.000 --> 00:01:08.000 And we go home. Thank you. 00:01:08.000 --> 00:01:13.000 And to Lyla Krohn, we are in her boats. 00:01:13.000 --> 00:01:18.000 of our community and past at the age of 95. 00:01:18.000 --> 00:01:21.000 Are there others. 00:01:21.000 --> 00:01:25.000 Yeah, Nancy. 00:01:25.000 --> 00:01:33.000 One of my cousins has been very, very ill for quite a while, and he's doing a little better. Paul Parnas. 00:01:33.000 --> 00:01:37.000 pursuing for Paul, and for all… 00:01:37.000 --> 00:01:41.000 Holding in a heart for healing for others. 00:01:41.000 --> 00:01:44.000 writes, Sandra Mondier. 00:01:44.000 --> 00:01:48.000 Our first yard site is tomorrow. 00:01:48.000 --> 00:02:01.000 Yeah, yesterday was, um, the anniversary of my father's death on the secular calendar. 00:02:01.000 --> 00:02:07.000 And also on a positive note, it was your birthday, Rabbi David to speak. 00:02:07.000 --> 00:02:08.000 Thank you. Thank you. I am older now than I was. 00:02:08.000 --> 00:02:09.000 Yes. 00:02:09.000 --> 00:02:13.000 Thursday? 00:02:13.000 --> 00:02:14.000 So, you are? So happy belated. 00:02:14.000 --> 00:02:20.000 Yeah, aren't we all every day? 00:02:20.000 --> 00:02:23.000 A number of us are traveling today. 00:02:23.000 --> 00:02:38.000 I'll grab the recording. Let's open up our hearts first about blessing over our 00:02:38.000 --> 00:02:41.000 Blessed are you, O Lord God, eternal sovereign. 00:02:41.000 --> 00:02:44.000 Who sanctified us and guards mitzvot. 00:02:44.000 --> 00:02:47.000 commanded us to busy ourselves in words of… 00:02:47.000 --> 00:02:51.000 Shabbat Shalom, everybody. 00:02:51.000 --> 00:02:57.000 We have a double portion today by Michael and the day. Together, they end the 00:02:57.000 --> 00:03:02.000 Exodus. Uh, it's a double portion because it's not 00:03:02.000 --> 00:03:06.000 And so these Torah portions sometimes are separated to make 00:03:06.000 --> 00:03:14.000 Extra-party notes, so we make an extra month of the Jewish calendar for a leap year. This is not one of them. 00:03:14.000 --> 00:03:17.000 Rabbi Rachel is on assignment today as a scholar. 00:03:17.000 --> 00:03:22.000 Residents in Richmond, Virginia. She will be back next week. 00:03:22.000 --> 00:03:26.000 to having her voice, as well as 00:03:26.000 --> 00:03:31.000 Her teachings that are here, Shabbat Shalom, Ami. 00:03:31.000 --> 00:03:36.000 This double Torah portion is the actual building of the Mishkan. 00:03:36.000 --> 00:03:42.000 Plans before. And then the golden calf. 00:03:42.000 --> 00:03:44.000 And now we need a physical place. 00:03:44.000 --> 00:03:49.000 So we're gonna make a physical place. 00:03:49.000 --> 00:03:54.000 It's gonna be a little bit of a deal with approach today. We have fewer, but longer 00:03:54.000 --> 00:03:56.000 teachings. 00:03:56.000 --> 00:04:00.000 For us to dive into… 00:04:00.000 --> 00:04:03.000 acquire what's happening here. 00:04:03.000 --> 00:04:08.000 Where are we in the spiritual flow? 00:04:08.000 --> 00:04:12.000 Where are we? 00:04:12.000 --> 00:04:18.000 So here is an opening poem by Rabbi Yael. 00:04:18.000 --> 00:04:21.000 And when you get the materials, you can click on… 00:04:21.000 --> 00:04:23.000 collection. 00:04:23.000 --> 00:04:28.000 I would like to read. 00:04:28.000 --> 00:04:31.000 I'll read. 00:04:31.000 --> 00:04:37.000 We bring ourselves to an upright posture. 00:04:37.000 --> 00:04:42.000 Shoulders back, so the heart space is open. 00:04:42.000 --> 00:04:49.000 In both of these Torah portions, we're given many details of the creation of the Mishkan. 00:04:49.000 --> 00:04:54.000 At the very end, it tells us the Mishkan is complete. 00:04:54.000 --> 00:04:58.000 A cloud rests by day and a fire by night. 00:04:58.000 --> 00:05:01.000 The language echoes. 00:05:01.000 --> 00:05:05.000 God finished the work of creation. 00:05:05.000 --> 00:05:09.000 In these echoes, we're reminded that creation is completed. 00:05:09.000 --> 00:05:14.000 And that creation continues to unfold. 00:05:14.000 --> 00:05:20.000 In the newness of each day, we weave the sacred into the world. 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:23.000 work is complete. 00:05:23.000 --> 00:05:27.000 It's Shabbat. 00:05:27.000 --> 00:05:32.000 And creation is ongoing. 00:05:32.000 --> 00:05:38.000 God's goodness. 00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:43.000 petroleum to me every day, forever. 00:05:43.000 --> 00:05:48.000 I'm making of creation. 00:05:48.000 --> 00:05:54.000 It is finished. It is ongoing. 00:05:54.000 --> 00:06:00.000 How does that feel in the body? 00:06:00.000 --> 00:06:07.000 How does that feel at all? 00:06:07.000 --> 00:06:15.000 has finished, it is ongoing. 00:06:15.000 --> 00:06:18.000 Hey, Nancy. 00:06:18.000 --> 00:06:22.000 I'm thinking of Dr. Doolittle. Okay. 00:06:22.000 --> 00:06:25.000 That is not on my bingo card. 00:06:25.000 --> 00:06:32.000 No, I bet it wasn't. But if anyone remembers Dr. Doolittle, there was the Push Me Pull You. 00:06:32.000 --> 00:06:40.000 Animal. And that's what came up for me as the push and pull, push and pull. Sorry. 00:06:40.000 --> 00:06:43.000 Yeah, yeah. 00:06:43.000 --> 00:06:44.000 Yeah. Yeah. 00:06:44.000 --> 00:06:45.000 2 things at once, you know. But quick and pull. 00:06:45.000 --> 00:06:48.000 Like, uh… yeah. 00:06:48.000 --> 00:06:51.000 Yeah, Debra, Indiana. 00:06:51.000 --> 00:06:53.000 It feels so uplifting. 00:06:53.000 --> 00:06:55.000 Yes, there's a part of me… 00:06:55.000 --> 00:06:59.000 American life, right? 00:06:59.000 --> 00:07:05.000 Let's just checked once I said things should be complete. 00:07:05.000 --> 00:07:07.000 Sort of like you're standing. 00:07:07.000 --> 00:07:16.000 things you've created, and you're still moving. 00:07:16.000 --> 00:07:26.000 I didn't share about this the other day. 00:07:26.000 --> 00:07:30.000 Thank you. Thank you, Deanna. 00:07:30.000 --> 00:07:33.000 I think it's beautiful, too, and what I feel in my body… 00:07:33.000 --> 00:07:39.000 When I hear those words is, I feel, um, reassured. 00:07:39.000 --> 00:07:42.000 and secure. 00:07:42.000 --> 00:07:46.000 And held. 00:07:46.000 --> 00:07:48.000 There's a Mishkan. 00:07:48.000 --> 00:07:50.000 Mmm. 00:07:50.000 --> 00:07:54.000 We call it Shabbat. 00:07:54.000 --> 00:07:58.000 It is a container. 00:07:58.000 --> 00:08:01.000 It is complete. 00:08:01.000 --> 00:08:05.000 It is flowing. 00:08:05.000 --> 00:08:11.000 Iris and Brett. And then we'll do some text. 00:08:11.000 --> 00:08:18.000 I really appreciate that you asked the question of where do we feel that in our bodies? Because. 00:08:18.000 --> 00:08:43.000 I felt that, before you asked the question, of course, but, um… It feels like it's really flowing in me. I felt… a very meaningful connection, and because… creation is… unfolding and flowing, it reinforces for me the sense that we are co-creators. 00:08:43.000 --> 00:08:55.000 And the Mishkan is like our soul in a way that it's each of us have that in us and it's connected with the divine energy. 00:08:55.000 --> 00:08:58.000 Yeah. Yes. 00:08:58.000 --> 00:09:00.000 Brett. 00:09:00.000 --> 00:09:07.000 I felt the same as Iris, that the flow sensation, but I thought of the ocean and how… 00:09:07.000 --> 00:09:08.000 the ties… the waves are always coming in. 00:09:08.000 --> 00:09:10.000 Hmm. 00:09:10.000 --> 00:09:15.000 So they're… they're always going in and out, but we would never say, oh, the ocean is not complete. 00:09:15.000 --> 00:09:18.000 So it… 00:09:18.000 --> 00:09:19.000 Yeah… 00:09:19.000 --> 00:09:22.000 Yeah. The push and pull, I also felt that, like, Nancy brought up, like, 00:09:22.000 --> 00:09:26.000 Just… yeah. 00:09:26.000 --> 00:09:28.000 So we're about to… 00:09:28.000 --> 00:09:31.000 finish the Mishkan. 00:09:31.000 --> 00:09:36.000 pretend that all the details have been laid out. 00:09:36.000 --> 00:09:40.000 And they did this, and they did that, and they wove this, and they brought that. 00:09:40.000 --> 00:09:43.000 And then they hammered this, and he died, D-Y-E-D. 00:09:43.000 --> 00:09:49.000 that. And they fastened this, and they built this, and they covered this in gold, and… 00:09:49.000 --> 00:09:56.000 And they assembled, and they… they did all the things, and… 00:09:56.000 --> 00:09:59.000 We're going to pick up. 00:09:59.000 --> 00:10:03.000 Near the end of Exodus 39, there'll be… 00:10:03.000 --> 00:10:05.000 a skip. 00:10:05.000 --> 00:10:10.000 And then we'll finish the book of Exodus. 00:10:10.000 --> 00:10:15.000 We have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, haha, seven, 00:10:15.000 --> 00:10:28.000 chunks. Let's do what we do. 00:10:28.000 --> 00:10:29.000 We need 7 readers, please. 00:10:29.000 --> 00:10:32.000 Hmm. 00:10:32.000 --> 00:10:34.000 This was completed, all the work of the Mishkon. 00:10:34.000 --> 00:10:38.000 Thus was completed all the work of the Mishkan of the Tent of Meeting. 00:10:38.000 --> 00:10:44.000 The children of Israel did so, as Yod-Heh-Vav-Heh commanded Moshe, so they did. 00:10:44.000 --> 00:11:06.000 They brought to Moshe the Mishkan with the tent and all its vessels, its clasps, planks, bars, posts, and sockets, the cover of tanned ram skins and dolphin skins, and screening curtain. 00:11:06.000 --> 00:11:10.000 The ark of testimony and its poles and cover. 00:11:10.000 --> 00:11:14.000 The table and all its utensils, and the display bread, 00:11:14.000 --> 00:11:19.000 The pure menorah, its lights in due order, all its fittings, 00:11:19.000 --> 00:11:23.000 And the oil for lighting. 00:11:23.000 --> 00:11:35.000 The service clubs for service in holiness. The sacral vestments for Aaron the Cohain and the vestments for his in priestly service. 00:11:35.000 --> 00:11:38.000 It should say some, sorry. 00:11:38.000 --> 00:11:51.000 for his son and priestly servants. As Judeh Vavha commanded Moshe, so the children of Israel did all the service. Moshe saw all the work they did. 00:11:51.000 --> 00:11:59.000 As soon as he commanded, so they did, most to bless them. 00:11:59.000 --> 00:12:00.000 Go ahead. 00:12:00.000 --> 00:12:11.000 Yeah. He spoke to Moses, saying, on the first day of the first month, set up the Mishkan of the Tent of Meeting. 00:12:11.000 --> 00:12:17.000 Put there the arc of witnessing and screen the ark with the curtain. 00:12:17.000 --> 00:12:22.000 Thus, Moses did, as Yud-Heh-Vafeh commanded him, so he did. 00:12:22.000 --> 00:12:32.000 In the first month of the second year, on the first of the month, the Mishkan was stood up when Moses finished the work. 00:12:32.000 --> 00:12:39.000 The cloud covered the tent of witnessing and the glory of Yudhai Vav-Heh filled the Mishkan. 00:12:39.000 --> 00:12:48.000 Moshe could not enter the tent of witnessing, for the cloud dwelled on it, and the glory of Judeh Vavave filled the Mishkan. 00:12:48.000 --> 00:13:01.000 When the cloud lifted from the Mishkan, the children of Israel set out on all their journeys. 00:13:01.000 --> 00:13:08.000 Finish the book of Exodus. 00:13:08.000 --> 00:13:21.000 someone who hasn't been here in a while. 00:13:21.000 --> 00:13:26.000 David, finish it up for us. 00:13:26.000 --> 00:13:35.000 Sure. And if the cloud did not lift. They would not set out until the time of its lifting. 00:13:35.000 --> 00:13:43.000 For over the Mishkan was a cloud of hay by day, and a fire by night. 00:13:43.000 --> 00:13:53.000 in the eyes of all the house of Israel and all their journeys. 00:13:53.000 --> 00:13:56.000 We have… 00:13:56.000 --> 00:14:01.000 The completion of the Mishkah. 00:14:01.000 --> 00:14:05.000 It is contemplated, and it flows. 00:14:05.000 --> 00:14:10.000 It is done, and it continues. 00:14:10.000 --> 00:14:13.000 Let's do what we do. 00:14:13.000 --> 00:14:19.000 Deanna. 00:14:19.000 --> 00:14:22.000 You are muted, friend. 00:14:22.000 --> 00:14:29.000 Sorry. Um, I have a question, Rabbi David. Could you remind us of where we are geographically? 00:14:29.000 --> 00:14:31.000 With this Mishkan? 00:14:31.000 --> 00:14:37.000 We are somewhere. 00:14:37.000 --> 00:14:38.000 So… 00:14:38.000 --> 00:14:39.000 Okay, thank you. That clears it up. 00:14:39.000 --> 00:14:41.000 Right? So neat. 00:14:41.000 --> 00:14:43.000 We… this is… 00:14:43.000 --> 00:14:46.000 beginning of the second year of… 00:14:46.000 --> 00:14:47.000 travels. 00:14:47.000 --> 00:14:49.000 Okay. 00:14:49.000 --> 00:14:51.000 We are somewhere over there. 00:14:51.000 --> 00:14:52.000 Okay. 00:14:52.000 --> 00:14:58.000 We are not told where it was put up. 00:14:58.000 --> 00:15:05.000 Which you would think is itself kind of fascinating, because this is such a big deal. 00:15:05.000 --> 00:15:07.000 It doesn't tell us where. 00:15:07.000 --> 00:15:10.000 I'm curious if there are… 00:15:10.000 --> 00:15:14.000 There have to be theories about where this would have been. 00:15:14.000 --> 00:15:17.000 We know it's somewhere in Sinai. 00:15:17.000 --> 00:15:18.000 Okay. 00:15:18.000 --> 00:15:19.000 Somewhere in the cyanite Desert. 00:15:19.000 --> 00:15:21.000 Okay. 00:15:21.000 --> 00:15:24.000 Right? That much, we know more than that. 00:15:24.000 --> 00:15:30.000 Okay, thank you. 00:15:30.000 --> 00:15:40.000 Let's do what we do. 00:15:40.000 --> 00:15:42.000 Mishkan is complete. 00:15:42.000 --> 00:15:44.000 And it's flowing. 00:15:44.000 --> 00:15:49.000 And it's somewhere, and it's everywhere. 00:15:49.000 --> 00:15:51.000 gather again. 00:15:51.000 --> 00:15:58.000 I'm so… I'm struck by those first couple of verses. 00:15:58.000 --> 00:16:01.000 It was such a communal community. 00:16:01.000 --> 00:16:02.000 Yes. 00:16:02.000 --> 00:16:05.000 effort, and it's so beautiful. 00:16:05.000 --> 00:16:11.000 that they made all of this together, and then they came and presented it to Moshe. 00:16:11.000 --> 00:16:14.000 Um… 00:16:14.000 --> 00:16:17.000 And the community aspect of it seems… 00:16:17.000 --> 00:16:19.000 very much… 00:16:19.000 --> 00:16:21.000 the point. 00:16:21.000 --> 00:16:25.000 It's tremendous. Indeed. 00:16:25.000 --> 00:16:27.000 call from prior parachutes. 00:16:27.000 --> 00:16:31.000 Moshe says everybody of the people of everybody who is… 00:16:31.000 --> 00:16:35.000 So inclined in heart to be generous, bring your stuff. 00:16:35.000 --> 00:16:37.000 And then earlier in… 00:16:37.000 --> 00:16:41.000 This set of Torah portions. 00:16:41.000 --> 00:16:45.000 Moses needed to tell the people, stop bringing stuff we have too much. 00:16:45.000 --> 00:16:48.000 said no. 00:16:48.000 --> 00:16:54.000 ever. 00:16:54.000 --> 00:16:57.000 So there's something inherently communal here in every… 00:16:57.000 --> 00:17:00.000 Everybody participate in everybody of… 00:17:00.000 --> 00:17:03.000 That giving heart. 00:17:03.000 --> 00:17:05.000 Audit to Moshe. Yeah. 00:17:05.000 --> 00:17:10.000 Yep, yep, yep, there's something going on here. 00:17:10.000 --> 00:17:15.000 It's possible we'll even go there later. 00:17:15.000 --> 00:17:20.000 I have a question, because I'm confused. So… 00:17:20.000 --> 00:17:21.000 Well, not a good gun. 00:17:21.000 --> 00:17:23.000 Yeah, um, so… 00:17:23.000 --> 00:17:30.000 Moshe can't enter when the cloud is there, but when the cloud does lift, 00:17:30.000 --> 00:17:32.000 everyone leaves. 00:17:32.000 --> 00:17:35.000 So does Moshe enter when… 00:17:35.000 --> 00:17:40.000 the children of Israel go out on their journeys, and he stays. 00:17:40.000 --> 00:17:41.000 Gorgeous question. 00:17:41.000 --> 00:17:44.000 Or does he… is he one of them? Um… 00:17:44.000 --> 00:17:47.000 And then, is the cloud… 00:17:47.000 --> 00:17:52.000 God. What is the cloud? Um… 00:17:52.000 --> 00:17:54.000 Yeah, it's very confusing. 00:17:54.000 --> 00:17:56.000 Well, yes. 00:17:56.000 --> 00:17:58.000 Yes. So, one of the 00:17:58.000 --> 00:18:01.000 wealthiest lines, in my view, of Torah. 00:18:01.000 --> 00:18:06.000 is the last line. 00:18:06.000 --> 00:18:08.000 Cloud-by-day, fire by night. 00:18:08.000 --> 00:18:11.000 This was their GPS. 00:18:11.000 --> 00:18:17.000 Think of it like their god positioning system. 00:18:17.000 --> 00:18:20.000 And if Moses is up front, then the cloud is moving. 00:18:20.000 --> 00:18:22.000 And Moses can't go into the Mishkan. 00:18:22.000 --> 00:18:27.000 But it's not moving. It doesn't actually ever go into the mishkin. 00:18:27.000 --> 00:18:35.000 So he's not… it says the arc of witnessing… well, what… what are you witnessing? And it's attentive meeting. 00:18:35.000 --> 00:18:38.000 Who's meeting? What are we meeting? Who, like, can't go in. 00:18:38.000 --> 00:18:43.000 So most English translations are the tens of meaning. 00:18:43.000 --> 00:18:45.000 will end. But… 00:18:45.000 --> 00:18:49.000 To me is Lifikesh. It's simply not right. 00:18:49.000 --> 00:18:55.000 Attentive meeting is really an witnessing 00:18:55.000 --> 00:18:59.000 or sacred times in which we witness God. So… 00:18:59.000 --> 00:19:08.000 If Moshe can't go into the tent of witnessing, how can Moshe witness God? And if nobody else can go into the tent of witnessing, but Aaron, we'll get to that. 00:19:08.000 --> 00:19:10.000 How can anybody witness God? 00:19:10.000 --> 00:19:22.000 is the witnessing to happen in the Thames. If nobody can be there, or is it precisely that nobody can be there other than Aaron that makes a witness? 00:19:22.000 --> 00:19:26.000 Yeah. Tune in to the book of Leviticus. 00:19:26.000 --> 00:19:33.000 might be starting next week. 00:19:33.000 --> 00:19:35.000 Fine, fine. Curiosity. 00:19:35.000 --> 00:19:42.000 What else do we see? 00:19:42.000 --> 00:19:46.000 Oh, I'm sorry, God, do you? 00:19:46.000 --> 00:19:49.000 So this is the portion that has the adenine in it, correct? 00:19:49.000 --> 00:19:51.000 It is… the sockets. 00:19:51.000 --> 00:20:05.000 So which I really like. Adonai, which I still can't figure out why the rabbis couldn't just say Yud-Heh-Vav-Heh. Um, but Adonai understood as flexible sockets. 00:20:05.000 --> 00:20:09.000 Which is really thrills me in my understanding of Judhe Vavay. 00:20:09.000 --> 00:20:12.000 Adhanim are sockets. 00:20:12.000 --> 00:20:16.000 The knob is its sockets. 00:20:16.000 --> 00:20:18.000 Adorn is bored. 00:20:18.000 --> 00:20:24.000 What is… what is the common connector between sockets and board? 00:20:24.000 --> 00:20:27.000 I just told you. 00:20:27.000 --> 00:20:33.000 There's sacred connectors. 00:20:33.000 --> 00:20:39.000 Yep. So, a socket. 00:20:39.000 --> 00:20:40.000 For those of us who are handing up, 00:20:40.000 --> 00:20:41.000 Could you say that again, please? 00:20:41.000 --> 00:20:44.000 Or can pretend to be for now. 00:20:44.000 --> 00:20:50.000 A socket goes like this and connects a thing to a thing. 00:20:50.000 --> 00:20:51.000 It can go like this, it can go like this, but whatever it is, it's a connector. 00:20:51.000 --> 00:20:56.000 But it also can go like this. 00:20:56.000 --> 00:20:59.000 The Hebrew for a socket. 00:20:59.000 --> 00:21:04.000 is a plural of the name, Adam, Adan. 00:21:04.000 --> 00:21:07.000 I don't… I don't mind. 00:21:07.000 --> 00:21:16.000 A July is literally I, my, I don't, Lord. 00:21:16.000 --> 00:21:17.000 a socket, a lord, 00:21:17.000 --> 00:21:25.000 That's. 00:21:25.000 --> 00:21:26.000 Because of all the gendering, yes. 00:21:26.000 --> 00:21:27.000 a lord translation is problematic for me. Correct. And yes, yes. 00:21:27.000 --> 00:21:33.000 And… and. It's not inherent, it's just grammar. 00:21:33.000 --> 00:21:34.000 It's just grammar. 00:21:34.000 --> 00:21:45.000 Yeah. No. Right. The other thing, and this is way out there, and I don't even know if I believe it, but the Amy, who asked, what is the cloud? 00:21:45.000 --> 00:21:51.000 I was in a bookstore in New York City years ago, and a book fell into my hand. 00:21:51.000 --> 00:21:56.000 As God and space men. And in it, it said, the cloud was a spaceship. 00:21:56.000 --> 00:22:12.000 And the fire by night was was the lights underneath it, and the cloud was when the shadow of the spaceship. So, like, I don't know what to do with that, but that book fell into my hand. And this is the perfect place to share it. 00:22:12.000 --> 00:22:15.000 Beautiful. Cheryl just wrote… 00:22:15.000 --> 00:22:17.000 In the chat box, I feel like I've been 00:22:17.000 --> 00:22:27.000 waiting for God has been waiting a long time for this part of creation to finish. 00:22:27.000 --> 00:22:33.000 Why do you see this as part of creation? 00:22:33.000 --> 00:22:37.000 Well, there's actually a comment from the previous poem. 00:22:37.000 --> 00:22:54.000 Um, and… It… it really is. It's like the world is created, but people as a community first had to come together and be created. We had, like, ancestors. 00:22:54.000 --> 00:23:11.000 Um, who were put in place, and then things were forgotten. And then things had to happen again. 00:23:11.000 --> 00:23:12.000 Yes. 00:23:12.000 --> 00:23:15.000 And like each time was another piece towards creation. You know, we've talked about how the blood on the lentils, you know, it was like a birthing process, and so there's a lot of these. 00:23:15.000 --> 00:23:23.000 pieces that have to finally come together until. Jurhe Vavre. 00:23:23.000 --> 00:23:31.000 As community, has the ability to create the ongoing connection and. 00:23:31.000 --> 00:23:38.000 So in the anthropomorphizing part of God, there was a patience factor. 00:23:38.000 --> 00:23:47.000 Waiting until really everything has come together. There's enough of a group to continue to propagate. 00:23:47.000 --> 00:23:58.000 ourselves as opposed to two people. You know, and more scattered. So I feel that. 00:23:58.000 --> 00:24:10.000 because it said creation, and this truly is when the Jewish community comes together, not without problems, as in the golden calf, and. 00:24:10.000 --> 00:24:15.000 other things, and, you know, two Jews, three opinions, all of that stuff. 00:24:15.000 --> 00:24:29.000 We were questioning people and I think that it's not really final creation because like now when I look at what's happening in Judaism and how there's more availability. 00:24:29.000 --> 00:24:36.000 for everybody in our world. Regardless of color. 00:24:36.000 --> 00:24:51.000 gender selection, you know, whatever. We are still always in the process of creation so that we can. 00:24:51.000 --> 00:24:55.000 And notice all the hands just came up. 00:24:55.000 --> 00:24:56.000 So, who created who? 00:24:56.000 --> 00:24:58.000 keep, maintain, grow our community to be inclusive. 00:24:58.000 --> 00:25:02.000 Did the Mishkon create the people? Did the people create the Mishkan? 00:25:02.000 --> 00:25:07.000 what's the purpose of creating all of this, all that, yeah. 00:25:07.000 --> 00:25:10.000 Uh, James, Corinne. 00:25:10.000 --> 00:25:13.000 Deanna. 00:25:13.000 --> 00:25:17.000 So, I don't know if you're interested in talking about this or not, but… 00:25:17.000 --> 00:25:22.000 Uh, Zohar refers to this as basically a reenactment. 00:25:22.000 --> 00:25:25.000 of creation itself. Uh… 00:25:25.000 --> 00:25:27.000 Uh, Bitzelim. 00:25:27.000 --> 00:25:30.000 Um, everything that's done here 00:25:30.000 --> 00:25:33.000 literally maps onto… 00:25:33.000 --> 00:25:36.000 creation, creation, like, you know, what God did. 00:25:36.000 --> 00:25:38.000 Um, even to the point that 00:25:38.000 --> 00:25:42.000 Bezalel was not actually 00:25:42.000 --> 00:25:43.000 Hammering things, and… 00:25:43.000 --> 00:25:46.000 pushing things together and so forth, but actually he was using… 00:25:46.000 --> 00:25:50.000 words, and that the divine was flowing through him, 00:25:50.000 --> 00:25:55.000 He was a channel building all this in exactly the same way that… 00:25:55.000 --> 00:25:57.000 that the divine built 00:25:57.000 --> 00:26:00.000 creation. So it's a mirror of that. 00:26:00.000 --> 00:26:04.000 So hard, got it from pre-existing Midrash. 00:26:04.000 --> 00:26:10.000 which we are going to look at. 00:26:10.000 --> 00:26:14.000 I love you guys. 00:26:14.000 --> 00:26:18.000 Corinne Deliana Iris. 00:26:18.000 --> 00:26:32.000 Yes, the parallel that strikes me is the mode, the thing that they witnessed at the first day of the second year, and it clicks in with Rosh Pradesh. It's the new beginning. 00:26:32.000 --> 00:26:47.000 You don't see the balloon, but you know it's coming. There is the things are in bud, the things are coming to fruition by the full moon, and the fact there are witnesses, it looks like. 00:26:47.000 --> 00:27:01.000 It's an important thing, as you said, to have witnessed this in. 00:27:01.000 --> 00:27:05.000 So when is this? 00:27:05.000 --> 00:27:06.000 For the first… 00:27:06.000 --> 00:27:08.000 in practice. And the ritual of… 00:27:08.000 --> 00:27:11.000 When is that the first book? 00:27:11.000 --> 00:27:12.000 When's that? 00:27:12.000 --> 00:27:15.000 Each one has its own spiritual significance. 00:27:15.000 --> 00:27:17.000 Yeah. 00:27:17.000 --> 00:27:18.000 So… 00:27:18.000 --> 00:27:22.000 Sam, is it the first? And we'll be having trouble with Nissan on Wednesday or Thursday. 00:27:22.000 --> 00:27:31.000 So, how many of you think the Jewish year begins with Rosh Hashedah? 00:27:31.000 --> 00:27:34.000 It ain't so, Joe. 00:27:34.000 --> 00:27:38.000 The first day of the seventh month is Rosh Hashanah. 00:27:38.000 --> 00:27:40.000 Why do we call it Roachesana? 00:27:40.000 --> 00:27:46.000 That got flipped in early Christendom. 00:27:46.000 --> 00:27:52.000 You've probably heard that Judaism has multiple new years. There's what we call Rosh Hashanah. 00:27:52.000 --> 00:27:55.000 There's the new year of the animals. 00:27:55.000 --> 00:27:59.000 Which is the first day of ending. 00:27:59.000 --> 00:28:05.000 There's the new year of the trees, Tuishvat. 00:28:05.000 --> 00:28:10.000 Then there's the secular 00:28:10.000 --> 00:28:14.000 the reign of a sovereign. 00:28:14.000 --> 00:28:18.000 that new year for crops. 00:28:18.000 --> 00:28:23.000 And that's the first day of the month of Nisan. 00:28:23.000 --> 00:28:25.000 When is now? 00:28:25.000 --> 00:28:29.000 Today's the 25th day of… 00:28:29.000 --> 00:28:31.000 Which means… 00:28:31.000 --> 00:28:35.000 that it's about the song. 00:28:35.000 --> 00:28:39.000 right now. It is the Shabbat that announces 00:28:39.000 --> 00:28:43.000 coming of the month of the sun, the next numeral you see. 00:28:43.000 --> 00:28:45.000 In just a few days. 00:28:45.000 --> 00:28:51.000 is this. 00:28:51.000 --> 00:28:55.000 It's the re-creation. 00:28:55.000 --> 00:28:57.000 Re-creation. 00:28:57.000 --> 00:29:03.000 corresponds with the ramp to… 00:29:03.000 --> 00:29:06.000 Passover. 00:29:06.000 --> 00:29:10.000 Because then Passover is the full moon. 00:29:10.000 --> 00:29:12.000 So here we are. 00:29:12.000 --> 00:29:15.000 Our people who've been created. 00:29:15.000 --> 00:29:19.000 humanitarianism being created. 00:29:19.000 --> 00:29:21.000 First JCC being… 00:29:21.000 --> 00:29:24.000 created as the… 00:29:24.000 --> 00:29:26.000 titration of… 00:29:26.000 --> 00:29:29.000 The capital C creation. 00:29:29.000 --> 00:29:34.000 Yup. 00:29:34.000 --> 00:29:37.000 Right. Now. 00:29:37.000 --> 00:29:39.000 It's done. It's… 00:29:39.000 --> 00:29:42.000 Continuing. 00:29:42.000 --> 00:29:51.000 Deanna, Iris, Ellen Ruth, and we're gonna do some text. 00:29:51.000 --> 00:29:54.000 Deanna, you're muted, friend. 00:29:54.000 --> 00:29:57.000 Sorry, I haven't had enough coffee yet. 00:29:57.000 --> 00:30:01.000 Um, in 3436… 00:30:01.000 --> 00:30:11.000 the cloud is covering the tent of witnessing. Moshe could not enter the tent of witnessing for the cloud dwelled on it, and the glory of Yod-Heh-Vav-Heh filled the Mishkan. 00:30:11.000 --> 00:30:13.000 So, I'm just struck that… 00:30:13.000 --> 00:30:17.000 he and nobody can be in the actual presence. 00:30:17.000 --> 00:30:21.000 of God. It is contained in the Mishkan, and therefore, 00:30:21.000 --> 00:30:24.000 He can't go in. 00:30:24.000 --> 00:30:29.000 And I think Rep brought this up before, but I'm… 00:30:29.000 --> 00:30:43.000 curious what witnessing means in this context if they're not allowed to actually witness. 00:30:43.000 --> 00:30:45.000 That's all. 00:30:45.000 --> 00:30:48.000 Well, so this made me one of those moments. 00:30:48.000 --> 00:30:51.000 Yes. 00:30:51.000 --> 00:30:53.000 Repeat your question, but… 00:30:53.000 --> 00:30:55.000 Vinic inflection. 00:30:55.000 --> 00:30:59.000 It'll sound really smart and elicit your answer. 00:30:59.000 --> 00:31:06.000 Let me try this. Let me try it. 00:31:06.000 --> 00:31:09.000 Imagine our ancestors. 00:31:09.000 --> 00:31:16.000 witnessed. If they couldn't physically go in to see. 00:31:16.000 --> 00:31:18.000 Well, they witnessed the cloud. 00:31:18.000 --> 00:31:21.000 And the fire. 00:31:21.000 --> 00:31:25.000 Like, signs. 00:31:25.000 --> 00:31:29.000 Keep it com… 00:31:29.000 --> 00:31:30.000 Keep it kind of… 00:31:30.000 --> 00:31:35.000 Well, you you don't experience something purely through sight anyway. 00:31:35.000 --> 00:31:36.000 That's right. 00:31:36.000 --> 00:31:45.000 You know, you started off with how does this feel in your body? 00:31:45.000 --> 00:31:46.000 Yeah… 00:31:46.000 --> 00:31:52.000 That was your one of your 1st questions. So you can have an experience without seeing. 00:31:52.000 --> 00:32:13.000 I also I keep wondering why were the cohain the cohane like? 00:32:13.000 --> 00:32:14.000 Right. 00:32:14.000 --> 00:32:18.000 What were their qualities? Were they selected? My father was a Kohane, and I remember asking him that, and he didn't really have an answer, but what makes a cohain outside of if they were originally a tribe, or… You know, there's the same way… 00:32:18.000 --> 00:32:25.000 So, yup, yup, yup, so that part is easy. 00:32:25.000 --> 00:32:26.000 cohang is literally from the Hebrew. 00:32:26.000 --> 00:32:28.000 Mm-hmm. 00:32:28.000 --> 00:32:33.000 McCain to serve. 00:32:33.000 --> 00:32:37.000 This level of servant are the descendants of Aaron. 00:32:37.000 --> 00:32:39.000 That's it. They, by definition, are of the tribe of Levi. 00:32:39.000 --> 00:32:43.000 That's it. 00:32:43.000 --> 00:32:47.000 that the invites, sort of, 00:32:47.000 --> 00:32:49.000 Venn diagram of the… 00:32:49.000 --> 00:32:52.000 not the priesthood. 00:32:52.000 --> 00:32:55.000 Um, and it's Aaron who went in… 00:32:55.000 --> 00:32:59.000 Not Moses. What qualities 00:32:59.000 --> 00:33:04.000 Hang tight! We're gonna get to that in the book of Leviticus. 00:33:04.000 --> 00:33:12.000 And we're gonna have to shift it, because the Kahuna came through the wine of… 00:33:12.000 --> 00:33:13.000 And therefore… 00:33:13.000 --> 00:33:20.000 Aaron. 00:33:20.000 --> 00:33:23.000 This was originally gendered. 00:33:23.000 --> 00:33:26.000 What do we do now? 00:33:26.000 --> 00:33:29.000 Everybody's head is up, my heavens. 00:33:29.000 --> 00:33:32.000 Iris, Ellen Ruth, David Sherrill, 00:33:32.000 --> 00:33:36.000 text. 00:33:36.000 --> 00:33:45.000 So I may not be remembering correctly, and please correct me, but it feels like building the Mishkan was. 00:33:45.000 --> 00:33:51.000 One of the first things that people did for God, God was doing things for us. 00:33:51.000 --> 00:33:59.000 And now the active covenant is, it's part of the covenant to do that. 00:33:59.000 --> 00:34:00.000 Yes. 00:34:00.000 --> 00:34:13.000 and okay. And also, I was just going to say it feels also like it's coming from the experience of Sinai in the sense of all the multi-sensory aspects. 00:34:13.000 --> 00:34:33.000 And maybe not seeing, but feeling and feeling connected and witnessing that. So we go from this really kind of amazing experience, and it's still very spiritual, so… It's part of that galvanizing or spiritualizing and. 00:34:33.000 --> 00:34:40.000 to meet communalizing us as we were moving through all of this. 00:34:40.000 --> 00:34:44.000 And that also what you were saying about the sockets being connectors. 00:34:44.000 --> 00:35:02.000 So yeah, it's so metaphorical that. And one last thought is that humankum is one of the names for God, and it feels like this is one place. It's not the only place, but that it was a place the people created. 00:35:02.000 --> 00:35:11.000 You know, to make me a sanctuary, which I also feel means make me a sanctuary in the sense of. 00:35:11.000 --> 00:35:19.000 feeling connected and spiritually and otherwise with the Divine. 00:35:19.000 --> 00:35:21.000 Yeah, that there's something about the 00:35:21.000 --> 00:35:22.000 that that makes us… 00:35:22.000 --> 00:35:23.000 Thank you. 00:35:23.000 --> 00:35:26.000 base, but it's not about the… 00:35:26.000 --> 00:35:28.000 thing that we make. 00:35:28.000 --> 00:35:31.000 Making of the space. 00:35:31.000 --> 00:35:37.000 It is completed. It continues to flow. 00:35:37.000 --> 00:35:40.000 Who was next? 00:35:40.000 --> 00:35:42.000 are… 00:35:42.000 --> 00:35:46.000 Um, if this is what happened… 00:35:46.000 --> 00:35:50.000 On the first day of the second year. 00:35:50.000 --> 00:35:56.000 What were they doing for the next 38 years? 00:35:56.000 --> 00:35:59.000 schlepping around… 00:35:59.000 --> 00:36:01.000 I was just like… 00:36:01.000 --> 00:36:02.000 getting into a little trouble… 00:36:02.000 --> 00:36:03.000 If they had such a powerful… 00:36:03.000 --> 00:36:07.000 Getting there, being afraid… 00:36:07.000 --> 00:36:11.000 If they had such a powerful experience… 00:36:11.000 --> 00:36:15.000 How come it took another 38 years? 00:36:15.000 --> 00:36:20.000 Hang, hang on, we're gonna get to that in the book of Numbers, the short answer is… 00:36:20.000 --> 00:36:23.000 They still didn't quite get it. 00:36:23.000 --> 00:36:26.000 They were too afraid. 00:36:26.000 --> 00:36:28.000 And so… 00:36:28.000 --> 00:36:34.000 God said, alright, you're gonna have to wander the desert for a next generation to take over. 00:36:34.000 --> 00:36:39.000 And it'll try again. 00:36:39.000 --> 00:36:43.000 Who's next? 00:36:43.000 --> 00:36:58.000 Not sure, but… It looks like me. So I had a couple of thoughts on this, which is. 00:36:58.000 --> 00:36:59.000 Yeah. 00:36:59.000 --> 00:37:01.000 one I put in the chat, which is their journeys aren't necessarily referring, and I think that's what Iris kind of said as well. 00:37:01.000 --> 00:37:07.000 Which then also says that. Moshe could take part in that as well. 00:37:07.000 --> 00:37:09.000 Yes. 00:37:09.000 --> 00:37:14.000 And, but I was thinking how the creation of the Mishkan. 00:37:14.000 --> 00:37:25.000 The creation of anything prior to prayer, the steps we take prior to prayer, whether it is preparation of sacred space. 00:37:25.000 --> 00:37:32.000 or preparation of ourselves in maybe putting on a Taliq. 00:37:32.000 --> 00:37:40.000 There is a lot of important energy to help put us in that space. 00:37:40.000 --> 00:37:47.000 that almost the prayers themselves. are secondary. 00:37:47.000 --> 00:37:48.000 Yep. 00:37:48.000 --> 00:38:01.000 Um, and so… just that everyone had a part in putting together the Mishkan, whether it was contributory or carrying, or whatever. 00:38:01.000 --> 00:38:07.000 That helped to learn, to teach us what it means. 00:38:07.000 --> 00:38:13.000 to create sacred space. And in the poem it says, sit up straight. 00:38:13.000 --> 00:38:21.000 Fill your chest. All of this, like the breath itself. 00:38:21.000 --> 00:38:22.000 Sure. 00:38:22.000 --> 00:38:28.000 so much stuff about breath and prayer and preparation. You know, grounding oneself in place, letting go of everything else. 00:38:28.000 --> 00:38:40.000 um, you know, lighting incense, whatever you're going to do, all that preparatory stuff, and frequently takes more time than the actual prayers. 00:38:40.000 --> 00:38:44.000 So just saying that that is a very important piece. 00:38:44.000 --> 00:38:46.000 It's all here. 00:38:46.000 --> 00:38:47.000 It's done. It's flowing. 00:38:47.000 --> 00:38:51.000 this whole creation. 00:38:51.000 --> 00:38:54.000 It's past, it's present. 00:38:54.000 --> 00:38:57.000 David, last word. 00:38:57.000 --> 00:39:06.000 When I read sentence 34, the cloud covered the tent of witnessing and the glory of YAH filled the Mishkan. 00:39:06.000 --> 00:39:18.000 If I read it out of con… without looking at anything else, I might think it's two separate buildings, detentive witnessing sounds like a different building than the Mishcon, but I think it's all the same thing. 00:39:18.000 --> 00:39:26.000 And I wonder if it's… like, I think of Jacob and Israel, for instance, two different names for the same person, and… Just curious about that. 00:39:26.000 --> 00:39:29.000 The Ohel Moet is, is… 00:39:29.000 --> 00:39:37.000 is in a traditional synagogue, you… in traditional… in a modern synagogue, you walk through the front door, 00:39:37.000 --> 00:39:42.000 But… the sanctuary is not immediately there. You have to… you go 00:39:42.000 --> 00:39:46.000 And we'll see, there's a courtyard! 00:39:46.000 --> 00:39:48.000 You may put up screens… 00:39:48.000 --> 00:39:59.000 And then there's another tent on the inside, and then inside the tent there's a curtain, and then you go… right, there's this layered effect. 00:39:59.000 --> 00:40:01.000 Yup. Yup. 00:40:01.000 --> 00:40:04.000 Yup, yup, thank you. 00:40:04.000 --> 00:40:07.000 Rhett asked a question that a few of you had asked in it. 00:40:07.000 --> 00:40:11.000 in a different way in the chat box. 00:40:11.000 --> 00:40:19.000 Are we creating what God created? 00:40:19.000 --> 00:40:22.000 Funny, you should ask. 00:40:22.000 --> 00:40:27.000 We're gonna walk through this. 00:40:27.000 --> 00:40:31.000 This is a piece of a larger midwash. 00:40:31.000 --> 00:40:33.000 with a ton coma picks this up, 00:40:33.000 --> 00:40:38.000 So far, picks this up. 00:40:38.000 --> 00:40:42.000 This looks like the creation of the world. 00:40:42.000 --> 00:40:46.000 And the Midrash asks Kitsad, 00:40:46.000 --> 00:40:49.000 How so? 00:40:49.000 --> 00:40:53.000 And we have 7 people? 00:40:53.000 --> 00:40:56.000 Read the Seven. 00:40:56.000 --> 00:40:59.000 One by one. 00:40:59.000 --> 00:41:04.000 You see the bold on the first day and the second day, 00:41:04.000 --> 00:41:09.000 This is a microcosm of the creation of the world. 00:41:09.000 --> 00:41:13.000 How? On the first day… 00:41:13.000 --> 00:41:17.000 In the beginning, when God created heaven and earth, 00:41:17.000 --> 00:41:22.000 And God stretches the heavens like a sheep. 00:41:22.000 --> 00:41:25.000 of the Michigan. 00:41:25.000 --> 00:41:27.000 Make sheets of goat hair. 00:41:27.000 --> 00:41:32.000 Thank you. 00:41:32.000 --> 00:41:38.000 Anybody buy it? 00:41:38.000 --> 00:41:44.000 I mean, it seems so trivial, right? Sheets of goat hair. 00:41:44.000 --> 00:41:47.000 It's gonna be like stretching the… 00:41:47.000 --> 00:41:50.000 I'm in over the sky. 00:41:50.000 --> 00:41:56.000 like a sheet. 00:41:56.000 --> 00:42:01.000 Alright? Yeah, Iris. 00:42:01.000 --> 00:42:10.000 This is strictly stream of consciousness, but it feels like that relates back to the sacrifices that were done. 00:42:10.000 --> 00:42:12.000 Yeah. Yeah. 00:42:12.000 --> 00:42:19.000 And in English, I want to keep drawing your attention to the word microcosm. 00:42:19.000 --> 00:42:22.000 Microcosm. 00:42:22.000 --> 00:42:23.000 Cosmos. Micro. 00:42:23.000 --> 00:42:25.000 Mm-hmm. 00:42:25.000 --> 00:42:28.000 That what this thing is… 00:42:28.000 --> 00:42:31.000 is not just a completion of creation. 00:42:31.000 --> 00:42:38.000 It is the world in miniature. 00:42:38.000 --> 00:42:48.000 Deanna. 00:42:48.000 --> 00:42:51.000 Deanna, you're a muted, friend. 00:42:51.000 --> 00:42:54.000 I'm sorry. Um… 00:42:54.000 --> 00:43:00.000 If they're making sheets of goat hair, it's not goat skin, they are having to take all that hair from the 00:43:00.000 --> 00:43:02.000 goats, however they do that. 00:43:02.000 --> 00:43:09.000 And spin it into yarn, and weave it. It's a lot of work. 00:43:09.000 --> 00:43:10.000 And that… 00:43:10.000 --> 00:43:11.000 The women. 00:43:11.000 --> 00:43:14.000 Yeah. Yeah. 00:43:14.000 --> 00:43:23.000 Alright. Day 2. 00:43:23.000 --> 00:43:24.000 need a reader. 00:43:24.000 --> 00:43:32.000 On the second, let there be a firmament, which Torah calls a separation, as in, let it separate water and water. 00:43:32.000 --> 00:43:37.000 of the Mishkan, the curtain will separate. 00:43:37.000 --> 00:43:48.000 Why could there not be a separation on the first day? 00:43:48.000 --> 00:43:52.000 You get it instinctively. 00:43:52.000 --> 00:43:53.000 Right. Right. The very notion of duality. 00:43:53.000 --> 00:43:57.000 It was nothing to separate. 00:43:57.000 --> 00:44:00.000 is built into not the first day, 00:44:00.000 --> 00:44:03.000 But the second… 00:44:03.000 --> 00:44:06.000 Great! 00:44:06.000 --> 00:44:12.000 We're back to David's comment, and there's a curtain, there's the inside, there's the outside, there are layers, there are levels, yup. 00:44:12.000 --> 00:44:14.000 If that couldn't be. 00:44:14.000 --> 00:44:16.000 On the second, on the first day. 00:44:16.000 --> 00:44:20.000 So, what's the third? 00:44:20.000 --> 00:44:25.000 Reader. 00:44:25.000 --> 00:44:33.000 Let waters be gathered of the Mishkan make a laver of bronze and place water in it. 00:44:33.000 --> 00:44:41.000 We're going to need water in the Mishkan water. 00:44:41.000 --> 00:44:45.000 So, Nancy is doing a universal symbols for… 00:44:45.000 --> 00:44:47.000 Getting ready… 00:44:47.000 --> 00:44:48.000 Washing hands… 00:44:48.000 --> 00:44:49.000 Washing hands. cleaning up. 00:44:49.000 --> 00:44:53.000 Cleaning off… what else, what else, what else? What does the water symbolize? Blessing, keep going. 00:44:53.000 --> 00:45:00.000 Blessing. Water. 00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:04.000 verification… 00:45:04.000 --> 00:45:10.000 in a lot of Midrash, what is water… sorry. 00:45:10.000 --> 00:45:11.000 Alright. 00:45:11.000 --> 00:45:12.000 Okay, alright? Laura? No. 00:45:12.000 --> 00:45:16.000 Yeah, what does water symbolize in… 00:45:16.000 --> 00:45:17.000 In the Jurassic lore, life, and particularly… 00:45:17.000 --> 00:45:24.000 Life. 00:45:24.000 --> 00:45:25.000 I'm thinking the feminine. 00:45:25.000 --> 00:45:27.000 birth, you know? 00:45:27.000 --> 00:45:28.000 It's the waters… waters of the womb. 00:45:28.000 --> 00:45:31.000 Oh. But yeah. 00:45:31.000 --> 00:45:32.000 The waters of birth. 00:45:32.000 --> 00:45:36.000 Shekinah. Hmm. 00:45:36.000 --> 00:45:45.000 4… 00:45:45.000 --> 00:45:50.000 God created the lights. Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens. 00:45:50.000 --> 00:45:57.000 of the Mishkan and the heaven, of the Mishkan make the menorah of gold. 00:45:57.000 --> 00:46:01.000 Every Mishkan needs light. 00:46:01.000 --> 00:46:07.000 And we've looked at the MISCOM before. 00:46:07.000 --> 00:46:11.000 Not one life, but multiple lights. How could there… how could 00:46:11.000 --> 00:46:15.000 Multiple lights on the first day. 00:46:15.000 --> 00:46:20.000 The light itself needed to be created, light separated from darkness, light. 00:46:20.000 --> 00:46:24.000 Right. So maybe it's not in the exact order, but we'll… 00:46:24.000 --> 00:46:30.000 Even the things that have happened in creation. 00:46:30.000 --> 00:46:33.000 Five! 00:46:33.000 --> 00:46:34.000 This one seems very cool. 00:46:34.000 --> 00:46:38.000 On the 5th. God created birds. 00:46:38.000 --> 00:46:49.000 Let the waters warm with swarming live beings and flying fowl. 00:46:49.000 --> 00:46:50.000 Show your frozen, but was that you? 00:46:50.000 --> 00:46:54.000 The Mishkan Kauravim with wings above. 00:46:54.000 --> 00:46:55.000 Yeah, so you're in the world who raises birds. 00:46:55.000 --> 00:46:59.000 Yeah. 00:46:59.000 --> 00:47:00.000 Yeah, I'm… I'm just loving this. 00:47:00.000 --> 00:47:09.000 Mm-hmm. 00:47:09.000 --> 00:47:18.000 The crew beings. We've studied this recently, those two angelic creatures that were not God, because there were two 00:47:18.000 --> 00:47:20.000 Maimonides. 00:47:20.000 --> 00:47:24.000 making that space in between. 00:47:24.000 --> 00:47:27.000 from which God spoke not from the thing, 00:47:27.000 --> 00:47:31.000 But from the space, make me a sanctuary, and I will dwell among 00:47:31.000 --> 00:47:37.000 Y'all, not the thing, the space, that we make. 00:47:37.000 --> 00:47:41.000 All of us together. 00:47:41.000 --> 00:47:56.000 Uh-huh. Number 6. 00:47:56.000 --> 00:47:58.000 Who wants 6? 00:47:58.000 --> 00:48:05.000 On the 6th, God created humanity, as in, God created the human in God's image. 00:48:05.000 --> 00:48:07.000 Fashioning it in glory. 00:48:07.000 --> 00:48:15.000 of the Mishkan, a human who is the high priest, anointed to serve and tend before God. 00:48:15.000 --> 00:48:18.000 So we don't get to create people 00:48:18.000 --> 00:48:20.000 in… 00:48:20.000 --> 00:48:24.000 The way that God creates people. 00:48:24.000 --> 00:48:26.000 We get to deploy. 00:48:26.000 --> 00:48:30.000 people. 00:48:30.000 --> 00:48:33.000 If it is true. 00:48:33.000 --> 00:48:39.000 Let the Kohanga del high priest no longer functions? 00:48:39.000 --> 00:48:44.000 Whether it is all of us who function. 00:48:44.000 --> 00:48:49.000 take your place in creation. 00:48:49.000 --> 00:48:54.000 Take your place on Day 6. 00:48:54.000 --> 00:48:56.000 Take your place in… 00:48:56.000 --> 00:48:59.000 The place of service of God. 00:48:59.000 --> 00:49:07.000 appointed to serve and attend. 00:49:07.000 --> 00:49:11.000 She's on the idea. Who's got 7? 00:49:11.000 --> 00:49:15.000 I'm starting to use Passover lines. 00:49:15.000 --> 00:49:26.000 The heavens and earth were finished. of the Mishkan, all the work was finished. Of the world's creation, God blessed. 00:49:26.000 --> 00:49:32.000 of the Mishkan Moshe blessed. 00:49:32.000 --> 00:49:38.000 Completion led to blessing. 00:49:38.000 --> 00:49:43.000 And the blessing was the point. 00:49:43.000 --> 00:49:45.000 And God bless them, saying, 00:49:45.000 --> 00:49:52.000 And Moshe blessed them, saying, 00:49:52.000 --> 00:49:57.000 How many of you have talked about the world of spiritual life as not the thing we say, what we 00:49:57.000 --> 00:50:00.000 What it looks like, what we wear, 00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:03.000 which we turn to. 00:50:03.000 --> 00:50:08.000 But the making of the space, the doing of the thing, the doing it together. 00:50:08.000 --> 00:50:11.000 That brings in… 00:50:11.000 --> 00:50:15.000 Blessing. 00:50:15.000 --> 00:50:22.000 I'll do it as a pointer, but that is the point. 00:50:22.000 --> 00:50:25.000 We get so… 00:50:25.000 --> 00:50:27.000 lost in the details. 00:50:27.000 --> 00:50:32.000 And the decals are worth getting lost in. 00:50:32.000 --> 00:50:34.000 There's a lot to teach us, there's a lot we can do together. 00:50:34.000 --> 00:50:38.000 those details. 00:50:38.000 --> 00:50:49.000 Never lose sight of the pawn. 00:50:49.000 --> 00:50:54.000 Um, I'm a little confused. 00:50:54.000 --> 00:50:58.000 Okay. 00:50:58.000 --> 00:51:03.000 Didn't God give the directions as to how to… 00:51:03.000 --> 00:51:04.000 Belvis? Is that true? 00:51:04.000 --> 00:51:08.000 Yeah. Yeah. 00:51:08.000 --> 00:51:12.000 So, this is the way… this is… 00:51:12.000 --> 00:51:15.000 God's playbook as to how he… 00:51:15.000 --> 00:51:17.000 how… 00:51:17.000 --> 00:51:21.000 I don't want to say he, how, it creates things. 00:51:21.000 --> 00:51:22.000 Yup. 00:51:22.000 --> 00:51:26.000 So I was just following… following that pattern. 00:51:26.000 --> 00:51:30.000 Because first I… because first I was reading it like… 00:51:30.000 --> 00:51:34.000 We were… 00:51:34.000 --> 00:51:42.000 doing the same thing that God did in the same kind of order. But this is the order of the way God does things. 00:51:42.000 --> 00:51:43.000 Right. 00:51:43.000 --> 00:51:45.000 And God gave us those directions. 00:51:45.000 --> 00:51:49.000 Right. You're not confused. 00:51:49.000 --> 00:51:52.000 That's exactly right. 00:51:52.000 --> 00:51:55.000 And that's the point. Because God… 00:51:55.000 --> 00:52:00.000 In this understanding of the divine-human relationship, not only wanted the 00:52:00.000 --> 00:52:02.000 needed us. 00:52:02.000 --> 00:52:08.000 to step up as creators. 00:52:08.000 --> 00:52:11.000 partnership. 00:52:11.000 --> 00:52:22.000 So, the point of the whole thing is making humanity co-creators in the building of the spiritual… 00:52:22.000 --> 00:52:24.000 device. 00:52:24.000 --> 00:52:26.000 Yeah. 00:52:26.000 --> 00:52:29.000 Yes, and some of you were writing about that. 00:52:29.000 --> 00:52:33.000 in real time. Absolutely. 00:52:33.000 --> 00:52:43.000 Absolutely. 00:52:43.000 --> 00:52:45.000 We saw. 00:52:45.000 --> 00:52:47.000 We experienced. 00:52:47.000 --> 00:52:49.000 And then… 00:52:49.000 --> 00:52:51.000 ran like hell. 00:52:51.000 --> 00:52:56.000 We had that whole golden calf episode. 00:52:56.000 --> 00:52:59.000 And we saw that the second tablets were the… 00:52:59.000 --> 00:53:06.000 replacement. Moses says, I want to see your glory. 00:53:06.000 --> 00:53:09.000 God's glory fills the Mishatan. 00:53:09.000 --> 00:53:12.000 Why would the Mishkan be… 00:53:12.000 --> 00:53:15.000 so beloved to God. 00:53:15.000 --> 00:53:27.000 Other than that, there's this microcosmic way in which… 00:53:27.000 --> 00:53:29.000 It's our gift to God. 00:53:29.000 --> 00:53:30.000 Yes. 00:53:30.000 --> 00:53:36.000 It's like our gift to God. I would… I was thinking about Alan Liu and Jewish meditation. 00:53:36.000 --> 00:53:48.000 Um, and I was… Thinking, I wonder if this would make… almost a beautifully, beautiful guided imagery. 00:53:48.000 --> 00:53:49.000 In fact, 00:53:49.000 --> 00:53:52.000 In a meditation. to again visualize the creation of the Mishkan step by step. 00:53:52.000 --> 00:53:56.000 And… yup, and in fact, that's exactly 00:53:56.000 --> 00:53:58.000 what some people do with it. 00:53:58.000 --> 00:54:01.000 So, that's great. 00:54:01.000 --> 00:54:05.000 Why would it be beloved to me? 00:54:05.000 --> 00:54:10.000 Why does God need a starship? 00:54:10.000 --> 00:54:15.000 It's time, finally, to answer that question. 00:54:15.000 --> 00:54:21.000 Same mirrors, just a little bit further down. 00:54:21.000 --> 00:54:26.000 Someone who hasn't had a chance to read. 00:54:26.000 --> 00:54:30.000 Yeah, fair enough. 00:54:30.000 --> 00:54:34.000 But you need to unmute. 00:54:34.000 --> 00:54:41.000 Okay. Uh, come and see how beloved the Mishkan is to the Holy Blessed One. 00:54:41.000 --> 00:54:45.000 God projected from supernal height 00:54:45.000 --> 00:54:48.000 To dwell in the Mishka. 00:54:48.000 --> 00:54:54.000 Rev Shimon said it was Shaheena's essence. 00:54:54.000 --> 00:54:56.000 In the lower realms. 00:54:56.000 --> 00:55:00.000 As in, they heard the voice of Yud-Heh-Bhav-Heh, 00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:04.000 God walking in the garden. 00:55:04.000 --> 00:55:06.000 That's the Garden of Eden. 00:55:06.000 --> 00:55:09.000 Adam went and sinned. 00:55:09.000 --> 00:55:14.000 Shehina withdrew from earth to heaven. 00:55:14.000 --> 00:55:18.000 Chain arose and killed his brother. 00:55:18.000 --> 00:55:23.000 She withdrew from the first heaven to the second. 00:55:23.000 --> 00:55:27.000 Inosh's generation arose. 00:55:27.000 --> 00:55:29.000 and angered God. 00:55:29.000 --> 00:55:34.000 She withdrew from the second to the third. 00:55:34.000 --> 00:55:38.000 The flood generation arose and destroyed the way. 00:55:38.000 --> 00:55:42.000 She withdrew from the third to the fourth. 00:55:42.000 --> 00:55:47.000 The Tower of Babel's generation became arrogant. 00:55:47.000 --> 00:55:51.000 She withdrew from the 4th to the 5th. 00:55:51.000 --> 00:55:53.000 Sodomites wrecked. 00:55:53.000 --> 00:55:57.000 She withdrew from the 5th to the 6th. 00:55:57.000 --> 00:56:00.000 Amrav. Am Rafael. 00:56:00.000 --> 00:56:02.000 king of Sumeria arose. 00:56:02.000 --> 00:56:09.000 to wage war. She withdrew from the 6th to the 7th. 00:56:09.000 --> 00:56:15.000 So… 00:56:15.000 --> 00:56:18.000 Comma in the garden. 00:56:18.000 --> 00:56:22.000 was alienated. 00:56:22.000 --> 00:56:24.000 By us. 00:56:24.000 --> 00:56:27.000 by our ancient… 00:56:27.000 --> 00:56:31.000 ancestors. 00:56:31.000 --> 00:56:33.000 So, Shekhena is now… 00:56:33.000 --> 00:56:37.000 You know, I've been making my way up to the… above my Zoom screen, 00:56:37.000 --> 00:56:40.000 So, you can no longer see Shima. 00:56:40.000 --> 00:56:43.000 Goodbye, Salina. 00:56:43.000 --> 00:56:49.000 Now, the story that the Midrash is gonna tell is uniquely a Jewish story. 00:56:49.000 --> 00:56:53.000 And I invite us to hear it in those terms, and also to… 00:56:53.000 --> 00:56:59.000 projected beyond its Jewish context and ask what's universal here? Keep going, Meredith. 00:56:59.000 --> 00:57:02.000 Am I at Avraham? 00:57:02.000 --> 00:57:03.000 You are an opera hum. 00:57:03.000 --> 00:57:09.000 arose. Okay. Can I ask a question, Rabbi? What… when we say the first heaven, the second, what is that? 00:57:09.000 --> 00:57:16.000 There are different heavens, first heavens, second heaven, third… what is all that? 00:57:16.000 --> 00:57:21.000 What do you think? 00:57:21.000 --> 00:57:22.000 I don't know. 00:57:22.000 --> 00:57:24.000 Is there a Kabbalist? 00:57:24.000 --> 00:57:27.000 on this plane. 00:57:27.000 --> 00:57:30.000 Oh, the Spheroat? 00:57:30.000 --> 00:57:32.000 Is it the spherote? 00:57:32.000 --> 00:57:33.000 Could well be. 00:57:33.000 --> 00:57:34.000 Okay. 00:57:34.000 --> 00:57:35.000 It could well be. 00:57:35.000 --> 00:57:36.000 The seven Sephros. 00:57:36.000 --> 00:57:37.000 Okay. 00:57:37.000 --> 00:57:38.000 But didn't all the stuff… 00:57:38.000 --> 00:57:42.000 And, and… 00:57:42.000 --> 00:57:48.000 I'm… I took Kabbalah classes a long time ago, so I have a vague memory of this. 00:57:48.000 --> 00:57:50.000 As… 00:57:50.000 --> 00:57:55.000 the SimSum gets smaller and smaller in different stages. 00:57:55.000 --> 00:57:58.000 coming down to the physical plane. Am I correct in that? 00:57:58.000 --> 00:57:59.000 Yes. 00:57:59.000 --> 00:58:01.000 Okay. 00:58:01.000 --> 00:58:02.000 God self-contracting. 00:58:02.000 --> 00:58:04.000 Mm-hmm. 00:58:04.000 --> 00:58:07.000 to fill here, and at the same time, 00:58:07.000 --> 00:58:11.000 What makes us think we know from heaven. 00:58:11.000 --> 00:58:16.000 Right? So, it's all metaphor, it's all metaphor, and one of the ways to understand 00:58:16.000 --> 00:58:20.000 And it is in terms of sevens. 00:58:20.000 --> 00:58:24.000 Because Jewish. Um, one way is Kabbalistically. 00:58:24.000 --> 00:58:31.000 Because 7s, because Jewish, writes, whatever it is, there's this sense that infinity has levels. 00:58:31.000 --> 00:58:33.000 Just like the Mishkrah has 00:58:33.000 --> 00:58:39.000 And Shakina, whatever it is, don't get too trapped in the metaphor. 00:58:39.000 --> 00:58:44.000 Our behavior as a human race. 00:58:44.000 --> 00:58:47.000 Such, you know, running away. 00:58:47.000 --> 00:58:50.000 And now, awesome. 00:58:50.000 --> 00:58:55.000 Avraham arose and presented good deeds. 00:58:55.000 --> 00:58:58.000 She was drawn from the seventh to the sixth. 00:58:58.000 --> 00:59:01.000 Yitak drew her from the sixth to the fifth. 00:59:01.000 --> 00:59:04.000 Yaako from the 5th to the 4th. 00:59:04.000 --> 00:59:07.000 Levi, his son from the 4th to the 3rd. 00:59:07.000 --> 00:59:09.000 Hot Ben Levi. 00:59:09.000 --> 00:59:11.000 from the 3rd to the 2nd. 00:59:11.000 --> 00:59:15.000 I'm wrong, father of Moshech. 00:59:15.000 --> 00:59:17.000 From the second to the first. 00:59:17.000 --> 00:59:19.000 Mochette, on the day 00:59:19.000 --> 00:59:22.000 the Mishkan was set up 00:59:22.000 --> 00:59:25.000 And divine glory filled the Mishka. 00:59:25.000 --> 00:59:31.000 And you don't even need to say, brought her back in, because Mishkan is Sheena. 00:59:31.000 --> 00:59:36.000 It's the same word. 00:59:36.000 --> 00:59:38.000 Nish Contrina. 00:59:38.000 --> 00:59:46.000 Shouldn't coughnam. 00:59:46.000 --> 00:59:49.000 That's something about 00:59:49.000 --> 00:59:54.000 Nation of the Mishkan. 00:59:54.000 --> 00:59:58.000 Sheena. 00:59:58.000 --> 01:00:00.000 What do we do with that? 01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:05.000 Marist Delia. 01:00:05.000 --> 01:00:08.000 Um, it's like, if you do good things, 01:00:08.000 --> 01:00:14.000 Then you get Shahina, when you do things that aren't so good, 01:00:14.000 --> 01:00:15.000 Okay, so… 01:00:15.000 --> 01:00:17.000 Tahina goes away. So we can… we're in control. 01:00:17.000 --> 01:00:19.000 of… 01:00:19.000 --> 01:00:22.000 When Shakhina comes. 01:00:22.000 --> 01:00:23.000 Okay. Right. 01:00:23.000 --> 01:00:25.000 by our behavior. But that seems very transactional. 01:00:25.000 --> 01:00:26.000 So that doesn't seem right. 01:00:26.000 --> 01:00:28.000 Right, I just wrote transactional Divinity, and as… 01:00:28.000 --> 01:00:29.000 Yeah. 01:00:29.000 --> 01:00:34.000 My dear friends have taught in other contexts. 01:00:34.000 --> 01:00:37.000 You know, God is not a gumball machine. 01:00:37.000 --> 01:00:40.000 Great. 01:00:40.000 --> 01:00:43.000 Right, so what war is here? 01:00:43.000 --> 01:00:46.000 Notice it doesn't say… 01:00:46.000 --> 01:00:52.000 Yes, God did good things. Jaakov did good things. Levite did good things. 01:00:52.000 --> 01:00:54.000 thing that happens. 01:00:54.000 --> 01:00:57.000 is the setting up. 01:00:57.000 --> 01:01:01.000 of the Mishk Khanad Adonai Malay et almishkan. 01:01:01.000 --> 01:01:05.000 And the glory of God filled the Mishkhan. 01:01:05.000 --> 01:01:10.000 So what's happening here, Daly, Indiana? 01:01:10.000 --> 01:01:23.000 Not sure this is an answer, but it was kind of an answer to the question you asked. 01:01:23.000 --> 01:01:24.000 Okay. 01:01:24.000 --> 01:01:26.000 It wasn't the actual Mishkan that was so important, but the faith that the people had in the building it. And that's what God needs. 01:01:26.000 --> 01:01:28.000 Okay. Okay. 01:01:28.000 --> 01:01:30.000 God means us. 01:01:30.000 --> 01:01:31.000 Keep it coming. Do your Deanna Brett. 01:01:31.000 --> 01:01:35.000 Right. 01:01:35.000 --> 01:01:39.000 I'm also struck by the fact that it wasn't just 01:01:39.000 --> 01:01:45.000 that one action of the building of the Mishkan that brought the Shekinah back. 01:01:45.000 --> 01:01:48.000 It was this whole process, starting with Avraham. 01:01:48.000 --> 01:01:53.000 It was a long process, and it was a hard process. We know what all of those people did. 01:01:53.000 --> 01:01:56.000 So… 01:01:56.000 --> 01:01:57.000 Uh-huh. 01:01:57.000 --> 01:02:00.000 Yeah, it was complicated. 01:02:00.000 --> 01:02:05.000 What's our Jewish status on social media? 01:02:05.000 --> 01:02:08.000 It's complicated. 01:02:08.000 --> 01:02:11.000 It is complicated, and it takes time. 01:02:11.000 --> 01:02:15.000 Right? You know, we're looking at setting up a Jewish people. 01:02:15.000 --> 01:02:18.000 We're setting up peoplehood, not just in Michigan. 01:02:18.000 --> 01:02:22.000 It took many generations. It took all these generations. 01:02:22.000 --> 01:02:24.000 Right. It's done, 01:02:24.000 --> 01:02:27.000 It's flowing. 01:02:27.000 --> 01:02:30.000 It's still flowing. 01:02:30.000 --> 01:02:31.000 Yeah, right. 01:02:31.000 --> 01:02:32.000 Yeah. 01:02:32.000 --> 01:02:35.000 I'm gonna go back to the water metaphor, we had to make space. 01:02:35.000 --> 01:02:38.000 Water fills whatever vessel you put it in, and so we had… 01:02:38.000 --> 01:02:44.000 I don't know why, it just kept getting this image of, like, we had to draw Shekinah closer, 01:02:44.000 --> 01:02:47.000 But you have to make space 01:02:47.000 --> 01:02:50.000 for Shakina to be the indwelling presence. 01:02:50.000 --> 01:02:58.000 Um, if there's no space, which is… there's no faith, there's no place for Shekinah to live within us, then… 01:02:58.000 --> 01:03:02.000 Got nowhere to go. So it's like we are attracting it. 01:03:02.000 --> 01:03:09.000 more and more when we make space with faith and our good deeds. 01:03:09.000 --> 01:03:11.000 Exactly. Exactly. 01:03:11.000 --> 01:03:15.000 And in a fundamental sense, recall, putting all 01:03:15.000 --> 01:03:18.000 the pieces together since we left Egypt. 01:03:18.000 --> 01:03:25.000 This is a repair for the golden calf. 01:03:25.000 --> 01:03:27.000 to pray to. 01:03:27.000 --> 01:03:30.000 Now we're gonna build something. 01:03:30.000 --> 01:03:33.000 all together, not just some. 01:03:33.000 --> 01:03:38.000 In the middle of it is open space. 01:03:38.000 --> 01:03:43.000 What a fundamental difference. This is a typhoon. 01:03:43.000 --> 01:03:49.000 Prepare for the cat. 01:03:49.000 --> 01:03:51.000 Get it in your guts. 01:03:51.000 --> 01:03:55.000 They're not idolizing the Mishkhan. 01:03:55.000 --> 01:04:01.000 Bringing to the Mishkan any more than we pray to each other. 01:04:01.000 --> 01:04:08.000 So what's the modern Mishkan? You're looking at it. 01:04:08.000 --> 01:04:11.000 Gather. 01:04:11.000 --> 01:04:18.000 belief in your community works, in your collectivity, and everybody having a hand in. 01:04:18.000 --> 01:04:20.000 Everybody, everybody, everybody, 01:04:20.000 --> 01:04:25.000 Everybody. You're at it. 01:04:25.000 --> 01:04:28.000 This was just the first step. 01:04:28.000 --> 01:04:32.000 And later, we would have a temple, and then it would be destroyed. We'd have a 01:04:32.000 --> 01:04:35.000 another temple, the destruction of the second temple did not 01:04:35.000 --> 01:04:37.000 and MISCON. 01:04:37.000 --> 01:04:39.000 Trino went into exile with us. 01:04:39.000 --> 01:04:41.000 Shakina is still with us. 01:04:41.000 --> 01:04:48.000 That's the point. 01:04:48.000 --> 01:04:50.000 Questions, comments, 01:04:50.000 --> 01:04:55.000 Feelings. 01:04:55.000 --> 01:04:58.000 being next teaching coming from a clear card, David. 01:04:58.000 --> 01:05:12.000 I guess this is just my, um, putting it together that, um… Mish Khan is about the process. 01:05:12.000 --> 01:05:13.000 Yeah, we need… we need a new leader, we need a new god, they abandoned us, we're afraid. 01:05:13.000 --> 01:05:17.000 and the golden calf was maybe about the result or something like that. And that's… 01:05:17.000 --> 01:05:20.000 Yeah. 01:05:20.000 --> 01:05:23.000 Yeah. 01:05:23.000 --> 01:05:26.000 Yet! Meredith. 01:05:26.000 --> 01:05:27.000 In the longest. 01:05:27.000 --> 01:05:29.000 So, the golden calf… 01:05:29.000 --> 01:05:33.000 was a solid object. 01:05:33.000 --> 01:05:34.000 Yup. 01:05:34.000 --> 01:05:35.000 And so, there was no way 01:05:35.000 --> 01:05:37.000 for Shekinah, 01:05:37.000 --> 01:05:40.000 to be there. 01:05:40.000 --> 01:05:42.000 Is that what we're saying? 01:05:42.000 --> 01:05:46.000 And so now, with the Mishk Khan, and like Brett, I think Brett said, 01:05:46.000 --> 01:05:48.000 We need space. 01:05:48.000 --> 01:05:51.000 So, that's why I love that. 01:05:51.000 --> 01:05:57.000 Midrash that we studied with the space between the angels. 01:05:57.000 --> 01:06:01.000 And in the breastplate of the… isn't that right? And then… 01:06:01.000 --> 01:06:02.000 Yeah. 01:06:02.000 --> 01:06:06.000 And then Christina comes in through that space. 01:06:06.000 --> 01:06:07.000 Yes. It's not. 01:06:07.000 --> 01:06:09.000 Okay. 01:06:09.000 --> 01:06:10.000 The thing. 01:06:10.000 --> 01:06:12.000 Right. Okay. I get it. 01:06:12.000 --> 01:06:16.000 Iris. And then we're gonna do the clear car. 01:06:16.000 --> 01:06:26.000 So the way that things evolved in that, I'm sorry, in that most recent midrash, it feels to me that. 01:06:26.000 --> 01:06:38.000 there were, um, it was a growth process, and so the beginning was people not quite knowing how to be civil or whatever we want to call it. They were learning. 01:06:38.000 --> 01:06:58.000 And then we keep learning, but in the part where Shakina comes back, it's more nurturing and… seeing that we are growing and we need the presence of the divine and the presence of a Shefina to help us to grow. 01:06:58.000 --> 01:07:03.000 How do you get around the gold ball theology? 01:07:03.000 --> 01:07:07.000 You put in a good deed and you'll get a blessing out. 01:07:07.000 --> 01:07:12.000 Meredith, I think you've answered your own question. 01:07:12.000 --> 01:07:14.000 Purpose is not to build the thing. 01:07:14.000 --> 01:07:18.000 The purpose is to participate in the building of a space. 01:07:18.000 --> 01:07:21.000 And to do it together. 01:07:21.000 --> 01:07:23.000 And to do it in covenant. 01:07:23.000 --> 01:07:27.000 And then the blessing comes. 01:07:27.000 --> 01:07:29.000 The clear card. 01:07:29.000 --> 01:07:33.000 Whose last name is Lipschitz? 01:07:33.000 --> 01:07:39.000 In the 1500s, died in nearly 1600s. 01:07:39.000 --> 01:07:45.000 In his teaching here, I've excerpted it at some 01:07:45.000 --> 01:07:47.000 Because this is deep. 01:07:47.000 --> 01:07:49.000 And it's worth our time. 01:07:49.000 --> 01:07:53.000 goes into the communitarian aspect of this. 01:07:53.000 --> 01:07:57.000 So I'm gonna start us. 01:07:57.000 --> 01:08:04.000 The earlier we saw in Exodus 39, Moses saw only what they brought in the Mishkan, here it is. 01:08:04.000 --> 01:08:08.000 It's ready to do the voodoo that you do. 01:08:08.000 --> 01:08:15.000 And he says, the Cleocard, we need to be meta-deck about this. We need to be precise about this. 01:08:15.000 --> 01:08:23.000 First, the making of the Mishkan is called Avodak. 01:08:23.000 --> 01:08:27.000 One way to understand it is work, but really it's service. 01:08:27.000 --> 01:08:32.000 But later, at the end, the children of Israel did all the malachta. 01:08:32.000 --> 01:08:35.000 Which is really work. 01:08:35.000 --> 01:08:46.000 And he asks, why is the Torah shifting from this word Abaddah 01:08:46.000 --> 01:08:49.000 You would think that it would oughta go the other way. 01:08:49.000 --> 01:08:55.000 But the physical doing of the thing would be transmuted into service, but in fact, 01:08:55.000 --> 01:09:01.000 In this case, it's backwards. What's going on? 01:09:01.000 --> 01:09:07.000 It's appropriate to use the term other than that. 01:09:07.000 --> 01:09:12.000 Since through it, they served the Holy Blessed One. 01:09:12.000 --> 01:09:16.000 applies only between servant and 01:09:16.000 --> 01:09:19.000 master. 01:09:19.000 --> 01:09:24.000 How many of you just got triggered? 01:09:24.000 --> 01:09:33.000 master. 01:09:33.000 --> 01:09:43.000 What is happening on our Jewish calendar? We are slaves to a pharaoh in Egypt, and God let us out of there with a mighty-headed and outstretched arm with awesome power signs and wonders. 01:09:43.000 --> 01:09:49.000 And our service of Pharaoh was now substituted for service of God. 01:09:49.000 --> 01:09:52.000 Okay. 01:09:52.000 --> 01:09:56.000 is not just work. 01:09:56.000 --> 01:10:02.000 In the making of creation itself. 01:10:02.000 --> 01:10:09.000 Word that God, that Torah uses for that making of creation is also malacha. 01:10:09.000 --> 01:10:19.000 If you've ever heard the paragraph before Kiddish, 01:10:19.000 --> 01:10:22.000 God finished. 01:10:22.000 --> 01:10:32.000 The heavens and the earth and all their hosts. God completed by Yom Haashvi on the seventh day, 01:10:32.000 --> 01:10:38.000 that he did. So, this creation is itself malacha. 01:10:38.000 --> 01:10:40.000 Now. 01:10:40.000 --> 01:10:44.000 This next paragraph is about us. 01:10:44.000 --> 01:10:56.000 wants it. 01:10:56.000 --> 01:10:59.000 Somebody. 01:10:59.000 --> 01:11:03.000 Um, I could read… could you just enlarge it? Oh, thank you. 01:11:03.000 --> 01:11:04.000 Thank you. 01:11:04.000 --> 01:11:13.000 And it is just as we find in the work of creation that it says, for each creation that it was good. 01:11:13.000 --> 01:11:23.000 And in the end, it says, and God saw everything that God had made, and behold, it was very good. Genesis. 01:11:23.000 --> 01:11:32.000 for there are things that are good when each stands on its own, but when mixed together they are not good because their combination does not turn out well. 01:11:32.000 --> 01:11:37.000 Therefore, regarding creation, it says that each was good individually. 01:11:37.000 --> 01:11:51.000 meaning a particular good, and afterward it says that there was also a general good in them, because even after they were all joined together, their combination was good. 01:11:51.000 --> 01:11:58.000 This is why it repeats, and God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. 01:11:58.000 --> 01:12:10.000 Similarly, with the work of the tabernacle, it first says, thus, all the work of the tabernacle of the Tent of meeting was finished, and the children of Israel did according. 01:12:10.000 --> 01:12:22.000 to all that Yudhai Vafay commanded Moshe. So they did, which implies that each individual component was made as God commanded Moshe. 01:12:22.000 --> 01:12:34.000 But had it not yet been specified that after everything was made, they arranged each service in its designated place, meaning that meaning the general good. 01:12:34.000 --> 01:12:43.000 Therefore, it repeats, according to all that Judeh Vape commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did all the work. 01:12:43.000 --> 01:12:53.000 Because there was a general good in them, as they were made in the proper order, meaning the connection of all the work together. 01:12:53.000 --> 01:13:04.000 and afterward, it further explains that everything they made was done according to the command regarding the creation of the worlds heaven and earth. 01:13:04.000 --> 01:13:09.000 This is the meaning of Moshe saw all the work. 01:13:09.000 --> 01:13:30.000 Referring to the work of creation. and behold, they had done it, meaning that they made it resembling that work as if it was actually the same work. Therefore, Moshe blessed them. 01:13:30.000 --> 01:13:35.000 Anyone with a sense of what the clayakar is saying here? 01:13:35.000 --> 01:13:38.000 That's gonna be another paragraph that is… 01:13:38.000 --> 01:13:41.000 modern that tries to put this in English, but before we… 01:13:41.000 --> 01:13:43.000 We get there, I'm curious, does… 01:13:43.000 --> 01:13:48.000 Does the group have a sense intuitively what the CLIACAR is saying? 01:13:48.000 --> 01:13:53.000 Or is it just a word salad? 01:13:53.000 --> 01:13:56.000 David. 01:13:56.000 --> 01:14:08.000 What I'm coming out with it at this point is like two different levels. One level is… the process of making the parts. 01:14:08.000 --> 01:14:18.000 And then there's another level of. they come together and work well. 01:14:18.000 --> 01:14:19.000 Yeah, yeah. 01:14:19.000 --> 01:14:31.000 I'm losing it as I'm saying it, to be honest. But, um, it's not a done deal that the first will lead to the second, and it's like there's another level of effort or consciousness that's required. 01:14:31.000 --> 01:14:42.000 for the first… of just each part being made. 01:14:42.000 --> 01:14:44.000 So there's something… 01:14:44.000 --> 01:14:52.000 going on here, where the whole is greater than the settlement's parts. 01:14:52.000 --> 01:14:55.000 And it didn't have to… 01:14:55.000 --> 01:14:57.000 turn out that way. 01:14:57.000 --> 01:14:59.000 It could have turned out. 01:14:59.000 --> 01:15:03.000 You know, I made this thing, and you made this thing, and I made this thing, and my thing is better than your thing. 01:15:03.000 --> 01:15:05.000 my thing isn't gonna fit in your thing. 01:15:05.000 --> 01:15:10.000 I want my thing, you know, put together first before your thing. 01:15:10.000 --> 01:15:22.000 There were so many ways for this to go wrong. 01:15:22.000 --> 01:15:27.000 There were so many ways for the people not to get along. 01:15:27.000 --> 01:15:33.000 And putting it all together. 01:15:33.000 --> 01:15:37.000 And so the individual, okay, that's good, and that's good, and that's good, and that's good. 01:15:37.000 --> 01:15:40.000 did not need to result in. 01:15:40.000 --> 01:15:42.000 That's very good. 01:15:42.000 --> 01:15:46.000 that there's… 01:15:46.000 --> 01:15:52.000 goodness that is greater than the sum of its individual parts, and that's what brought the blessing. 01:15:52.000 --> 01:15:54.000 No different than God saying, 01:15:54.000 --> 01:15:56.000 You know, light is good. 01:15:56.000 --> 01:16:03.000 But the whole thing is very good. 01:16:03.000 --> 01:16:05.000 whole being the sum of its parts. 01:16:05.000 --> 01:16:10.000 It may be greater than the sum of its parts, sure. 01:16:10.000 --> 01:16:14.000 I feel like playing a little bit of devil's advocate here. 01:16:14.000 --> 01:16:33.000 which. There's a part of me that wants to say, Well, yes, of course it all went correctly, because they it's specifically, and I use that word because we've been using that word. 01:16:33.000 --> 01:16:41.000 Why? Why? 01:16:41.000 --> 01:16:42.000 Yeah. 01:16:42.000 --> 01:16:45.000 said that everybody followed God's direction. So there's something. There's something here that says that here comes the devil's advocate place that there was no agency. 01:16:45.000 --> 01:16:51.000 One had to follow God's direction for it all to fall into place. 01:16:51.000 --> 01:16:55.000 Remember, it was anyone whose heart so impelled them. 01:16:55.000 --> 01:16:58.000 God didn't tell them to bring. 01:16:58.000 --> 01:17:01.000 God said, all who are of a given heart. 01:17:01.000 --> 01:17:04.000 Give. 01:17:04.000 --> 01:17:05.000 It's a critical point. 01:17:05.000 --> 01:17:08.000 Why isn't choosing agency 01:17:08.000 --> 01:17:14.000 Why isn't choosing doing things God's way agency? 01:17:14.000 --> 01:17:25.000 I'm just playing the other side here. I'm just saying that because everything was done exactly according to God's plan, the stuff that showed up was what. 01:17:25.000 --> 01:17:34.000 got put into the Mishkan. Like, what if they had offered something differently, or something on that? But… so, everything was proscribed. 01:17:34.000 --> 01:17:36.000 Yeah. Yeah. 01:17:36.000 --> 01:17:37.000 But that's… but that's the whole… 01:17:37.000 --> 01:17:41.000 feels like. I just, you know, I'm so much a part. 01:17:41.000 --> 01:17:43.000 Go ahead, Alan Ruth. 01:17:43.000 --> 01:17:50.000 That… but that's the whole spiritual path. If we do… if we follow… 01:17:50.000 --> 01:17:51.000 the God's path. 01:17:51.000 --> 01:17:52.000 Right. 01:17:52.000 --> 01:17:57.000 then we will have a happy life. Things will go well. 01:17:57.000 --> 01:18:00.000 It's our discernment. 01:18:00.000 --> 01:18:02.000 to, um… 01:18:02.000 --> 01:18:06.000 decide that. That's agency. 01:18:06.000 --> 01:18:11.000 I I agree with you. I was just playing the other side of the coin for a moment. 01:18:11.000 --> 01:18:15.000 Yeah, this was… this was voluntary. 01:18:15.000 --> 01:18:20.000 This was voluntary. Moses told the people to do it, but, you know, 01:18:20.000 --> 01:18:22.000 We just came through an episode 01:18:22.000 --> 01:18:26.000 people went sideways. 01:18:26.000 --> 01:18:30.000 So this is elementally different. 01:18:30.000 --> 01:18:33.000 Again, 181 erupt. 01:18:33.000 --> 01:18:38.000 Pair. David. 01:18:38.000 --> 01:18:43.000 I'm thinking of this as not simply about following the assembly instructions. 01:18:43.000 --> 01:19:06.000 But because if that is the manufacturer, it's going to work out okay. But it's about intent and motive and two levels. One level of intent or motive is I'm going to do my part. And the second, and I'm going to make my, my. 01:19:06.000 --> 01:19:07.000 Yeah. 01:19:07.000 --> 01:19:14.000 piecework and do it right. But then there's another level of intent and motive, which is this is part of a bigger… whole, and how to… and do I want to raise my intent up to that level that we're all, uh. 01:19:14.000 --> 01:19:21.000 Yeah. This is not just the Torah of Ikea. 01:19:21.000 --> 01:19:28.000 stands, and we have to build the shell, or the thing, or something more. 01:19:28.000 --> 01:19:31.000 So Sheldon Lewis. 01:19:31.000 --> 01:19:35.000 for a beautiful book entitled The Torah of Reconciliation. 01:19:35.000 --> 01:19:38.000 In which he… 01:19:38.000 --> 01:19:47.000 pulls together this teaching of the Kliakar, who hasn't had a chance to read. 01:19:47.000 --> 01:19:54.000 Mercy, you feel like reading. 01:19:54.000 --> 01:20:01.000 the tabernacle, Mishkan. was the great work of the Jewish people in the wilderness. 01:20:01.000 --> 01:20:12.000 They work together, apparently without conflict, each one volunteering his or her skills to the vast shared enterprise. 01:20:12.000 --> 01:20:18.000 It would be inconceivable that what each one accomplished would be good. 01:20:18.000 --> 01:20:29.000 But their individual works might not fit well with that of others in this collective work of devotional art. 01:20:29.000 --> 01:20:37.000 The Kriya card finds evidence, however, that the cumulative result was extraordinarily good. 01:20:37.000 --> 01:20:44.000 Just as the parts of God's work of creation join in a wondrous whole. 01:20:44.000 --> 01:20:57.000 So the work of hundreds of thousands added up to a finely crafted and unified work. The use of the special word for work. 01:20:57.000 --> 01:21:05.000 Melica? And the statement that Moses saw all the work, Malacha. 01:21:05.000 --> 01:21:15.000 Allude to the creation narrative. What do people achieved was tantamount to the work of creation itself. 01:21:15.000 --> 01:21:25.000 No wonder that Moses blesses them just as God blessed the… the… region itself. 01:21:25.000 --> 01:21:27.000 of the work of creation itself. Is that right? 01:21:27.000 --> 01:21:29.000 Yes. 01:21:29.000 --> 01:21:36.000 No wonder that Moses then blesses them just as God had blessed them the seventh day. 01:21:36.000 --> 01:21:44.000 Having witnessed how well all of the elements of creation were joined in a wondrous whole. 01:21:44.000 --> 01:21:50.000 There was little doubt that these last chapters of Exodus refer deliberately. 01:21:50.000 --> 01:22:03.000 Back to the first chapters of Genesis, and you just gave me this flashback, which I had a few minutes ago, to Rabbi Manny of Blessed Memory, always saying, Look, it's good! 01:22:03.000 --> 01:22:12.000 And now look, it's very good, and it's not violent. It's created of love. 01:22:12.000 --> 01:22:18.000 This great test demonstrated what a community could accomplish once they make peace with one 01:22:18.000 --> 01:22:29.000 The tabernacle which come testifies to the potential of a human enterprise to model God's work. 01:22:29.000 --> 01:22:31.000 It feels… 01:22:31.000 --> 01:22:32.000 Like, wow. 01:22:32.000 --> 01:22:34.000 It's awesome. 01:22:34.000 --> 01:22:40.000 How far we have fallen. 01:22:40.000 --> 01:22:43.000 of you just, I saw it on your 01:22:43.000 --> 01:22:50.000 bodies. 01:22:50.000 --> 01:22:52.000 The Majesty of the… 01:22:52.000 --> 01:22:59.000 Access is not that. 01:22:59.000 --> 01:23:07.000 were freed from Egypt, and everything was fine. 01:23:07.000 --> 01:23:10.000 Majesty of the Book of Exodus. 01:23:10.000 --> 01:23:14.000 is that we knew it. 01:23:14.000 --> 01:23:19.000 Hard. 01:23:19.000 --> 01:23:22.000 with everything that we just read happened to 01:23:22.000 --> 01:23:25.000 After that. 01:23:25.000 --> 01:23:32.000 After we blew it. 01:23:32.000 --> 01:23:38.000 what I personally take from this. 01:23:38.000 --> 01:23:42.000 is that the covenant 01:23:42.000 --> 01:23:45.000 The prospect of people getting it together. 01:23:45.000 --> 01:23:49.000 The prospect of the very good? 01:23:49.000 --> 01:23:52.000 is never complete. 01:23:52.000 --> 01:23:56.000 lost. Not… 01:23:56.000 --> 01:24:01.000 Even amidst the worst breaking. 01:24:01.000 --> 01:24:04.000 Golden Calf. 01:24:04.000 --> 01:24:06.000 What did you… 01:24:06.000 --> 01:24:10.000 Joe! 01:24:10.000 --> 01:24:16.000 This happened after that. 01:24:16.000 --> 01:24:19.000 that testifies. 01:24:19.000 --> 01:24:26.000 To the nature of holiness itself. 01:24:26.000 --> 01:24:30.000 that it can be besmirched. We can turn our backs. 01:24:30.000 --> 01:24:33.000 can forget. 01:24:33.000 --> 01:24:41.000 We can tear the pages. 01:24:41.000 --> 01:24:46.000 That doesn't mean it's dead. 01:24:46.000 --> 01:24:50.000 It is a tall order to get from. 01:24:50.000 --> 01:24:54.000 The golden calf, two very good. It may be a toll… 01:24:54.000 --> 01:25:02.000 Big, tall order to get from where we are now. 01:25:02.000 --> 01:25:04.000 But this text is… 01:25:04.000 --> 01:25:07.000 revolutionary. 01:25:07.000 --> 01:25:11.000 the proposition that it is not impossible. 01:25:11.000 --> 01:25:14.000 that it is a core element of our peoplehood. 01:25:14.000 --> 01:25:22.000 faith to rebuild that Mishkan. 01:25:22.000 --> 01:25:25.000 Because the story doesn't end here. 01:25:25.000 --> 01:25:34.000 the book of Exodus. We're not done, people. 01:25:34.000 --> 01:25:37.000 bring us in to an ending. 01:25:37.000 --> 01:25:46.000 I'm gonna skip the bid on Zoho, I bet you will do it after we close. 01:25:46.000 --> 01:25:50.000 The cloud by day, the fire by night. 01:25:50.000 --> 01:25:52.000 be enough. 01:25:52.000 --> 01:25:54.000 Right? 01:25:54.000 --> 01:26:00.000 But look at the last line, and I'm gonna chant it for us so we can close the book of Exodus together. 01:26:00.000 --> 01:26:03.000 The Mishkron was… 01:26:03.000 --> 01:26:15.000 and a fire by night. 01:26:15.000 --> 01:26:18.000 over the Mishkan. 01:26:18.000 --> 01:26:21.000 was this in the eyes of all. 01:26:21.000 --> 01:26:26.000 the house of Israel in all their journeys, in all of their journeys. 01:26:26.000 --> 01:26:29.000 In the eyes of all the house of Israel. 01:26:29.000 --> 01:26:32.000 Everybody. 01:26:32.000 --> 01:26:34.000 Everybody. 01:26:34.000 --> 01:26:37.000 The women, the men. 01:26:37.000 --> 01:26:41.000 the folks who screwed up, and the folks… 01:26:41.000 --> 01:26:50.000 cleaned it up. Everybody who gave, the folks who didn't, 01:26:50.000 --> 01:26:57.000 Or it does not mince words. 01:26:57.000 --> 01:27:01.000 They are a time. So I would like to chant… 01:27:01.000 --> 01:27:08.000 These last words… 01:27:08.000 --> 01:27:12.000 And start harnessing some comments. 01:27:12.000 --> 01:27:15.000 We have done it. We have built the Mishkhom. 01:27:15.000 --> 01:27:17.000 And Mishkhan has been turned on. 01:27:17.000 --> 01:27:19.000 It is very good. 01:27:19.000 --> 01:27:22.000 We have reclaimed… 01:27:22.000 --> 01:27:25.000 covenant we have. 01:27:25.000 --> 01:27:32.000 Taking a step back from the brink, we have repaired after the echo. 01:27:32.000 --> 01:27:45.000 By the way, this is the end of my Bar Mitzvah portion, so it's possible I know this. 01:27:45.000 --> 01:27:54.000 And if the cloud did not lift, they would not set out until the time of its lifting. 01:27:54.000 --> 01:28:01.000 whether Ms. Khan was a clown. 01:28:01.000 --> 01:28:05.000 at night, in the eyes of all the house of Israel. 01:28:05.000 --> 01:28:25.000 on their journeys. 01:28:25.000 --> 01:28:27.000 Okay. Has that… 01:28:27.000 --> 01:28:37.000 be strong. 01:28:37.000 --> 01:28:40.000 Instruction and strength at each other. 01:28:40.000 --> 01:28:41.000 Strong, be strong, and sprinkle on each other. 01:28:41.000 --> 01:28:45.000 They strengthen each other, be strong, strengthen each other. 01:28:45.000 --> 01:28:46.000 Be strong and strengthen each other. 01:28:46.000 --> 01:29:06.000 Be strong and strengthen each other strong and strengthen each other. 01:29:06.000 --> 01:29:11.000 We'll take strength to build the Mishkong. 01:29:11.000 --> 01:29:13.000 And faith, and community. 01:29:13.000 --> 01:29:17.000 and space, and… 01:29:17.000 --> 01:29:23.000 Embody and heart and everything. 01:29:23.000 --> 01:29:28.000 Maybe before our eyes, always. 01:29:28.000 --> 01:29:32.000 Cloud by day, the fire by night even when it's dark. 01:29:32.000 --> 01:29:36.000 And by that merit, may we enter the month of Nisan, 01:29:36.000 --> 01:29:41.000 Liberation. 01:29:41.000 --> 01:29:49.000 Reclaiming our duty to participate in that liberation for the sake of all who 01:29:49.000 --> 01:29:53.000 I said, don't just belong to us, everyone. 01:29:53.000 --> 01:29:56.000 Thank you for… 01:29:56.000 --> 01:29:58.000 with us in this book of Exodus. 01:29:58.000 --> 01:30:01.000 So this will close the book. 01:30:01.000 --> 01:30:07.000 Next week, we will pick up the book of Leviticus. Rabbi Rachel will be 01:30:07.000 --> 01:30:12.000 to bless us all with a Shabbat. 01:30:12.000 --> 01:30:16.000 Big space and very, very good. 01:30:16.000 --> 01:30:20.000 I'm gonna stop the recording here.