Posts Tagged: Tabernacle

Why the Journey of Life Never Ends
Right at the end of the book of Shemot, there is a textual difficulty so slight that it is easy to miss. But -- as...

The Architecture of Holiness
From this week's Torah portion to the end of the Book of Exodus, the holy book describes, in painstaking detail and great length, the construction of the...

Fire: Holy and Unholy
The shock is immense. For several weeks and many chapters - the longest prelude in the Torah - we have read of the...

Three Types of Community
A long drama had taken place. Moses had led the people from slavery to the beginning of the road to freedom. The people themselves...

Two Types of Religious Encounter
Framing the epic events of this week's sedra (Bible portion) are two objects - the two sets of tablets, the first given before, the...

The Building of the Tabernacle and the Jewish Ethnogenesis
As soon as we read the opening lines of Terumah we begin the massive shift from the intense drama of the exodus with its...