Each person is a walking Temple; each has the power to build a dwelling place for the Creator of the world within his or her ...

Rav Yehoshua Heller suggests that the answer lies in the dramatic shift caused by the golden calf. The commands in parashat Terumah were given before that fall, when the nation still lived with the ...

Today, light is ambient and inexpensive. We leave it on without noticing. Against that backdrop, the requirement of a steady flow of pure oil for the Mishkan’s lighting can easily be underestimated.

The Mishkan still speaks. It reminds us that redemption is not complete at the moment of liberation. Freedom without shared purpose dissolves into fragmentation. The true test of a nation is not how ...

What is the meaning of the idea that G-d “dwells among us?" And why is the Mishkan built of donated materials, instead of G-d commanding the Jews to bring them?

Why is the construction of the Mishkan juxtaposed with Shabbat in the beginning of this Shabbat’s reading? When God created the world he unleashed His unlimited power to create all forms of ...

The construction of the Mikdash/Mishkan/Tent of Meeting transformed us from a collection of families to a united nation, united in in our worship of G-d.

In the portion of Pekudei a reckoning of the work done in the Tabernacle is recorded. Interesting, is the Hebrew word for reckoning—pekudei. (Exodus 38:21) As I have often pointed out in these weekly ...

The midrash therefore imagines an intentionally ahistorical discussion addressing precisely this tension: Another interpretation: “The Almighty — we cannot find Him; He is exalted in power.” When the ...

The meaning of the stained-glass windows in Har Zion Temple’s Dogole Chapel is obscure. To begin deciphering them, I asked several Har Zion staff members what the abstract images in the windows depict ...

Parshat Pekudei brings us to the end of Sefer Sh’mot. What began with the tribes of Israel being enslaved and ultimately liberated from Egypt concludes with receiving the Torah and constructing the ...

Rabbi Joshua Caruso will become senior rabbi of Congregation Mishkan Or in Beachwood, effective July 1. The temple board of ...