This Weeks Parshah is Pekudei. This week we end the narrative concerning the building of the Tabernacle and as we do we reach an astounding Question. The building of consist of thirteen chapters. That is more then the stories of Creation and the Exodus combined. So why is such emphasis put on this one commandment?
To answer this we must first understand the best we can why the Almighty created a world and why He took us from Egypt and choose us as a nation. The reason Hashem gave us the Torah and all of his 613 Mitzvoth. Hashem wanted a physical resting place in this world.
The mitzvahs concerning morality are to make us a people deserving of G-ds presence. The commandments we can’t understand are to show our love for Him and our desire to cling to Him. All of the Mitzvahs and indeed the very creation of the world were for the moment described in our Parshah.
Now unfortunately Hashem’s presence does not dwell among us as it once did. And so our Parshah teaches us that our every thought word and actions should be to rebuild His dwelling place, not with sticks and stones but by making this world a place where G-ds presence can call home.
May we soon see the day when Hashem’s presence is again found clearly among us and His physical dwelling place stands once again the building of the third and everlasting Temple and the coming of Moshiach.
This week’s thought is Dedicated to my Brother Shmully and his wife. May G-d Almighty bless them with tremendous success in the future endeavors and may we all be joined as one family very soon with the coming of Moshiach.
