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Covenant & Conversation — covenant

Выпуск: Covenant & Conversation — covenant. Темы: family_education, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה, недельная глава, парша, parsha, פרשה, פרשת השבוע. For an interactive, multi-generational study, check out the full edition at https://rabbisacks.org/covenant-conversation-family-edition/terumah/the-architecture-of-holiness/ 1 See Maimonides, e Guide for the Perplexed, III:54 The Architecture of Holiness 3 Terumah Th ff tt Th tt tt Th tt fl Th tt tt fi Th Th fl tt ft fl Th ft Th Th fi fi Indeed, I will descend and con ne My presence even within one square Torah commentators, especially the late Nechama cubit.’ Leibowitz, have drawn a ention to the way the terminology of the construction of the Tabernacle is Shemot Rabbah 34:1 the same as that used to describe God’s creation of the universe. With a shock I discovered that the author the threshold of a quantum leap in our was the then Sir Martin, now Baron Rees, understanding of the full depth of the words: “How Astronomer Royal, later President of the Royal many are Your works, Lord; in wisdom You made Society, the oldest and most famous scienti c body them all” (Ps. The Architecture of Holiness 2 Terumah tt Th tt fi ff tt Th tt Th Th fi Th Th ff ffi ffi fi ff Th fi making of the Tabernacle – means, “precise, exact e famous Bu er y E ect – the beating of a cra smanship”.1 bu er y’s wing somewhere may cause a tsunami elsewhere, thousands of miles away – tells us that In one other place in the Torah there is the same small actions can have large consequences. So for example we read: To put the question more sharply still: is not the “Make the Tabernacle with ten curtains of very idea of a speci c size for the home of the nely twisted linen and blue, purple and Shechinah, the Divine Presence, liable to mislead? Had Tabernacle,’ Moses said in amazement, ‘ e nuclear e ciency been slightly lower the cosmos glory of the Holy One blessed be He lls would consist only of hydrogen; no life would have heaven and earth, and yet He commands, emerged. Had the force of gravity been slightly striking Midrash: di erent, for example, the universe would either have expanded or imploded in such a way as to When God said to Moses, ‘Make Me a preclude the formation of stars or planets. e fact that the Divine Presence rested symbol, a focus, of the Divine Presence tha

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Covenant & Conversation

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27 февраля 2025 г.

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Темы: family_education, parsha_commentary