Where is your "mikdash"? Your place to commune with God Is it physical? Exodus 25:8And let them make Me a sanctuary ("mikdash") that I may dwell among them ("b'tocham")Some of our congregations have magnificent structures in which to gather. Others have more modest buildings, or rent space in a local school, church or office building. Some smaller groups might meet in the homes of congregants.Whatever the space looks like, it's important to have a gathering place. At first glance Parashah T'rumah, which includes the details for building the portable Tabernacle, is about that place. The mikdash is where God dwells among us, where Moses will meet with God (Exodus 25:22).But there's another way to understand the word "b'tocham" in the verse cited above. As Rabbi Ellen Weinberg Dreyfus
T'rumah
T'rumah
T'rumah
Where is your "mikdash"? Your place to commune with God Is it physical? Exodus 25:8And let them make Me a sanctuary ("mikdash") that I may dwell among them ("b'tocham")Some of our congregations have magnificent structures in which to gather. Others have more modest buildings, or rent space in a local school, church or office building. Some smaller groups might meet in the homes of congregants.Whatever the space looks like, it's important to have a gathering place. At first glance Parashah T'rumah, which includes the details for building the portable Tabernacle, is about that place. The mikdash is where God dwells among us, where Moses will meet with God (Exodus 25:22).But there's another way to understand the word "b'tocham" in the verse cited above. As Rabbi Ellen Weinberg Dreyfus