{"id":43239,"date":"2018-11-03T23:55:19","date_gmt":"2018-11-03T21:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=43239"},"modified":"2022-05-29T12:48:52","modified_gmt":"2022-05-29T09:48:52","slug":"the-goal-the-harmony-of-existence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/the-goal-the-harmony-of-existence\/","title":{"rendered":"The Goal: The Harmony of Existence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[370,442],"acf":{"old_id":"43239","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33923,"related_cahpter":"81","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Getting a glimpse of the destination before beginning the journey","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the immensely lengthy and detailed account of the making of the Tabernacle, the Torah tells the story twice: first (Ex. 25:1 \u2013 31:17) as Divine instruction, then (Chs. 35 \u2013 40) as human implementation. In both cases, the construction of the building is juxtaposed to the command of the Sabbath (31:12-17; 35:1-2).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, there is one marked difference between the account of God\u2019s instruction to build the Sanctuary, and Moses&#8217; instruction to the people. In the first case, the command of the Sabbath appears at the end, after the details of the construction. In the second, it appears at the beginning, before the details. Why so?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When it comes to Divine creation, there is no gap between intention and execution. God spoke, and the world came into being.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">God knows in advance how things will turn out. With human beings, it is otherwise. Often, we cannot see the outcome at the outset. We now begin to sense the full symbolic drama of the making of the Tabernacle. In the wilderness, long before they crossed the Jordan and entered the promised land, God told the Israelites to build a miniature universe. It would be a place of carefully calibrated order \u2013 as the universe is a place of carefully calibrated order. Nowadays, scientists call this the \u2018anthropic principle\u2019, the finding that the laws of physics and chemistry are finely tuned for the emergence of life. Just so did the Tabernacle have to be exact in its construction and dimensions. The building of the Tabernacle was a symbolic prototype of the building of a society. Just as it was an earthly home for the Divine presence, so would society become if the Israelites honoured God\u2019s laws.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ultimate end of such a society is the harmony of existence that we have not yet experienced, living as we do in a world of work and striving, conflict and competition. God, however, wanted us to know what we were aiming at, so that we would not lose our way in the wilderness of time. That is why, when it came to the human execution of the building, the Sabbath came first, even though in global terms, the \u2018Sabbath of history\u2019 (the Messianic age, the world to come) will come last. God \u2018made known the end at the beginning\u2019 \u2013 the fulfilled rest that follows creative labour; the peace that will one day take the place of strife \u2013 so that we would catch a glimpse of the destination before beginning the journey.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Only those who know where they are travelling to will get there, however fast or slow they go.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Sabbath: First Day Or Last?, Covenant &amp; Conversation, Tetzaveh (5777)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":77825,"id":77825,"title":"jon1-journey 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