{"id":43723,"date":"2018-11-11T20:13:25","date_gmt":"2018-11-11T18:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=43723"},"modified":"2022-06-02T14:33:31","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T11:33:31","slug":"from-crowd-to-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/from-crowd-to-community\/","title":{"rendered":"From Crowd To Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":50634,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[426,354],"acf":{"old_id":"43723","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33923,"related_cahpter":"87","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"We develop virtue, strength of character, and a commitment to the common good in community","content":"<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What Moses had to do after the golden calf was Vayakhel [convene, gather together]: turn the Israelites into a kehillah, a community. He did this in the obvious sense of restoring order. When Moses came down the mountain and saw the calf, the Torah says the people were peruah, meaning \u201cwild, disorderly, chaotic, unruly, tumultuous.\u201d He \u201csaw that the people were running wild and that Aaron had let them get out of control and so become a laughingstock to their enemies.\u201d They were not a community but a crowd.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He did it in a more fundamental sense as we see in the rest of the parsha. He began by reminding the people of the laws of Shabbat. Then he instructed them to build the mishkan, the sanctuary, as a symbolic home for God.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why these two commands rather than any others? Because Shabbat and the mishkan are the two most powerful ways of building community. The best way of turning a diverse, disconnected group into a team is to get them to build something together. Hence the mishkan. The best way of strengthening relationships is to set aside dedicated time when we focus not on the pursuit of individual self interest but on the things we share, by praying together, studying Torah together, and celebrating together: in other words, Shabbat. Shabbat and the mishkan were the two great community-building experiences of the Israelites in the desert.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vayakhel is thus no ordinary episode in the history of Israel. It marks the essential insight to emerge from the crisis of the golden calf. We find God in community. We develop virtue, strength of character, and a commitment to the common good in community. Community is local. It is society with a human face. It is not government. It is not the people we pay to look after the welfare of others. It is the work we do ourselves, together.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Community is the antidote to individualism on the one hand and over-reliance on the state on the other. Darwin understood its importance to human flourishing. Tocqueville saw its role in protecting democratic freedom. Robert Putnam has documented its value in sustaining social capital and the common good. 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