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An old joke explains the difference between completed and finished. When you marry the right person, you are <\/span>completed.<\/b> When you marry the wrong person, you are <\/span>finished.<\/b> When the right person catches you with the wrong person, you are <\/span>completely finished<\/b>!<\/span><\/p>\n

Chapter Seven also provides an insight into the difference between completed and finished.<\/span><\/p>\n

After the text details the building of the Temple, it states at the end of chapter six that the house was <\/span>finished <\/b>on the 8th month of the 11th year of Solomon\u2019s reign.<\/span><\/p>\n

The next verse, the beginning of chapter seven, restates that \u201cthe house was <\/span>finished<\/b>\u201d and re-restates in 7:40, \u201cHiram <\/span>finished <\/b>all the work\u201d. However, in 7:50 the verse says that \u201cthe work was <\/span>completed<\/b>\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Midrash notices that the end of the creation narrative (Gen 2:2) and the end of the Temple\u2019s construction both use the phrase \u05db\u05bc\u05b8\u05dc\u05be\u05d4\u05b7\u05de\u05bc\u05b0\u05dc\u05b8\u05d0\u05db\u05b8\u0594\u05d4, <\/span>kol hamelachah<\/span><\/em> = \u201call the work\u201d but in the creation story, it uses the adjective \u201cfinished\u201d or \u201c\u05db-\u05dc-\u05d4\u201d whereas here, the text uses the adjective \u201ccompleted\u201d or \u201c\u05e9-\u05dc-\u05de\u201d. The Midrash claims that the creation was not completed in six days. For the creation to be complete or \u05e9\u05dc\u05dd, heaven and earth must be connected to have the divine presence embodied in our world. That was the essence of the Temple in Jerusalem whose name includes completeness (<\/span>Yerushalayim<\/span><\/em>, \u05d9\u05e8<\/span>\u05d5<\/span>\u05e9\u05dc<\/b>\u05d9<\/span>\u05dd<\/b>), built by King Solomon whose name means completeness (<\/span>Shelomo<\/span><\/em>, <\/span>\u05e9\u05dc\u05de<\/b>\u05d4).<\/span><\/p>\n

However, Solomon\u2019s Temple was destroyed. This means that creation is still incomplete and I think that we all sense that the world feels incomplete. The sages taught that it was due to our actions that the first and second Temples were destroyed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps for creation to be completed, an additional structure needs to be built, a social structure comprised of individuals and groups that both fit in and stand out, embrace the universal and the particular and find ways to embrace contradictions instead of rejecting them. I believe that Jerusalem, whose name can literally mean \u201cto teach completeness\u201d, where different religions, faiths, and denominations breathe the same air, drink the same water, and are all historically connected, is the place where this social structure can be seeded, germinate and sprout into existence. If properly planted and nurtured, this seedling can then flower and pollinate the rest of the world. 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