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I just discovered a torn half of note paper upon which my father once penciled some instructions to me, and which my mother appears to have redacted. Something about batteries for the smoke alarms, an item regarding the cats\u2019 litter boxes, and a final scribble concerning the guinea pigs\u2019 cage (ever in need of a clean). Maybe the strikethroughs reflect tasks completed, but only one full sentence survives the tear. \u201cNo,\u201d my mother inscribed, \u201cWait for me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Aside from the smoke-cloud themes, authoritative demands, and hygienic concerns that parallel various chapters of Exodus, it is the irrevocably lost status of textual history that punctures my heart with the uncanny. The fact that I found this improvised bookmark while seeking to remind myself what the German theologian Gerhard von Rad wrote about the tabernacle \u201ctraditions\u201d imbues it with revelatory weight. An archaeological find indeed.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

My reconstruction of the scrap\u2019s provenance leads me to conclude that I placed it in my mother\u2019s copy of Brevard Childs\u2019 1974 Exodus commentary when I was home during my senior year of college. I had been assigned von Rad\u2019s 1931 essay \u201cThe Tent and the Ark\u201d to present to my seminar group, and she must have thought Childs\u2019 summary of chapters 25-31 and 35-40 would provide context. Asking an undergraduate who had never heard of source theories to plunge headlong into a historical-critical argument was after all a tall order. As it turned out, watching von Rad tease out two apparent threads\u2014an ancient tent-of-meeting tradition versus a later settled-temple one\u2014was the most exciting intellectual exercise my young mind had ever encountered. My presentation might have flopped (the professor yawned, multiple times), but I was amazed to witness this kind of speculative surgery.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

On the one hand, the general subject matter connected the part of me that values design to those ancient minds who considered the details of tabernacle construction to be sacred. Ignore them and direct communication with God might be thwarted! The same might be true if Aaron and Co. failed to wash up before entering, or if the seamstresses ignored the specifications for the purples, crimsons, and pomegranate patterns of their vestments.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

On the other hand, I was overcome with reverence for an academic tradition\u2019s devotion to scribal craftsmanship. Von Rad introduced me to how Israel\u2019s writers could weave and reformulate older material, and how scholars ever since have projected their own assumptions onto the work of their forebears. Somewhere in that elusive quest, full of smoke and lit by fire (40.38), lies an undeniable realm of divine contact.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Though I have a considerable corpus of objects and writings to remember my late parents by, I would give anything to have the other half of that annotated list of instructions. Then again, \u201cInstall detectors\u201d and \u201cWait for me\u201d may be enough. 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\r\nGod tells Moses of the home the people shall make for Him.
\r\nMoses tells the people
\r\nand the people construct the pieces
\r\nand Moses assembles the pieces
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\r\nAnd God comes down to dwell there.<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nFrom God to Moses to the people to Moses to God.
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\r\nSometimes God\u2019s command
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In Exodus 35, over the course of four and a half verses, we are introduced to the Tabernacle\u2019s chief artisan and designer (verses 30-34):<\/span><\/p>\r\n

And Moses said to the Israelites: See, God has singled out by name Bezalel, son of Uri son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, endowing him with a divine spirit of skill, ability, and knowledge in every kind of craft, inspiring him<\/span> to make designs for work in gold, silver, and copper, to cut stones for setting and to carve wood\u2014to work in every kind of designer\u2019s craft\u2014 and to give directions (<\/span>to others<\/span><\/i>)...<\/span><\/p>\r\n

While all of those working on the fabrication of the Tabernacle and the priests\u2019 garments were supplied to some extent with heavenly spirit, perhaps as a means for taking newly- freed slave laborers, and making them proficient in the areas of the arts and crafts, it seems that Bezalel was given such inspiration \u201cin spades.\u201d Furthermore, he not only was outfitted to appropriately oversee the complexities of the special architectural and spiritual project with which he was entrusted, he also was able to explain to others what was expected of them.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Analogizing from the world of sports, many exceptional athletes have proven unable to share with others their consummate skills when attempting to become coaches and managers. Classical commentators note that not always those endowed with \u201cwise hearts\u201d are able to aid others in developing their own gifts and abilities. Bezalel, however, is described as both possessing personal ability in various art forms, <\/span>and<\/em> <\/span>being an outstanding instructor of other\u00a0 talented men and women. One commentator sees this as a function of the \u201cpatience\u201d necessary on the part of the teacher to convey ideas to those not naturally able to carry them out on their own.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Usually, we separate impressive artistic ability from the discipline of teaching others, resulting in the bon mot: \u201cThose who can, do; those who can\u2019t, teach.\u201d The Tanach, however, links these two disciplines\u2014art and education\u2014together, and asserts that they were extent to an extraordinary degree in the same individual. Malbim states explicitly:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u2026Aside from influencing Bezalel from above, for his own needs, God impacted his heart to teach others, and to instruct them with respect to the arts.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

One can argue whether education is a \u201ccalling\u201d or simply an alternate means of employment and earning a wage. Regarding art, the Greeks believed that personal talents were the result of the incarnation of a \u201cmuse\u201d within an individual, an inspiration that came from some outside source that resulted in exceptional literary, musical, textile, and plastic art abilities. 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In earlier chapters of Exodus, we learned about the design elements of the Mishkan (Tabernacle) and were given the commandment to build it. Then, in Chapter 32 the narrative took an abrupt turn, and we were told of the sin of the golden calf while the nation awaited the return of Moses from Mount Sinai. Only now, beginning with Chapter 35 does Moses command the nation to actually begin construction of the Tabernacle, starting with the seemingly unconnected observance of Sabbath, and then the more understandable donation of building materials by \u201ceveryone whose heart motivates him\u201d (35:5). Finally, the call to action to \u201cevery wise-hearted person among you\u201d to fulfill the commandment to build the Mishkan and everything in it is given.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The order of storytelling seems strange here and, as is Jewish tradition, there are differing opinions about the actual roll-out of events with respect to when the golden calf episode took place. But the face-value reading separates the pre-golden calf description of the Mishkan and priestly garments, and the post-golden-calf story of building the Mishkan with the story of the golden calf.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Perhaps this is a case of God providing us with the cure before we suffer the illness \u2013 the former being the Mishkan, where we will engage in our service to God, and the latter being the lack of faith that resulted in the golden calf episode. But the opening verses of this chapter suggest something more.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Our sages believe that, during the first moments of the revelation at Sinai, the Jewish people briefly experienced a state of purity and holiness akin to the pre-serpent Adam and Eve. But just as that state wasn\u2019t sustainable in the Garden of Eden, it was not sustainable at this point in our history either. The return to the normalized human condition of imperfection resulted in the sin of the golden calf.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The remedy was indeed to be engaging in service to God in the Tabernacle, but where God could have just brought a completed Tabernacle down from heaven, the nation\u2019s all-to-human condition necessitated that they put their hearts, souls, and wisdom into building a physical place to serve God. We are shown that the work\u00a0 required in creating and maintaining our relationship with God begins not with our hands, but with our behavior; namely,\u00a0 demonstrating our faith through Sabbath observance and sharing our wealth, knowledge, and time.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

God did not hand us the Mishkan in which to serve Him. Instead, He told us to first make a place for God in our lives mentally and emotionally. Only then can we build the holy structure in which to materially serve God.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Chapter 35 begins with yet another commandment to keep Shabbat. This time, the text includes a specific law: \u201cYou shall kindle no fire throughout your settlements on the sabbath day\u201d (verse 3). Why is this law singled out? The Talmud in tractate Shabbat explains that the verse coms to teach that kindling fire was not permitted \u201cthroughout your settlements\u201d but it was permitted in the Temple. This meant that the burning of the fats and other sacrificial rites that included fire were allowed on Shabbat.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Later on, the Gemara connects this verse to the previous one. \u201cOn six days work may be done, but on the seventh day you shall have a sabbath of complete rest, holy to God; whoever does any work on it shall be put to death\u201d (verse 2). If that verse lays out the prohibition against doing any work on Shabbat, why does the next verse mention lighting fire, only one of the 39 prohibited actions? The Gemara answers that the Torah is pointing out that one who performs each of the 39 prohibited actions is liable for each individual one.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Tractate Sanhedrin teaches something else entirely. The verse includes the word \u201csettlements,\u201d which seems odd.\u00a0 Obviously one could not light a fire anywhere one lives as the laws of Shabbat are on the individual not the location. The use of the word \u201csettlements\u201d is meant to connect with the same word in the verse \u201cSuch shall be your law of procedure throughout the ages in all your <\/span>settlements<\/span><\/i>\u201d (Numbers 35:24) discussing capital punishment. The Gemara connects the two uses of this word to learn that the court cannot administer capital punishment on Shabbat.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Ibn Ezra explains that because earlier in Exodus 12:16 the Israelites were permitted to cook on a holiday, the Torah needed to come back now and explain that Shabbat is different. Cooking, i.e., lighting a fire, is prohibited on Shabbat. During the Second Temple period, the Karaites, a sect of the Jewish people who rejected the oral law, would take this verse literally and would make sure to not have any lights on Shabbat. Even a plain reading of the text counters this reading. The verse prohibits the act of lighting a fire: \u201cYou shall kindle no fire,\u201d which does not prohibit having a fire that is already burning. Had that been the meaning of the text, the verse would have read \u201cYou shall not have a fire burning in your settlements.\u201d\u00a0 This is why things like Shabbat lights and hot plates are all allowed on Shabbat as long as they were on before Shabbat began.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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While there is a very important ark in these chapters of Exodus \u2013 the Ark of the Covenant, \"aron habrit<\/em>\" \u2013 I want to compare the Tabernacle to a different ark, this time a \"tevah<\/em>,\" \"tevat Noach<\/em>,\" Noah's Ark.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Both Noah's Ark and the Tabernacle were commanded by God. The grammar is similar. In Gen. 6:14, God says to Noah \"ase lekha teva<\/em>\", \"make yourself an ark,\" whereas God commands Moses (Ex. 25:8) \"veasu li mishkan<\/em>\", \"make a tabernacle for Me.\" The difference here reflects the fact that the Ark was for the dwelling and survival of human life; the Tabernacle, for the dwelling of the Immortal.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Both were travelling vessels \u2013crossing dryness (the desert) or absolute waters (the Flood). Both end up on a mountain - the portable desert place of worship ends up at Shilo and then, in a way, on Mount Moriah as Solomon\u2019s Temple; the Ark ends up on Mount Ararat.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Other dimensions of the Tabernacle are revealed when we contrast it with another \"construction,\" the Golden Calf of a few chapters ago. Both Tabernacle and calf are built with the gold taken from Egypt and with similar purposes: worship. Both represent an attempt at materializing the relationship to God. However, the golden calf means idolatry and has to be destroyed, while the Tabernacle makes room for (the real) God to be present. Here too the grammar is indicative. In Ex. 32:1, the people say to Aaron \"ase lanu Elohim<\/em>,\" \"make a God for us,\" for our needs and desires.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The calf reflects the people\u2019s desire and impatience, the people\u2019s need of a concrete and secure leadership. It is a representation of the people\u2019s mentality, their spirit.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Both the Ark and the Tabernacle are the expression of God\u2019s will, not of the people\u2019s will, and both <\/span>move<\/span><\/em>. In contrast to the stationary calf they are dynamic, they move forward. Both are <\/span>vessels: they travel on a way toward something<\/span><\/em>. They are not representations or celebrations of the people\u2019s current situation. Both the Ark and the Tabernacle are a means, not an end; they represent a striving, an aspiration for the future. 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These days, we hear lots of debate about inclusion, welcome, and openness. At the same time, we are a society that scores, evaluates, certifies and imposes standards \u2013 all the very opposite of inclusion. How do we reconcile these two opposing trends, the desire to be open to all on the one hand and the opposing urge to maintain quality control, limiting who gets to do what? Are we open to everyone participating, or do we want only the best? \u00a0<\/p>\r\n

Today\u2019s chapter of Tanakh addresses this dichotomy head on. \u201cTake from among you gifts to the Lord; everyone whose heart so moves them shall bring them\" (35:5). Apparently, the standard for bringing donations to the building of the Tabernacle is one simple one: the desire to make a gift. Anyone who seeks to contribute is welcome. No gifts are turned away. Radical welcome at work: everyone in ancient Israel can be part of this magnificent community enterprise.<\/p>\r\n

But that radical welcome has a limit. \u201cLet all among you who are skilled come and make all that the Lord has commanded (35:10).\u201d While everyone is able to supply materials and funds to participate in the project, only those with the necessary skills are permitted to do the work of erecting the Tabernacle. Intention isn\u2019t enough; competence and talent are also necessary.<\/p>\r\n

So it is in our times as well. We don\u2019t do a good enough job of making it clear that we want everyone to participate, to join in, to make us whole by their attendance and enthusiasm and open hearts. And, at the same time, we want to ask those who have the requisite skills to be the ones to lead the tasks that help us to be vibrant, value-driven communities.<\/p>\r\n

As Rambam knew, it is the Golden Mean, that middle balance of openness and selectivity, welcome and standards that will allow us to fashion the community institutions which will help propel us forward. 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In honor of the skilled women and men who realized the vision, put theory into practice, and constructed the Tabernacle:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

All these people are skilled with their hands,<\/span><\/p>\r\n

each one an expert at their own task;<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Without them no city could be lived in,<\/span><\/p>\r\n

and wherever they stay, they need not hunger.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But they are not sought out for the council of the people,<\/span><\/p>\r\n

nor are they prominent in the assembly;<\/span><\/p>\r\n

They do not occupy the judge\u2019s bench,<\/span><\/p>\r\n

nor can they set forth decisions or judgments,<\/span><\/p>\r\n

They do not expound the instruction of wisdom,<\/span><\/p>\r\n

nor are they found among the rulers.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Yet they keep stable the fabric of the world<\/span><\/p>\r\n

and their prayer is in the practice of their trade.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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From: Sirah<\/em> (aka The Wisdom of Ben Sira, aka Ecclesiasticus) \u2013 38:31-34.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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When at the beginning of the book, Moses and Aaron make for a brief opportunity to worship God in the wilderness, Pharaoh responds by placing ever more onerous burdens on his slaves. He condemns Moses and Aaron for wanting the Israelites to desist from their labors--and tellingly, the term he uses is \u201chishbatem<\/em>\u201d (Exodus 5:5), from the same root as the word Shabbat, the day of rest. By denying the Israelites even a moment\u2019s rest, Pharaoh reveals the vast gulf separating enslavement to a human master from dignified service of God. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Exodus begins with the enslaved Israelites forced to build cities for a human king; it ends with the people engaged in building a tabernacle (<\/span>mishkan<\/span><\/i>) in which the God who has redeemed them can dwell. This trajectory is crucial to Jewish theology: In Bible scholar Ellen Davis\u2019 words, the people move from \u201cperverted work, designed by Pharaoh to destroy God\u2019s people... [to] divinely mandated work...\u201d (\u201cSlaves or Sabbath-Keepers? A Biblical Perspective on Human Work\u201d 2001).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

As slaves in Egypt, the Israelites work without respite against their will. When they build the <\/span>mishkan<\/span><\/i>, in stark contrast, Moses asks for <\/span>voluntary <\/span><\/i>contributions: \u201cTake from among you gifts to the Lord; everyone <\/span>whose heart so moves him <\/span><\/i>shall bring them\u201d (Exodus 35:5). Finally freed from slavery, the Israelites are slowly being taught that there is a form of service radically different from slavery, one that honors and nurtures one\u2019s sense of agency rather than degrading it and whittling it away.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Not surprisingly, then, as Moses lays out instructions for how to build the tabernacle, he starts by invoking Shabbat: \u201cOn six days work may be done, but on the seventh day you shall have a sabbath of complete rest (<\/span>Shabbat Shabbaton<\/span><\/i>), holy to the Lord...\u201d (35:2). Whereas the tyrant prohibits even a moment of Shabbat, God actually mandates and regularizes it. Whereas serving Pharaoh had stripped the Israelites of their dignity, serving God will now affirm it. Moreover, and critically, God commands them to take their own dignity seriously.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Is Shabbat about affirming that God alone, is God, or is Shabbat a testimony to human dignity and the importance of rest? The biblical answer is that it is both. The Torah sees no contradiction between a day aimed at affirming God as sovereign over the entirety of creation and a day aimed at insisting that everyone, without exception, is entitled and obligated to rest (20:10). 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Then Moses said to the Israelites, \u201cSee, the Lord has chosen Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, and he has filled him with the spirit of God, with wisdom, understanding and knowledge in all kinds of crafts \u2013 to make artistic designs for work in gold, silver and bronze, to cut and set stones, to work in wood and to engage in all kinds of artistic craftsmanship\u201d (Ex. 35: 30-33). <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Bezalel is a rare type in the Hebrew Bible \u2013 the artist, the craftsman, the shaper of beauty in the service of God, the man who, together with Oholiab, fashioned the articles associated with the Tabernacle. Judaism \u2013 in sharp contrast to ancient Greece - did not cherish the visual arts. The reason is clear. The biblical prohibition against graven images associates them with idolatry. Historically, images, fetishes, icons and statues were linked in the ancient world with pagan religious practices. The idea that one might worship \u201cthe work of men\u2019s hands\u201d was anathema to biblical faith. More generally, Judaism is a culture of the ear, not the eye.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The key to Bezalel lies in his name. It means, \u2018In the shadow of God\u2019. Bezalel\u2019s gift lay in his ability to communicate, through his work, that art is the shadow cast by God. Religious art is never \u2018art for art\u2019s sake\u2019. Unlike secular art, it points to something beyond itself. The Tabernacle itself was a kind of microcosm of the universe, with one overriding particularity: that in it you felt the presence of something beyond \u2013 what the Torah calls \u2018the glory of God\u2019 which \u2018filled the Tabernacle\u2019 (Ex. 40: 35).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Greeks believed in the holiness of beauty (Keats\u2019s \u201cBeauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all \/ Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know\u201d). Jews believed in the opposite: hadrat kodesh<\/em> (Ps. 29: 2), the beauty of holiness. Art in Judaism always has a spiritual purpose: to make us aware of the universe as a work of art, testifying to the supreme Artist, God himself.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

From <\/span>The Beauty of Holiness and the Holiness of Beauty, Covenant & Conversation, Vayakhel (5768)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\r\n

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Studying Torah in the modern age can be a tricky endeavor sometimes. Engaging with ideas from 3,000 years ago will inevitably lead to a culture clash between our modern sensibilities and those from the Iron Age of the Ancient Near East. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

With stories that touch on the necessity for war, strict hierarchies, and with enough gender insensitivities to fill an entire semester long course for \u2018smashing the patriarchy\u2019 it can be very challenging to hang in with the process of <\/span>talmud torah<\/span><\/em>. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

I know that I have had the experience of reading a section of Torah or a page of talmud and have been shocked by the message that was being elevated.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Exodus 35 has such messages\u200a\u2014\u200aanyone working on <\/span>Shabbat<\/span> shall be executed. The temptation to skip over this section of holy text arises. Yet as the Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai alludes to in his \u201cFrom the Book of Esther I Filtered the Sediment\u201d if we remove the challenging texts then we also lose the opportunity to wrestle. And if we stopped reading altogether then we also lose out on the messages that inspire.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In Exodus 35, Moses passes along God\u2019s message that those with <\/span>nadiv lev<\/span><\/em>, <\/span><\/i>generous hearts, should bring forth donations of gold. What kind of a person would dare to bring forward golden jewelry when just a few chapters earlier they were all scolded and punished for bringing their shiny gifts forward? <\/span><\/p>\r\n

A brave and generous person. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Torah asks this same question of me: will you bring your gift of presence and engagement with me forward even though you have been wounded be my words before? <\/span><\/p>\r\n

So, I ask myself: can I, too, be vulnerable and courageous? 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Bible on the Bench - Exodus 35<\/a><\/p>","post_main_content_image":"","post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"Bible on the Bench","tile_main_caption":"Chapter 35: God Is In The Details","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"with Adam Mintz and Shira Hecht-Koller","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":"","tile_preview_video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/QDU6My6L5Lg","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","old_create_date":"","tile_link_for_pay":"0","links":false,"send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Torah","book":"Exodus","chapter":"35","chapter_main_number":"85","date":"20251225","wall_id":"85"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"369","name":"Visual Arts","old_id":"769"}]},{"order":14,"id":"43593","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Crisis as Catalyst for Growth ","post_title":"Crisis As Catalyst For Growth","slug":"crisis-as-catalyst-for-growth","old_id":"43593","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":33859,"post_title":"Avidan Freedman","slug":"avidan-freedman","old_id":"33859","first_name":"Avidan","last_name":"Freedman","description":"Rabbi Avidan Freedman is the Rabbi of Hevruta, the Shalom Hartman Institute's post high school program for Israelis and North Americans, and an educator in the institute's high school. He is an activist advocating for moral limits on Israeli arms exports, and on behalf of African refugees, and a proud husband and father of 5. He received his rabbinical ordination from Yeshivat Chovevei Torah in New York, and from the Israeli chief rabbinate.","credit":"","image_url":"","short_description":"Rabbi Avidan Freedman is the Rabbi of Hevruta, the Shalom Hartman Institute's post high school program for Israelis and North Americans, and an educator in the institute's high school. ","hide_writer":false,"link_for_pay":false,"image":{"id":33860,"alt":"Avidan Freedman","title":"Avidan Freedman","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Avidan-Freedman-e1532029306365.jpg","width":856,"height":1024,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Avidan-Freedman-e1532029306365-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Avidan-Freedman-e1532029306365-251x300.jpg","medium-width":251,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Avidan-Freedman-e1532029306365-768x919.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":919,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Avidan-Freedman-e1532029306365-856x1024.jpg","large-width":856,"large-height":1024,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Avidan-Freedman-e1532029306365.jpg","1536x1536-width":856,"1536x1536-height":1024,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Avidan-Freedman-e1532029306365.jpg","2048x2048-width":856,"2048x2048-height":1024,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Avidan-Freedman-800x1200.jpg","post_full_size-width":800,"post_full_size-height":1200,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Avidan-Freedman-e1532029306365-351x420.jpg","home_baner-width":351,"home_baner-height":420}},"tags":false},"related_cahpter":"85","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_url":"","post_main_content_description":"Creativity has its boundaries, and that the fire of religious passion needs limits","post_main_content_content":"

Crisis in a relationship can be the foundation of growth. (The Hebrew word for crisis, <\/span>mashber<\/span><\/em>, also means 'birthing stool'). The previous chapter taught us about how God's relationship to us develops as a result of the sin of the golden calf. Chapter 35 offers the guidelines to realize the creative potential of crisis.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The recipe that the Torah offers is first, to define boundaries which will prevent a recurrence of the crisis, and second, to recognize the positive elements of the crisis, and to build on them.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

While in God's original presentation of the Mishkan to Moses, He ends with Shabbat, Moses reverses the order. The first order of business for the people who worshipped the calf is to accept that creativity has its boundaries, and that the fire of religious passion needs limits.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Once boundaries have been established, though, the way to move on is to recognize the real needs that the crisis expressed, to respond to them by identifying their positive core, and to allow that to be expressed constructively.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

After discussing Shabbat, the chapter is dominated by a long list of the different items and materials needed to build the Mishkan, followed by a long description of how the people met this need. All the space devoted to these details translates into a wide variety of ways to contribute to building God's house, and a wide open space in which everyone can find the contribution that is uniquely suited to them.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The sin of the golden calf is often presented as an attempt by people to define the service of God in our own image. The response that chapter 35 offers is not a categorical rejection of this idolatry. The Jewish people were demanding a more active role in their service of God, something which had previously been offered to them, and from which they had recoiled in fear. God's house is built by embracing this desire, and offering the people the opportunity to express their own unique contribution within a highly defined structure. 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\"<\/span>Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day you shall have a holy day, a sabbath of solemn rest to the Lord \u2026.\"<\/span> (Exodus 35:2)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Is Shabbat <\/i>a near-death experience?
\r\nEmerging from the long, dim tunnel of weekday routine,
\r\nBeings of light welcome me
\r\nAnd ask, \u201cDo you learn? \u00a0Do you love?\u201d<\/p>\r\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Shabbat<\/i>: a near-life experience.<\/p>\r\n

Is Shabbat<\/i> an encounter with a UFO?
\r\nSucked out of This World,
\r\nI hover above insight in an unknown World-To-Come:
\r\nPraying with different music, different light, different touch.<\/p>\r\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Shabbat<\/i>: an abduction by God.<\/p>\r\n

Is Shabbat<\/i> a time-travel machine?
\r\nSpiraling up a double helix of Time:
\r\nYesterday, tomorrow, both and neither,
\r\nI learn Torah with Rabbi Akiva, Rashi, and the Messiah.<\/p>\r\n

Shabbat<\/i>: God\u2019s present tense.<\/p>\r\n

Is Shabbat<\/i> a drug
\r\nAddictive like heroin, and hallucinatory like LSD?
\r\nI\u2019m hooked on Shabbat<\/i>, can\u2019t break the habit:
\r\nA man with a golden arm.<\/p>\r\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Shabbat<\/i>: inject or inhale, and visions of Paradise swirl.<\/p>\r\n

Is Shabbat<\/i> a mirage?
\r\nAn optical illusion playing tricks?
\r\nThe desert is real; the thirst is real; the caravan is real;
\r\nAnd the water?<\/p>\r\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Shabbat<\/i>: cool drink after a six days\u2019 expedition across burnt sand.<\/p>\r\n

With no money and no television,
\r\nOnly prayer, song, study, family, and cholent<\/i>,
\r\n<\/i>Shabbat<\/i> is a Jacob\u2019s ladder:
\r\nAngels ascend and descend
\r\nIn me.<\/p>\r\n

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  1. Open those jewelry boxes!<\/em> \u201cMen and women, all whose hearts moved them\u2026came bringing brooches, earrings, rings, and pendants\u2014gold objects of all kinds\u201d (verse 22).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. Womanly wisdom<\/em>. The women blessed with creative wisdom had a special contribution to make to the construction of the Mishkan: the weaving of the special diverse textiles (verses 25-26).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Nesi\u2019im\/chieftains.<\/em> From the dignified tribal leaders a specially respectable contribution was received (verse 27), which perhaps was not coincidentally intended as accessories for the clothes of the high priest, the ephod and the breastpiece, that would bear the names of the tribes, and would express his stature as a national leader, and a representative before God.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. Creativity<\/em>. \u201cAnd has inspired him to make designs for work in gold, silver, and copper, to cut stones for setting and to carve wood\u2014to work in every kind of designer\u2019s craft\u201d (verses 32-33).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  5. Very heartfelt<\/em>. The word \u201cheart\u201d appears 11 times in the chapter. Take that to heart.<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>","post_main_content_image":{"id":86314,"alt":"","title":"Points to ponder","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","width":1000,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-768x768.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","large-width":1000,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","1536x1536-width":1000,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","2048x2048-width":1000,"2048x2048-height":1000,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","post_full_size-width":1000,"post_full_size-height":1000,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-420x420.jpg","home_baner-width":420,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"The Daily Summary","tile_main_caption":"Points to Ponder: Exodus 35","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Insights and questions for personal reflection and group discussion","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":86314,"alt":"","title":"Points to ponder","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","width":1000,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-768x768.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","large-width":1000,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","1536x1536-width":1000,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","2048x2048-width":1000,"2048x2048-height":1000,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","post_full_size-width":1000,"post_full_size-height":1000,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-420x420.jpg","home_baner-width":420,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","old_create_date":"","tile_link_for_pay":"0","links":false,"send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Torah","book":"Exodus","chapter":"35","chapter_main_number":"85","date":"20251225","wall_id":"85"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false}],"hide_acf":true,"home_image":false,"home_posts":false,"home_posts_title":"","posts_home":[],"static_cube_title":"","static_cube_brief":"","static_cube_color":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wall\/43313"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wall"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wall"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}