In this week's Torah portion, Terumah, we begin the telling of the building of the Mishkan, the Tabernacle. This year, I was struck by the transition to the parsha. The Torah does not take us directly from the revelation at Sinai to the building. In the parsha in between Yitro and Terumah, Mishpatim, we get our first large dose of laws, many of them dealing with how we live together. Is this what we need before we can create sacred space? Do we need to know how to be in community, go outward before we can go inward? Is community the first layer we build before the skins and the curtains and the golden cover of the ark with the cherubim watching over it?
Do we need sacred community before we can have sacred space???????
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