Wednesday
Mar102021
BT’S VS. FFB’S
March 10, 2021This innovation flips all definitions of pious and penitent on their heads. * Moshiach “will bring the righteous to repentance” - the perfectly pious will achieve t’shuva only after Moshiach comes.
Entries in VaYakhel-P’kudei (3)
Wednesday
Mar222017
THE GIFTED GIVING THEMSELVES OVER TO G-D
At first glance it is difficult to understand how the narrative of the production of the covers of the Sanctuary, which were spun from goat hair, is relevant to us. This was strictly a onetime activity necessary for the construction of the Sanctuary in the desert. It is something that is not even applicable to the Third Holy Temple (which won’t need to be fashioned on our part at all, for “it is built and stands ready, etc.”). * These wise women devoted their talents to making G-d’s Sanctuary notwithstanding the fact that it was within their capacity to utilize their special talents for their personal concerns instead
Friday
Apr012011
DON’T EVEN BLINK: MOSHIACH IS COMING NOW!
If G-d had caused the Jewish people to remain exiled in Egypt a little while longer, they would have completed the ultimate purpose for which the world was created. Nevertheless, “Once the time of redemption had arrived, G-d did not delay even the blink of an eye.”