{"id":1631,"date":"2015-09-01T00:40:27","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T00:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=1631"},"modified":"2015-09-01T00:40:27","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T00:40:27","slug":"pekudei-5763","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=1631","title":{"rendered":"Pekudei (5763)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Drash Cards for Pekudei (5763)<\/strong><\/p>\n

by Marc Mangel<\/p>\n

\u2022 We have a discussion of the materials used by Bezalel in making the Miskan and instructions for consecration in Ch 40, v 9: to consecrate with oil.<\/p>\n

\u2022 My first point: \u00a0the Miskan is very holy and the holiness and the holiness involves contact (Ch 29, v 37, Ch 30, v 29)<\/p>\n

\u2022 Second point: \u00a0the root of the word for santification (Kee-dash-ta) is Ko-desh. \u00a0Jastrow’s dictionary (1903) defined Ko-desh as to “be cut off, separated, become pure, sacred, holy”<\/p>\n

\u2022 I also learned that Ke-desh is one of the cities of refuge, with a natural interpretation for the name,.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Holiness mean to separate. \u00a0When we had the Miskan we could separate in space. \u00a0We don’t have that any more.<\/p>\n

\u2022 So we can separate in time. Friday night candles and Havdallah are moments of separation between the profane and holy, but what about in between?<\/p>\n

\u2022 Reform Judaism was founded in the 1840s with three conferences.<\/p>\n

\u2022 1846: Is the essence of Shabbat consecration of the divine or cessation of work? \u00a0We still wrestle with this, as long as we are not strictly orthodox.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Is the holiness of Shabbat contagious — if we do a usual act (e.g. get haircut, go to the farmers’ market, \u00a0or go shopping) does it somehow become a holy act because we did it on Shabbat?<\/p>\n

\u2022 If one is Orthodox, the answer is clearly not. \u00a0For us, it is a good question.<\/p>\n

\u2022 My opinion is no. We need a conscious separation of the acts on Shabbat from those on the weekday.<\/p>\n

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Drash Cards for Pekudei (5763) by Marc Mangel \u2022 We have a discussion of the materials used by Bezalel in making the Miskan and instructions for consecration in Ch 40, v 9: to consecrate with oil. \u2022 My first point: \u00a0the Miskan is very holy and the holiness and the holiness involves contact (Ch 29, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":51,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1631","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1632,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1631\/revisions\/1632"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}