By Rabbi Daniel A. Kripper
Beth Israel - Aruba.
This section concludes the calculations for the construction and furnishing of the Mishkan, the portable tabernacle built in the desert.Other temples have been built and destroyed throughout our millenary history, and their memory has been preserved in the collective consciousness of Israel.
Today’s synagogue is a modern legacy of those magnificent temples of yore, proof of the spiritual devotion of our ancestors throughout time.
Historical circumstances have changed, but the motivation for what is holy remains untouched, the same that inspired our ancestors to build “tabernacles” to meet with the Divine.