mishkan

The Golden Calf is an attempt to capture and contain God, emerging out of fear that we'd been abandoned, whereas the mishkan is the creating of a holy space to invite God's presence into our lives.

J. Weekly 2009

Given that the drama of the golden calf is inserted smack in the middle of the mishkan text, I believe that the only way to understand the sin of the golden calf is to compare it to the mishkan, for the building of the mishkan is the context for this story.

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The common theme among those thirty-nine items called melakhot is that they were the specific actions that the Israelites undertook when the were building the mishkan, the dwelling-place for God.

Rabbi Geoffrey A. Mitelman: Give Your Brain Some Rest Rabbi Geoffrey A. Mitelman 2012

In some ways, then, we can say the Israelites were building that mishkan tabernacle all along, way before Moses and Bezalel, too, were given all those picayune details about how to put it together.

Shelly R. Fredman: A Place Called Hope Shelly R. Fredman 2011

In much the same way that Jewish tradition viewed the portable wilderness sanctuary, the mishkan, as the culminating moment of God's Creation, many saw Solomon's Temple as a microcosm of the geo-concentric universe.

Rabbi Barry A. Kenter: For Our Sins, We Were Exiled From The Land Rabbi Barry A. Kenter 2011

So even though building the mishkan was sacred work, the Torah reminds us that even sacred work needs to stop for one day a week.

Rabbi Geoffrey A. Mitelman: Give Your Brain Some Rest Rabbi Geoffrey A. Mitelman 2012

In much the same way that Jewish tradition viewed the portable wilderness sanctuary, the mishkan, as the culminating moment of God's Creation, many saw Solomon's Temple as a microcosm of the geo-concentric universe.

Rabbi Barry A. Kenter: For Our Sins, We Were Exiled From The Land Rabbi Barry A. Kenter 2011

In this ceremony, a kind of “mishkan” is built for prayer which includes drumming, singing, dance and immersion in a spring of living water, a mikveh.

Ritual: A Feminist Approach. 2009

But it quickly turns to a story of miracles, of great and awesome plagues and wonders, of a fiery and promising partnership between God and humankind, of holiness in time (Shabbat) and in space (mishkan).

Sharon Brous: Defying Despair: Why I Believe 2008

I have described only a few elements of the practice of love that went into the building of the holy mishkan; to explore each step would take all night.

Practicing Love, Building Community 2007