Posts Tagged: Vayakhel
God in a Box
JNS.org - Martha Goldberg was a middle-aged Jewish woman from the Bronx, N.Y., on her visit to the Far East. After the long trip from...
A Rabbi Becomes an American Citizen
I became an American citizen this week. Over the past nine and a half years, first there were visas, then there were green cards, and...
Parshat Vayakhel: The Beauty of Holiness — or the Holiness of Beauty?
In Ki Tissa and in Vayakhel, we encounter the figure of Betzalel, a rare type in the Hebrew Bible -- the artist, the craftsman, the...
Our Community Influences Our Choices and Behavior
At the beginning of Vayakhel, Moses performs a tikkun, a mending of the past -- namely the sin of the Golden Calf. The Torah signals this by using...
Common Challenges Help People Come Together
How do you remotivate a demoralized people? How do you put the pieces of a broken nation back together again? That was the challenge faced...
