Sublime

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mishkan, the portable sanctuary that God commanded the Israelites to construct during their forty years of wandering in the wilderness of Sinai.

Zohar, Hakdama Sefer haZohar 1:4b–5a. 2For a deep dive into the qualities cultivated in chavruta study, see Elie Holzer and Orit Kent, A Philosophy of Havruta: Understanding and Teaching the Art of Text Study in Pairs (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2013).

It’s important to note that Kabbalah does not exist independently from Torah; it cannot be understood or learned separately. Kabbalah is the composite of the profound level of understanding of the Torah,

Which brings us back to Moses and Vayak’hel. By placing community at the heart of the religious life and by giving it a home in space and time – the synagogue and Shabbat – Moses was showing the power of community for good, as the episode of the golden calf had shown its power for bad. Jewish spirituality is for the most part profoundly communal. H

Our sages say that a person's livelihood is a greater miracle than the splitting of the Red Sea (Pesachim 118a).

That source also states that if returning a gentile’s lost object will lead to the sanctification of G-d’s name, it is desirable to do so. Seemingly, this concept would also apply with regard to returning profit resulting from a gentile’s error in calculation. See

this act of enclothing (hitlabbeshut), epitomized in the zoharic sentiment that God and Torah are one, is the kabbalistic way of articulating the theopoetic mystery of incarnation, the paradox of the delimitation of the limitless, the ideational underpinning of the hal-akhic basis for the mystical ideal of devequt, communion with and conjunction to

Speak to Hashem like you speak to a friend When Hashem Yisburach helps with (one’s) hisbodidus, he can express his words before Hashem Yisburach like a person speaks to his friend. And it is necessary to accustom oneself to this, that he should speak to Hashem Yisburach like he speaks with his teacher or his friend, because Hashem Yisburach exists