{"id":10427,"date":"2019-03-08T14:18:29","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T19:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.torontoheschel.org\/?p=10427"},"modified":"2019-03-08T14:18:29","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T19:18:29","slug":"message-from-moreh-greg-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.torontoheschel.org\/news-views\/blog\/message-from-moreh-greg-28","title":{"rendered":"Message from Moreh Greg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this week&#8217;s parshah, Parshat Pekudei, we learn that Bnai Israel completed all the tasks associated with building the Mishkan\u2014the dwelling place for God.\u00a0With this parshah we also complete our reading of Sefer Shemot \u2013 The Book of Exodus.\u00a0As we complete important tasks, we take a moment to practice the middah:\u00a0&#8220;take pride in your accomplishments.\u201d Our parshah coincides with another ending: we enter into month of Adar II \u2013 the last month of the Jewish year. (Nissan, the month of spring and Pesach is the first month of calendar year, and Adar II, when Purim occurs is the last month). Yesterday and today we celebrated Rosh Chosesh Adar II by singing the Talmudic dictum:<em> \u05de\u05e9\u05e0\u05db\u05e0\u05e1 \u05d0\u05d3\u05e8 \u05de\u05e8\u05d1\u05d9\u05df \u05d1\u05e9\u05de\u05d7\u05d4<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>&#8211; &#8220;From the moment Adar enters, we increase our joy.&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0We conclude our year with a commandment to rejoice!\u00a0This Shabbat, and all month of Adar II, may we take pride in the mishkan \u2013 the dwelling place for God \u2013 that we produce through our joy as a community.<\/p>\n<p>Shabbat Shalom Verosh Chodesh Adar Sameach,<\/p>\n<p>Moreh Greg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this week&#8217;s parshah, Parshat Pekudei, we learn that Bnai Israel completed all the tasks associated with building the Mishkan\u2014the dwelling place for God.\u00a0With this parshah we also complete our &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":6202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.9 - 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