{"id":17313,"date":"2021-03-12T13:38:34","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T18:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.torontoheschel.org\/?p=17313"},"modified":"2021-03-12T13:40:47","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T18:40:47","slug":"message-from-moreh-greg-91","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.torontoheschel.org\/news-views\/blog\/message-from-moreh-greg-91","title":{"rendered":"Message from Moreh Greg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This week&#8217;s parshah, Vayakel, is about how a community creates a dwelling place &#8212; a <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">mishkan<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8212; for God.\u00a0 The middah we learn from the parshah is &#8220;to approach your work with care.&#8221;\u00a0 The parshah teaches several ways to approach work with care, each of which we can aspire to emulate. \u00a0 The parshah begins with the commandment to do creative work &#8212; <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">melakhah<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8212; for six days, and then on the seventh day, to practice a Shabbat &#8212; a day of holiness and appreciation<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0 To approach our work with care, we need to know that our creative work is not endless; that it has a higher purpose of appreciation and holiness. \u00a0 When we can see the higher purpose for our work, we care more about it.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The parshah then teaches that each person with a generous heart &#8212; <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">nadiv libo<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8212; should bring an offering to contribute to building the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">mishkan<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. \u00a0 Approaching our work with care has a lot to with coming to our work with a spirit of generosity, a desire to contribute, and to build a community.\u00a0 Generosity arises in our heart when we work for a communal purpose.\u00a0 Next, the parshah teaches how each person should contribute his or her special skills to building the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">mishkan<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. \u00a0 As slaves to Pharaoh, people were required to do whatever work Pharoah commanded.\u00a0 But as free people, each person is able to bring unique talents, abilities, and interests to communal work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As we approach Shabbat, the day on which we join our community in appreciation, let us consider how we can approach our creative work with purpose, generosity, skill, and free will.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shabbat Shalom,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Greg<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s parshah, Vayakel, is about how a community creates a dwelling place &#8212; a mishkan &#8212; for God.\u00a0 The middah we learn from the parshah is &#8220;to approach your &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"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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