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Why you NEED other Jews | Parsha Perspectives | Vayakhel-Pekudei 5786

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Rabbi Efrem Goldberg

Parsha Perspectives on Vayakhel-Pekudei by Rabbi Efrem Goldberg.

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enemies and restore a sense of safety to Israel and beyond. Vayakel Moshe as God has been Israel alayam Moshe assembles, he gathers the entire assembly of the children of Israel and he tells them elah divrei Hashem lasos osam. These are the things that Hashem commanded. This is what you must do. And then he proceeds first shabbat sheshes yamim tiaseh melacha, six days do work ve yom hashishi yihyeh lachem kodesh shabbat shabbaton laHashem kol oseh vo melacha yumos, you must that a person who does uh kol oseh vo melacha yumos, a person who does melacha violates shabbat there is a death penalty, it's incredibly severe. And only then do we go on Vayamor Moshe el kol adas bnei Yisrael leimor, "Kchu lachem terumah uh accept the donations and pledges and we're going to build a mishkan. Now I must tell you, every year we get to Vayakel Pekudei and I wonder, what am I going to say? What is there to say? We've seen this before. Terumah Tetzaveh Vayakel Pekudei, are almost verbatim the direct repetition of Tzumah Tetzaveh. Of So, just check my commentary there, not much new to add. He does have new, but not much new to add. So, you always worry, what are we going to add? Yeah. Here it is. I'm sure we're going to have a lot. I don't get to today, because they're always the beauty of Torah. You learn it when you learn it, when you dig deep into it, when you investigate it, there's such depth, profundity, there's so much, and it's always relevant to today. There's always a message to today. So, Vayakhel, let's start with the Aish Tamid, let's start with a message from Rabbi Yisrael Meir Druck Shlita in his Aish Tamid. Mevuar

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