Show Notes
In this week's parsha, we learn about what God values. Specifically,
God values creativity. This week’s parsha focuses on people who knew how to work with their hands to create beautiful garments, which is a different skill from reading or doing math. No matter what skill set you have, there is a way for you to connect with God.
God values beauty. The Mishkan and the garments the Kohanim wore were all extremely beautiful to enable people to feel impressed and amazed.
God values practice. The Kohanim were not allowed to do their jobs until they first prepared for seven days and learned what to do.
God values engagement. He wanted to make sure everyone in Bnei Yisrael could be engaged with all of their five senses, so He designed a Mishkan experience that would do just that!
This enables us to consider how we can best connect to God through being creative, using beauty, practicing something, or engaging all our five senses.
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In the last parsha of the Torah, V'Zot HaBracha, Moshe dies. But what matters is not that he died- rather, the way he died. Moshe approached God alone. There were no adoring crowds. No family surrounding him. It was just the man and his Maker. And this is something that will happen to us all. We will all, ultimately, approach God. The question to be answered is simply this: have we lived a life that we are proud to show to God?
This week's parsha, Haazinu, is actually a song! Moshe wanted to make sure that the core ideas of Judaism would be accessible to everyone, whether or not they were able to read. In this song, we focus on some important ideas. These include: