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Only when Moses completed "bride' The verb is first used the Tabernacle did God's in Genesis 2:1, when God's presence dwell on earth. creation of heaven and earth God chooses to let humanity is "completed." have the honor of complet- This week in Parshat ing the project, much as a Naso, the verb is summoned scribe often allows a child to again "on the day that Moses complete the final letter of a completed setting up the Torah scroll. Tabernacle." Finally, after Judaism places great many months of construc- importance on the final act Rabbi Daniel tion, training and dedication, of completion. Only when Ne vins the tabernacle is complete. a utensil is completed does Specia I to the Since ancient times the it become subject to the Jewis h News appearance of this verb in laws of purity. In the laws these two contexts has been under- of Shabbat, there is a category of labor stood to signify a type of parallel called "striking the hammer" which between God's creation of the cosmos refers to driving the final nail into and Israel's creation of the Tabernacle. place. Thus when Moses completes the As the Greek Jewish philosopher Philo Tabernacle, magnificent energy begins first noted, the Tabernacle is in effect a to flow into the world, bringing the microcosm, a human imitation of God's potential for purity into the world. Even glorious creation. today, long after the destruction of the Yet the rabbis went further, argu- Temple, we continue to benefit from ing that the Tabernacle was also in a this act of completion. We are empow- sense the completion of God's creation. ered to add new chambers to the palace Although the physical creation was of the king, so that this very world can described as completed in Genesis 2.1, be experienced as it was intended, suf- it wasn't until this point in Numbers 7, fused with the glory of the Lord. when the people had finished the sanc- I would like to complete this column, tuary, that God's presence could truly my last for the Detroit Jewish News, dwell in the world. A simple Hebrew with gratitude to you, the students root links two distant texts in order to and teachers of Torah. There are many yield a deep and broader meaning. wonderful qualities to this community, In the Talmud, we are told that seven but surely our collective love of Torah is things preceded the creation of the uni- what draws us together and makes us verse: Torah, teshuvah (repentance), partners in completing God's creation. gan eden (paradise), gehenna (hell), When we learn from one another then the divine throne, the temple, and the we construct our own tabernacle of name of the messiah (Sanhedrin 54a). Torah and welcome the divine presence Just as an architect anticipates the into our midst. functions needed in a building long before construction begins, so, too, did Daniel Nevins is a rabbi at Adat Shalom God envision the essential functions Synagogue in Farmington Hills. of the universe prior to creation. Study the list — why were these specific com- Conversation ponents necessary to precede the cre- What Jewish skill have you ation? It seems to me that each of them already mastered that you can represents an aspect of the human teach to another? Become a experience, the triumphs, failures, and teacher of Torah!