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The Tabernacle – A dwelling place for the Creator can be found in the heart of each and every Jew / the 7th day of the month of Adar

“You should make for me a dwelling place” Something seemingly very strange happened after we received the Torah, after the Jewish nation merited hearing the All M-ighty speak. They were commanded to begin construction of the Tabernacle, which involved fashioning skins as part of the roof and boards to make up the walls as part of the basic physical make up of the Tabernacle itself. It would seem more logical if the Jews were to be involved in learning the divine Torah that they just received. Chassidut Chabad explains that now is the time and place for the Jews to be involved in the physical realm of existence and to transform it into something that is good and holy. This is G-d’s will and this is the purpose of creation. The construction of the Tabernacle, G-d’s portable dwelling place as they wondered through the desert all those years, in essence completes what was accomplished on Mount Sinai, the indwelling of the Divine Presence, which in turn is a preparation for the complete and true redemption. “The Tabernacle that Moses constructed”, on Moses’ name, is the same Tabernacle that the Jewish nation constructed. His birthday and demise are this week, on the 7th day of Adar. Our holy Rabbis explain that Moses (Moshe Rabeinu) didn’t die. His leadership, from its inception, hasn’t stopped. In every generation, the “leader of the generation”, similar to Moses in his time, has the job of continue constructing the Tabernacle, i.e. to make sure that the Creator dwells within the heart and actions of every Jew, to bring into this world the Divine Presence and the third and everlasting Temple, and finally the complete and true redemption… “You should make for me a dwelling place” in every Jew’s heart!