Parshas Vayakhel Pekudei: Forget Likes and Followers — Did You Get Hashem’s Sticker Today?

About this episode

The episode explores the significance of a repeated phrase in Parashas Pekudei and its implications for personal commitment and spirituality.

A five-word phrase repeats eighteen times at the climax of Sefer Shemos, and we think it is Torah’s way of grabbing us by the shoulders. “Kasher Tziva Hashem Es Moshe” is written so often in Parashas Pekudei that it stops sounding like narration and starts sounding like a demand: Do you actually mean what you are doing, and can you finish what you started? We walk through why the Mishkan narrative keeps circling back to that same line through the lens of the Shulchan Aruch. One path is about...

People in this episode

Host: Michoel Brooke

Topics covered

• Torah
• Mishkan narrative
• spirituality
• self-improvement
• religious education

Keywords

• Kasher Tziva Hashem Es Moshe
• Mishkan
• Parashas Pekudei
• Shulchan Aruch
• spiritual growth

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Sefer Shemos, Parashas Pekudei, Shulchan Aruch

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