Portion Pekuday - who Remembers the Waltz of "Russia in Afghanistan"?

 

Why should we study Portion Pekuday about how the Temple in the desert was set up?

 

Especially as a war is raging and people are running and hurting!

 

The waltz -dance  in my lifetime was always:

 "Russian in ...  Russian out .... America in .... and then Drop Arms and Run Out"

And the Russian Crushin' of Hungary? And all eastern Europe.

 

Who in the Stupid State Department is telling Biden to Pay the Iranians to fund rocket attacks on the Gulf States and from Lebanon and Gaza?

 

And we built temples in the desert in our minds eye?

 

So the question is often asked, why in the world did there have to be sacrifices in the Temple(s)?

 

And animal rights activists get frothy about innocent animals being offered on the altar.

 

But then in our portion

 

The Almighty says the people donated EVERYTHING for the Temple

 

and Jewish Artists formed the Desert Temple exactly as G-d's Plan,

 

And the Temple in the desert was considered a microcosm of the Total Universe and

 

That we need to relate all the portions of the Temple Services to OUR UNIVERSE!!!

 

And indeed the world keeps offering up innocents in so many ways - no just animals -

 

BUT NOT TO FULFILL THE WISHES OF THE ALMIGHTY

BUT TO FUEL THEIR EGOs and to SATISFY THEIR GREED!

 

The sacrifices of our TEMPLES WERE OF 2 KINDS -

 

LIKE THE PASSOVER OFFERING - MEANT TO BE SHARED IN JOY

OR

the Olah sacrifices - which were to be burned - TO TELL THE WORLD to

 

SEE - this is what you are ALL doing - 

And sacrificing PEOPLES' LIVES on your ALTARS OF GREED!

 

I think there is much to teach 

From This Portion

the world about how to plan out a better world!

 

Shabbat Shalom

Rabbi Andy Eichenholz