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Moses
assembled the entire Israelite community and said to them, 'These are the
words that God has commanded for (you) to do: Exodus 35:1
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My
saintly teacher, Rabbi Mordechai Rogov, explained that it was necessary for
Moses to assemble “the entire Israelite community” when he prepared to erect
the tabernacle in which the Shechina will rest since the essential
condition for the Shechina resting within Israel is the nation’s unity.
The concept of the connection
between Israel’s unity and its sanctity appears as well in Parashat Kedoshim,
which begins with God’s command:
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speak to
the entire Israelite community and say to them: Leviticus
19:2
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It is clearly not by chance that
in both verses the audience is the “entire Israelite community.” When the
individual achieves the level of sanctity, he endows the collective as well
with sanctity, and when the collective achieves sanctity the Shechina
will indeed rest within the community.
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