Saturday July 12, 2020 Congregation Netivot Shalom, Berkeley CA Rabbi Stuart Kelman, Founding Rabbi Emeritus Chukkat is the parasha that deals the most with the topic of death.  In it, Miriam dies and is buried; Aaron dies at the end of an elaborate ceremony and the people mourn for 30 days; and at the very…

V’asu li mikdash v’shachanti betocham (Ex. 25:2) – build Me a MIKDASH [holy place], and I will dwell in them (in us). [sing it with the kahal] It was around 15 years ago that Debbie Friedman z”l wrote a melody for this verse ‘v’asu’. Our building committee had adopted this Biblical verse as a theme…