Unscrolled, Tzav: A Cherished Illusion
There is something alluring about that long gone era.
There is something alluring about that long gone era.
We would be wrong to dismiss the Levitical model of atonement out of hand.
While God commanded Moses from the inside out, Bezalel, the artisan of the tabernacle, builds from the outside in.
Distance and duration are central to this reconciliation narrative.
We are being asked by the Torah to picture. This is no small thing.
For those who seek a philosophically perfect God, this parashah presents a challenge.
The bitterness of the actual can make the text quite hard to swallow.
In forbidding sculpted images, God articulates a vision of the divine that cannot be bound up and kept.
Like the sea that split before the Israelites, we find ourselves at a point of division, in which ending and beginning tower on either side of us like walls.