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Podcast: The Weekly Parsha - With Michoel Brooke
Episode: Parshas Vayakhel Pekudei: Forget Likes and Followers — Did You Get Hashem’s Sticker Today?
Description: 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 depth: every mitzvah has layers, including hidden dimens...