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Vayakheil-Pekudei (Shabbat - Sat. 10th March/23rd Adar) Laibl's Weekly Parsha Video

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Vayakheil-Pekudei (Shabbat - Sat. 10th March/23rd Adar) 
Laibl's Weekly Parsha Video
The Whole is More Than the Total of its Parts 

•SUMMARY: There is more to life than a scholastic, academic, or scientific identification of its component parts.  We are more than a collection of organs, limbs, and sinews operating synchronistically. We are a living, breathing, spiritual being.  Likewise, the Jewish nation is not just a collection of millions of individuals.  It becomes a totally different entity when we all work in unison, with a sense of mutual love and togetherness. 

Notes:
• Adventure movies are always scripted with the exciting search for the last component – the missing link, and this keeps the audience riveted in their seats. Even though all the pieces are in place, the mystery remains, until the elusive motive is revealed by Agatha Christie’s Inspector Poirot.
• In other words the whole is much more than the sum total of its constituent parts. Likewise, dissect a body, identify its physical components, but without the soul there is no living human being. Likewise, the Mishkan, the portable mini-temple of the desert, may have been fully assembled, but without the Divine homemaker it remained simply a collection of building parts.
• The Jewish people are also a collection of individuals. Yet the greatness of a people lies not in its greats and famous.  It lies in the component parts, you and me, belonging, joining, unifying, producing a whole that is much greater than its component parts.
• Especially today is there a great need that we be a true singular Kehilla – a collection of individuals that become a body corporate national that will maintain the integrity of one people and one land.

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