Parshat Terumah: On Creating Spaces

Yeah, it's yet another devar torah about ושכנתי בתוכם, what else was I supposed to write about

So our parsha talks about the Mishkan and its furnishings, which raises the question, “what the hell is a mishkan?”. It is usually translated as “Tabernacle” which is one of those words that we use to translate Hebrew terms that are actually more obscure than the Hebrew. Like “Phylacteries” (tefillin), or two other examples that would make this sentence…