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Get StartedA Tour of the Tabernacle, Through the Lens of Creation (Part 7 of 7)
How Am I Supposed To Appreciate The Loss Of The Beit HaMikdash?
In our final video, Rabbi Fohrman goes through the elements of the Mishkan, with the three havdalot of creation as a guide. These details reveal that the Mishkan is a mind-bending “undoing” of Creation, a tiny representation of God’s primordial world within our human world. And this allows us to understand why the destruction of the Temple, and in that the loss of the Mishkan, is something we have mourned for centuries.
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