This week we celebrate Purim; one year on from the start of the Covid lockdowns. We miss the companionship, the pleasure, the noise, and the dressing up that sets the scene for the holiday. Zoom meeti
The instructions to build and furnish the Mishkan begin this week and will go on to occupy about one third of the book of Shemot, five Parshiyot – Terumah, Tetsaveh, half of Ki Tissa, Vayakhel and Pe
This week, when we read the Sedra Mishpatim, is also Shabbat Shekalim, one of the special Shabbatot before Pesach. It records a form of census; the giving of the half shekel. It is why we leap forward