Chabad Rebbes

Introduction In discussing the verse, Shmos 40:17. “It came to pass in the first month, in the second year, on the first day of the month, that the Sanctuary was erected,” the Midrash Midrash Tanchuma, Parshas Pekudei, sec. 11. – quoted also by Rashi Rash...

Introduction Our Sages state, Berachos 12a. “Everything follows the conclusion.” In that vein, the description of the manifestation of G‑dliness in the Sanctuary at the end of this Torah reading serves as an apt conclusion to the Book of Shmos, whose focu...

The eleventh and final section of the Book of Exodus opens by informing us whom Moses appointed (Pekudei, in Hebrew) over the functioning and transport of the Tabernacle. Having concluded the account of how the artisans fashioned the various components of...

Parshas Pekudei begins with a reckoning of all the materials used in the Sanctuary. This is a lesson for each of us. For we have all been given gifts that we must make a reckoning of. When a person has been given potentials, be it wealth, intelligence, or...

One of Poland’s foremost Rebbes had a grandson who was very ill. His son called for the most skilled medical professionals, but they all returned with the same prognosis. Ordinary medicine had no cure for the disease that ailed him. Unless there was a mir...

Once the Rebbe, Reb Zusia of Anipoli, was trudging down a country road. He passed a wagon with its wheels mired in the mud. “Help me push the wagon out,” the driver called to Reb Zusia. Reb Zusia realized that he was weak and frail and could not be of muc...

Likkutei Sichos, Vol. XVI, p. 475ff. I. After the Torah describes the erection of the Sanctuary in detail,Shmos 40:17ff. it relates that the Divine Presence rested upon the Sanctuary, as it is written:Ibid.:34. “And the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting a...

Four of the last five Sidrot have dealt with the construction of the Sanctuary and its vessels by the Israelites. What is the difference between them that justifies their division into four separate Sidrot? There is a clear difference between the first tw...

In the Torah portion of Pikudei, we find G-d commanding Moshe to erect the Mishkan and place its vessels inside.Shmos 40:1ff. In conjunction with this command, G-d also told him to perform various services: In association with “You shall bring in the Tabl...

The Zohar on the portion Pekudei222b. speaks of the Mishkan , the Beis HaMikdash , and the placing of the Ark in the Beis HaMikdash’s Holy of Holies. When the Ark was placed there, says one opinion in the Zohar, the Ark said:Tehillim 132:14. “This is my e...