In the portion the Mishkan ... The Temple in the desert

 is planned by G-d and Moses

 

The cover of the Ark of the Tablets is built of beaten gold with TWO cherubs on top

 

Facing each other ... Not Next to Each Other

 

Opposite each other ... And the Medrash tells us that when the Israelites messed up in their relationship with the Almighty they turned away from each other

 

At all times they had

 

Wings spread and facing UP

 

We learn from Reb Kook that everything in the world is in pairs .... Even Torah portions

 

But this was not a pair

 

Pairs are together

Or Opposing

 

The Kabbalah teaches that everything in the world has opposite so

 

I believe one set of wings pointed up to the source of holiness

 

And I think the other guy pointed up to what Hassidim call the Bal Davar 

who tries to lure us to sin...

 

Not really angels...

 

Reb Elimelech was sweeping the beit medrash ... Study Hall once

 

Late at night and In the middle he started beating two students!

 

Until they yelled ... And he

 

Swept out that couple of guys!

 

And he turned to the other students and said "

 

You gotta know who is an angel and who is not... "

 

 

Building a temple in a desert aint easy 

(    And not anywhere. )...but they did it

 

Angels are with us every Friday night ... 

 

But when we ... Or they...stop talking to each other all our

 

Temples get destroyed

 

 

Lets Build ours on dialogue and love

 

And trying to fly higher

 

Gutt shabbos from Jerusalem

 

Rabbi Andy Eichenholz