After the Golden Calf, the first repair isn't a speech — it's a gathering. What a shul losing half its staff and Team Israel in Miami have in common.

The parsha called "And He Settled" is the one where everything falls apart. The dwelling was never in the walls.

The Torah doesn't begin with paradise. It begins with chaos. The distance between tohu vavohu and tov me'od is six days of work — and then rest.