A beautiful companion to "
Mishkan R'fuah: Where Healing Resides" this compendium is comprised of readings, poems, and meditations to support the emotional and spiritual needs that naturally arise at a time of loss.
1) The usual term in Hebrew by which we would describe the visually attractive, yafeh (beautiful) or any of its cognates does not appear in connection with the
mishkan in any of its several phases: in the original instructions given by God to Moses: Exodus 25-28, in the description of its production, Exodus 35:4-38:20, or in the account of its completion, Exodus 38:21-39:43.
As the
Mishkans do not have children, his widow would be entitled to the money that would have gone to her husband, if he would have accepted it at the time.
About The Desert Tabernacle blog: The Desert Tabernacle blog is a unique blog that covers everything related to the Biblical Tabernacle (
Mishkan).
On Nerel's ideas, see Richard Harvey, "A Typology of Messianic Jewish Theology,"
Mishkan 57 (2008), 15-6.
Some of the volume focuses on the Dwelling (or
mishkan) built by Moses and the Israelites in the Sinai Desert.
(125) See especially his still unedited Sefer
Mishkan ha-'Edut where the structure of the Paradise is discussed in great details.
The libretto by poet Scott Cairns and Aryeh Finklestein, cantor at Congregation
Mishkan Tefila in Chestnut Hill, Mass., spans seven and a half two-columned pages in the playbill and poetically tells the story of Liliana Panitza, secretary and lover of the anti-Semitic commissar.
In his book Family Matters, Burton Bernstein, Lenny's brother wrote that the couple were married at Temple
Mishkan Tefila with two rabbis officiating and that she was formally converted to Judaism before the ceremony, an action that left her mother in a 'state of mild catatonia.' Nevertheless, this conversion cannot have been sincere because a Requiem Mass was recited at her funeral, although Bernstein may have observed shiva for her.
(9.) I am grateful to Courtney Banks at Artforum, who identified the background plate as an illustration of the
mishkan. She also pointed out Blake's Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun, and corrected several errors in my manuscript.
For more detailed discussion of this issue, see my article: Motti Inbari, "Uzi Meshulam's '
Mishkan Ohalim': A Contemporary Apocalyptic Messianic Sect in Israel," Studies in Contemporary Jewry 17 (2001): 74-87.
Following interment at
Mishkan Tefila Memorial Park, Memorial observance will be at his late residence through Sunday evening.
