Vayakhel
Texts and beliefs
By Masorti Judaism
06th Mar 2019
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Rabbi Jonathan Sacks notes that the opening word of this week’s parashah – Vayakhel – has the root letters k-h-l, from which ‘we get the words kahal and kehillah, meaning ‘community’