<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">In this coming week's portion it is written: 'Build a sanctuary for Me and I will dwell in </font></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">them</font></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> (plural)?' </font></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Many scholars have asked: "Wouldn't it be more correct to say, 'build a sanctuary for Me and I will dwell in </font></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">it</font></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> (singular)'?"</font></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><br></span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">I submit what I'm sure is a novel response.</font></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><br></span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">To God <span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; ">–<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px; "> past, present and future is the same. God transcends time. (Also, if you stop and think about it, in one split second, the future becomes the present and then is past).</span></span></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">God knew that down the road, the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; ">one</span> Sanctuary would eventually be replaced by many Sanctuaries, but obviously, in a different format.</font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Hence, God is saying, if you take the first step and build the primary sanctuary, when the time comes </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">that there are many synagogues, I will dwell in </font></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">ALL</font></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> of </font></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Them</font></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">.</font></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 22px; ">ri</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><br></span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#1D2713"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">“Media, the plural of mediocrity.”</font></font></span></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#1D2713"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Jimmy Breslin</font></font></div></body></html>