Between the Ordinary and the Sublime

February 19, 2021

“Few know that a full third of the Book of Exodus is about the minute details of building the Tabernacle,” says Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch. “I think that it is to teach us that the grandest human accomplishments are the result of the smallest daily decisions. One ordinary thing after another — enough of them in the right places on the canvas of life — may produce a masterpiece.”