This past Shabbat, on a Shabbaton, we were divided into small circles, each group given a different aspect of the Beit HaMikdash to discuss.

Our group was given the Shechina—and how we understand it, and how we imagine it will be experienced in the Beit HaMikdash.

One woman in our group shared a perspective that resonated with many: that the Shechina is already within us, and redemption is simply revealing what has always been there.

I listened. And something in me resisted.

Not because it was wrong. But because, for me, it wasn’t enough.

Later, the woman who shared that........

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