At the end of the book of Exodus, which we read last week, the tabernacle was completed, but Moses was not able to enter it because “the cloud covered the tent of meeting and the glory of God filled the tabernacle” (Exodus 40:34). At the open of the book of Leviticus, which we read this week, God calls to Moses from the tabernacle, as the parsha begins, “And He called out to Moses, and God spoke to him from the tent of meeting” (Leviticus 1:1). The Alter Rebbe explores the deep mystic significance of these verses and explains the connection between Moses’ inability to enter the tabernacle at the end of Exodus and God’s call to Moses from the clouded tabernacle at the beginning of Leviticus.

The Tabernacle (and the Temple in Jerusalem which........

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