This is the Baymaw podcast with Marty Solman. I'm his co-host, Brent Billings. Today, we continue our series of reflection working to apply the lessons of love from the Nishkan.

Yes, this session, as we have stated, is going to be a little different. We talked about the intention, the design of this session in the intro episode of session 7.

So if you have not listened to that, go ahead and check that out. We are continuing with our second of seven Sabbath reflections to start off session 7.

And we have been using Josh Bosse's Mishkan series at the end of session 6. It's kind of an anchor point to guide our reflections. And so today's reflection is going to be built off of Josh's second episode should be episode 326.

And that will be linked in the show notes if you would like to go back and remember the context of that discussion and what drives these reflections you can go there.

You'll also find a presentation in the show notes. That's there to just be a helpful visual guide and aid for your reflection if that's something that you enjoy visually.

So with that, we'll jump into our reflection today.

Josh spoke to us in that second episode about the second day of creation. And he centered that conversation around the theme of love.

He connected this to the next items of the Mishkan and the Tabernacle, namely the curtains and the veil and connected this to the idea of rain.

And we're going to use this episode as the guide for our reflection today.

And God said,

Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.

So God made the vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it. And it was so.

God called the vault sky. And there was evening and there was morning the second day.

Make the Tabernacle with ten curtains of finely twisted linen and blue purple and scarlet yarn with cherubem woven into them.

All the curtains are to be the same size, 28 qubits long and four qubits wide.

Join five of the curtains together and do the same with the other five. Make loops of blue material along the edge of the end curtain in one set and do the same with the end curtain in the other set.

Make 50 loops on one curtain and 50 loops on the end curtain of the other set with the loops opposite each other.

Then make 50 gold clasps and use them to fasten the curtains together so that the Tabernacle is a unit.

Make curtains of goat hair for the tent over the Tabernacle, 11 together and make for the tent a covering of ram skin's dyed red and over that a covering of the other durable leather.

Consider and reflect. How can we make God's love real for others so that there's unity and access to the presence of the earth?

Consider and reflect. How can we make God's love real for others so that there's unity and access to the presence of God?

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