20 Tetzaveh: Day 3 (Tuesday)

7 Adar 5786.

Today's reading is Exodus 28:31 to 28:43.

This is the link to Daily Chumash with Rashi at Chabad.

The Daily Wisdom from the Lubavitcher Rebbe is titled "The Necessity for Jewish Unity."

On 24 February 2026 at 5:27 AM EST, Jonathan writes:

The Rebbe's teaching is wonderfully wise and heartwarming.

Is it grandiose, religious - or perhaps a bit of both - to imagine ourselves called to serve in the sanctuary as the high priests of our people?

Let's assume it is not grandiose, but a natural inclination of the Yetzer Tov to want to serve our people in the sanctuary. Who are your "Jewish" people? Who are my "Jewish" people?

If I am indeed now called to be a high priest, is it more as a representative of the American nation (my birthright citizenship), the ancestral English church (my biological forefathers' thousand-year origins), the Aquarian tribe (my natal Sun sign), or the supersessionist Christian "new Jew" (according to replacement theology)?  

I am feeling like I might need to own the Aquarian label more radically. I am a member of the Aquarian guild, grafted into the Tribe of Asher in a new Commonwealth of Israel, which is a UN reform proposal for the path to a balanced world federation.

Here is how Thomas Merton put it:

"On the last day of January 1915, under the sign of the Water Bearer, in the year of a great war, and down in the shadow of some French mountains on the border of Spain, I came into the world. Free by nature, in the image of God, I was nevertheless the prisoner of my own violence and my own selfishness, in the image of the world into which I was born." - Thomas Merton, Seven Storey Mountain

Cf. Pluto in Tropical Aquarius.

Heavenly Father, we thank you for the holy opportunity to study your Torah today. We ask that you pour out your blessings on all those who precede us, join us, and follow us in this effort, and that you make us good round-the-clock examples and emissaries of the Noahide Laws. 

Amen and Shalom.