from the Rebbe on this week's parsha, Parshas Vayakhel-Pekudei. Parshas Vayakhel starts with the words, ויקהל משה את כל עדת בני ישראל, Moshe gathered all the Yidden, and he told them, ששת ימים תעשה מלאכה וביום השביעי יהיה לכם קודש שבת שבתון לה', six days melachah could be done, work can be done, but on the seventh day it's holy to Hashem', you have to rest, and then it continued with telling them about making the Mishkan. And the question that's asked is in many places, that why did they have to mention that six days you work? The main thing he wanted to tell them is that the seventh day, on Shabbos, you cannot work. And even if it comes to make the Mishkan, you can't be מחלל שבת in order to make the Mishkan. So, all he should have said, Shabbos you cannot work, then tell them about the Mishkan, which would mean that even the Mishkan you cannot make on Shabbos. Why did he have to give the introduction that six days you can work? And the Rebbe explains it, that we know the reason why the Torah says ויקהל משה את כל עדת בני ישראל, that Moshe gathered all the Yidden וכולי, why is it so noge'a and so important here that he gathered all the Yidden? The main thing, he should have said Moshe told the Yidden you have to keep Shabbos and you have to make the Mishkan, etc., etc. So, it says in different places that this is to show that as an introduction for everything is ויקהל משה את כל עדת בני ישראל, all the Yidden have to get together. There has to be achdut amongst Yidden. And that's the first thing before you before you go any further. Before you talk about the importance of Shabbos, before you talk about the importance of making the Mishkan, the first thing is you have to have אחדות הייִדן. And that's important for Shabbos and important for the Mishkan. In

order to do these things properly, you have to have אחדות ביי ייִדן. But one might think that the inyan of achdut is important when you're talking about spiritual things. Then it's possible to have achdut, all Yidden together. When it comes to Shabbos, it's a holy day, you're involved in holy things, then you have achdut amongst Yidden. When it comes to make the Mishkan, then you have achdut amongst the Yidden. So, you would think that's when it's important. But when it comes to the weekdays, when you're involved in making a living, you're involved in your physical things, there it's harder to have achdut, and maybe there it's not so important to have achdut, maybe there you could because it's not רוחניות'דיקע ענינים. So, therefore, the Torah starts off, Moshe Rabbeinu starts off by saying, ששת ימים תעשה מלאכה. After he says- after the Torah says ויקהל משה את כל עדת בני ישראל, that he gathered all the Yidden, which means there is an importance of achdut, he starts off by saying, six days a week you work, to mean- he means to say that this inyan of achdut has to be even in the days that you work. And that's why it continues on. Six- it says ויקהל משה, you have to have achdut; six days a week you also have to have achdut, even though it's much harder, you have to have achdut, chas veshalom not to have השגת גבול, to get into somebody's way of his parnasah and other things that could be during the week; and Shabbos has to have achdut. And that's the first הקדמה, and then it continues about the משכן. In order to make a משכן, you have to achdut. And also, he's telling you that achdut is so important that if you have achdut during the weekdays, you have achdut during Shabbos, which means you have achdut concerning physical matters and you have achdut when it comes concerning spiritual matters, then you're ready to make the משכן. What's the inyan of making the משכן? Making the משכן is bringing down the Shechinah down here. And that's what the pasuk is telling you: If you have ויקהל, you have the achdut, making Yidden all into one klal, into one unit, have achdut, when it comes to physical matters, weekdays, spiritual matters, Shabbos, then you will bring down the Shechinah into this world, because that's very important. The inyan of Ahavat Yisrael is

important to bringing down the Shechinah into this world, making a משכן, which means, simply, this will bring Mashiach. Making the Mishkan is the inyan of Mashiach when he will build the בית המקדש, and this all starts when Yidden have the proper אהבת ישראל.