Chevra, this week’s parsha is וַיַקְהֵל - פְקוּדֵי (Vayakhel-Pekudei) and Parshat HaChodesh. We will bless the month of Nissan that will be on Thursday of next week. And we will be finishing the book of Shemot. Now that we have read the whole book about leaving Egypt, we’ll embark on cleaning our houses (can’t complain about the commute anymore) before Pesach. What is also ironic about this week’s parsha is it starts with Moshe assembling the entire assembly of the Children of Israel. Given that this Shabbat the shuls are closed and nearly everyone is shut in their homes, dafka this is what we are not allowed to do. The parsha tells us to keep Shabbat and then the Mishkan is built (before we were only getting the blue prints) and Moshe builds it. The final section is when Hashem’s glory fills the Mishkan. Thousands of years later, there was the final sacrifice brought to the Temple during the siege of the Romans. It took the ingenuity of The Sages to move to a prayer based avodah. Now that we are not able to pray in a minyan (I even have a yahrzeit today: ), we will have to modify our ways again. As the AWS world is moving more and more serverless, we will also have to move toward the cloud and operate in our homes without a Mishkan, without a Temple, without a Shul, but still with a devotion to The Holy One Blessed be He and the love of our friends, neighbors and especially our families (who we are spending a lot of time with these days). May we all get through this terrible time together virtually. Health (physical and mental) and hapiness to all of you. Shabbat Shalom.