In this week's Torah portion, Vaiakhel (And He Gathered), the Torah recounts the work the Jewish people undertook in the desert to construct the Mishkan, the portable sanctuary. Although this narrative may seem repetitive, it is actually Moses' command to the Jewish people and the practical execution of that command. In the Terumah and Tetzaveh sections, God commands Moses regarding the Mishkan, and in this section and the following one (Pekudei), Moses conveys that command to the people, who then fulfill it.
In the middle of the story of the work of the Jewish people, the Torah brings a striking verse, which our sages take it upon themselves to explain.
The Torah says (Exodus 35:26): "And all the women, inspired by wisdom in their hearts, spun the goats." In the simplest sense, the verse is speaking of the production of goat-hair yarn for making one of the fabrics that covered the Mishkan.
However, our sages dwell on the detail of "they spun the goats," which sounds like they took the goat itself and spun it! They explain that, indeed, while the goat was alive, threads were produced (spun) from its hair, which was still attached to the goat. In fact, this is why the verse so highly praises the work of these women ("women inspired with wisdom by their hearts"): for thousands of years, humankind has been producing threads and fabrics for clothing and other needs by spinning different materials (wool, hair, linen, etc.) and with different tools, from the simplest to the most complex, and it was never considered a form of wisdom. So why does the Torah esteem it so highly? Because they spun the hair of the goats on the live goats themselves.
So, what lesson does this teach us for daily life? Judaism is a way of life based on the concept of service to God. As the Talmud says (Kiddushin 82b): "I was created to serve My Creator." Elsewhere, our sages say (Talmud Shabbat 77b): "In all that God created, He created nothing in vain." From these two statements, we can infer that every quality a person possesses should be used in the service of God. Otherwise, God would have created that quality in vain. Whoever does not use their full potential and capacity to serve God is, so to speak, acting against their very reason for being. And this applies even to those already on the path of Torah and Mitzvot observance. No one is exempt from being able to advance in their service to God, and/or from being able to apply an additional quality, in quality and/or quantity, to the service of God.
These women, about whom the Torah tells us that they wisely spun goat hair, illustrate this very idea: their greatest wisdom lay precisely in that. And they used all their qualities, even those related to material and worldly matters like spinning hair to make cloth, in the service of God.