{"id":59744,"date":"2025-03-28T07:27:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T10:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tuviaserber.com\/parashat-pekudei-action-is-the-main-thing-2\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T23:12:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T02:12:02","slug":"parashat-pekudei-action-is-the-main-thing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tuviaserber.com\/en\/parashat-pekudei-action-is-the-main-thing-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Parashat Pekudei - Action is the main thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This week&#039;s Torah reading is the end of the second book of Torah and seems to have a repetition of ideas that were already mentioned in previous sections. Trumah, Tetzaveh and Ki Tisa talk about the building of the Tabernacle. Sections Vayakhel and Pekudei also! Why is there repetition? 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