Our Parsha this Shabbos is a Double Portion of Parashas Vayakhel and Parashas Pekudei that takes us to the end of The Book of Shemos Exodus , the Second Book of The Holy Torah . This Shabbos also comes before Rosh Chodesh Nissan and so It Is Also Parashas HaChodesh , the Shabbos before Rosh Chodesh Nissan , which was the day that the Tabernacle in the Wilderness was Inaugurated , after the seven prior days of It's setting up and taking down by Moshe and we look forward to the coming of Pesach in Nissan and the Maftir for Parashas HaChodesh is in Exodus 12 : 1 - 20 , which speaks of Rosh Chodesh and how the Hebrew Month of Nissan in which we were freed from Mitzrayim , will be for us Jews , the First of the Months and this portion also speaks of Pesach , which is coming soon and the Haftorah is Yechezkel Ezekiel 45 : 16 - 46 : 18 , which speaks of Pesach and 1 Samuel 20 : 18 , 42 , which mentions how the following day is Rosh Chodesh . In our last Parsha , we ended the Sedra describing Moshe's Radiant face and in Parashas Vayakhel which means " Assembled , " Moshe Assembles the Entire Assembly of the Children of Israel , " to tell them the specific things That HaShem Commanded , starting with the Laws of the Shabbos . The Holy Torah then Speaks of the Contributions to be given . Moshe relates That HaShem Said That the people must bring " Kol Nediv Libo , " - " Everyone whose heart motivates him " and further on , The Holy Torah Says " Asher N'sa'o Libo , " - " whose heart inspired him , " so this giving had to be from us , from our heart , not as a force but as an action of love and total giving for HaShem and His Mitzvos . This is how we are to do All Of HaShem's Mitzvos , with an act of Love , not obligation . This sweetens the action of the Mitzvah that we do and the holy action that we do , rises to Shamayim , longing for closeness with HaShem's Holy Crown , Which HaShem Keeps and for every heart - felt Mitzvah that we do in a loving way , HaShem Engraves this On this particular Spiritual Crown , Shining for the Universes Of Creation , so our very Mitzvos that we do with a loving and giving heart , helps to light up the Universes of Creation . Torah Continues with how the people came for The Avodas HaShem , to make all that had to be made , under Betzalel and Oholiav . All that was made and given , could not have Made Such A Beautiful Holy Tabernacle unless HaShem Gave Toward the Work Too , for when the people started to Work in total earnest giving with their hearts , HaShem Assisted And The Work Was Done . Just As HaShem Will Do With us , when we put our heart and soul into doing HaShem's Mitzvos And Avodas HaShem ( The Work of HaShem ) , HaShem Will Assist us too . Just As HaShem Commanded That The Tabernacle and the work be done , so was it done Exactly As HaShem Wanted it done , for Betzalel and Oholiav Were Given A Vision From HaShem's Perspective of each part's deeper meaning , so that they could be able to make everything with great depth , Just As HaShem Wanted It . So was , in Parashas Pekudei , the Vestments of Aharon and the Kohanim done According To HaShem's Commandments And Wants . In fact the people brought over much and Moshe had to stop them from bringing . When all was made , which took about three months , which was a total Miracle for what was needed to be done , So HaShem Really Did Assist and once it was all finished , it was all brought to Moshe to inspect . Moshe was content that all was done According To HaShem's Wish . The Work was completed in Kislev , but as the Midrash tells us , HaShem Waited Till Rosh Chodesh Nissan To Have It Erected , which according to Tanchuma , was when Yitzchak was born in the month of Nissan , thus all we are to do , is also tied to our holy Patriarchs . The Month of Kislev was thus missed out And So HaShem Granted In the month of Kislev , another Festival , the Festival of Chanukah and its Miracle , From HaShem . The Tabernacle was actually erected and dismantled every day by Moshe for a week before the First of Nissan and only finally on the First Day of the Month of Nissan , was The Tabernacle put up permanently and Inaugurated . Moshe Served as Kohein Gadol for that first week that he was setting It up and taking It down before the Inauguration . Only after the Inauguration of the Tabernacle and Aharon as Kohein Gadol and his sons being inaugurated for service as Kohanim , Did The Cloud Cover The Tent of Meeting And HaShem's Glory Filled The Tabernacle . When The Cloud would lift , we would journey and when it remained on the Tabernacle , we would not journey . The Cloud Of HaShem Would Be On The Tabernacle By day And The Fire Would Be On It By night , Throughout all our journeys in the Wilderness . Parashas Vayakhel starts By HaShem Having Moshe Teach About The Holy Shabbos . HaShem , In six days , Made All Things . HaShem Made The Heavens And The Earth In Six Days , Making in those six days , All that Was , Is and Will Be , right up until The End Of Days and on the Seventh Day Shabbos , HaShem Rested and so must we Rest on Shabbos . In Six Days , HaShem Allows work to be done and so , even if that work is not completed by the Seventh Day , we must still stop and Keep Shabbos For HaShem And His Creation . HaShem Gives us six other days to do labour and other things permitted by Torah , so we can at least give HaShem one day , to be close to Him in love . In the Wilderness , people used to study Torah every day . The Torah Came up to HaShem and said that when we arrive in Eretz Yisrael , we will not study Torah , or we might not study as much of The Torah as before , because we will busy ourselves with labour in the Land . So HaShem Said To The Torah That It should not worry , For HaShem Instructs us that we are to do our labour for six days and that Seventh Day Shabbos , we are to spend with The Holy Torah From HaShem , studying It , The Holy Torah Of HaShem . Though we must study Torah every day . Every other Day has a partner day where Yom Rishon has Yom Sheini and Yom Shelishi has Yom Revi'i and Yom Chamishi has Yom Shishi , but Shabbos came to HaShem and said that It has no partner . HaShem Responded So Beautifully That The Jewish People will Rest on It and they will be Shabbos Day's partner . So we Jews must Rest on The Holy Shabbos and give ourselves to HaShem And HaShem's Holy Shabbos , on The Holy Shabbos Day . We note that in the words in this Parsha , " Shabbat Shabbaton " - " A Shabbos of Complete Rest , " the Word Shabbat is repeated " Shabbat " " Shabbat ' on ' " , for we must not just rest for ourselves or for our own definitions of rest , but it must be a " Complete Rest , " A Holy Rest According To What HaShem Deems As Holy Rest . Also like the Hebrew Word ' Shalom ' which also means ' Completeness as well as Peace , ' so must Shabbos Be A Day Of Total Completeness And Peace , With And Close To HaShem , making sure to stop doing all the 39 Melachos , The Forbidden Labors Of Shabbos , that physically would prevent that ' Spiritual Rest of Completeness . ' On Shabbos , we get an extra Shabbos soul that leaves at the end of every Shabbos , A Spiritual Connection Close to HaShem . Before Shabbos , we welcome the Shabbos Bride with the singing of a song written by the Kabbalist Rabbi Shlomo Ha Levi Alkabetz ( Artscroll Siddur ) - ' Lecha Dodi Likras Kallah , P'nei Shabbas N'Kabalah ' - ' Come ( also us Jews ) my Beloved ( HaShem ) , To Greet the Bride ( Shabbos ) , The Sabbath Presence , let us welcome , ' for we Jews , are the partner to the Shabbos . In days of old , some of our people used to go out onto the road and welcome in The Holy Essence Of Shabbos . So long have we heard the true statement , that it is not just that we Jews keep Holy The Shabbos , but that The Holy Shabbos has kept us through the centuries , Remaining In It's Full Obedience , The Holy Parts Of That First Light Of Creation , That HaShem Has Given us , In Keeping us Truly Holy Torah Jewish , In It's Full Observance . When HaShem First Created Creation , HaShem Gave Too Much Light And HaShem Had To Withdraw Some Of That First Light And It Is Parts Of That First Light That HaShem Withdrew , That Comes Down To us Every Shabbos . The Holy Shabbos Is The Day to leave all behind in the physical World and spend quality time With HaShem . In this Commandment of Keeping the Seventh Day Holy , is also included , Working for HaShem the other Six Days , to culminate in completing the week of and until Shabbos . The Levites of old , would count every day of the week toward Shabbos , for every day , is linked to Shabbos and so , do we do likewise , every time that we say the Psalm of the day , starting it with ' This is .... Day of the Shabbos . ' If All The Jews would just keep two Shabboses in a row , As HaShem Instructs The Holy Shabbos To Be Kept , Mashiach would come . Keeping Shabbos is so vital to Creation And The Holy Shabbos That HaShem Wants all Jews to Keep , As HaShem Commands us to keep The Holy Shabbos , for we also all Assured HaShem that we would , on Har Sinai , as well as all the other Commandments Of HaShem And His Torah . Shabbos Is Forever and so is It's Observance for all times , For Shabbos Is above time and so must It's Observance , Instructed From HaShem , be always kept from generation to generation - past , present in modern times and into the future , Just As HaShem Instructed It To Be Kept , As HaShem Instructed Moshe , With All It's 39 Melachos Forbidden Labours , All Its Tenets . Just As HaShem Gave His Fire Light In Creating Creation And Rested On HaShem's Holy Shabbos , so must we not Kindle on Shabbos . The matter of not kindling fire is specifically mentioned , even though it is part of the 39 Melachos Forbidden Labours of Shabbos . There are 39 Melachos Forbidden Labours on Shabbos , just as the same 39 Labours in Constructing the Tabernacle And All That HaShem Had Instructed to have built then and so these 39 Forbidden Labours For Shabbos Must Be Kept . We know this due to the Fact that both Shabbos and the Construction of the Tabernacle are written along - side each other in HaShem's Holy Torah . So this particular forbidden labour was specifically mentioned , for this specific labour of kindling a fire , is within the energy of all actions that make up our physical workings when performing labour , for all that we do , is by the Life Soul Given us By HaShem , Just Like His Kindling Fire and so on Shabbos and at all times , we must not use the Soul That HaShem Gives us , for anything That HaShem Forbids us , on This Holy Day ( and in fact , every day ) . The Second Parsha , part of the Double Parsha that we read on this Shabbos is Parashas Pekudei , after which , ends the Book Of Shemos Exodus , The Second Book Of The Holy Torah . Parashas Pekudei Speaks of the " Reckonings " - " Pekudei , " and refers to the accounting of what was made at that time and to the specific way and order and amount , That HaShem Instructed . This too can relate to The Shabbos , for it is a day of our accounting of obedience to HaShem , where we reckon and account our soul , to make it holier and so climb Holy Levels on The Shabbos . The very articles that were " Pekudei " - " Reckoned " in Parashas Pekudei , in their accounting of being part of all The Holy Things That HaShem Instructed , became Holy in the " Reckoning " for in their " Reckoning and Accounting , " they were Inaugurated to their Holy Service . The Same is with The Holy Torah that we take out on Shabbos . The same is with the Mezuzah that we have on our door-posts . The same is with the Tefillin that we wear for Shacharis that only a Jew should wear . The Same is with the Tallis that only a Jew should wear , that we wear in Davening . The same is with the Siddurim and Machzorim that we Jews Daven with . The same is with the Holy Seforim that we learn from . The same is with every Holy Article that we use , for in using it , we instill that Holy Article with Kedushah Holiness From HaShem . The same is with us , when we do HaShem's Mitzvos . And the same is when we " Vayakhel " - " Assemble " together as a nation for Davening to HaShem and for serving HaShem . Especially on the Holy Shabbos . For when we " Vayakhel " - " Assemble " as the Parsha Says , " Es Kol Adas B'nei Yisrael , " - " The Entire Assembly of the Children of Israel , " we open up the Heavens , To Receive HaShem's Light and we are " Pekudei " - " Reckoned " among our fellow Jews , With HaShem's Holiness . For when we Jews " Vayakhel " - " Assemble " together , we can bring Moshiach and end our Galus and all the pain that comes with it . Within the word " Vayakhel , " is Moshiach , for its Gematriah is 6 + 10 + 100 + 5 + 30 = 151 and 1 + 5 + 1 = 7 , the same Gematrical value of the word ' Mashiach . ' The " Vayakhel " - " Assembly " " Kol Adas " Togetherness " of Jews , brings Mashiach , which is The Time , that will end all the pain and suffering and Mageifim - Plagues and Diseases and Sicknesses and will bring us back to the path that we were headed on at the Beginning , When HaShem Made Creation And That First Shabbos Seventh Day , which was going to be Eternal And Forever , if only Chavah and Adam would have obeyed HaShem . So " Vayakhel Eis Kol Adas B'nei Yisrael " - " Assembling the Entire Assembly of the Children of Israel , " will bring on The End of Days Olam Habah When Shabbos Will Be Eternal And within The Ever Loving Closeness Of HaShem . Then will " Bereishis " - " In The Beginning " - " Creation , " Reach It's Final Stage And Enter Into The Eternal Shabbos . For within the word " Pekudei " - " Reckoning , " is the Start of Creation - The Beginning , " for the Gematriah of the word " Pekudei , " is 80 + 100 + 6 + 4 + 10 = 200 which is also the Gematrical value of the Hebrew Letter ' Reish ' and if we say the letter as it is spelt as ' Reish , ' then the Hebrew Word ' Reishah , ' means ' Beginning , ' where the ' Ah ' sound at the end of it represents ' Elokim ' - ' HaShem ' and thus shows that the ' Reish- ah ' is that Hebrew Letter Reish With HaShem and so , suggests ' The Beginning ( of Creation ) With HaShem . ' Also the letter Reish as it looks as a letter , appears to come down from The Higher Planes , down to us and so , with " Vayakhel " - " Assembling " and " Pekudei " - taking a final " Reckoning , " we can bring Creation , to it's Final Intention and enter into The Eternal Shabbos " With HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu HaShem The Holy One Blessed Be He . I wish Ever Most Beautiful Forever Beloved HaShem With Sweetest And Deepest Forever Everlasting Love , A Very Sweet And Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh And Chodesh Tov With Deepest Love and to all my fellow Jews and to all of Creation , A Very Beautiful And Healing By HaShem , Sweet Shabbos Kodesh and Chodesh Tov with love . May HaShem Heal Our World And Those In It . May HaShem Bring On The End Of Days Olam HaBah Bekarov Soon In Our Days . Blessed Shabbos Kodesh And Chodesh Tov To HaShem With Eternal Love and Blessed Shabbos Kodesh and Chodesh Tov to all of my fellow Jews and to all of Creation with love .