The Wilderness Was Always The Point

The expectation of a stable, secure world as a precondition for real life, for serious community, or for spiritual depth, is, in the Torah's own terms, a category error. Safety as a precondition is not available. What is available is vulnerability, and a community that knows what to do with it. The question facing us today is not when the wandering ends. The wandering is the condition. The question is what we are building within it: how we carry the Mishkan forward, for whom we pitch it, and whether what we are raising now will give shelter to people not yet here.