We will be looking at a new segment of Shemot about the dedication of objects for the Mishkan. A crucial verse has the message "make a sanctuary and I will Dwell among you." What does the Torah mean by that? A key to dealing with this parasha may be in last week's parasha.
Moshe is commanded by God to ascend the mountain to get the Torah, and is engulfed in a clous for forty days and forty nights. Fire and cloud link the Mishkan and the Sinai experience, creating a continual substantive presence of the relationship between God and Israel.