Parashat Balak

Every person needs a tent and a tabernacle... A tent is the possibility to wander. To find ourselves in one of two directions and places, and to place ourselves at the disposal of the world and its motions and its fluctuations. The place in which we allow ourselves to change. A tabernacle is the place in which we stop. We look back, to the sides, and upward. We rest. In a person's life there are moments of tent and moments of tabernacle. Neither should the tent turn us frenetic from the constant motion, nor should the tabernacle turn us irritable on account of the lack of motion. Both movements are blessed. "How goodly are your tents, O Jacob, your tabernacles, O Israel."