The Tabernacle, (whose work is brought to completion in this week's double Torah reading of Vayakhel-Pekudei), and Shabbat, are the twin pillars of our existence.

Sanctifying the dimensions of time and space in which we live, the Tabernacle/Holy Temple and the Shabbat grant us the ability to raise up our own selves.

They let us live our lives in full recognition of G-d's inescapable presence in the world.