The author discusses the complex details of building the Mishkan (Holy Tabernacle) in this Torah portion. She discusses why there are so many details about color and texture, metals and stones and fibers. After centuries of famine and slavery, backbreaking work followed by a perilous escape, the Israelites need time to dwell on beauty, and so do we. Just as the Israelites found beauty in the creation of the Mishkan, it’s also necessary for us at LGBT Jews to move beyond our painful interactions with the world and take delight in the places where we are accepted and loved for all of our different aspects.