וַיַּקְהֵל - Vayakhel

It is clear that after the small, precise shattering of the previous portion, they [the people] offered to reform, or how to reform. The first act of Moshe is to gather people together, to gather identities that can respond to that call, in order to reform in the deepest sense: to be able to proclaim and to pronounce the choices. Therefore, it will start, like Adar (or the notion of Adar) with the war on Amalek. It's like choosing between two strategies: one is a world, a reality, which is broken and separated from the Creator, the other admits and searches for establishing the rule of the Creator in our reality, and everything that stems from it.

It seems that some of your questions in the Hevruta might help us to enter this portion. I will open it and allow you to voice it, and then we will collect ourselves and move through your questions into the portion of this week. 

One of the definitions of this gathering (= Vayakhel) is to create a public with a face, which is one of the roots and the base of prayer. This is why it is being prepared as a tabernacle, which is a place, or a space, for prayer. Prayer is the work, the heart, as mentioned many times in building the tabernacle, which is the earth that can grow the connection.