"It was in the first month of the second year on the first of the month that the Tabernacle was erected." (Sh'mos 40:17)
The Medrash says (Midrash Tanchuma 39:11) that Moshe Rabbeinu put the tabernacle together and it fell apart every day for a week. Each time it fell apart, the crying was to high heaven. Only at the end of the week did it stay together. Friends, keeping it together is no simple thing, on any level.
How do you know if you mamesh have it together? Very simple. If you don't have it together you give up when it falls apart. If you really have it together inside, there is no such thing as giving up.
You see what it is, only Moshe Rabbeinu can put it together. Do you know why Moshe Rabbeinu can put the Mishkan together? Because ‘together’ is the teaching from heaven, not from this world. It's not from the Tree of Knowledge; it's from the Tree of Life. Moshe Rabbeinu brought down the mann (manna), Moshe gave us the Torah, but what is Moshe Rabbeinu really teaching us at the end of the book of redemption? He brings down the Torah of how to get it together.
This is the end of the book of Exodus, because if you don't have it together you are still in exile, you are still a slave.
