It's been a while since I was asked to write Mt. Sinai's 'Parsha Perspectives,' and honestly I wasn't sure if being asked to do Vayakhel of all parshiyot was a compliment. At any rate it was a moot point since I just missed the deadline (one which I hadn't been told of beforehand). Still, here's what would have been printed in the short space allotted. One of the central themes of sefer Shemot is Benei Yisrael's transformation from slaves of Pharoah to servants of Hashem. While commentators dispute the chronology of the events in sefer Shemot, the order of the