by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 7, 2024 | Terumah
Mrs. Henny Machlis, renowned for her unparalleled acts of kindness, once conveyed a profound lesson to her daughter, illustrating the essence of true wealth. She posed a scenario: if you have $100 and you give $10 to someone in need, how much do you have left? The...
by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 9, 2023 | Terumah
The portion of Terumah deals with the plans for the construction of the Tabernacle, God’s portable Temple in the desert. The Tabernacle will become the focus of most of the rest of the book of Exodus. It was constructed in the second year after the Exodus and remained...
by Rabbi Pesach Wolicki | f 23, 2023 | Terumah
The Torah portions of Terumah and Tetzaveh (Exodus 25:1-30:1) deal exclusively with one topic; collecting materials and building the Tabernacle, the portable temple that the children of Israel built in the desert. However, these sections do not describe the actual...
by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 3, 2022 | Community, God, Holiness, Temple, Terumah
When God commanded the Children of Israel to build a Tabernacle for him to dwell among them, he also commanded them to build furnishings. Perhaps the most intricate piece was the golden table, or shulchan, that held the 12 showbreads, and some commentaries place the...
by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 3, 2022 | Covenant, Repentance, Seventeenth of Tammuz, Temple, Terumah
As part of building the Tabernacle, God instructed Moses to place the stone tablets of the Ten Commandments into the Ark of the Covenant. But, as we know, there were two sets of tablets; the first, inscribed by the finger of God, was cast down and shattered when Moses...
by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 2, 2022 | God, Holiness, Prayer, Temple, Terumah
In the Tabernacle, and later, in the Temples in Jerusalem, a curtain, called a parochet, separated the “Holy” from the “Holy of Holies.” The only person who passed through this curtain was the Kohen Gadol (high priest) on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. In order to...
