parshat Trumah
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Do I Deserve It? The mindset is that the State of Israel is a kind of "service provider" and the citizen is the customer. Once this is the way of thinking, it is also clear what "I deserve", and woe betide those who will not give it to me.
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The Holy Ark: Religious Symbol or National Symbol?
...The first utensil that Moshe Rabbeinu was commanded to prepare for the Mishkan was the Holy Ark (Aron), in which the Two Tablets were to be placed. That it was first indicates its importance and central role in the dwelling of the Divine Presence in the Mishkan. And in fact, we find that the very presence of the Aron in the Tabernacle and, later, in the Holy Temple, is what bestowed upon them their special status... -
How Wooden Beams Prove Perfect Faith
Why does the Torah refer to "the boards," as if we know which boards it is talking about? No boards have yet been mentioned! Furthermore, regarding none of the other utensils in the Mishkan is "the" mentioned; instead it says, "You shall make a menorah… a covering for the tent," etc. Why then are the boards singled out? -
What Isaac Newton discovered through the dimensions of the Tabernacle
What is the second and third Halacah in the Shulchan Aruch? And why is the Mishkan relevant to each and every one of us? -
Change Our Nature
What is mine is mine and what is yours is yours and yet our sages say that this view eventually leads down the Sodomite behavior. We must train ourselfs in the art of giving. -
The Labour of Gratitude
God creates the cure before the disease. This is the key to understanding Terumah and the Mitzvah of the MIshkan. -
Godly and Earthly
The Holy Temple in Jerusalem is an earthly revelation of the Holy Temple which exists in the heavens, and so it is concerning everything which one finds in our world. -
The Labour of Gratitude
God creates the cure before the disease. This is the key to understanding Terumah and the Mitzvah of the MIshkan.
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