parshat Trumah

...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...

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 is the second and third Halacah in the Shulchan Aruch? And why is the Mishkan relevant to each and every one of us?

God creates the cure before the disease. This is the key to understanding Terumah and the Mitzvah of the MIshkan.

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.

God creates the cure before the disease. This is the key to understanding Terumah and the Mitzvah of the MIshkan.

Relatively few Jews returned to Zion at the end of the Babylonian exile; How, then, did Ezra and Nechemyah build the Second Temple?

The taker who asks for the money is really the one that was doing the ultimate favor for the giver who is writing the check.