parshat Trumah

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.

The implication is that the judge should say things that will help specifically the poor. How can one do that while still being faithful to “Do not give preferential treatment to the poor”?

"Between Heaven and Earth" The Holy Temple in Jerusalem is an earthly revelation of the Holy Temple which exists in the heavens, and so it is concerning all one finds in our world.

The sequence of the next few parashot outlines the construction of the Tabernacle. Why so long? why is the making of the Mishkan in the book of Exodus at all?

The Moody Blues said it well: “And when you stop & think about it, you won’t believe it’s true: That all the love you’ve been giving, has all been meant for you". But they weren’t the first to say it...

If you would ask me if I believe in G-D the answer would surely be yes. But do we always think of G-D?

he order in which Redemption must take place, and how we will know when the time has come to rebuild the Temple.

Human beings are very possessive when it comes to money. Heaven therefore placed a great burden on our teacher Moshe when it required him to ask the Jewish people to part with their wealth to build a holy Tabernacle.