A class by Rabbi Heschel Greenberg on the Rambam’s Mishneh Torah: The revolutionary principle that separating tithes and giving them to Kohanim is one unified mitzvah performed at the moment of ...

What does it mean to love our children equally? It’s a question that many families wrestle with, especially when each parent’s and child’s personality, needs, and circumstance vary so widely.

After repeatedly denouncing and prohibiting the creation of statues, portrayals of the human form, or anything resembling idols—on pain of death—God issues an unusual command. In the ...

God’s SanctuaryRabbi Gershon Schusterman Author, “Why God Why?” G-d instructs Moshe to launch a fundraising campaign to build a home for G-d so that He can live, not only in it, but also in ...

Weekly Torah Study: Terumah Where is the Ark of the Covenant? Rabbi Gedalia Meyer Feb 16, 2024, 6:48 AM (GMT+2) Parshat Shavua Rabbi Gedalia Meyer ...

The notion of giving everything to HaShem illustrates the difference between the mentality of redemption and that of the exile. “Speak to the children of Israel and they shall take to Me a ...

In the opening of Parsha Terumah, G-d tells the Jewish people what He would like for His home. But only if we want to give. Only if we’re willing and excited. Only if our heart is so moved.

But Parashat Terumah says that’s not so — or at least the conjunction between Parashat Terumah and Parashat Mishpatim says it’s not so. The first thing God told Moses was “Let them make Me ...

But that same request was made earlier in Parashat Terumah: “Tell the Israelite people to bring Me gifts […] oil for lighting…” (Shemot 25:2,6) We read here about who should light the lamps.

Parashat Terumah focuses entirely on the detailed and organized process of building the Mishkan, the Tabernacle – the temporary temple that functioned for centuries until the establishment of ...