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Chabad Research Unit — rse Summary Terumah 5746 MEETING G-D OUTSIDE

Выпуск: Chabad Research Unit — rse Summary Terumah 5746 MEETING G-D OUTSIDE. Темы: не определены автоматически. CHABAD ‫ב"ה‬ RESEARCH UNIT he Rebbe's Discourses T Summaries of points from the Rebbe’s Chassidic Discourses ‫בלי אחריות כלל וכלל‬ ‫פרשת תרומה תשמ''ו ד''ה מי יתנך כאח לי בלתי מוגה‬ Published for Shabbat Sedra Terumah 8 Adar 1 5784, 17 February 20241 MEETING G-D OUTSIDE KEY ASPECT OF SEDRA TERUMAH IS THE DESCRIPTION A OF THE SACRED KERUVIM, termed in English ‘Cherubim’, gold figures, male and female, which adorned the top of sacred golden Ark, in which were the Tablets with the Ten Commandments. A text by Rabbi Shneur Zalman, printed in the volume of his discourses, Torah Or, which was in his own handwriting2, can be interpreted as meaning the two golden figures represent aspects of the Sefirot: the male represents the Divine, reaching, through the upper Sefirot, towards the female, which represents Kingship, the tenth Sefirah and the feminine aspect, which also expresses the souls of the Jewish people. 3 The first three paragraphs of this Summary are not in the discourse but are presented here as an introduction to it (ed.) Chabad Research Unit – www.chabadresearch.net – cru@lubavitchuk.com In Torah Or, the main discourse for Sedra Trumah starts with a verse from the Song of Songs, and the Rebbe’s discourse begins with the same verse: ‘If only you were my brother, who had drunk the milk of the breasts of my mother. In fact, the verse says about them: ‘I will kiss You’, because those who are ‘outside’ often have a very deep bond with the Divine, expressed as a ‘kiss’, a love beyond verbal expression, a cleaving of spirit to spirit (which can also be achieved in Torah study, as is explained in Tanya.12). This relates to the special service in this time of Exile, spreading the wellsprings of Chassidic teaching to the ‘outside’, where there is the special intimacy with G-d expressed by the ‘kiss’, and through this we achieve the making of the Sanctuary within us, and the physical Sanctuary in Jerusalem which will be built by Moshiach, in the true and complete Redemption. and bring You to the house of my mother’ is that in a time of Exile, each of us should be able to find that revelation of the Divine which was there between the two Keruvim, whether as a Torah scholar ‘inside’ or a merchant ‘outside’. This is the meaning of the verse: ‘I will find You

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