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Covenant & Conversation — Terumah 5783

Выпуск: Covenant & Conversation — Terumah 5783. Темы: family_education, health_mind, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה, здоровье, психология, стресс, health, mental, בריאות, נפש, недельная глава, парша, parsha, פרשה, פרשת השבוע. All die.” God had appeared to them as an overwhelming around us is the majesty, the plenitude, of God’s presence, an irresistible force, a light so bright that generosity: the light of the sun, the gold of the stone, to look at it makes you blind, a voice so strong it the green of the leaves, the song of the birds. TERUMAH • ‫תרומה‬ STUDIES IN SPIRITUALITY With thanks to the Schimmel Family for their generous sponsorship of Covenant & Conversation, dedicated in loving memory of Harry (Chaim) Schimmel. commentators, and hinted at by the Torah itself, is King Solomon made this point when he inaugurated that God gave the command specifically after the sin another house of God, the First Temple: of the golden calf. I’ve translated it as “a contribution” but it actually has a subtly different That is how God came to be close to the Israelites meaning for which there is no simple English through the building of the sanctuary. An extraordinary couple who have moved me beyond measure by the example of their lives.” — Rabbi Sacks The Gift of Giving It was the first Israelite house of worship, the first I may dwell in them” (Ex. There encountered in parshat Va’era, spoke about “peak is only a series of meaningless accidents, and it is experiences,” and saw them as the essence of the difficult to feel gratitude for an accident. You do convictions are self-serving means of self- not have to be very religious, or even religious at all, preservation, and our spiritual aspirations mere to feel awe in the presence of the sublime. the Jewish Sages and mystics pointed was that in our Shachen in Hebrew means a neighbour, the person parsha God says, “Let them build Me a sanctuary that who lives next door. What the Israelites needed and The Gift of Giving 1 Terumah what God gave them was a way of feeling as close to thunder and lightning as it was at the great God as to our next-door neighbour. His light, soften His voice, hide His glory within a thick cloud, and allow the infinite to take on the But if life is not a given because there is no Giver, if the dimensions of the finite.

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Covenant & Conversation

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20 февраля 2023 г.

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3

Темы: family_education, health_mind, parsha_commentary