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Project Likkutei Sichos — Terumah 5783

Выпуск: Project Likkutei Sichos — Terumah 5783. Темы: parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: недельная глава, парша, parsha, פרשה, פרשת השבוע. Terumah means to separate and Mishkan; and b) Terumah generally refers to uplift, referring to the process of separating the gifts given to a Kohen, not to the from one’s possessions and uplifting it to a specific donations given to the Mishkan higher purpose. As human beings in the beginning of our spiritual When G-d imposes Himself on creation, the journey, we are unable to eradicate the revelation is total, but it is fleeting; it has no base of our ego, but we can sublimate it to staying power because it is not inculcated G-dly purposes. for G-d even while inhabiting a spiritual Even if at times we feel that our lives “desert.” resemble a “desert,” uninhabited and This is why the Torah dedicates so much barren, we are told that we can and must space to discussing the details of the build a home for G-d with whatever construction of the Mishkan even though it materials are available to us at that is no longer practically applicable. 21 to incorporate G-d within their reality, the Teruma, Sicha 1 revelation is limited, but it is closer to realizing the purpose of creation, which is The Question: the recognition of the G-dly reality within the human reality. This is why the parshah is called Terumah, this alludes to the our primary spiritual because it evokes the project of the objective, to build a home for G-d within Mishkan itself — building a piecemeal home the human realm. possessions implies that there are distinctions in our spiritual growth, we are The Explanation: limited human beings and we cannot G-d’s presence is drawn down to this earthly declare a wholesale devotion to G-d. humankind refining their material selves “Uplifting” implies that we sublimate and drawing G-d’s presence down into their ourselves to a higher purpose, but not that limited human consciousness. Why is the Terumah encapsulates this central theme of parshah called Terumah when a) the main the human initiative in drawing down the content of the portion is the building of the Divine. We are reality in two ways: 1) By G-d imposing His splintered individuals who slowly dedicate presence on this world, and 2) by one piece of ourselves at a time to G-d. “Seperating” from one’s spoken of in the beginning of the portion?

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Project Likkutei Sichos

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19 февраля 2023 г.

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Темы: parsha_commentary