Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Truma And this is the donation that you shall take from them: Gold and silver and bronze, and indigo and purple and crimson, And linen and goat hair, and reddened ram skins And ocher-dyed skins and acacia wood. (Shemot 25:3-4)   And acacia trees – Some of our ancients claimed that our father Jacob planted them and the Israel took them from Egypt on Moshe's command, and the proof is 'acacia wood, such as the indigo and...

Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Truma And you shall make a lamp stand of pure gold, hammered work it shall be made, its base and its shaft, its cups, its calyxes and its blossoms, shall be from that work. (Shemot 25:31)   Hammered work it shall be made – It shall not be made of links nor shall he make its shaft and its cups piece by piece and afterwards soldered together as the goldsmiths do… but all should come from a...

Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Truma And you shall make a lamp stand of pure gold, hammered work it shall be made, its base and its shaft, its cups, its calyxes and its blossoms, shall be from that work And you shall make its seven lamps, and its lamps shall be mounted  and give light in front of it… (Shemot 25:31,37)     And give light in front of it – Make the six lamps at the heads of the branches, which...

Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Truma They shall make an ark of acacia wood, two and a half cubits its length, a cubit and a half its width,  and a cubit and a half its height. (Shemot 25: 10)                                                   Abba Hanan said in the name of R. Elazar: One verse says, You shall make yourself an ark of wood, and another verse says: They shall make an ark of acacia wood, How can this be? The one applies to when...

Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Truma And you shall make two golden cherubim; you shall make them of hammered work, from the two ends of the ark cover. And make one cherub from the one end and the other cherub from the other end; from the ark cover you shall make the cherubim on its two ends. The cherubim shall have their wings spread upwards, shielding the ark cover with their wings, with their faces toward one another; toward the ark...

Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Truma AND YOU SHALL ERECT THE TABERNACLE IN THE FASHION THEREOF, AS YOU HAVE BEEN SHOWN ON THE MOUNTAIN. (Shemot 26:30)   As you will have been shown on the mountain – the Divine and the Human R. Joshua of Sakhnin said in the name of R. Levi: When the Holy One, blessed be He, commanded Moses, Make Me a Tabernacle, he should have just put up four poles and spread out the Tabernacle over...

Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Truma AND THE GLORY OF THE LORD RESTED ON MOUNT SINAI, AND THE CLOUD COVERED IT FOR SIX DAYS, AND HE CALLED TO MOSES ON THE SEVENTH DAY FROM WITHIN THE CLOUD. (Shemot 24:16) AND THE CLOUD COVERED THE TENT OF MEETING, AND THE GLORY OF THE LORD FILLED THE TABERNACLE. (Shemot 40:34)   The secret of the Tabernacle is that the Glory which abode upon Mount Sinai should abide upon it in a...

Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Truma YOU SHALL MAKE A MENORAH OF PURE GOLD; THE MENORAH SHALL BE MADE OF HAMMERED WORK; ITS BASE AND ITS SHAFT, ITS CUPS, CALYXES, AND PETALS SHALL BE OF ONE PIECE… MAKE ITS SEVEN LAMPS – ITS LAMPS SHALL BE SO MOUNTED AS TO GIVE THE LIGHT ON ITS FRONT SIDE. (Shemot 25:31, 37)   to give the light on its front side – fashion the six lamps which are at the tops of...

Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parshat Truma YOU SHOULD MAKE A MENORAH OF PURE GOLD; THE MENORAH SHALL BE MADE OF HAMMERED WORK; ITS BASE AND IS SHAFT, ITS CUPS, CALAYXES, AND PETALS SHALL BE OF ONE PIECE. SIX BRANCHES SHALL ISSUE FROM ITS SIDES; THREE BRANCHES FROM ONE OF ITS SIDES AND THREE BRANCHES FROM ITS OTHER SIDE.  (Shemot 25:31-2)     The Golden Menorah – was there Significance to its Details? Thereupon a menorah was placed in front of...

Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Click here to receive the weekly parsha by email each week. Parashat Truma AND LET THEM MAKE ME A SANCTUARY THAT I MAY DWELL AMONG THEM. (Shemot 25: 8)   And it is written, and grant you peace (Bamidbar 6: 26) – The Shulamit – a nation in which dwells perpetual peace, for it says, and let them make Me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them. The Shulamit – a nation into which, in the future, I will grant peace, for it says, I will...