Year: 5764 - Terumah - audio

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Episode Synopsis

- Three levels of Mishkan, opening here with the direct relationship to an unspoiled Har Sinai, later as a response to עגל and a ruined הר סיני related to כפרה and finally the relationship to Creation. The תרומה here is the reference to the תרומה of בראשית בשביל תרומה-בשביל ישראל ראשית תבואתו. It supplies the missing vav to the second Creation story, the process that must only be measured by what is put into it and allowed to emerge, just as the תרומת המשכן, just as the emergence of the menorah out of the banging on it of Moshe and the emergence of a Life out of the blunt tools that we bring to its banging....