KabbalaOnline.org Terumah 5783 Anthology of Insights on the Torah Reading
KabbalaOnline.org Terumah 5783 Anthology of Insights on the Torah Reading
Terumah 5783 Anthology
of Insights on the Torah Reading
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The
Zohar From
the teachings of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai; translation and commentary by
Shmuel-Simcha Treister, based on Metok MiDevash The
Zohar notes that Tabernacle was built in a similar fashion to the physical
body. The Divine Presence is always drawn down from the spiritual to manifest
in the physical; this is the secret of the Tabernacle as a "body"
built to receive the "brain" within its shell. |
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Mystical
Classics From
the teachings of Rabbi Bachya ben Asher The
cherubs were symbolic of the fire and the thunder the Israelites experienced
during the revelation at Mount Sinai. They were both constructed of gold,
being recipients of the attributes Love and Justice. They were male and
female in order to teach that these two genders represent the initiating
force and the responsive force respectively. |
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Chasidic
Masters By
Yosef Y. Jacobson The
ark that the Jewish people constructed in the Sinai desert contained 3 layers
representing three human dimensions. The innermost, made of pure gold and
tucked inside the other two layers, reflected the Divine, spiritual essence.
The middle ark made of wood reflected the more visible conscious personality.
Nonetheless, our outer behavior must remain pure similar to the third and
outer ark, made also of pure gold. |
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Beginner Contemporary
Kabbalists From
the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe; adapted by Moshe Yaakov Wisnefsky Silver
represents the perfectly righteous, who funnel divine "light" into
the mundane world. Gold is rarer and therefore more precious than silver; it
represents those who have struggled with darkness and won. Copper represents
those who live within the mundane but bring no light into it. |
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Beginner Ascent
Lights By
Shaul Yosef Leiter "Speak
to the Children of Israel and take for Me a 'teruma'." |
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Beginner Mystic
Story By
Yerachmiel Tilles That
which is spiritual requires no space and is not restricted by space. |
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