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This week’s Torah portion, which my talk is built around, is called Terumah. Terumah begins in a setting that’s dramatic, even for the Bible — Moses ascends Mount Sinai, in full sight of the ...

This Shabbat morning we will read from three Torah-scrolls: From the first, we will read the weekly Torah-reading, Parashat Terumah (Exodus 25:1-27:19); however it is divided into six Aliyot instead ...

“Vayikach” is used because when a person gives, they are really receiving. The word “natan,” to give, is a palindrome because when you give, it bounces right back to you. In the physical world, it ...

It’s the most extraordinary custom I’ve ever heard of. I’m referring to a comment by Rabbeinu Bachaye, the great 13th Century commentator, who mentions a practice of the hassidim of Medieval France.

“Overlay it with pure gold, overlay it inside and out, and make upon it a gold moulding round about” Exodus 25:11 ...

DECATUR, Ala. (RNS) It's a a little like stumbling across the beginnings of Google or Facebook in a spare bedroom. At Daniel and Andrea Tait’s home, a business plan charted on typing paper is taped to ...

In Parshat Terumah, we are given explicit details about how to build the mishkan, the Tabernacle that traveled with the nation of Israel through the wilderness. In this video, Rabbi Fohrman argues ...

The Tabernacle in the wilderness (from the 1890 Holman Illustrated Bible/Wikimedia Commons) ...

And the word of the Lord came to Solomon saying, regarding this house which you are building, if you walk in My statutes, and execute My ordinances, and keep all My commandments to walk in them; then ...