Parashat T'rumah
Exodus 25:1 - 27:19
Haftarah: 1 Kings 5:26 - 6:13
Adar 4, 5786 / February 20-21, 2026
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This d'var torah is offered in memory of my aunt, Mildred Flom, whose yahrzeit falls on Friday, February 20 / Adar 3. Y'hi zekherah liv'rakhah - May her memory be a blessing.
This d'var torah is offered in memory of Leonard Foint, whose yahrzeit falls on Friday, February 20 / Adar 3. Y'hi zikhro liv'rakhah - May his memory be a blessing.
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Lunch and Learn meets Mondays at 12:30 PM on Zoom and Facebook Live. On Monday, February 23, we'll continue our learning at BT Pesachim 105a. You can find it online at:
"... רב חנניא בר שלמיא ותלמידי דרב" - "Rav Chananya bar Shelemya and students of Rav ..."
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FEEL THE LOVE!
"And this is the offering you will take from them: gold and silver and brass." Exodus 25:3
The Dubner Maggid taught: "God did not ask for these things in the sanctuary because He loves gold, Heaven forbid, but because they are precious to humans. When a person donates something that he loves to God, it is as if he is giving his love to God.... It would have been proper to command that each person give God his love, but how can one take something spiritual, namely one's love, which is deep in the heart? Therefore God commanded that He be given something material, and the love is given along with the object."
FEEL THE LOVE!
"And this is the offering you will take from them: gold and silver and brass." Exodus 25:3
The Dubner Maggid taught: "God did not ask for these things in the sanctuary because He loves gold, Heaven forbid, but because they are precious to humans. When a person donates something that he loves to God, it is as if he is giving his love to God.... It would have been proper to command that each person give God his love, but how can one take something spiritual, namely one's love, which is deep in the heart? Therefore God commanded that He be given something material, and the love is given along with the object."
Replica of the menorah
I see in the Maggid's teaching an interesting interpretation of the Sh'ma (Deuteronomy 6:4-9). There, we are told to love God with all the heart, along with all the soul and all the might. Some Jewish traditions teach that "heart, soul and might" are metaphors for greed, intellect and possessions. By acquiring property through greed, whether in-born or learned, coming to understand through study what God really wants from us, and then giving away our acquisitions to that higher purpose, we do indeed give all our love to God.
Feel the love - and then spread it around!
Feel the love - and then spread it around!
Have a Shabbat of joy and gladness - it's Adar!
HaRav HaGa’on Abba Reuven ben Menachem Mendel Flom, Sh’lita
Av Beis Din – Chelm
Slivovitz Taste Tester
משנכנס אדר, מרבין בשמחה
From the beginning of Adar, we increase joy.
BT Ta’anit 29a
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