Rabbi Mordechai Perlman - Weekly Torah Portion: Terumah

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

They The question is Hashem says here in the beginning of the parsha that he wants these raw materials to be donated. For what purpose? Well, actually in McDo today the Jewish people shall make for me a sanctuary which I can see but so I can I'll dwell amongst them. So what's the the problem is that God exists everywhere equally all the time. Why does he need a Mishkan? The He's everywhere. So So the answer in short is there's a difference between the divine existence and the divine presence. Hashem exists equally everywhere. To say that a kosher exists in one place more than another is already giving Hashem some type of physical property because physical like a gas can be more concentrated in one place than another place. That's a physical property. God doesn't have physical properties. But the idea of of the divine presence But the idea of of the divine presence is that there are certain places in the world that a kosher exists chose to allow his presence to be felt. Excuse me, to allow his existence to be felt. That we can feel that we're in God's presence. Not just believe that God is everywhere which we're supposed to believe all the time, but actually feel God's presence. Hashem could have enabled us to feel his presence everywhere, but he chose not to. And the simple reason why Hashem chose

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