Parshat Terumah: Gold, Silver, Copper-פרשה תרומה

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

[Music] the 20th Mitzvah in the in the positive Commandments in the is the Mitzvah of that is God commands us to make for him a dwelling place so that he can dwell in it in Truth it says to dwell in them it's a plural tense and the Shah kades explains that really after the destruction of the Holy Temple God wants to dwell in the hearts of every single Jew and by the fact that we open up our hearts to God we become a dwelling place for God to come and that becomes a very holy place so this Mitzvah is discussed in the beginning of the portion of Tuma and there goes on to say how do we make a dwelling place for God by acquiring and collecting from the Jewish people Trum of Z and and you have to collect zah gold and you have to collect KF silver and you have to collect bronze and by collecting these three different types of metals that is the way you're going to build a holy Temple for God and the question is the tells us that which means that there is no poverty in a place of wealth so in a very wealthy place we should only use wealthy materials so why is it that when it came to build the house of God the mishkon does the Torah tell us that not only should we use zah not only shall we use gold but also we shall use silver and bronze seemingly we should only be using gold now perhaps one can argue and say well not everybody had gold and therefore to allow those that were less Rich to participate the Torah also allowed them to bring silver and bronze however the gar tells us that at

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