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Shabbat Parashat Terumah 5775

Terumah | 2 Adar 5775 | 21/02/2015

Parashat Hashavua: Keeping the Shechina

Many quills have been broken in an attempt to fully explain the order of events in the parshiyot of Yitro, Mishpatim, and Teruma, which discuss different parts of the story of the giving of the Torah and the commandment to build the Mishkan. A major part of the question hinges on the place of the sin of the Golden Calf: did it precede or succeed the commandment to build the Mishkan?

Ask the Rabbi: Standing for Parents in our Times

Most people do not stand up when their parents enter the room. Is this due to the opinion that it is enough to stand for them once in the morning and at night?

Ein Ayah: White and Colored – What They Mean Beneath the Surface?

Rabbi Tzaddok said: The practice of the House of Rabban Gamliel was to give their white garments to the launderer three days before Shabbat [so that the job would be finished before Shabbat], but their colored garments even on Friday. From their words we learn that it is more difficult to wash white garments than to wash colored garments. Abayei gave a colored garment to a launderer and asked him how much he was charging to wash it. He answered: “The same as white.” Abayei responded: “The Rabbis already preceded you [with the insight that it is easier to wash colored].”

P'ninat Mishpat: Rabbi Akiva Eiger (Introduction)

We have spent the last several months in this column on discussions that are based on the writings of two of the rabbis of Lemberg (Lvov) in the second part of the 19th century – Rav Yosef Shaul Nathanson and Rav Yitzchak Shmelkes. The former was so prolific a writer that we could continue for another few months (and perhaps we will indeed return to him). However, I felt that it was time to move on or, shall we say, back in history. From Lvov, Ukraine of the late 1800s, we will travel back some fifty years and around 400 miles northwest to Posen (Poland – at the time it was part of the German kingdom of Prussia). We will study some of the responsa of the famed Rabbi Akiva Eiger (d. 1837). If we go back a few decades earlier, we can meet Rabbi Akiva Eiger in what the Jews called Friedland. He was born in Eisenstadt (Austro-Hungary). His adolescence (if one can so call that time in the life of a child prodigy) was in the yeshiva in Breslau followed by a few years in Lissa.

Hemdat Yamim

is dedicated

to the memory of:

All those who

fell in the war for our homeland.

Gershon (George)

ben Chayim HaCohen Kaplan

Mrs. Sara Wengrowsky

bat R’ Moshe Zev a”h.

who passed away on 10 Tamuz, 5774

R' Meir
ben

Yechezkel Shraga Brachfeld

o.b.m

Rabbi Yosef Mordechai Simcha

ben Bina Stern o.b.m

who passed away

21 Adar I, 5774

R' Yaakov ben Abraham & Aisha

and

Chana bat Yaish & Simcha

Sebbag, z"l

R' Shmuel Shemesh z"l

Eretz Hemdah's

Board Member

who passed away

17 Sivan, 5774

Hemdat Yamim

is endowed by

Les & Ethel Sutker

of Chicago, Illinois
in loving memory of
Max and Mary Sutker
and

Louis and Lillian Klein, z”l

A weekly divrei Torah leaflet: A Glimpse at the Parasha, Ask the Rabbi, From the writings of Harav Avraham Yitzchak Hakohen Kook, zt”l, Pninat Mishpat (Jewish Monetary Law).