Should we be here? According to some sages, there was a heavenly argument as to whether humans should be created. The angels of Truth and Justice opposed humans for what damage they would do, but Love and Righteousness defended them for the good they can do. Some midrash say the first humans were connected twins male and…
Where can Hashem talk to us? In the last lines of this parsha. It is said that Moses, the humblest of beings, would enter before the holy ark and the messages would come from between the two cherubim. Here the aleph – the silent one – is the message. A reminder that we are the interconnected emanations of…
Is the time of miracles over? This week’s parsha lists all the tribes and their functions. They are our ancestors carrying the Torah and its wisdom forward. And those who actually carried the sacred aron – ark – were of the Levi tribe and it is said that when the people moved and these Levites specifically, the…
This parsha continues the iteration of the details of the Mishkan in the desert, here describing the garments that the kohen gadol was to wear. And what covered his heart was a breastplate called this choshen and on it were 12 precious stones and on each were the letters from the names of the 12…
Miracles? At times kindness itself is a miracle! In this week’s parsha Eliezer, Abraham’s representative, is sent to find someone who could be a wife for Abraham’s son Isaac. Eliezer goes to an area where there was less idle worship, and when he comes to a well he sees a young woman Rivkah who generously…