Parashat Terumah: Building Community Parashat Terumah (Exodus 25:1–27:19) opens with God speaking to Moses: “Speak to the Israelites, and let them take for Me a gift (terumah); from every person whose heart so moves them.” This verse introduces a key theme of the parasha: giving as an act of the heart. The construction of the Mishkan(Tabernacle), a sacred space […]
