{"id":2154,"date":"2015-12-29T04:56:09","date_gmt":"2015-12-29T04:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=2154"},"modified":"2015-12-29T04:56:09","modified_gmt":"2015-12-29T04:56:09","slug":"truman-5760","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=2154","title":{"rendered":"Truman (5760)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Drash Cards for\u00a0Truman (5760)<\/strong><\/p>\n

by Marc Mangel<\/p>\n

\u2022 This parish begins (Ch 25, v1, 2) with the first ever fund-raising campaign with the principle that everyone gives towards the building of the mishkan.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Rabbi’s tell us that we should learn a moral lesson from every detail of building the mishkan.<\/p>\n

\u2022 For example, in Ch 25, v 37 we read “light shines towards them” from the front side (‘al ever paneha’) \u00a0but the direction does the light of the Menorah radiate?<\/p>\n

\u2022 Rashbam thinks that the lamps shine towards the Menorah’s front but Sifrei concludes that the lamps must shine towards the center.<\/p>\n

\u2022 This is consistent with two approaches to Judaism.<\/p>\n

\u2022 One is that all light should be projected outwardly — the role of religion is to illuminate the world.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Or the light should shine inwardly — the role of religion is to illuminate the soul.<\/p>\n

\u2022 We should aim for a middle road.<\/p>\n

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Drash Cards for\u00a0Truman (5760) by Marc Mangel \u2022 This parish begins (Ch 25, v1, 2) with the first ever fund-raising campaign with the principle that everyone gives towards the building of the mishkan. \u2022 The Rabbi’s tell us that we should learn a moral lesson from every detail of building the mishkan. \u2022 For example, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":51,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2154","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2155,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2154\/revisions\/2155"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}