Pekudei

Hashem made an interesting world, The greatest secret of strength and winning is admitting that we can't, and giving it over to Hashem. (And this is the underlying secret of the power of the 12-Steps in helping addicts stop acting-out). If Kings would know this secret, they would succeed in conqu...

We are standing now at the cusp of Chodesh Nissan and we are reading this Shabbos about the SHIVAS YIMAY HAMILUIM - and we are actually in the days of the Miluim. The Medrash Tanchumah tells us the Moshe Rabbainu built the Mishkan twice every, and another opinion holds he built it three times a d...

Ki anan Hashem al hamishkan yomam v'eish tiyeh layla bo ; leinei chal beis Yisroel b'chol maaseihem. (40:38) This is the concluding sentence of Chumash Shemos. As the Ramban explains, here is the conclusion of Yetzias Mitzraim. We became a Nation on the level of our forefathers. Whether we see an...

In this week's Parsha the Torah sums up all of the donations that the Jews made to the Mishkan, both for the Keilim as well as the Bigdei Kehuna. The first question we must ask ourselves is, why is it so important to have an exact count of everything that was gathered? We know it was a lot, and w...

Rashi at the begining of the sedra points out that Betzelel was named as such coz he clearly had ruach hakodesh (ie in the shadow of Hashem). ; How does rashi know? coz he even did stuff that Hashem told Moishe but Moishe didnt repeat to him. ie Moishe was 1st told about the aron and all the keil...

A ;common theme in this week's Parsha is that bnei Yisroel did "as Hashem commanded them to do, so they did." Is it not obvious that they would do it right? And even if it was necessary to tell us, why say it over and over again? If it was right once, it could be assumed that it was right always!...