To order yours please contact
The 28th of Shevat is the Yahrtzeit of Rav Menachem Nachum Twersky (ben Yochanon) of Chernoby...
The 29th of Shevat is the Yahrtzeit of Rav Chananya Yom Tov Lipa (ben Yekusiel Yehuda) Teitel...
Human prayer is the service of the spirit. Although people do not realize it, it involves the...
Thoughts that disturb your prayers can be an atonement for your sins. When you are not suspic...
The 1st of Adar is the Yahrtzeit of Rav Yitzchak Meir (ben Avrohom Yehoshua Heschel) of Zinko...
The question was raised as to why there are different customs regarding the order of prayer, ...
Listening to a musical melody on instruments played by a pious musician for the sake of heave...
The 1st of Adar is the Yahrtzeit of Rav Yitzchak Meir of Zinkov, son of the Apta Rav (1855). ...
It is written, “These are the histories of the heaven and the earth when they were created - ...
The 14th of Adar is the Yahrtzeit of Rav Yitzchok (ben Nosson) Sternhartz of Tulchin of Bresl...
When we see the element of corporeality in something or, heaven forbid, of evil, then we are ...
The divine soul of man is transmitted and descends to this world to be clothed in a human bod...
The 12th of Adar is the Yahrtzeit of Rav Shmuel (ben Yeshaya) Halevi Horowitz (1972). Born in...
One should make strenuous efforts to attain joy in any way possible, searching within himself...
The 29th of Shevat is the Yahrtzeit of Rav Reuven (ben Yaakov Chaim) Horowitz of Zamotzva (18...
Our Sages teach us that God constricted His Divine Presence between the two staves that were ...
This paragraph is sung by Mordechai and Esther as they reflect on the Purim story: “Give ...
I suspect that the Jews who heard of Haman’s decree did not celebrate God’s kindness, or perc...
The “Servant of God” who is singing the Hallel sees life as a series of challenges to grow as...
The Chasid Ya’avetz introduces this paragraph by explaining it as the praise of Israel when t...
The Chasid Ya’avetz continues his commentary on Hallel by pointing out that the Children of I...
According to the Chasid Ya’avetz, the key verse of the Adar Hallel is, “The heavens are God’s...
Prayer Skills-Terumah-For The Unification |
![]() |
![]() |
Written by Machberes Avodas Hashem |
![]()
“And they shall take a portion for Me.” Rashi explains that they should separate their gifts for God’s Name. This is a problem, as are we not obligated to fulfill all the Mitzvot for the Name of God? Why would the Torah insist on this specifically with the construction of the Mishkan?
It is known (Zohar II 246a) that the Divine Presence in the lower worlds is God’s Tzimtzum, Constriction of His Being, so that it can exist in the physical world. We are also taught that the Divine Presence rests only on the Children of Israel, as the Sages teach (Berachot 7a) that Moshe requested that the Shechinah rest only on Israel, and not on the other nations.
We also known that even in the diaspora, we have not abandoned God, and He therefore continues to rest His Presence on us, focusing on the righteous of each generation, as the Sages teach (Megillah 29a), “When they went to Babylon, the Shechinah accompanied them. When they went to Eilam, the Shechinah went with them.
However, the main resting of His Presence will be when the Messiah comes, for the Shechinah is represented by the final H of the Name Y-H-V-H (Tikkunei Zohar 15a). We must unite with God, to the Presence that is among us; this connection represented by the V of Y-H-V-H, V being the letter of joining (and). When we join, we are Unifying the Name as we say; “For the sake of the Unification of the Holy One, Blessed is He, and His Presence, in fear and love, to unify the Name -Y-H with V-H, in perfect unity, in the name of all Israel.”
However, as long as we are in exile, the Unification is incomplete as it is only the righteous who can unite with the Shechinah. In the Future World we will be able to complete the Unification.
This is why we are taught to dedicate our gifts for the Mishkan to God’s Name - The Mishkan representing God’s Presence: We are reminded of our mission to unite with His Presence.
This is also the explanation of why we begin to increase our joy at the beginning of Adar although the miracle of the victory did not happen until the 14th: Adar is Aleph Dar - The Unique United One Dwells among us, even when we are in Exile. (Meor Einayim) |