Haftarah: Parshat Terumah (5786)
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About this lesson
A lesson in English on the haftarah of Parshat Terumah, a portion of the Book of Shemot (Exodus).
The haftarah is the passage from the Prophets read in synagogue on Shabbat after the Torah reading.
It belongs to the series “Haftarah lessons – 5786 (English)” (lesson 15 of 30).
Lesson summary AI-generated
- A lesson on the haftarah for Terumah, about King Solomon building the Holy Temple, alongside the Torah portion’s building of the Mishkan.
- The Temple’s windows were narrow on the inside and wide on the outside, so that the Temple would illuminate the world and not take in light; the Rebbe asks us to be like those windows.
- Rashi on the verse that no iron tool was heard in the building, and the Shamir worm that cut the stones.
- The inner Temple each person builds in their own life, by committing to Torah and mitzvot to the best of their ability.
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- Parshat Terumah
- Haftarah
Source: Rebbetzin Esther Piekarski’s YouTube channel · YouTube
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