Torah Ohr · Sefer Shemos · Shabbos February 13
פרשת תרומה
Parshas Terumah
3 maamarim of the Alter Rebbe on the parsha, in the Hebrew of the Kehot edition, with every marei makom opened right where it appears. Each small section with a faithful English translation and a short explanation.
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The maamarim 3
- מי יתנך כאח לי וגו׳ “Would that you were like a brother to me” Knesses Yisrael’s plea that G‑d be “like a brother” again, as when the cherubim faced each other in the Temple, is answered in exile through Torah: the scholar “nurses” from G‑d’s own Chochmah and Binah, while the businessman, through iskafya and the self-sacrifice of the Shema, reaches an even higher root and earns the “kiss.”
- ביאור על הנ״ל An Explanation of the Above Every Jewish soul is rooted either in Yosef, the higher tzaddik who draws G‑d’s light down to the recipient, or in Binyamin, the lower tzaddik whose self-sacrifice and deeds bind the world to G‑d from below. The Torah study of the one renews the ‘brotherhood’ pleaded for in “Would that you were as a brother to me”; the charity, practical mitzvos and fixed study times of the other carry G‑dliness ‘outside,’ into this world, and reach even the ‘kiss,’ a light above speech.
- כי״ק אדמו״ר נ״ע An Explanation of the Subject of the Cherubim The two cherubim are Z’eir Anpin and Nukva of Atzilus contracted into the Mishkan: in Atzilus, where the Infinite Light is enclothed even in the vessels, they are “large faces”; between the poles of the Ark they are the Gemara’s “small faces.” After the Destruction, when the cherubim were hidden, the pair were drawn instead into the inner dimension of the worlds through the halachos of the Tannaim.
Learn it in seven days Sunday to Shabbos
The Rebbe asked that all the maamarim of the week’s parsha be learned in that week, spread over its seven days. Here is the parsha in seven portions of about equal length.