Rabbi Minkowicz Weekly Torah Lesson Parsha Terumah

welcome to this week's torah lesson this week's torah portion is pasha's truma the question of the week is are all jews equal so in this week's torah portion pasha's truman the torah speaks about the different gifts the jewish people brought to the temple amongst their gifts the torah says that they brought gold silver and copper in hebrew it's zahav khasev and so the rubber brings from a commentary that says as follows it wasn't just that they brought different components of gold silver and copper but it also refers to their personalities in other words zahav in hebrew is made up of three letters zion hay and vase which stands for zahan noisembari this is what a healthy person brings he's connected he sees the need he's uh in terminology he's called a topic a righteous person he brings what he has to then there's kasif katsup means it stands it's made up of three letters which stands for yes when he's afraid when he's in danger so he needs help since normally he wouldn't bring he wouldn't normally he wouldn't help because he's in dangerous situation and he's going through a a a an experience which is full of fear so he's bringing a gift to the temple then there's us copper what is that how does that spell in hebrew which means sick bed and his deathbed normally he would never give charity he wouldn't help out but all right he's dying he's okay you know what just give her really a little charity so you see there's different personalities there's a tonic he's ready to give whatever you need then to someone he's in a dangerous situation he wants to redeem himself and there's someone he wouldn't even give but he's giving because he's literally he's dying anyway what's the what's the money going to help him and have if he's dying so trevor says here you see a very very powerful lesson the torah could say you know what someone just had the accelerants ready to give accepted charity someone okay fine he's going to date situation hell and take his charity when someone that's never gave his whole life why should we take from now because he's dying and that's the torah the torah says everybody we accept from irrelevant if they're in the level of sadiq irreverently irrelevant if they're on a level when they're go going through only a tough time they're there for god but even someone that was never there we accept everyone equally so the answer to the question are all jews equal and the answer is yes we might behave differently but absolutely all jews are equal in the hou in the eyes of hashem and hashem accepts everybody and loves everybody equally thanks so much for joining us for our weekly torah lesson this week's torah lesson is dedicated to the memory of baruch and yosef and may the souls be elevated by torah studying in their memory have a great and blessed week shavu tov thanks so much for joining us for more information please see our website swf.org have a great and blessed week