Parshas Terumah: Nedivas Halev and Hashem's Residence

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

Why does the parsha ask for the donations before saying they are for a Mishkan, when a collector first shows his project? Hashem's primary residence is inside each of us, and the Beis HaMikdash is His summer home. What Hashem wanted was everyone's nedivus halev, gathered in one central place. The point is not the gift but the giving.

Key points

• A comment brought in many seforim reads b'socham as the Shechina resting inside every person.
• The Beis HaMikdash is everyone's nedivus halev gathered in one central location, not brick and mortar.
• The precious stones come last because the Nesiim, who gave last, had the least nedivus halev.

In this shiur

1. 0:00Why the donations come first
2. 2:14Rav Meir Shapiro and the roof
3. 4:06The order of the donations
4. 5:19V'shachanti b'socham, inside every person
5. 8:39Primary residence and summer home
6. 9:57Nedivus halev versus taxes
7. 10:35Why the Nesiim's stones come last
8. 12:36Our neshama, the primary residence

Topics

• Parshas Terumah
• Nedivus Halev
• Hashraas HaShechina
• Mishkan