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God is in the Details Dr. Paul Mandel on Parshat Terumah

Dr. Paul Mandel
| 04/02/2018
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Symbols and Rituals

This week in Parshat Terumah Moses and the Israelites are given detailed instructions on how to construct the Tabernacle in the wilderness.

How do we make sense of this detailed blueprint: “Make five posts of acacia wood for the screen and overlay them with gold—their hooks being of gold—and cast for them five sockets of copper?”

Dr. Paul Mandel, senior lecturer in Midrash at The Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, offers an intriguing explanation on Moses and the Israelites for the use of different materials in the construction of the tabernacle and the special dividing curtain.

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Image Credit: TALI Virtual Midrash, Unknown artist North French Miscellany (Add. 11639 fol.522): Angels with the Ark of Covenant

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Power Corrupts: Political Checks and Balances in Parashat Vayikra

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Jewish Law and Its Authority
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Prof. Ari Ackerman
| 19/03/2023

Prof. Ari Ackerman uses modern biblical commentators to explicate the Torah’s innate understanding that power corrupts. Specific sacrificial offerings made...

Disrupting Technology: Creating a Local Sanctuary in Place – Parashat Vayekhel-Pekudei

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Rabbi Avi Novis-Deutsch
| 15/03/2023

Rabbi Avi Novis-Deutsch argues that we need to disrupt technology on the Sabbath to create a true and local sanctuary...

Fighting the Human Tendency for a Golden Calf — The Jewish People Find Freedom

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Eitan Cooper
| 09/03/2023

Schechter’s Eitan Cooper argues that the Jewish People are free only when they choose not have a mediator for reaching...

Art Reflects On Human Relationships: The King and His Queen….PURIM Episode

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Dr. Noa Yuval-Hacham
| 06/03/2023

On Purim, Dr. Noa Yuval-Hacham, Dean of Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, decodes human relationships via two paintings depicting the meeting...

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