The Rising Life

Parshas Terumah In this week’s parsha Hashem tells the Jewish people. “Asu Li Mikdash, v’shachanti b’tocham” “Make Me a temple, and I will dwell within them” The way the verse is written indicates that when we create a space for Gdliness, we will merit to have Gdliness dwell within us. This week we usher in the new month of Adar which is all about joy! Our sages tell us that Gd does not dwell in a place of depression. If we aim to be that temple in which the Divine dwells

This week's parsha tells us of the Laws. The day to day workings of a Torah driven life. At the end of the litany of laws we say as one, "na'aseh v'nishma." "We will do, then we will listen" It's a uniquely Jewish approach. We don't begin with meditation and contemplation high up on a mountaintop separate from society. First we DO. Through the motions of life, even while engaged in the most mundane of activities, we begin to understand the depth of our connection and our ca