Sara Tugman Bais Chabad Torah Center
Birmingham Bloomfield Bais Chabad

Torah Portion

invite you to our annual

PURIM PINNER '99

TUESDAY, MARCH 2ND AT 6 P.M.

at the Michigan Inn
16400 J. L. Hudson Drive
Southfield, Michigan
Great food! Live music & dancing!
Children's show! Mini Raffle!

Don't Miss It!!
RSVP to:
Eileen Borsand
Marcy Forta
COUVERT:
646-3010
968-5634
$21 per Adult
Brenda Tainsky
Cindy Wolf
$11 per Child
538-0319
737-WOLF
(13 and under)
or BCTC770@aol.com (subject: PURIM)
Remember — Sunday Nite is Restaurant Night at
The Torah Center with TASTE OF CLASS 5:30-8:00 p.m.

MOVING SALE!!

NY

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If We Build It,
We Will Come

As the sanctuary of old was holy,
the Jewish people asked to make the
sanctification of their lives the aim
of their contributions and sacrifice.
In our modern times, we have
seen the rebuilding of the land of
Israel and the redemption of our
people from Ethiopia and the former
his week's sedrah concerns
Soviet Union through the voluntary
itself with the
will of Jews living in a free
details of the
society who made an iden-
construction of
tification with their
the sanctuary.
brethren and made accord-
Though it was a portable
ing sacrifices.
structure, primarily a tent,
As we today build that
it was to be a visible
which is holy, we bring to
emblem to the Jewish peo-
reality God's words to
ple that God was among
Moses, "Let them make
them. The detailed descrip-
Me a sanctuary that I may
tion, however, may seem
dwell among them." fl
irrelevant to the contempo-
SY MANELLO
rary Jew. Why, then,
Editorial Assistant
should we note the pre-
cise detail?
The word which
gives the sedrah its
name, terumah (an
offering), sets the back-
N
ground for the impor-
tance of the portion.
Each person was to set
apart something from
his possessions as a
contribution to the
requirements of the
sanctuary. This giving
was to be made because
of an inner conviction,
not an external com-
pulsion. Each person
was an active partici-
pant in the covenant.
Today, also, to main-
tain a relationship with
God, we must actively
participate. What are
today's "offerings"?
Consider the following:
lighting Shabbat can-
dles, going with our
Tapestry by Jerusalem artist Annette Fine.
children to services,
assisting with tzedakah
(working at Yad Ezra, visiting nurs-
ing homes, etc.), furthering the pro-
In what ways can we affect our
grams of our Jewish institutions,
community so as to fulfill the
studying Torah, any contemplation
ideals of the Mishkan, the holy
of our lives as Jews beyond the
of
holies?
externals.
Why
did God, creator of all,
Our Jewish day schools, our com-
request material gifts of gold and
munity centers, our Holocaust
silver for the tabernacle?
museums, our synagogues and tem-
Why does the Bible detail so pre-
ples will continue to survive if we
cisely something that was to dis-
maintain the thought that we are
appear once the people entered
Jews because we want to be, not
the promised land?
because we have to be. Judaism will
thrive because of what we build with
our lives as Jews.
MinarMagewtsnommemnatuswa

Shabbat Terumah:
Exodus 25:1-27: 19;
I Kings 5:26-6:13.

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