Parshat Vayakhel February 25 2011 Leah Goldsmith Parshat Vayakhel gives the details about how Hashem wants a holy sanctuary, a dwelling place below. This is actually the meeting place of the physical and the meta-physical. There are many lists of items that go into the preparation for such a place. We are introduced at this…

Parshat Terumah February 4 2011  Leah Goldsmith Our home – our Temple Our holy Rabbis bring down an enlightenment pertaining to our founding fathers and the Holy Temple. Abraham is called “The Mountain” (hahar), ascending above all who lived in his generation, climbing above much discomfort and many difficulties, rising above all that transpired as…

Parshat Beshalach January 14, 2011  Leah Goldsmith “And it came to pass that when Pharaoh had let the people go, that G-d led them not through the way of the land of the Pelishtim, although that was near, for G-d said, “Lest the people fear when they see war and want to return to Egypt.”…