Terumah-Titzaveh Essays

[Reuven Chaim Klein]

Here are the various essays in the What's in a Word? series that I wrote for Parashas Terumah over the years:

• Sacred Spaces - About משכן and מקדש.
• A Table for Thee - About שולחם, פתורא, תכא, and טבלא.
• Color Me - About צבע, גוון, עין and מראה.
• Raise the Curtain - About פרכת, מסך, וילון and פרגוד.
• Cherubic Children and Other Angels - About כרובים, אופנים, חיות, שרפים, מלאכים, אראלים and more.

And here are the various essays in the What's in a Word? series that I wrote for Parashas Titzaveh over the years:

• Foreheads and Fadihot - About מצח and פדחת.
• The True Blue - About כחול, ספיר, תכלת, and סנפריון.
• The Color Purple - About ארגמן, סגול, לילך, and ארגונא.
• Hats and Belts - About מגבעת and כובע / חגורה אבנט
• Is Cotton a Type of Linen? - About פשתה, פשתן, בוץ, שש, בד, כיתנא and more.

Here are some audio recordings of shiurim I gave on topics related to Parshiyos Terumah-Titzaveh:

• Aharon HaKohen: An Officer of Peace - This lecture speaks about Aaron the Priest's legacy and the Kohen's role in creating/preserving shalom ("peace").
• Prophecies of the Oracle - A discussion of the Urim veTummim and their role as part of the ritual vestments in the Holy Temple. [Written version on Reb Chaim HaQoton].
• Building the Third Temple - This lecture discusses the dispute between Rashi and Maimonides over whether the Third Holy Temple will be built by human hands or will miraculously arrive from the Heavens by Divine miracle, as well as six ways of reconciling this dispute.  [Written version on Reb Chaim HaQoton].

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Kol Tuv,

Reuven Chaim Klein

Beitar Illit, Israel

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