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Portion of Teruma: Where does G-d live anyway?

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Portion of Teruma: Where does G-d live anyway?

In last week's portion we read "the sky was open and the people of Israel saw the AlMighty

and below his feet was a street of Saphire...

Thank you Eitan for lending me one of your favorite seforim (Holy Books) -where I read the Medrash

That when the sky opened and the people saw the Almighty

"The people saw the Angels encamped around the L-rd- in a holy way

and they wanted to do the same"

It is written in our POrtion that the Almighty said

"And you shall build me a sanctuary and I shall dwell amongt you"

and according to the medrash it means "the same as I dwell among my Angels on High

I can dwell among you "

The Kabbalist Masters answer "Where does G-d dwell? Wherever you let G-d in"

And so Israel built a sanctuary in the desert - and kept it also in Israel a few hundred years-

Until Solomon built the Great Temple in Jerusalem

and we maintain our synagogues wherever we go - so that

a little G-dliness can dwell within us and amongst us!

Especially on Shabbat

Love from Israel

Rabbi Andy Eichenholz