By Bread Alone
Parashat Terumah (Exodus 25:1-27:19)
By Rabbi Micha'el Rosenberg, Hebrew College Associate Professor of Rabbinics
When my spouse and I got married, we received many useful gifts: dishes and a food processor and an extremely well-designed picnic backpack. We also received, from a relative who is hopefully not reading this, a lovely, but very heavy and exceedingly impractical sculpture of a bowl of fruit. Not a porcelain bowl filled with actual fruit, mind you, but porcelain fruit permanently affixed to a bowl made out of the same stuff.
I find myself thinking of that bowl of inedible apples and oranges this week, as we read the instructions for building the Tabernacle, the mishkan, in chapters 25–27 of the book of Exodus . . . .
