Parashat Ki Tisa opens with a seemingly technical commandment: every Jewish man, beginning at the age of twenty, was required to contribute exactly one half-shekel toward the communal service of the Mishkan. The Torah emphasizes that the rich could not give more and the poor could not give less
Parashat Mishpatim contains fifty-three of the 613 mitzvot of the Torah, most of them governing the relationship between a person and his fellow
In Parashat Terumah, the Almighty instructs Moshe regarding the construction of the portable Tabernacle, the Mishkan — the place where the Divine
Parashat Beshalach describes the exodus from Egypt, the splitting of the Red Sea, the Jews’ first struggles in the wilderness, and their first war
