Parashat Tetzaveh focuses on the sacred service of the Mishkan and later the Beit HaMikdash, especially the role of the Kohen Gadol. Unlike ordinary clothing, the garments worn by the Kohanim were not decorative; they determined whether the service itself was valid. A Kohen could serve only while
Parashat Ki Tisa opens with a seemingly technical commandment: every Jewish man, beginning at the age of twenty, was required to contribute exactly
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
