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Kabbalah describes the half-shekel donation as a unification of the name of G-d.
This week's Torah reading begins with the commandment that each adult male Israelite to
donate a half-shekel for the construction of the Tabernacle. The word "shekel" is derived from
"mishkal", meaning "weight", and relates to the silver content of
the coin that had to weigh 20 gera.
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Audio | 7:01
Based on Zohar Shemot 182A
One can know and recognize a person for what he truly is in a moment of anger. If he guards the holy soul even then, so as not to uproot it from its place and bring a foreign god to replace it, then he is a proper man. Such is a servant of his Master; such is a whole man.
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Only after suffering the exile can we truly return.
Rabbi Yossi said to Rabbi Chiya that when the Jews enter synagogues and study halls and see the words of comfort of the prophets, this gladdens their hearts and enables them to bear all the suffering of this exile. Rabbi Chiya said, "Certainly this is the case, but everything depends on their returning to the spiritual source and repenting."
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Audio | 6:49
Based on Zohar Bamidbar 246a
There are three who cause harm to themselves: one who curses himself, one who throws bread, or breadcrumbs, onto the ground, and one who kindles a candle towards the end of the Shabbat, before the congregation has recited the "U'va L'Tzion" prayer [on Saturday night], because he causes the fire of Purgatory to be kindled before its time.
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