Terumah: 1 + 1 = 1

Hi, this is David Alowski with the para in five where in five minutes we give you a little insight into the para and this is paras truma and I'm going to go here this is those of you who are only listening you'll have to imagine this on your own but there'll be some audio visual aids here as I go I'm right at the beginning of the parish um I'm starting pa giml z one cassv silver two copper Three. Three different types of dyed wool. That's six and linen and goats. And this really means goat skins. Orosim dyed ram skins and skins. We're up to 10. She oil for the and bimish and spices for the Mishka and for theim 14. These are all different gems that are there for the aphot and the kosh. Okay, I just counted 15 things. I read rashi chumasi. He says there were three trumas taken. The last truma is the one that's listed here to donate the 13 things that are mentioned in this para 13. I just counted 15. I know I did. If you were watching audio visually, I actually held up my fingers on each one. So why does Rashi say 13? I'm guessing Rashi can count as well as I can. So the first Rashi give different reasons, different answers. Uh they say, well maybe he left out the luim and the sham because only the nim the princes brought those and not all Israel. Others say are counted as one because they're all different colored dyed wools. And uh we're just talking about dyed wool. Uh other people say he's not counting the oil and the spices because those things were only being used for the oil. It wasn't really for the mishka. But this much is clear. The Torah lists 15 things and Rashi says 13 things. Why is that? And I believe the answer is because there are two numbers that capture the Mishkan 13 and 15. As you know, uh, there are 15 steps leading up to the basa mikdash. And the number 15 pops up in a number of places because the name of Hashem Yud and he equals 15. Yud represents man and he represents woman. And the bas mikdash is where it comes together and we have a relationship with Hashem like a husband and a wife. That is what a bias is supposed to be. 13 though 13 is the role that the Mishkan plays because as you know when they set up the Mach there were three tribes on each of the four sides 12 and in the middle when Shvet Ley with the Mishkan in it Mishkan is the number 13 that brings all of together as described le it's the heart that unites everything and that is the power that a person can get from the power of the bas mikdash. So there's 15 steps that go into it to form that relationship. But the Mishkan itself is that 13 which 13 begamatria numerical value of and 13 is also the numerical value of one because when you have love the two become one person and that's why at the end of the seda when we do who knows one we go all the way up to 13 and we stop because 13 is and that was the base of mikdash. It brought us together by creating that relationship of the yud and the h of hashem's name. Chs.