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"The people saw that Moses delayed in coming down from the mountain. They gathered around Aaron, and said to him, "Make us a shrine which will go before us. We have no idea what became of Moses, the man who brought us out of Egypt..." The people took off their...

Parshat Tetzaveh usually precedes Purim, when we read the "maftir"portion describing how Amalek attacked the Jewish people as they left Egypt - even though Amalek lived in a distant land and was under no imminent threat. So why did Amalek attack? Rabbi Shraga Simmons...

Betzalel was given the task of constructing all the pieces of the Tabernacle in the desert. In making the Aron - the box that held the Tablets of the Law - he used wood and gold. It would seem to have been sufficient to cover the wooden box with gold, but actually God...