Parashat Teruma 5783: What are the Cherubim?

This week's Torah portion begins the instructions for constructing the tabernacle and its vessels and furnishings. G-d commands Israel to build a Sanctuary, in order for Him to dwell among them. The first vessel to be built is the Ark of the Covenant, featuring the two cherubim, which G-d designates as the special meeting place where His voice will be heard. What are the cherubim, and why did G-d choose to rest His presence there?
The Torah portion of Teruma (Exodus 25 : 1 - 27 : 19) is read on Shabbat, Adar 4, 5783 - February 25, 2023
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Rabbi Chaim Richman
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Todah Rabbi. You are always a light to me. Thank you for the beacon of hope.

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Wow what a wonderful inside! It brought tears to my eyes. What a wonderful Shabbat message , much needed being the furthest from the land as you can get ( in Australia). May HaShem bless you and keep you save

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שבת שלום הרב , תודה רבה רפואה שלמה

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Rabbi Richman; may you always go from strength to strength. Thank you so much for your awesome Torah shiur. Shabbat Shalom.!

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Thanks rabbi God bless you

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May the neshama of Zev Chaim ben HaRav Baruch Dovid have an aliyah.

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Thank you Rabbi!

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Bless your heart precious Rabbi, sounds like you're a little under the weather. Refuah shlema! May Hashem bless you with healing and abundance. Thank you for all that you do💓

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Thank you . . .

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Shabbat Shalom Rabbi! Beautiful instruction.

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I've really been struggling these past two weeks. All day during Shabbos I kept re-reading various commentaries along with the parshat. Each time I read 'Make for me a sanctuary and I will dwell among you' I stopped. HaShem is speaking... (YOU) make for me a sanctuary and (I) will dwell among you. Prepare a fitting place and I will come. This can be taken on a number of levels, but at its closest, it is with me! Prepare ME as a vessel, incline yourself to ME, make yourself ready to receive ME. It was not written as "I'll use this sanctuary that I'll make over here..." it was YOU make the sanctuary. YOU do the work. YOU ensure its quality. YOU see to its construction, assembly, and fitment. And then I will come and dwell in it. Each of us needs to take the time to see to the sanctuary within us so that HaShem's Presence has a place to dwell within us. We need to see Him in everything in our world, and on a grander scale, His sanctuary IS the world. We need to prepare it as well - by mitzvahs, by honoring HaShem's Torah, and many other acts of service to Him. I used to think for the longest time that scaling up to the whole world was the most important thing (and the quickest way to bring HaShem here) but I think that the focus should first start with ourselves and then move out to our communities and then to the world at large. It seems as though that might take longer, but maybe not... Thank you for your continued teachings to us, Rabbi. May you continue to merit a blessing for your work and may HaShem richly reward you for your service. Refuah Shelemah.

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What is this "Refuah Shelemah"?

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Hebrew for Complete Healing ❤️‍🩹

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@@qkcmnt1242 It is a desire for the healing of a person. But it is NOT just for physical restoration. When someone tells me that they are ill or have some impairment I ask them if I can add them to my prayers (Tehillim & Refuah), but I also caveat it by saying that it is for _complete_ healing - from the inside out. It goes 'HaShem, send; Send to (him/her/them) complete healing. HaShem, send; Send to (him/her/them) complete healing. Healing of the soul and healing of the body; And we say, Omein!' It is what is in your heart and what is in your head when you make the request that makes it effective. You have to be entirely aligned with HaShem, having loved Him "with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your resources". When you ask HaShem for such a thing for someone, as Rabbi R is fond of saying "open up your heart in the deepest way". Connect with HaShem and ask. He opens His Hand and satisfies the desire of every living being (to those who serve Him in truth).

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Question - aren't the cheribum around God's throne, described in Ezekiel, the same as the ones covering the mercy seat? Everything given to Moses was a copy of what's in heaven.

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