Parshat Terumah February 29, 2020 274 Adar, 5780

TORAH Rabbi Sacks on Parshat Terumah ARTSCROLL 444 The parsha of Terumah and wept as we remembered in Tanach, no command to describes the Zion…How can we sing the build local houses of prayer. HERTZ 326 construction of the songs of the Lord in a strange On the contrary, insofar as Tabernacle, the first land? (Psalm 137) It was then the Torah speaks of a HAFTORAH collective house of that an answer began to take “house of God” it refers to a ARTSCROLL 1157 worship in the history of shape. The Temple no longer central Sanctuary, a Israel. The first but not stood, but its memory collective focus for the HERTZ 336 the last; it was eventually remained, and this memory worship of the people as a

succeeded by the Temple was strong enough to bring whole. in Jerusalem. I want to Jews together in collective We tend to forget how Times focus on one moment in worship. In exile, in Babylon, profound the concept of a Jewish history which Jews began to gather to synagogue was. Professor Candle Lighting 5:26 pm represents Jewish expound Torah, articulate a M. Stern has written that “in spirituality at its lowest collective hope of return, and Mincha 5:30 pm establishing the synagogue, ebb and highest flight: recall the Temple and its Judaism created one of the the moment the Temple service. Hashkama 8:00 am greatest revolutions in the was destroyed. It is hard The prophet Ezekiel was one of history of religion and to understand the depth Youth Minyan 8:30 am those who shaped a vision of society, for the synagogue of the crisis into which return and restoration, and it is was an entirely new Parsha Shiur 8:30 am the destruction of the to him we owe the first oblique environment for divine First Temple plunged the reference to a radically new service, of a type unknown Main 9:00 am Jewish people. Their very institution that eventually anywhere before.” It existence was predicated became known as the Beit became, according to Salo Beit Midrash 9:15 am on a relationship with Knesset, the synagogue: “This Baron, the institution God symbolized by the Gemara Shiur 4:20 pm is what the sovereign Lord through which the exilic worship that took place says: although I sent them far community “completely daily in Jerusalem. With Mincha 5:20 pm away among the nations and shifted the emphasis from the Babylonian conquest scattered them among the the place of worship, the Shabbat Ends 6:35 pm in 586 BCE, Jews lost not countries, yet I have become Sanctuary, to the gathering only their land and to them a small Sanctuary of worshippers, the R’ Reisman Video 8:00 pm sovereignty. In losing the [Mikdash me’at] in the congregation, assembled at Shiur Temple, it was as if they countries where they have any time and any place in had lost hope itself. For gone” (Ezekiel 11:16). The God’s wide world.” The Sun. Mar. 1 7:30/8:30 am their hope lay in God, central Sanctuary had been synagogue became Teen Minyan 9:30 am and how could they turn destroyed, but a small echo, a Jerusalem in exile, the Mon. & Thurs. 6:35/7:45 am to God if the very place miniature, remained. The home of the Jewish heart. It Tue., Wed. & Fri. 6:45/7:45 am where they served Him synagogue is one of the most is the ultimate expression of Mincha 5:35 pm was in ruins? remarkable examples of an monotheism – that One document has left a itaruta de’letata, “an wherever we gather to turn Latest Times for vivid record of the mood awakening from below.” It our hearts towards heaven, Shema/Shemoneh Esrei of Jews at that time, one came into being not through there the Divine Presence of the most famous of words spoken by God to Israel, can be found, for God is Feb. 29 9:18/10:14 am the psalms: By the but by words spoken by Israel everywhere. Mar. 7 9:12/10:10 am waters of Babylon we sat to God. There is no synagogue

Next Shabbat Kiddush is provided by Great Neck Synagogue Tetzaveh/Zachor Seudah Shlishit is sponsored by Candle Lighting 5:34 pm Donna & Joseph Hecht Mincha 5:35 pm in memory of her father David Gad z”l 26 Old Mill Road, Great Neck, NY 11023 (516) 487-6100 Shabbat Announcements Terumah 5780 Where did it come from, this world-changing idea? It did If the concept of the Mishkan, the Tabernacle, is that God not come from the Temple, but rather from the much lives in the human heart whenever it opens itself earlier institution described in this week’s parsha: the unreservedly to heaven, then its physical location is Tabernacle. Its essence was that it was portable, made up irrelevant. Thus, the way was open, seven centuries later, of beams and hangings that could be dismantled and to the synagogue: the supreme statement of the idea that carried by the Levites as the Israelites journeyed through if God is everywhere, He can be reached anywhere. I find it the wilderness. The Tabernacle, a temporary structure, moving that the frail structure described in this week’s turned out to have permanent influence, whereas the parsha became the inspiration of an institution that, more Temple, intended to be permanent, proved to be temporary than any other, kept the Jewish people alive through – until, as we pray daily, it is rebuilt. More significant than almost two thousand years of dispersion – the longest of all the physical structure of the Tabernacle was its journeys through the wilderness. metaphysical structure. The very idea that one can build a home for God seems absurd. It was all too easy to understand the concept of sacred space in a polytheistic worldview. The gods were half-human. They had places where they could be encountered. Monotheism tore this idea up at its roots, nowhere more eloquently than in Psalm 139: Where can I go from Your Spirit? Where can I flee from Your presence? If I go up to the heavens, You are TODAY, FEB. 24TH IS THE DEADLINE FOR there; If I make my bed in the depths, You are there. ORDERING SISTERHOOD PURIM PACKAGES! Hence the question asked by Israel’s wisest King, Solomon: “But will God really dwell on earth? The heavens, even the highest heaven, cannot contain You. How much less this temple I have built!” (I Kings 8:27). The same question is posed in the name of God by one of Israel’s greatest prophets, Isaiah: Heaven is My throne, and the earth is My footstool. Where is the house you will build for Me? Where will My resting place be? (Isaiah 66:1) The very concept of making a home in finite space for an infinite presence seems a contradiction in terms. The answer, still astonishing in its profundity, is contained at the beginning of this week’s parsha: “They shall make a Sanctuary for Me, and I will dwell in them [betokham]” (Exodus 25:8). The Jewish mystics pointed out the linguistic strangeness of this sentence. It should have said, “I will dwell in it,” not “I will dwell in them.” The answer is that the Divine Presence lives not in a building but in its builders; not in a physical place but in the human heart. The Sanctuary was not a place in which the objective existence of God was somehow more concentrated than elsewhere. Rather, it was a place whose holiness had the effect of opening hearts to the One worshipped there. God exists everywhere, but not everywhere do we feel the presence of God in the same way. The essence of “the holy” is that it is a place where we set aside all human devices and desires and enter a domain wholly set aside for God.

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The electronic door locks Sunday, 5 Adar will not provide security if everyone doesn’t cooperate. Brenda Parver for Ida Altman Thank you. Shellie Zuckerman for Aaron Feinerman Y Hal Chadow for Beatrice Feldman NEW WHATSAPP GROUP FOR SINGLES Monday, 6 Adar GNS is creating a new WhatsAPP group to notify singles Ilene Schuman for Sadye Herschkowitz about special community programs and encourage their A Gerda Weissfeld for Max Weissfeld attendance and opportunity to meet each other. If you are Arthur Kirsch for Charles Zuckerman single, please email Rabbi Polakoff at [email protected] H Tuesday, 7 Adar to join this group. Friends and relatives (although well- Michelle Landsman for Robert Horowitz meaning) cannot submit names of people on their behalf. R Dan Horowitz for Robert Horowitz Irene Dicker for Harry Mermelstein CHEVRA KADISHA Robin Bours for Harold David Siegel If any woman is interested in joining the Chevra Kadisha, Z Mitchell Siegel for Rachel Siegel please contact Lisa Stein at 646.251.6409. She will answer Murray Weiss for Anna Weiss Wednesday, 8 Adar any questions and provide all necessary information E Norman Fisher for Henry Fisher regarding this incredible mitzvah. I Lynn Steinberg for Isaac Katzwer GREAT NECK COMMUNITY CALENDAR Carol Karbowitz for Isaac Katzwer As you may know, we are fortunate to have a Great Neck Naeema Pomerantz for Rachamin Soleimani T Moossa Soleimani for Rachamin Soleimani Community Calendar where one can post their upcoming Thursday, 9 Adar simcha or special event. It is suggested that when plan- Hal Chadow for Abraham Feldman ning a simcha or event that you post it on the calendar in Ken Magida for Frieda Magida order to avoid unnecessary conflicts. To post your simcha, Milton Mitzner for Morris Mitzner send your request to [email protected]. If Rabbi Dale Polakoff for Herbert Rosen you post on the Community Calendar, do not assume that Friday, 10 Adar you are booked on the GNS calendar as well. You must Martin Brownstein for Florence Brownstein reserve your date on the GNS calendar independently. Harry Lumerman for Avraham Moshe David