Terumah or Trumah (תרומה — Hebrew for "gift" or “offering,” the twelfth word and first distinctive word in the parshah) is the nineteenth weekly Torah portion (parshah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the seventh in the book of Exodus. It constitutes Exodus 25:1–27:19.I likely first read this section of scripture about 30 years ago. Even now I am struck with the level of detail... the particular instructions outlining how to make the tabernacle.
It is hard for me to think of the Jewish religious rites and tabernacle/temple cult as something started from scratch... surely many of the concepts are rooted in the Egyptian religion Moses was exposed to as Pharoah's grandson. It would be interesting at some point look again at the ancient Egyptian temple cult and it's parellels to the tabernacle system.
For some reason when I read the details of the tabernacle set up I'm always intrigued with the instructions about the use of blue, purple and crimson fabric... why these colors?
It will be interesting this week to see what the Parshah commentaries have to say about this portion.
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