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The Weekly eDrash

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Parasha: Terumah

The Veil

 

Terumah : תרומה : - “Heave offering”
Torah : Exodus 25:1–27:19
Haftarah : 1 Kings 5:26–6:13
Gospel : Mark 10–11

Thought for the Week:

Therefore, brethren, since we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Yeshua, by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, His flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. (Hebrews 10:19–22)

Commentary:

You shall hang up the veil under the clasps, and shall bring in the ark of the testimony there within the veil; and the veil shall serve for you as a partition between the holy place and the holy of holies. (Exodus 26:33)

God commanded that a veil should be made to separate the Holy of Holies from the holy place.

According to the gospels, a veil was torn when Yeshua breathed His last upon the cross. Scripture says, “And the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.” (Mark 15:38) The tearing of the veil is often wrongly understood as a sign th...

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