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Podcast: Nitzotzos: Inspiration to Keep Your Spark Alive with Rav Mordechai Burg
Episode: Parshas Terumah - Holy Foolishness: Achieving the Impossible
Description: Yaakov Avinu took with him the Atzei Shitim from Eretz Canaan to Mitzrayim in order the Klal Yisrael should have the wood in order to build the Mishkan and the Aron. Why did he not just instruct them to take the Atzei Shitim from Mitzrayim? Or better yet, just take them from the Midbar and not have to carry them throughout the desert?
In this shiur Rav Burg explores the part of us that is foolish. On the one hand we can fall into the foolishness of sin and on the other hand we can be so...