19 Terumah: Day 2 (Monday)



Today's reading is Exodus 25:17 to 25:30.

This is the link to Daily Chumash with Rashi at Chabad.

The Daily Wisdom from the Lubavitcher Rebbe is titled "The Inner Child."

On 16 February 2026 at 7:01 AM EST, Jonathan writes: 
 
At the end of his luminous teaching this morning, the Lubavitcher Rebbe explains:

"G‑d contracted His infinite wisdom into a form we can understand and digest, much as an expert teacher contracts his grasp of a subject in order to convey it to his pupils. The fact that the cherubim’s wings were spread protectively over the Ark alludes to the fact that the Torah-education of young children ensures the preservation and continuity of the transmission of the Torah."

For childlike Messianic vegan students of Yeshua, this calls to mind both the importance of teaching the principles of the Noahide vegan Torah early, and the verses of Matthew 18:1-14. Here is the passage from the Berean Standard Bible:

At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Who then is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” Jesus invited a little child to stand among them. “Truly I tell you,” He said, “unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. And whoever welcomes a little child like this in My name welcomes Me. But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea."

"Woe to the world for the causes of sin. These stumbling blocks must come, but woe to the man through whom they come! If your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life crippled or lame than to have two hands and two feet and be thrown into the eternal fire. And if your eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell. See that you do not look down on any of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of My Father in heaven."

"What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go out to search for the one that is lost? And if he finds it, truly I tell you, he rejoices more over that one sheep than over the ninety-nine that did not go astray. In the same way, your Father in heaven is not willing that any of these little ones should perish."

The words of the Master.

It seems important to reflect upon the many possible meanings of "little ones" in the mind of the Holy Spirit as She speaks to us through this text.

Shalom.

P.S. Regarding my use of the pronoun "She" in reference to the Holy Spirit:

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