In this week’s parsha, Parshat Teruma, we are given detailed instructions on the building on the Temple in Jerusalem. While there are many laws and rules involved, Sefer HaHinnuch wraps it all up into one mitzvah: to build the Beit HaMikdash. All the details are meant for only one thing: to purify ourselves through our actions. “The physical self becomes qualified through its actions. As good actions are multiplied , and as they are continued with great perseverance, the thoughts of the heart become purified, cleansed, and refined.”
The case of the Beit HaMikdash truly is an example where, as the saying goes, the beauty is in the details.
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