
Exodus 25:1-27:19
Exodus chapter 25, verse 1 to chapter 27, verse 19
Terumah Values
What are they?
- Community
- What is a community?
- Are you a part of any communities? What are they?
- Why is a community important?
- Contributing
- What does it mean to contribute?
- What type of things can you contribute?
- How is contributing part of being in a community?
- Worship
- The Hebrew word for sacrifice is Korban – קוֹרבָּן, which is also related to the English word for coming closer. Sacrifices were the way ancient people worshiped God. How do you think worship is connected to drawing closer and also to sacrifices?
- What do you pray for? How?
- When you go to synagogue (for Shabbat or for the High Holy Days), what do you do? What do you think you should be doing?
- Have you ever been to church or to a mosque? If so, what have you seen? How is it different from what we do in synagogue?
- Holiness
- What does holiness mean? How do we become holy?
- How does worship make us holy?
- The Hebrew word for sacrifice is Korban – קוֹרבָּן, which is also related to the English word for coming closer. Sacrifices were the way ancient people worshiped God. How do you think worship is connected to drawing closer and also to sacrifices?
THE MORAL OF THE STORY
Another view for you:
Parents and kids: Read this article together and discuss the questions below: http://valuesandethics.org/what-is-inside-us-is-most-important/
- What are the best qualities inside you?
- What other qualities would you like to possess inside?
- How could you develop other good qualities inside?