Parsha:

Teruma 

Description

There is a story in the Talmud of an old man planting a carob tree as a younger man strolled by. "Old man," said the younger man, "what are you doing? Do you really expect to live long enough to enjoy the fruits of your labor?" ...There was only one concern. Given that they were in the middle of the desert exactly where is one to presume the People found wood for this project? Yaakov, with a zayde's insight, anticipated the needs of his future great-grandchildren even as he was connecting to them. "I am thinking of you," he was saying to them...