NALLEH.COM and YU TORAH TERUMAH 5775 Cornerstone Of Commitment By: Mrs. Shira Smiles

One of the classical images symbolic of Torah philosophy is the image of the Cherubim atop the Holy Ark. The Torah describes these figures as facing one another and also facing the Cover of the Ark, and having wings spreading upward. From between these Cherubim the voice of God will emanate when He speaks to Bnei Yisroel. According to tradition, the Cherubim had childlike faces and, the Zohar adds that they were male and female. They represented a barometer of Bnei Yisroel’s sensitivity to each other that was then reflected in the position of the Cherubim as representative of Hashem. When there was harmony, the Cherubim faced each other and God’s presence rested comfortably between them, but when there was disunity, they turned away from each other and Hashem was displeased. Why did Hashem choose to have the Cherubim depicted this way? Click here Summary by Channie Koplowitz Stein.