What's Important in Hashem's Eyes
Whose gift lands deeper: the expensive bouquet a busy husband orders with one last-second phone call on Erev Shabbos, or the flowers another man picks on his walk home? The same question hides in Parshas Terumah. The Torah lists the donations to the Mishkan from most valuable to least, yet the precious stones for the Efod and Choshen come last, though a Gemara says they were worth far more than gold. The Or HaChaim, drawing on a Gemara in Yoma, explains what Hashem is looking for when we give.