A Willing Heart
The number 13 in Hebrew is a beautiful number. Most of us have grown up thinking 13 is a very unlucky number. This may change your thinking! In the Hebrew, ahava (אהבה) is the word for “love”. Look how the letters add up. Alef =1, hey =5, & beit =2. 1+5+2+5=13!
And Moses spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, “This is the word which HaShem commanded, saying, ‘Take from among you a contribution to HaShem. Everyone whose heart so moves him, let him bring it as a contribution to HaShem : gold, and silver, and bronze, and blue, and purple, and scarlet material , and fine linen, and goats’ hair , and ram skins dyed red, and fine leather, and acacia wood, and oil for the light, and spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet incense, and shoham stones, and stones to be set in the shoulder garment and in the breastplate. Exodus 35:4-9
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