אלשיך — ויקחו לי תרומה / מאת כל איש אשר ידבנו לבו / ועשו לי מקדש

Q — Why the redundant phrasing — 'ויקחו לי תרומה... תקחו את תרומתי'? And why 'מאת כל איש' rather than 'מכל איש'?

A — A radical re-reading of the parsha. The 'לי' is possessive: take *from what is Mine* a terumah. The gold and silver of every Jew is in truth Hashem's — 'לי הכסף ולי הזהב' — and is held by him as a פקדון. So the material side of the תרומה — gold, silver, copper, dyes — is technically being taken from Hashem's own property, not the donor's. What then does the Jew actually *give*? The 'אשר ידבנו לבו' — the נדבת הלב, the willing heart. That alone is genuinely his. The duplicated 'תקחו את תרומתי' means: *together with* My material terumah, take the donor's heart, which travels with it. The Mishkan's physical structure is borrowed property; what makes the Shechinah dwell within it is the 'נדבת לב במחשבה נפשיית' that the donor adds.