This week we begin learning about the process of building of the Mishkan.
The Torah starts it off with Hashem telling Moshe to "take" a donation from Am Yisrael.
This raises a very famous question - why does Hashem tell Moshe to "take" the donation from the people, and not that the people should "give" a donation...?
But more than that question, one has to ask - how does Hashem command Am Yisrael to bring a donation?? Shouldn't a donation come from each person's own desire - without a commandment??
Isn't the whole purpose of a donation to be given voluntarily??
So what is this donation, truma, about?