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  Ben-Dovid -4 months ago

  Question of Validity thus Requiring a Source

  If you do not accept the Baal Shem's foundational theory of hidden Self-Judgement then the basis of the dvar torah is faulty. Please give the Baal Shem source like a Zohar or a Medrash : where Hashem has individuals (neshama) on Yom HaDin judge others to provide self-judgement?

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• Anonymous -4 months ago

  always great like every single class of yours without exeption i listen to evey single class and each one gets me through the week it shows me a new perspective. so all that is left to say is thank you thank you thank you.

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  N. Purim Katipunan -9 months ago

  The roots of our Balitiki, the World (Fig) Tree of the Filipino, reached all the way down to Yrushalayim, deep into the living caverns of the Beis HaMikdosh, which lay deep within the ground, where it was never destroyed. 

  On this day of Purim:

  Para sa mga himala, para sa pagliligtas, para sa malalakas na gawa, para sa mga tagumpay, at para sa mga laban na ginawa Mo para sa aming mga ninuno sa mga araw na iyon, sa oras na ito ng taon.

  Salamat Bathala Maykapal (HaShem of many layers) para sa milagro ng Purim. El Melech (Ne'eman) Namin {Our Faithful King}. Amen. 

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  Moshe -6 years ago

  So the main point is that Shlomo haMelech built the first Beis Hamigdash knowing it wasn't going to last (must've put a damper on his celebration) and so he built a "bomb shelter" for the Aron, etc. This was used for the last years of the Beis Hamiddash. The Avoda went on, and also continued in the second, because the Aron was there, only hidden deeply underground. So far, so good.

  Also, because of this underground bunker and its contents, anything doing above ground was a mere renovation not demolition and a new structure. So Hashem doesn't destroy, only renmovates..

     1. On the tunnel tours at the Kosel rhere is one spot deep underground where water constantly seeps from the wall. Women are seated there saying Tehillim. They say it's the closest accessible spot to the Kodesh Kedoshim. It looks like tears. Perhaps that's also close to the underground bunker that has never been excavated or dug up?

    2. I have seen in modern day construction and applicable tax assesments, that if one leaves a bit of the wall of the old foundation, its also technically a mere renovation and not new construction  and therefore treated differently for zoning and building permits, taxation, etc. Similar to the Beis Hamigdash merely being renovated.

    3. A smartphone is a dumb lifeless device without a sim card.The sim card gives it "life", connects it to the network, and is the essence. Similar lehavdil to the neshoma in a guf, and to the Aron whether above or below ground. 

    And so it's still there now.

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• Anonymous -6 years ago

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  Hi Rabbi Y Y you explain verry geshmak shkoiach for the shiur.

  would be nice to post on the source sheets the siche in chelek 21.

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  Mishel Perets -7 years ago

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  Rabbi Y Y Jacobson;

  What brought יאשייהו המלך to come to the conclusion or to the decision to make the לויים to put the Arc in the second holly place? Why it didn't happen before, or after?

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    yechi hamelech ezagui -7 years ago

    B"H
    1) maybe because they did aveiros which was a sign for the golus like it seis מפני חטאינו גלינו מארצינו
    2) it was after they got the Nevuah That they will go to golus
    3) the reason that shlomo made this hiding place for the aron is because like the Rambam Seis בעת שבנה שלמה את הבית וידע שסופו ליחרב which means that he knew right when he bilt it that it will get destroyed with רוח הקודש so to here you can answer that they knew that now is the time to hide the aron.
    & just like then thy had neviim that told them that the gouls is coming so to on the contrery we have a Navi - the lubavitcher rebbe that prophsaysd that Very Very soon the aron will come out & be reveld with his revelation of moshiach Right Now!

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  danny -8 years ago

  חזק ברוך

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  Daniel Benayoun -8 years ago

  Rabbi Jacobson thank you for this briliant explanation of the Rebbe's Siha.
  How can you explain, if the Aron was hidden 40 years before the destruction of the first Temple, how come could the romans have seen the Cherubin and the Aron when they penetrated the Temple?

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    Peggy Pedersen -8 years ago

    Because beside the cherubim on the Aron, there were two large cherubim flanking it: 2 Chronicles 3:10 - 13

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      Daniel Benayoun -8 years ago

      No,the Gemara speaks about the Cherubim that were supposed to be interlaced when the Jewish People was close to Hashem; this seems to concern exclusively the cherubim on the Ark

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        Daniel Benayoun -8 years ago

        So my question remains unanswered....

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          yechi hamelech ezagui -8 years ago

          in the gemara there (where it says that they saw the cruvim) it says clearly that it is not talkink about the cruvin on the aron rather the cruvim on the wall

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