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The Great Debate on Shape of the Menorah: Rav Herzog, Rav Kapach, Reb Chaim Kanievsky, the Rebbe

A debate on the shape of the menorah with insights from prominent rabbinic…

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A debate on the shape of the menorah with insights from prominent rabbinic figures.

A 2h 0m hashkafa shiur by Rabbi YY Jacobson. Like every video on Lehallel, it was judged and approved under the Lehallel law before it ever appeared — no unreviewed result is ever shown.

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this story that we're going to share today takes us back 1,9 54 years that's a long time and yet we still remember it recall it discuss it and debate it we're going to go on a journey today discussing the great debate about today discussing the great debate about the Mana that stood in the B mikdash destroyed today on the 9th of of 1,954 years ago in the year 70 after the kamero in the Jewish calendar in the year 3,830 although some say it was 28 or 29 68 69 or 70 the story takes us on a journey from the holy land to Rome to Oxford Rome to Oxford to Egypt and to different parts of the world it takes us through generations from the time of the bikes to the days of the talic sages to the to the all the way to Great Scholars and Giants of our own generation and finally we'll bring it all together with God's grace and demonstrate a very powerful time Timeless and very relevant powerful time Timeless and very relevant lesson for our lives individually and collectively I want to especially thank the sh and everybody behind it for all of the Tish above amazing events including this one my friends Blazer and Heather Shiner Rabbi no shiner and the entire staff of the SCH for putting it together I want to thank SCH Gilbert for all of the video and PowerPoint

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