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Vayeilech: Hakehel - Should it Be Commemorated? The Machlokes Rav Herzog & the Chazon Ish

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Rabbi Daniel Glatstein

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  1. 0:00Okay, friends, we know that once every 7 years Mekate Shavasanam Tasa Shmita on the beginning…
  2. 0:30and it was known as the mitzvah of Hakhel. And in more contemporary times, the question…
  3. 1:30He says it's clear in my opinion that the generations before us were worried for stirring…
  4. 2:32as it was endorsed by Rabbi Yechiel Michel Tukachinsky in the Sefer Eer Hakodesh Vehamikdash Chelek…
  5. 3:33from Mishneh Torah. Rabbi Elyashiv said, "You're not allowed to." Rabbi Elyashiv said, "You're not allowed…
  6. 4:34they were going to call it Hakhel as a dugma of the midst of Hakhel that…
  7. 5:35just if it is not fulfilled in the vein in which Hashem commanded, it has no…
  8. 6:35ossur. We don't know why he said it's ossur. No reason is given. Rav Shach felt…
  9. 7:38But on the other hand, other gedolim did feel that mere gathering of the people to…
  10. 8:38people, those who have respect for the punctilious details of mitzvahs, they they feel that this…

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