Journey to Lithuania: Vilna - The Vilna Gaon on the 4 Cubits of Halacha; From The Chorale Synagogue

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Daniel Glatstein’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Okay, welcome everyone. We're in the shul of VNA and you look at the ornate aran kaidesh and as Edward pointed out this is not the typical style of an Ashkanazak shul it is created in the image of the third basikdash which gives us the idea that a bases is uh is an actual mikdash like teach us that when one comes to a one is the mitzvah of you know Actually there are certain kavanas a person should have when they enter a shaw. First of all, when you go into a shul, whenever you go into a shul, you should have kavana to the mitzvah of I want to share with you here. We're in vna what the vag says that tells us in the day the temple was destroyed. All God has is the four cubits of what exactly are

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1. 0:00Okay, welcome everyone. We're in the shul of VNA and you look at the ornate aran…
2. 0:33kavanas a person should have when they enter a shaw. First of all, when you go…
3. 1:03these four cubits of again from the day the temple was destroyed. This is in the…
4. 1:36of zakaria zakaria saw a scroll and on the scroll was written the entirety of the…
5. 2:06400 am is needed to contain the whole tar. How many sedarim were there of the…
6. 2:40scroll do you need to contain sixar says the that's the meaning is the scroll needed…

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