Parashat Teruma - Why the Cherubim on the holy ark ? - Rabbi Alon Anava

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

[Music] we are in Petaluma and we're finally building a home for Shem a very interesting a parish are with a lot of construction details but nevertheless we're building a home for shrimp to grow in this world which brings us to an attention for a certain detail that if you notice a Jew when he prays he she prays they have to face the OSHA line if you live in America then you pray facing east and if you live in Australia and you pray facing west and if you're in Russia you tracing south and so forth and even in Israel we face south south east where we are you know if you see us we're here on an angle but nevertheless we always have to face the OSHA line and if somebody's in the OSHA line then they have to face we're better make dashes and if somebody in the area the perimeter of atomic - they have to face Scottish ecology so really where we're facing is we're not facing you shall I'm we have to face the coda sure called the ship with the Ark is this is really where we're facing when we pray which it's very very interesting because you have millions of Jews around the world that they were praying and they're all facing one dot in the universe so we're a little cupboard a little box is placed now on kodesh the the the ark and this is a very small box it's one metre and a half on 70 centimetres that's the whole thing that's the size of the the Ark but nevertheless this is where we all point

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1. 0:00[Music] we are in Petaluma and we're finally building a home for Shem a very interesting…
2. 6:39exactly three hundred and four thousand eight hundred and five and not only that we have…
3. 13:00condition not only that they have the cuvee on the ark they also had pictures of…
4. 19:35by the way we're going to go through three of the opinions how they actually looked…
5. 25:59information and tracted youma page 54 where it explains a little bit more of it so…
6. 32:29just imagine even though it's not a big box but it's stuffed with gold and then…
7. 39:02shape of a triangle a rectangle but imagine like a box now imagine our shoebox like…
8. 45:26the beginning actually the party wanted to use it for their benefits because everybody was saying…
9. 51:57Hashem and I always give a story I'll give it very briefly so we can get…
10. 58:36like no no she was like so upset and and the funny thing was that she…

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