Bamidbar: The Bima in the Middle - Torah is for Everyone

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the Torah, right? Very good. And the reason is why they want to do that they wanted to mimic the church. So the question is is there any Halachic objection to moving the Bima from the middle of the shul to the front of the shul or is it just this is the way we do things and you know we don't change. You know the Chasam Sofer's first reaction was his famous line, right? Chodosh osur min haTorah. Nowadays not everybody is into that statement Chodosh osur min haTorah, but nevertheless there's such a thing Chodosh osur min haTorah. Anything new we're very hesitant to make changes even though there's even though there's no specific Halachic problem with it we don't like to change things unless there's a specific imperative. >> I heard once that the Gaon they they looked for changes and they embraced them right away. The Alter goes through many generations that we have made changes over the years. Okay. Isn't the basic message supposed to be a Mikdash Me'at and it's supposed to represent like the Mishkan? Okay. Okay, good. Good. So the question is everybody say are there any are there any Halachic reasons we should close the windows. But are there any Halachic reasons to Are there any Halachic reasons to keep the Bima in the middle of the shul? Now the Beer Halacha the Halacha writes in Siman kuf nun siff aleph the amtzah beis haknesses kein mevor barambam the tour umin hakadmonim it's a very early minhag. Now, skip a couple lines. He says Ravainu Saadia Gaon Rambam be'eizeh makomos and because of our sins in many places partzu minhag kedumim zeh they began to breach this early minhag. Veheischilu Where are you? In the Beer Halacha the third line. Third line. Veheischilu la'asos bimah somuch aron hakodesh they began to put the bimah near the aron. Mibnei sheratzu leilech bedarchei

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2. 4:34show Kabbalat Shabbat is not like the tfila, it's not part of it's not it's not…
3. 8:37the makor. Now it doesn't say you have to have a minyan in the middle. It…
4. 12:45The Kessef Mishnah does not cite the original source that the beamer's in the middle of…
5. 16:50middle of the the but in the the show. Says says as much as possible okay…
6. 21:27where the beam is from? It's where the shul is or where the Kodesh Hakodashim which…
7. 25:30bigger shayachus with anybody else um in the shul. And that's why you have in Vezos…
8. 29:42have You want to face Eretz Yisrael, you want to face Yerushalayim. So now what? You're…
9. 33:47It's another year. Okay I would say but where do you put the Torah? You lay…
10. 37:54But a fig, one day one fig is ripe, a week later another fig is ripe,…

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