What Should A Simchas Bais Hashoaivah Look Like?

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

Hey Rabbi. >> Yes. >> How in your eyes Simchas Beis Hasho'eiva supposed to look like? >> The mission that describes in the time of the Beis Hamikdash that at nightfall they would light these tremendous lamps and all Yerushalayim was lit up from the light. And everybody would get together and everybody would play instruments and everybody would uh uh uh come to the Beis Hamikdash and uh the Gedolim and Anshei Ma'aseh would dance. And only they would dance. Everybody else would watch. And uh it it it was Can you imagine being in the Beis Hamikdash and you're watching the greatest people of our generation dancing before Kodosh Boruch Hu. Reb Yoelish Chaim Zanenfeld used to push himself when he was old and he had problems with his feet. He would push himself to dance at the Simchas

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1. 0:01Hey Rabbi. >> Yes. >> How in your eyes Simchas Beis Hasho'eiva supposed to look like?…
2. 0:33uh uh come to the Beis Hamikdash and uh the Gedolim and Anshei Ma'aseh would dance.…
3. 1:03Beis Hasho'eiva. And they said, "Rebbe, why are you pushing yourself so much?" He says, "Because…
4. 1:34don't feel like they're a part of it. And then comes to Simchas Beis Hasho'eiva, they're…
5. 2:05uh leads to rekkud. Rekkud is that dancing. I I heard a p'shat many years ago.…
6. 2:35up, dancing before Hashem." That's what a Simchas Torah should be. Uh it's not about the…

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