Stairway to Heaven - Parshat Vayetze

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

evening everybody tonight we want to speak a little bit about the M mikdash the center of the world The Stairway to Heaven probably there's no piece of real estate in the whole of the world which is as hotly contested so much blood has been spilled over from the Crusaders to the byzantines the Muslims the Temple mount the m mount the m mikdash is a place which clearly The Whole World's eyes are focused on the whole world desires it the whole world fights over it what is so special about it in this week's para says and he encountered ding for he stayed overnight they slept and he had a dream and there was a ladder stuck into the ground ver and the its head reached to the heavens and the Angels the spiritual messengers of God were ascending and descending on it I'm going to give you this land and to all of your your seed Yakov then says Jacob awoke and and he said is certainly in this place therefore is in this place I had this dream but I didn't realize when I came here what this place here what this place was and he was extremely frightened how awesome is this place Bim this is none other than the house of God this is the Gate of Heaven this is the Gate of Heaven to understand the importance

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