Journey to AMUKAH - The Kever of Rebbi Yehonasan Ben Uziel

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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.

first one is on the back wall, Maseches Sukkah chof ches amud aleph. The gemara says that Hillel Hazaken had 80 talmidim. 30 of them, the Shechinah could have rested on like Moshe Rabbeinu. 30 of them could have stopped the sun like Yehoshua bin Nun. 20 in between. The greatest of all them was Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai. Katan shebakulan, Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai. What did Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai know? Gemara, Mikra, Mishna. Gemara says, by the way, they say this doesn't mean k'pshuto, that he was the least of them, because ultimately he became the leader of Klal Yisrael. So, what's the likelihood statistically of 80 talmidim, the least of them became the leader? It means that perhaps others were greater in one of these various disciplines, but nobody was like Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai, who excelled in all of them. Okay. Be it as it may, Rabbi Yonasan ben Uziel is the greatest. Any bird that flew over his head nisraf miyad. Now, that's a maila. Like, if you're looking for a yeshiva, so which yeshiva can I go to that birds burn up over the rabbi? What does that mean? So, the Kadmonim say, "Oif" refers to an extraneous or improper thought in learning. Even not an indecent thought, a non-accurate thought. Rabbi Yonasan ben Uziel was so attuned to the ratzon haborei that anytime even the conception of an idea that wasn't emes came up, it was completely eradicated. It never even entered It never even exited the clay oats to the to the lave. It just was nistraf mayad.

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1. 0:32first one is on the back wall, Maseches Sukkah chof ches amud aleph. The gemara says…
2. 1:04of Klal Yisrael. So, what's the likelihood statistically of 80 talmidim, the least of them became…
3. 1:35mean? So, the Kadmonim say, "Oif" refers to an extraneous or improper thought in learning. Even…
4. 2:06Rabbi Yonasan ben Uziel was the one who revealed Targum on Nevi'im. And when he revealed…
5. 2:37minimized ameilus baTorah. So, because of that lack of ameilus, so Eretz Yisrael was nizdaze'a, says…
6. 3:09Targum Yonasan ben Uziel is Targum Yerushalmi, but a different version of it. So, the printers,…
7. 3:39to do with shidduchim? So, we know that the parsha of shidduchim could be a very…
8. 4:12his chelek in life was such that he did not have children, he did not get…

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