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Why was King Solomon's Temple destroyed? (#1 in the series)

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Rabbi Akiva Teichtal

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Welcome to a new series of shurim. My new series is about the destruction of the temple, the beginning of the golus and rebuilding, how to get out of golus. Yeah. If we learn the lessons of what caused the golus, we can also try and rebuild ourselves from the inside and really hope for gula very very quickly. We did it more than ever today. So basically, um, let me ask you a So basically, um, let me ask you a question. Let me ask you a question. If you ask any person out there, go out to the street now. Don't go out to the street and stay here, please. But, uh, you've been invited. H, go out and ask a regular Jew, why was Bamik just destroyed? What would be the knee-jerk reaction? What's the first things that comes to mind? I knew it's going to happen. I knew it's going to Yeah, I'm not saying it's wrong. It's true. The Gmorra in says that it was very good and other stuff as well. So good. So first of all, first of all depends which bias you're talking about. Bice says in newest mud bice hello if you can please stop the video. Welcome, welcome, welcome. Thank you was because of right was because of before in [Music] it's true. However, so first of all it's true. However, so first of all is less discussed from some reason. Yeah, we always talk about the fact that and but we should know although it's not the current so to speak of right regarding we're not learning now but was a much bigger loss at a quality level had many many many things that beni did not in fact moral says in beni there was noina beni there was no or the

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  1. 0:02Welcome to a new series of shurim. My new series is about the destruction of the
  2. 4:10some kind of core problem yeah with the gim and we got to fix that too
  3. 8:16they forgot yeah that sounds very stark that sounds you know like you know one of
  4. 12:59learn the Torah as something academic. But they did not learn to for the sake of
  5. 17:06And now we're saying there was more like very viewed in a way that wasn't important
  6. 21:42you know to suspect somebody of whatever they don't like boom off their yeah we would
  7. 25:49importance of learning tora and each one from a different angle. Unbelievable. It's it's a beautiful
  8. 29:52toyra less. You care about less. You still learn but you care less. Something in your
  9. 34:29care lack of giving the right importance and weight to tora and this is something we
  10. 38:35let's say this hotel is called de view and we have the most amazing view in

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