Chagai: Chapter 2 - The Prophecy of the Rebuilding of the Second Beis Hamikdash was on Hoshana Rabba

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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.

and I will honor it, amar Hashem. Rashi points out it's missing a hey. Can I get the five things that were missing from the first Beit Hamikdash? The Urim Vetumim, the eish, the Shechinah, and Ruach Hakodesh. Now it's interesting Rashi over here says in a different order than it appears in uh in the Gemara, but Rashi likes my mnemonic of Asher, aleph aleph aleph shin resh, so maybe that's why Rashi says it in this order. But in any event, we pointed out last week that the reason why the Beit Hamikdash was missing these five things is because a prerequisite to build the Beit Hamikdash is the destruction of Amalek. And the first Beit Hamikdash, they annihilated Amalek almost entirely through Shaul and through Shmuel, and therefore they were to full Shechinah and to all these five things. However, the malchus of um of Mordechai was not complete. He was only mishneh la Melech Achashverosh. And by the way, the Navi Yeshayahu explains that's why when Mordechai became mishneh, they minted coins with him as king, so to speak, in order that he should have some type of halachic status as king to be able to destroy Amalek, but since Amalek was not entirely destroyed, they were lacking these five things. Okay. So the Navi continues, pasuk tes. The Malbim explains that after Hashem tells them that the reason why they've been cursed because they don't have the Beit Hamikdash, now that they heard from the Navi that Hashem commands them to build the Beit Hamikdash,

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10. 30:57YHWH Biit Acharon" refers to the second Biit HaMikdash. Says Rashi, says the Malbim, "ma adi…

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