Why are there so many different versions of the prayers?

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So good morning. So um let's first start with today is the second of what we call the nine days. I spoke about it last week briefly. It's a 9-day period of morning getting ready for the 9th of A which will be next Sunday. So during this nine day period we started yesterday we do not drink wine or eat meat except for on Shabbat. We do not go on vacations. We don't um we don't do any uh we don't bathe um for pleasure to any uh we don't bathe um for pleasure to bathe for um cleanliness or if you need to but for pleasure we don't bathe um throughout three weeks already going from the 17th of Tamuz we don't listen to music we go to celebrations um and so it is kind of all part of this period of do weddings during this period all part of this period of morning also during this three period we don't buy new clothing um buy new cars or homes um during this period period. It culminates on tish aba the 9th of A which is the day that the temple was which is the day that the temple was destroyed. It is the day that five things happened um that com connected to the destruction of the temple. Firstly um it's the day that um the spies came back um after Moses sent spies with the report that they would not be able to conquer the land. the people refused to go into land and as a result they had to wander through the desert 40 years. Um it is the day that the first temple was destroyed, the second temple was destroyed. It is the day that later the emperor Hadrien

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2. 6:15service. I think it's going to be about 8:45 on Saturday evening. uh we will have…
3. 12:24near Jericho. Um when the people came there, the land east of the Jordan was inhabited…
4. 18:35For the first 20 three uh for the first 1800 years or so of Judaism, there…
5. 24:43tell based on the names of the scholars mentioned based on the Aramaic they used in…
6. 30:50disparaged Jewish communities. So, as a result, these different Jewish communities have slight variations to their…
7. 37:08customs with them. In 1492, um a century later, all Jews are expelled from Spain. And…
8. 43:19until 1948, the Jews that lived in the countryside of Yemen um in towns and villages…
9. 49:34merging the Ashkanazi version and the Sphartic version. And what he did is he um he…
10. 55:49there's been some variations within the Sphartic prayer book because the former chief rabbi of Israel,…

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