Journey to Jerusalem 2026: The Kosel - The Part of the Jewish Soul that Can’t Be Destroyed

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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.

Here we're standing here at the tunnels in the tunnels of the Maravi. I'm with my good friend of the old city. And when we think about the great promise that Hashem made to the Jewish people that firstly never departed from the Marabi. Furthermore, Hashem promised us that the Hamarabi will never be destroyed. And here we are after 2,000 years and the Kois Maravi stands. It's as beautiful as Kois Maravi stands. It's as beautiful as ever. Let's try to understand why is it that the Hamaravi stands forever. What is the symbolism of Hamarabi? We know there's a cabalistic concept ashan sha nephesh that what exists in space exists in time exists in the Tyra Sha and Nephesh. If there is one wall, which by the way is not the wall of the B mikdash, it's the retaining wall of the harab. If there's one wall that stands forever,

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1. 0:00Here we're standing here at the tunnels in the tunnels of the Maravi. I'm with my…
2. 0:32Kois Maravi stands. It's as beautiful as ever. Let's try to understand why is it that…
3. 1:03there's one wall that stands forever, then that means that there's a part of us, there's…
4. 1:35that can never disappear. So theel Maravi represents the eternity of the Jewish people because wherever…
5. 2:08That's because the city of Amuna is amuna. In fact, Mosha Wolfson says the numerical value…
6. 2:40the city of Jerusalem was only destroyed when men of faith disappeared. Why? Because Jerusalem is…
7. 3:13bias well according to that this is a then hashem has a commandment to leave pa…

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