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0:00 How are you, your honor? Rabbi Shlomo, right? - Yes. - I remember you. How do you feel, your honor? - It is very nice to see you. - It is an honor for me. - The honor is ours. All the synagogues and study halls there are in the world are sparks from the destruction of the Beis HaMikdash, the Holy Temple. And every place that has even one stone of a synagogue or a study hall is a 'small sanctuary.' As the Sefer Charedim writes, as we learned in Tractate Megillah, pages 28 and 29: in synagogues and study halls one does not stroll about...
0:28 they have holiness - it is a 'small sanctuary,' it is truly our Holy Temple and our glory - a 'small sanctuary.' But what is important is that they be careful to be very careful about the place, that it be in holiness, guard the place, its holiness, that people not talk in synagogues. It is very, very important to guard the holiness of the synagogue. It is very, very, very important. The Imrei Emes of Gur was very particular about this. They say that in the Holocaust there were several synagogues where people would talk, and because of our many sins they were destroyed.
0:57 And the study hall of Rabbi Moshe of Kobrin, the author of 'Imros Moshe,' was not touched. They say the reason is that he was very strict about this - that people not talk in the synagogue, that there was very great unity among those praying. It is important that in the synagogue there always be unity among those praying and also that they do not talk in it. Very, very important. But I say also another beautiful thing. When you look at the synagogue: you say that the Holy One, blessed be He, wanted 'and I shall be sanctified' - every matter in ten, every matter of holiness needs ten.
1:25 But you say Kedushah, Amen, all these things. How did the Holy One, blessed be He, want it to be? After all, each one could pray alone. The Holy One, blessed be He, wanted each one to bestir himself, to leave the house, and find himself with the community. suddenly he sees one who is far, one is close, and one a tzaddik, and one wicked, and one who suddenly arrives. The Holy One, blessed be He, wanted everyone to see one another, to see all these opposites. and from there they will pray...
1:51 This is what is important in the true synagogue, that they give room to all the opposites, to feel them as one. All the spices of the incense, also with the galbanum, also with the frankincense, whose root is from Keser, the Crown, so however low and however high, they all gather together, and influence one another. Influence one another.
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