Rabbi David Tawil: Understanding the Amida- "Abot- Part 2 & Laws of Bowing"

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The opening of this shiur, in David Tawil’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

uh in this class we'll hopefully wrap up our discussion of the first which is known as we read to the end of the but i wanted to just mention a couple of other ideas um both uh from an explanation perspective as well as from perspective about the first of the amiga we talked about the description of god the praise of god that three worded description the god who is gadol who is great who is gadol who is great awesome and strong so i saw a nice comment over here by a rabbi named from the 1300s he writes that it's possible that these three statements these three descriptions there's a hint to shalom to three different worlds or dimensions so to speak one is the uppermost abode or world which is the world of the angels which is the world of the angels and you have then you have the sort of uh upper world but beneath that which is the world of the galaxies so to speak the stars and the sun and the moon and then he says you have olam then you have the lowest world the lowest dimension which is the land so looking at it from three i guess like uh concentric circles so to speak you have the land then you have the sun and the moon and the stars and then you have the world of the angels and so he says a parallel to the world of the angels because god is the greatest of all of the spiritual beings parallel to the world of the celestial bodies because it's god who in his power and his will causes the orbits and the solar system to operate under those conditions so we can live and

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1. 0:01uh in this class we'll hopefully wrap up our discussion of the first which is known…
2. 2:18that he does with a physical being it's known that he is so awesome so each…
3. 4:51he is creating everything is consistently being created by god and it is in existence because…
4. 7:28because the last word right before the barachae was talking about god as a magen and…
5. 10:00lot about that i'll see where he gets the idea of madin david from and i'll…
6. 12:36through the middle section of the amidah when we're doing all of our thoughts all of…
7. 15:22common around not only ashkenaz jews but just in general a lot of jews as well…
8. 18:05because when i'm able to see the words i'm able to process them in my mind…
9. 20:37we'll adjourn so when a person bows how much does he have to bow how far…
10. 23:10you should not bow to the middle of where your belt is and his head should…

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