The Great Debate on Shape of the Menorah: Rav Herzog, Rav Kapach, Reb Chaim Kanievsky & the Rebbe

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

discussing the great debate about the menorah that stood in the Beis Hamikdash destroyed today on the 9th of Av 1,954 years ago in the year 70 after the common era in the Jewish calendar in the year 3,830. Although some say it was 28 or 29, 68, 69, or 70. The story takes us on a journey from the Holy Land to Rome to Oxford to Egypt and to different parts of the world. It takes us through generations from the time of the Beis Hamikdash to the days of the Talmudic sages to the Rishonim to the Acharonim all the way to great scholars and giants of our own generation. And finally, we'll bring it all together with God's grace and demonstrate a very powerful timeless and very relevant lesson for our lives individually and collectively. I want to especially thank the shul and everybody behind it for all of the Tisha B'Av amazing events including this one. My friends Ezra Blazer and Heather Scheiner Rabbi Nachman Scheiner and the entire staff of the shul for it together. I want to thank of Schmuel Gilbert for all of the video and PowerPoint production. And I want to thank also all those who gathered the material for this discussion over the years. There have been many articles and essays written about it and Seforim and in different outlets, different pamphlets, different booklets which have written about this debate from where I gathered much of the material including a recent class and source sheets by my friend from Beverly Hills Rabbi Pinny Dunner. Thank you. And I want to especially thank also

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