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Biblical Faith Shows
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Shmuel has a few comments on the Temple. These comments relate to our world today.
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The Men of the Great Assembly flourished prior to the Second Temple and in early days. The “things” that they said are mussar (advise). Mussar is distinct from Torah, which is a system of law, and it is different from mitzvos, which are the practice of Torah law. It is advice that supports both the study and the practice of Torah. Mussar strengthens the ability of mere human beings to live within a Divine system.
During the thousand years in which the Torah was transmitted from Moshe to the Men of the Great Assembly, none of these bearers and transmitters of Torah gave the mussar to the nation. The pronouncements they issue were restatements of Torah, not the advice of mussar. What prompted the Men of the Great Assembly to dispense mussar?
In the time of the Men of the Great Assembly, persecution and exile had taken their toll on scholarship and the intellectual fabric of the nation was starting to wear thin. Intellect, sechel (translated as intellect), had declined with regard to the power of its presence and influence. Since Torah is conceptual in nature, the gasp of Torah was weakening and was in need of reinforcement. From that time on, rabbinical leaders found it necessary to give advice on how to deal with the changes that were taking place in society.
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Biblical Faith – with Sam Peak
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Seven things were created before the world: the Kisei haKavod (HaShems Glorious Throne); the Torah; the Beit haMikdosh; the Avot; Yisrael; the name of the Mashiach; and teshuva. Some also add Gan Eden and Gehinom. When HaShem instructed Moshe to tell Yisrael to build a Miskon HaShem said to him, “Moshe, My Beit Mikdoah already exists in heaven, as Jerimiah 17:12 states, ‘The Kisei haKavod, high from the first; the place of our Beit haMikdosh.’ There is the Haychol and there is My Glorious Throne.”
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“Handbook of the jewish thoughts”
The Oral Torah was handed down by word of mouth from Moshe to Joshua, then to the Elders, the Prophets, and the Great Assembly. The Great Assembly was the Sanhedrin led by Ezra, at the beginning of the time of the second Temple, which undertook to enact legislation that would make Judaism viable in the Diaspora.
The Great Assembly codified much of the Oral Torah in a form that could be memorized by the students. This codification was known as the Mishnah (משנה). One reason for this name was that it was meant to be reviewed (shanah, שנה, to repeat) over and over until memorized. The word also denoted that the Mishnah was secondary (sheni, שני) to the written Torah.
It was required that the oral tradition be handed down word for word, exactly as it had been taught. The sages who taught the fist Mishnah were known as Tannaim (תנאים), Tanna (תנא) in the singular. This word comes from the Aramaic word tanna (תנא) equivalent to the Hebrew shanah (שנה), meaning to repeat.
Although the Oral Torah was meant to be transmitted by word of mouth, it was permissible to keep personal records. Therefore, many individuals would write down personal notes of what was taught in the academics. This was especially true of teachings that were not often reviewed. Many also added marginal notes to the Biblical scrolls which they used to study.
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We see, then, that the word of HaShem comes down from heaven to the Kodesh haKoddoshim between the Cruvim above the Caporess. Then it makes a ninety degree turn through the poles of the Oron and proceeds into the Haychol (which is the equivalent, in the Beit haMikdosh, or the Mishkon or “Ohel Moayd” in the desert), onto the golden or “inner” mizbayach, and from there to the doorway of the Haychol, where the prophet receives it.
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Elements of Maharal’s Philosophy
The study of Maharal cultivates a deep, intense and immediate awareness of HaShem, as Maharal presents the systematic study of the principles and structure of existence as it flows from HaShem, to mankind and to all creation. Derech Chaim (Way of Life), and indeed all of Maharal’s works, will be better understood with the following explanations of Maharal’s principles. The Hebrew terms will be included as a reference vocabulary for those who wish to pursue Maharal’s writings in the original.
Maharal introduces the basic elements of an ontological system by comparing Creation to building a house. There are four elements in the construction of a house: a builder (po’eil); physical materials (chomer) such as bricks and mortar; the architect’s vision of what the house will look like (tzurah) and the purpose (tachilis) for which the house is built. The house would not be built if even one of these factors were absent.
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Now, it is evident from the catalog of miracles we have studied that as one goes deeper into the Beit haMikdosh the miracles become progressively more common. In the outside world nissim are rarities, only performed at the greatest, earth-shaking, necessity. In Jerusalem there were certain miracles that were common, though necessary to a certain extent. However, they were miracles in a statistical sense only. A stay in Jerusalem, or even a lifetime there, without getting bitten by a snake or a scorpion is not miraculous. Only the cumulative evidence that never did a bite occur makes us realize a nes has occurred. In the Azora there were constant miracles that weren’t terribly necessary. A pregnant woman could avoid the Azora. If the column of smoke did not rise in a straight line the korbonos would be still perfectly acceptable.
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