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How does the Motza Temple fit into our tradition?
From what I've gathered so far, researchers seem to agree that this temple was built prior to the religious reforms enacted by Kings Chizkiyahu and Yoshiyahu1. On-site, the altar and other cultish/...
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Jerusalem Uninhabited?
Two thousand years beforehand, they may not have said this text.
Rambam's text, for example, does not have it, nor do Seder Rav Amram Gaon (ed. Harpenes: Seder Tisha B'av), or Seder Rav Sa'adya Gaon, ...
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Why does ולירושלים start with a Vav?
Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro says based on what he heard in the name of Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, based on the Gemara in Megila, that the Vav here shows us that it is in the honor of the righteous people that ...
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Where was Maaeser Sheni brought before the beit hamikdash was built?
The Mishna, Z'vachim 14:6, q.v., says maaser sheni was brought to the mishkan at Shilo. The commentaries to 14:7 indicate that when the mishkan was in Nov, and when it was in Giv'on, maaser sheni was ...
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What is the purpose of the mezuzah on the entrance to Sha'ar Tziyon?
Rambam Mezuza 6,8
אחד שערי חצרות ואחד שערי מבואות ואחד שערי מדינות ועיירות הכל חייבים במזוזה שהרי הבתים החייבין במזוזה פתוחין לתוכן
Gates of courtyards, cul de sacs, countries and cities need a ...
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Information about the Belz yeshiva in Jerusalem
It's called Torah v'emunah and is located in Zichron Moshe. On Moshe Khagiz St. A block from Mayanot, the Chabad place. I believe it's primarily Hebrew language but there's a chaburah in English. ...
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Where in parshas Vayishlach is Jerusalem hinted to?
In Parashat va-Yishlach (Bereshit 35:1) it says:
ויאמר אלהים אל-יעקב, קום עלה בית-אל ושב-שם; ועשה-שם מזבח -- לאל הנראה אליך, בברחך מפני עשו אחיך.
And God said unto Jacob: 'Arise, go up to Beth-el, ...
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Does the metaphor of righteous men as Jerusalem's walls appear anywhere in the Torah?
Perhaps you were listening to the song "*Shomrei hafkid l'ircha kol hayom v'kol halaila" which in turn is inspired by the verse in Isaiah 62:6-7 "Upon your walls, O Jerusalem, I have set watchmen, Who ...
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Why do Ashkenazim in Israel tend to use Nusach Sefard?
Some comments on the question have disputed whether you're right that an inordinate number of Ashkenazic synagogues in Israel use nusach "S'farad". I haven't seen statistics on point, but my limited ...
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Why is the name Yerushalayim in the reverse order?
The Peirush Yafeh Toar to Bereishis Rabbah 56:10 says that the reason is because Avraham Avinu was a greater Tzadik, so the name he gave (Yireh), takes precedence:
ואף על פי ששם שלם קודם ליראה מכל ...
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The holiness of Jerusalem
Wikipedia answers your question
Jerusalem appears in the Hebrew Bible 669 times [...] For example, the
book of Psalms, which has been frequently recited and memorized by
Jews for centuries, ...
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What Talmudic disputes took place in Jerusalem?
Presumably the argument between Rabbi Zechariah ben Avkulas and the other sages over what to do with Bar Kamtza's korban. It sounds like they were arguing right there in the Mikdash.
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Recommendation for Temple archeological tour
The Western Wall Heritage Foundation offers the very popular Western Wall Tunnels Tour, which takes tourists under Jerusalem's Muslim Quarter, along the length of the western retaining wall of Herod's ...
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והוא ידרוש לציון עיר ה...
BS"D
There is a nussach of עיר המשובחה that I actually grew up with from my father z"l who received it from his grandfather.
I searched for many years to find the source and came upon the ...
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"The markets of Jerusalem were destroyed three years prior" - people justified their evil actions with Halacha
The relevant piece of Talmud is from Bava Metzia 88a:
מִפְּנֵי מָה חָרְבוּ חֲנוּיוֹת שֶׁל בֵּית הִינוֹ שָׁלֹשׁ שָׁנִים קוֹדֶם יְרוּשָׁלַיִם – מִפְּנֵי שֶׁהֶעֱמִידוּ דִּבְרֵיהֶם עַל דִּבְרֵי תוֹרָה.
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Why does ולירושלים start with a Vav?
Partial answer:
In a study including dozens of early manuscripts of Shemonah Esrei, which appeared in Hakirah, Heshy Zelcer noted that the first appearance of this extra Vav appeared in the Siddur R. ...
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Tradition-Based Depictions of the Third Temple
This isn't much. Basically showing what the book is about. But is well worth the purchase.
The Messianic Temple by Chaim Clorfene.
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Who laid the megalithic foundation stones under the wailing wall?
The Western Wall in its entirety was built by King Herod. And yes the stones are quite impressive. This is one of the wonders of the ancient world (I think Josephus calls it that). The top half of the ...
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Who originally conquered Jerusalem?
Shoftim 1:8 says that they set the city on fire. However Shoftim 1:9 says that after setting it on fire, they left the city to fight the other Canaanites. They did not actually take it over.
And ...
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The size of Jerusalem in the future (Bava Batra 75b)
Whenever I struggle with a tosafos I take a look on the daf yomi website here
It writes about the said tosafos as follows:
TOSFOS DH TAFAF GINA'OS
תוספות ד"ה טפף גינאות
(SUMMARY: Tosfos explains ...
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The Shamir vs Bronze/Flint tools
The pshat seems to be like Rabbi Nehemia:
אָמַר לוֹ רַבִּי נְחֶמְיָה וְכִי אֶפְשָׁר לוֹמַר כֵּן וַהֲלֹא כְּבָר נֶאֱמַר כׇּל אֵלֶּה אֲבָנִים יְקָרֹת וְגוֹ׳ מְגֹרָרוֹת בַּמְּגֵרָה אִם כֵּן מָה ...
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Weapons in the Beis Hamikdash
1] There are several passages in Nakh that indicate that weapons were indeed present in the Miqdash.
2 Kings 11:10
ויתן הכהן לשרי המאיות [המאות] את החנית ואת השלטים אשר למלך דוד אשר
בבית ה
And the ...
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Is it still galut even though a lot of Jews are in Israel
The Gemara in Shabbos 21a says:
The only difference between this world and the messianic era is subjugation of the exiles to other kingdoms, from which the Jewish people will be released.
The Satmar ...
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"The markets of Jerusalem were destroyed three years prior" - people justified their evil actions with Halacha
I haven't learned your sources inside, but from the eloquent way you've explained the question, I can take an educated guess at what the Rebbe means, if I may:
Ramban brings a concept called נבל ברשות ...
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Who built the first Jerusalem wall and when?
Yigal Shiloh, who oversaw archeological digs in Yerushalayim between 1978 and 1985, dated the Middle Bronze Age wall to circa 1800 BCE (Qedem 19, pg. 12).
From around this time we have the Execration ...
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Who built the first Jerusalem wall and when?
There are many parts to yerushalayim, the part today known as "ir david" was the city of yerushalayim as it was in the times of the yevusim (fortified with walls and towers etc.) and thats what david ...
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What is the halachic boundary of modern day Jerusalem in regards to Purim
The peninei halacha (zmanim 17:2) says:
אמרו חכמים (מגילה ג, ב): "כרך וכל הסמוך לו וכל הנראה עמו נידון ככרך". לפיכך, לא רק במקום ירושלים העתיקה עושים את הפורים בט"ו אלא אף בכל השכונות ...
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Does Ezekiel 16:3-6 say that Jerusalem was a ravaged Canaanite/Amorite/Hittite city and that it and its inhabitants were adopted into Israel?
It would seem so - we know that historically, prior to David's conquest of the city, Yerushalayim was controlled at times by the Hittites and the Amorites.
In Yehoshua 10:5 it says:
"The five ...
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Does Ezekiel 16:3-6 say that Jerusalem was a ravaged Canaanite/Amorite/Hittite city and that it and its inhabitants were adopted into Israel?
No -- the text is understood to be a reference to the Jewish people, the residents of Jerusalem, as is made clear in the Targum Yonatan:
וְתֵימַר כִּדְנַן אֲמַר יְיָ אֱלֹהִים לְיָתְבֵי יְרוּשְׁלֵם
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The butterfly effect in Judaism
If Esav hadn't gone out and vigorously worshipped idols, murderded a man, and commited adultery on the day of his grandfather Abraham's funeral, then he wouldn't have been famished enough to sell his ...
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