Insights from Toras Reb Levi Yitzchok, a weekly class based on the teachings of Harav Levi Yitzchak Schneerson, chief rabbi of the city of Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, during the bloody Bolshevik revolution and the subsequent Communist oppression and father of the Rebbe.
The shiur is presented by Rabbi Dovid Dubov, Director of Chabad of Mercer County in Princeton, New Jersey, and author of Yalkut Levi Yitzchok, an anthology of commentaries collected from the works of Harav Levi Yitzchak, of blessed memory.
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Teruma
And there I will meet with you, and I will commune with you from above the Cover, from between the two cherubim, which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give you in commandment unto the children of Israel.
25:22
Talmud Sanhedrin 7a
There was a certain man who was saying about his marriage as he walked: When our love was strong, we could have lied on a bed that was the width of a sword. Now that our love is not strong, a bed of sixty cubits is not sufficient for us.
Rav Huna said: Verses are written that convey these sentiments. Initially, it was written: “I will meet with you there and I will speak with you from above the Ark Cover” (Exodus 25:22), and it is taught in a baraita: The Ark of the Covenant was itself nine handbreadths high, and the Ark Cover was one handbreadth thick. There is a total height of ten handbreadths here. At first, when God had great affection for Israel, the Divine Presence was revealed within the confines of this limited space.
וכתיב (מלכים א ו, ב) והבית אשר בנה המלך שלמה לה’ ששים אמה ארכו ועשרים רחבו ושלשים אמה קומתו ולבסוף כתיב (ישעיהו סו, א) כה אמר ה’ השמים כסאי והארץ הדום רגלי איזה בית אשר תבנו לי וגו’
And it is written: “And the house that King Solomon built for the Lord, its length was sixty cubits, and its breadth twenty cubits, and its height thirty cubits” (I Kings 6:2). And at the end, when Israel sinned, the whole of the space of the Temple was not expansive enough for the Divine Presence to rest within it, as it is written: “Thus says the Hashem : The heaven is My throne, and the earth is My footstool; where is the house that you may build for Me? And where is the place that may be My resting place?” (Isaiah 66:1). In times of discord, the Temple is an insufficient resting place for the Divine Presence.
Question;
ונעדתי לך ודברתי אתך (A
Why the extra word לך, Hashem was taking to Moshe the entire time?
2) Why was the Dimensions of the Bais Hamikdash, 60 Length, 20 Width, 30 Hight?
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