Venue: Italy Italy

Halacha:

Beit HaKenesset,  Beit Hamikdash,  Birchas Kohanim,  Tfillin,  Yom Kippur 

Collections: Rabbi Schachter: Jewish Heritage Tour of Italy

Description

Lecture given on a bus in Italy. Rabbi Schachter discusses the laws of a beit hakeneset during the tour of magnificent synagogues of Italy. Is a bimah elevated? Where to put the bimah and why. Does a shule need a mezuza? Eating in a shule.The origin of saying yigdal elokim chai. There are three types of styles to write letters in a sefer torah- Beit Yosef, Ari Z'al, and Vellish. Why are there stairs in front of many torah arks? Do kohanim duchan to Neilah on Yom Kippur? What is the nusach to the final bracha in shemonah esrei? Does an abandoned shule retain its kedusha? What is the source of the kedusha of a shule? Kedushas shabbos vs yom tov. The Rambam wanted to eliminate chazoras hashatz.