Venue: Spain Spain

Halacha:

Birkat Hamazon,  Shechitah,  Tefillah 

Machshava:

Avot D'Rebbi Natan,  Derech Hashem 

Parsha:

Balak 

Collections: Rabbi Schachter: Jewish Heritage Tour of Spain

Description

Lecture given on a bus. Chumash-Balak. Bnei yisrael live differently and are burried differently. Rothchild wanted to be burried in Israel, not France. One feels a connection to the place where ones parents are burried. Why is there a nusach in the third bracha of bircas hamazon, not to say "berachamav?" The Zohar states that there are only 53 parshios in the torah. Which two are combined and why? Gra- the final millenium is hinted to in sefer devarim. The Gra had an "atomic theory " to the minyan hamitzvot. The Ramban had a different view to the hidur of vasikin. A shule is patterned after the mikdash. Men and women should not pray within 4 amos of each other. Why does tefilas haderech not start with baruch ata?Avos- Avraham vs Balaam.