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Keruvim: Legalized Idolatry??

Speaker:: Rabbi Mordechai Torczyner
Date:: February 07 2019

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Venue: YU Torah MiTzion Beit Midrash Zichron Dov YU Torah MiTzion Beit Midrash Zichron Dov

Machshava:

Angels, Beit HaMikdash

Parsha:

Teruma, Vayakhel

Collections: The Cherubim

References: Yoma: 54a , Yoma: 54b , Yoma: 77a , Chagiga: 13b , Avoda Zara: 43b

Description

What do the Keruvim look like? And what benefit would justify risking the appearance of idolatry by placing gold statues of oxen, people or anything else in the Kodesh Kodashim in the Mishkan and Beit haMikdash?

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Keruvim: Legalized Idolatry??

Venue: YU Torah MiTzion Beit Midrash Zichron Dov YU Torah MiTzion Beit Midrash Zichron Dov

Machshava:

Angels, Beit HaMikdash

Parsha:

Teruma, Vayakhel

Collections: The Cherubim

References: Yoma: 54a , Yoma: 54b , Yoma: 77a , Chagiga: 13b , Avoda Zara: 43b

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Keruvim: Legalized Idolatry??

Venue: YU Torah MiTzion Beit Midrash Zichron Dov YU Torah MiTzion Beit Midrash Zichron Dov

Machshava: Angels, Beit HaMikdash Parsha: Teruma, Vayakhel

Collections: The Cherubim

References: Yoma: 54a , Yoma: 54b , Yoma: 77a , Chagiga: 13b , Avoda Zara: 43b

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Machshava:

Angels, Beit HaMikdash

Parsha:

Teruma, Vayakhel