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Beit Midrash
- Torah Portion and Tanach
- Shmot
- Terumah
HaMikdash was the Aron Kodesh that held the
Luchot. Its ornate cover had on it 2 Keruvim (tho
that technically violated the issur of a graven
image). The Keruvim figure was also engraved on
the curtains, the parokhet & the walls & doors of
the Heikhal. We have no clear idea of their exact
appearance: one opinion is that they had the
faces of children, or (as Yechezkel reported) 1
child & 1 man, mimicking a father & son. Some say
they were a boy & girl, representing pure love
(both between both male & female and Man & G-d).
Ibn Ezra said they resembled oxen. The Torah
explicitly says that they had wings, & some
(Rashbam) said they were images of birds, or
half-bird & half man with lions’ feet. The voice
of Hashem emanated from between the wings of the
Keruvim. Still others connect the Keruvim to the
reference in Bereisheit: baby-faced angels who
brandished weapons & guarded the entrance to Gan
Eden (i.e. Israel) – what a perfect description of our holy Chayalim!
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Various Events FOR WHOM NOT TO VOTE
Rav Zvi Yehuda Kook stressed that Israeli politics is G-dly, so I have no problem answering this common question on a Torani blog. Also, Free-Will is a G-d-given right and obligation, to "destine one's fate" (R. Soloveichik, Kol Dodi Dofek, 67), so I obviously don't tell others how to vote. But once not a few (especially young) have already asked, a couple of personal words from experience and thoughts from chazal & Rav Kook which may be of help to others, mainly for whom NOT to vote.
P'ninat Mishpat Fallout from Failure to Install Elevator – part II
based on ruling 85007 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts
