Great Assembly
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Sep 25, 2026
Michael LaitmanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Since it had to be practiced, they wrote it all down.
Michael LaitmanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
There was a gathering of 70 great Kabbalists, a sort of supreme body called Knesset Agdolah, the Great Assembly.
Michael LaitmanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Great Sokhma, it's great in height, Sokhma.
Michael LaitmanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And in breadth and width, that's Bina.
Moshe ElefantHOST
If it ate kosher and non-kosher, we could be more lenient.
Moshe ElefantHOST
The prima gaudem says, quotes a Knesset Hagdolah that says, even if we're going to take a strict opinion about fish, about something that ate non-kosher, but if it has been taken off a non-kosher diet for 24 hours, then dalacha is that we could be lenient.
Moshe ElefantHOST
And Ramosha explains, Ramosha was makhmur, that if an animal in the spot may eat it, we shouldn't be allowed to eat it.
Moshe ElefantHOST
But he does seem to agree with the opinion of, he does seem to agree with the opinion of Rav, of the Knesset, because after 24 hours, it becomes part of the mother, part of the food.
Moshe ElefantHOST
And once it's part of the food, it doesn't have anymore an independent identity.
Moshe ElefantHOST
And once it doesn't have an independent identity, then the law is that we have to be, that we could be more lenient.
Michael LaitmanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Since it had to be practiced, they wrote it all down.
Michael LaitmanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
There was a gathering of 70 great Kabbalists, a sort of supreme body called Knesset Agdolah, the Great Assembly.
Michael LaitmanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Great Sokhma, it's great in height, Sokhma.
Michael LaitmanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And in breadth and width, that's Bina.
Michael LaitmanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Since it had to be practiced, they wrote it all down.
Michael LaitmanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
There was a gathering of 70 great Kabbalists, a sort of supreme body called Knesset Agdolah, the Great Assembly.
Michael LaitmanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Great Sokhma, it's great in height, Sokhma.
Michael LaitmanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And in breadth and width, that's Bina.
Michael LaitmanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
You know, the Talmud was written in the 3rd century of our era, after the destruction of the Temple, so not to forget, since it had to be practiced, they wrote it all down.
Michael LaitmanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
There was a gathering of 70 great Kabbalists, a sort of supreme body called Knesset Agdulla, the Great Assembly.
Michael LaitmanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Great Sokhma.
Michael LaitmanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It's great in height, Sokhma.
Ephraim NisenbaumHOST
Actually, they say, may this mitzvah of sukkah be as dear before you and as if we fulfilled it in all the proper details.
Ephraim NisenbaumHOST
When doing it, that the men of the great assembly had in mind when they wrote these thoughts.
Ephraim NisenbaumHOST
Why do we mention the men of the great assembly? Why can't I just say, may it be considered our mitzvah sukkah as if we intended all the beautiful thoughts and intentions behind the mitzvah.
Ephraim NisenbaumHOST
The explanation is because Nachik Nesek Zola was under Ezra Sofer.
Ephraim NisenbaumHOST
They were the ones who canceled the attraction that draweth to idolatry.
Shlomo KatzHOST
Okay? The sukkah is the safe haven.
Shlomo KatzHOST
So what does he say here? An sheknesses agdola, shebitlu yitzra davod azaram yisraam, What did they really do by establishing Sanhedrin? What did the people of the General Great Assembly, he says here, what they really did was they removed when a person had a passion to worship an idol, so they were able somehow to institute through what they instituted, to remove from the Dam Yisrael this, you know, like, for us, obviously, it's other stuff today's day and age.
Shlomo KatzHOST
Last week we had a shiur in Yishlam, we spoke, speaking about how every single door deals with their own Avodah Zarah.
Shlomo KatzHOST
Like today, besides one person in my life, I don't know anybody that kind of gets nuts when he walks past an idol, a statue.
David BassousHOST
And this court was called the Anshe Knesset Hagedola.
David BassousHOST
The leaders of the great assembly.
David BassousHOST
The leaders of the great assembly gave us Judaism as we have today.
David BassousHOST
The Judaism we have today...
David BassousHOST
A synagogue-based, prayer book-based religion is the gift to us from Ezra and his leaders of the Great Assembly.
David BassousHOST
And that's how we start Pirkei Avot.
David BassousHOST
Pirkei Avot is started with the sayings of the leaders of the Great Assembly.
David BassousHOST
Those are the leaders of the Great Assembly were written in time of the destruction of the first temple.
speaker_0HOST
this previously with the ones in the class on who invented the Jewish prayer book.
speaker_0HOST
And we spoke about how the men of the Great Assembly about 2300 years ago were the ones who invented the Jewish prayer book.
speaker_0HOST
They really started the prayers.
speaker_0HOST
Before that Yom Kippur was not a day of prayer.
ResnickHOST
Those are issues, those are areas where she has violated Das Yehudus.
ResnickHOST
Now, Ezra, in Halacha Yudgimal Ezra, in his grand court, the men of the Great Assembly, when he brought the Jewish people back from Babylonia, he instituted that women should wear a sinar at home.
ResnickHOST
A sinar was like a pair of undergarments, of pants, underneath their garments.
ResnickHOST
Wear pants, that woman should always wear that.
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