Rosh Hashanah 31a Part 5/8

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

How did the Shechina leave the first Beis HaMikdash? Rabbi Yochanan counts ten journeys, from the kapores out to the midbar, each learned from a pasuk, and the Gemara sets them against the ten exiles of the Sanhedrin. A commentator on the Gemara ties the six months the Shechina waited in the midbar to the siege of Yerushalayim. We see that the walls could be breached only once the Shechina left, and that the real war is won in the Bais Medrash.

Key points

• The beraisa shows the Mussaf shira ran a six-week cycle and the Mincha shira three weeks.
• Rabbi Yochanan counts ten journeys of the Shechina, each one learned from a pasuk.
• Rabbi Yochanan says the Shechina waited six months in the midbar, hoping Klal Yisrael would do teshuva.
• A commentator, as his own thought, counts those six months from Asara B'Teves to the ninth of Tammuz.
• Acharonim ask that pesukim in the Navi show the siege lasting into the next year.

In this shiur

1. 0:00Az Yashir and Mi Chamocha
2. 0:44Review of the shiros of Shabbos
3. 2:53The Shechina and the Sanhedrin
4. 4:14The ten journeys of the Shechina
5. 8:53Pesukim of Navi and their timing
6. 17:09Six months in the midbar
7. 20:01A commentator on the siege
8. 23:30The Acharonim's question

Topics

• Shechina
• Churban
• Sanhedrin
• Asara B'Teves