יומא-כא

As one of the מתפללים was pacing back and forth in the בית מדרש during the תפילה, the רב went over to him and said: “As you know, פרקי אבות relates the ten נסים that were done for our forefathers in the בית המקדש. One of them was that they would stand צפופים but would bow down רווחים. Naturally, this leads to the question of why wasn’t the עמידה also ברווחה. It appears that the answer is that if the standing wouldn’t have been בצפיפה, someone like you would have been running back and forth in the עזרה and that would not have been in keeping with כבוד המקום.”

05/07/2020