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Rebuild the Holy Temple and the Altar.” The reply was: “I shall.” Julian was a pagan and an SOME DIFFERENCES BETWEEN anti-Christian. He gave Jerusalem to the Jews, returned ASHKENAZIM AND SEFARDIM their property, revoked the anti-Jewish taxes, and granted power of taxation and the title praetorian prefect to their THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. The Ten Commandments patriarch Hillel. (This is Hillel the Second, who set the are quite unique in the sense that it is the only passage permanent Jewish calendar.) The Jewish population of where Hashem spoke directly to Bnei Yisrael. Hence they Jerusalem began to soar. Julian restored paganism and are most important. Originally our Sages including this reversed the growing Christian power in the Roman Empire. passage in our daily prayers; they were inserted right next His quick decision to rebuild the Jewish Temple was also to the Shema (Mishnah Tamid 5:1). In the Talmud (Berachot viewed as an anti-Christian act. Julian appointed Alypius to 12a) our Sages took it out of our prayers due to a heretical rebuild the Temple. As Jews took to Jerusalem, Julian sect (early Christians) who claimed that Hashem gave only invaded Persia with 65,000 troops. But on May 27, 363, these Ten Commandments. This enabled them to eliminate Jerusalem was struck by an earthquake that “ignited” the such restrictive commandments such as Kashrut, building materials. Alypius decided to wait until Julian Circumcision, and others, making their new religion more returned. On June 21, in a skirmish, an Arab soldier stabbed palatable to pagan converts. In order to distance themselves Julian in the side with a spear. He died. His successor from these Christians, our Sages eliminated the Ten restored Christianity, reversed all of Julian’s acts, and again Commandments from our prayers. Ashkenazim stand for banned the Jews from Jerusalem. In 391-2, Theodosius I the Ten Commandments when they are read publicly from made Christianity the Roman Empire’s official religion and the Torah, re-enacting the Revelation at Mt. Sinai. Sefardim started to enforce it. remain seated during the public reading of the Ten Commandments, so that people will not get the impression CYRUS THE GREAT reigned as king of Persia from 559 that the Ten Commandments are more important than all the until 529 BCE. He is not regarded as Messianic, but he did other Mitzvot. give permission to the Exiled Jews to return to Israel and rebuild the Holy Temple in Yerushalayim. He treated Jews BIRKAT KOHANIM. In reality the Torah dictates that the well, but he was benevolent toward those he conquered; he Kohanim should bless the people every day. Yet the Rama supported and was sympathetic to their gods. [RED’s note: (Rabbi Moshe Isserles, 1530-1572, Poland) wrote in the I understand this well. As Alexander the Great did two Shulchan Aruch (Orach Chaim 128:41) that Ashkenazim centuries after him, his god defeated the people of their should duchen only on Yom Tov, outside Eretz Yisrael. In gods. “So keep your gods, for my god is obviously better the Beit Yosef, Rabbi Yosef Karo was astonished that the than yours” was probably his thinking.] He returned other Ashkenazim don’t duchen regularly. The Rama explained exiled people to their homes and helped them rebuild their that the Jewish people were stressed about work and the temples as well. Cyrus attributed his decision to erect the stress extended to Shabbat. On Yom Tov, the Jews were in Temple as a command of God, just as he attributed his a better mood. The Vilna Gaon (1720-1797, Vilna) tried actions in Babylon to an order of Marduk. In the Book of unsuccessfully to resume the Priestly Blessings. In the Daniel, Cyrus addressed the Exiled Jews who chose not to Aruch HaShulchan, Rabbi Michel Epstein (1829-1908) also return to Israel to donate to the effort of rebuilding the criticized the prevailing Ashkenazic custom. The Temple. In the Talmud (Rosh HaShanah 3b-4a), he Ashkenazim feel that today outside the Holy Temple, the permitted the use of wood only in the rebuilding effort, so Birkat Kohanim is a Rabbinical law. The Sefardim follow the that it would be easily destroyed should they rebel against Rambam that today Birkat Kohanim is from the Torah. (Only him. Moreover, when he noticed the Babylonian cities the Ineffable Name is missing!) became desolate because of the emigration of the Jews, he forbade them to leave the country anymore. (Shir HaShirim YISMICHU V’MALCHUTCHA. This paragraph in the Rabbah 5:5). Ashkenazic Shabbat Mussaf Amidah reflects the happiness that we have within the Holy Temple when we would bring GIDDAL is the name of a Babylonian Amora, Talmudic the Mussaf additional sacrifice. This happiness was only scholar (end of the 3rd century), a student of Rav. Several applicable to the Temple. The Sefardim add this paragraph good quotes are attributed to him, including: A man who to all the prayer services on Shabbat. They agree with the writes a Torah scroll was regarded (by Giddal) as if he Ashkenazim that “happiness” only applies in the Temple, but received it at Mt. Sinai (Menachot 30a). “If an inhabitant of they maintain that since there is a place for happiness on Naresh has kissed you, then count your teeth.” (Chullin Shabbat, it may be mentioned in every service of the day. 127a). Giddal was accustomed to sit at the gates of the ritual Young Israel of Hollywood-Ft. Lauderdale is pleased to be participating in the Broward Jewish Community Life & Legacy Initiative. 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