Pathway to Prayer - Ashkenaz Wedding Why can the Temple be

Why can the Temple be located only on this one spot

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Pathway to Prayer - Ashkenaz Wedding Why can the Temple beRabbi Meir Birnbaum is a scholar of tefillah and mashgiach of a major yeshivah. In this splendidly useful phrase by phrase treatment, he combines his scholarship and experience to shed light on the prayers that matter enormously to most people: the Shemoneh Esrai prayers of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Rabbi Birnbaum combs the major commentators and adds his own knowledge and sensitivity to produce a volume that belongs alongside every machzor. It is