The time period that we are in now is commonly referred to as "The Three Weeks of Mourning", when we commemorate the destruction of the Holy Temple and Jerusalem on two different occasions in our history. But we can only feel the depth of these weeks if we understand what the Holy Temple represented and feel some connection to it.

In this mini-series, we will explore the secrets of the Holy Temple, what it represented and how we can connect to that in our own spiritual practice today, especially in the domain of prayer. We will explore how the morning prayer is structured to recreate the Temple experience, and how we can all taste the holiness of the Temple if we step up our awareness of the true essence of prayer.

This is the first of several episodes. In this episode we explore:

- What the Three Weeks are, the various fasts and customs that surround it, and the overall feeling that we are supposed to have

- What we are missing today by not having a Temple and why we pray for the Temple to be rebuilt

- What was King Solomon's dream when he built the first Temple

- What was the experience of someone who entered into the Temple

- How the holiness of the Temple is manifest in space, in time, and in one's inner world.

- An introduction to the concept of the Morning Prayers being modelled after the structure of the Temple.

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