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Following the description of the places where public altars were established during biblical times that appeared in the Mishna (112b), Rav Dimi quotes Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi as teaching that there were three places where the Shekhina– the Holy Spirit of God – rested on the Jewish people, in Shiloh, in Nov and Givon, and in the permanent Temple in Jerusalem.
Four places are mentioned in Rav Dimi’s teaching, and, in fact, the Ein Ya’akov’s version of the Gemara is that there were four places where the Shekhina rested on the Jewish people. Nevertheless, Rashi explains that Nov and Givon are viewed as a single period when private altars were permitted, separating between the two periods of Shiloh and the Temple when private altars were forbidden.
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