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Hi, this is Dra Alowski with a special
Shiobasamu's
message. The
concept of time in Judaism, the Maharal
explains, is not a circle. We don't just
come back and commemorate and remember
different times. It's a spiral. We reach
that same point, but always on a higher
level. So we're always obligated to
teach ourselves when a time comes along
the importance of that time so that we
can take advantage of it. If it slips
out of our hands, we lost an
opportunity.
The Mishna in Tina says five tragedies
happened on Shivas Batamuz and five
happened on Tishab.
The five tragedies that happened on
Shivasamuz are all related to one thing
breaking. The Aseras,
the ten commandments were broken. The
walls of were broken. A safetra which
had never been burnt in history was
burnt. That continuity was broken. The
Corbin which had never been stopped was
broken.
So the meaning of things that have a
continuity to them gets broken. When
something gets broken,
it's the first part of destruction.
And so the five things on tishab are
destruction. But the five things in
batamus are breaking. Things break down.
And it's it's a tragedy all unto itself
that things start to break down. The
Mishna and Sot says that in the
generation when Mashia will come
everything is going to break down.
Respect for parents and for the old will
be gone. Respect for sages and for
wisdom will be gone.
I mean, if we don't see that today
where some tick tocker gets uh millions
of views talking about stuff they know
nothing about
and experts are silenced like happened
during CO and top scientists and top
people are are silenced because they're
not saying the party line.
a tragedy and all respect breaks down
and all society breaks down.
That's where we are now.
And so
we we're in clearly in Yamos Mashiach
much bigger people than me have said
this. And if we can use this opportunity
of shasam
to
focus ourselves on fixing.
Yeah. Askman
famously said believe if you can break
that you can fix.
Things have been broken down. Families
have fallen apart. Society has fallen
apart. Respect has fallen apart.
YF people are justif
no institution nothing shows any respect
we can rebuild that
and that's what we have to do we have to
put the pieces back together as best as
we can of our shattered lives and our
shattered world
and when we do that and we can put it
together look how many people we meet
who are in pain look at how how many
people we meet whose lives are broken
and that's the term they use. We're not
a very strong generation.
In the old generation, people survived
the concentration camps, the death
camps,
came to America with nothing. Nothing.
and rebuilt their lives and got
remarried and got built up businesses
and used their money to build the Torah
institutions in America.
And today somebody looks at us the wrong
way. A Rebi yells at us and that's it.
I'm off the D. I give up. And I I I was
hurt. I was broken.
I can't make Chabas. I can't take care
of these kids. I can't make Pesak.
Everything is too hard for me.
That's shas the source of that is the
breaking all breaking start from that
point
the statue was put up in the the kadusha
of of the bas mikdash was destroyed all
these breakings took place
and if we don't start to fix those
breaks they breed to to a destruction
every one of us in our own lives should
find the strength
to be able to fix and repair the breaks
in our lives. And the breaks
