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R okay good morning everyone we want to
thank our guide
aadya Salomon thank you very much and a
viar that's your name Victor Victor okay
good job we're here in Athens I always
wanted to speak in a and Athens Athens
is considered the seat of the wisdom of
of the Greeks there's a
famous the tells us of a conversation
between and the atuna okay Thea the
sages of Athens and they have many
discussions and we're going to bring out
two very interesting points one
important point is that the
understanding of the three weeks is
gleaned from a conversation between
the now rishu Kan would be the last
person you would ever expect to have
ecumenical debates debates with other
religions because tell
us that from the moment he was born his
mother did not allow his ear to hear
anything but Tyra so he was never
exposed to anything other than the Tyra
itself yet he's always the one in Chas
whether it's thear the he's always the
one who
debates various
and a very interesting debate ensued
between and the so I want to share with
you one question the sages of Athens
presented
Rish and this is really the source of
the B it goes like this they brought him
two
eggs they were both white and they asked
him one of these eggs came from a black
hen one of these eggs came from a White
Hen tell me which egg came from the
White Hen which egg came from the black
can whereupon Rish responded here are
two pieces of cheese by the way that's
why AI made sure there were at least two
eggs by breakfast and at least two
pieces of cheese because in
Athens you have to think about this
everything was it wasn't wasn't
Pasha he said there are two pieces of
cheese which one came from the black
goat which one came from the white goat
that's the conversation says what is
this conversation what's being asked
what's his
response says anybody you know whoever
whoever uh gets the answer will get an
extra Greek egg
okay how long does it take for a hen to
incubate an egg what is the
process what is the process we're going
to read about it in this week's ha 21
days the incubation of an egg is 21 days
very good 21 days by the way the
learning should
be ran Ko's
father
Ben the incubation of an egg is 21 days
there two 21 day periods in the calendar
one is the D the three weeks
one is from rash
to but they seem like diametrically
antithetical times they're opposite
times the three weeks is a time
of
the is the time of so what they were
asking was how do we understand this
from one God came two different periods
of 21 days one of punishment and one of
rim to which Rua said no it's k it's all
Mercy the same way on y we have two
goats one goes one goes into the mikdash
but the objective of both is to bring
into so too not only from brings into
but from to it also brings to this is
one of the of the 3 weeks now I want to
share with you one more question that
they asked
they asked him how long does it take for
a snake how long is the snake's
pregnancy I know you've all been
wondering about that you didn't sleep
well last night you wanted to know how
long is a snake's pregnancy so they said
theun
said 3
years says not true seven
years so they
asked what do you mean we didn't
experiment it only took 3 years he said
you're fools the snakes were already
four month four years pregnant when you
started the experiment so they asked
what do you mean because animals don't
live with their mate when they're
pregnant and these snakes were living
with their mate so Kan says the snake is
the only
exception okay that's the
gamar what what in the world is this
conversation okay and this is uh Dove
telling what we started with at
breakfast the of Athens the of Greece
only accepted what they could measure
and weigh and count they only accepted
science that was understandable to their
human minds but they did not have any
connection to Divine information mash
the sages of CLA is we have a tradition
from SII we know the snake was cursed so
even though the El elephant and the
leopard and the rhinoceros all these it
takes them seven years to have a
child never it takes them excuse me
three years to have a child but because
of the curse of the snake Hashem added
to the snake another four years now the
sages of of yavan they're onedimensional
they're yavan they're just one line they
don't have access to that information
they're only able to extrapolate based
on natural wisdom and that is take three
years but we of course are not
onedimensional we have a tradition from
siai we believe there's a story that
happened in ganeden and the snake did AA
and Hashem cursed the snake and because
of that curse four years was added to
the snake so this is a famous debate
that took here took place I don't know
about in this sh but in this general
area in Athens between Rish and Kan and
the
for more information go
to you'll see many conversations
between
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