The Fast of 9th of Tevet | Dr. Aaron Adler

do the whole poem just going to do a stanza and a half um I can tell you right now that a little commercial for those who are Hebrew speakers so this evening at the in November where they have a weekly on some tanak subject with rotating uh lecturers so as it is tonight I will be giving it the sh on another stanza of this that has to do with today's date the eth of Tate so let's just see what happened on the eth of we're going to see that the the fast of the 10th month which is the fast of of carries with it several dates and several occurrences so if we just begin with the source page uh the second side on the bottom start with Source number seven the last source and the IT deals with the particular date and occurrence of what happened in the month of Tate based on the PUK in Zakaria what happens is that Zakaria is a navi one of the three prophets of the beginning of the second mikdash and he has asked a a question sh should we still continue fasting Tish it's a legitimate question we're building the second beta mikdash so what's the deal with the fast days that commemorate the destruction of the first beta mikdash you would think that logic would dictate we would dispense with these fast days because now we have a bet mikdash up and running or there might be some other reason that we should continue fasting and he gives a wonderful answer except we don't have a clue what he answered the answer is beautiful he says God says the fast of the fourth month which is the fifth month which is the seventh month which is Tish refering to the going to be the only problem is when when what is he talking about so the commentar is really go to town on this and try to explain and most pokim seem to think that in the second bet mikdash era we did not fast these days and they were reenacted again after the destruction of the second beta mikdash the ram disagrees and his mishna commentary to M says that during the entire period of the second B mdash we continued fasting on TSH with regard to the other three fast days it was optional which means it was still on the books but that's a hak question why optional but Tish was mandatory even in the period of the second mikdash so the says here trying to Define what is the the fast of the fourth month 10th month rather 10th month it says the 10th of which is this coming Friday um lay Siege around this is about two and a half years before the destruction of the first bash and as it says the nth month the 10th of the month he can't get it wrong here it's the 10th of the 10th the 10th day of the 10th month and he says told write this down let it be posted for posterity that that the king of B lay Siege around so the date is very clear the event is very clear now this is the opinion of Raba interpreting the phrase in Zar the fast of the 10th month it means as we know it except that another of RAB AKA RAB Shimon challenges this and he says no means a different date and a different event nobody's challenging the fact that the lay Siege around on the 10th of that's a in the question is did they make a public fast day about about that event RAB Shimon says no that event was an event tragic as it was but there was no fast day around that event the fast day of the fifth of the of the 10th month had to do with the fifth of T which was last Sunday the fifth of what happened in the fifth of T A half a year after the destruction of the Bas mikdash news reached bavel the the diaspora in bavel caught wind of the fact that a half a year ago the the BET mikdash was destroyed now I have to think a little bit this is before CNN reporting breaking news so they didn't know so just give you a little bit of an example to what this is all about so on nice Sun day you look at the sun you see ah I see the sun right now no you're looking at the sun eight and a half minutes ago where's the sun now it's moved it's eight and a half minutes different because it takes from the speed of light it takes eight and a half minutes for the sun light to reach planet Earth and that's the closest planet to Earth as we know Alpha centuri is the second closest planet to Earth and that's 4.2 light years away now you can see it without a telescope you can see it on a clear night if you know what you're looking at you can see Alpha centu you know what you're seeing you're seeing the light that was admitted from alpha centu over four years ago 4.2 like years away I mean it's amazing just to think for a second where's Alpha centor now it's not there it's somewhere else because it's four and a half years 4.2 years later so when we talk about news traveling it took a half a year and there was a palit a refugee somebody was able to get out of the furnace of the burning Yim makes it to B on the fifth of T and reports that the City was destroyed and they decided to fast on the fifth of to teach you just hearing the bad news so you already have two dates two dates in t as being Maybe the the 10th that we observe that's Rab's opinion or R Shimon maybe it's the fifth and we don't do that right so today all shm are sponsored by Ellie and Adele freed wall to commemorate the yard side of adel's late father raob and as usual the entire Series in memory of okay yeah I had two questions first of all when it came time for was just two it was just two weeks right right they assume that within two weeks they were going to get the news right but they they didn't hear so the question is everything was already broken down no longer was a functioning ba in at the moment of theb to tell me when is I'm saying so so how six months okay it took six months because you couldn't travel it's as simple as that you know La was on strike whatever they couldn't travel it was because of the reward what that but R is not an issue here the news didn't travel P didn't travel okay it's a took six months yeah that's what the nov reports that there was such a Bagan here in the Middle East that it took time for the news to make it this is very what happened with Ethiopian jury when Ethiopian jury came first here they were out was not here yeah okay never that they didn't get that news Okay so that's all speech in itself what did the uh I saw a report of a British historian from 1936 that the Ethiopians had something of a purm of three days of fasting but they didn't have the yam because what happened the first set of letters to fast for three days made it to Kush Kush is Ethiopia except when they sent out the letters about the yam there was a male strike so they never got it they never heard about the Y okay let's yeah yeah okay so now we know about these two let's look at the poem on the first page mat from the word mits I'm giv I gave you the English so you can follow along with the English Okay ES I will remember the days of Oppression is person the nation was on oppressed which occurred to me even though it's it's actually from the word which means occurred occurred I I I remember the the the the oppression the moments of Oppression I was smitten I was hit three times in this month he uses three expressions of being cut bashed smitten they're all different biblical expressions and then comes a quote out of SE who also says those three words come out of and the phrase is I'm just exhausted I just uh I I I I just can't go on I can't go on any longer I'm totally totally beaten and exhausted all right so we hear from the first stanza that we're going to talk about three different events in the month of K the word we use in modern Hebrew means really knock down when on the eth that's today's date that's interesting how Rosenfeld Rabbi Rosenfeld translates this he crushed me right and left I think he has a boxing match in mind you know a left hook and a right jab and so on right left and right we got hit left and right but I'm going to explain to you what this means I I think he missed the point here of what the was and um and and and and you see it in the in the next line three things we've established a fast day three fast days three fast days it the king of Greece forced me forced me to write the Torah in Greek a reference to the or the septo aent translation of the Torah into Greek straight out of let me just read you the U the the pasuk in entirety because it's important and then we're going to move on to the next give me a second let me bring this up Once Upon a Time people at farum but today we have these digital things right shot Rabat they all try to get me says but they didn't succeed and and he says they would plow plow on my back which means scrape but it's an image from the agriculture of like plowing and making more furrows and so on back and he says they they they keept doing it over and over and it left a borrow which he's trying to say is even though there were many uh uh enemies that I had they were all doing the same thing there but at the end of the day saves him and here the pan uses that one phrase before saves and he says this now let's just say just a few words because I'm not want to elaborate on this that's the thrust that I share tonight at the har it's the fast of the eth of T commemorating the great tragedy of the translation of the Torah into Greek and what I'm going to show that translations are not a bad thing so why did they make a fast day sneak preview that's for tonight's year so that's the fast of the eth of T now why does he say this I'll share with you now there was a famous story of goldem Mayor very famous when kisser came said then Secretary of State Kissinger came to pressure Israel after the yipa war so she looked Golda looked at her this is in the movie Golda by the way Golda looked at the ker and says you know I understand you're Jewish you know you should be on our side and and kriser made his famous comment he says I'm an American citizen I'm the secretary state of the United States and also a Jew in that order and Golda said here in Hebrew we read from right to left it's a very famous what the pan is saying Hebrew is right to left but Greek is left to right and that's what he's saying Smit on the eth our alphabet our Torah was turned around from right to left to left to right in the foreign language and just having it in a foreign language it's a sheer itself that's what I'm doing tonight is what was really the damage but let's move on to the next uh the next stanza this is what I want to focus on because the next stand is going to talk about next three lines the ninth of T and then reines down starts the final part is y is is exactly what we talk about and and and he even makes casual mention by five lines afterwards when that Refugee guy shows up and tells us that was dam was destroyed so the poet takes into consideration both issues destruction one was the pre and that was laying and the other was the post half a year later when the Babylonian Community catch catch wind caught wind of the fact that there was a so the poet actually gives us both in in a stanza but let's move back to zti I'm on the third stanza I was angered angered on the n9th a very very embarrassed right how does he translated very embarrassed U with reproach and and shame right what was removed from me we know the word you know to save but it means here it was removed from me the mantle of majesty T to I was ripped up what is that going to remind you of Y okay we'll get back to that where's that from sound familiar it's this week's para you're gonna see it to shave Itali to shave it naali we'll get to it a second who is RA so we're identifying a person aser is the pivotal pivotal personality in the um beginning of baining he's the one who puts together the an he is responsible for most of the rinic enactments andot the dos and the don'ts of an rinic nature many of them go back to the days of Ezra a very very pivotal person was probably in the annals of Torah second to mosh raenu second to mosh not even exaggerating on this and it's his yard site and his a tradition that he dies on the ninth of Tate and we fasted the question is why did we fast everybody dies so why do we make a fast on the yard side of of of Ezra okay B so Ezra died died as well what was so tragic that am would have a fast day so to this end we're going to try to explain what the fast of the nth of T let's turn the page to the sources on top so here you have a quote out of in in the laws of fasting it's the very end of the section of the laws of fasting um he has a title called days that we fast fast I would amend this days that none of us fast it's a listing calendar listing of fast days that none of us observe most of us not familiar with any of the calendar dates and um it's what I would call um shot which means it's an appendix it's it's just a it's a miscellaneous type of listing so it begins with it begins with even though some of the days are even on KES which is amazing like for example rodes Nissan is mentioned there the day of the deaths of Andes is mentioned the day of the death of Aron Kain and theim deal with this could we really have ever instituted a fast on rashes it's forbidden to fast ones right and then you have all kinds of days that this happened and that happened whole list of tragedy tragic events and so on I say again nobody F any of these days but we can learn something of his historic value from this this listing and it reads on the eth of the Tor was written translated into Greek in the days of talai talai were the Greek Kings serving in Egypt on Egyptian soil so we happen to know that the talmiz were like parro this parro the first parro the second parro the third par was the name of the king it wasn't his personal name it was the name of the position so talai in Greek Egyptian Greece it was the name so you have talai this one talai that one so whether it means anything to anybody talai philadelphus the 6 okay it's like you know like Beethoven's Fifth you know said what's the fourth what's the sixth so tal my Philadelphia is the six so he requested he ordered is to send a delegation to Alexandria and he put them all up in high class hotels in different rooms with no intercome and he asked all of them to translate the Torah how many 72 why 72 72 is actually the sum total of the people who are on duty on the Sanhedrin the Sanhedrin is 70 plus one to make it into an odd number so it's 71 and there was also somebody who was the manager of the Sanhedrin so he's like has a position he's he's he's there it's almost yesterday I got a a magazine from from RE from University I had a a little photo montage of all the r includes the administrators now they don't give shum there but they're on the page because they're part of the institution and they're administrators so it's the page of the rash fine so the page of of the sanedrin included the manager fine he had a tile and and so 72 and we know that in Alexandria there was tremendous Sho there and they had 72 seats by the MRA imagine here they have one two three four and you can fight over who's going to sit by the MRA right so that's 72 of theim the Elders of the community were honored to sit on the 72 the word that's used is a Greek word cathedra and that was adopted by the universities here when they have a shair in the department of ma in honor of so in Hebrew it's called aedra it's called a we use that same word it comes from natur in Alexandria which had an acoustical issue and they people sitting in the back couldn't hear so they would raise color Flags to know if you answered kadha you answered it's a very interesting so here the thear talks about that the source number two reports that the days of tal the king in Egypt he brings 72 Elders from Israel puts him into 72 rooms nice hotel didn't give him the instructions yet each one individually receives the instructions what to do I want a a Greek translation of your T inspires each one individually to make subtle changes not only do they do make the translation but they make subtle changes in the translation because they realize that if we translate it literally we're going to be in big trouble they're going to understand it wrong and it can turn out to be a theological so forar gives some examples of this for example instead of translating they translated elim God created the beginning and not as king James would say in the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth because in the beginning can you can make a mistake and say that maybe there was a deity A God Called brait who created Elohim so in order to prevent that kind of erroneous translation they said fine so this is the the issue of the again not going to elaborate further let's look at source number three the the says on the where it says let's go back Source number one says on the and the Darkness descended on the world for three days again that's part of my tonight sh and then it says on the nth we don't have a clue what happened isn't that a funny sentence we have a report of a fast day of the 9th of T but we don't know what happened anybody sensitive to the subject of um well we sometimes uh we have it in the Sid and sometime have it in in gamar censorship the issue of censorship uh because we were worried of how the church is going to look at it and we know that the church stole texts not only they burned text but they stole texts and they had Jews who became Christians buim brought over to the Vatican to scan these texts and highlight those problematic things and that's why we knew we were in trouble and we altered text deliberately sometimes sense it out whole sections sometimes change certain words so if you take a look atre today so in the 19 BR ofre the most problematic is V the 19th the one that was added in the most problematic because that was added in against the early Hebrew Christians and the original was was somebody who went over to the other side you won't find that in any text today those who squealed and we we've somehow somehow ironed out the text a little bit that it should not be directly um against the you know so provocatively against the Catholic church and and and try to get away with it even that sometimes we didn't get away with it I would tell you that I once did a survey of what's called sh changes of of the we have 19 there's only one in all of in every single every single community that says the braa the same way one anybody want to take a quick guess which it might be which one no no no I'm saying which of the of the was never altered by any Community any Community all eight 18 others have different I thought once it was the first but I CAU it it's not true first was also altered yeah there's no alternate text to the way every single community in the world says find that you can make a whole CH that the unity of around cha but here it says we don't have a clue of what happened on that day it smells of censorship of course we know is that we couldn't write it we couldn't write it now where did the get this from so there is a safer called M now most people who hear the word m think think of the book that was written shortly before the destruction of the second bet mikdash and it's a type of calendar it's written in an Aramaic of ER is dialect and it's a calendar of it's actually it's the days that we're now allow to fast fast say eies there and a whole host of other that happened in B for all kinds of different things the G tells us after the conru of the second the the the of this of this type of calendar of were all abandoned and abolished except for so that's a speech in itself why surviv but all the others are already out there's no mentioning there of any fast days whatsoever yet there's another book called M under the same name written many years later in the 8th century and it's just a book about fast days all kinds of different fast days and this line that the quotes in Source number one is quote it's lifted out it's a cut and paste lifted out of this m so the scholars call this book the last one it has absolutely nothing to do with the first one it just carries the same name so in order not to make a mistake and it's not it's spread separated by 700 years right and talks about fast dayss the other one talks about this is really a book of fast dayss and these are mentioned there and they were mentioned already in the book called The of the sth century um there was known that there was this fast day on the nth of we don't know what happened but he says that there's a tradition that Ezra and Ne both died on that day that's interesting Ezra and the bus of that day that somehow slipped out of the tradition because in Source number three on on the phrase we don't know what happened it says in our means there is that's the line we just read in in in in the in the poem where it's so Ezra's name as having the yard side on the nth of tamuz and we don't understand why we're fasting it at all but at least there's some type of early tradition it's post not mentioned in the is the seventh century that there's a yard site here and there's a yard site on the ninth of T but we don't really know what it's all about so this is going to take us we're gonna have to bark up two different trees so I hope I have time for both of them let me just give you the uh provocative one first so at least you walk away with some action and this comes from Professor Sid Lyman also known as schneer Lyman one of the schne Lyman one of the most unbelievable Jewish Scholars of Our Generation and it was reviewed by another great scholar uh Professor David burer both uh Sid Lyman was a to but he's affiliated with BR Revel Graduate School of Y University David burer started out in in yu went to brooken college now is back in y University B Revel graduate school a top top scholar of Christian Jewish relations of the Middle Ages that's his Forte David Berger and he gave a hea to to Sid lineman's uh Discovery here and what we're talking about is something absolutely phenomenal absolutely phenomenal while some of the greats of the Middle Ages suggested an event here an event there that figuring out that Esther went into the Hall of aash she was the ninth of Tav how can you figure that out from the a day before this or that it's it's all conjecture one on top of the other but there was a report in a safer in the 17th century that then concurred with something something that was dug up from the 11th century so it's still you know not contemporary of the days of of of of the mishna the but nevertheless something about an individual whose name was Shimon kafa or kafari or kafali comes in different shapes and forms who is this shim that on the nth of he dies and decided to remember him with his yard side because he did something really great for Amel he saved the day and now Professor Lyman is trying to like a jigsaw puzzle put together different pieces who is them what did he do when did he live and so on it turns out it turns out that there were some Scholars of the 18th century the name t and others they did a math and they F figured out that December 25th today is 2025 so go back 2025 years because 2025 is the beginning of the Christian era right today we say BC we mean before Corona right but it was before yesu before yesu so when was yesu born so that's what they claim he was born on SE 25th and that's what the word Mas means the birth of CH h r i s the birthday of figure out the Hebrew date you have to plow backwards it's the nth of T I actually made the calculation myself okay that means we're fasting on when the Christians observe as a the birth and we're going to fast because of how much we suffered from Christianity but you can't say that publicly we forgot no that doesn't forget a thing I mean we forget where we put the keys but does not forget a thing there are 10 and it's part of our national psyche we conveniently forgot because we don't want to talk about it we can get in trouble if we talk about it so that's one way but Lyman lman says it's it's way beyond that and he's not even sure that the correlation there why because not all Christian Scholars actually believe that yesu was born in December 25th may have been born in March beware the of March remember that one that was that was rashash of March 1st the beginning of the calendar year the Julian calendar was March 1 so the Ides of March in Julius Caesar were the SAR tra the the where are the Ides of March so here you have at least a beginning of a Christian reference to what the ninth of T was all about but but Professor Lyman then goes on to show that we had major problems with the early Hebrew Christians you have to realize Christianity started from Amel and there were sectarian groups there was the stok there was the perim we were the perim and then there was theim they were like to the extent they were going to the mikah all the time they were they they they were Messianic Jews Messianic Jews who believed that the war against Rome had to be fought the revolt against Rome because we are bringing ushering in Messiah time they were messianics and from this group of the messianics came the the the those from the Nazarene from the word natat who were the followers of yesu who believed that he was actually the Messiah he was a messiah from all other points of view they were quote unquote Orthodox Jews everything you'd never be able to identify them in a Sho and that's why kazal called them me who are they we don't know who they are andaz realized that we can't even fight the enemy because we don't even know who they are they might be your next person next you in so they created a on the against that should deal them a death blow you imagine Inu with daving that the guy sit next to you who's a clandestine chrishna should get a heart attack that's what we're taing for in that's how because we felt that Judaism was threatened and Judaism might become polluted with this we have to do away with them with a divinely struck death blow and that's what the T enters but then and it wasn't working it wasn't working they were it was very popular very popular I just want to say parenthetically this Dr David burer wrote a whole book saying that if we translate the first generation of Hebrew Christians with all their theological beliefs and and with the Messiah being the center of the of of of their theology he translated to the 20th century he says welcome to 770 Eastern Parkway welcome to kabad yeah he writes a whole book I mean anti anti-ab the reason why this doesn't sit well with us is because number one you get stuck in some you know Mountain somewhere on PES and kad's going to be there to help you with a S I mean they're all over the place we know that I always say this three things that hit every point in the world they all begin with let us SE right CNN Coca-Cola and kabad they're all they're all over the place for sure and they do great and they're have influence on so many different Jews so it's very hard to accept that kind of a thing that they're basically early Hebrew Christians which what David Burger says and that's his opinion I'm not saying I subscribe to it I'm just telling you this is an opinion out there so and he says if we want to try to understand what the early Hebrew Christians were it's something like that you know Jews who you count to a minion You' go to their to DAV and and everything except that there was a Mia at the center of their theology the um the idea came up that we have to have a spy to infiltrate the hierarchy of Christianity at the time and somebody was asked to volunteer and his name was Shimon his name was shim the Appalachian CI actually in Latin meant rock and rock becomes Peter Peter Peter is Petra you know the Rock in Petra Petra is means Rock so this is this shim who we're talking about who succeeds in going over to the other side and grows rises in the hierarchy to become the bishop of yam the First bishop of Y and ultimately becomes the first pope in Roman and he is a spy what is his job to theologic Al move Christianity off the track what they call today a kid who goes off the to move Christianity the early Christians off the track of Judaism to introduce that the Shabbat won't be the Shabbat will be Sunday to introduce theim slight switch in the calendar to introduce uh not really having to ex be careful about the Kash because if it's not bet mikdash you don't have to have it he changed it the religion so radically that nobody in a million years would think that this is a cheap invitation of Judaism that's how far he succeeded and he dies the pope of Rome and amus iner Isel never forgot his that he did and he dies on the ninth of Tate and they fasted to commemorate his yard site that's that's that's what that that's what was the basis there are some sources but it's not contemporary that's the problem even Professor SCH n's liman says it's a Hotpot of different sources here and there we don't have contemporary we don't have anybody at the time to say this is what happened but he's trying to put together based on a variety of sources and it's a full length article and and this is his conclusion as a possibility he even at the end of the day says as a possibility he ends his article with l we still don't know but it's possibility but what's the story with Ezra Ezra so fair let's go back to the poem the PO I was angry on the nth with great embarrassment who was embarrassed why why should Ezra be embarrassed why should Ezra be embarrassed at the end of his life as if I failed Ezra failing he was the most phenomenal phenomenal personality why would you say he failed to a certain degree MOS raenu might have said that about himself too I did a lot no doubt but I obviously failed because I was supposed to bring is it didn't work out like that both personally and then course the maragam that generation so you know you can talk about a person who has wonderful wonderful merits but one thing went wrong and it's not a small thing say you know sometimes a person could be completely off the Der but one thing he did you know soal said it about R the father of why did he deserve to be a king because he added one town in which one shamron he built the city of shamron just for building the city of shamron he deserved to be a king everything else bad news very bad news right I always say this I'll even say you know great uh pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers Sandy kofax who didn't pitch on yum Kipper in 1963 in the World Series right and everybody all of a sudden heard about Yuma who was a big kid of Shem by the way and they actually beat the Yankees because of it they they yeah there's a yeah I know yeah that was yeah so so the idea of of is the flip side is there too you can wound your whole life with one act with one act something about Ezra irked him that he was a failure everything he did was wonderful he was a failure what is a failure so let's go back to the poem so the poem says what removed from me was the mantle of leadership removed from me and he's going to say something about y that's going to remind us of theim which was the mantle of leader that yakob ainu gives to it wasn't the new polar shirt that he picked up at uh you know Max you know for for five shek it was a mantle of leadership as the r explained once that yoseph had to understand that if you're going to lead then the people aren't robots out there but they have opinions and you're gonna have to reckon with the fact that people have different opinions you G have to forge it all together but accept the legitimacy of all the do strands and colors of of of the this was his and that's why the brothers understood that and they stripped him by they stripped him from that mantle because they wanted to show your dreams are nothing and you're not going to be a king over us and we're going to bury these dreams that's what he want the brothers wanted to do bury the dreams so here he says my my Royal mantle was stripped to too he's bringing you to the yoseph I was devoured ripped up where where was where was Ezra devoured what happened and what does it mean what does that mean why lift this out of from Ezra so look back in the sources number four Source number four we have on the bottom of the page it's about I'm sorry Source number four it's a story about k at arba why is it called K arba why is K why is K called K arba so everybody learned Rashi know and so fine they're all different what's the why is it called you know why it's called because it was a municipality with four Burrows that's why it was a municipality with four Burrows it was a bigdish in in Municipal it was a it was a city that had four neighborhoods so it was called K AR that's the but then come and they give all kinds of of the of the K AR so the first is and then it goes down and it talks about something about the L of yob which is this para in so if you look at the middle it says the grave that I in the fourth line of source number four it's a play on words of sale in a in a in a in a language in a dialect of of of the of of of some some uh Islands out in the sea they call they drop the me that's a very funny thing what what happens here they were ready to bury yov and asov shows up and he says it's my shot to be buried here and not yov I want to be buried here it's my mother who's buried here L rather it's it's it's I I have the same right as yov and I'm older and and I deserve to be buried here so the brother said it's ours my father bought it he bought it all right where's the bill of sale we left it in the safe in Cairo you know we moved down to Egypt and it's in the safe and here's the levah everything's being held up so they looked to naali naali could run speed St like a reindeer whatever and that's why in a fit of of sense of humor the Israel post has the Ayah as their symbol it's a fit of humor right where it takes about three weeks to get a piece of mail from one part of the city to the other but all right I shouldn't say right okay there you go so and in one day comes back and produces the document of ownership and Asa has to give in and Asa has to give in and that's why yob said IM sheer don't read it as shefer but saer mean a document do mean a book it means a document so this is all based on this and now the poet is applying it to Ezra that he's holding up aument but he was t t they ripped him up they didn't let it go through true so what is this all about look at source number five Source number five the beginning of on the double expression tells us something so it says this is the first time he came to the second time we came to in the days of Ezra from here said it would have been fitting for miracles to be performed at the time of Ezra coming into Isel yesh just as the Miracles were done Asel enters inel the first time it should have been because but it didn't happen second mikdash was a very low level you couldn't even see in the process it was a natural level very natural level the sin wrecked it what sin the sin was that they didn't come to her Israel in masses in masses that was the sin here you have kores the King of Persia giving a doct here's the safer that Ezra is waving to Amel in B we are cordially invited you know kores opened up the book of Kay and Zakaria and and Mali and he saw himself he saw himself as a I'm sorry balur Lord balur in 1917 opened up the book of kagi and Mali and he saw himself as the modern manifestation of of Kes because he uses the same language of allowing the Jews peacefully to return to their land he said to build to build bet mikdash didn't go that far but uh this was KES and I'm Isel by license wouldn't have to have an army we be free to go back to Israel so how many came back a approximately 5% of am Israel come back 95% in America they called it B that had a different name but they stayed they opted to stay and kazal said that because of that the second beta mikdash didn't have a chance to be a longlasting beta mikdash didn't have a chance because Amel bed they decided not to come and Ezra who felt that this was his ultimate Mission as a servant of God fails miserably because he's he's unsuccessful in convincing and B to come back and therefore in the poet itself poem itself total embarrassment on the nth of the mantle of leadership was stripped from me T too just as ysep was as if to say ripped up and thrown out of the picture thrown down to galut to he exiled in MIT so too sees Ezra as missing the golden opportunity of bringing am back from the G yes he was holding the document but it didn't help at all who is let's look at sour six I'm gonna end with the Kari saari is REI and I mentioned when we moved here from our Kar address that we're on rovin who was the chairman of the Jewish agency up the block of ROV Karen Kay right this street here was ROV yud Lei just like you have Ezra and ramban and benon who's Ben myON that's the Ramba but they understood you can't call it ramban and ramban people are going to mix up so they called it Ben myON which is the translation of M son of myON then my so you have all the great in this neighborhood and the great Paran uskin what happened was it was UDA Ley and UDA and yishen wanted that there should be a street in the near neighborhood of the Jewish agency building in his honor before he passes on because nobody's gonna name a street after he dies so he made sure well in the middle of night he does this middle of the night he had the workers from the city change the street signs and all of a sudden became Rin I saw this in the I didn't make this one up could it's the other stories that I made up but the I saw enyclopedia that they does his cestin so this is ROV yud Le and yud Ley now is a is a path in The Old City it's um there a path in The Old City it's called UD fine more appropriate for Udi anyway so this is a book The kuari it's like a play where Bui 11th century takes a figure of the seventh century a king of Kazar which is in Turkey who we know converts to Judaism and where buudy postulates is that there was a discussion between this King and representatives of different religions and he ultimately is convinced that Judaism is the right way to go and he converts but we don't have a text we don't have a recording of what they talked about so this is all Udi talking and the is the representative of am Isel and the Mel is the Kazar is the king fine so it's like a stage two people sitting and talking and the the king asked them and if AR's Ro is so important how come they didn't come back and CH you know as we say good right and that's what the says in Source number six you've embarrassed me this is the same of the poem I'm totally embarrassed I don't have an answer this sin is what prevented the completion of what should have happened that a designed for second B as it says in but it didn't happen everything was ready we would have had restoration of n everything would have gone right but had desired to [Music] return partially only part of them return the majority and their leaders is pointing a finger at all those who said I can't leave because I'm a rabbi and I I gotta continue and I'm a Riva and I have to continue he's pointing an accusatory finger at theum that's what he's saying they actually prefer G they may not admit it they love it there and in their work in their job they don't want to leave their homes and their jobs their workplace they're comfortable there that's basically what it is that's what he's yelling and therefore unfortunately unfortunately this is what happened and at the end he says the famous words and what about the and all these beautiful things he says it's nothing like the the chirping of the bird or we call in Hebrew you just lip service lip service that's all it is lot of over the head don't mean one word of it because if gives us the right to come back to is gives us the possibility and you don't do it voluntarily we're not talking about now the Middle Ages where they were oppressed they were murdered were killed with this that and you couldn't come to Israel then now now what's the excuse this is RAB talking in the 11th century what's the excuse and then it was hard and then it was hard this is the fast of the of the of the ninth of T let's put the two reasons together now because Christianity saw in b cheni a non-authentic beta they never saw mikdash as a real they saw mikdash the first as the real and they saw that the detaches from clly Israel at the end of the first destruction and the whole second bet mdash according to Christianity was just a fraud and everything we suffered so exactly what Ezra is crying about that he was not able to complete in his lifetime is exactly what brought about the entire Jewish history of suffering in the hands of the Christianity both of those reasons forged together as being the fast of ninth of that we know all about it and prefer not talking about it one day when this fast will become as in the days of Z will also have a y on the nth of as 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