Origins of Tzom Gedaliah and the Process of Teshuvah

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com okay good morning rosh hashanah what happened on sam gedalia kumar says gimbal tishrei shabbai nera gedaway on the third day of tishrei gedaway was killed umi hargai who killed him ishmael bennett that the death of the righteous is as severe as the burning of the bay sahmitas so this is the gemara says three things what happened after sam gedalia gedalia was killed on the third day of tishrei that's number one number two who killed him ishmael ishmael ishmael and number three to teach you that the death of sadiq is as severe as sri fast basal akana so the show wants to know who cares who killed him the gemara says gedario was killed and the gemara is saying that when at sadiq why does the gemara interject and who killed him well as if that has something to do with the severity of the miso that's adequate being his facility what does one thing go with the other what does one thing have to do with the other and number two we know who killed him it's apostic and then avi the navy says you small killed him why would the gemara mean the gemara doesn't give free information he was concise why just repeat over something that it says in the navi so it says yeshua you can ask the following question what's why are we fasting today because of the death of gedalia oh listen well gedalia is the only sadiq that ever lived connection the whole calendar the 365 days a year if not for sun gedalia i guarantee you 99 percent of jews would never have heard of gedalia gedalia because he was the last who's obviously governor okay the ram says he was the last hope the jewish people had in their settlements after the destruction but what is the gemara doesn't say that though the gemara says the death of gedalia was the with the tragedy my shabbato died nobody fasts aaron aka died nobody fasts avraham avinu died most people don't even know when he died um these are not sadiq why who's that also were making a big deal about gedalia so you could say like this every other tsaddik he died naturally for everybody for every human being the time comes you go back go back to where you came from it's not such a terrible tragedy but when someone is murdered and his life is cut short through man and man has free choice so one man has the ability to cut short the life of another man perhaps making it that this person dies before their time and we once discussed this whether it's possible for somebody to kill someone else even if it was not decreed from heaven okay that's a very um deep philosophical discussion but nevertheless gedalia didn't die kidalia was murdered so you say kidayo is the only sadique who's murdered kadai wasn't the only tale it was murdered there are many said taken with mercy the answer is the other tsaddikim who were murdered they were murdered through gayam so there's a guy what do you expect but kidalia was murdered by a yid that you don't have a tragedy like that he didn't die naturally he was murdered and he was murdered by a jew i you'll ask there were other sadhikim who were murdered by other sading for example ishayanavi was murdered by his own grandson menasha that then at least the bastards were standing but here the base of mikdash is gone and it's so to speak the world has been given over to the that's the tragedy of that's a tragedy of so here's the thing normally when it's addict dies it brings katpara to the world yeah but not if one yid kills another year do you think if a jew kills a jew that the death of the sadiq is not there it's mccartrig it's a kitchen so that's how tragic sam gooday is because here you have it he well he didn't die he was killed he was killed by another yid and we didn't get anything out of it it's not like it's mahaprabhu for us and that's why the gemara concludes normally when it's addict dies it's but when gedalia dies unfortunately eleno not only was it not a capper for kali so it was a kitchen class okay let me just end off with one brief thought we're not holding an assassination serious beginning of the year every day sets the tone for the rest of the year it's the time between rashan and yom kippur we're trying to do chuva for our khatam for our veriz this is a well-known period of the year asera there's another period of the year which would seem to have absolutely nothing to do with the assassination and that is you have dalai tanis that's when the walls of yashalam were surrounded you have shiva tamas that's when the walls were breached you have tish above that's when the english was destroyed and then slim gidalia gedali was the last remnant of jews remaining in ushalayam and when he was killed the ramadan says the last ember the last coal extinguished it would seem that same gedalia is just coincidentally coming out in the middle of assassination here with the dao tane sim is morning is we're trying to do chuva from we're trying to set the tone for the rest of the year these seem to be two separate periods on the calendar and somehow coincidentally slim gidaya comes out and milan says he made shiva it would almost seem like there's no connection at all between sam gaday which is the end of asar but and um it would seem that that period of time is not really deeply related to the ss matuha but obviously the fact that we're fasting some vidalia right the day after rosh hashanah by the way you know de says brings down gedalia was not killed today gedayo was killed on the second day of rosh hashanah but we had to push it off because he can't fast on rosh hashanah and the taz even brings down according to this every time ghidaya has a dinner vanira everything today this year it's definitely because but in fact even though let's say a woman who's a lead death or a main neck ass a woman who's nursing or pregnant if she's able to fast she could try to fast on a tinus but on sam gedalia the paislem are more mako because the mate findings and every samgyday has says he was killed on the third day that's against the species okay so one of the answers is to that question he was they stabbed him on rosh hashanah and he didn't die until the next day so the tragedy is that they stabbed him okay but the question is again is there any connection between sam gedai which would seem to be the last step of the khorben and the assassination and it could be there is a very important connection and that is taisus in the sacramento brings down we know during the three weeks one of the halftimers that we read right we lean lane from the navy yermia and after the three weeks are over we lay in what shiva dinah right taisus brings down this is based on the besikta gimbal the puranusa three of piranhas from yermia shimod bar hashem um excuse me div ray yerumiyahu shimudvara hashem khazone and then after tish above elaine shavdana right the seven weeks of consolation what are they nakamuna kamu battai martinez and did you remember that the week before rosh hashanah the shabbos a few days before hashanah we're still laying soy sauces we're still leaning the shiva den the week before rosh hashanah you would think the week before you should learn about something we're still being menachem ourselves over the cour and then the sikda continues and after the shiva dinah yulain the two half tyrus of juva what are the two afters of juva shiva israel excuse me before shiva israel elaine dershow hashem behemoth actually this year it's the opposite this year we lean shuva before dersho but normally we lay in dershu tsam genaya before shiva so that means the besikta is saying there are three elements of one whole sum and they are the three weeks of punishment for the baby corbin mason the seven weeks of consolation in the constellation for the base of mikdash and the two weeks of chuva two weeks that means there's a connection between the corbin the consolation and the chuva what's the connection fine basically this is destroyed god consoled us but apparently no now that we're consoled now that we're we feel okay now that we're now mourning so now it's time to rebuild the baseline how do we rebuild the base and make those that's the two weeks of chuva so you have three weeks of punishment for corbin seven weeks of consolation you can't do chuva before you're consoled if you're still mourning if you're still reeling if you're still feeling that sorrow what you lost you don't feel like coming close to hashem hashem i want to return to you you feel like you're beaten you feel like you're you're pummeled so first hashem says first i'm going to console you for seven weeks and after you're consoled now you could do chuvo and what's the purpose of juva the random says and huffles the main purpose will only be redeemed if we do chuba and then like we mentioned yesterday the torah promises that we're going to do children participate it says house is full of the fact that hashem is going to go and find every last jew and bring them back teres israel what does that do why are we talking about keepers goliaths the answer is the purpose of repentance is to bring binyan inaudible that's the purpose of the chuva so dalia which is the final step of the corbin is not haphazardly falling out on our calendar it's a reminder of what the goal of chuva is tuva is not a personal obligation only that we have to correct our personal flaws and our personal hatred it's also a national responsibility chuva is a national responsibility because the purpose of the assassination aside from wiping away our katan is to reverse the effects of khorben we have three weeks of punishment seven weeks of two weeks of chiva but you have to remember that shiva is to counteract the same gedaya and to finally rebuild the bay samik dash and that's what the rambam says israel negolan you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com