Why do we Fast On Tevet? (12 minutes)

[Music] on uh Thursday we have the tent of tet the tent of tet it's a fast day it's a fast day now what happened to tent of tet tent of tet this three different things that happened around this time on the eth of tet the Greek translated the written tah to Greek they translate to Greek and the say that after this happened this was such a this is what we talked about during kanuka they translated the Torah to Greek which was not allowed meaning they forced theim they forced the sages to translate it to to Greek and uh this was considered in the same level of aan like a uh destruction of the mikdash and this happened on the eth of and the reason why is not because of simple translation not because of that if you if anything if you look at it logically you would think this is K you would think this is sanctifying the Torah you're spreading the Torah to more languages more people will learn it this is great the the problem is it's quite the opposite it's quite the opposite the Greeks were not interested in translating the Torah so they could become tadik the Greeks were looking to translate the Torah because they wanted to find out how to go against it they had their own they had some wise people and everyone followed their own their philosophy they were considered the smartest people in the world the only people that didn't listen to them were the Jews so why are you not listening to us like we have our Torah it's from God so tell us what it says we want to learn it not because we're going to change ourselves we're not going to learn toah because we're going to do chuv we want to see what it says we could find out ways to go against it to go against the Torah and this is why there was three days of darkness a spiritual decline in the world happened after this translation happened and there was three days of darkness that uh that happened after this the uh and and this type of uh mentality is not necessarily just from 2,000 years ago the M disin the uh said about a hundred years ago that he put a on speaking English so you're not allowed to learn to in English say not loud he put M he put a decree about a hundred years ago not to learn T in English why he says because this is where all the heresy is going to come from people that are not looking to learn t for the sake of T people are not looking to learn t for the sake of sanctifying aame people are looking to learn Tora for the sake of doing the same thing that the Greeks did they're looking for what's something that's misunderstood what's something that's missing what's something that's you know not uh not for the average folks what's something that we can go against and so on and so forth and obviously as we saw he was right of course many other came out later on and gave leniencies on it and took the away but the point being is that the message was loud and clear he was afraid of the same thing that happened 2,000 years ago with the Greeks was going to happen again and unfortunately it's happening unfortunately it's happening it's happening in the modern Orthodox world it's happening in different type of Reform conservative open Orthodox and different different sects of Judaism are changing the Torah that's holy that gave us that gave the and unfortunately they're making it into what they call Modern or what they call something it's something else it's no longer the same same why because they don't like it and many of them are not simply coming out like the reform which just outright said we don't believe in the oral tah many of them are not coming out like the conservative and saying we don't want to follow the oral Torah they're not coming out like them many of them unfortunately are saying no no no the Ramba misunderstood it because if you look over here and you look over there and you look under the table and you look on top of the roof and you look at this guy you look at that guy and you translate this word and that word and this one you combine all these different things you got it you're allowed to eat pigs you're allowed to put wigs on you're allowed to be a pig to do whatever you want that's someone that learns Tor but it becomes despicable with permission from the Torah meaning not permission from the Torah but he uses the T as his reasoning but in reality he desecrated the tah he didn't really use the Tah so this is one of the reasons of why we fast on tent of T but this actually happened on the eth on the ninth ofet the nth ofet both Ezra and both died both died these were KES tanak has a book for each one of them and in essence this is is also one of of the signs that you know the uh this was the last of it this was the last of it and we know we understand today that when aor is alive that's because the generation has the Merit to have him not needs him but has the Merit to have him when a gador dies that means lost their Merit they lost their Merit to have this when radya decided to make his son R the head Rabbi of Israel some of the big rabim say during the whole era where they were accepting him it was a big celebration to accept he's a uh big huge but they say yes but I want everyone to say out loud that we don't accept as our Rabbi it's rude it's embarrassing in public no Noom because he's not a holy man Noom because he's not no but because if we all accept him as our Rabbi that means Rya is no longer needed Shalom and hasm will take him for us so that's what they did and included he did it himself also Noom but unfortunately we lost our marit anyway we lost ra anyway shortly after wasn't much longer same thing steinerman died recently it's not that they have lived their life once you become a giant Sage once you become a real meal your life is no longer in your hands AEM decides you can live 90 years you could live a 100 years you could live 200 years it doesn't make a difference it's as long as the generation not only needs you but has the Merit to have you so when died we realize that we have lost a huge amount of Merit sh huge for that we cry till this day but that happened on the ninth and on the tth there was the F the attack on yush started now there's three different fasts that are fasted for the destruction of bet mikdash 10th of 17th of T and each one of them has different parts this is the attack the when they broke they breached through it and unfortunately is when they destroyed both bet mdash the first one and the second one so one of the things that uh is Mercy from sh is that the say listen the fact that all of these major horrible horrendous disasters have happened in a very very short period of time I mean literally one day after another the eth the ninth and the 10th okay obviously we learn that this is a time where hasem opens up the books opens up the books and reviews where do you stand are you one of those people that's a looking for linges looking for a new religion looking for Spiritual shortcut maybe you think you're going to go to some give him 500 bucks or 5,000 bucks and that way you don't have to do something that Hashem asked you to do it's going to override hasem or you're one of the few that's actually helping save the use that same 500 bucks to actually get people to do cha which one are you so we see it but as a mercy to the generation and mercy to they said instead of mourning three days in a row which in reality is what we should be doing we should be mourning 8th 9th and 10th the knew that we can't handle it so they pretty much combined everything to one day everything all the the whole entire fast is going to be on a tth of uh tth of tet which is on on Thursday now the awful things that happen on this day is for the same reasons of awful things happening today it's people that are looking for shortcuts people are looking for things for for excuses and if you look at the uh the books if you look at Ezra if you look at what was their job what are they what was written about them what they do they went and rebuke the people they went and rebuke the people for being in married they went rebuke the people for M Shabbat they went and rebuke the people for going against God not with just small things with big things in marriage didn't become a problem in our generation shabat didn't become a problem in our generation fake mikim didn't become a problem in this generation this is already a 2,000 year old problem and the Cure is the truth it's the same cure that we had 2,000 years ago we're mourning right now because we weren't able to accept the truth 2,000 years ago the question is are we're going to be able to accept it now or we're going to continue looking for shortcuts [Music] for [Music]