Taking the Long View of Gallus - Rabbi Moshe Taragin

another year of morning another year of availas another year without the besan but things are a little different than they used to be it used to be that another year without was cause for deeper sadness and deeper gloom and deeper available every door that doesn't build the best but now history has shifted another year of success into the year of searching towards gula building our state solidifying our people it's almost as if the morning and the triumphs are moving in different directions and mourning has to be authentic and how do you mourn year after year when you're in the middle of a process of redemption it's something which i think about every year there's people that feel that they've been selected to be the pioneers of history to change the script to start the process that may take dozens of years hundreds of years but it's a process that started how do you navigate these three weeks and they navigate morning to the basement like this so part of it probably part of it is not just tunnel visioning onto the base i make this nationalism and what happened on test valve 2000 years ago but thinking about the process of goddess and the 2000 year journey home now that we're not in the throes of goals we still have much to achieve and to improve and to upgrade but we're not suffering the programs the anti-semitism to the degree that our ancestors did some of that broader perspective is a little bit more feasible and reasonable with a little more tranquility [Music] so look to the first rashi in mosaic because first rashii masai sees the 42 desert encampments along that long desert trail as symbolic and iconic for how we're meant to look at ghosts why is guitar list 42 stations so one opinion in russia is to demonstrate that despite all the struggle despite all the wandering it wasn't chaos it wasn't bedlam it wasn't a whirlpool of busying and frantic travel trips the first year eight trips to last year so you take out 22 out of the 42 trips that means they travel 20 times in 38 years not once every two years they move i know people that move once a year and that's prescient or to template and even though the jews would travel in ghosts and suffer multiple multiple not just trips but deportations and persecutions and programs the onslaught would not be interminable it wouldn't be this torrent of constant suffering but there would be opportunities for breaks for tranquility to build communities to grow to thrive to prosper and we look back at 2000 years with deep frustration and deep agony because we blew it and we blew that opportunity to achieve utopia but there weren't two thousand years of darkness there were two thousand years of innovas one two thousand years of tovo through two thousand years of community two thousand years of power growth two thousand years of advancing humanity morally spiritually and we built we built against the lots so we think back about gullis with all the sadness and all the tragedy and all the frustration we have something about those and that it was in this endless wandering and instability just like it wasn't in the mid bar they had lives and lives in the middle much more empty than the lives of jews over the last two thousand years but the same structure applied the second reason russia delivers for why the 42 trips and encampments are listed gives a metaphor for a child and a father going to see a doctor and the child is very ill on the way back from the doctor they remember here we came here we camped here we came to even though we were frightened and terrified and struggling we weren't together wherever we went british berkeley was with us wherever we traveled the spains the egypts the iraq babylonias the persians the russias the poland's the frances that's wherever we were who was with us and as traumatic as it was to be kicked out of you shall allow you you know who else left the original admiration so we looked back at goblins with all the sadness we weren't alone and the metaphor is really important because we're both traveling father and son who is bar from his children to a doctor to a better place through better tomorrow to heal ourselves to hear our rope to heal our broken romance to heal the world and just like we wanted to get to the doctor our father wanted to get to the doctor also to that end state of karmala happened to be with us waiting patiently on the sidelines for us to we had a common agenda come in yearning we wanted redemption wanted redemption somehow promoting our thoughts about ghosts helps us think about morning isn't just mourning and crying especially in our period morning is processing thinking what what are we frustrated about are we proud about pride doesn't have to thwart frustration and agony they can go hand in hand have a meaningful three weeks hopefully this is the last time we will all have to speak about that final stage then we're waiting [Music]