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There's a story in the Gomorrah, the the
the sem of Makis. A weird story.
It's a famous story. I'm sure you all
know about Rabbi and the other Tanoyam.
When they saw the the sight of the
destruction of the the Bikdash, they
cried. Abiba laughed.
What?
How do you make sense of a story like
this?
They're coming to the place where the
bas was destroyed. If I told you aided
was laughing,
not just a rabbi, not just tishabove at
the place where the bdash was destroyed.
He saw the he saw the the foundation in
ruins. And I told you such a person's
laughing. It's like
it's very strange. What do you make of
this?
And they asked him, he said, "Why are
you laughing?" He said, "Why are you
crying?" So he told them, he said,
"There's a
says in that
means the place of the the temple is
going to be plowed like a field, like a
sod. It's going to be plowed like a
field."
So he says, "I see now the B mikdash is
plowed like a field. I mean, I knew it
was destroyed. They lived lived in the
time of the he knew there there was a
obviously but now he sees the extent of
it. It's not just that the building's
broken up or smashed up. No, it's
literally it's plowed like you
understand what it means plowed like a
field means down to the foundation.
Down to the foundation.
So he says now I see that this prophecy
is true.
So then all the good prophecies are true
too. That's why I'm laughing.
Rabbi Aka didn't know. He wasn't sure
that there was going to be a gul until
he saw the extent of the doesn't even
make sense. Hear my question.
The fact that there's going to be
there's going to be there's going to be
bash.
This is I mean Raba came long before the
Ramb. He didn't need the Ram to tell him
that. This is basic Judaism. But was the
one he was such a believer Mashiach
could come. Remember he held uh armor
for Baraza. He was hoping he would be
Msiah. So knew Mashiach is a reality
until he saw the plowed like a field.
That was when it made sense to him. Oh
now, oh now there's going to be a gula.
Who's Rabaka?
Shepherd, illiterate public school kid.
couldn't read olive base.
Bengum
descended from converts to Judaism. No.
What a story. Rabka
not the guy you would expect to become
Mosher Rabenu in his time. Like Misha
Rabenu lived to 120. Rakiva lived to
120. And he was Misha Rabenu in his
time. He had a weird life. 40 years
illiterate,
40 years as a Talmid and then 40 years
as the teacher of Kisro a very strange
trajectory of a life.
That's why Rabbika was able to what the
other tanoyim couldn't because
understood
sometimes things happen in a straight
line. You grow and you grow more and you
grow more and you grow more
and that's great. That's nice. But
sometimes things happen in a weird way
where there's detours and deviations and
there's setbacks and there's falling
down
and it looks like you're getting farther
and farther away from your goal.
But if you can look at the big picture,
you realize,
all of the things that happened that I
thought were destruction and breakage
were really an essential part of the
process of becoming who I need to become
today and reaching my full potential.
And that really
nothing's a setback, nothing's a
deviation.
These are just different paths
to making the ultimate redemption more
complete.
We could have had a straight path.
Parisan is coming. Raina wanted that he
should go straight into he should build
the Bikdash.
And like the Mala says if Misha would
have built the Bamed it would have stood
forever. There would have never been a
after.
But that wasn't Hashem's plan.
Hashem's plan
was that our story should be a lot more
interesting than that.
Think about your own life.
Now, I hope you're sitting there and
you're listening to me right now and
saying, "I cannot relate to this
whatsoever because my life has been good
the whole time. I never had a setback. I
never suffered. I never experienced
loss.
My life's been comfortable and good
materially, spiritually, I hope that is
the case, and you're staring at me like
I'm speaking
Martian.
But if you have had an interesting life,
the Jewish people have certainly had an
interesting history. I can tell you
that.
Then I want you to understand what goula
means. Guula doesn't just mean an end to
the pain. Gua means where we can see how
the painful moments were not destruction
but they were plowing.
They were part of the growth process
to bring about an even greater gula.
The understanding of elus of godliness
that we are going to have when Mashiach
comes is going to be greater because of
what we've been through.
