The Seven Neviot - Mrs. Leah Feinberg - June 10th 2025

Sorry, there is it's outside on the reception desk. Okay, we're going to begin. So today in our series we continuing our series of chevanote we are going to explore the nie who is probably the least well-known of the seven and for those who are concerned uh that we might have not have what to say buckle up because there's quite a bit of very very fascinating information. Okay, it begins very mildly. Um, we've seen in this gamarra that states that there are cheviote that the pattern is we have manin who are they list of the seven hold second to the last. So we already know some of the Niveiote it's written straight out how do we and then the Gumar goes on to say well how do we know that these are the seven Niote whose prophecy is recorded for generations meaning there may have been other women in Kalis at various times who prophesied but they prophesied about the weather about family matters things that didn't need to be recorded for posterity these are the seven whose words are recorded for posterity meaning that there has to be something in their nibuote quote in their prophecies that is still relevant today. This is the one ones that are necessary for generations. Those are the ones who are recorded. Those are the ones we're looking at. So we've seen that some of them are identified as a straight out in the puk and others it's much more subtle. So we saw last week with Abigail very very subtle um reference to her being a nya. Hula is the opposite. couldn't get more clear. It's written straight out in the text in which you have below in source number two. So, smack in the middle of the the section that you have. She's called straight out the prophetus. So we know there's not no uh you know we don't need to resort to mental gymnastics here. She is a prophetus. Who is she? How do we come to know her? What's her prophecy in Tanakh? And what about it is still relevant for today? That requires a little bit more explanation. So background story, the um the king at the time of Hula was named Yoshiu. Yoshi Yahu was the son of Minasha. Minasha was the notorious Rashasha in Kamohu. He introduced all kinds of abominations into the Betamdash. Defiled the Betam Mikdash, brought in a vodara of all different kinds. The the Gumarra says the streets ran with blood in the time of Manasha. And even though he is said to have done Chuva, at the end of his life, the damage was done. And Manasha is known as like the absolute worst of Mal Yehuda brought Malutah absolutely to its knees. And his son was named Yoshi Yahu. Yoshi Yahu was a throwback. And the the puk says about Yoshiu, he did everything that was good like Davidid, his ancestor. So he became king when he was eight years old. still very impressionable and apparently fell under good influences and 10 years later after becoming king at the age of eight. So at the age of 18 he instituted a bedc habitat a major cleanup and restoration of the betam mikdash. Again the betam mikdash had been completely defiled in the time of manasha. All kinds of horrific vodara in the in the most degrading forms were introduced into the betamikdash and not cleared out. They they had remained there all this time. So in his 10th year at the age of 18, Yoshiu commissioned he called the kohagadul and he instituted a complete cleanup and restoration. Let's get the bamedash renovated back to its proper place. And during the bed, as they were clearing out, we're told that in in which is the beginning, the first puk that I brought for you in source number two, alafair. Soyahu who's the kohag calls in shafaner. He's the scribe of the king and he says to him I found the safer Torah in the betam mikdash. Why the safer Torah? I found the as if it's the one the safer Torah in the house of Hashem. And gave the safer Torah to Shafan, the one that he had found. And Shafan looked it over. He read it and he immediately brought it to the king. And Shafan says to the king first. He tells him all the the the things that are going on with the bed. We we took the the money. We we we paid the the workers. Oh, and we found a safer Torah. So it seems the Mapersian say there's some kind of hesitation on the part of Shafan to get to this safer. You would think that this is the most exciting noot, right? It's we fantas Torah like something kesh in the in the house of Hashem in this house that has been completely filled with a zara. Why didn't he start with that news? That's the you know must have been so exciting but he didn't. He held off first he tells him about the you know the the mundane details. We counted out the money. We paid the workers and we found a safer Torah. And Shafan starts reading out from the safer Torah to the king. And when the king heard the words of the Torah, he started to cry and he tore his clothing. What's going on? Why? So, we'll try to answer both questions. Torah, the safer Torah and why did the king cry and tear his clothing. So the first suggestion for why the safer Torah is Radak quotes that there is a it's brought in the midash that in the time of the kings preceding Yoshi Yahu um there had been so much of a Zara and such a determined campaign against teaching Torah that many cif to Torah were burned. Almost all the cifrey tora in the country were burned and this is the one remaining safher to Torah. Abanel argues that that's highly unlikely that there must have been some people who held on to creator and Yoshiu's grandfather. It's true that Manasha was the the most evil king imaginable in Malutah, but nevertheless, his father Khiski was known as a great sadic and he had instituted a a huge campaign to teach Torah to the point that there were, you know, armed guards posted at Bate Midrash and if you didn't come in and learn, they went after you. So term study was so widespread during the time of it's unimaginable that even mana could have completely erased every trace of the efforts of so therefore he says that's not the answer safer tora the safer Torah because it was the one that had been written by Mosherenu this was the safer Torah you can look at the banel source number three he cites Omar you shall me to prove thiser. This was the safer Torah that Mosher Raenu himself had written before his death and was kept in the beta mikdash. And the the Gumar and the Shalomi describes how during the tenure of Manasha when he was so determined to wipe out every trace of Torah, this safer had been hidden in the beta mikdash. And only when they conducted this extensive cleanup at the behest of Yoshyahu, its hiding its hiding place was uncovered and they found the safer Torah. Now what caused Yoshiu to cry in general? This safer Torah the is much longer. I just brought a tiny clip of it. So this safer Torah that Moshe had written in general it was always kept rolled so that when you opened it, it opens at Brchet. That's how they kept it. Nevertheless, when they found the safer Torah under Yoshiu, the they found it rolled to the in the to in safer the meaning the the para of rebuke in par where the Torah lists all the punishments that will befall the nation if they don't keep the word of Hashem and the safer Torah opened to those sukim and at the top of the page was the puk. Hashem will send you out to to galot you and your king. And at that Yoshyahu began to cry and he tore his clothing. The king became terrified. He assumed this is miraculous. The safer Torah was always kept rolled to Brashit. And just now at this moment when things have been going, he knows what preceded him and he knows that the people have been sinning and every abomination that was listed in the Torah not to commit has been committed. Therefore, when he opened up and he saw the puk, Hashem will send you and your king out to exile, he said, "This is a sign. This is what's going to happen." Therefore, he said, "Let's send to one of the prophets to find out." Clearly, Hashem is very, very angry angry with us. He saw this from this terrifying sign that the Torah was open specifically to this section. And he says, "Not not because the Torah was had been forgotten or the Torah had been, you know, other safety Torah, this was the only safer Torah remaining. That's not what caused him this tremendous because we have a promise that the Torah that Torah will never be forgotten from Am Israel no matter how bad things get right to Torah will never be forgotten from among amigor going on here and says this is what was going on he became terrified by this which he saw as a as a sign and he said we have to send to the prophets to know how to respond what should we do how can we avert this impending catastrophe. So he tells them back to the king commanded is someone known to us. Um he is the person he is the father of Gdalia Gdalia who was appointed governor. You may remember by the byzar after Babel destroyed the betam mdash they appointed gdalia. We fast over his death on some gdalia. So this is his father and his father is also known to us from safer yahoo because when the people wanted to kill yahoo was the one who saved your so he's he's a good guy the others are not as well known and he tells them he says go seek out Hashemi for my sake the sake of the nation sake of the entire bas we have to understand what's written here that's the quoted hashem is very very angry with us clearly because we didn't listen to him we didn't listen to the words of what was written to do as we were commanded Now, here's the quoted by the Where did they go? They went specifically to Shalom. She is the wife of Shalom. Now, if the puk is telling us all this information about her husband, it has to be relevant somehow. What's the relevance of mentioning her husband who is shalom and we get his full name shalom and sharehim he holds an important position the the mafersim translate alternatively as either he's um in charge of the big kihuna there was a an office sort of a locker room put it colloquially um in the beta mikdash there was a room where the bdi were kept and the kohanim would come there to change into their big day kuna anything that became dirty was had to be disposed of appropriately and it was a very very significant position or he was shiral which was also um an important position so he is a he's somebody important in the hierarchy of am is at that time and we're told further lived in which is a strange term which we're going to have to explore further. They went to Kula and they they spoke to her and they told her everything that had happened. So let's look a little bit at who is we're going to look at her the identifying features that are given here. Um try to understand why are there so many details about her husband that his important why why are we learning about his importance in the context of they went to seek her and see how that relates to her niba. Um okay so let's start with the midrash in pure cades razar source number four you should know the power of sodaka means shalomika where do we see this from the story of shalomika that's husband he was one of the greatest people of his generation and he did a lot of charitable acts act every single day specifically. What did he do? He used to fill cantens with water and he would sit at the entrance to the city of now it was a hot road to we know has no we're talking about within the walls of the old city. So he would sit at the gates of the old city. There's no water source in the old city. They're coming from a hot dusty road of travel to Shallayim and there's no water in the city. So this was a tremendous act of sudaka that shalom bentika did. He offered people he would fill up cantens with water and sit at the gate and offer water to people as they arrived in this would like restore them. They restore their spirits. They they were you know feeling really wiped out. This is with tremendous sodaka and in the merit of this act of charity here it's yeah right what would we expect rested upon his wife in the merit of this act of charity what do you mean why not rested upon him so there are two approaches to this that I saw that were interesting one is that the power of tduckans sort of within the context of this recognized the power of Tudaka that the power of the act of Sudaka that he that he uh exercised was so great that such an abundance of prophecy came down to rest not that it rested not only upon him but upon his wife and his whole family as well. So he's a prophet and we know we'll see later his son is a prophet and his wife is a prophet because of him. so much shea from this one act of sodaka and we know the the power of sudaka is very very great that's one approach the second approach is that hashem saw the need for a female prophetus specifically at this time that in this generation they needed a woman why did they need a woman we'll we'll wait a few minutes and and explore but that's the second approach was that yes maybe he merited it's in his merit You know the rules is is attributed to him but there was a need for specifically a woman. Therefore his act of tadaka resulted in resting upon his wife and we know this by quot again that ha was a ny and that the midash derives this from the fact that in the context of her being called a she is identified as shalomika. So that's why she's called his wife in the context of her being a prophetist because her being a prophetus wasn't his merit. Okay, skip a few words to the next line. When her husband died when he died, obviously the it's sometimes you know most often we don't appreciate people until after they're gone. So the the absence of his was felt very profoundly. Shalom. And when he was taken from the world, masses of people came out to escort him to his final resting place. Now, it wasn't a simple burial. We are told in parakel of malahim that um at the time of Alicia's death, Alicia was the Na'vi who followed Yahu. He was Eli Yahu's student. when Elisha died, he died and was buried. And that year following the death of Alisha, obviously, you know, word got out that the protector of Israel was no longer alive. So Moab started sending in bands of marauders to raid in Israel. And what happened was and there was a funeral doesn't tell us of who. It just says that there were there was a large group of people who were burying a man and they saw a band of these raiders coming from Moabisha. So they went to the nearest grave that was still, you know, relatively fresh and they just tossed the body into that nearly open grave. Like they they quickly dug it out because it was still freshly dug. And they they threw the body in there. And when the body touched the bones of Alisha, he was he came back to life and he got up and walked away. and kazal tell us that person was shalom that was husband okay he so many people had come out to bury him so the the midrash continues here and they saw this band of marauders that was approaching them he went on to live and to father yet another child. And this was El Ben Shalom. How do we know the name El Ben Shalom? He's al this is the son of Kula. Okay, the son of Shalom and Kula who's born miraculously after he's brought back to life. He is the cousin of Yeryahu. You may remember I'm thinking we we would have read this a few weeks ago and as the haftra but it was that's it's the haftra of parat this year Bahar and were combined as they often are so we didn't actually read the ha but if you're flipping through you might have noticed shalom in the days just before the came to your said I've become impoverished I can no longer support my family I need to sell my field will you buy my field because you are the goel you're the closest relative. You have an obligation to redeem my field so that it doesn't fall into strange hand the hands of a stranger. Now the Bablam are banging at the walls of your with battering rams. Like it's not like the is far away. Yeah. Your MA has been talking about the for years but now it's happening like the Bablam are camped outside smashing the walls with battering rams and he's saying will you buy my field? Okay. Yahu Hashem had told Yeryahu that Kanamel was going to come. So he understood that he's intended to buy the field. So he buys the field and then he says to Hashem like what's going on? The Babylon are smashing down the walls. You've been telling me there's a and now you're telling me buy the field. And Hashem says this is a sign that your descendants will return to that will return to Yehuda. Everyone will return to their and therefore the hold on to that deed of sale. Put it away in a so that it will last for for very a very long time. We don't know where it is. um could be somewhere in Davidid because this took place while Yuryahu was in jail. He was being held in jail because the king didn't like the nu that he was going out spreading around. So he wasn't held in one of the dungeons and cells and and David you can go see if when you go there today they'll tell you they can't tell you no this is the cell in which Yahoo was held but it was like one of the the dungeons there are described and say for Yahoo and we have uncovered them but we have not yet uncovered this particular deed of sale in Anat but Yeru did purchase the land and this is Kanamel Ben Shalom. So file that away because we're going to we're going to come back to that little piece of information that Shalom is a significant personality and he was born as a result of the miracle that occurred to his father. Okay. So they came out to honor him and bury him appropriately. That was the intention. What happened? The husband, right? What happened was that as they were going out to this burial, you know, with full honor with a lot of people, they saw a band of raiders coming from Mav and they panicked. So that's where then they took the body and they the closest Kev that was accessible somewhat accessible was the Kev of Alisha, which was still somewhat freshly dug. It was within the first year. So they opened it up and tossed him in there. And this is this is by the way it's that's it's part of the fulfillment of the the the promise that Ali Yahu made to Alicia before he died that he would have pishnaim right had said to Alisha what do you what what can I give you? What do you ask for? And Alicia asked Eli I want double your powers. Right? So, so the garra says that that this is this is where he had double because Ela revived one person and Alicia revived two. One while he he was still alive the child who turned out to be Kabakuk and the other was um after his death that Shalom Benwa was revived just by coming in contact with his body. This is a different that's his son. So the son of Shalom Zigla he right came to Yeryahu in jail and and asked him to buy his field. So the same family and again I just want to file away that there is this prophecy associated with Ben Shalom. It's a prophecy of your but it's triggered by about the return to the shalom. Fascinating personality. Wait, we're not done with him. We're going to come. I don't know. I like after this I you know got to tell my children name a child because yeah we don't use the name anybody but good stuff. Okay. So if we turn the page now, turn over to the second side. Source number five. He's Yes. He sold his property to Yurio. Okay. Yahoo. So going back to the idea that the child. Yes. Yes. Very significant. Hold on to that. Okay. Gamarra tells us sorry this the midrashy was one of three prophets who prophesied at the same time often more than one prophet at a time but three is always significant. So why did why did we need a female prophetus at specifically at this time? The midrash suggests that each of the three prophets who were alive at that time had a specific role. Yermyahu would announce his prophecies out in the marketplaces for the masses. Spana was a little bit more you know on a maybe more narrow had a more narrow audience. those people who actually went into the bateot at that time which was a a much smaller segment of the population than your yahoo was reaching and hula prophesied to the women specifically. So perhaps there was a need for that and certainly you know there there is um this sort of brings to mind the triumvirate of leadership in the midbar right the generation of of the midbar where you have three leaders Moshe aaron um Miriam and we're told similarly that Miriam's role was to teach the women to teach the women Torah and I think it's you know it's very significant that that was at the outset of the entrance into the land and this is in the last generation before the exile from the land. So at the beginning and at the end, you know, you can't say people at the end couldn't say, "Well, if only we had the kind of system that we had in the beginning." Well, you have it. You have three same type of leadership addressing all segments of the population just like you had in the time. Yeah. Excellent. Next. You taking us into the next story. Well, a little bit ahead. Um, I'm going to hold off for just uh a little bit, but in source number seven, we're going to address where was she teaching the women, right? She's not uh walking through the marketplace like your meow. So, where where is she? We're going to go back now to the Garra that we started with the Garra of there were seven Nibiotes. Who are they? How do we know they're Nibiote? And the Gumarra continues. I didn't I didn't bring the whole continuation there because we needed all this background first. The Gomorrah says number six number six brings a question on Yoshiu. Why if and in sort of intensifies the question that we asked already we asked why did Yoshyahu send to Hula of all and it becomes intensified if we see that Yeryahu is alive at the same time you would think he's going to send to Yahoo. Yahu is like the Gadulhad, right? Some people never even heard of Kula. Yahoo everybody's heard of. So who is uh you know why if if you can send to your why send to that's the question of the gumish. So the first thing says is, you know, don't worry, your mahu wasn't offended. He's her cousin. He doesn't mind. Like he he's not good on his cover when it comes to okay, so you went to okay, she's she's also good, you know. So if you're worried about how your MYU was going to take it, don't worry about that. But it doesn't really answer the question. So then the Yoshi go, but the question is really about Yoshiu, not about Yahoo, right? Not was Yahoo offended, but why did Yoshi Yahu make that choice? So if we ask the question about why why would he abandon and send to so famous answer women are more merciful than men merciful women have more than So therefore, you know, I don't want to send to y meow. Y meow is already gaining a reputation as the prophet of doom. So I have here a text that is that indicates that doom awaits and I need an interpretation. I need somewhere to go with it. I don't want to send to yo because that's clearly not going to be good. So let's send to hold that thought. We're going to come back to it suggests an alternative answer very practical answer. He wasn't there because he went he had gone off in the direction of Assyria to try to bring back the 10 tribes who had been exiled there and merged into those populations. And then the Gumar gets into a sort of a tangential discussion of whether or not he succeeded. And he certainly did succeed. We know for sure he from the text that he succeeded in bringing back at least some of the population because later on we're going to see well we won't see but later on uh in the story Yoshyahu makes a big pesak celebration after the beta mikdash is fully cleaned and refurbished and there's discussion of the of people coming from theatas of some of the tribes coming from the north. So we know that yo did succeed in bringing back at least some of them. Um there are suggestions that he brought back all but that's highly unlikely. Okay. So, skip a little bit in the garra. Um, there's an ellipsus. It's a few three dots and then it says and and the gar goes back to the discussion of tells us a little bit more about the first thing the garra says there is not so complimentary. The garra says um arrogance does not is not becoming to women and there are two women who are arrogant. One is D'vorah as we learned when D'vorah said until that there were there were marauders in Israeli doraki is right until I arose and put a stop to all the problems in Israel. And of course we we discussed there that it's only the appearance of arrogance. It's not actually arrogance. And the other the garra says is why is she accused of arrogance? Because when she's about to give her, which we haven't even gotten up to yet, she she says in go back and tell the man who sent you. And she doesn't say lamel. So she calls me like to put him in. She's like putting him in his place. He's only he's only human. He's only mortal. Go back and tell that mere mortal what Hashem has said. Um, and because she calls him and again that there's a kabana behind it, it's not actually arrogance. It's it's a an appearance of arrog arrogance. Nevertheless, the garra says we see that it's not it's not becoming to women. How do we know? And the that Garra uses the Aramaic translation of their names, but basically a bee and aula is a weasel. It's a kind of it's not an attractive animal. It's a it's not an animal you would want hanging around your house. uh alumar says that they you know they do hang around houses and we try to get rid of them. So from the fact that that both women are named for animals that we don't want hanging around our houses like when we see bees we set up traps we want to get rid of them. So that that the reason they were called by those names is because they had this unattractive quality of arrogance. A mole mole. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's like a related to the rat family. It's right a mole rat. It's a yeah a very unattractive uh unwanted uh kind of animal. Okay. But again we this is these women are being judged. It's it's really the appearance of arrogance not arrogance itself. Um the um then goes on to say and we don't really have time to get into this very deeply that there were eight Nim who were also kohanim who were descended from ra who hid the spies who came to check out and lists them shalom. So if these are you know there these are all you see at the end they're they're all connected to and rahuda says hula was also descended from ra how do we know this because shalom she hung out the there's there's the um it's a it says the same thing in two places there's a reference to the same idea the idea of tikva of hope shalom was the son of Tikvah. He's the son of hope. And Rakav put out the she put out the red thread which was the symbol that she and her family would be saved at the time of the destruction of Yiko. And the Gomorra goes on to say that ultimately Rakav converted and married Yahushua. And Yahosua did not have while he did not have male descendants, he did have daughters with Rakav and from them descended all of these this chain of Niveim and the Nyakula. So she is descended from again there's this link between the generation of those who enter the land and are now about to leave the land right is the very the descendants of yeryahu kamel all these people who are involved in the prophecies of the exile are all descended from the people who brought amit Israel there's a clear chain like you have violated the conditions that the entry was predicated ated on and I know this because I I'm descended from the same people who brought you in and we we ourselves are witness and uh now you're precipitating the exile by your behavior. So we said she lived in and we left that term untransated and rashi on the puk says means bula is not today we use the word ulpa means like a girl's high school uh at that time it just means Aramaic bula is a is a bidash it's a place of learning a place of Torah learning so that's the Aramaic translation rashi quotes it and says basically that's what the word means that bamishes she sat in a bait open in a specific B midrash and she taught and that's you know it was known that's where you could find her and then he goes on to explain exactly where this was located in references a gate to called so if you look at the picture that you have there you see the big arrow the arrow is pointing to Wilson's arch all the way on the left of the Okay, that's Wilson's arch. So that is an entrance above Wilson's arch is an entrance for Kohanim who walked directly up to the Beetham. Um if you keep move your finger, slide your finger to the right, that's the Kotel down below. And then if you keep going and turn directions, then you get to the southern wall. And on the southern wall, you see two sets of gates. Those are called by the Mishna the gates of you could still see today if you go to the southern wall today you can see them they're filled in they're not open and they're they're blocked up those they're still called now those gates date to the time of the second beta mikdash so that's it's not specifically in those gates that sat is a recording of the the teachings of the of the who were kind of recording for posterity the their memory of the beta mikdash. So they're they're remembering that that's where the nation when they came for aliarel that's where people entered and and exited and they went in through the gate on the right and out through the gate on the left. Uh so there wasn't a lot of bumping into each other. The only exception was if somebody was in a loot or somebody had suffered a personal calamity then they they went in the opposite direction and people would know that to wish them you know that something had happened because they're going the wrong direction. It's a tangent. Okay. So, there was this sha in there there are those who explain based on the fact that this sha existed in the second bet that it was called retroactively because that was the place where ha had sat. Not specifically again in that physical structure because that physical structure only went up time by Cheney but it basically was recreating a place that must have stood there at the time of it and that's where she sat in the sha you know from archaeological excavations that a sha didn't mean just a doorway a sha meant like that's where the zahanim sat there there were rooms within the shaim were were very very deep and there were rooms that were heuned into the the rock so there was a room in the on the side of the sha and where people came in and out and that's where she sat and met with the women in this bameish. So it's called bamishnet because it's like secondary to the wall. It's between the walls. Um another suggestion is having to do with that she taught she to even suggests that she taught the ziknhador. It's well she didn't just teach the women she taught everyone and she was able to teach the zikhador. That's like a she was really something. But I want to talk a little bit more about the wool because it's fascinating. We don't have that much time left but I want a few more ideas tells us on the remains behind the walls. One reference one that the puk is making is that theina remains at the sight of the hotel. That's the source for the fact that the never leaves the sight of the that's based on a different midash that Hashem promised that that wall would never be destroyed. There are two other gates traces of which will never be destroyed. So there's discussion which is it talking about? Is it talking about the gate that was above Wilson's arch? Is it talking about the gate that's above Robinson's arch? There are various gates the co through which the coin entered up above the walls. um could be either one of those but the present the will never depart from and that the the gates will never be you can fill them in but you can still see them until will renew the use of those gates. So again, why she's we're seeing all these associations with the eternity of that there are these eternal traces of and I'll take it even one step further to say all the um graves inside the city of were opened and the bodies removed. This is at the time again of Bay Sheni when expanded and we know that the We don't put a cemetery inside the city. The cemeteries kept to the outskirts of the city. So as the city expanded, they were they moved bodies outside of outside of the new borders except for there were some bodies said even those should have been emptied. Uh, source number nine, sorry. two exceptions to this rule of can't be in the the of kings descended from David particularly David here it specifies David himself Davidid himself the ke remains in and then there's a technical reason given that the the tunnels were dug below owed them to allow the tuma to escape. So that but was given to David and all other the bodies were exumed and removed outside this the the city. Fascinating. What is it about that ties her so deeply to the eternity of that her was left undisturbed? One more fascinating midrash before we get to some explanation. Going back to and I'm telling you, you're gonna want to use this name in your family after you hear this midrash. It's extraordinary. At the hour when was destroyed, this is a midrash on the wall of breached and the the entered in source number 10 yahu. What did Kamel do? He's the cousin again the cousin of Yerahu, the same cousin who sold the field. He summoned an army of angels, armed angels by using the shame hashem. He knew how to say the shame. And he summoned an army of armed angels to fight against the bab who were breaking down the walls of hakim came. When the culians, the bab saw this. They started running away because they were petrified. The sight of of armed angels coming at you can only imagine. So what happened? Hashem saw what was happening obviously and he changed the names of these malim. What does that mean? When the name of we know this from the like the malik was wrestling with Jacob. He's like I can't tell you my name because my name changes based on my mission. So, Hashem changed the names of the Malim, which means that he reassigned them. They're no longer on this mission. They were recalled. So, Hashem calls them back up to he brought them back up to the tried to bring them back, but he couldn't like that. That was he exhausted that avenue because Hashem changed their names. So what does he do now? There's a mal who's appointed over the entire world and he summoned him using the shame the name of Hashem and he lifted and it the city was suspended in midair so the Babylon couldn't reach it. And then there's a there are two different of the midrash until kicked either the or the city oreshim and fell back to the ground and was defeated by the blin. This is unbelievable midash, right? This you have who is the son of a man who was miraculously brought back to life, born after that, right? He's he's he is a living testimony to the truth to our belief in and he single-handedly holds off the by tapping into this intense spiritual power that he clearly inherited from his parents, right? his father the sadic who gave tremendous saddaka and was revived from the dead his mother the nya who and he himself who was affected by this immense sheffa abundance of of kodesh that was brought into the world by his father's behavior and single-handedly holds off the kurban for a while to the point that what what is the the meaning of this idea that yushim is suspended in midair did that physically happens the fate of yushim hung in the balance and ultimately he couldn't his His merit was enough to bring it to that point, but he couldn't hold off the entirely. When you weigh the one, you know, shalom, this one sadic against the entire nation and all the crimes they had committed, unfortunately, was destroyed. But the fact that he reached the point of even being able to to hold it off for for whatever few minutes it was is an unbelievable thing. So we left one one loose thread which was the question of and the maharsha among many other says. So Yoshiu chose to send a message to rather than to yahu because he thought he'd get a better answer. Anybody have an issue with that? How does what's the problem with that? A Na'vi can't change their nva. Right? If the verdict is whatever it is, it doesn't change based on who the messenger is. Right? That's the verdict is what the verdict is. The delivery is ah so we're going to explore two two ways that that's understood. But that's the the kibun of the answer is the delivery is different. So the first answer that's brought by the maha in source number 11 is this is the he asks he first asks the question at the end he says women because of her mercy maybe she would dav that the should be overturned that the gazer exists there's no question she has to say it but maybe she'll say it and she'll say it she'll deliver the verdict but then she'll turn to hashem Davin. So it sounds like a great answer and it's very possible that it's true also. Yahoo though also davened. There are times when Yahoo reaches a receives a very harsh nua and he does what he has to do and he gives the nua but then he turns to Hashem and he cries and and he davins you know heart-rennding felo on behalf of the people asking like does is there no other solution? Is there no other way? And so it's not it's not an absolute um final answer. It's a good answer. Maybe in terms of Yoshiu's expectations, you know, he he thought again Yao is the prophet of doom already. So maybe we'll get a a better outcome with mishahav gives a very answer which is brought down the safer mosha from in the name of the magic and he says that the doesn't change can't change the words that he hears from he can't change the substance of the of the prophecy. What can he do? Everything depended on the niggan. How was the how was the nua delivered? How was it sung? You could sing something in a in a very was it like a a harsh beat or was it sung like a lullaby? Like it's going to be bad, but there's there's a soothing tone to the way it's delivered. This is by the way one of the biggest dangers in texting and people who are you know dating coaches deal with this issue a lot is that when in texting the kids today communicate by texting to them saying you know I spoke to soand so really means I sent a a verbal a written message to so- and so doesn't mean I spoke to them and they don't they don't even understand that there's a difference so you come to a couple who's dating and they they start texting and I think it happens with every sing I would imagine it happens in every single relationship. I don't know. You know, I can only speak to the ones that I've seen, but there's some misunderstanding that's based on the fact that you don't hear the tone in which something is said and the tone can change the meaning. That's what he says here. The tone can change the impact of what you're hearing. So, they went to hula thinking she would say it softly. She would say it gently. She would somehow cushion the blow. even you know that it seems clear that there is a blow to be delivered but she'll she'll somehow soften it and if they went to yao it was going to be harsh that's the way it is so we find so what did she prophesy you go back to the to theim through the end of the the per there which again they went to to ha they spoke to her they told her they found the safer Torah and she said send tell the tell the man who sent you number one the first she says regarding the nation regarding the mikdash there's no hope just as was written back in source number two because they left me they worshiped foreign gods and why did they worship foreign gods under they didn't they didn't knowingly. It wasn't, you know, oh, they were tempted and they thought maybe it would help. They did it. They knew it was wrong and they did it anyway. The regarding the beta mikdash has been completely sealed after there is no hope that you can save this place from. There's a second part of the time she calls him to the king who sent you. Tell him he will receive a reprieve because I see that he he genuinely he cried. He tore his clothing. He was genuinely distraught by this prophecy that he he intuited. He will not be the will not happen in his time. Shalom. You will die in peace and you will not see what will happen to this place. It's not much of an right. Okay, there will be a but you won't live to see it. So did that comfort Yoshi? He's he's his whole concern is for the the nation and the people and moreover all of the jump on this shalom. You will die you'll be brought to your ke in peace. Yoshu was killed in battle. He did not die peacefully. So some answer by saying he was brought to Kava Bishalom and that was n that was a miracle because generally if a king is killed in battle he suffers the body even the body suffers terrible indignities at the hands of the invading army so it's a miracle that he was brought to kura kura is bash shalom that's how they resolve it but rau yadid who has a safer called shebanote has a a very I think novel um explanation and very very beautiful explanation and he bases it on the teachings of the midrash which I'm going to just summarize the remaining sources because we really have to finish up. Um the midrash teaches that Yoshi Yahu following the Nva of following the the news that he heard from still he he understood that okay the the is inevitable but nevertheless we still have to do Chuva and he instituted a huge chuva movement and says Ramad he also intuited that he had to act for the future of how can you act for the future of something that's about to be destroyed. Yes. So he he says she he understood from her words your eyes should not see. Okay, I'm I'm summarizing the last few sources. The had said your eyes will not see. So he intuited that there should be something unseen to contribute to the future of your life. What was it? There was a misura that Schlommo when he built the betanikash had dug a cavern underneath the site of the Aronhaesh. And Yoshi Yahu gave orders that the Aron should be hidden underneath in this hidden chamber underneath the the Evan which sat underneath the Aron in the Kesha Kadeshim and the Auron was buried. No one can find it despite attempts, right? Raiders of the Lost Ark. There was that movie of Indiana Jones trying to find the Aron Hakodesesh. They did not have the Aron in the second Betamdash. The Aron was missing at the time of the second Betamikdash. But the garra themed says that Yoshi Yahu said to them, "If we do not hide the Aron and protect it, if it is taken out with you to exile to Babel, you'll never it'll never come back." The implication being that if we do hide it, ultimately it will come back. And that says Ravid that's the connection between and shalom is that hope for the ultimate restoration of the beta mikdash the rebuilding of the beta mikdash and the reinstitution of the aron in its proper place. Yosha took steps to ensure that under the direction of and that's why she is so connected with the eternity of she's given that cavode that her ke remains untouched in yushlay because she gives us constant hope throughout all the years of exile just as she remains in the aron remains inim and will be restored with the coming of msiach we don't know what Kev Hula is located is is I the I there is a a site on Harazim called Kev Hula. Um it was recently somewhat restored. I would definitely not recommend going there without uh armed escort and people who know where they're going and what they're doing. But it there is a site that is identified as Kula Har.