The Tenth of Tevet - The Sale of Yosef, Unity & Redemption - Rabbi Daniel Glatstein

okay good afternoon dear friends to the Monday afternoon National share this is our the preparation share for the ass the 10th of T the 10th of T is not only a one- day fast but it's a a number of different troubling in happened in connection with this day starting from the eth which is the P of they wanted to that we should translate the Torah into Greek on the ninth the P of Ezra and the 10th they surrounded the walls of in the times of the destruction of the first bash if you don't yet have the safer the darkness and the dawn uh get it in fores and it will elevate your understanding of this important day in the Jewish calendar the darkness and the dawn you could get it now artscroll.com if anybody would like to participate in upcoming Publications the Ben asri we're calling it The writes that those who say over his he will pray for them to bail them out in this world and then the next World so uh that has been submitted for publication if anybody would like to participate okay we have um a very powerful topic today regarding ass and I'm going to put the mar up on the screen and I would like to add some new information to this um in light of some important things that we've been learning uh of recent tell us in the gar inim that at the end of the life of yobu really as reported in this week's paraa y called his children he says he gathers them gather and I will let you know what will occur in the end of days and tell us that wanted to reveal when the Mia would come and the left him the says if you look on the number seven says wanteded to reveal the end to his children and left him he said maybe there's some kind of disqualification in my descendants like Abraham that came out like my father that came out his children said don't worry here o Israel the Lord Is Our God the Lord is one they said just like in your heart there's only one so to in our heart there's only one okay so this implies y wanted to reveal the end and the left him against his will he was afraid that maybe his children were undeserving whereupon they said don't worry how exactly was the PK of sh a way of denoting their righteousness doesn't everybody say sha isn't sha one of the most basic precepts and tenants of our religion is this really a sign of their loyal I mean everyone says sh and what did Yu respond back Yu said back is that also somehow symbolic of the Loyalty of the Jewish people what exactly is the meaning of this conversation let's talk a little bit about you know our fast days are days that tragedy happened for example Tish the first B mikdash was destroyed the second B mikdash was destroyed bear was plowed the mishna and Theus lists five tragedies that happened on Tish the mishna tells us that uh betar was captured Yim was plowed over also the 17th of tamas 17th of tamas the walls of Yim were breached and a was burnt by AAS and a was erected in the so great tragedies happened on these days but more than just that great tragedies terrible tragedies happened on this day there's a reason why terrible tragedies happened on this day you know why terrible tragedy happened onas because the 17th day of tamas is the day that we sinned with the golden calf is the day of the so because this day has been stamped and seared as a day of sin it has become a day of panus a day of great punishment it's not just Misfortune struck on this day Misfortune struck on this day because the this was a day that we sinned it's not just bad things happened to us it's that we did bad things things on this day therefore this day was a lightning rod for bad things to happen moreover Tish it's not just bad things happened on Tish we did bad things on Tish what did we do on Tish the sin of the spies of the maragam so if we analyze the fast days they're not just days that tragedy happened there are days that we sinned we did we committed a great sin a historic sin the go the golden calf was made on sh the sin of sh of the the sin of the morim the spies was on Tish so the sin of the morum was Tish but what happened on did anything happen on that it should be a day of Misfortune that this should be the day that they surrounded and they set Siege to the city of Yim I understand tragedy happened but our fast days are not only days of tragedy they're days of sin so we sinned on with the spies we sinned onsh I'm sorry we sinned on with the golden calf we sinned on Tish with the spies but what sin did we commit onar what exactly is the sin of assar moreover take a look in first of all I'm sure you know the comments of the aam thatav is the only fast that if it would come out on chabas we would fast even on chabas because it says and it says but the question is what does the nvi mean write the name of the day what's the difference between the shame of the and what is the meaning of these two expressions shame as we mentioned there were a number of tragedies that clustered around the day of the 10th of tamas on the eth the Torah was translated into Greek Darkness descended to the world for three days NE died on the eighth of Tav furthermore Ezra has such passed away on the 9th why didn't all these tragedies happen on the 10th five tragedies happened on Shas not on the 16th of tamas and the 15th we don't say well this one you know the the walls were breached on the 14th and a sa was burnt on the 15th and an idol was erected on the 16th and something else happened on the 17th they all happened on the same day m the same thing forsh we don't say certain things happened around the 9th of everything happened on the ninth of and why is it then by ass do we say that certain tragedies happened around that time so as as pointed out the Jewish people sinned with the AAL the ninth of they sned with even Gia they killed Galia that was a great sin but what do we do wrong in so theer has a wondrous approach says the holyer that normally the tragedy and The Misfortune of fast days are the day of the month it happened the 17th of tamas the ninth of a but when it comes to T it's not the 10th of T there's no significance to the 10th of T it's the day of the year it is you know what is it's the 98th day of the year now sometimes the 90th day of the year will come out on the 10th of Tas if both if bothan and klave are then the 98th day of the year will be the 10th of Taves if both of those months are Malle 30 days then the 998th day of the year will be the eighth of Tav if one is Malle and one is then the 90th day of the year will be the ninth of T when it comes to this fast it's not the day of the month that caused it it's not the misfortune of the day it's the numbered day of the year the 998th day of the year because the 90 the number 98 is an ominous number why is it an ominous number because there are 98 curses in the there 98 punishments mentioned in the retribution of the Tyra therefore the number 98 is a ominous number so while Tish a sin happened namely the sin of the spies and on shabat the sin of the golden calf no sin happened on ass instead is an ominous date it's the 98th day of the year and therefore Hashem says look I want you to understand to write sh the name of the day is but the the root of the day the essence of the day the is it's the 998th day of the year and the King he relied on being the 998th day of the year that he would be successful because the number 98 is an ominous number so relied on this he was that is what relied upon so let's investigate the connection between being the 998th day of the year and the essence of assar I want to share with you the observation of rash in his English book on on saer braus points out that the story of Y of all the narratives in barus the one that is discussed in the greatest length that occupies more paros than any other subject in barus is the story of Y his brothers his dreams his conflict his slavery his imprisonment his rise to power his reuniting with his family it covers onethird of the sa it covers the lives of the a are described in even less detail why is this subject the subject that occupies more space than any other subject in the let's come back to the life of Y because implies wanted to reveal the end and he couldn't and yet r r cites a med a very interesting Med said that studied the letters of the and he saw they had every letter except for and Tess they had every letter except for and Tess Yu said well you have no K I need to reveal when the Kates will be you have no and Tess in your names in the 49 letters of the there was no so was going to reveal the Kates upon further analysis Yakov realized there's also no K and no so he says if there's no kadi I cannot reveal the Kates to you and therefore he decided not to reveal the Kates so first of all that contradicts the gamar the gamar says he couldn't reveal the Kates and here it's saying that he chose not to because they don't have a so was it that he couldn't or was it that he chose not to how do we understand that another important question is why did yaku at first only see that there is no andess in the name and only later realized there's also no kadi as soon as he started thinking about the names of his children he should have realized immediately there's no K there's no there's no there's no Tess why did he first only recognize there was no and no Tess and only after discover there's also no K and no Sadi so comes is and he paints for us a very powerful picture of what's holding up the end and what it's going to take for the Gul to come and why the really left explains that in order for us to be a vehicle and a viable entity we have to be a single unit we need AK we have to consider and reckon every Jew as a vital part of our nation and we operate on as one entity yeah they're different groups and each group is further subdivided into lesser groups so you have you have um you have ashim you have maybe you have and each there's a each uh there different types ofos and then there's 30 3rd Street and 35th Street no problem you could have different groups and different subgroups and different sub subgroups as long as everyone recognizes that a Jew and every Jew is a critical part of the unit and that is Israel that is the Jewish people and when we are all part of one unit then M could come to this unit that is here's the problem when the sold they splintered this unit called Israel they Splinter the Jewish people and now we are no longer is we are splintered groups there is no Shalom and when there's no shom there's no and the left Yu we like to we tend to look at it that the reason why the left is because when ysf left Yakov was saddened and because yov was saddened the couldn't be with him that's how we like to think of it yob was not in a good mood and therefore the left no that's not the real explanation the real explanation is the can only rest on the Jewish people when we're a unit when y was sold and the unit was splintered the can no longer rest on Yu so when does the return back to yobu when yov hears y's alive that means the entity is intact the unit of Israel is intact so we're one entity we're one Gathering we're one am so now we asked if Jakob saw there was no and T in the letters of the should he not have realized right away that there's no so the writes in that granted Yakov knew from the start he knew from the get-go there is no K and no Sadi among the Jewish people the problem is not the problem he said there's no and no T but even though there's no and no there's a way to make up for that the ks of is K the word has a and in it so although the names themselves as independent names do not have a k and do not have aadi nevertheless the collective Gathering of the Jewish people do have a that's why says gather gather as one unit gather as one unit if you gather as one unit then I will be able to tell you the Kates and Yakov in fact was going to tell the jewi the his children the Kates because what was lacking in their lettering was present in the collective gathering in fact the B brings from sh a historical account of the formation of the sh when AB was saved from or then the Shi of Abraham was formulated and when was saved from the the of was formulated and when all the brothers gathered in Egypt as one they formulated the so at first maybe was hesitant to tell them the Kates because he saw they didn't have the letters KU and Sadi but when he saw that they were bot they were as one unit the collective Gathering of all 12 around the bed of yobu indicated to him indicated to him that in fact they had a certain Unity that allowed the KU and theadi to be present however at that auspicious time it was revealed to that that the brothers were the ones who embittered y's life the brothers were the ones who sold him and despite the superficial look of unity that they're displaying at that moment gathered around the deathbed of yakob ainu he realized that in fact they were dispar and they were they were still splintered and therefore yaku ainu had no choice but to say I cannot tell you when the end will come but on a deeper level says yobu maybe at this moment realized that they had come together and there was a certain Unity now but Yakov looked off into the future and yakob wanted to reveal when mhia would come but he sees that in the end of days there's going to be an issue and that issue is the deficiency which doesn't allow the Redemption to come is the fact that we are not together we are not so when say wanted to reveal the end and The Departed Yakov wanted to reveal when exactly the Redemption will come but looking into the future he was not able to Envision it and see it because of the sinner that would exist among the Jewish people similar to what happened with the brothers and Y but the brothers were trying to tell yobu look we do have AK and how did the brothers try to say that they said whereon responds how is this a display of how is this a way to alleviate the concern of yov dear friends says the reason why the story of Y occupies more space in the T than any other subject is because the story of Y is more relevant to any subject in the T in our times and for all generations says R surely this is because y story has the greatest relevance to our own lives it was the senseless hatred between the brothers that led to their descent into Egypt where their children were enslaved and tortured for hundreds of years many generations later punishment was again EXA exacted whena and nine fellow tanum were executed by the Romans although we cannot claim to understand the depth of hashem's judgment it is clear that the direct cause of our suffering both now and throughout history is unjustifiable strife and bickering we conclude saer barus and The Narrative of the lives of the a with this crucial message which cries out to each and every one of us the senseless bickering is the cause of our trouble the story of Y is a story that reverberates until the end of time but dear friends during which period of time did the sin of Senseless hatred was it most prevalent we know during the times of the second B mikdash the second bikash was destroyed because of sin what's the numerical value of that's right is 8 n is 50 me is 40 98 98 you know Rashi says in the the curses of the are 98 curses says the if they're 98 curses in the and the Z teaches that they all were fulfilled in the times of the second bikash it's not a coincidence that the 98 curses of the second B mikdash were at a time that we sinned with sin 98 because we sinned with senseless hatred therefore we were visited with the 98 the holy that the was fulfilled during everything fits well was destroyed because of are 98 this is the meaning of the for free you were sold you will not be redeemed with money well Kaz say money is MIT so we read the as follows since theik was destroyed because of we will not be redeemed if we do mitzvas because the problem was not that we weren't doing mitz the problem was we didn't have so we were sold because of therefore we will not be redeemed because of of we will not be redeemed because of we will only be redeemed because of because of so means the 98 curses of the were all fulfilled in the times of during the second mdash but is what day of the year the 998th day of the year wow then assar must have something to do with and what was the ultimate Act of in our history wouldn't it be something if somehow the sale of Y had something to do with indeed Fisher of D BAS writes and this really answers question you know day and the N the day of the and the nth of is the day of but what happened on he says I would say is the day of Joseph sold on so that means is the ultimate day of so you think it's a coincidence it's the 998th day of the year it's the day of it's the day of the day and by the way you know there's another offering of the saer P my friend RAF anel of France showed me he makes a that y reveals himself to his brothers which would have to be because if you're going to it supports the Bas because we know y was in captivity for 22 years so if he revealed himself on he must have been sold on then in order for it to be 22 years I mean these two the of the that was sold the of the revealed himself on they compliment each other very beautifully then also has a is a day seared in sin the sin of the spies the sin of the calf the murder of a the sale of you know there are two historic sins in our history we say we say you atone and you are for the sin of the golden calf in the S of says this happened on is the 998th day of the year the day of I would like to add this year an amazing addition in the he brings that by the and he wants to know the medish comments on in for a what does it say before it says that's the med says why what somehow is a protection for the he brings the question the why is it by the of and by the only if you don't listen it's a suff the answer is there must be a way to be by saying how how many letters in the first P of sh 25 how many letters in 24 what's 25 and 49 and what if you say Shama morning and evening 98 protects you from the that's why by the you're going to get the the CL you won't necessarily get the CL if you say shma the 49 letters of of sh and in the morning the 49 letters of shma and in the evening a total of 98 you'll be protected from the 98 CL of the that's why say when the Jewish people heard the 98 clo their faces turned white why didn't their face turn white when they heard the 49 CL of the answer is the 49 CL they were never worried about because that knew they could beato with the 49 letters of K but when they heard 98 they got nervous they didn't realize that the 49 of the morning and the 49 of the evening could be the 98 claw so what we're learning is is the CLW of the how friends when were we visited with the curses of the by what a did we do that warranted the curses of the is 98 sh by saying the 98 words of sh that also is M the 98 curses you know how because let's remind ourselves of one of the primary meanings of the the says this the says this is sh galvanized and gathered and unified the people is unite Israel Hashem Hashem is our God the Lord is one by the way the way the V explains the way the explains the Jewish people are the ambassadors of God how do we declare God's Oneness by saying one is Hashem one is Hashem one how do we declare God's Oneness by making speeches nobody listens to speeches you know how we declare God's Oneness we unite as one people and the Jewish people reflect the unity of God the unity of the unity of the Jewish people reflects the unity of God that's why when we Splinter into different segments ha if you're then you're giving a message they're two Gods so that's how the the comes for 98 the 98 words of sh unites the people makes us we don't need the the 98 of come for so therefore when said the Kates will never come you made y's life miserable and you guys are never going to get along the response of the is no no no yov we're really one y says you're one how are you one sh is gather Israel hasem Hashem is our God has Hashem is one the unity of the Jewish people declared and expressed in sh is the unity of and the unity of is is the 998th day of the year do you think it's then a coincidence that in this week's Para we have the of is the and the way it is nullified the way the 98th day of the year is neutralized the way the CL the 98 CL of the is neutralized is with the 98 words of sh what an amazing Revelation is the day of the sale of Y it's the day of the revelation of Y therefore is a day that one day will turn into great Redemption for the Jewish people if we could just if on this day we could work to rectify that sin of the sin of and overcome the 98 through sh is the Declaration of unity of the Jewish people thees the 98 because we are vouch safed that thei this the fast of the 10th month the fast of the 10th month of the year will be transformed for by the way if you add up four and five and seven and 10 four and five is nine and seven is 16 and 10 is 26 the shame Hava the fast of the 10th month of the year if Mia was born onov he was conceived 7 months before in the fast of the 10th month so you have from the 10th to um Tish is the fast of the fifth and the conception of mhia was 7even months before is conceived this is the day that has been seared making us eligible for punishment for sin it's the 98th day of the year the way we Rectify that is sh is we tell Yu that we are gathered as one we may belong to different groups and different even ideologies but nevertheless at the core we say and our greatest take is that is what told and that will ultimately usher in the when have a great day everyone and have an easy fast Rec