Total Solar Eclipse 2024: What Does it Symbolize? Rabbi Daniel Glatstein

First time I'm giving a shar on the topic of a solar eclipse or any type of eclipse in general. We know that upcoming April 8th verses Nissan on Monday there's going to be a solar eclipse starting in Mexico making its way north through the United States and into Canada. So there's going to be totality over Texas, Arkansas, Kentucky, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Maine. In New York, you could go to Syracuse. You could go to Buffalo. Where else could you go? You could go to Rochester. Go to Lake Placid. Lake Placid. Okay, there you go. Lake Placid. And in Canada, there you could see the entire eclipse, but even in New York City, you're going to be able to see a good chunk of the eclipse. It's going to get somewhat dark for about 2 hours. And the question is, what does this mean for us? What does it mean for the world? Does it have any meaning? Is it just a regular natural phenomenon? Is it like a sunny day, a cloudy day, a rainy day? We don't usually make much of a rainy days or cloudy days. Even though the truth is, if we would study the garra, all of these natural phenomenon have meaning. The garra says that on a rainy day, business always prospers. So if you wanted to invest money, the garra says invest on a rainy day. Now I never did an actual study of the stock market, how it does on rainy days versus sunny days. You know, someone out there maybe make a study study the the uh correlation between precipitation, humidity, and the stock market. But the Garra says when it rains, business prospers period. Thear says even money mean not just your farm will prosper. The money in your pocket will prosper. But the thing is that these phenomenon here in New York it rains almost every day. Like nine out of 10 days it rains, right? So we don't really make much of it. But when we have a solar eclipse which is somewhat of a rare or unique phenomenon. So uh the question is does it mean anything? Is it ominous? Is it something we should be concerned about? Something we should think about. So let's begin with the garra infusing garra says we have to learn when the sun is struck is stricken. Now what exactly does that mean? says it's a bad omen for the entire world. What is this analogous to? It's like a king of flesh and blood. He makes a party for his subjects and he uh lights it up. He puts a lantern out. He got angry at them. And he says to his attendant, "Take the lantern away and put them in darkness." Basically, the world is a party. It's a big party. God gives us food, unlimited food. Three meals a day. Water. The whole day you could drink water. It's a big party. You could breathe all day long. There's no all you could all you could breathe. You know some people they go to restaurant all you could eat. God put us in a restaurant all you could breathe. There's no cap on oxygen and it's free and he lights it up for us. He he makes spectacular lighting. But if he turns off the light it means that he's he's angry at us. Now I would infer from this Gamarra that if the analogy is a king who makes a party for his servants that maybe it's only a bad omen for his servants. But what if you're not a servant of the king? What if you're you're the king's child? Then maybe it's not a bad omen. In fact, comes Rome and Ramor said, "A eclipse is only a bad sign for the Jews." The opposite of what you would have thought, not Jews, the enemies of Jews. Lucky. Okay. Lucky. You didn't get me though because when the garra says it's a euphemism euphemism is you say a blind person he has a lot of light it's it's a curse to the Jewish people but because we don't want to say it we say to the enemy of the Jewish people but it means to the Jewish people. Same says that uh when the when the when the sun eclipses it is a bad sign for the enemy of the Jewish people. mean for the Jewish people. Why? Because we're used to punishment. The Jewish people are more accustomed to punishment than the rest of the world. And the Gmorrah says, "What is it analogous to?" It's analogous to the Rebi. Back in the day, nowadays, Rabim can't even look at the tummy. But back in the days, the Rabim not only could look at the tummy, they could whack the tummy. Okay? And the Rebi would come in with his paddle. When the Rebi comes in with his paddle, who gets nervous? The, you know, the teacher's pet. It's the kid who gets hit every day. He's the one who starts getting nervous. So too, who is more accustomed to punishment? The Jewish people. Because God because God loves us and he wants our perfection. So he holds us more accountable. We're the ones who have to take the omen of a eclipse. And therefore the Garra says according to a solar eclipse is a bad sign for the Jewish people. Fine. The Gar continues. When the sun eclipses, it's a bad sign for the Gentiles because the Gentiles follow the solar calendar. If the moon eclipses, it's a bad sign for the Jews because the Jews go by the moon and the Gentiles go by the sun. I would have thought if it's if it's a solar eclipse, it should be a bad sign for the Christians. If it's a lunar eclipse, it should bad be a bad sign for the Muslims because actually we don't only go by the the moon. It's not even uh we mainly go by the moon. We just have to adjust it with the sun. But anyway, the garra feels that primarily the Jewish people go by the moon and therefore a lunar eclipse is a bad sign for the Jewish people. the solar eclipse is a bad sign for the uh Gentiles. Then the Gomorrah says, "Yeah, so the Tabon in the beginning." Yeah. So the Gomorrah is making somewhat self-contradictory statements. The Gomorrah starts off by saying that the solar eclipse is a bad sign for the whole world. Romeo says it's only a bad sign for the Jewish people. Now the Gomorrah brings an opinion it's only a bad sign for the Gentiles. Right? So the Gumar has made many different statements. They don't seem to be consistent with each other. Then the Gumarra says if the if the eclipse if the sun eclipses in the east in other words in New York the eclipse is going to be what like between 2 and 4 something like that. So if the sun eclipses in the east sim it's a bad sign for those who live in the east of the world. If it eclipses in the west, if the eclipses when the sun is at at full height, it's a bad sign for the whole world. Now, anybody know what's the sun going to look like on Monday during the eclipse? Is it going to be bloody? Is it going to be gray? So, if it looks bloody, war will come to the world. If it's gray, hunger will come to the world. If it's bloody and gray, then war and famine will come to the world. The says if it eclipses close to sunset, that means the punishment will be delayed. If it if it eclipses near sunrise, then the punishment will come hastily. Some say just the opposite because if it's going to eclipse near sunset, that means the sun is about to set. If it's going to eclipse by sunrise, there's more time. Okay, says the garra, and whenever Hashem punishes one of the nations of the world, he punishes their along with it. But says the Garra, when the Jewish people do the will of God, then we have nothing to worry about. We have nothing to be afraid of. This is only a problem. The eclipse only has an ominous meaning if we're not fulfilling because the Pik says Hashem says don't learn the ways of the Gentiles do not be afraid of the signs of the heavens the way the Gentiles are afraid. So the Gmorrah seems to say that if we're doing what we're supposed to do, we have nothing to worry about. If we're observing the Tyra, we're keeping the mitzvah. We come to dabing on time. We leave our phone at home. We don't talk by dabing. We make sure to learn consistently. We don't speak. We guard our eyes. We do everything we need to do. Then we could ignore any signals. Now, here's the big whopper. Here's the bombshell. There are four sins that cause a solar eclipse. And again, solar eclipse means bad news. Bloodshed, famine, it's a sim to the whole world or only to the Jewish people. Here are the four sins. If the head of the Jewish court passes away and he's not eulogized properly, you have a great God of Israel, he passes away and he's not given the proper, this is a major major offense. This could cause a solar eclipse. Number two, you have a young girl, she's wed, someone abuses her, someone coerces her, she cries out, and nobody comes to her aid. Number three, and or two brothers who are murdered together. very unusual set of sins that cause solar eclipse. A chief of the bezin that wasn't eulogized properly. A woman who is violated Mishkav Zakar and two brothers who were murdered simultaneously comes Rashi. Rashi who makes tens of thousands of comments on shas Rashi who always knows the answer to everything says Rashi no idea why beats me no idea now Rashi doesn't say loyat he said I didn't even hear anything about it that's unusual I didn't hear a reason for this for the four the four for any of these four things So Rashi does does not offer us any insight. Rashi could have you know said well because you know I was thinking all of these four things are sort of a very callous and unnatural type of sin where here you have the the leader of the generation who passes away and nobody could eulogize him properly. You know I understand you don't like your rabbi when he's alive but he's dead. You know people don't like living rabbis. you know people but when they're dead everybody loves the rabbi so he's the rabbi died so even now you have nothing good to say about him it's like unnatural you don't like him because you went you went for shalias and he sided with your wife or you had a court case with somebody and he side with the other guy or you know he once told you off okay but he's not alive anymore everybody loves dead rabbis no very unnatural or here you have a girl she she just got married to somebody and she's immediately abused and nobody could stand up for her or Mishkav Zakar or it's one thing murder but for two brothers to be murdered simultaneously that's such a callous cruel thing but Rashi doesn't even attempt to give any explanation Rashi doesn't say because of these unnatural sins an unnatural thing happened that the sun was eclipsed Rashi says I don't know comes to Marsha And says, well, maybe you could give a little bit of a reason. We know compared to the sun and was compared to the moon. So we see that great are compared to the sun. So if you don't appreciate the Tory leaders who are compared to the sun, Hashem will minimize the light of the sun. Now let's talk about what is a solar eclipse. By the way, if you want to come visit the Rama on the Rama's yard site, which is Lagar, you could join us to Krakow. Coming up very soon on the 33rd day of the we're going to be visiting Isra besides writing glosses on he wrote a about science and the Bikdash. It's called and the Ramas says you know when we talk about a solar eclipse we we have to understand for a moment by a solar eclipse when the Gmorra calls it nothing's happening to the sun something's happening to the sun is the sun minimized is the sun shining less the sun is doing what it does every single day the problem is that the moon got in the way so it's not like the sun was struck You see the the Ramos says the moon when the moon is eclipsed something happens to the moon. The moon usually reflects the light of the sun. So if the earth gets in the way then the moon is minimized because nothing's shining on it as opposed to the sun. The sun is doing what it always does. It's just that you can't see it. So when you put on blindfold, somebody turned out the lights, the lights are still on. You didn't save your electricity bill is still going to be the same. You're still going to get ripped off hundreds of dollars a month in the winter. You didn't turn on the air conditioner. How much that everything is LED. It's still Yeah, but you know, you're at their mercy. You have no idea why they're charging you this money, but you think the flashing clock on your microwave is is $200 a month. But what are you supposed to do? You're going to take them to court. You're going to prove that the five clocks in your house don't cost $200 a month. But but the electricity is still on just because you're not looking at it. So Rama points out that when you talk about the solar eclipse, it's different than a lunar eclipse. But here's the million-dollar question. The million-dollar question is and this question is articulated by many aims rainger raisi the maral rabak of risher the garra is saying because of four sins it causes the the sun to eclipse I don't understand this eclipse was predicted did 200 years ago. In fact, there's a chart that predicts every single eclipse that ever was from the day God created the world until the end of time. It's a natural phenomenon based on the movement of the sun and based on the movement of all the the earth and the moon. There are eclipses every so often. In fact, you know the story goes I think I once told this over that this is printed in the introduction of a safer called Hayuken of Ram Zuka where Christopher Columbus when he discovered the new world he was captured by cannibals and they threatened they were going to eat him and they put him in a pot and they threw in some carrots and some celery and some matzah balls. No, not matzah balls. And they were going to cook him. And Christopher Columbus had with him the maritime charts of Rabi Aramakuta that predicted all of the eclipses. And Christopher Columbus said, "If you don't remove me, I will blot out the light of the moon." Because there was supposed to be a very uh a lunar eclipse uh soon. And sure enough, you know, he went did some hocus pocus and uh the moon the moon disappeared and the uh native American Indians or whatever you're allowed to call them these days. Um they you know they were and they rescued him and they considered him a deity and they gave him you know a lot of corn. I don't know what they gave him. And uh this is printed in the so eclipses are predictable. You say, "Oh, when the sun rises, that means when the sun rises, it doesn't mean anything. It's it's programmed. God programmed the world that the sun rises and the sun sun sets." He programmed the world that there solar eclipses or lunar eclipses. How could you say, "Oh, because somebody wait a you're telling me a rabbi passed away." And if the person gives a good husband, there won't be an eclipse. And because he didn't give a good husband or a bad husband, there's going to be eclipse. Whether somebody helped a girl, somebody didn't help a girl, whether there is Mishkav or there's not. How could you blame? How could you hinge? How could you say that the eclipse comes from these four sins? These are natural, predictable phenomenon that God programmed into world and they're like clockwork. I could tell you right now when the next eclipses you're telling me I know it's going um it's going to be in Cleveland, Ohio, there's going to be uh um totality, right? So you're saying, but if they're in Cleveland, Ohio, if they would make sure to give a good hespid, then it's going to go straight from, you know, from Mexico to Rochester and and the state of Ohio is going to miss miss the eclipse. Yeah, let's try that out. You could look up right now, I left it at home, the path of totality. They predict you know there people any motel in the path of totality you could have some fara place in in Kentucky you know they haven't nobody has gone to that motel six and since they opened it up they left the light on for the guy the first day it's still on that light they that light is still on and they're you know they're paying $200 a month for that one light that they left on and now all of a sudden it was kadai for them to build that motel 50 years ago because from Williamsburg are going to Kentucky to see the the uh the solar eclipse. But that's only if they don't give a good husb if they going to give a good husb then now they're going to go there and uh they're going to miss the whole thing. They're going to look up in the sky and they're just going to see a regular. So that's what I says. He says that many people think that what we call an eclipse is what the garra is referring to when it says and because they interpret the garra very literally. So the says the youth mock the Tory. They say how could it be? How could the Gmorrah say that an eclipse is dependent on sin? It's a natural predictable phenomenon. By the way also says that those who are mal those who mock the words of they they're this is like prime real estate for anybody who has problems with Gumra. This is where they're going. test. You know, for all the Gammorra critics out there, they've been waiting for this Gamarra their whole life because the Gmorrah seems to be saying that an eclipse is some kind of supernatural phenomenon when we know this is a physical uh predictable phenomenon. This is a question that all the ask. If you look in the uh look at number eight on the he says many many struggle to understand the meaning of this also the he says the eclipses are perforce they're programmed into the world they're predictable they're not going to change whether our behavior is good or bad. So let's begin with the first approach. Approach number one says if you think when the Garra talks about it's talking about the solar eclipse and the path of totality. No, the garra is not talking about solar eclipses. The garra is not talking about um the path of totality. The lion of the gumar is leco. What does leak mean? The sun is struck. You know what this is referring to says. He says, sunspots. You know what sunspots are? Blotches on the sun. What is it? It's a phenomenon. You could look at the sun with a telescope. You have to probably use a special lens. And every so often, the same way if you look at the sun, there they're explosions. They're constant explosions. Yeah. Hydrogen explosions, there are sunspots. And when there's a sunspot on that area, the light of the sun is minimized. Does it make any difference to us in this world? No. We are so our our level of existence is so reduced that we cannot tell the difference between the minimal lessening of sunshine that is caused by a sunspot whether there is a spot or there's not a spot. But in the ancient times where they were they were very connected to all physical phenomenon and they were very perceptive of physical phenomenon and they're very sensitive to physical phenomenon. They could detect a difference in their life and in their quality of life when there's a sunspot or not. You know how it is some days you feel good some days you don't feel great. Somebody once asked me why do we always say infashem hashem raf heal us as if we're always sick 365 days of year we're sick why don't we ask hashem hashem give us good health because a Jew you know there's a headache a toothache some there's always something right you could always say we live on a reduced level of existence back in the day they were more perceptive to even minimal changes in physical phenomenon and the the eclipse that the gar is talking about is sunspots. What is the meaning of a solar eclipse as I says? Absolutely not. It doesn't mean anything. It's like sunrise and sunset. It's predictable. If you could check it up, if you could Google exactly when it will be, where and how long and we could tell when it will be on Monday and the next time there'll be an eclipse and the next time then it does not have any ramification in uh in hashka because this is not a supernatural phenomenon. It is a physical phenomenon. When the garra talks about hakama, it's talking about sunspots. By the way, in a rare occasion, Rabyak of Mden also says that the Gomorrah cannot be taken literally. It's not referring to what we know as as an eclipse, but rather it would seem that the Gmorra is talking about some other kind of phenomenon where the sun itself is minimized by some kind of uh occurrence. So, this is the first opinion that what's happening on Monday has no bearing on our lives. What what is its meaning? Absolutely nothing. It's a gimmick to get people to go to a Motel 6 in Pucket, Kentucky. And to pay what's normally $43 a night, $430 a night for a room that it's light has been on since it was built. Okay, so it means nothing according to comes and the says, you know, this is not the first time we had such a question. This is a question in par. God said, "I'm never going to bring a mabel." What's the sign I'm never going to bring a mabel? A rainbow. A rainbow is a sign that God is angry at the world. And really, he was going to destroy the world and he's not because of the rainbow. Come on. A rainbow is a sign that God really wants to destroy the world. Scientists could predict that if you have enough precipitation in the air and the sun shines and there's a certain cloud, you're going to see a rainbow. It's a physical phenomenon. It's predictable. I could also make a rainbow. You know, when I was a kid, you take a hose, you shot, you squirt it up in the air like in an angle of the sun and you see a rainbow. You make a brah on that. Yeah. Come everyone come to my backyard. As soon as May comes, I'm going to I'm going to show everyone there's a rainbows in my backyard every single day. So you're saying that a rainbow is a sign that Hashem really wanted to destroy the world. The rainbow is not a sign Hm wanted to destroy the world. A rainbow is a physical phenomenon comes and he says, "No, you're making a big mistake." The question is an erroneous question. You ready for this? The Gomorrah tells us about a guy who was on your roof and you forgot to make it depends where you come from. If you you know it depends where you learn you forgot to make a ma or a mah whatever you you forgot to make a fence. So if you forget to make a fence so says The fallen one will fall off. Sigar asks why are we calling him a fallen one should say somebody might fall off. Sigar says no he was supposed to fall off when God created the world. He ordained plain is going to fall off the roof. So then why am I responsible for not making a fence? This guy was going to fall off anyway. So why am I responsible? What is it? He was supposed to fall off. But God was looking for a good agent to bring about his will. You pal are a good negligent agent. You're a guilty person. Why am I a guilty person? Why is he a guilty person? Because he was irresponsible by not making offense. So God was a good shad. He shaded the guy who is supposed to fall with a guy who is an eligible candidate to be a murderer. So even though in other words any murderer someone who's a murderer why why why can't he say this is what the Germans said the Nazis claim this in the Aishman trial that why are they responsible but God decreed that the Jews should suffer their lambda right it's similar to the the rivid the rivid says you know why were why were the mitsim punished but Hashem decreed um that they're going to afflict us for 400 years. The answer is says God knew this person would fall but he arrang and he knew this from the beginning of time but he arranged that ply who's guilty for not making a roof he should be the instrument to bring about the demise of this guy who fell off the roof. It's the same thing with solar eclipse. You know why there's a solar eclipse? Because we don't respect Israel. Because our society, not the gentile society, the Jewish society is immoral because of Mishkav Zak. So what do you mean? But it was predicted. We knew there was going to be an eclipse. That's right. God who created the world, he knew there was going to be an eclipse at these times because he knew these times are times where the Jewish people are sinful. Yeah, but we could predict. That's great. You know why you could predict? Cuz God could predict and he's the one who created the world and he set up these phenomenon that they occur like clockwork. You know why he set it up for these times? Because he knew that these times there would be terrible sinful behavior of the Jewish people. Saying, "Wait a second. That means God knew we would sin at these times." So, doesn't it mean that we have to be we don't have a choice? We have to be sinful. Says the question is as old as the hills. That's the question of how do we have free choice if God has fornowledge. So we human being doesn't have the capacity to understand. How is it that God knows what we're going to do despite the fact that we have free choice whether to do it or not. But once you could get around understanding that we're not able to understand how it's possible that God knows what we're going to do even though we have the choice whether to do it or not. We could understand that yes a rainbow means God's angry with the world. But what do you mean a physical phenomenon? Yeah, God created the physical phenomenon that it should be just at the times that were sinful and he would have destroyed the world. That's the answer of the schlah. In that case, Monday is a frightening day. It's a scary day. The garra says that a solar eclipse is a criticism of the Jewish people. Could be of the whole world and it could be just us. But what do you mean? We predicted it. We knew this was happening for 200 years. Yeah. That's because God who created the world foresaw that they're going to be times in history when we're not doing what we need to do. We don't treat our leaders properly. It's an immoral climate and it's a a murderous climate. That's how the schla understands. Then the schlah says something. Let's see if I could say the words. You'll think about it tonight. By the way, if you ever have a hard time falling asleep, one a proven technique is you think about the shar. And many people have told me that um you know somebody just said you know Rabbi Gladine I know a very old lady she's in her 90s and she listens to your probably she has a hard time falling asleep at night and uh this really uh is a very effective way but but you'll think about this you'll tell me if you understand it says that these physical phenomenon They impact the everyday ordinary running of the physical world. They make an imprint. They have an impact. They make a roym in our finances, in our health, in our well-being. But that's only because we live in a world of sin. But if we would be acting the way we should act, then these phenomenon would have no impact on us at all. Now, does that answer why they have an impact on us if they're if it's predictable beforehand and it's a physical phenomenon? Let me share with you one more approach and then I'm going to share with you the amazing approach of the moral of Prague and maybe on Shabas you could come to shalludas at 5:30 peninsula and we're going to learn the amazing approach of theamifer the yakov and the yahan say as follows. They say of course uh an eclipse is a physical phenomena. It's predictable. It's scientifically uh able to be determined from beforehand when the eclipse will occur. However, when it occurs, it's a bad sign. It's a bad mazle. Just like you know there's an idea if somebody's born under maz madim. So the says either he'll be a murderer so he better either become a or ael because you're going to be influenced by the masle that you're born under. So the the onyakov says that even though it's predictable when the eclipse will be at the time of the eclipse, it pretends and reflects upon the sins of the Jewish people. You're right. It's predictable, but at that time it's okay. You ready for this? Fasten your seat belts. You ready Rafi? You sure? Maybe you'll say this over one day at a it it would be very good about um yeah all these sins could be you know people need to hear about especially at the shakas. The garra says there are four sins that bring about a solar eclipse. If a god is dies and he's not eulogized properly. If a woman gets married and she's violated and nobody saves her, Mishkav Zakar, or if two brothers are murdered, like the most random four sins you could come up with. If I if I asked you come up with the four most unconnected random ao and put them together in one pot, this would be a good job. Says the moral of Prague, there is no question that the garra is not taken literally. And when the garra talks about the eclipse of the sun, the sun represents those who give off light to this world. Who gives off light to the this world? Why would be eclipsed that their light is no longer shining that people don't learn Tyra? Why is there a demunition of Tyra in the world? Why are people not attached to the Tyra the way they should be? Now, here's a very important idea. Says Maral of Prague, in order for Tyra to be learned, it's not okay. It's not going to be enough if you're interested in learning. Interest is not going to cause an expansion of Tyra. Yeah. I I like learning. It's very It's very interesting. Very interesting. Interesting. Interesting. A lot of things are interesting. There are many industries that h they their their goal is to surpass whatever your minor interests are so that you could be hooked on more interesting things instead of the things that you claim are interesting to you. It's not enough to be interested in Tyra. You need to love the Tyra. If you don't love Tyra, the Tyra will not be absorbed and be disseminated and be present in our life in the life of our community. In order to learn, you need for the Torah. If you don't love the Torah, then you don't even get to first base. Raise your hand if you love the Tyra. It's unanimous. It's unanimous. Otherwise, you wouldn't come here. You need to love the Tyra. How do you have to love the Tyra? You have to love the Tory in three ways. With all your heart. What's your heart? Remember we said heart is not your heart. How are you supposed to love with your heart? Your heart is your mind. Your heart. Whenever the Torah says le, it's your mind. Means you have to love tora with your intelligence. Your soul is your actions. Your cash. Nothing shows appreciation like cash. If you if you want to be connected to Tyra, yeah, I do the da. You do the da. You do the daff. Okay, that's great. You do it. You have to love the daff. Otherwise, you didn't start. You have to love the Tyra. You have to love it with all your soul. I'm sorry, with all your heart. That's your mind, with your body, and your money. The garra says it says you should love Hashem. How could a person love the is fire? If you marry your daughter to you do business for you give the from your assets it's like you're connected to Hashem says Maral of Prague. If you marry your daughter to the We know a person's heart, his mind is connected to his children. Person's thoughts are always about their children. So if you give your child over to a so you're giving over your mind to the if you help do business so you're working for him. You're working to support then your actions are given over to the Tyra. When you support with your money, your money is giving over to the Tory. You have to love the Tory in these three ways. You ready for this? Passed away. Look, we understand why you didn't like the rabbi when he was alive. We already went through this. You didn't like him when he was alive because he told you what to do. He once said, he once gave you a look and you didn't like it. He once did not. Rev. Miller would say that um somebody once accused him of not sufficiently widening their smile his smile to to a congregant. I understand when the rabbi is alive you don't like but he's dead. The poor guy's dead already. So give him a eulogy. Give him a husband. Don't you see the Tyra is lessened in the world because of his loss? Why aren't you eulogizing the problem? It's because you don't appreciate the intellectual value of the Tyra. You don't it doesn't hurt you that there's a demunition of T in the world. If you don't eulogize properly, it means that you don't love the Tyra with your mind. You know why there's a lack of Tyra in this world? Because we don't love the Torah with our mind. Evident from the fact that a great rabbi could die and we don't eulogize him properly. Next, a young girl got married and she was violated and she screamed out and nobody came to her aid. Says Maral, you know who that young girl is? The Jewish people. Every Jew is wed to someone. Who's that? The Tyra. Every Jew is engaged to the Tyra. But some Jews they can't consummate the deal because they can't afford it. Some people could afford it. Some people could afford to learn and some people can afford it. They should get a job. But they should be gainfully employed. You know, why are they warming the bench? Well, I should go to where I should support them. They should support themselves. It's a capitalist country. If there are Jews who can't afford to dedicate themselves to learning the way they would like, they were married to the Torah, but they can't consummate the deal because people are saying, you know, why should the state support them? Maybe they should also defend. And I'm not getting into that right now. But if a Jew would like to learn Tyra, who's responsible to support them, if you have money in your wallet? You are. You are. If you could afford it. No, I only give saddaka to to poor to social causes. I only give sudaka to hat United lifeline. I only give uh sodaka to social causes. But you want to learn Tory? No problem. Be get a job and then when you get home from work, you could learn in your free time. What do you want from my life? I I I I went to school and I have a job and I I worked for it. So why do I have to give you money? The Tyra does not only belong to those who could afford it. It belongs to every Jew. And if Jews are not able to learn the way they would like to, that means we don't love Tyra. In what way? With our money. We don't learn Tyra. We don't love Tyra with our money. Why aren't we supporting them? Cuz it's my money. And if they want to learn, let them figure out how to be gainfully employed. says mar that's what the garra means you know why there's a solar eclipse you know why there's a lack of in this world because we don't love the in order for there to be you need to love thera you have to love it with your mind and if we don't eulogize properly that means we don't have the proper value for and if we don't support we don't have the proper value of what money could do in terms of supporting tyra you ready for this you know why else there's a lack of uh Ty the world because of Mishkav Zakar. So, how we how we going to figure this one out? The Pik says in [Laughter] see life with the woman that you love. Who's the woman that you love? Gar says the Tyra. The Tyra is the woman. So who's the man? The man is your job. So the maral says a healthy balanced relationship is to balance your livelihood and the time you dedicate to your livelihood is your man and your your relationship with the toyra is your woman. But what if a guy says, you know, look, I work 9 to5, but you know, I need to work more, I have a nice house, but I want to have a nicer car and another car, and I want to have an apartment in Florida and one in USA and and a bungalow, and I want to go on fancy vacations. So, I need to work from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. every night, and I don't have time to learn. How? So your life is about you and your man, about you and your job. Your woman you threw out of the picture. You have a very unhealthy relationship over here. You know what we call this? If you're too involved in your career and your livelihood, that's Mishkav Zakar. I'm just a reporter by the way. If I came to you and I came up with this shot, I don't know if you're going to This is my Rala Prague. Mishkavar, you got to give equal time to the man and the woman. I know, by the way, Friday night you come home and you sing this uh ode to your wife, this beautiful song. It has nothing to do with her. It's not a song to your wife. I mean, you could think it is and she could think it is. Ask is about the Tyra. It's about your relationship with the Tyra. Why am I seeing it Friday night? Because six days a week you're working and shabas is time for lira. Okay. No, not not everything that we say here needs to be repeated as at the shabas table. But the truth is the truth. There are many nice things we say you'll be able to say over at the table. Says Marala Prague. The zakar is your livelihood. The nava is the Torah. Make sure they're wed and they're both given proper attention. Otherwise, Mishkav Zakar. Then you don't honor the Tory, says the Maral with your nephesh, with your body. You're too physically immersed in your livelihood. You're too physically immersed in your career. We need to love. The reason why the light of Tyra shines in this world and in your life is if you yet have to love her. You have to love her. In that sense, she's like a wife. Marriage works. You have to love your wife. The Tory is meaningful. If you love her, you have to love her with your mind. You have to love her with your actions. You have to love her with your money. If you don't, there will be less ty in the world. How do we know how much you love the Tyra? Listen carefully how you talk about Rabanim. You want to know how much you love Tyra? Do you praise them or do you criticize them? That's one way to know if you love them with your mind. Do you love them? Do you love Tyra with your body? What's the your work, your livelihood or do you love the Torah with your money? Do you support people to be able to learn? And then finally, we have one more thing because the garra says, what's the fourth sin that causes a solar eclipse? If two brothers are murdered in one day, what are we going to do with that? says a moral of Prague, if two brothers are murdered in one day. The two brothers are the lis. When God gave us the lis, it was his handiwork and his writing. If we were able to receive his writing on his handiwork, then the Tory he gave us will be inscribed on our heart. But because the two lis were broken because the two bras were broken. So now God had to supplant it with Mosha's handiwork. So now it's not God's writing on God's handiwork. It's God's writing on Mosha's handiwork. So now we no longer have this gift from above of the writing of God on God's tablets. It's the writing of God on Mosha's tablets. So the two brothers were broken. Says the in order for Torah to be meaningful in this world, you need to have people who are the Torah. And when those two l were broken, that was symbolic of a lack of acceptance of the Tyra. And therefore, in our times as well, in order for the Torah to be meaningful in our lives, we have to be willing and loving recipients of it. says Marel, the first three sins are specific specific to a determination of our love for the three various levels of loving the Torah with our mind, with our nephesh, and with our money. The fourth sin that the Gmorra mentions is a reference to the general attitude of our willingness to accept the Tyra. According to the moral does Monday's solar eclipse mean anything simply he's saying that it's just a REM that a solar eclipse refers to if you notice that there's a demunition of Tyra in the world do you know why it's a lack of love for the Tyra but you can't help but think that the solar Eclipse is a mush that if you see that the light of the sun is blotted out, that reflects that the light of the great sun, the light of the Tory has been minimized in our in our lives. And we have to search what is it? Why is it minimized? Why why is my connection to Tory not as deep as it could be? And the answer the Gar tells us is we have to examine. Do we love the Torah with all of our mind? Do we love? Do we support? Are we too immersed in our jobs? And are we really willing to accept it? So according to the moral Monday afternoon, according to relax, you know, you could take it easy. Monday afternoon doesn't have too much meaning. According to the schlah, you have to take it very seriously. God knew 57 84 years ago that Monday afternoon would be a time when we've sunk to a really low level. And according to the moral specifically, it seems to be indicating that we have to examine why there has been a minimization of Tory in our lives. And the answer is we need to love more. We need to love Tyra more and our jobs less and we need to go out of our way and strain ourselves and exhibit some sacrifice when it comes to supporting Tyra and overall we have to be willing recipients of that and in that merit will be z of the sun the Tory will shine brighter and brighter and we'll we should all be Thank you very much and uh thank you