Tzom Gedaliah: The Tragedy of Not Capitalizing on Rosh Hashanah

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com the fast of the seventh month um so you want to explain a little bit what is the significance of tsam gidalia of course we're familiar that the the basic storyline is that after the corbin by israel and the jewish people had a remnant inherit israel and this remnant was led by the governor gedalia and this he was what the ramayana calls the last coal the last ember of the glimmer of hope that the jewish people had in eretz israel and when gedalia was assassinated by ishmael that was uh that extinguished the last glimmer of hope for the jewish people to have a settlement in our soil and that was the last rung of the tragedies of khurbunde samiktas so the tragedies began on asura bataves when the walls were surrounded and then shiva subatomi was the walls were breached and then tish above the wall of the basement was destroyed and some gidalia is the last rung of the tragedies of the of the corbin so it's step number four step one the surrounding of the wall step two the breaching of the wall step three destruction of a samikas and step four the assassination of gedalia so it always struck me is that it seems to be a day that is a little bit out of place it doesn't seem to have anything to do with the period of time of assassination we just went through rosh hashanah we were judged and we have 10 days of repentance to yom kippur this is the this man of chuba mistah we thought we we finished with antishiva we thought when we woke up the tenth day of av and uh we turned on the music and we we uh took haircuts we thought we were done one and done with the hormones and all of a sudden after rosh hashanah the last thing on our mind is back to back to tish above it's like it's like a confluence of two different uh periods of time that seem to have no connection it almost seems like this man of chuva especially to come out the day right after right after rosh hashanah something uh unusual about that i mean imagine ah the day after hanukkah all of a sudden over the day it doesn't doesn't fit well what's it doing there he was assassinated on the third official okay so you say well you just it just happens to be that way it just it allows the luck of the draw it just happens to be coincidentally that he was assassinated by the way according to many who was assassinated on rosh hashanah but we couldn't fasten on hashanah so we pushed it off the next day okay question okay you say that's what it happened then but uh there's nothing and nothing in this world is coincidence and the fact that it happened now um an event which is connected to corbin the fact that it happened during this amount of chuva that's something to certainly think about as well as the fact that they're throughout history there are many tadikim that were murdered many tadika died and of all that sadiq and probably the had it not been for some guida you may not have ever even heard of gedalia i mean would you have heard of gedalia benachikam had it not been for some idaho most likely you never even would have heard of him oh why do we need a special date to commemorate his assassination his death every single date on the calendar marks the patera of some sadek yeah but it had national repercussions that he was assassinated because the you know they took revenge on us for having killed him so we suffered because yeah we certainly suffered but there were there were uh sadiq who were murdered we we the jewish people killed zakaria in the basement anyam kippur there were sadiq who were assassinated and so what what is so significant about the death of uh okay so and what is its connection to rosh hashanah so there are a number of very interesting uh suggestions the first the one that i want to share with you is something that always comes to mind after rosh hashanah and that is it says in pair us what does that mean that someone who is not educated enough he can't really be righteous you could have somebody who is very sincere and very would like to be very righteous and he sits there and he has his siddhar and he's mouthing the words of tawila and he's shuckling and he wants to come close to hashem he wants to come close sasha but he's limited he's capped out why is he capped out he doesn't really know enough he wakes up early he wakes up four o'clock in the morning to serve hashem to say to him and he says the whole tell him my time he's finished it's after his mind krishna so he could be a nice guy and he could be very righteous but he's he blew it he blew it it doesn't matter that he woke up five hours before anybody else if he doesn't know the halacha then you really can't be righteous you could want to do the right thing if you don't know you're not going to fulfill what you need to fulfill there's a great principle there's also a principle don't be too righteous everything that says in uh says in kahalas don't be too righteous there's a there's a limit if you go over the limits it's also not the right thing say what do you mean you should be as righteous as you can as big of a salad as you can no that's what you think but show my mouth says don't be too righteous here i have a guy who wants to serve hashem she said he's not going to eat so half a day goes by a day goes by two days go by three days go by he thinks he's serving our meanwhile he can't learn and he can't he can't dive in see he he's he's not a tadk because by being too big of a tadec you end up not being insulting here's a guy he's going to stay up very very late at night learning she's only going to sleep five hours a night four hours a night he's gonna and the next day he's not gonna learn a word he thinks he's sitting in front of a gemara but every time he every time he looks in the car he falls asleep so instead of instead of learning zero hours a day sleep you'd sleep 12 hours here's my advice sleep 12 hours at least you can learn the other 12 out but if you're not going to sleep enough you're not going to be able to learn anything that's the rule of al-tahit sade khan don't be too righteous so it could be that the fast of gedalia falling out the day after rosh hashanah is teaching us a very important lesson and that lesson is there was somebody by the name of gedalia and someone came to him he said hey gedalia ishmael wants to kill you and get out you said nah i don't want to listen to such a thing it's washing horror i'm not listening and not only did he not believe the lash and hara he didn't even want to be suspicious of he didn't even want to take it into account he didn't even want to guard himself because he said he thought was that not only are you not allowed to believe us you can't even be suspicious but he was wrong because the torah says although don't be so righteous yeah you know how to believe but you have to guard yourself you have to watch out for yourself and zakhar and uh gedalia was killed because he didn't want to be should have said thank you um i don't believe it that's kavala but i am i do suspect it and he should have therefore hired a bodyguard to protect him from the supposed assassin and if he would have done that he would have saved his skin so what the lesson of some guy is as follows there is no time during the year that you spend in shoal for two consecutive days like on rosh hashanah you sit there in your chair you sit there in front of your center you sit there with your tallest iberontop and you're a big sadiq you're a big saddick for 48 hours the second is over we have to warn you don't be such a big sonic before you're such a big as important as this to be sadik that's how important it is to be educated because if you're just going to be a big sadik you know what's going to happen some guy might assassinate and you're not going to even believe the the warning so after 48 hours wrapped in your tallest sitting in the show and you're dalai doubles and you're shuckling and you're crying there's another lesson we have to let you know and that's the lesson of tsun gedalia that don't be such a big sadiq coupled with your righteousness you better know the mission of brewer you better know the what you can do what you can't do what you should do what you shouldn't do it's not all about good intentions it's not all about being a nice guy no there's no myths on the tour to be a nice guy the mitzvah is to do the right thing and sometimes the right thing is not to be such a big child sometimes the right thing is be honest for the hara because you got to save your skin so after two days sitting in shul the lesson of sun gidalia is ao titsta kharbe there's a line sidkos has to go hand in hand with limoud with knowledge al tisda carabe loyama okay that's number one that's the connection possibly between some vidalia following immediately russian rosh hashanah number two toy systems after magilla quotes upsikta that there is weeks of the year that they have tyros of those weeks are ordained by in general the torah it was it was left up to the side in every generation what is most applicable what what passage of the naveem is most connected to the past of the week nowhere in in the gemara or in uh the madrid does it say passion is voracious you lane this this halftime doesn't say it anywhere it was up to the to decide what's most applicable however there are 12 weeks of the year that were ordained by khazal and they are gimmel the puranasa the three weeks of punishment during the three weeks right which are shimmy which are um [Music] divrei year me yahoo right yeah and you have um you have all the way up to rosh hashanah right bhattai merci and hashem you have the half torah of what finally right before rosh hashanah so you have three weeks of punishment seven weeks of cancellation and tarti ditty of them two weeks of chuba what are the two what are the two weeks of chuva you have so israel right so you have altogether 12 half torahs that are ordained by the khazam three of punishment seven of cancellation and two of chuba and it was it always um always struck me the shabbos before rosh hashanah what would you expect to read as a haftara well i would have expected to read after that talks about chuba after all this shout out the coming shabbos is what shana no we're still busy with the week before rosh hashanah i'm talking about that right we're still busy with the nakamura we didn't forget about hormone based so you have three weeks of punishment seven weeks of nahamah two weeks of chuva so one thing we learned from here is that the seven weeks of the hama are bridging the gap between the three weeks of punishment and the two weeks of chuba in other words what are we doing chuba for rosh hashanah what are we doing two before well there's a 12 week process three weeks of punishment and what was the punishment and two weeks of chuva chuva for those items that brought about corbin now why do you need seven weeks of nahamah in the interim well if let's say a rebbe tells a kid get out of here you rotten good for nothing get out of my class and don't come back and then for good measure the rebbe takes out of the whip and smacks him whips him on the back on his face and then a minute later come back in right now and be better the kid's gonna be better no the kid feels like uh he's just beat by the rebbe the rebbe doesn't love him the rebbe doesn't like him the rebbe just beat him down does he even want to have anything to do with the rebbe why would he want to do chuva so that's why says you have three weeks of punishment i'm giving you seven weeks of nahamah i'm massaging your feelings i'm consoling you and i'm putting you in the proper frame of mind so you could do chuva now if you look at the calendar this way really the assassin shiva then are very much connected to khurvum sa mikdash in fact they are the chuva you have three weeks of punishment you have seven weeks of consolation and you have two weeks of chuba chuva for those khatan na brought about so now would it then be inappropriate to have it slim gidalia during assassination no it's just a it's a reminder of it's framing for us it's putting in the proper perspective what we're doing two before remember remember tish above remember shiva super tamas remember he had three weeks of punishment you should know and remember i consoled you for seven weeks we're so consoled we forgot what we have to do two before we're i'm so consoled now after shabbat snack and all the concerts so console i don't even i forgot about shiva no sir no no i have to remind you what you need to do before it's the day after rosh hashanah it puts us it puts our mind in the right focus what we are doing shiva for in fact if you look in the rambam in hilkoshova in parikh zayin the rambam says in other words when will the gula come what do we have to do to bring up rambam says will only be redeemed in other words the base hamikdash will only be rebuilt so in other words what period of the year is the period that will help us be successful in restoring the basal it's rosh hashanah to yom kippur the goodluck can only come through a process of cuba so in fact it's this period of the year it's this time of the year that will bring us binion from the time of hormone the raman says the chuva by the way many wonder if you look at the dabbing on rashanim kippur especially rosh hashanah how much chuba do we do in china answering [Music] restore your glory that all of high soul should fear you and the should fear you and return to the basal mitosis and return malchus based of it and rebuild you shall i am rosh hashanah you're asking hashem to restore malphus based over you're asking hashem to come back to you shalom to to put histina in what does that god do with rosh hashanah the answer is the the purpose of yume hachuva is to ultimately reverse the process that was started 10 weeks ago with shivas of atomos and came to accommodation on tish above the purpose of the two weeks of chuba the tarty de tifta the purpose of the chuba is to reverse the process to to turn things around to turn things back so in other words what we're dominating for in rosh is we wish we never would have had those three weeks we wish the shrina returns to you shall i wish the base of english is rebuilt and the shrina is uh revealed in its full glory amy is throwing the gulen ella the chuvan this is another connection between sam gedalia which is the final straw the final rung of the period of corbin why it comes out immediately after rosh hashanah another idea there is a safer and the name of the safer is safer zikarin yunim the tiny ice it's a collection of different thing on tanesim and there's a chapter here from harav sawyak of kraus the uh manahal of yeshivas taurus ms in los angeles so he brings a very interesting idea and that idea is what would have happened had the settlement in yushalayam which was led by gedalia had it not stopped then you would have had khurvum samaktas but you still would have had some remnant of jews who remained in earth israel between bayes region and by hashemi now we know that the second base hamikdash was not a continuation of the first base of mikdash in fact it was a tremendous the time of bhaishaini was a a great descent compared to by a suicide they didn't have the orion they didn't have the aish they didn't have the urine between him they didn't even have the shrine the gemara says in yuma the shrino why not very possibly he suggests if the jewish people would have continued to have a settlement in earth israel led by assad like idaho then ultimately when all of kaiser returned or so many of them returned by bayasheni then the way it would have been viewed is it was just some jews had to leave for the 70 years but the jews were always there there was always a presence and by shaney would have just been a continuity and a continuation of bias region and the shrine would have remained and it would have been one period of time of 900 years right for 10 for 20 70 years 900 years of this okay it was destroyed for seven years in between but there were there was always a settlement and there were always sadiq in it and you shall i am so there would have been one long continuous era of bay samikdash and the shrine would have remained and there would have been a great era for kaiso but the problem was the continuity stopped the consistency stop why because when gedalia was assassinated there was no remnant the jews had a flea you know where they fled they fled to egypt and ultimately they were all captured and they were all killed except for yermia yermia also went to mitsuram and baruch they were taken back to baba but because of the assassination of gedalia the bayes region and the bayashini were permanently separated and there was they were severed they were disattached from each other and now bayoushani was really a very low era there was no shrina there there was no ishmael shamayim and compared to by israel and by shanee was was a miserable time like when the kahanam who remembered his future when they saw the the the building of the shaini they cried so what the tragedy of the assassination of gedalia is the tragedy of breaking consistency had it not been for the assassination of god you would have had 900 consecutive years and now you have four ten and the 420 was was a shell of what the 410 was and that has a lot to do with rosh hashanah and yom kippur because after sitting in shoal for the last two days and who doesn't feel some type of elevation after sitting in uh shul governing chakras hearings you're it's like you're you're in uh ghanaian for two days and now you have to land don't break the consistency there's seven days now between roshani yom kippur you know if you're gonna have to start all over again yum kipper it's gonna be hard on yom kippur to regenerate what you accomplished on roshana you don't want to have to start all over again you want to make sure that the seven days like the 70 years in between buyers reach somebody you don't want there to be like a 70 year period of emptiness between rosh hashana and yom kippur you have to make sure that whatever we gained on rosh hashanah you take with us and you continue to develop it and you continue to maintain it and you continue to to try to hold on to it this way when your kipper comes you're picking up right where you left off and you don't have to start all over again so the actual actually suggests um a rough krauss that the tragedy of sodium gandalia is the tragedy of not of not of breaking consistency of breaking what he calls retsifas and when you break consistency it's not the same it's like the the famous vert of uh levitz that whenever heard his wife say if he would go back for another 12 years i would be very happy he didn't come and say he didn't come say hello he didn't say oh thank you very much thank you for giving me another 12 years let's just catch up on uh how are the last 12 years how is the kids bar mitzvah who is the caterer how's the invitations work out you know did you do taxes yet this year no he didn't even say hello back to the base matters and the famous words of kaiser levitz is that 24 years is much greater than 12 years plus 12 years because once you interrupt and once you stop then there's some some type of conglomerate effect the the when you when you do something in rochnias the total package is much greater than the sum total of its parts when it's done consistently so the same way the assassination of gedalia created an interruption that really downgraded by yoshini we don't want there to be an interruption between the roshan and young pepper so that when yom kippur comes we don't want yom kippur to be downgraded just the opposite we want yom kippur to be a continuation of rosh hashanah that's the third connection between s rosh hashanah yum keeper and then another idea and this is constant rosh hashanah and has have passed away over the years many were even murdered what was significant about the murder assassination of guidance says marsha and this is how we'll explain it you could just imagine you smile ishmael was a from a yid and he probably darwin and chul and he also sang along and hard with a heartfelt liggin and he was crying and he also darvened everybody else he was singing along with everybody else and he also said of hinoma he was also doing shiva now you think he woke up the morning of time gaddafi hmm what should i do today it's time gedalia i gotta kill gadalia because uh you think he woke up that morning he probably was planning on it for a while and probably when he went to shul on rosh hashanah he was thinking in his head maybe you know is that a really good idea to kill this sadiq after all he's one of he's the leader of the jewish people and here it is i'm davening and and he also probably thoughts went in his head should he do it should he not do it and despite the fact that he sat in for two days trying to do tuba he didn't take advantage of rosh hashanah it's bad enough when a tadic dies it's even worse when he's assassinated but you know what the biggest tragedy is the biggest tragedy is if the person who assassinated him went through a rosh hashanah and the rosh hashanah did not make a russian on him if the rosh hashanah did not change him that you could go through it's possible to sit in seoul for two days and still walk out the same rat in russia that you were before you started off that's the tragedy of son gadalia you know what the strategy of some kedalia is not taking advantage of rosh hashanah and that's a tragedy the reason why we fast after rosh hashanah is because what we're reminding ourselves is don't make the same mistake yeah you could dive in and show for two days you could cry you could sing along with the you could wave your hands you could sway you could put your talus over your head you could roll your eyes you could do all the right things and you could walk out of a rosh hashanah a murderer like ishmael and that's why we fast because it's a great tragedy for somebody to go through rosh hashanah and not to ask himself am i different today than i was before rosh hashanah's time that's what we need to think on on some good eye the fast of sun gedalia is the question you need to ask yourself is am i different today or am i just like that you small guy who david on rosh hashanah and walked out of the rosh hashanah the same old russia are we the same we are that are we the same today as we were arab rosh hashanah we hope not that's the purpose of the fast purpose of the fast is to remind us to take advantage of to take advantage of the yameha chuva the opportunities that hashem gave us over the last uh two days so again these are four explanations for the connection between sanghidalia and the mayhachuva number one the lesson of al titstaq kharbe were in sure last two days don't be so righteous now it's time to learn now you have to know what the hell is someone tells you information you don't believe it but you have to be you have to be suspicious number two it's the lesson of that the days of chuba are a progression of the three weeks the shiva de nachemta and the tarti duty to remind her that what are you doing chuba for you're doing chuva going back to the period of corbin number three some gedalia is a lesson of don't break the consistency don't break continuity when a gedalia was assassinated the continuity continuity between baha'is by his shiny was broken don't break the continuity between rosh hashanah and yom kippur and finally number four the the fast of gedalia is to remind us of the tragedy of not taking advantage of rosh hashanah and we should try to utilize all of these limudim of sun gidalia and i wish everyone an easy tightness you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com