Is The Era of the Resurrection of the Dead ( Tchiyat Hametim ) Imminent? A Shocking Truth Revealed

[music] [singing] [music] [singing] [music and singing] >> Okay, welcome everyone. This is um Yom Shlishi. We are in the month of Sivan as we prepare and we are in the period approaching Shavuot and it's a very, very important sheer at a very important juncture that um I will introduce to you a concept that you may have heard, you may not have heard, but either way it's entirely shocking and interesting. But also bears some responsibility. We all know but here's here's the question. The question is we have observed that all the events of this special year, 5786, from the inception of Rosh Hashanah have been somehow larger than life. From Rosh Hashanah's proclamation in the UN to deny Israel's uh rightful place in Jerusalem and Eretz Israel altogether. The two Trump's defense of Israel in the United Nations to some of the uh incredible events that have unfolded regarding Iran including the decapitation of their leaders and entering this now prolonged uh grinding struggle uh with America that seemingly you know you know, moving on and on without a clear terminus, but one thing is clear that the sorrows of the Iranian regime are nothing. Uh were nothing in Rosh Hashanah compared to what it is now. They have lost credible amounts of money and uh all all their nuclear sites um massive amounts of their armies and navies. Um terrorists are being picked off by Israel in rapid fashion, whether it be in Lebanon, whether it be in Gaza. It's a war of attrition to be sure, but it's definitely that our enemies are in retreat. We cannot claim um how shall I say uh victory. So, the question that we'll pose is what is the unique and a unique um juncture that we're at in 5786? And what is the significance of this year? What can we expect um our role to be over the next several months as we continue going forward. So, I want to address the question of what is the real significance of 5786? Okay, to answer this question we have to introduce a couple of concepts that we we have spoken about, but I'm going to add some sources now that are going to put in a completely different perspective. I've mentioned many times that based on the Gamorah Sanhedrin 97A and also Gamorah Avodah Zarah uh the the world divides into three parts in world history. The scatological the scatological progress of man through history and of course through the lens of Torah and the Jewish people and Hashem is through the through um a three 2,000-year journeys. The first 2,000 years were known as Tohu. Remember Abram is is born famously in the Jewish year 1948, ironically. And that is before the Tower of Babel incident. And but after the flood, of course, which took place in 1656. So, we have excuse me, Abram is on the scene already uh after that generation. And we now we then enter what's known as 2,000 years of Torah. That really begins with Abram's journey to seek and find Hashem and spread his name to the nations of the world. And begin the the development of Klal Yisrael. And it could it concludes in what is the in the year uh uh 4,000, which is which corresponds to the secular year or the common era year of 240. With with the closing of the Mishnah period and really the the end of Torah mastery in Eretz Yisrael, winding down, coming to a close, the Jerusalem Talmud was written within uh you know, 150 years, but that was as as the community waned under increasing pressure from the newly Christian Roman Empire and the darkness descended upon Eretz Yisrael and everything moved uh as it began uh hundreds of years before to the world of Babel, Iraq, and Mesopotamia, which since the times of the destruction of the first Beit Hamikdash, some uh years uh after its construction. And now we are after the destruction of the base time migdash an additional 170 years or so. Then we have the destruction and the fall of Betar the last last strongholds the last hurrah of the Jewish mouth food in Eretz Israel with the Bar Kokhba rebellion being crushed by the Romans. So we have now really the winding down over the period of the giving of the Torah the written and oral Torah have marched through that 2000 year journey. It's taken us from Mount Sinai which is of course commemorated on the Hag Shavuot and continues all the way through the closing of and writing and composition of the oral Torah by the by the view to the nasty of the Mishnah and later of the Yohanan from the from the so-called the atomic Talmud Eretz Israel was known as the Yerushalmi and then and then it continues its development in our deep scholars which would which would continue um for that entire fourth millennium. Um a fifth millennium until we begin the sixth millennium which is the year 1240 in the common era. And we have the beginnings beginnings of the return to Eretz Israel and I've explained that you could a marking point was the Ramban's reestablishment of the first synagogue in Jerusalem for who knows maybe uh hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years which is still today called the Ramban shul in the heart of the old city of the reunited old city of Jerusalem. So what does all this have to do with 5786 or the year 2025 26? Okay. So if you continue that marker and say well there was 2000 years of pre you know um pre Torah which is known as the olam of tohu vavohu, in which man was basically idolatrous, basically um dealing with his yetzer hara, experiencing the flood, experiencing the Tower of Babel happening, and working through its, you know, relationship to good and evil, its very mixed-up relationship to good and evil, which through the help of Torah has improved greatly, but certainly not um taken root fully as of yet, but we're getting there. And as we march through that progression in time, we reach the sixth millennium, beginning in that time of the around the lifetime of the Ramban, 1240. And my Nachmanides, who was famously argued this disputation in Barcelona, where he refuted Christianity and then was forced to flee when he wrote down uh his brilliant defense of Judaism in the face of the Franciscans and uh friars. Um And from that point forward, we began the the the last uh epoch of history, from the year 1240 to the year 2240, which is identified as the Hebrew year 6000. And as we have said that Hashem sees says until him sees 1,000 years as a day, this corresponds to days of creation. These are all things we have discussed in great detail. But what we didn't discuss was the following point. It's true that there is a midpoint to the final day, is known as Friday. And we know that chatzot, mid- midday, is when we really begin to prepare for Shabbat, the lights of Shabbat, i.e. what's going to happen after the year 6,000 begin to shine in on the world and that crossing point, critical crossing point was the year 1740. And after the year 1740, we we see the rise of nationalism and nations and the real disturbing of shivat Zion through the what we would call the early stages of kibbutz galuyot began. But the intensification in other words, the midpoint of the day, the day which began a 500 year period from the year 1740 to the year 2240, which began in the year 1740 at the time when the Ba'al Shem Tov and the Vilna Gaon were spreading their teachings and really bringing the Jewish people uh to a state in which they were yearning for the return to Eretz Yisrael. And he sent his and they sent their students to begin that process, which was a very very very difficult one. Especially in the onset and it's not become that less it's it's much better, but it's still complicated for many reasons. And um but in the year we crossed into the midday of erev shabbos. Okay. So now we have that period of from 1900 to 2240 until till all this story plays out. Which story? The story has to include the things that we believe according to the Rambam, which according to our our hazal and our tradition that there will be kibbutz galuyot. There will be a full return from the exile. It may happen in stages, it may happen with progressions. But immediately after that period is going to start another period which is associated with this miraculous year. Okay? And that is known as the period of t'chiyat hametim, the resurrection of the dead. So, let me explain. There's um a number of mikoros, a number of sources that say I'm going to share them with you. All right, here we go. The Gemara in Shabbos asks you says that when when a person after going to the Olam Haba, to the world to come, and we they review their lifetime they are asked four questions. Number one, Nasata u'vanata Mah was your business practices? Were you an honest person regarding making a living? Number two, Kavata itim la'Torah, did you have fixed times to study Torah? Number three, did you have a family? Did you engage in Peru u'revu? Did you bring another generation of life into the world? Which is defined halachically as a boy and a girl. Uh Beit Beit Shammai Shita was could be two boys, but we pasken like Beit Hillel, a boy and a girl, so they can they can replace the other population. Ironically, as we know, replacement of the previous generation, you have to bring forth 2.1 children. Don't ask me what point one of a child is. But it means that the two that created children created a little bit more than two. So, they'll average out to just above two. This one will have one kid, this one will have three kids, this one will have two kids. Whatever it is, this one won't have any kids, but in the average, you know, the the that's the replacement. Most of the countries of the developed countries of the world, industrialized countries of the world, fall way below that number. Some almost down to one or or or just about one. Israel, baruch Hashem, is over three, and particularly in the Jewish population. So, we can say on the whole, thank God, yeah, the Jewish people on the whole are on the whole are are are observing that mitzvah. But, the last one, last question that we get, which is a little bit of an odd one, is see Pesa le-Yeshua. Did you look ahead to the redemption? Did you prepare? Tzofeh is literally to scout or to look, see what's happening. Did you anticipate the Geulah? Did you in your lifetime incorporate into your lifestyle a yearning for as a value, a yearning for the events of Kibbutz Galuyot, Mashiach, Techiyat HaMeitim? Okay. Those four questions are discussed in the Gemara Shabbat 31a. And I'm going to refer you to a wonderful article by Rabbi Pinchas Winston uh called Waiting for the Redemption on this topic, and you can find it on torah.org. Wonderful, wonderful article. Okay, so I'm sharing with you some of the ideas and facts and information, plus more. So, it would seem that we have these four major objectives in our lifetime, cuz that's what they're going to ask us about. Again, they're going to ask us how do we engage others in business? What did we do to make a living? How was that? How ethical? What did you do? What was your enterprise? But, most importantly, did you have emunah in Hashem when you did it? Did you have emunah in Hashem to set times to learn Torah and take breaks from your personal affairs? Did you take breaks from your personal affairs, which is what people don't want to do anymore today, and engage in raising a family, which is a very, very, very huge time commitment. It has to be [clears throat] done with a great idealism. And more importantly, did you see your life in the context of anticipating the redemption? So, that in that vein, we the the safer mitzvot katana uh wrote that the mitzvah, the very first mitzvah of and that's mentioned in the aseres hadibros, which is of course read aloud on shavuos night, is anochi Hashem Elokecha as we was da da happening for the I mean night, meaning early morning for those who don't early. For those who don't come early, really come to shul to listen to aseres hadibros, it's a big inyan. He says, that is a mitzvah. It's a mitzvah? Well, of course, it's one of the aseres hadibros. Well, what does it mean? So, it says, anochi Hashem Elokecha asher hotzeisicha me'eretz mitzrayim mibeis avadim. I took you out of Egypt, says the safer mitzvos hakatan. And this is quoted by Reb Yechezkel Levenstein, a great figure of the previous century, a mashpia, and a a a mashgiach rosh yeshiva even in Eretz Yisrael. He said that we are obligated to have emunah, faith, that this will happen again. The words of the safer mitzvos hakatan was, I want you to believe that I, God, will gather you in and redeem you in mercy, b'chesed gedolah v'rachamim, a second time. In other words, the pattern of the early the earliest geulah of Am Yisrael out of Eretz Mitzrayim is the pattern of all future redemptions and the final redemption. The exodus from Egypt will parallel what's going to happen in the yemos hamashiach. And when Hashem says, anochi Hashem Elokecha asher hotzeisicha me'eretz mitzrayim, he is teaching us that we should we are obligated as a mitzvah of the purpose of the 10 Commandments to believe that. Now, so it it behooves us to acknowledge that that is a mitzvah and then we have to then understand what is CPC issue mean. What I mean, what are we supposed to do? You know, they have a lot of stories about the by Nelson Vogel. You know, what anytime you heard a something happening here, here. In other words, they lived with imminence of Messiah. There are many like that. However, at least we can understand the process and understand the significance of the year that we're in and what we have reached. What is so special? Because there is a teaching in the net told us 139A which is based on a book in the book of Daniel, of course, which holds all the secrets of the book. You base. Over there, it says in Daniel that if you are written in the safer, you're written in the book, you will be among those counted to survive the difficult period of the end days, what we call the the Messiah, the footsteps of the Messiah. Which most certainly includes the Holocaust etc. and all the wars of the 20th century. All of that, the the footsteps of the Messiah. Now, it says in the Zohar that that married in the 40th years year of his life, correct? Based on that, you have to understand that, but like you could think about Rivka coming from the diaspora to the house of Yitzchak as a symbol of kibbutz galuyot, escaping from the house of Lavan, etc. I'm just adding that as my own insight. So the 40 years is when they got married. That's a remez to to um to the in-gathering of the exiles. So it says 40 years, the Jews will be gathering and then we enter the next phase which is known as tchiat hametim, the revival of the dead. Now you'll ask me, where does Mashiach and Beit Hamikdash fit into all this? That's a longer discussion, but suffice it to say that we can at least focus for the moment on the words of the Midrash Neelam, which is as follows, that Rav Kahana said, in those 40 years, okay? Many that there'll be a a many tzaros and many milchamos that will engulf the Jewish people, that will be instigated against the Jewish people from the period of the kibbutz galuyot as we move through those 40 years to the onset of the era of tchiat hametim. Now I will say this that I do not mean to say that there will 100% be people arising from the dead in this year. Cuz I'll explain to you that this is the 40th year after the period we know as kibbutz galuyot. I'll explain why. But the process is starting. The spirit of it is starting. The notion of it is is coming within sight. And I'll we'll have to think about and explore what that practically means, but first let's understand the very concept of it. And we know it's important because on Har Sinai, when we received the Torah, which is coming up in in Shavuos in a couple of days, it was an experience of T'chiyas HaMeisim, of the revival of the dead. And Rashi is very clear, quoting the Medrashim that said, Parshas Masei, when they heard the two first mitzvahs, including this this dibur of Anochi Hashem Elokecha, which includes the mitzvah of Tzifisa d'Yeshua, their neshamos went out, either out of yearning, out of out of the magnitude of the experience, they couldn't hold the light, the keilim, the body was not able to hold the soaring spirit that was infused with divine energy and divine light at Matan Torah, or whatever was occurring. And then Hashem had to revive them. So, there was a moment of T'chiyas HaMeisim, and when they revived, they revived a lot better than they were before, because they came uh in a fully in their human form was healed. So, that's why Har Sinai, uh Mount Sinai, I like to say is the name of a hospital, but it's not so far off, because really it was a refuah for the Jewish people, and refuah is a part of T'chiyas HaMeisim. Okay? It is restoring the body to wholeness and wellness, and within it an advanced and enlightened neshama. Hold on. So, where do I get this, that the 40 years are what preceded this year? Okay, so that for that, you have to go to another makor. And that makor is called Drushei Olam HaTohu, Chelek Beis, Drush Daled, Anaf 12, Siman Nine. and this is from what's known as Druze Olam who it's part of the um uh literature of the Zohar as explained by the Leshem, the great Kabbalistic figure of the previous generation of the of the 20th century um Rebel Yoshiv, who was of course the the the grandfather of the Rebel Yoshiv, the great Posek, but he was the ranking Kabbalist of his generation. And he wrote as follows explaining the Medrash Nalam that says that the period of Tisha Mesin will not be uniform. In other words, it's not like whoop, everybody will get up or whatever that means. But the time of death just like the time of death is not uniform, the time of the resurrection is also not uniform, but will happen within a range of time. Okay? The earliest period of that would be 40 years after after the 40-year period of Kibbutz Galiot ends which I'm telling you calculates to this year or some say in four years. But we're certainly, at least according to one opinion, right there or in the next four years at certainly beyond set of that, which is imminent. Now says the uh Medrash Nalam Posh Toldos 140A that the resurrections will occur over a longer time period and it's a Machlokes between Rebbe Yehuda and Rebbe Yitzchak how long. Rebbe Yehuda says uh 210 years prior to the year 6,000. That would be 2030. However, Rebbe Yitzchak says 214 years, which would be 5786, which means that the 40-year period is prior to either 210 years before the year 6000, which is 2240, or or it's going to be 214 years before the year 6000, which is 2240. So, the options are this year, 2025-6, which corresponds to 5787, or 4 years hence. Okay, in the year 2030, which would be 2029-2030. Machlokes between Rebbe Yehuda and Rebbe Yitzchak. That means ladies and gentlemen, all uh and dear friends, that the beginning of the period of Kibbutz Galios, the serious Kibbutz Galios, not the the one that started with the Ramban in 12 uh 60, or even in 1740 with the Tamid I grew. That was a trickle. That was really a trickle. But that the period of the 40 years before would either be from 1986 or from 1990. Now, I did a little research um about the the uh Jewish population of Israel from starting in 1986 and 1990. Of course, the obvious thing that comes to mind is the fall of the Soviet Union. Already in 1986, there was heavy movement on the Jackson-Vanik Amendment to get the Soviet Jews out. Everybody knows about the clandestine work of many organizations, and front first and foremost, Chabad, to keep Yiddishkeit alive in the former Soviet Union and the refuseniks, until the walls fell around 1989. Agav, with the falling of the Soviet Union, we gained access not only to about and hundreds of thousands of Jews that were released and came to Eretz Israel. Um very similar to the Sephardic Aliyah at the beginning of the state of Israel. And I'll explain to you why that's not as much Kibbutz Galuyot as Russia. Because the Jews in the Sephardic lands are not held captive by Esau Amalek. They were held captive by Ishmael. Different. It's a little different story. When we speak about Kibbutz Galuyot, we are thinking about returning from the exile of Rome. And the exile of Rome is from the Christian world. Okay, I want to be very clear about that. So, the real big return was not in '48, '49, '50 with the Jews of Morocco and Yemen and Libya and Iraq and Syria and all of the, you know, survivors of of you know, the Holocaust, that was a part of it. And even the early Russian immigrants of the first waves of Aliyah, small, but a beginning. But the serious part where it starts to become uh uh um a huge number, you know, the majority edging towards the majority of the Jews on the planet, only really starts with the Russian immigrations that start more or less or more in the very late 18 and 1986, '7, '9. That's when they were already coming. And then the fall of the Soviet Union. And then the re-access to Kibbutz Galuyot, where you could then once again return to the Ukraine and to Poland and to Hungary. And slowly with within around that time, the travel to Kever Tzaddikim became an entirely different Okay, I just have to do a quick recap. We had a technical problem. My apologies. And if you smooth went on the screen, that was annoying. As one of the one of our dear friends noted, then I apologize. We'll try to finish this year in a better way. So, where do we where are we so far? Quick recap. There We have said, we introduced the following concept, that while we know that this the the Gemara says that Jewish the world history is only 6,000 years and we enter a period of Shabbos. And we know that the midpoint of the final day was 1740. Excuse me, the morning, the dawn of the final day, the first 500 years representing the night, the final 500 years representing the day, began in 1740, but reaches its midpoint in 1990. And from there, we explained based on Medrash Neelam that from that point, okay, it matches exactly what was said in the Medrash Neelam, that both Rabbi Yehuda and Rabbi Yitzchak say that before the year 6,000, before, there will be begin the process of T'chiyat HaMeitim following on the heels of a 40-year period of Kibbutz Galuyot, of intense Kibbutz Galuyot. Now, that means that if that 40 years began in 19 and and that will end either 210 or 214, according to Rabbi Yitzchak, years prior to the year 6,000, which means that the Kibbutz Galuyot period, the ingathering of the exiles, which is a 40-year intensive episode, either began in 1986 and concluded this and concludes this year as we transit into the era of 214 years prior to the end date which means that we're in the phase known as the resurrection. And if according to that will take place 4 years hence. One can certainly feel in this year that it's been so monumental that it seems like certain things are drawing to conclusion. Now it also says that those 40 years will be extremely difficult years. Uh um we have Kahana said in the middle of those 139A based on the book of Daniel 12:1. Okay, that many troubles and many wars will be instigated against the Jewish people from the ingathering of the exiles that's 1986-1990 until the resurrection of the dead. Now let's go through a little journey in history, shall we? What would the sorrows be experienced from 1986 till today? Well the first Intifada began in 1993. If you if you mark it from 1990, okay uh or but you might say that you know, almost at the beginning of that time period I'm sorry, the first Intifada began already 1987. There you have it. If 1986 was the starting point of the years of sorrows and instigated wars well, the first Intifada coincides with it exactly 1987 to 1993. In the middle of that was the Gulf War in which the Scud missiles came where there's another period of sorrows. In 2000 in year 2000 till 2005 was the second horrible intifada, right? And I have to go into the blown-up autobuses, restaurants, Sbarro Cafe. And you could understand where the Tanaim would say, I I wouldn't want to be in those times. To witness that in the heartbreak. I mean, I have heartbreak today. I see three soldiers were killed in the last 24 hours. Beautiful young men. I have no idea why they were killed or what they were doing. And and not that I don't have great hakarat hatov to Tzahal, but I'm I really don't know why lives are being lost. I'm not sure why. And if there's any other way to accomplish our goals, I'm not sure. I'm not a military person, but I'm hoping and praying that it'd be minimized or eliminated altogether. And then you have the Second Lebanese War, which was in 2006. Okay, which by the way um gave way to a to a series of battles in Gaza, which began in 2008 when Hamas wrested control of the Gaza Strip until 2023, which is October 7th. Nonstop. If you want to talk about a period of sorrows, the Yehudim in Israel bein sha'ot, bein shnat 1986 till 2026, well, you're you've got it. And I'm not including in that I'm really not including that the the the current wars with Iran and uh Hezbollah, right? Beyond the Gaza Strip. After October 7th, we had to then deal now with Houthis and Iranians putting us up into into safe rooms and Hezbollahniks threatening the north. And now, thank God, the since June, the miraculous war, you know, in in in in just about a year ago, has has turned a lot of that tide in our favor, thank God, with a lot of help from Donald J. Trump. And and and no one else, I will I will say, against the whole world. So, if you want to go through other issues, I'll show you. Outside of Eretz Israel, okay, the murder of Rabin took place in 1995. The the the hitnatkut, which was one of the great tragedies in the history of of the modern state of Israel, maybe of Judaism altogether, was the voluntary withdrawal from the Gaza and Samaria. What an insanity that was, and what a disaster it caused. And then, of course, internal internal politics around, you know, in demonstrations, right right after October 7th, regarding uh judicial reform, the hostages. Thank God, thank God, due to President Trump's Hashem's help through President Trump, you know, the the the hostages were recovered. An incredible thing. In 1994 and 1992, there were Iranian attacks on the Jewish community of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It was a and in Europe, a wave of terror began already in the year 2000. And of course, 9/11. You know, that was the the real launching point. There was the Pigua in Toulouse in that school in 2012. All right. There was the attack on the Jewish Museum in Belgium, 2014. Hyper Cacher, 2015. The shul in Copenhagen, 2015. And then all of a sudden, the United States joins the fun. In 2018, you have the Pittsburgh shooting. That was the first major We of course we know the the the horrible um retzach in Yerushalayim of uh Yushie Rabbi Twersky and others. This has been a non-stop thing. And now, starting with 2023, we have a tsunami of anti-Semitism. And in the English-speaking countries that we thought, you know, were kind of our friends, England, Australia, we don't have to say the countries of Europe. Israel can't even go to a stupid musical contest like Eurovision without being called genocidal maniacs. It's not so simple. This has been a very very difficult period, but on the other hand, it's resisting something that they understand is a non a non unstoppable train. And that's kibbutz galios. Because in that time period, from 1986 till till now, the Jewish population has risen from 4 million to well over 7 million. Okay? If that ain't kibbutz galios, I don't know what is. And it's not just those that arriving from that arriving from foreign countries anymore, because that's you know, that's constant and a lot of those aren't even Jewish, but but the point is is that it's internal growth as well. As I said, miraculously, Israel has the high one of the highest I think the highest rate of any of the OECD industrial nations in producing Jewish children. And the Arab population numbers have fallen. So, the whole idea of a ticking time bomb is nonsense. because the Jewish demographics are stronger than the Arab demographics. So, keep with Galil. And now we just have to now I'm going to spend a few minutes closing this year after revealing this that the period, you know, and you might want to think of COVID as a warning? A warning? You know, like you you like before Shabbos, you send out a signal, Shabbos is coming, time to bench light. Well, the fact that people were prohibited from traveling and couldn't make it to Israel Right, well. Is that was that a signal and just how difficult it is? We don't even know. You're traveling, you're not traveling, we're going, we're not going, we're going we can go to the goals, we can't go to the goals, whatever it might be. Um it's not so positive to get to the land of Israel anymore. It's not like it was wide open in in in those years. You could hop a plane any single time you wanted, any day you wanted. No, you got to see what airlines are flying, so well, how much it costs, and this and that. I brought my kids here for my my daughter and her family here for Pesach. It was a whole it was a whole episode. Yeah, we'll have flights, we're not flights, have to cancel the cheaper flights and take El Al flights, which are a lot more money, and you don't know if you're going or coming, and we don't know whether we're going to be in bomb shelters, we don't know what's flying. We literally don't know what's flying. It's far from simple, you know, to even guarantee that the skies will be open indefinitely. I don't know. So, perhaps that's Hashem's way of saying, "Get on board, everybody. Hop on board." It's I think there's a a realization especially in America now in in these difficult years uh since October 2023. Yeah, election of Mayor Mamdani to to uh to New York City, a Hamas, you know, a Hamas Brotherhood. He's a He's a Muslim Brotherhood product. His wife certainly is. And the infiltration of Congress and the Senate which we never thought would ever happen has happened. And the Democratic the the tide of the Arab vote in America, which you Who would ever think of the Arab vote in America? It's real. It's very real. And it's kind of reaching the numbers equivalent if not more. I think it's already surpassed the Jewish vote. So, what do we say? Kibbutz Galuyot period seems to be drawing. Not that it's a tight door closing, and there's overlap. There's always Hafifa. Kibbutz Galuyot will continue. But um it's not what it It ain't what it used to be. Okay? And what about Tisha B'Av? How can we begin to wrap our heads around this concept? That in this year Tisha B'Av is stirring. Now, I'd like to offer my thoughts on this. Okay? Let's go back to that very Gemara that we started with. That when when a person passes away, they ask them four questions. Okay? Masatan Umatan Imunah, what was your business dealings? How were you Did you reflect Emunah in Hashem? And and good middos, etc. Righteousness, justice. Uh learning Torah. Did you set times for learning Torah? Okay? Did you cultivate Jewish families? And did you look for the redemption? I'd like to suggest that Tisha B'Av is related to those four topics to begin with. In other words, if life life's four most important questions are those, then doesn't it make sense that if a person were sent back to this world with Tzelem Elokim, that they'd be charged with investigating those four areas, the bedrock of life. Let's understand what it means a little bit. Person who has incredible financial stress and problems, it's a killer. Ani doeg lemahar. Resolving financial issues and feeling the blessings of Hashem is no given in our day and age at all. As our lifestyles become incredibly expensive and our consumerism and our expectations and the just the plain cost of living uh and education, even here in Israel, massive. It's not so simple. It's almost like it's not a life if this issue is ca- is uh you know, not not somewhat manageable. And for many, many, many, it's not. So, it's almost kind of not a life. So, Tzelem Elokim would be financial stability, sanity, straightness, logic, seder. Same thing with Torah. If you're running around filled with worries, fears, anxieties, responsibilities, work, etc., distractions, and there's not Kvius Itim LaTorah, what is the life? Eitz Chaim Hi LaMachazikim Boh. That's life. That's our life in this world and the next. The third thing, which is family, if if we're not ensuring the Jewish destiny that there'll be and particularly now as the as the Kibbutz Galuyot period is really winding down, to make sure that the children are planted here where they need to be post cubits gallios and are starting families that are going to continue here in Eretz Yisrael to whatever extent possible. And then finally, um to be aware that a Jewish people living under such terrible circumstances with such horrible enemies how much we need Mashiach to be so the Yeshua that we should stand as a source of great blessing and health and wealth to the nations proudly Jewish. And of course, the rather shocking events of this past Shabbos of uh Trump's 2026 call for Jews to keep Shabbos is um you know, never been heard before. This year this year maybe the spirit of Shabbos which was which is the representation of the 6,000 years let's face it is a kind of Tzipi Silio Shua. Let's look forward to Shabbos. Let's make Shabbos really part of our lives. Let's understand that we have entered the period of Tziyas Hametim. And it and again, it's staged. The righteous of the most righteous will be the first to appear. And then everybody else will follow Be'ezrat Hashem. But I we apparently have to strengthen these four areas in order to hold on to the purpose of life. The meaning the meaning of life and the challenges of life particularly here in Eretz Yisrael. So I see that's chizuk as we're going into uh Shavuos to give thanks to Hashem in an incredible way. Jews stood at Har Sinai and experienced Tziyas Hametim. We this Shavuos in year 5786 according to Rabbi Yitzchak in a couple years hence we should be we've already started this process are going to see the ends of these these challenges, the end of that 40-year period of tsouris. That means that we're heading into a period which will be much more peaceful and much more filled with those four areas. arnasa, children banim mazone Torah and of course a real peace, a real shalom to the world. Everybody remembers the drasha that was said at the beginning of the year how the 28 eights the 28 eights of the book of Koheles if you divide the 6000 years by 28, okay, so this year again is the final one final period of history which really is makes sense because we're in that last 210 or 214 is ace shalom. This is where we're going to get our shleimus back. So besatzem we should see the continuing development of the miracles of 5786, the dissipation of these horrific horrific wars and hatred and going into an ace shalom of shleimut and we have everything to be excited about and we should accept the Torah with great great great enthusiasm and optimism that light is at the end of the tunnel besatzem. We can really really we must. That's what see peace to Yeshua looking for the light at the end of the tunnel. So that's our job. Have a wonderful shavuos and best to everyone. If [music] I lay you down If I lay you down >> [singing] >> If I lay you down >> [music] >> If I lay >> [singing] >> If I lay >> [music] >> If I lay >> [singing] >> If I lay >> [music] >> If [singing] I lay I got you all night.