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History: Matos-Masei be strong and flexible together - History says this is antidote to 9 days
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we have two porsches together this week
matas
staff
marseille traveling
also means of course
the tribes
marseille travels
the travels of the jewish people
now there are many details in the parsha
about the durham the laws of vows
and other such things
but the name of the portion
expresses
the overall theme of the portion so in
this case mata is massi
on one hand you need to be as strong and
firm as a mata as a stick a staff
there are times you need to stand up and
not give in
and then there are times you have to
travel
you have to be flexible and just keep on
going
i think the combination of the two is
very appropriate to the time period
we're in and the historical reality
the reality
is that it's the beginning of the nine
days which is shelved tonight
it goes for nine days and then we have
two beau the 15th above
which is the governor says
there were no holidays as great and
happiness as the 15th of why because it
comes after bishop of the saddest day of
the year but there's something more
and important to understand when it
comes to these days
throughout jewish history
we've had calamities and we've had
unbelievable celebrations
god makes the world in a way
where it's balanced
there's free will
you have an option to see the cup half
full or half empty
tissue above is the time
of the year
and the nine days
are the time of the year when
it seems like the cup is half empty
therefore
the latter part of the
month
symbolized by the 15th of and what the
gomorrah says the talmud says about it
that i just cited
is so high so great
you see every
downfall every
descent
its inner purpose and meaning is the
ascent is the growth
when we look at jewish history and we
see all of the different
trials and tribulations we the jewish
people went through
and particularly also the hasidic
who suffered
in the beginning in the hands of them is
not them
and later
not even by must not them by others who
pulled khasidism
this was
well
planned by god almighty hashem wanted it
to go this way you know why
because hasidis would have never been
appreciated if it didn't go through the
hardships and the challenges
so my friends when it comes to a
three-week period and the nine days in
particular
become happy
because history
proves itself we've gone through this
already
a spanish inquisition
helminski pogroms
1648-49
a first world war a second world war
a pandemic
we've
had you read this
the sense
problems
issues
now we need to focus on the aliyah
the up
so i want every one of you
to find something
specifically during these nine days that
you could see and say i'm positive about
it i'm happy about it
i understand how i can take the negative
and make it into positive
that's
a goal that can be accomplished within
nine days
be it between yourself and god or
between you and another person
or being
that we take this in a very serious way
in a serious way meaning with simcha not
with morbidity and melancholy but
happiness that we have an opportunity to
transform a difficult time into the
highest
best time
hashem help it should be done
with and will be done with the
rebuilding of the basal mig there's the
holy temple i mean
if you may know amen beyond me