Teshuvah: The Tragedy of Tzom Gedalia - Not Capitalizing on Rosh Hashanah

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com okay good evening rabbi we're at the closing moments of sam gadalia and we uh we spoke a little bit about it this morning we want to uh propose another explanation for the day of sun gidaya which is the day that gida was murdered he was murdered by a yid by the name of ishmael i don't know what his parents were thinking but that's what they named him by the bris you know the father got confused between the news and the name so he called him ishmael but that was his name now the question we want to think about is sam gedalia seemingly has nothing to do with that serious matuha right we mentioned this morning asar bhattavas is the day they surrounded the walls of ushalayim shiva thomas they broke through tish above they destroyed the base of mikdash and sanghidalia the ramadan says gedalia was the last hope the last cold the last remnant that remained in arashi israel and when he was murdered the last ember extinguished fine so that all has to do with khorbin bay samiktas that's part of a different part of the year what's it doing in middle of the assassination that's what we discussed this morning and this morning we offered one possibility says something very important and that is you have to know the history you have to a little nubby even though we're a not-for-profit organization nevertheless you need to know about what was going on in the vm well first of all the majority of the jewish people were exiled by the nazar 100 years earlier and of the jews who were there by the khurban were exiled but he left he and at that point the jews were out most of the jews were out but he made a law that he's going to allow a jewish governor to govern aras israel whereupon a lot of jews began to return from mayav and now the mayavim they swallowed it amon couldn't take it so ammo hired the hitman ishmael to go kill gadalia so says marsha so we think this is part of corbin mesa magnesh now this is an assassin fast why because hey ishmael he's been sitting the last two days in seoul he heard that felix he heard the shampoos he heard the muscles he heard the drushes he's sitting there the whole day in seoul you can't go through rosh hashanah without thinking a little bit i need to be better how could a year go through a rosh hashanah without thinking i gotta change and the next day he goes and he kills that sadiq says marshall we don't we don't commemorate every time that sadik is murdered you know what if sadiq were murdered ishayah saharya saharya was greater than gedalia ushaya was greater than gadalia why don't we commemorate their death the answer is this is not an isolated murder it's the fact that a jew could go through a rosh hashanah and after that look what he did it's a the tragedy you know what song is the tragedy of not taking advantage of rosh hashanah that's what it is because he was hired for money people do anything right he was hired that's what he did for a living he killed people he was an exterminator he killed people right he was hired among did not want the jews to rebuild in israel so they hired him to knock off their leader it was a political move but the fact that we're commemorating something that we would think is relevant to the corbin and melva cersei made shiva you have to know it's connected to rosh hashanah in other words marshall says the fact that it could happen during assassination means look what could happen to a person a person could be so inspired he could go through a rosh hashanah he could be sitting there in the shoal he puts the palace over his head he's crying he has all these big cabals for the next year and the next day he goes and kills that's the biggest tragedy in the world so sangeeta is very intimately connected to rosh hashanah in other words it's the tragedy of not taking advantage of rosh hashanah that's what martial says and he was in the best with some editorial additions right he was in the base that was a different time that was zakaria that was okay now i saw a little bit of an elaboration on this martial and that is why was it so important now first of all the navi told the jews that they should return to eretz israel that some jews should return tarat israel when gedalia was killed everybody left arts israel even though yermia told them to stay jeremy said despite the fact your leader is murdered you need to stay the jews left why was it so important that the jews stay in eretz israel jesus is gone so now you're 70 years without a base i'm ignorant it matters if jews are in israel not in israel why was it so important that jews remain in israel no you need you need raw visa and what benefit was it so it's very it's suggested that we know in the base second base amigash was built it was not a real binion first of all it was missing five things that the first base of magnus had didn't have the urine didn't have the aish it didn't have the urine the toma didn't have the sheena didn't have right there's an easy way to remember that asher the word asha like usher i think of usher and then i remember the five things that i'm but usher is only one alice no this usher has three alephs so remember usher with three alephs is aish uran matum arain shrina rakhaka that's you think of usher and then you remember it it's very simple right so anyway so the second base hamikdash by the way did not have even shrina it was not the real thing the second is hamikdash there was no presence of god had the jews remained in earth's israel between the there would have been no have signal interruption between by a switch and by shinny and then by shinny would have achieved the same level as bias fusion same way here you have a rosh hashanah and you have a yom kippur but you can't be mafsik in between you can't interrupt in between if you interrupt in between then you could have the same gedalia some gadalia is the reminder not to allow an interruption the same way what happened because of gedarya there was a haptic between vais rishi and byushani but that came about because there was a headache between rosh hashanah you can't interrupt you can't pause whatever levels whatever kabbalahs whatever achievements you've made on rosh hashanah don't allow them to wane during the intermediate days between rosh hashanah and yom kippur but the five things that you mentioned [Music] says that there's another opinion that has brought that it was brought to babel so maybe they would have got it back in other words the interruption in other words there's a lack of why because everything faded and in the 70 years in between everything was lost but maybe had the jews remain there they would have been able to hold on to it in other words another way 70 years was a long time but yeah came back 52 years they came back 52 years but in the inter they came back and they ezra alameda with many jews but it was never empty or the jews it was totally it was it was when gedalia was killed it was empty and completely um say it was empty for a certain period of time there's nobody there there's a certain period okay there's another thought about some gedalia and what it has to do with rosh hashanah and this is a shot that david richter is going to like it says initially don't be too big of a tonic no not because of that now i'll tit that kind of thing don't be too big what does that mean don't be too big if you don't know torah you can't be righteous yeah you have a guy he sits with his talos over his head and he's saying to him the whole day but he doesn't know he doesn't know yes no whether you're aladdin i'll do so you could have the best intentions and he could be very genuine and he could be very sincere but sincerity is not enough i mean you're in you also have to know when to be at sadiq and why not to be sadik here you have gidalia gedalia got a news bolton that a man by the name of shmoeb and alicia is coming to kill him so what should he have done he should have called the secret service and get a bodyguard but he said no i don't want to be macabre like sahara so he didn't take any precautions and you should you smaller came and get out you gave him a big hug and you smell killed him what happened and he's in the uh museum of the wax museum and you could put your talus over your head and you could cry the whole day and you could think you're a big sadiq but that's not but you got to be a husband also you got to know gedalia was a big sadiq but he didn't know that if someone tells you russian her you know being a kabbalist but you're a lot of suspect so you should have said okay i don't believe ishmael is going to kill me but maybe he will so i'm going to call your bodyguard but he didn't do that he was titster carbe so perhaps the following rosh hashanah your day you know you're sitting in show you make all your kabbalahs but you got to know what the halal is you gotta it's not enough to be god fearing and righteous you also have to be smart and you have to know that you could want to do the right thing you could want to keep shabbos but if you don't know hilfoz you're not going to know how to take socks out of your drawing javas and if you don't know hiko's dash and matharek you're not gonna know how to make egg salad and tuna fish and avocado yeah you could sit at your table and you could sing smiroys and you could sing ka aksai and you could sing all the holy songs but you're not gonna know how to make egg salad on shabbos you're not gonna have to make avocado you're not going to know how to make tuna fish you're not going to know how to make salad so you could want to be holy but you also have to know what to do so maybe following rosh hashanah samyada is a lesson that coupled with the year shamayim you also need but we didn't learn the lesson because by the second base ending dish i forgot his name that uh didn't want to let the cow go through the uh carbon or something right yeah and this we didn't we didn't learn the lessons only uh right he was because they said he was anonymous okay so if i say that is a word on sime gidaya you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com