The Haftorah Series: Haftorah of 2nd Day of Rosh Hashanah - The Double Cry of Our Mother Rachel

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com okay rabbi the torah of the second day of rosh hashanah is from the most poignant of taurus that we read the whole year from the navy yermia of course we read the pasik from zachariah noise we say the passage ephraim is afraid i'm not my most precious son i'm yelled at my child of the light kimi dei dabribai the more i speak of him zakhar as karen i remember him more and more alkane may i my life therefore my innards turn for him and i will certainly have mercy on him but we also mention the famous account where hazal say that there was a time where the jewish people were in jeopardy and the rebellion went to the yavois and went to the imahis and they were not successful in having their prayers answered and finally the pasik says says so says the lord a voice on high is heard crying with bitter tears rahel weeping for her children refusing to be consoled for her children for they are not quite so if you notice everything mentioned in this is repeated and doubled doubled yes yeah a voice is turned hard on high a more mournful voice of crying is crying refusing to be consoled it says one time she's crying on her children why does that say again refusing to be controlled on her children so hashem addresses her twice refrain your voice from crying and your eyes from tears there's reward for your ex visava may i say they will return v8 why does it have to say vishavuban like vulum evelyzard sv valdenberg has an astounding shot rev see yehuda while the rebel he has an astounding shot that he quotes from the huda this is uh he wrote in 1967 in the aftermath of the war and he writes in semen what a beautiful shot on this he quotes i believe from the slach and he also quotes um if only we would be zaika to see soon our redemption and the redemption of our soul the teemale daya ladasas to be able to know recognize and appreciate the miracles god wrought for us the november nade that we can understand though the only reason god made these miracles that we should have access to earth israel is only to observe the torah but not that darkness and light destruction and binion should serve in in mixture in other words god did not give us earth israel so that observant and secular can mix freely in ours israel god gave us israel for one purpose the observance of the law like we see unfortunately today that eretz israel is split and in this context he quotes this passage and the incredible jira show that the night behind us and the is matim the shot very beautifully as we mentioned everything is doubled foreign is crying over two things number one rachel's crying that there are jews in exile and jews in exile there's a holocaust they're pogroms jews are not able to keep the torah there's persecution around the world whether it's in the far east in the middle east or in uh wherever jews may be jews are persecuted the children of raqqa are in the galas and we're being persecuted and pressured but the second thing is that's not the only thing rachel's crying about she's not only crying about the physical oppression and persecution she's crying that she doesn't recognize her children anymore yes they're persecuted but she doesn't even recognize them anymore they don't they don't observe the torah the way they once did she sees jews without sitsut without covering their head without observing the shabbos without women observing the laws of seniors rachel says these are my children what happened to my children so not only is she crying over their persecution their physical version she's crying over their spiritual status bishop when she sees the face of all of her descendants the anena what happened to them she doesn't see the image of the traditional jew the image of the descendants of yaakov avinu so first she cries kyle berama her voice is heard on high call brahma nishma nihi bakri samrim and she weeps for the oppression of her children but listen to this the first cry is called barama her voice is heard that's the first level but that's not as painful the persecution is not is not what's as painful to rachel what's as painful to rahul is nihi the the second cry the bitter tears the bitter weeping is what the bitter weeping is for the spiritual state of her children and the pasta continues because they have to tolerate and endure the golos i'll civil um with sarah ella golos hamar behan nimar because they have to bear and tolerate the terrible bitter golas akhbiyo is not rochelle her cries for the physical state of jewish people she could be consoled but you know why she can't be consoled she refuses to be consoled it's because her children just don't look the way they once did she doesn't see on them the image of the traditional jew kisar mayhem it has been removed from them that aura of yura shamayim that her children are supposed to have so colors who gives rakhel two promises number one god says mini first of all stop crying over the physical state of jewish people but furthermore your eyes should stop streaming from your worry and anxiety over their spiritual status it's a double nuchamma number one mini quality for the first date god says don't worry the persecution will end the jews will return back to the holy land well they'll be safe they'll have an army they won't be subject to the persecution of the nations of the world so the first promise is ki sakhar le fula sechna there is reward for your activity says god you know what it is the jews will return jews will return whatever level they're on orthodox non-observant whatever level they're on your children will return they'll be protected but the greatest nahamah is the yesh tikvah there is hope for your end not only for this world but for the world to come and that is not only will they return but you know how they'll return they'll return as your children vishavu banim likulam they will return as your children to their boundaries of kadusa the way things once were says and this is a very beautiful explanation for this very emotional prophecy of the tears of rachel emmenu and the response of the college baruch we should be zakha to see it come to fruition you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com