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we now begin the days of the that
are so we had first sh and now is the
first day the first weekday and the
first weekday of course will Bea and it
seems a little bit out of place because
Gaya is a day of M for the assassination
of gadaya which was the final Ember that
was extinguished in the process of of
course the walls are surrounded on
they're breached on the is destroyed on
Tish and then finally the last Ember the
last Ray of H the the last Ray of Hope
was extinguished
Ona so this is part of a different era
of the Year we're now in the time of
Chua we're in the of chuva now you know
the three weeks passed three weeks
begins with SH ends with Tish we had 7
weeks of consolation and now during El
we have 30 days of preparation for
rashash then rashash and Y coming Chua
this is a day of fasting that's sort of
out of place what's this doing now why
are we fasting for the assassination of
Galia in middle of the time of chuva
what does it have to do with post
rashash so I'd like to share with you
two ideas of why it's G this year is
more important than ever I saw in AAR
an essay written by the r of hanok Park
of hanok Park was Ms rakov rakov Krauss
and he offers the following idea and I
believe that this idea is more
compelling this year than ever and I
would like to share with you as well the
approach of the mar he says let's paint
the picture we know the first base of
mdash stood for 410 years the second B
mdash stood for 420 years but in between
there was a small small Jewish
settlement led by Galia he was the
leader of the Jewish people most of the
Jews had been exiled to Babylon to to b
or to but there was a small Jewish
settlement in is but because G did not
take the right precautions he was
assassinated on S Gala you know what
would have happened if that settlement
of Jews remained between B
Bay Rabbi KRA suggests then we could
have viewed it instead of 410 years of B
mikdash and then later 420 years one
Continuum of 900 years and one Continuum
is much more powerful than 410 years and
4 20 years because then it would be one
continuous Zan and I'll explain but what
happened was gadal was assassinated and
because of that there was a sever in
between these two eras in history and
and the second B mikdash never was able
to recapture the greatness of the first
B mikdash and when the leim came back in
the time of the second B mikdash the L
saw the second temple paled in
comparison there was no AR there was no
Ur there was no there was no there was
no and the reason for that is they lost
all the momentum you see Ras is all
dependent on continuity like explains
that when rebika heard that his wife
said I'll gladly let my husband go back
for another 12 years he didn't stop and
say hello how are you I appreciate the
first 12 years he went right back to the
Bas medis cuz he knew that 24
consecutive years is much greater than
12 and 12 you know I always like to say
it's like charging your cell phone you
charge it for 5 minutes it goes up one
point one degree goes up from 5% to 6%
you charge it for an hour it goes up
from 5% to 10% but you let it really go
for 3 hours then it'll go up to 100 it
needs to warm up it needs continuity you
can't break it up and and uh in peace
meil spirituality is very much dependent
on
continuity you don't want to break the
momentum it's a tragedy to break the
momentum the fast of Galia teaches us if
only that settlement would have
continued instead of 410 years and
420 they would have continued for 900
consecutive years including the 70 years
in
between and this is critical when it
comes to the aftermath of Rashana and
it's more critical this year we just had
two days of rashash we're on a spiritual
High we were two days in
theing learning hearing sh
hearing we don't want to lose the
momentum when yum Kipper comes we don't
want to have to start all over again
when yum Kipper comes we don't want it
to two days of rashash and then one day
of yum we want it to be 10 continuous
days of kadus and this is more important
than ever because this year we had three
consecutive days of kadus we
are so why lose the momentum we fast s
to teach us the tragedy of breaking the
momentum the same way we wanted it to be
900 consecutive years we want it to be
10 consec days don't lose the momentum
and as important as it is to fast on
after two days it's even more important
after three
days you have the opportunity not to be
Tethered to your phone for three
consecutive days you know experts say
that you could actually break a habit by
going without your phone not for two
days two days is not going to do it
you'll still have withdrawal symptoms
experts say takes three days this year
you'll have three times three days to
break that habit who needs it you don't
even have to go back to it after M don't
become an ed a slave to your device
don't break the momentum when that when
yum Kipper comes let yum Kipper Elevate
the momentum and not be starred again
that's one of the reasons we fast on S
Galia right
after uh the two days of rash there
another meaning that the mara adds Mar
says
probably when kadal is Assassin when he
killed gadaa right after rashash you
know he went to sh that rashash he was
probably ding likely he was ding with
kabana he may even had had thoughts of
Chua he maybe he may even have DAV
sincerely
and desisted from his evil scheme but
when rashash was over the tragedy was he
wasted rashash Shana he did not allow
Rashana to change his life we
fasta as a reminder of the great tragedy
that could happen if you don't take
advantage of rashash what a tragedy is
if you don't allow a rashash to change
you and as important as it is to
safeguard rashash after two days I would
say it's even more important this year
after 72 straight hours of Kusha rashash
and the
Sha so s Galia reminds us don't break
the momentum Sam Galia reminds us of the
tragedy of not capitalizing on rashash
and therefore as important as Sam is
ordinarily it's even more important
after rash and the sh mayem grant us
all to take advantage of these Precious
Moments and we should
