Tzom Gedaliah - The Tragedy of Not Capitalizing on Rosh Hashanah

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have a national day of mourning for them why specifically gedalia gedalia is not a well-known personality if not for some guidance perhaps many would never even have heard of him what's the connection between suing dalia and rosh hashanah actually in our humble safer the darkness and the duan we wrote about the subject again not to be confused with the mystery and the majesty on yom naram this is on the safer on the fast days and we bring four different approaches to understanding the connection between sun gedalia and rosh hashanah i want to share two of them with you firstly the marshawn roshana tells us that the tragedy of sam gidalia was not because it was gidalia the tragedy was when it happened his assassin ushaya ishmael he went to show on rosh hashanah and he was dhabani on rosh hashanah and he was swaying and chuckling and he probably had thoughts of chuba and it's reasonable to assume that yashmal did not come up with this idea of assassinating gedalia the day after rosh hashanah was probably percolating in his mind throughout yampdev and perhaps during the twilights maybe during the sanatorika if he thought you know maybe i shouldn't be doing this but the bottom line is yeshua walked out of a rosh hashanah and he did not take advantage of rosh hashanah he went through a rosh hashanah and he emerged a murderer and that's a very important lesson says martial the lesson of some gidalia is the failed opportunity of rosh hashanah the tragedy of sam gidalia is failing to capitalize on the grand opportunity of rosh hashanah that someone could go through rosh hashanah and not take advantage of it that's the tragedy the tragedy wasn't that gaddalia was assassinated per se although that that was tragic the tragedy is a person could go through a rosh hashanah and emerge unchanged and therefore have us fast right after rosh hashanah to make sure that we come out of a rosh hashanah a different person we don't emerge from rosh hashanah the way we came into it we have to be different coming out of rosh hashanah i saw an amazing approach in a safer on the ta'ane sim which is called several zikarin unim a collection of essays about the tanesim and this particular mimer was written by ruby soyakov krauss the rubber of young israel of hancock park and the manila of tara samus in los angeles he mentions the following idea he says the historically what happened on some gedalia gedalia led the last community the remnant of the jewish people that was left in ushalayim after the destruction of the first base of mikdash that was the last sheiras of claudia soil we know the base of mikdash stood 410 years and during the time of the first temple there were many great spiritual gifts the fire from heaven the urum batumim the orange the shrina the rakha kaidesh the second mesa says it's missing a hay there are five gifts that were missing from the second base hamikdash that were not present in the first base hamikdash what's the reason why the second base amigdas really paled in comparison to the first the answer is because there was a break there was a separation between bayes richard and bahisheni those 70 years was a full-fledged break if gedalia would never been assassinated then it would not have been 410 followed by 70 years of break followed by 420 it would have been one contiguous zman of 900 years 4 10 70 420 900 years of continuous service takadesh baruch the reason why they were never able to recover in times of by shaini is because there was a complete have stick between bhaya swisha and by hashemi that hefsik was accomplished through the assassination of gidalia and once there's a hefsik in rohnius it's very hard to recover i'll give you the following analogy the analogy goes like this the uh the great rabbi akiva we know he went away to learn for 12 years he came back he overheard someone saying to his wife you know are you out of your mind you let your husband leave for 12 years he left you like an amana and she said if he would have if he would listen to me he would go and learn for another 12 years and sure enough that's what he did he didn't even say hello he went straight back to the ishiba and smaller asks why didn't rabbi akiva at least come to his wife and say dear thank you i appreciate your messiest nephesh i'm grateful for for what you did for me how are our children doing how is that bar mitzvah you made without me how is pta without me how do you manage to drive all those carpools without me he said nothing to her he went straight back to the yeshiva why why didn't he at least say hello says because if he would have interrupted and gone to his wife and had that conversation instead of it being 24 years of uninterrupted learning it would have been 12 years and 12 years and 12 years and 12 years do not equal 24. consecutive years and that's a very important lesson in rochnias we have to be very concerned about this when it comes to our limit perhaps one kabbalah that we should try to make for this coming year is that while we're learning we should disengage from our phones turn off the phone because of a person's middle of learning and every moment is being disturbed by a message by a email by a whatsapp by a text then that's not really limitation it's a minute two minutes 30 seconds it doesn't add up it's not really learning is that learning that's like you're a token tribute to the concept of lima hatoya that once existed how how much power how much kadusa would we add to our learning if we made a kabbalah that during this nun of torah we don't get interrupted by any distraction but b as it may when it comes to rooking us it's so important not to have a hefsik because when you have a hefsik you can't really recover and that's what happened by dayasheni because gedalia was assassinated and there was a hefsting between bias reached we were not really able to restore it in times of by hishami therefore says rav krauss that's what we're worried about after rosh hashanah we just had a great aliyah over rosh hashanah we were tremendously elevated but we don't want to lose it if we let it wither away if we let it fade and wane and we have to start all over yom kippur it's not going to be easy to restore the madregos we reach on rosh hashanah the lesson of sam gidalia is don't let there be a hepsick in the seven days between rosh hashanah kippur the way there was a hefsik in the seventy years between bhaiya srishna and bayushini so tom gidalia is there as amarsha says to remind us of the tragedy not to capitalize on rosh hashanah and it's there as of cross points out to alert us to the danger of hefsik in rochnias but if we continue the momentum then we can ensure that yom kippur will build on that momentum of rosh hashanah may we be zaika to that with with great seattle if anybody is listening to the shirt in ireland please contact us rabbi dg dot com wishing everyone agamar kasimatova a good benched yar all the best that's office rabbi dg.com you've 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