Rav Kook: Exile & Redemption | Rabbi Aaron Goldscheider

than you for coming out on this uh beautiful rainy morning in y we've been praying for rain and here we have it we have we have rained this morning uh we have a regular sponsor andish sh and we have an additional sponsor this morning as well from the goldwag family who are regulars have been coming and learning in this Shear for many years now so the shear this morning is sponsored by Merl gold old wag in loving memory of her father kesel Ben mayor who 26th did I get that right okay uh whose 26 yard site was giml shabat so thank you very much yes I read it wrong thank you so the learning this morning is Mayor is the should have an Aliyah all right we're going to look at had a uh a topic that is uh quite an important topic in the world in the thinking of R cook and that is the topic of galut and gah the Exile and Redemption but let me just begin with a actually a followup a story that I told last week it was in Tor tibit as well and somebody that wrote me a note about that story which I think is actually a nice introduction to our learning this morning there was a great Rabbi that lived in America his name was Rabbi Mor gter he came to Israel for a couple of years they were opening a branch of the TS Yesa what became known as tellstone he was called back to Cleveland when the rashash at the time passed away and he left AEL he comes back his home was still there was two years later and he had the option of moving into his home and I told the story last week that he said that he would not move into a house in kutar that he should always know that he should always remember that he needs to get back to ER so he did not returned to his home where did he go he went to the dormatory of the aiva one of the dorm rooms with his wife imagine that that he moved into the dorm and that's where he lived for uh for the rest of his life so somebody wrote me an email this week saying that they heard me tell the story was in Tor Tibbits as well usually when I get an email about Torah tibits it's not not good news it's usually somebody somebody telling me that I got this wrong or I spelled this word wrong so this was a positive this was a good email so he said when I was in sixth grade we had a shabbaton we all went to the TS yiva and all the guys of our sixth grade class 30 students young men and we all stayed in the dormatory and it was about one o'clock in the morning on Friday night that we were all wrestling in the in the hallway of the dormatory and a door opened and it was the Ritson it was Riv gif's wife and she said that the rabbi is trying to sleep if you don't mind if you could keep it down a little bit so he said so he wrote to me he said you absolutely right they lived in the dormatory I can I can prove it um so yes s r gifter lived in the dormatory all those years with the hope and the dream of coming back to erell never to settle in not to live in a house in it's quite amazing and I guess that's what it means to be a g Torah to live that way that was your Mor gifter so I want to begin with another quote actually before we come to Riv cook and I think this uh this will kind of set the stage for us in our discussion and it comes from Rabbi salvic and I have it in the First Source on the page R salik would say the following he say you know it's it's very common that when we speak about the Jews outside of Israel that we use the word diaspora the Jews that are living in the diaspora but Rabbi salvic said we should not use that term because that term is uh I don't know it sounds kind of positive it's okay you know we're living the diaspora the life of Jews in the diaspora what is galut what is the translation of galut it's not diaspora the translation is exile so this is said we have to be very careful with terminology every word the way that we describe things the words that we choose for things are very very important so let's not use the word diaspora this actually it's brought in Rabbi Adler raron Adler has a book of 70 conversations that he had with Roy alv a very interesting and very beautiful volume and this I'll just read it to you the RV told me that he never liked the word diaspora because it lent legitimacy to those living outside of AR the appropriate word should be galut Exile giving one the sense of Detachment from one's home without a constant sensation of galut there could be no longing for Aliyah to Israel so when you're living outside of Israel and you say I live in the diaspora kind of it's it's a little bit more comfortable but we if we use the term I'm in Exile or I'm in I find that interesting also what's the term that we use here in Israel you have Israel and if somebody even an Israeli by the way I think this is even the secular world if they say they're going outside of Israel the term that's used is they use another term which is what that's right that I'm going to or I'm going to that I'm going outside of Israel that's the abbreviation of that I'm going to that that's if you ask an Israeli who's going on vacation they'll say I'm going to that's an amazing term which means outside of Israel and I also hear in the word the word which means what right that the mundan that's right that which is not holy this is Holy and outside is whole outside is is the is uh is the secular or the mundan okay so the even the terminology is very very important when we when we speak about the land of Israel what it means to live outside the land of Israel so I want to begin with the following story which is a story that's found in the gamarra and I'll just share the story The gamar is here on the page is DAV giml it's the very first story that is told in the gamar the first in the gamar and and it's a story we actually I think we've we've mentioned it here in the past um and the very first story of tud B is a story about galut it's about Exile it's about the destruction of the temple and the Exile of the Jewish people which that in itself is very significant right as you begin to learn the talmud B that the very first thing that you encounter is a story about what it means to be outside the land of Israel and here's the story again you have it here in the text but I'll share it with you outside of the text a story about re Yosi rosi is walking in Yim and it says that rosi walks into a KVA that he goes into a broken down building a KVA in and there he dobin he begins to dobin Ina the gar says that Elijah the prophet elahi then comes to the door and standing by the door as rabbiosi is daving as he comes to the end of the daving so elwa Navi Elijah the prophet says why did you enter this rosi says I came into DAV I needed a place that was Secure a place where I could have kabana and strangely Eli says you know what it would have been better for you to Davin outside it would have been better for you to Davin on the road that's what he tells rosi and but rosi says no I came inside because I wanted to to doin in this place and then El Andi says the following where he asks him the following question he says did you hear anything while you were inside of this herva did you hear anything and RAB Yosi said yes I did hear something when I was in this ruin this h y I heard the sound of a dove cing and that was the sound of God that God was speaking I heard that sound the way that God was speaking it sounded like a dove that was cing and God said how sad it is how unfortunate it is that my people have been exiled from the land of Israel and God says it's like children that are around the table how unfortunate is the father does not have his children sitting around the table with him that's what he hears in Thea and that's what he tells Lei Eli then says the following this is now the end of the story this first story in the gar eliahu then says to rosi not only is this true at this moment when you are standing and dabbling this SVA but it's true every single time that Jews enter a b canessa they come into aou until today until this moment when a Jew comes to DAV and as comes to a bmes and Davin that Hashem says how unfortunate how sad it is that my people are not in the land of Israel in Yim that they're not in the bet mikdash that they're not serving that they're not serving God worshiping Hashem in the bet mikdash that's how the story ends that's the first aad that's the first story in all of Shas in the thousands of PAG pages of Shas of gamarra that's where we begin so Rook says we begin with a story of galut we begin with a story of what it means for the Jewish people to be outside of the land of Israel it's a sad story it's a mournful story it's a story of a rabbi that finds himself walking the streets alone that finds himself in AA in a broken down building what was once a very beautiful building it seems that people are not around that there are not other Jews around he doesn't doin with a minion he's daving himself and he's inside of this horv and then this message which is really a very mournful message a very sad message is that God is crying over the Jewish people and every time that we DAV in that there's a kind of sadness there's a kind of mourning that Hashem says how unfortunate how sad it is that this is the way that the Jewish people are daving this is the Jew this is the way that the Jew is is serving God so let me just share with you one line from R Cook's interpretation R cook that's that's kind of the way that Rook is reading this gar there are many ways by the way there's a whole you could spend 45 minutes an hour just on discussing this one story and all the pieces of the story but let me just share with you one line from rook and to highlight one idea that he takes from this gar this is from the anay this from the very bottom of of the page where it says number three this's the writing of ruk we're gonna look at one sentence shama soosi when he is inside the he and he understands through this B call how much is lacking from that wholeness from theut theal the fact that we are in galut and again this is a very very important idea it can be we can forget this as well we can build our beautiful communities outside of er Israel I just read this morning of a inoka they're doing an expansion of $20 million on their sh inan that needs to be done as well and why you and all the institutions that we build but to remember that there's something dramatically dramatically lacking outside the land of Israel and the goal is to come back to the land of Israel and this is what R cook says he understood when he heard this botle and the sadness of the botle the sound of the botle that it's not the right place to be outside of Israel and there there that there is a going back to the text now what he was able to achieve the daving that he had did not reach the level the kind of sanctity and spiritual elevation that one would feel in the that when the Jew is back in the land of Israel that is the right place there is exile there is galut and coming back to the land of Israel is Jew coming back back home you can never achieve the full outside of the land of Israel so that is lesson number one when we think about galut when we think about what it means for the Jewish people to be in the land of Israel and for the Jewish people to be outside of the land of Israel that we are lacking spiritually outside the land of Israel the sadness the mourning of a Jewish people that is not in their land okay we turn out to page number two and when we think about galut I think one of the the most important one of the most fundamental sources about galut is the Jewish people when they had the first opportunity to enter the land of Israel so when is the first what's the first example of galut now we can speak about galut MIT we're going to talk about that in a moment there's another galut as well and that is when the Jewish people had the opportunity to enter the land of Israel and we all know the story well that the morum come back and the Jewish people say you know what we'll wait we'll we'll wait on that offer so what does the gamar say about that this is a very well-known gamarra often it's quoted around the three weeks and Tish the nine days so this is AAR that's found in Tinus 29a on the top of page two Source number one oh soay what day was it the Morag them returned to went to give their report about the land of Israel the negative report it wassh they came back and it was the ninth of it was AR it was AR T so it was the eth they came back that afternoon and they begin now to share this report so the days the spies return was the day before TSH right before TSH you cried a cry without any cause of weeping without cause that there's going to be a crying that's going to last for many many generations now there are many different ways of interpreting this gamarra the basic basic understanding is that you had the opportunity to enter the land of Israel you rejected that opportunity you cried because you did not want her you cried out not wanting to enter the land of Israel at that time and that lack of connection and that love for the land of Israel and the opportunity to enter the land of Israel and you did not take advantage of that so that's something that's going to be a long lasting cry now what does that mean exactly and here I want to share with you the interpretation of Riv cook so Riv cook writes the following in one of his letters this is in IG it's in the first volume on page KU giml and what is galut how do we how do we interpret galut again there there are different ways of interpreting galut but what one way of interpreting galut one way of defining galut is a lack of appreciation for were the land of Israel the lack of of understanding that the land of Israel is the home of the Jew look at the look at the language of Ral the very foundation of galut the and a liness that's found in this world what is gud that we don't articulate we don't announce Leia right that we don't let the world know of the Holiness of the land of Israel the value of Israel the wisdom that's found in the land of Israel and look at this this is now the as I said sort of a a commentary on what we just saw above you know what's lacking and what we've lacked for many generations is that we have not yet done a Tik on the on the sin of the they had negative things to say about the land of Israel and in order to do Chu for their sin he uses a term which is actually a term which is called chat Mish means that you have to do a measure like a measure for measure that's the word mishkal so if they sin by saying negative things about the land of Israel so what's the chat Mish what's the what's the how do we how how do we uh how do we fix that how do we atone for that says that we must State and announce to the world we have to speak loudly and firmly and joyously about the glory of Israel Holiness with everything that we have to say all the positive things if only we could capture 1,000th of what it is about what what is so holy about the land of Israel so how do we do chuva for that and it's Chua that he says that we need to do a Tik that we need to do for the sin of the mirim they had an opportunity we as a people had an opportunity we lost out on that opportunity we need to we need to correct that so it's true for all of us as well to spread the spread the good good word of erisel there's a um there's a board that I saw Raman sarin ran saskin was one of the GD Torah that lived in y he came I think he came during the war during the Holocaust and he settled here in Yim and he was one of the leading Personalities in the I guess in quote unot the more Camp he has a uh he has a parish on the on the Torah called La Torah which which is one of the classic uh commentaries and it's translated by Art scroll as well o the Torah and I don't have it here on the sheet but he says the following it says in parat re it speaks about the non- kosher Birds one of the non- kosher Birds is known as the ra the ra and the gamar says why is it called a ra from the word that it's a that from the term or the word that it's able to see a very very long distance it's a kind of bird that can see miles and miles away and you have animals like that that can literally see can sense so the gamar says it's called a ra and this is the language of the gamarra because it from Babel outside of Israel it can see a carcass it's able to see like food that it would eat in ER Israel it has that kind of vision that it could see miles away it can pick up a carcass so Raman cusin says well if it's such a special animal and has these special talents why is it a non-er animal so he gives a classic answer he says you know why because it sits in B and it's sees something negative in ER Israel he says that's a terrible sin it's easy outside of the land of Israel okay that you know to to point out all the you know all the all the failures right everything that's wrong in AR that's why I'm not making alyah because of because of that or I hear it's too so to say negative things from outside the land of Israel about the land of Israel he says that's a trafe that's a trafe animal that's not a that's not a kosher animal so we have to be careful about how we speak about the land of Israel Ru cook says we have to be we have to we we we have to pour we have to pour out should pour out from our hearts and our souls and even with that we can't capture what is so Magnificent about the land of Israel look at the following this is this is now the middle of page to there was a great Rabbi that was living in Israel at the same time as ruk his name was rakov David wovi and he we have a number of letters that they share with one another they actually dis agreed on many issues we have letters where this de uh deid wowski he was known as the rvas that he first of all he felt about R cook that he was too embracing too open to the secular he felt that he went too far on that he also disagreed with him very strongly on the shmita issue on they had a lot of disagreements with one another but they had great respect for one another you see very long letters that Rook is writing to him it means that he was an outstanding genius and he had great respect for him as well in this letter is letter again we have the letters that Ru cook wrote and this letter he's responding to the rvas rabbi yakob dski who suggests that Ru cook maybe consider a position in the Rabin it outside of Israel a position just opened up again he's in a little Sho by the way he's in yafo and there's I don't know which position it doesn't say but a major position of the rabant opens up and he makes the suggestion why don't you go and consider that well how do you think Riv cook responded to that suggestion to take a Rab in it to take a Pulpit position outside the land of Israel well you can only imagine I mean well we don't have to imagine we could see right here what Ru cook wrote you know let's just read it in the English below you have it in the Hebrew above just that one paragraph I am shocked this here's Ru cook I am shocked by your piece of advice for me to leave Israel to the diaspora interesting in this translation they use the word diaspora I don't I don't know if in in the Hebrew it's so the okay interesting so I don't know if I would use the word diasp for Exile or we could just say outside the land of Israel in order to receive rabinal post truly if someone would were would give me all the secret treasures of the world based on this gar msia in exchange for one moment of breathing in the Holy air of the land of Israel or on the other hand if someone would give me all the silver and gold in the world in exchange for one moment of breathing the impure air of the diaspora I would despise both of them okay so he says you can give me all the money in the world I'm not leaving you could pay me all the money in the world I'm not stepping foot and then the next paragraph he says okay there are times that we have to leave erel and there's you know there may be uh hatum to do that but he uses a term and here just to go up in the Hebrew second I have a little arrow he calls it the if you look at the end of the line there I have it underlined for you where that little arrow is just look at those words a now he calls the the air outside we we've talked about in the past the aim the holy air of er how about the air outside of the atmosphere outside the land of Israel so the this isn't just a poetic term it's actually a halic term that the AL says that the air outside ofel is T that there's a certain Tuma that's found in the air outside of erel that is a that again I just want to point that out and I want to share with you just one example quickly where we see that let me ask you the following question everybody here is familiar with the H of becoming a Nazir now a man or a woman women can do it as well if you want to become a Nazir 30 days you want to set aside 30 days for a higher you know elevated spirituality you're not gonna have wne you're not going to cut your hair you're not gonna be T laate you're not going to go to a cemetery so that's a Nazir there was a modern day Nazir of DAV Kong we've spoken about him the na we don't really have him that's not really a popular thing today but let me just ask you a question if one wants to become a Nazir can one become a naer in well you say no okay why not so by the way I I I would think there's in other words if you want to be on a spiritually higher level and I don't want to cut my hair or drink wine or go to a cemetery that's not necessarily an errell issue right that's something if I'm Baltimore I if I want to become azer in burough Park and I want to become azer for 30 days why can't I do that what okay good okay good so let's look at the so the Ala is and I I recently learned this Al it's found in the r it's found look at what what it says this is Page Three the top of the page the law of being okay top of Page Three this is you cannot become a except for in the land of Israel let's say you do you say I'm becoming a Nazir you take on that Nar you take on that vow becoming a Nazir what's the Ala you're standing in New York you're standing in LA and you say I am becoming a Nazir what happens now does that take effect at all so the ra says we penalize that person you got to get on a plane as fast as you can and get to ER Israel you cannot be a Nazir outside the land of Israel and if you actually take on that vow becoming Nazir you got to get to an LL flight as soon as you possibly can and get to Israel and fulfill your Mitzvah being a naar according to the days that you that you uh that you made a that you're going to be a Nazir so the maam say why can you not be a Nazir outside that's a question the ram doesn't actually say why the Torah never says that if you look at all Theus in the Torah doesn't say that you have to that nut is only in the land of Israel so the commentaries all say the following why because there is this What's called the a that there's impure air that there's tame air outside the land of Israel one cannot become an a where you're elevating your spirituality in a place where there's T so just and it comes up in other Hal places as well but I just want to point that out to you when ruk says I can't possibly go to a place that has the tame air of it's he doesn't just mean that poetically he means that in a alic sense as well okay let's turn to the following and this is really the first galut the first galut when is the first galut the first galut we know is galut MIT we were in galut MIT so when were we freed from MIT when was The Exodus the gah from MIT when did it happen actually did it happen at night or did it happen during the day well either answer you're going to be correct because the gamar says the following look at what the gamar says the gamar in Bros and I don't think I have I think left off the the do here says the following what's that Source two page yes Source two page three yes Source I mean I I meant I I left off the uh the daff I left off the daff we'll look it up in Google what is but we're in Source two Source two right in the middle of Page Three we find the following the P says in the Torah when didem take us out of Egypt according to the p Lila it was done at night but the says did we leave at night is that true the Jewish people I don't know if you ever thought about it trying to EnV Vision the Jewish people leaving when did they leave did it happen during the night time or did it happen during the day so this PK says they left at night but then the says I don't think that's really true they left during the day that it was after they brought it they brought the PES that they went out of during the day so look at what it says it started at night but they actually left during the daytime so what does that mean it started at night but they left during the daytime and this is what the way the r cook interprets this G look at the source number three the you can think about in two parts meet there is an inner feeling a recognition that we are finally freed that we are going to leave this Exile when did that happen now they heard that at night in other words parro went and was looking for Aon and mosha and said it's time to leave and the Jewish people the news came to them that they were going to leave MIM at night but they don't leave until the next morning so it actually happens in two steps right they and calls it a which means at that moment even before they had left right they already felt a sense of Freedom that they felt that the Redemption was here it wasn't something that was something that was publicized in other words it's not that everybody saw it it didn't actually happen yet there was a that they felt a freedom an inner Freedom at moment I was thinking about like a muscle somebody gets into college they received the letter you know that they got into I don't want to say Harvard we don't want to go to Harvard any longer they got into Yeshiva University or let's say somebody gets a letter they were accepted to Lakewood or to the m yiva so where's the Great Joy where's the feeling of emancipation is the moment you receive the letter or is the moment that you actually step foot you know in that place so here they receive the news that they are finally leaving so that happens at night but they don't actually leave so there's really two parts they don't leave until the daytime until the morning and then Rook writes but the actual when does that happen that happens during the day right with a great with an outstretched hand that God everybody saw it that the whole world knew at that point the Jewish people were leaving now let me ask you the following question R cook doesn't actually say this but I'll add the following when do we celebrate the seder at night interesting we celebrate the seder at night we don't leave until the next day until the next morning and I was thinking about why why do we have it then why not have it when we actually have MIT when we actually left Egypt it would be a lot easier maybe easier on the women as well they prepare all day they can sleep the night we can wake up the next morning and we have the seder at 12 o'clock we have a nice lunch do a few hours and it' be a lot easier than started the seder at 9:05 until 1:2 in the morning doing the dishes right but kazal have us have the Seder in the celebration at night even though does not happen until the daytime but what do we learn and I think this is what R cook is emphasizing that even before we leave if we recognize that we are in the process of the G that's the G when we recognize the signs of gula if that's something spiritually that we're elevated we know that we're on the road that we're about to leave that moment is critical I mean it's critical when we leave as well but there's something even more significant about the moment that we recognize G yes please yes very good you're right they do yes yeah yes they do a lot that night but the actual again interesting the actual does not happen until the morning until the day and yet we celebrate at night we celebrate at night so I think there's a lot to you know a lot to think about but I think one idea and we'll see that right now is to recognize the process of G and when you recognize that when you're aware of that when you're cognizant of that that's that's key that's really most important and let let me share with you the following Insight um the following Insight that comes from the student of Rook the Nazir and this is kavana that we can have in our daving as well it's always nice to to have something to bring to our daving so I'll just share with you outside it's written here in in Source number four we say right we say that every day every single day of the year we say it in every that our eyes should see our eyes should see when you return to Zion when Hashem returns to so I think for many or for most when we read this or many have read it the following way and that is that we should we should be alive that we should be Z to that day when hasem returns to y when we should be Z to the day of of mhia so that's I think how some would read this the Nazir the student of Rook said we should read it another way and what is that and let me just read to you the following right in the middle however the azir added a more updated Dimension to this prayer he explained that when God returns to ton there will be those who will not recognize the events for what they truly are therefore we pray when you actually restore your sh to its proper place please let us see what is taking place before our eyes let us not be blinded by the peripheral events whose purpose is to conceal your great light let us not be influenced by those who willingly or not fail to see Beyond The Superficial what is the cavana the cavana is let us see the unfolding of the gula even if the Gula is not here yet like those Jews the night in MIT the the Gula was not there who knows what would have been they didn't know for a fact that they were going to leave maybe farro was gonna farro was gonna change his mind the next morning as well but that moment that they believed that they saw right that they had that intuition that they recognized that this is the beginning that it's about to happen so that in that is that's a significant moment that's really the moment of Celebration and that's a way of thinking about y'all take Rosanne one second that's a way of thinking about this beautiful this beautiful that we say let us see let us take note of all all the prophecies that are coming through what's unfolding for our eyes and let's see that as as G as well yes please and you don't know who where they we know where we are where are [Music] they right right who's right all right let me share with you no no okay yeah interesting interesting point one that needs uh we can discuss let's look at one other I want to share one other one other source with you and about recognizing recognizing and I think this is such an important point for RI cook and the students of RI cook as we just highlighted with the Nazir is recognizing the unfolding the unfolding of the process of the Gula seeing the Gula unfolding before us so here's a very interesting Pak a very interesting Pak of the son of ruk so this is the top of page four top of page four cook who is a very very great Tam and uh and personality in his own right he was he was the child he was the son of ruk his name Ruda cook and um he addresses the following question and that is the Kaa that one does the tearing of one's garment when one sees the Mak mikash so that's something that I think we're all familiar with interesting many people do it there are some people that don't do it I think for the most part people that are not not familiar with it I remember a video very beautiful video of of rakak and his wife they were on the rooftop of isotel and tearing the Garment as they were looking over the harab um so we have a a basic Al that one sees Mak mikash that one does one tears Korea for the fact that the bet mdash is not standing we do not have the beta mdash so here this is a source that comes from a book called Talon which is fromo he's one of he's alive today one of the outstanding in the religious Zionist Community he has I think he's written about 100 quite a prolific writer and a very important personality he was a student of of the cook one of his eminent one of his prize tamid and he quotes the following Pak from Rook says that one no longer does Kaa when they see the Mak mikash without the mikash we're done we no longer do that any longer now why not so he says the following now let me just read to you the words of of that he quotes from his Reb he has a he has a novelty in Jewish law in our days being that is in our possession right we have rights we have possession the state of Israel has possession on the harab it's in our control there's no you no longer and again I'll just say this is not aak that I think is observed by most most people do Kaa but this was his Pak that we no longer do Kaa because it now belongs to us now and he's got let let me let me just read on if we were to choose we could build the there's no one that can stop us from building the okay well we just heard this morning Trump is gonna let us I think build aash as well we don't build it name there are different reasons why we've chosen not to build a mikdash those that are based on Torah sources based on State and political issues however whether it's the right decision or not of building or not building that's our decision that's our choice and there's no Gentile there's no one that's that's not allowing us to build the therefore we no longer this was his we no longer do Korea by the way if you ever felt bad that you didn't do Korea when you were there or you forgot to do it or don't really want to do it so you can rely on you can rely on the of it's now in our possession being it's our possession that's not considered that's not considered that it's destroyed that was his reading that's his understanding and it's based it wasn't just like an idea this is based on on learning in different uh different mcus as well yes yes absolutely absolutely yes beautiful thank you beautiful so let let me just let me close with the following um let me close with the following one is just to point out again we we we we looked at the topic of galut and Gul so at the at and I mentioned this uh I guess this this verse or what we say in our so at the height of our joy when it comes to sukot and shab and P which is when we begin the mus as we begin the mus the first thing that we say is there words as we are celebrating as we're celebrating these joyous days the Jew is to recognize that there is galut the Jewish people have been exiled and with the prayer and with the dream of coming back to the land of Israel I I I came across this little uh a little quote or a little anecdote and I mentioned Rabbi Ral shter so he's one of the schita one of the outstanding gdle hador of our of our community of the uh of the Jewish world and he has a son Rai shaer who is a rabbi in Woodmere New York also quite excellent and uh wonderful tamam so he tells the following story it was right before the uh the nine days and people began asking him questions in his sh in Woodmere questions about the nine days some complicated questions in terms of the uh you know the UN Huga some of the the uh the way that uh some of the the conduct and and questions related to nine days Tish so he called his father with a long list of questions really complex questions and his father started to cry on the phone as he heard the questions and he said let me tell you the following the truth is I have not started studying carefully and every year you know to study carefully these I've not reviewed them yet so these questions are you know difficult for me to answer at this point because I've not reviewed carefully and he says every year I wait till the very very last moment to review the questions around the nine days in Tish because I believe every year that the bam mcdash is going to be rebuilt and I wait it's not something that I start learning weeks in advance I wait till the very last moment to start reviewing those laws so I apologize that I really can't answer those questions I found that I found that quite amazing that the idea of really believing as you just said an eel the the mats yosua to really believe it not just to not just to say it but a real belief in returning of the Jewish people to land and the rebuilding of the BET mikdash and one last thing and and that is uh something that is uh that's dear to me that's the the Torah Tibbits that I that I work on every week you know it's um I mean I read it every week I'm actually paid to do that which is a really nice thing to get paid for to read through all the articles of Torah tidbits and this week it just like it it just stood out the this whole idea maybe because I've preparing this class and and teaching this topic of galut and Gula so there's an ad in this week's to Tibbits you'll it just came out just a few hours ago one is just for property in ashalon and I'm just looking at the ad and the ad begins with a a that says from Imagine an ad in you know for apartments inal quoting a a p that speaks about the return of the Jewish people saes and that's the uh that's the ad in t tibits you know about the Jewish people return to the land of Israel then there is a question on the K's page which is about trumo and Mastro somebody asked a question that they have a olive tree and they're pickling the olives and how to do the trumo and M on that that's amazing in other words asking a question about we haven't asked these questions in 2,000 years and we just open up Torah tiit somebody wants to know how to properly take the tithes of tros and maos and we just you know we just read it which is you know wonderful that we're just reading it but uh to take a moment talking about G and just to open our eyes and to see what's happening of you know with the Jewish people rur to the land of Israel and one last there's an ad in this week's ter tibits as well and I don't know this Rabbi but I'll give a shout out to the rabbi Reni and Ritson Khan cron it's a picture of them and that they're starting a community in be chish another Rabbi from Ek New Jersey they're and they're coming to this community these high-rise these huge buildings that they're building and they're going to be the rabbi and Ritson the community leaving EK and coming to eritel so I think this is very much what uh what Ru cook had in mind when he spoke about the galut we have the the mournful galut the sadness of the galut but he believed that this is something that we're reaching a very uh magnificent time in Jewish history of and as the NZ said so beautifully to open our eyes and to see open t and to see Trum and myo to see rabbis coming with their communities and and to see The Return of the Jewish people to the land of Israel that this is something that is uh that's a great miracle and a great gift that we are experiencing in our own day we should all be to see the wish be to only only good news sharing good news with one another wish everyone a good day and a good week yes