Broken | 17 Tamuz 5785

Hi, this is Dra Alowski with a special shasabatamu's message. The concept of time in Judaism, the Maharal explains is not a circle. We don't just come back and commemorate and remember different times. It's a spiral. We reach that same point, but always on a higher level. So we're always obligated to teach ourselves when a time comes along the importance of that time so that we can take advantage of it. If it slips out of our hands, we lost an opportunity. The Mishna in Tina says five tragedies happened on Shivasamuz and five happened on Tishab. The five tragedies that happened on Shivasamuz are all related to one thing. breaking the asserados, the ten commandments were broken. The walls of us were broken. A Torah which had never been burnt in history was burnt. That continuity was broken. The Corbin which had never been stopped was broken. So the meaning of things that have a continuity to them gets broken. When something gets broken, it's the first part of destruction. And so the five things on tishab are destruction. But the five things in shazamuz are breaking. Things break down. And it's it's a tragedy all unto itself that things start to break down. The Mishna and Sota says that in the generation when Mashiah will come everything is going to break down. Respect for parents and for the old will be gone. Respect for sages and for wisdom will be gone. I mean, if we don't see that today where some tick tocker gets uh millions of views talking about stuff they know nothing about and experts are silenced like happened during CO and top scientists and top people are are silenced because they're not saying the party line. a tragedy and all respect breaks down and all society breaks down. That's where we are now. And so Hashem, we we're in clearly in Yamos Mashiach much bigger people than me have said this. And if we can use this opportunity of Shiovas to focus ourselves on fixing. Yeah. As Brasla famously said, believe if you can break that you can fix. Things have been broken down. Families have fallen apart. Society has fallen apart. Respect has fallen apart. people are justif no institution nothing shows any respect we can rebuild that and that's what we have to do we have to put the pieces back together as best as we can of our shattered lives and our shattered world and when we do that and we can put it together look how many people we meet who are in pain Look at how many people we meet whose lives are broken. And that's the term they use. We're not a very strong generation. In the old generation, people survived the concentration camps, the death camps, came to America with nothing. Nothing. and rebuilt their lives and got remarried and got built up businesses and used their money to build the Torah institutions in America. And today somebody looks at us the wrong way. A Rebi yells at us and that's it. I'm off the D. I give up. And I I I was hurt. I was broken. I can't make shabas. I can't take care of these kids. I can't make Pesak. Everything is too hard for me. That sham is the source of that is the breaking. All breaking start from that point. The statue was put up in the the kadusha of of the bas mdash was destroyed. All these breakings took place and if we don't start to fix those breaks they breed to to a destruction. Hashem, every one of us in our own lives should find the strength to be able to fix and repair the breaks in our lives and the breaks in Israel.