Why the Loss of a Tzaddik Changes the Jewish People - Introduction to Kinnah 21 | Rabbi Dovid Rosman

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Tough Olive, Arzei HaLebanon. Page 248 in the ArtScroll. Is a Kinnah about Asarah Harugei Malchus, the 10 martyrs. It's an intense description of the murdering of by the Romans of 10 great Tzaddikim. Our leaders, our Gedolim, our great, our giants. our Gedolim, our great, our giants. Many of the names that we're familiar with from learning Mishnah. And we say a similar piyut in Yom Kippur's Davening. There we mention all 10 of the people. Here we only mention eight. And it's meant to focus us. Focus us on the intensity of the loss. The Mish The Medrash says in the Eicha The Mish The Medrash says in the Eicha Rabbah, Aleph Lamed Zayin, is the Medrash that's been quoted over the years when certain Gedolim passed away. Rav Aharon Kotler quoted this Medrash in his hesped, in his eulogy of the Brisker Rav. Rav Gedaliah Schorr quoted it in his eulogy of Rav Aharon Kotler. Many, many others. The Medrash says as follows. Matzinu She Shi'u Kan Shel Tzaddikim Matzinu She Shi'u Kan Shel Tzaddikim Kasheh Lifnei Hakadosh Baruch Hu Yoser Mi Me'ah Tochachos She Ba'u Ba'Shetain. We find that the removal, the taking away of Tzaddikim, their deaths, are Kasheh. It's difficult in front of Hashem. More difficult than the 98 curses that are in parshas Ki Savo that are going to Torah tells us are that are going to Torah tells us are going to Jewish people, they don't stay in their ways because by the and also and it's even more casher than the destruction of the Beis Hamikdash. The Medrash goes along and and proves it. By the Torah it says he fla Hashem is macoscha. It says the word he fla only one time. By the Beis Hamikdash

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1. 0:00Tough Olive, Arzei HaLebanon. Page 248 in the ArtScroll. Is a Kinnah about Asarah Harugei Malchus,…
2. 1:32Matzinu She Shi'u Kan Shel Tzaddikim Kasheh Lifnei Hakadosh Baruch Hu Yoser Mi Me'ah Tochachos She…
3. 3:03times. So we see that when tzaddikim when Torah leaders when Torah giants when they die…
4. 4:35that left Mitzrayim, the Jewish people that left had worshipped idols. So, why why what merit…
5. 6:07as much as we try to be a good person, Hashem doesn't owe us anything. We're…
6. 7:42Zakata, you're you're you could overpower that. Even though we don't deserve it, we still ask…
7. 9:13Parkinson's. And we sat there for 7-8 minutes. He literally couldn't say a word. He couldn't…
8. 10:44that machine. The There's no difference. Chokhmah has become cheapened. But when you see the tzaddik…
9. 12:17Hamikdash and it says it's a mizmor, a song. And the Midrash says what it's a…
10. 13:53As we go through this kinah and it's extremely graphic really uh if you can even…

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