Broken | 17 Tamuz 5785

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Hi, this is Dov Berel Lasky with a special Shiva Asar B'Tammuz 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 Taanit says, "Five tragedies happened on Shiva Asar B'Tammuz, and five happened on Tisha B'Av." The five tragedies that happened on Shiva Asar B'Tammuz are all related to one thing. Breaking. The Aseres Hadibros, the Ten Commandments, were broken. The walls of Yerushalayim were broken. A Sefer Torah, which had never been burnt in history, was burnt. That continuity was broken. The Korban Tamid, 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 Tisha B'Av are destruction. But, the five things on Shiva Asar B'Tammuz are breaking. Things break down. And it's a tragedy all unto itself that things start to break down. The Mishna in Sotah says that in the generation when Mashiach will come, everything's 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

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1. 0:00Hi, this is Dov Berel Lasky with a special Shiva Asar B'Tammuz message. The concept of…
2. 0:31advantage of it. If it slips out of our hands, we lost an opportunity. The Mishna…
3. 1:01was burnt. That continuity was broken. The Korban Tamid, which had never been stopped, was broken.…
4. 1:32And it's a tragedy all unto itself that things start to break down. The Mishna in…
5. 2:02with some Tik Toker gets millions of views talking about stuff they know nothing about. And…
6. 2:32And so in midst of Hashem we we're in clearly in the most of Messiah much…
7. 3:03have fallen apart. Society has fallen apart. Respect has fallen apart. Chutzpah Yaskiv. People are just…
8. 3:34And when we do that and we can put it together, look how many people we…
9. 4:05and used their money to build the Torah institutions in America. And today somebody looks at…
10. 4:36from that point. A statue was put up in the heichal. The the kedusha of of…

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