A Broken World: The 17th of Tammuz - Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

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Hi, this is Dra Alowski with a special Shiobasamu'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 Shivas Batamuz and five happened on Tishab. The five tragedies that happened on Shivasamuz are all related to one thing breaking. The Aseras, the ten commandments were broken. The walls of were broken. A safetra 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 batamus are breaking. Things break down. And it's it's a tragedy all unto itself that things start to break down. The Mishna and Sot says that in the generation when Mashia 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

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1. 0:00Hi, this is Dra Alowski with a special Shiobasamu's message. The concept of time in Judaism,…
2. 0:30can take advantage of it. If it slips out of our hands, we lost an opportunity.…
3. 1:02burnt. That continuity was broken. The Corbin which had never been stopped was broken. So the…
4. 1:32And it's it's a tragedy all unto itself that things start to break down. The Mishna…
5. 2:02where some tick tocker gets uh millions of views talking about stuff they know nothing about…
6. 2:33And so we we're in clearly in Yamos Mashiach much bigger people than me have said…
7. 3:03have fallen apart. Society has fallen apart. Respect has fallen apart. YF people are justif no…
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. 4:35breaking all breaking start from that point the statue was put up in the the kadusha…

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