Rabbi Akiva’s Message for a Broken World - Rabbi YY Jacobson

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Everybody knows that today the 33rd day of the is celebrated far and wide in the Jewish world. And it's fascinating because the yumpt of is not like a regular holiday that is recorded either in or even in the gam for example we have is in kipper you have purim was later in migillisester you have kaneka was added later during the time of the second bdash comes from a later point in Jewish history and the fact that it's a day of celebration created a lot of discussion when did it begin? What is the reason for it? because it's not so clear in the sources which only adds to the mystery and curiosity and uh fascinating energy of but the fact is as the Gmorrah says trust the Jewish people they may not be prophets but they're children of prophets which means that has prophetic instincts um the once told somebody He says which means the Jewish people have a collective sense of divine inspiration and when something lasts something sticks the Jewish people have a healthy immune system. It doesn't mean individually we can't boost our immune system but collectively when a people has been around for so long there's a certain healthy immune system which spits out toxicity after a while and embraces that which nurtures the organism. And you could see it throughout Jewish history, different fads, different things that happen and ultimately they fizzled out after a generation, a few generations, the descendants either come back to Yiddish or just unfortunately get lost. You have this throughout Jewish history. A day like is one of those days where you see it took root and of course the pisk and

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