האם עדיין נקרא מגילת איכה כשיבוא המשיח?

00:00 Welcome to another share in Hilchas LeMeshiach. This week we will discuss the question about whether we're going to read Megillas Eicha when we may know Meshiach is going to come before Tishabav. And so whether we're going to read Eicha when Meshiach comes. And while we're at it, we're also going to discuss what we find in the Rambam that he says all the Sifrei Nevim and Kesuvim will be batal when Meshiach comes except for Megillas Esther. What exactly does that mean? So we find in Levush, Siman Tov Koflam Tes, Sif Alef, that he writes, all my years I was wondering why we have the minik. There's a minik to read Eicha in its Siver and to make a bracha on it. As we know, there's some that have a minik to make a bracha on Eicha, just like we make by Megillas Esther. So why don't we read Megillas Eicha from a klaf? Many shuls used to have the minik to read Haftarah from a klaf. Now it's not so common, although it's becoming more prevalent that there are shuls communities that have it. It's a separate discussion. So he asks, why don't we find that we have that there's a minik to why don't we read Megillas Eicha from a klaf, just like we do Megillas Esther? He says, I understand why Leshisher Asherim, Rus and Kehelas, those aren't read from a klaf because there it's not the minik that the Sheliach Siver is meitzi everybody the reading. Really everybody is supposed to be reading

01:38 it for themselves. Well, that's the minik by him. There are others that have a different minik, but that was his minik. However, Eicha, you have to read the Sheliach Siver is meitzi everybody. So why do we read it from a Chumash? Why don't we read it from a klaf? And he writes that it could be that the reason is not because we didn't find anyone to write it, because if they found people to write the rest of Neviim and Kesuvim, they could have found somebody to write Eicha as well. But the reason is because we're waiting, machakim v'tzapim, the whole time, to chol yom, that these days she yichaf kol lesas nasim chaz the navi says in Zechariah. So if we're going to write it on a klaf, it's going to look like we're being meyaiish of that the gola is going to come. In other words, we're having something permanent. And therefore, we don't write it on a klaf. We read it from a Chumash. And this is, in fact, the minik that was in many places regarding the kinus. The Rebbe mentions this minik also, that people have the minik that they would have the kinus, not in hardcover kinus as they have nowadays, but they would have it in paper, specifically paper. Like that would be something that you could disregard. You don't know where it is the next year because we all believe that next year we're not going to need a kinus. So same thing Eicha. We don't write it

02:59 in a klaf because it's something that's not permanent. We're hoping that next year we're not going to need Eicha. And similarly, based on this, we find Rabbi Chaim Pelagi in the Sefer Meidel Chalchai, Meidel Chalchai Simanyot. So he writes over there, based on this, that the Levush writes that we don't write it in a klaf because we're waiting for the gola. So he writes that it comes out that Le'asulavi is going to be different than it was in Zman Abayas. Because Zman Abayas, there's a discussion whether they laned Megillah or they private even Tishabov. There's a discussion whether they had Tishabov in Zman Abayas in Bayit Sheini. According to some, there's a machlakis whether they fasted or they didn't fast. According to the Rambam in Pirush Mishnayis in Rosh Hashanah, they did fast because of the things that happened. And then according to others, they didn't necessarily fast because it was Zman Abayas. We still had the Beis HaMikdash. But even if they didn't fast, they nevertheless would, after they would eat and drink and so on, they would say kinus. And Eicha sometimes called kinus also. And on the Churban of the Bayit Sheini. Because Bayit Sheini, don't forget, wasn't the full gola. But he writes, but nevertheless, that's all talking about Zman Bayit Sheini. That we still had the concept of reading Eicha. But when it's going to come to the Geulah Asidah, so then we're not going to read Eicha based on what the Levush says. Which that's the reason why we

04:52 don't have The minik was not to write it and read it from parchment. On the other hand, we find it's brought from Rebbe Yitzchak Badichov. It's printed in the Ketusha S'Levi. In some editions of the Ketusha S'Levi in the Lekutim Chadashim. It's brought in other places as well. That he writes that the Lekhora, that this Megillah, meaning Megillas Eicha, said Le'asulavi, we're going to make on this Megillah, we're going to make a Shechiyanu. In other words, we're going to read Megillas Eicha. However, the way we're going to read it, we're going to read it with a different emphasis, so to speak. In other words, instead of reading it in a sad way, we'll read it, for example, Eicha Yashua Badad, He'ir Abasiyam, Aisika Amona. We're going to say that once upon a time, the city was lonely. Yashua Badad But it's was w- on its own. It was like, like, like saying that we're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna read it. And interestingly, we f- we find that the Ben Ish Chai, he has a Pirush on, on Eichah called Nechemes Ziyyin on, on, on, on Megillas Eicha. And in his Hakdama, and Jews you find it throughout the whole sefer, the whole Pirush, he writes that call- cause of all these, everything that we find, um, all the clawless that we find in the Torah are gonna be Yahafikh to Brachis. So, and the same thing here is with, with Eichah. That Eichah is really... although it's, it's, it seems something negative, but it's

07:12 gonna be transformed to something positive. And therefore, he actually writes this Pirush. He says, he's gonna-- therefore, he's gonna write his, his Pirush, uh, um, since we're Mamirim, Bnei Mamirim in the Geulah Shleima, so I'm gonna be mefarush to all the m- the, the, the psukim in Eichah in a positive way. It's a bracha, lasas and hasimcha. And therefore, he's gonna, he's gonna, he's gonna say it in a positive way. So basically, it comes out from here that while it's fine that, that we're saying that we're gonna read it in a positive way, um, so we have on the one hand the Levush, um, Kaph HaHodes and others seemingly saying that we're not gonna read Megillas Eicha, and we have, uh, Rav Yehuda Zev Chait, Kaddisha Levi and, and, uh, and others, Ben Ish Chai saying that we are gonna read Eichah when Mashiach comes. But the question is based on this, according to this, if we say that we're gonna read Eichah when Mashiach comes, the question is: How does this fit with what the Rambam writes in, in, uh, in Hilchos Megillah, Halakha perek beis halocha yud ches? So he writes, They're gonna become nullified besides Megillas Esther that it's gonna last forever and ever, seemingly saying that it's gonna be... we're not, we're not gonna have it. We're not... It's gonna be batul. All the Sifrei Nevi'im and Ketuvim, which Eichah is one of them, it's gonna be batul. So how could we, how could we be saying that we're gonna read

08:52 it? So as long as I read it in a positive way, but how does it stem with this, that we say that we're gonna, we're gonna read it? So some could answer, "Okay, we'll go like the Raavid." The Raavid right on there, right over there on the, on the Rambam says that this, how you can't say that it's gonna be batul, uh, it just means, uh, uh, you're gonna be batul from reading them. But, uh, uh, but we're gonna batul from reading. We're still gonna have it. They're not gonna be mamash batul. They're gonna be batul from reading them. That's not gonna be batul from reading them. We're still gonna have on Purim that we read the Megillah. And some tachah wanna say that that's shot really in the, in the, in the Rambam. You look at the mefarshim, Mishna and others, uh, that they wanna say that that's what it means. It's gonna be batul. It doesn't mean that the Sifrei Nevi'im are gonna be batul. It means they're gonna be batul from, from, from learning them, from reading them, but they're gonna be there. And that's how someone read even, even in the Rambam itself to say that there's not really a disagreement with between the Rambam and the Raavid. However, the Rebbe in Likutey Sichos, uh, Chelek Chaviv on Parashat Zachor, page two twenty-two in, in, uh, the Ohr Thirty-Four over there. Um, um, so the Rebbe writes that it's-- while it's true we could read in the Yerushalmi like that, that

10:17 that they were gonna be batul from reading in the other Nevi'im and Ketuvim, but we can't say that the Rambam says It doesn't say that we're gonna be batul. We're not gonna read them. He says the, the sefarim itself are gonna be batul. So if the sefarim themselves are gonna be batul, what does it mean, um, what does it mean that we're gonna read Eichah when Mashiach comes if all the Sifrei Nevi'im and Ketuvim are gonna be batul when Mashiach comes? So we find, um, first of all, just explaining to try to understand what does it mean that the sefarim are gonna be, uh, um, batul. So we find in the Alshech, the Rebbe, the Rebbe actually brings this Alshech. Um, the Alshech in, in his, his Pirush on Ma'ase Moisha, which is Pirush of the Alshech on Megillas Esther, perek ches posuk chaf ches. So he explains wh- why is it gonna be batul? How is it gonna be batul? He says 'cause when Mashiach is gonna come, so we're gonna be able to understand from the Torah itself all-- everything that says the Nevi'im and Ketuvim, we're gonna understand it. In other words, there's nothing in the Torah that's Like we find in the, in the, in the, uh, uh, so therefore for like we, we find the Torah, you know, in the Megillah, in the Gemara itself, it says, you know, and so on. In other words, so everything is gonna be in the Torah itself. So we don't need to have

12:23 command to having the Nevi'im Tefilim. Why is the Megillah gonna be written? Uh, 'cause we, we have a hint in Torah Shebichav, in Sefer Hamishnah Torah itself. It says as the, as the Gemara Megillah da'as says that the Torah itself, it says, uh, so we say that it's a, it's a hint, obviously, the Megillah, and so on. So we have extra limud that the Megillas Esther needs to be written when Mashiach comes. It's not enough that you can have a Sefer Hamishnah Torah. But the other stuff itself, um, the other stuff itself, you'll be able to suffice with what's written in Torah Shebichav, um, Torah Shebichav itself. So based on this, you would say, okay, maybe if there's the if, if, if, if, if the Torah, if we're saying that they're not gonna be bottled, that they're not gonna exist, it doesn't, it doesn't mean that we're not gonna have the Sefer. It just means that we're not gonna need the Sefer because it's numerous in the Torah. Maybe that's what the Kadosh Aleph is saying. We're gonna be able to still be read Echad because we'll have the Sefer. But that really doesn't, um, that doesn't really, uh, jive, especially basic-based on what the, what, what the Rebbe said, that the Sefer are gonna be bottled. It's not that w- it's gonna be bottled, but we're still gonna be using it. So perhaps, uh, as Rabbi Golitsky, as many of the Shirum come from, did in, in his, uh, Sefer Yemei Hamashiach Ba'alachach Eilek

13:57 Shlishi in Simen Tzadik. So he suggests we find... It says we find again in the, in the, in the Rambam. The Rambam writes i- in, in Hilchot Malachim. He also writes it in Hilchot Stinus. But in Hilchot Malachim, Perek Yod Beis Halacha Alef, he writes, He writes right when Mashiach is gonna come, even though this is a machloket, but the Rambam holds that there's no difference between when Mashiach comes, and nowadays besides Shevet Malchut, he said we're gonna be-- We're not gonna be under other, other, other rulers. And the, the Rebbe explains, um, that, uh, in, in many places, but for example, the that it-- what it means based on the Rambam. So we know there's famously the Rebbe says there's two kufes, but even besides the two, two kufes, two eras in Yemei Hamashiach. But even in the first one, um, the Rebbe explains it's not gonna be that right away, right when, when, when, when, when Mashiach comes, uh, it's not gonna all of a sudden everybody's gonna have this big, uh, tzad v'shab, this p'schah ruchni. You know, they're not gonna come to all of a sudden, uh, avoda shema, avoda ma'avah. Also, but also when Mashiach comes, things are gonna go gradually. People are gonna go step by step, growing, go-going from level to level. Everybody's not gonna be born all of a sudden b'tachas hashleimus in, in Yedi'ah and tzad and avodas-- v-avoda, and avoda with Hashem and so on and so, so forth. So the Rebbe there is explaining

15:38 about that's where there's gonna be still a really need for nisim and hifla'ot v'kashmim, uh, to be mezuzot as people that came in Torah and mitzvot. But nevertheless, we say, um, we see that it's not gonna happen right away. And furthermore, the Rebbe explains elsewhere in the so there it's talking about our service. So even about the fast itself, including, uh, including, uh, Tisha B'Av. It says also even in the, in the first kuf of Yemei Hamashiach, so first is gonna be peace and, you know, everything will be shalom. So in the first kuf of the first time, right in the beginning, so the, the concept of fasting will be bottled. We won't have to fast. Uh, so therefore, m'meil if you don't have to fast, you'll be mesimcha. So there'll be a certain simcha, a certain joy in this, certain type of yom tov in this that you don't have to fast on, on the, on the, on the fast days. But that still won't be yet that the days itself, the tragedies and everything that happened on there, on those days won't be yet transformed to days of simcha, 'cause that itself that they're transformed to days of simcha, meaning that because of the day itself and as we s-- in other words, we fully recognize how these days are really joyful days. Not just they're technically joyful because we don't have to fast 'cause Mashiach came, but we really that, that, that the whole thing is, is a joyful that, you know,

17:12 going through the whole galus and everything, it was all part of a really a simcha dika thing. It's not really a sad thing even from the beginning, and it's really be transformed. That's really something that's tracked to bitul and hagash leelo. That's something that's gonna happen, um, later on in maybe e-even in, in the, in the second kuf of Yemei Hamashiach. In other words, so this thing that everything's gonna be transformed, that completely bottled, that's gonna be in, in the, um, um, um, that's gonna be, that's gonna be later on. So based on this, we can explain what the, what, what, what, what the Kadosh Aleph is saying, that we're gonna read Megillas Echad. That's l'chora k'be, meaning in, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the first kuf. Or- Alternatively, even deeper than that, we find, um, in the Sefer Megillas Aliot. Megillas Aliot, uh, is written by Rabbi Yoah Cohen from Yizamer. He's, he's also-- He's the-- He's more famous for his, uh, his, uh, from Yizamer. Uh, he's, he's more famous for his, his sefer, his, his, his, uh, Sefarim Shevet, Shevet Muvzer, Midrash Talpiyot. He lived a drop before the Baal Shem Tov. Um, so he explains that what does it mean that these Sefarim are gonna be batel? The sifrei, the Sefarim of Neviim and Ketuvim, what does it mean that they're gonna be batel? It means that, um... He's, he's more explaining it in the Raavad, but could, might, maybe explain it in the Rambam

18:56 also, but he's explaining it in the, the, uh, Raavad. But he says that the Sefarim itself, we know everything has, right, Peshat, Remez, Drush and Sod. The way we read the Neviim and the Ketuvim in Peshat is the-- so the Peshat is sounds like negative things. Same thing like we have the Klalot. But it says if you say even the Klalot in Torah Shebichsav, in, in, in Chumash, Chamishah Chumshei Torah, seemingly when Moshiach is gonna come, we're still not-- they're not gonna seemingly apply these negative Klalot that we have. Only Beremez and Drush and Sod, these things similar to the famous story of the Alter Rebbe, they have in them high Berachot. They're, they're very positive things. They're not in the Pashat the way that we read them, but in a deeper way that you read them, so that they, they have Berachot, similar to what we said earlier. And therefore, what's gonna become batel is the Peshat, is the Pashat, the Peshat of the Sefarim is gonna come. The, the... So it's batel hamkri, the Peshat of the Sefarim will be, uh, batel. But the Drush and the Sod in these words, in, in these words, that, uh, that word, that's not gonna be, that's not gonna be, that's not gonna become batel. Uh, and he goes on similarly explaining how some of the words in, in, in, in Eichah, as we explained earlier, how you could see, how you could read them in, how you could read them in a, in, in a

20:32 positive way. And therefore, again, we could say that according to the, according... We could say according to the, to those that say that we are gonna read Eichah when Moshiach comes, and, and the Kirsh Levi says, "Make Shechiyanu, "Olaye Shlema," that that's gonna be because, um, even though maybe perhaps later on it might become batel completely in the Ahavkol Asar Et Hasimcha. Um, so but first of all, this that we say that the Sifrei Tanakh, Sifrei Neviim become batel, seemingly that's not necessarily gonna be right away. Um, although e-even if they're not gonna become batel, we still have, according to some, Rav Rush and others, seemingly we won't-- they seemingly say that right away, right? We, we believe that what we don't write in the Klap, which we believe right away, next year, this coming Tisha B'Av, we're not gonna need it anymore. That means he, according to him, you're not gonna need it right away, not for later Takufot, later, uh, later eras in, in Yom HaMelech HaMoshiach. But right away in the beginning, we're not gonna need, um, um, Megillas Eichah. However, according to the Kirsh Levi that's saying that we are gonna use it, Kirsh Levi and Ben Ish Chai and others, that we are gonna use it. So, A, we could say that the, this that we're not gonna need it is later on when it come. But even the early time when we are gonna read it, that doesn't mean that we're gonna read it in a negative way. We're

22:01 gonna read it how all the Kla-- just like we read the Klalot have Berachot in them, so too Eichah has the biggest Berachot are, are in, in, in, in Megillas Eichah, and we should take a Bizaycha, uh, that this year we should see how, how the, whether we read it or not, we will find out. But either way, we should see how the biggest Berachot are there, and as, as the Navi says, Yom HaMoshiach, that these days will be transformed into days of Simcha. May it be speedily in our days.