Aye, they didn't go up. How many people went up? 45,000 people went up with Ezra. There were hundreds of thousands of Yidden there. Had you all gone up, you would have had strong, which means the Shechinah would have been stronger. Now that you didn't go up, so it's like an ארז. What's an ארז? It's בת קול. All you have a בת קול. כדתניא, like it says: משמתו נביאים אחרונים, when the last נביאים died, who were they? חגי, זכריה, ומלאכי, נסתלקה רוח הקודש מישראל, there is no more רוח הקודש, עדין היו משתמשין בבת קול. They still use a בת קול. So all you had left was a בת קול. And that's what he said, you guys, the Eibershter doesn't like you. But look what you guys did. Okay, and then the Gemara asks a שאלה, ורבי שמעון בן לקיש מי משתעי בהדי רבה בר בר חנה? Would he, did he speak to Rabba bar bar Chana? He probably wouldn't even have spoken to him, because השתא מרה דארץ ישראל הוה, רבי אלעזר was the head of ארץ ישראל, ולא הוה משתעי רבי שמעון בן לקיש בהדיה, Rabbi Shimon ben Lakish wouldn't talk to him, because if Rabbi Shimon ben Lakish talked to somebody, כל מאן דהוה משתעי בהדיה רבי שמעון בן לקיש בשוקא, if anybody spoke to Rabbi Shimon ben Lakish in the street, the fact that Rabbi Shimon ben Lakish spoke to him, יהבי ליה עיסקא בלא סהדי. They would trust that guy so much, they would give him, do business with him without edim, because if Rabbi Shimon ben Lakish just spoke to him, that means this guy is a very special guy. So he didn't even speak to Rabbi Elazar. בהדי רבה בר בר חנה משתעי? He spoke to Rabba bar bar Chana, who was in a lower madregah than Rabbi Elazar? אמר Rav Pappa, Rav Pappa says you're right. שדי גברא, put a different person, you have to change the names. אי ריש לקיש, if this story action happened to Rabbi Shimon ben Lakish, so Zeiri, then the other person was not Rabba bar bar Chana. You have to change, because with Rabba bar bar Chana he wouldn't talk, but Zeiri. אי רבה בר בר חנה, if the story taka happened to Rabba bar bar Chana, he's a different amora. He was a chashuv'er amora. There's a different person. His name, yeah. And we get that if you want, if it's for sure that it was Rabbi Shimon ben Lakish, then the story happened not with Rabba bar bar Chana, it happened Zeiri. אי רבה בר בר חנה, but if the story happened zicher was Rabbah bar bar Chanah, then it's not Rabbi Shimon ben Lakish, then it's Rabbi Elazar. Because ben Lakish wouldn't speak to wouldn't speak to Rabbah bar bar Chanah. Wouldn't speak to Rabbi Elazar, and Rabbah bar bar Chanah was even less than Rabbi Elazar. Because he was so great, no, he was afraid, because whenever he spoke to somebody, that meant that he gave that guy a confirmation. He didn't want to give stam, give people confirmation. So he wouldn't even give these great people a confirmation, because some people I guess he could, some people... Right away, immediately, yeah. Al derech,

when Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky was in yeshiva, so I asked him to give a shiur. So he tells me, he's not going to give a shiur, and \"I want to give you an advice,\" he says, \"Don't let any rosh yeshiva come and give a shiur in yeshiva. Nobody. Nobody.\" Why? \"Because it's not comfortable sometimes. You guys, you do want him to give, you don't want him to give. So I'm telling you as a policy, listen to me,\" he says, \"don't tell any, ask anyone.\" And he tells, \"I want to tell you a story. I was in Toronto once,\" he says, \"and I told the rosh yeshiva there, same thing, I told the rosh yeshiva there not to let anybody.\" He says, \"A year later when I came back, I heard that during the year, Reb Moshe Feinstein was there and gave a shiur.\" So I told him, \"You didn't take my advice. I told you not to.\" So I said to him, so he wanted to tell me, I said to him, \"We're talking about Reb Moshe, it's not stam.\" \"No, no difference. Nobody. The policy should be nobody, no guests should say, because you can't make differences.\" I'm saying the same thing here. Reish Lakish didn't want to talk to anybody, should, because why? In the street, obviously, in public, because he doesn't want to give a confirmation to anybody. So even the great people like Rabbi Elazar, he was the rav of Eretz Yisrael. Reminds me of that story. Because who says we accept his advice? Who says we accept his advice? I didn't accept his advice. Yeah. You can't speak in another shul... Yeah, so what's wrong? Oh yeah, I didn't take his advice, either. I didn't take his advice. You know how many people we had giving shiurim in yeshiva beyond? No, no, here, not here, it's completely different, but a shiur, talking about a shiur. A shiur here, we had Merkaz HaRav gave a shiur, we had... we had all... So it's right. I don't think I didn't take his advice, but his shita was... and what I'm saying here, not to talk to Rabbi Elazar. He told me because then sometimes you're in a position that some people you don't and it's not nice to make chilukim, so you embarrass somebody, and either, you're either... I didn't take his advice. Here's why. He went to Tzfat and once...

When the Satmar Rebbe came here, not him, the... Reb Moshe... So I went to ask him to come give a shiur in yeshiva, and I told him that I heard that I know that your uncle gave a shiur in Telshe. So the same thing I asked. Says, \"No, not only in Telshe he gave a shiur, in Torah Vodaath also!\" So I asked him, can, would you come? He didn't want? I knew he wouldn't, I didn't have a... First of all, the Rebbe's Lubavitch. So... Satmar was against Lubavitch. Like, no, he wouldn't come. I knew he wouldn't, but he tells me, \"I have to think about it.\" Two days later I get a call from his gabbai. Says, \"This is the gabbai from from from the Satmarer Rebbe. Concerning what you asked him, the answer is he can't come.\" Why can't he? Yeah. So the, I think, so I asked, macht er, macht... He thinks I didn't understand why, I knew he wouldn't come. But I mach a tam, vos? I said, \"Did he tell you why he can't come?\" Says, \"Ya, ober er hot mir gezogt, ober ich ken dir nisht zog'n.\" Yeah, he said, but I can't tell you why.