eat only in Yerushalayim, they would have to spend time. Hashem wanted that to happen. Why? Because by being in Yerushalayim, seeing godliness, it would give them koach, and they would takeh be able to come back, and they were completely involved in Hashem. They understood Hashem, they saw Him, they felt Him, so they were completely absorbed. Hashem penetrated into them 100%. But it doesn't mean that the bitul, that they broke themselves for it. They enjoyed it! It was good. It's a high madregah. In a time of galut, we don't have it, but what we do have is that we bend ourselves to Hashem. That means we're going against, so that's Hashem, that's in other words a bigger korban. In other words, it's not a sacrifice, you enjoy it. A person that doesn't enjoy it, that's different. They say once somebody came to the Tzemach Tzedek and said he used to come asking all kinds of advice, physical advice, spiritual. He said, \"I came with a problem.\" He says, \"I have a problem, Rabbi. What should I do? Mir vilt zich nisht lernen. I don't want to learn. What should I do? I just don't like to learn. I don't want to learn. So what should I do?\" So the Tzemach Tzedek looked at him, he says, \"What should I do that I do want to learn? I have a problem,\" he says. \"I want to learn, so when I learn, I'm not bending my yetzer hara, I'm not breaking myself, I'm not doing it for Hashem. I enjoy it, I love it. I have a problem. You don't like to learn? Oh, that's good! If you don't like to and you're going to learn, you know what kind of effort that is? You know what kind of sachar, what kind of zechut you're going to have? I have a problem, I don't know what to do,\" he said. We in galut are not at that level. The

time of the Beit Hamikdash, they wanted to learn. So who's higher, a person that wants to learn and learns a lot, a person who doesn't like to learn and therefore manages to learn only an hour? Certainly, a guy learns 10 hours a day is greater. But that hour that this other guy learns is greater bitul for Hashem, because he didn't want to, so he's breaking himself, he's doing it for Hashem. The other guy can learn 10 hours, but he's not doing it for Hashem. And that's the maalah we have in זמן הגלות. So we look at it like this: in galut time, we're up the creek, as we say, we have a lot of problems, but at the same time, Hashem says, \"Here you have something special.\" Only thing is we have to utilize it. We don't want to learn, we don't want to, we don't have the desire to do kedushah things, to do things. So if we stick with that not wanting, that's no good, but if we overcome this yetzer hara and we do it, then we have a higher maalah. But as I always finish off, we say to Hashem, we understand the maalah and it's good, thanks, but no thanks. We had it already enough. We did it all these years, for 2,000 years, it's the time to get finished, and You should bring משיח במהרה בימינו.