Holding here that Titus HaRasha gathered all the took the פרוכת and made it into like a basket, and put in all the כלים of the בית המקדש. Question is, how could all the כלים fit into one פרוכת? There's a girsa he took many פרוכות and they're different. They were sewn together, no? No no no, they were different areas, so. But that girsa is פרוכת. Anyway, he took it along, and he took it on a ship to take it back to his town to show how proud he is of what he did. Okay, this is where we're holding. עמד עליו נחשול שבים לטבעו. As he's going in the ship going home, there was a wave that almost drowned him. I want to ask you, did he have to change the menorah on the arch, did he change it or davka the shape of the menorah? He had the menorah, he knew what the menorah looked like. Right. So this thing that we have This is not from that menorah. He didn't change it. Right, so It was a different menorah. Oh, it was a different menorah? Yeah. It wasn't that menorah. No, the בית המקדש had other places where they had menorot to give light. And this is the one that they put on there. עמד עליו נחשול שבים לטבעו, so a wave came and almost drowned him. אמר, he said, כמדומה אני, I think, שאלהיהם של אלו אין גבורתו אלא במים. That this their Yidden's God is only strong in the water, so he could only fight his enemies in the water. בא פרעה, טבעו במים. He had a fight with Pharaoh, how did he kill him? Drowned him in the water. בא סיסרא, טבעו במים. Sisera also with the נחל קישון. So I see, אף הוא עומד עלי לטבעני במים. So that's why now he's going to drown me in the water, but otherwise, in the dry land, he has no koach. אם גבור הוא, he says, if he's strong, יעלה ליבשה ויעשה עמי מלחמה. If he's if he's strong, let him come on land, and then let him fight with me. Let me see what he could do. What happened that he thought he already killed Him, you know, when he took the פרוכת? Huh? When he stabbed the פרוכת, he thought he killed Hashem. Here, now he's worried that he didn't. Yeah, he realizes he didn't. Or maybe that's part of the peshat. Oh, that he thought he could only No, he thought he killed him not completely, that he made him weak, that he could only fight בים. But it doesn't look like that's the peshat because he referred back to Pharaoh and to Sisera.

יצתה בת קול ואמרה לו, came out a bat kol and said to him, רשע בן רשע, בן בנו של עשו הרשע. You're an einikel of, how is an einikel of עשו הרשע? He was, I guess Rome is from Esav, stam he was an einikel of Esav. The Aibershter said, you're challenging me, you're daring me to fight with you on the יבשה, I'll tell you. בריה קלה יש לי בעולמי. I have a very, very light, small small creature in this world. ויתוש שמה, it's called a mosquito. Why might call it a בריה קלה, why do we call a very light beriah? דמעלנא אית לה ומפקנא לית לה. It has a mouth to take in, there is no nothing that it has to give out. Every other creature, any living thing, is מכניס ומוציא. This one is not מוציא. Anyway, עלה ליבשה ועשה עמה מלחמה. The Aibershter said, you come to the land and do a war just with one of my creatures, a small, tiniest creature. עלה ליבשה, he came to the יבשה. בא יתוש, came this mosquito, ונכנס בחוטמו, went into his nose, ונקב במוחו שבע שנים, and was poking on his brain seven years. You can imagine how painful it was that inside him it poked and ate on his brain. Mefarshim ask a kashya, we know that if it goes in and it makes a hole in the brain, by a beheimah, it's treifah. It's treif. Treif means it can't live for 12 years for 12 months. How did he live for seven years? Or by adam is different than by beheimah. Some mefarshim say, because if it went through his nose, it didn't make a hole in the brain. So if it goes into some other way, but if it goes there, it doesn't. Whatever, but he lived.

יומא חד הוה קא חליף אבבא דבי נפחא, one day he passed by by the gate by the door of a blacksmith or goldsmith, who uses a lot, bangs with the hammer. שמע קל ארזפתא, so the the mosquito heard the noise of the banging, the hammer, אישתיק. Got quiet, he didn't poke. או, אמר, he said, איכא תקנתא. So I see there's some etzah against this problem. כל יומא מייתי נפחא, ומחו קמיה. Every day he would bring this blacksmith and have him say bang your your hammer in front of me. And it takeh worked, and it calmed quieted down that mosquito. But he had to listen to that noise! Okay, that's not that's not so bad. לעכו''ם יהיב ליה ארבעה זוזי. To a goy, every day for doing this he would pay four zuz. לישראל, to a Yid, אמר ליה, he said, מיסתייך דקא חזית בסנאך. For you, I don't have to you have plenty enough reward the fact that you see your enemy suffering, so I'm not paying you anything. עד תלתין יומין עבד הכי, he did that for 30 days, worked, מכאן ואילך כיון דדש דש. After 30 days, the mosquito got used to it, and then it didn't help so much. Went back.

תניא, it says in a ברייתא, אמר רבי פנחס בן ערובא, רבי פנחס בן ערובא said, אני הייתי בין גדולי רומי, I was amongst the great people of Rome. כשמת, when he died, פצעו את מוחו, they opened up his brain, ומצאו בו כצפור דרור משקל שני סלעים. They found this mosquito is eating for seven years inside, grew and grew till he turned into the size of a bird, a flying bird which weighs two סלעים. ובמתניתא תנא, in a ברייתא it says כגוזל בן שנה, like like a dove, not a dove, a pigeon that's a year old, משקל שני ליטרין, weighs like two ליטרין. In other words, it came out so big. אמר אביי, אביי said, נקטינן, we know, we heard that פיו של נחושת, its mouth was at that moment copper, like copper, וצפורניו, and the nails, של ברזל, were like metal, like iron. Wow. I don't know if it means כפשוטו, how did it turn into copper, but it became so hard, it's so tough, it was ממש like copper, it just became so tough and כי הוה מיית, when he was dying, before he died, אמר להו לקלויה לההוא גברא, he said burn my body, ולבדרי לקיטמיה אשבע ימי, and then spread out my ashes in all the seven oceans. Why? דלא לישכחיה אלהא דיהודאי ולא לוקמיה בדינא. So the God of the Yidden shouldn't catch me and take me to din, because I'll be spread out all over so I won't be together, so he won't be able to He thought that what is it He thought that his body is the whole thing. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Tzaar for the Yiddishe neshamah if you cremate it, chas v'shalom? Yes, he has a neshamah that's going to be punished. Yeah, there is a tzaar, but it's not that it would be spread out. Wouldn't affect other neshamot. Tzaar. They found כתב יד of the Rebbe lately. Lately means a year ago I saw, found and they sent me a copy. A lady, one of the shluchos, wrote to the Rebbe a letter saying that there's a person who wants to get cremated anyway, and she tries to try to convince him not to, nothing helps. What she should tell him? It's a long tzetl, about four, five lines. I don't remember all the detail, but the nekudah was, tell her tell him that even though the person dies, there's still some kind of chayus left, and when you burn the body, you are killing that chayus. So basically you are committing murder.

There was a מעשה שהיה in our office, that one guy from the office, thank God he's alive now, but he was not expected to live. We all went to go and see him the last time. He's not expected to live, so Rabbi Glatt, you know Rabbi Glatt, he also came, but he called up the hospital first, and they told him, he died. So he didn't know that somebody else has the same name. So he said, can I speak to the widow? So she said, I told her a widow, and he said, what can I do for you, how can I help you with the kevurah, with this or that? She says, no, it's going to make a cremations. What? What are you talking about? It's a goy or a Yid? A Jew. Had the same name. So he spoke and spoke to her, and then in the middle of conversation, he figured out it's a different person. But he didn't let up from her, and he was matzil the meis from Yeah? Matzil the Jew. A moradike zach, it's a moradike zach. And this guy's who writes all these maasiyot, what's his name writes these with the Maggid, about the Maggid tells this story and that story, he wrote that story, he checked it out and he wrote that he wrote that story in his book. We generally say to people that this is going to ruin or take away from you in Olam Haba or Gan Eden, but the Rebbe had a different approach, pashut this is committing murder. It's a חיות, a regular חיות? ס'איז דאך דא א לבן, yeah. תחיית המתים. Some say תחיית המתים, but this is more than that. The לוז... The לוז stays anyway, even if you burn. Who is the Rebbe to talk and say about the חיות, do we have any No, the Rebbe didn't say to say it in his name, just try to explain to this person this inyan, that there is still a חיות there. What biologists say biologically. Yeah.

What what's so amazing is in this story about Titus is that nobody writes down here, the Gemara didn't write down that that no good like Herod, his his son was fighting on the side of the Romans against the Yidden. He was fighting against the Yidden, first he tried to convince them not to rebel against the Romans. Josephus, who are you talking about? Whatever who his son's name was, maybe it was Herod the next Herod, whoever it was, he he was fighting against them, and not only that Well, they were עבדים, but not Yidden. But Josephus also, Josephus went on their side claiming Josephus, yeah. claiming that he was trying to help, which maybe Someone asked the Rebbe about Josephus. So the Rebbe answered there're different different opinions of whether it's good he's good or bad. And I think the Rebbe writes that bedavka the frume approach is that he wasn't so bad. That he like meant he meant l'shem Shamayim, he went over to try to save. Anyway, it's נישט נוגע, okay. זאגט די Gemara ווייטער: אונקלוס בר קלוניקוס בר אחתיה דטיטוס הוה. He was the son of the sister of Titus, he was Titus' nephew. This is going to show us ההמשך to Titus. Who was קלוניקוס? הא? Who was קלוניקוס? His father. Huh? His father, אונקלוס his father. You can consult the Huh? Different נוסחאות in this in this story. Son of Titus' sister. Not everybody refers him to Titus. Just want to say the father was I'll see if he was in contact with this. Oh, he has three people he went to, no? We'll see, he went to No, no, no, I'm saying that Oh, whether he was a relative of Titus? Yeah. Other נוסחאות say he is a relative of someone else. Oh, but not that the story changes. Oh, okay, that could be, I don't know, I'm not, you know, yeah. Like nowadays they have all the מסיאבנים in Eretz Yisrael and make so much trouble. Yeah, always. Anyway, הוי בעי למיגייר, he wanted to be מגויר.

אזל, he went, אסקי לטיטוס בנגידא. Through black magic he brought up Titus. אמר ליה, he said to him, מאן חשיב בההוא עלמא? Who's important in that world? אמר ליה: ישראל, יידן. So he asked him, מהו לאדבוקי בהו? What do you think, I should connect myself to them, in other words should I be מגויר? אמר ליה, so he said, מילייהו נפישין, their their things are a lot, they have a lot of mitzvot, a lot of halachot, a lot of restrictions, לא מצית לקיומינהו. You will not be able to keep it. It's kosher to get to get this answer from כישוף? No, he's not allowed, he was a goy. זיל אגרי בהו בההאי עלמא. Instead of joining them, go fight them, start up with them, והוית רישא, then you'll be put, you'll be in the head. דכתיב, it says, היו צריה לראש, צריה, their troublemakers, the ones that made them trouble became the head, עבר של שלום, and we learn כל המיצר לישראל נעשה ראש, anybody who chepps up with the יידן, bothers the Yidden, becomes the head. Okay. אמר ליה, And this after after all that he suffered, that's the advice he gives? Yeah. That shows that even in yener velt he didn't חלש'ס תשובה געטאן, yeah. אמר ליה, so he said, דיניה דההוא גברא במאי? He says, so what how are you being judged, how are you being punished there? אמר ליה, he said, במאי דפסק אנפשיה, with what I said on myself. He

said on myself that they should spread out his they should burn him, and spread out his ashes throughout all the seas, כל יומא מכנשי ליה לקטמיה, everyday they gather my ashes together, and he becomes again who he is, ודיינו ליה, and they judge him, וקלו ליה, and they burn him again, ומבזדרי אשבע ימי, and they again spread him out on the seven seas, again and again. Okay. So, he saw from him he got a bad advice. אזל אסקי לבלעם בנגידא. Now he brought up בלעם with magic. אמר ליה, he said to him, מאן חשיב בההוא עלמא? Who's important in this world, that your world? אמר ליה: ישראל, יידן. מהו לאדבוקי בהו? How What is it? You think I should join them? אמר ליה, לא תדרוש שלומם וטובתם כל הימים. Don't join them, okay. But he wasn't like Titus who said start up with them, but he said don't join them. אמר ליה, he said, דיניה דהאי גברא במאי? What are you being punished with? אמר ליה, בשכבת זרע רותחת. שכבת זרע that's burning. Why? Also middah keneged middah, because he caused the problem with the בנות מדין and Moav. So, therefore he's punished with this.

אזל אסקי לפושעי ישראל בנגידא. Then he brought up Yeshu. So really in the Gemara it said Yeshu. Censors, so they wrote פושעי ישראל. But it probably said ישו פושעי or the word פושעי ישראל said, but it said the word Yeshu. Deleted from where? From Gittin or from Sanhedrin? No, no, in this Gemara, at this place it said Yeshu. Yeah. Yeshu is a ראשי תיבות: ימח שמו וזכרו. So, they brought up he brought him up. אמר ליה, he said, מאן חשיב בההוא עלמא? Who's chashuv in that world? אמר ליה: ישראל, יידן. מהו לאדבוקי בהו? But should I get to them? Should I be מגויר? אמר ליה, טובתם דרוש, yes, you should look into their good, רעתם אל תדרוש, don't do anything bad to them, כל הנוגע בהם כאילו נוגע בבבת עינו. Anybody who touches the Yidden, it's like that he touched the the the שווארץ אפל the the the The pupil of of the Eibershter. אמר ליה: דיניה דהאי גברא במאי? What are you being judged with? Why did they change the Gemara like that? Some Gemaras did. Like this, it's all copies, it's not I think the new the new they used to Everything was offset of the old ones, but now that they knew retyping, they put it in the right way. So how are you being punished?

אמר ליה: בצואה רותחת, burning צואה. Why? דאמר מר: כל המלעיג על דברי חכמים נידון בצואה רותחת. If someone laughs at the words of the חכמים, gets this punishment. And he was the one, he fought the חכמים, he was laughing. And then the Gemara continues, תא חזי, come and see מה בין פושעי ישראל לנביאי אומות עובדי כוכבים. Look at the difference between a worst Yid to the best goy. Best, I mean, a navi, a goy a navi, and here is the worst Yid. What's the difference? He, even though it was terrible, no, bad, gave an עצה to מגייר. And the the goyim, they give an עצה not to, to fight the Yidden. תניא, it says in the beraita Didn't help his punishment. Huh? Didn't help his punishment. That's פלא, that's a פלא, but it's a It says in the beraita Now this going back to the beginning of the whole Gemara. The Gemara started with a פסוק. The whole Gemara with this whole story started אשרי אדם מפחד תמיד, a person should always be afraid. And that's how the Gemara continued. What should What As we see that קמצא בר קמצא בית המקדש destroyed, other stories. What does that got to do with that פסוק? All it shows is that had Bar Kamtza or at that time, or the other people, thought ahead and were thinking what could happen in the future if we behave a certain way, he wouldn't have done it. So that's what it says. So אשרי אדם מפחד תמיד, always be afraid of what you're doing to make sure that it's not going to cause any trouble. And here, that was the problem. And he says another thing, תניא, it says in a ברייתא, אמר רבי אלעזר: בא וראה כמה גדולה כחה של בושה. Look how strong the feeling of embarrassment is. The whole reason this whole thing happened, because when he wanted to throw him out, he was he was upset. Why? Because he embarrassed him. So we see public embarrassment is is terrible. שהרי סייע הקדוש ברוך הוא את בר קמצא, השם helped Bar Kamtza, that was gave him the כח to be strong to do what he did and to be upset, והחריב את ביתו, because of that He destroyed the בית המקדש, ושרף את היכלו, and He burned the היכל. Many have been embarrassed, why Hashem take his side? What do you mean take his? I mean to It was the straw that broke the camel's back. It's not because, the Eibershter wanted to destroy the בית המקדש, so He looked for an excuse, let's say. He found a a דרך to do it. Just last straw. Yeah. זאגט די גמרא ווייטער: אתרנגולא ותרנגולתא חרוב טור מלכא. Because of a chicken and a hen, the great city of טור מלכא, that's a gigantic place with millions of Yidden, as the Gemara will say, got destroyed. And it's like the same thing. We'll see if how they thought ahead what they're doing, they wouldn't have done it. What What happened there? דהוו נהיגי, they had a מנהג, כי הוו מפקי חתנא וכלתא, when a חתן and כלה would go out, מפקי קמייהו תרנגולא ותרנגולתא, they would bring in front of them a rooster and a hen, כלומר, it would be a סימן, פרו ורבו כתרנגולים, you should multiply chickens. It's like a bracha, like a segulah. יומא חד הוו קא חלפי גונדא דרומאי, once when they were chassan and kallah and they brought out these chickens, a group of soldiers of the Romans passed by. שקלינהו מינייהו. I don't know, they were hungry or what, they saw two Yidden carrying two chickens, they grabbed the chickens, took it away. נפלו עלייהו, so the אידן attacked them, ומחונהו, and they hit them. אתו, so they came, אמרו ליה לקיסר, they said to the king: מרדו בך יהודאי, the אידן are fighting you. אתא עלייהו, so he came to the people here with his army. הוה בהו ההוא בר דרומא, there was one man, he's called בר דרומא, was so strong דהוה קפיץ מיל, he was able to jump a מיל, וקטיל בהו, and he would jump into the army into the the the enemy and kill, and he was no one could fight him. So the קיסר, שקל קיסר, the goyishe keisar took off the תגא, his crown, ואותביה אארעא, put it on the ground. אמר, he said to the Aibershter, by doing that like he was showing him humility towards the Aibershter, he said, ריבוניה דעלמא, creator of the world, אי ניחא לך, if you want that I should lose the war, I'm asking you for one thing, לא תמסריה לההוא גברא ולמלכותיה בידיה דחד גברא, don't give me over and my government, my kingship, my kingdom in the hands of one person. That's what's going to happen, because of this one person we're going to lose. So he said this. אכשליה פומיה דבר דרומא, his mouth said it came out the opposite. ואמר, he said, he quoted a פסוק, הלא אתה אלקים זנחתנו, you left us, ולא תצא אלקים בצבאותינו, you left us, don't come back in our army. We don't need your help in our in our army, don't help us. So what happened? That's what happened that evening. lost. Freigt di Gemara: דוד נמי אמר הכי? David said, it's a pasuk in Tehillim. Zogt di Gemara: דוד אתמוהי קא מתמה. David was wondering: You left us? You're not coming back? But he said it as a fact! You left us and stay that way. So what happened? על לבית הכסא, you see he went to the בית הכסא, אתא דרקונא שמטיה לכרכשתיה, a snake came and poisoned, bit his כרכשתא, נח נפשיה he died. אמר, he said, הואיל ואתרחיש ניסא, the king said, since a miracle, miracle happened that this guy died, השתא, this time, אשבקינהו, I'm going to leave them. I'm not going to bother בדיל. שבקינהו, he left them, ואזל, he left. אזדקור ואכלו ושתו, the Yidden heard that he left, danced and ate and drank, ואדליקו שרגא, they put in candles, עד דחזי בליליא דגושפנקא בהך מיל. It was so light from the candles that they burnt that you were able to read the signature on a ring, just at night, in the dark. אמר, when he heard that they're celebrating, he said, מיחדי קא חדו בידאי, the Yidden are laughing at me. הדר אתא, he came and what he did was he came and fought them. אמר רב אסי: תלת מאה אלפי שליפי סייפא עיילו לטור מלכא. 300,000 swordmen came to this טור מלכא, וקטלו בה תלתא יומי ותלתא לילוותא, and they were killing three days and three nights they kept on killing people. And the city was so big, בהא גיסא הילולא וחנגא ולא הוו ידעי בהא דבהא.

One side, they didn't even know that he came to fight, and they were still continuing to celebrate, and this side they were mamash murdering. And the end was he killed them all. So, I understand Caesar, he he asked Hashem for for favor. And then the guy said whatever he said. Don't don't help me. Don't All he said was But did Caesar No, no, he said, \"Don't help, don't come and help. Don't help them.\" But he thought he he could do it on his own. On his own. Yeah. But Caesar, let's say he said, \"I'm not helping,\" did that cause him to say Who, did it cause him to say that? Caesar asked Hashem Did that cause this this guy to I don't know, it's not clear. In other words, Hashem answered Caesar.