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The Talmud in Taanis (25a) relates that Rabbi
Elazar Ben Padas was extremely poor and he passed out and HY came to him, and he
asked HY how long he would have to bear the pain in this world, and HY replied,
“Elazar my son, is it ok with you that I overturn the world from its onset,
perhaps you will be born in a time of sustenance?” Rabbi Elazar Ben Padas
replied, “to such an extant, and even still it is only a possibility? Have I
lived most of my life etc.? HY replied, “yes.” Rabbi Elazar Ben Padas said, “If
that’s the case, it is not necessary.” HY replied, in reward for saying it isn’t
necessary I am giving you etc., see there at length.
The commentaries question the exact meaning of
overturning the world, some say it just means his own life, and he would come
back in a different gilgul – reincarnation, see there.
There is a story in the book Shivchay HuAri (The
Praises of the Arizal, pg 6), that the Arizal once saw a plague of locust
descending on the city of Tsfas that would consume all the produce of the city,
and he commanded to quickly give money and appease a certain kosher Jew, Rabbi
Alteraz, who was crying to HY over his poverty, and wasn’t able to hold back
from about his neighbours who knew of his plight and had no pity on him.
The simple understanding of this story is that
poor man simply brought wrath upon the city, and he too would go down with the
rest of them.
However, it is possible that this plague of
locust is the aspect of overturning the world which HY considered doing on the
chance that it would alleviate the poverty of Rabbi Elazar, in fact, Alteraz,
is an anagram for Elazar – with an extra T. Rabbi Elazar Ben Padas told HY that
it was not necessary – and for this he
was rewarded tremendously, which would definitely insinuate that someone of slightly
lesser stature, or even of the same stature – who still had most of his life
ahead of him - would not be able to forgo the chance of being saved from their
misfortune, and perhaps that is what happened in this case of Rabbi Alteraz,
and the great havoc of the plague was an opportunity and possibility for Rabbi
Alteraz to gain a better fortune.
Who knows how many times such things happened
in history, and perhaps the great reset we are seeing in the world right now is
on account of some impoverished Jew who’s plight was overlooked by his people.
May HY have mercy in merit of the holy Petek of
Na Nach Nachma Nachman MayUman! May the great reset be entirely merciful with the new song and new world order of Na Nach Nachma Nachman MAyUMaN!
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