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Rabbi Eli Mansour

Torah Lecture

Galut Is A Kaparah!

Lectured by Rabbi Eli Mansour

Published
July 10, 2026
Duration
2:16
Lecture code
Q1-REM-SBAM86-15

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And you have to know something: galut is mechaperet. When you go into exile, exile is a kapara (atonement). So the next time you're exiled, you have to welcome it, because you're getting a kapara. To the extent that the Kabbalists write that if, let's say, you're in your bedroom and there's a leak in the ceiling, and you have to now sleep in a different bedroom, that's a galut. It atones; it's a kapara. You have to welcome that. The reason why Hashem made the leak in the bedroom is because you were guilty of something. So Hashem doesn't want to kill you. So what does He do? He says, “Let me just get him; let him move. Let him become a little itinerant. He has to move from one bedroom to the next.” Nobody wants to move from their bed. It's uncomfortable. You want to sleep in your bed.

Once you have to move already, see if you have to sleep somewhere else, and you want to tell him he got moved from your comfort. Once you get moved from your comfort, you know that there was a karet (excision) on you, and the karet was removed. So you have to welcome it. I'm not telling you to sleep in separate bedrooms. That, you're probably bringing karet upon yourself. But again, if it happens, if it happens, if you're dislocated—you move for whatever reason.

So, for example, the Gemara says, why do we go and have a holiday of Sukkot after the high holidays? I mean, we have so many holidays in Tishri. Why not put Sukkot in February or something like that? Split it up. The top of the year, the calendar is top-heavy. So the Gemara says that just in case we didn't come out with a favorable judgment, God says, “Exile yourself into the sukkah (booth),” and that exiling yourself into the sukkah is a kapara. I don't care how comfortable your sukkah is; it's not your house. Bottom line, you gotta go outside, take the flimsy table, the flimsy roof, and you have to prepare yourself. So therefore, it's a galut. And if the galut is mechaperet. And if the galut is mechaperet. And if the galut is mechaperet.