יאשיה המלך Yoshiya the king is on one hand a sad story. However there is a deep meaning behind it.
We know אל תתגרה ברשעים. [''do not start up with the wicked.'] So he must have been aware that getting rid of all idolatry in Israel that the evil would stick in him and his children. You can not fight someone in the mud without getting muddy. But even though he was aware of that, he decided to get rid of idolatry from Israel forever.--even knowing it would be the end of the Temple and his own children.
The reason was תמות נפשי עם פלשתים. [Shimshon said let my soul die with the phelishtim. it was of for him to be destroyed as long as he could take down the dark side while at it.] That is: it was worth it to make sure that idolatry would never again be a part of the accepted teaching of Torah in Israel
But that has become weakened. Now idolatry is very much an essential element of Torah as taught in the religious world. This is because the signature of the Gra was ignored and so idolatry is now a part and parcel of Torah as taught in the religious world.
[The basic event that I am referring to here is that that king got rid of all idolatry in Israel, and right after he died his sons took over and the Temple was destroyed and his children were either killed r became servants in the palace of Nebuchadnezzar.
We know אל תתגרה ברשעים. [''do not start up with the wicked.'] So he must have been aware that getting rid of all idolatry in Israel that the evil would stick in him and his children. You can not fight someone in the mud without getting muddy. But even though he was aware of that, he decided to get rid of idolatry from Israel forever.--even knowing it would be the end of the Temple and his own children.
The reason was תמות נפשי עם פלשתים. [Shimshon said let my soul die with the phelishtim. it was of for him to be destroyed as long as he could take down the dark side while at it.] That is: it was worth it to make sure that idolatry would never again be a part of the accepted teaching of Torah in Israel
But that has become weakened. Now idolatry is very much an essential element of Torah as taught in the religious world. This is because the signature of the Gra was ignored and so idolatry is now a part and parcel of Torah as taught in the religious world.
[The basic event that I am referring to here is that that king got rid of all idolatry in Israel, and right after he died his sons took over and the Temple was destroyed and his children were either killed r became servants in the palace of Nebuchadnezzar.
