If you had one era to go back in time… where would it be?

Har Sinai.

I’d be tempted to go for har sinai, but I’d probably go for Yetzias Metzraim because that way I could do zechirah better.

Watching the faces of the shvatim by ani yosef sounds good too, though.

I was already there as well as a few others in previous gilgulim. However, Rav Kook says on “ad shelo notzarti” that this one started exactly when it was needed.

A Jewish event- Either Har Sinai or the First Beis Hamikdash. Both had lots of nissim and were times of closeness to Hashem. A world history event- watching the D-day landings would be pretty insane. The largest armada ever assembled, all moving to free occupied Europe- it would be cool to see.

Id go back to 1921 and tell every jew to get out of Europe as a Madman is going to kill them all in Auschwitz and Treblinka

(1921 because that was one of the last years when immigation was still possible to the US)

Those of you wishing to go back to Sinai, mske sure that you’re under 20 years old so that you can also enter Eretz Yisroel

ZD, why not EY as the gates were wide open? However, if they did not listen to Rav Kook and the Imrei Emmet or, lehavdil, Jabotinsky, they would not listen to you. In fact, if you told them that you were from the future they would put you away.

It’s interesting to note everyone mentioning the era of Matan Torah. What about the very begining… maybe zehavadad, if your so sure people will obey your command to get out of Europe, maybe you would’ve had the power to persuade Chava not to eat from eitz hadaas. Then we could’ve avoided all the forthcoming issues… Well! I guess like coffee addict says we can’t change the world. Hashem has His plans for everything. So let’s all just make the best of the era He put us in and live it to the max and hope and pray that Moshiach come speedily Bimhaira b’yamainu Amen!

The question is if you had one attempt to time travel would you want to see a miracle or attempt to save lives.

Id skip the Beis Hamigdos or Matan Torah and do whatever I could to try to save lives even if I failed.

1) I actually dont have any ancestors who came to the US after the holocaust (They either came before World War 1 or just after)

2) If you did save a few lives by convincing someone to leave Europe before the war, you would still exist, its only if you convinced someone NOT to leave and that person was an ancestor would there be a problem

Another assumption is made here as well, Lets say you went back to the Beis Hamingdosh or Har Sinai and discovered something that was not previous known, something that could have an effect on modern day Judaism.

Dont think just be visting and not having any effect , doesnt mean you dont have an effect

Lets just say someone went back to Har Sinai and saw Moshe Rabeanu wearing Tfillin

Firstly how did Moshe Rabeneu look, Did he have Peyes or not, and if he did what did it look like

What about his Tfillin? There are actually more kinds than Rashi or Rabbenu Tam. What if his tfillin were neither of those and something else

There may be other things

What about if you went into the Beis Hamigdosh and saw the Bubbling blood of the Prophet Zechariah and the Cohanim seemed to totally ignore it

I’d go back to the times of the Gra and Baal Hatanya and try to bring shalom between them… or at least hear them debate who’s right ion the inyan of tzimzum

I think you are missing the point, life was different back then and the Gemra , Torah medrashing etc are not history books, you might discover something that the ancients might have not even thought was a big deal, but would be a big deal today

Here is another example. Raw sewage was a problem until the advent of modern plumbing, except for a short time when the romans had some sort of sewage system. Ancients were probably used to the smell and the sight of it that it was no big deal and there was likely some raw sewage not far from the Beis Hamigdosh. To the ancients it was not big deal, but you would likely notice it and it might change your view on things

Its not Hasghcha pratis, its just a fact that not everything was written down and some things maybe not so positive would cloud your view if you ever found them out

Like I said zdad,

If it doesn’t alter history it’s fine if it does then it won’t happen

If it changes your outlook and maybe others now then that has no bearing on the past it’s fine

Apuperma

In the late 19th century there was a famous wild west show called Buffalo’s Bill Wild West show where people “acted out” scenes from the american west

One of the people in the show was a woman named Annie Oakley who was a marksman. The show toured in Europe and one night she went out drinking, the next day they did a show with Kaiser Wilhem in the audeience and he dated her to shoot a cigeratte out of his mouth, Hungover she shot out the cigarttes. Later when the war started she sent him a letter offering him to do the “trick” again.

Had she missed and she had shot Kaiser Wilhelm its possible there would either never have been a WW I or the Germans might have won the war and Nazism, Commumism and Islamism would never have happend. So maybe someone should go back and get Annie Oakley to “MISS” and shoot the Kaiser

If I were to go back to one point in history it would probably be 20-30 years ago that way I would know exactly which stock and companies to invest in, I’d become the first ever trillionaire, and would settle down and learn while taking all of klal yisrael out of poverty and living in the most comfortable era in history.

akuperma,
I think it’s the other way round. Hashem doesn’t want us to be in the thick of things. Wherever we are, that’s where the thick of things will be.

About Moshe Rabbenu, see the Tiferes Yisroel at the end of Kidushin telling the story of the painter.

The Noam Elimelech says in Zetil Katan 15 writes that our assignment in this world is to change our nature.