#552: Amida: V'LiYerushalayim (Part 4)

s is generously sponsored by the Saka family and sponsored as well by for we are still in the introduction to the a special even though we have others as that speak about the period of redemption the arrival of mhia the building of theik gets its own we've been speaking about its significance and its meaning more than just a geographic location more than just coordinates on the map Y is an exist ential Y is a spiritual concept indeed in the kinos that please God we will not recite this year hopefully it will all be in but in the Kos that have been recited in the past the k h alternate stanzas first we describe the the glory when we left the exit of saved us redeemed us from Egypt and then the Kina each corresponding stanza says a tragic and sad when Hashem took us out of and ultimately it culminates with optimism and hope with a and a prayer happiness and joy gone will be sorrow and sighing when please God we can go back to going back to a state of is not only going back again to a geographic place it's going back to a state of mind a state of existence a state of being what is this contrast what are this distinction between and so essentially Jews can live one of two ways and in fact a and lo he when a and lo part ways and he tells lo you choose which direction do you want to face where do you want to go I'll go the other way L looks towards where MIT a is happy to go towards Y is defined by the Nile is defined by this false and delusional sense of self- sustenance that we can take care of ourselves that we don't need anyone that we don't need AEM MIM is a place of silly Superstition and Magic MIM is a place of moral corruption and spiritual decadence and Y in contrast is the opposite sh is the place that hase's presence is intely felt is the place that that we realize we surrender and subm to his Providence and to his and to his Dominion Egypt MIT and Y are two opposites they're two polar opposit and the question is where are we drawn so we have an entire three times a day that our GPS our coordinates our magnetic pull the place that we want to be where we're most comfortable is to go back to us we want to get out of is characterized by and divisiveness the whole way we got to was the terrible terrible between Y and his brothers and of course we remember that and commemorate that even P night the tells us is a reminder of that that the that continues to haunt us until today even though we are have the tremendous to be back in it's certainly far from being rebuilt we don't have a because still haunts us we long for is the opposite sh is it's Unity we eat theb P person has to be part of a community part of a group part of aab to be able to eat the carbon p in MIT is a place MIT the root of the word MIT is boundaries we're trapped in the physical tied down by the material that righteousness and virtue are held captive to corruption and selfishness Egypt is a place of mitar that were bound were Shackled Y is the opposite shalim is shal it's a city of Peace it's a peace between the body and soul it's peace between Heaven and Earth it's peace between the ideal and reality it's living according to our values is that place of Harmony where shal we're Complete because there's Shalom there's peace because there's a Harmony between every part of who we are the Yami tells us is a city that joins everyone together as friends says it's a place that we're United it's a place of of being a of being a that we are united that we are together not only of here but the we learned is Mal so life is a journey and the Jew is always meant to try to extricate to try to Exodus to try to leave m MIM again not only physically many of us have never been to MIT physically Torah mentions three times there's a Prohibition to go back to MIM which means literally shouldn't physically live in Egypt it's a question how the RAS rambam how some of our great leaders lived in MIT if there's a Biblical prohibition what are the exceptions to that rule but it doesn't only mean geographically we're not supposed to live in MIT it means metaphysically we shouldn't live in the mentality the philosophy the attitude the perspective of instead a Jew is meant to go where to Journey from to to always believe we're almost there to be in the city to be United to be together to have a Harmony to have Shalom and to be shal in all that we're doing that's what Y is all about Yim is the the Holiness of Y mentioned more than 650 times in tanak even though not explicit in the Torah itself for three reasons but Yim is the place the destination it's the place of our destiny so that's why we have a special BR we'll go through the the words themselves but that is all by way of introduction why we have a special designated for you sh because it means much more than simply geography it means a mental state a state of being a goal a hope a way of living andem we should all be back there both physically and metaphysically Amo