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101: Tisha B'av: Shattered Dignity
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it's another tissue
and uh we did this last year
and uh i really was hoping that that
would be the last tissue
that we would have to do uh here we are
we still have our guinness we're still
sitting on the floor
fasting not wearing shoes
and observing the morning and thank you
and as i said last year
it's it's a struggle at this point
uh i think i mentioned last year from
where he left
he always says i hate ishmael i really
hate it i don't want to do this
and when we hate it enough
and we're sick of it enough then we
won't have to anymore
but for most people it's not so bad i
don't
like nuts that's a big deal
one day i sit on the floor and i uh say
guinness
okay i don't really know what i'm saying
you can find a lot of meaningful
programs
online go online and find a whole day
people make videos specifically for
fitish above
there are explanatory kindness
taking place around the world that you
can
you can go to our friends over at tour
anytime
they have them broadcasting from all
around the world you can watch canvas uh
the whole day you can say the kids
as we mentioned a little hard but you
can find explanatory ones
english ones
is something that's supposed to really
tug on our heartstrings
the conan is a
is a whale it's a it's a
it's it's a cry of pain
la have lawrence olivier i forgot which
shakespearean play was being made into a
movie
and he gives this cry of
pain and he was asked in an interview
how did you
come up with that cry of pain and it was
so intense
so he said i read once about this
a frog or a lizard or what it was that
uh
you know shoots out the tongue to catch
a fly
and sometimes when it's a very cold area
it it hits a rock the fly with the rock
and his tongue gets stuck
frozen onto the rock and it gives out
this terrible
cry and that's what i tried to mimic
so what do we do so we're mimicking
remembering the cry that others have
made throughout the centuries
when uh believe in yoga go beyond
so uh he gives his grandson the candy
so the mother says say thank you
thank you and he went oy
that's how i thought just like that
say thank you thank you
is a is a challenge
and so we have to go into it on a deeper
level to find the themes
of what's taking place for us to be able
to appreciate it
we dealt with one candle last year i
hope this will be the last one that we
have to do
i hope next year when tischendorf is the
yantif
i'll still be making my podcast but i
don't know the nature will be watching
it because then malcolm machias will be
broadcasting and
i'm sure he'll be much more engaging
i i think about it all the time i think
that all the time
um because uh they said abuse of
heinrich zeinfeld
he used to push himself at the simplest
person she was able to dance
he had problems with his feet and he had
to work very hard
they said baby why are you pushing
yourself and he said
because the mishna says that only the
uh sadiq got to dance
now i can dance comes in the basic
magnificent might not be allowed to
dance
so enjoy it while you can
so uh so now you know
people are listening to me i know i'm
under no illusions that i'm sure
comes you know so uh i will be
a footnote to history so uh
so i want to focus on one kina
that captures a tragic marine kitten
in my case it's kenneth kimmel
and uh and it's the story
the kin is based on a story a tragic
tragic story
kenneth
and the tears flow on my cheeks
lift my voice
every year i uh i say
evil evening
my heart mourns and
i can't be comforted
my heart like a fire burns when i think
about this
terrible terrible story the rest of the
kinder goes on to tell the story
and what's the story the gemara tells
what the story is
the small coin godol was
had a certain uh majestic beauty
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in the time of the base of mikdash
josephus writes that everyone knew the
jews were the most beautiful people in
the world
and uh
it would be small going
had a z upon him with somebody who was
exceptional and he had
two children a son and a daughter they
were captured
and they were sold into slavery
one master boy his son and one bought
the daughter and
they noted the unbelievable beauty
of these two individuals
and somehow the two of them met and they
said you know i just bought the most
beautiful boy slave
the other one says really because i just
bought the most beautiful girls
she says you know what let's meet them
like a thoroughbred racehorse and we'll
get
beautiful slaves we'll make a business
we'll sell the litter we'll sell the the
children that come out of this
and so the two masters locked them into
a room
and figures what's gonna happen
so they each sat in different corners
and they cried
and i said i i'm a cohen the son of a
calling
this is what this is what's become of me
this is this is how this is how i'm i'm
i'm going to be uh lowered
and the daughter in the other corner i'm
a bus cohen
the nobility the greatness
this is what i've been reduced to
do you imagine growing up in a how you
can't imagine you're growing up in the
house at the base of
of the cone gundle during the time of
the base in the condition
calling gundam somebody that
people looked up to with uh with
he used to go into the coach of the
notion and
and and see it's see the shrina
experience it on some level that we
can't even understand
and uh here comes here here comes his
children
you can imagine they grew up in this
house thinking who they're going to
marry what their life is going to be
like
what kind of a torah home they're going
to build
it's a whole other you
otherwise you're in danger and the coach
barracuda might punish you for the fact
that you
decided to take somebody who was the
nobility of the jewish people and you
are not atomic
my son had a rabbit he used to used to
uh teach machias in the afternoon
um he always talked about rosh hashanah
and he said that the reason that he
taught rosh hashanah
was because uh he married a bus going
i think murray says that you have to
meet him to marry
so he says i chose rosh hashanah and i'm
constantly
hazaring it and that's why i teach it
for the kids so that uh
i know i'm keeping my hand into the
massage
so here she's gonna hang off this slave
according to one madrish which started
the war
in the time of hanukkah was
a uh was a uh
incident that the bus going
because the greeks had made this rule
that uh caller who was going to get
married
the hegemon the officer could come
and be with her uh first
and the cohen goddard's daughter was
selected this wasn't
strictly taipa this was being developed
specifically to break the spirit and the
kedusa of the jewish people anyway
the bus going girdle is getting married
and they hear the hegemon's on the way
so okay
it's honest you know it's basically a
case of rape because you're not us
so she comes out to the hosanna wearing
nothing
and everyone is scandalized that's going
good
and she says oh oh i forgot you people
are so firm you
don't want to see me like this but you
don't mind handing me over like this
to this to this uh to this uh
you know evil evil governor you know
enemy of our people and this worked the
people up into such a rage
she's right that when he came they
killed him and started the war
the point is a point where you have to
say i can't
and here she is in a room all of her
dreams shattered everything born no
family no friends
alone in a room with some slave
to be defiled to be breeded
she's sitting there crying
and here going
yeah there's mitzvah to give karma to
kohanim
and clay yourself they're supposed to
get the first aliyah they're supposed to
leave the benching there's a
office here i am
and now i'm going to be greeted with
some slave dog and the two of them are
in two separate sides crying
and when daylight came and the sun came
into the room
they saw that it was brother and sister
and they embraced and they held each
other and cried together
until they both died impurity
they they cried themselves to death
and this is the tragic story that this
kenneth discusses
and talks about
the story itself is a gemara and
a number of daphim and kitten that deal
with the
khurban-basam
and
he says there's a reason why
all of these are in
because kitten describes what happens
when a relationship
fails and that's the hormone base of
it's a story of relationships
between us and our kurdish borough
and that relationship going bad
avraham saw
the best is a mountain it's called
story is a field
yaakov sword is a bias
this is the house of hashem this is the
interface of shamayimpa pirates
the bias is a place of anishinesha
five things happened on tisha belt first
basement was destroyed
unbelievable second baseman was
destroyed
the entire door you know it's saying
it's raining so chris yamcha when all
the nissan
it was the creed they would all die in
the desert and never go into itself
the city of beitar was wiped out there
was so many people
murdered that the blood flowed like a
river to the sea
and thomas rufus plowed the higher bias
okay the basement was already destroyed
they plowed the heart bias
because yaakov saw the base of mikdash
in its ultimate fulfillment
it's a bias it's a place of an ish and
amnesia
and we lost that it went back to what
it's hug so which was a sudden which was
a field
so there's a field it's a a field is a
place where you do business
you grow things a house in a world city
it doesn't go back to you in the evil in
the 50th year it doesn't return to you
there's no owners but a house in the
field that's considered part of the
field
you live out there because you want to
work your field
we had a bias we lived with akersboro
the uh
the valley levin it's not taking out
time
so uh he uh
he gets into a cab the driver says no if
i buy
where's your home he says
my wife died only by it
now i just have uh an apartment
i'll tell you
the diet is the place in the east
indonesia
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what do we do with the seder night we
say
i remember remember the love of akala
and we come to schwarz
seven weeks later we stand in higher c9
and there are hundreds of ghazal that
compare it to a hasanah
we get married that's what shirashum is
all about
that love between us and the kurdish
prophet
what's ah about
isha azuba
we lost that relationship it was broken
our home was destroyed it was plowed
like a field
that intimate relationship that we have
in the kurdish borough who was gone
so when we take a story of two hidden
from the from the finest episode
each one of them thinks they're being
mated with a slave
and then they see their brother and
sister and they embrace
and they leave the world of purity
rather than to allow themselves to be
defiled
to be a slave to work to be beaten okay
but to be defiled
says the kingdom
the descendants of iran of the of the
um somebody told me
that they don't have a lot of sneeze
rules and
uh engage it
yeah that's what i heard i i didn't
check into it
they have one rule dress like a buster
so someone said to me why do we need so
many rules
i said because as a wise man once said
common sense
isn't as common as it used to be
the things that it would never occur to
us to make rules
because sneeze is related to one word
and a word that you don't really have
today it's called
dignity it's called carrying yourself
with hashibis
i used to teach in seminary i had three
rules
make sure your cell phone is turned off
because when it goes off during class
it's very disruptive to everybody
no talking not talking if you're bored
go outside i march in
attendance i don't care go outside i
don't care if you sit here at night but
don't sit here and talk
and it's very it's very it's it it's
disturbing to me and to the other girls
et cetera and if you're talking because
you're not interested in what's going on
there's no problem go outside
i won't there's no panel penalty go
outside and talk
have something to eat take a drink or
whatever
and the third one was no come true
that's just to get girls crazy
what's wrong i said
it's not dignified
the queen of england doesn't chew gum
there's a there's a certain there's a
certain
i haven't seen it i don't think it's
happened but
uh a collar under the hook has not
chewed a piece of gum
uh he carries some addiction
and the girls would say to me we don't
care
and i said in this class
you're going to see yourself the way
that i see you
dignity that's what sneeze comes from
means i'm a princess it means that i'm
somebody important
i'll just do whatever i want wear
whatever i want talk however i want
there has to be a certain thing that you
carry yourself
somebody who was with mr shapiro when he
was a pride
he says he was walking down the street
and the crowds just parted
he didn't say anything he didn't do
anything they just sensed
that uh that you're dealing with a
different type of a person
i remember reading that the dutch
masters used to be
pictures of jews because when you saw a
jew
you saw nobility
you sent khashevas importance
back in the 1960s said in europe there
were a lot of schmooze in dealing with
gaipa
so you have to deal with kaiba because
in america we have to deal with
we have to deal with the lack of
self-worth
i'm not worth anything nobody cares what
i think nobody cares what i say doesn't
make a difference what i do
and so a person doesn't think he's
important
so who cares what it who cares what i
say because what i wear
but the children of the coming goddard
during the time of the base of mikdash
they had a sense
of gravitas they understood that there
was somebody important
they understood that they represented
something in cloud israel
marine chavez brings
forth who all say the same thing every
jew
in clay israel is considered nobility
now you know this right certainly the
men know this
because the mishna says
that you're supposed to say krishna when
you get up which is of course sunrise
maybe sherman says no princes get up
already
so late at like the third hour of the
morning
so you can still say krishna to the
third hour of the morning
anybody who does not say krishna you
know
by nate's so they're relying on the fact
that they hold their nobility you hold
it to somebody important
physicists
why are you so subject to such a busy
youngest
laugh that insulted
only only type of racism that's allowed
is anti-semitism
black lives matter have uh anti-semitic
uh
points on their on their program
their website who can make anthony
somebody saying well you know
we have to educate them we have to speak
to them we have to this you know but you
say anything against other groups forget
about it you're
cancelled culture you're finished but
they can buzz us insult us
and and trash us and say the most
horrible things about us
that's okay that's okay
the problem is that you you put up with
this abuse long enough and you start to
integrate it
we forget
we we have gravitas to us we are
important people
one day a year we mourn we mourn for the
base of mikdash because there used to be
a relationship between us and a good
particle
that was the most beautiful relationship
in the world
and we mourn the fact
that we've been reduced they sold the
slaves
and mistreated and abused
they forget sometimes because you know
when there's no programs
there's no uh there's no uh uh
you know crusades
no holocaust no inquisitions we forget
we think yeah everything's okay
everything's not okay
it's not okay
the abuse and we start to integrate
become those
victims who start to think that yeah we
are we know what they say about us
a terrible terrible thing
continuous we remember we were great
and that day is going to come i said it
in
my regular podcast but if coronavirus
teaches us one thing instead it goes
broke we can do anything
he can close down the entire world if he
wants to
and if he wants to bring back the base
of mikdash bring the jews back to
its trail and build the base of big dust
he can do that too
and then we'll have that
sense of greatness of grandeur
it says if you weird since this so
thousands
of non-jews will run over and grab onto
your titties
and say teach us
because something will turn out that we
were right all along
and once again jews will be who they're
supposed to be
because they understand who they are
i hate this i hope you do too
i hope this is the last one
i'm like thank guinness like fasting
sitting on the floor
i don't like the reflection on who we
used to be
i want to put the reflection on who we
could be
who we have to be
it's hashem all of us will have an
emotion
and this will be the last dish