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Rabbi Moshe Hauer, Tisha B'av 5780, #1- The Ponevezher Rav and the Arch of Titus
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today we're uh we're doing the kinos
in in an empty show
and hopefully we're all able to
to in some way virtually be together to
be messiable to mourn
over the quran to mourn over the
destruction
of the best i'll take a minute
just to introduce you to the format
this morning which is going to be
similar
to ways we've done it and structured
things in the past
so in order to facilitate the kinos
we're going to be using you'll have
available on the screen uh you know the
kinos that we're going to be saying
we're not
actually we'll be
moving around a little bit with some of
the different
ones we're going to be starting
ultimately we're going to be starting
when we get to it
which is um
one second
what is it
oh
i think it's it's not on this list
okay page 31 number 16.
thank you thank you for finding that um
so we're going to be doing a number of
keynotes
we're going to be doing business divided
up over the morning
we're going to be talking in between in
order to be able to have an enhanced
appreciation
of what it is of course that we're
crying over and as in past years
we're going to be framing our discussion
in
and around a personality
a personality who was
associated with khurban with destruction
and opinion and with reconstruction in
our own time
we've taken to this mode of doing the
kinos around a person
for the past many years
it has its own there are many ways of
course to do kinos
and this this one seems to have its own
value has its own value
on one level because we say that
the death of the righteous is like the
burning of the vasanas
when we see a person when we have the
chance to see him to
live with a person whose life
exemplifies the presence of hashem
whose life is lived according to
every value that we strive for
it helps us
we ourselves are supposed to be in that
same mode
we are supposed to be not just building
a nice building for the presence of
hashem
but building ourselves
in our midst and
we also get to see by looking at the
life of a personality we get to see
an example of someone who really knew
how to cry and know how to translate
those tears
into action for the first kina for the
first two kinos that we're going to be
going to be doing i would like to
really focus
on the bass on english on the bass
hummingbird itself
the core element of mourning
which we have on tissue
was a place which we built
in the midst of the jewish people in the
center of kalisri
where hashem came to reside for hashem
could
make himself at home it's strange
it's hard to understand
the philosophical question when he built
the base
how can we build a home for you the
heavens
the heavens and the uppermost heavens
the greatest fears they would not
be able to contain you they'd not be
able to
to hold you in this house
but hashem wants to come and he wants to
be in our midst
he wants to be in our midst when he can
feel at home in our midst
when he can feel welcome in our midst
and the destruction of the vasanas
hashem says like he said before like he
said when we first turned away from him
at the time of the eight of the golden
calf
and he said i'm not comfortable in your
midst
i can't be there in your midst
that's our world our world where
it doesn't feel at home a world where
our relationship with the service of
hashem is where we're constantly turning
to hashem and asking for things
we died when we dive in well when we
feel like we die and will
is that we've connected to hashem to ask
him for what's really on our minds
we asked hashem for things it's very
different than
avodah in the day when we served him
when we welcomed him into our midst
what we did for him instead of
asking him constantly to do for us
and today on tish above we mourn the
destruction of both
we mourn a world
where hashem isn't welcome imagine
the base of english imagine that place
that loomed
above you where everyone came
the jewish people flocked on the real
modern
on the true festivals when the jewish
people flocked from
all the corners of the land to come to
see the face of hashem
was so visibly clear that he was at home
amongst the jewish people
that this was the place of his holiness
that everyone in the world
would pray via the bay
they would all recognize that this was
the center
of the world and the pathway
to which prayers would ascend to russia
imagine a world where hashem feels at
home
imagine a world where we can have that
rich base
that's wild
there's a famous story about the fun of
we have shared the story together
i'm sure many times we've shared the
story
in our own home around our seder table
dozens of times it's a story of the
panavizier of
on one of his travels he traveled
he traveled before the holocaust he
traveled when he was a
reuben panevish but this is a story of
one of his travels from earth's israel
after the war when he was traveling to
find
to meet the platon survivors
when he traveled to rome in italy there
were many part of israel himself as
we'll see later came
via italy
but he came to rome and the way the
story is told
he arrived he arrived at the place where
he would stay
and he asked the host he asked this host
he says please i want to go out now i
want you to take me out
the host was astounded he said you just
arrived
it's late at night it's pouring rain
we're not going to do anything tonight i
can't take you anywhere real time he
says i want you to take me out
now and the man of course is seated to
the pawn of israel's request
and they got into the car and the one of
israel said please take me
to the arch of titus
titus the arch of titus which is
in the midst of rome the arch of titus
which has on it a depiction
of titus bringing back the kalin
bringing back the vessels of the vasham
english
after its conquest a picture of the
menorah
and the caleb and the various vessels of
the basic flesh
huge arch an ancient arch
that was built to celebrate the triumph
that was built to celebrate
our destruction
and the punisher ruff got out of the car
walked up to the arch of titus
he was a distinguished man straightened
his frock his coat
and his hat and he stood and he said
we're still here
where are you what's become of you
we're still here
it's a story
it's a story which speaks of nets israel
of the eternity of the jewish people
those who trampled us were trampled
those who swallowed us up were rendered
distant far away but claudius twelve
remains
and israel has nazar israel which
remains
remains home and remains
together i want to read you a little bit
of the gemara
of titus and his destruction of the
baseline english
so we could feel it a little bit and if
it's okay
i want to add something into this
tomorrow
in a homiletic fashion what i'm saying
is not
an interpretation anymore i'll read you
the tomorrow straight
but i want to say to you adrush
because we're here about the quran of
israel that story that i just told you
that i just shared with you
is a story which is i find it the most
beautiful story
but it's a story which conveys
the person
the strength the personality
to go out there i have to go
i have to face down the mahrif and tell
them we're going to survive
part of israel is a magnificent
personality
could still meet people who knew him who
met him
he mentioned to someone ask someone
about the pun of israel
a look comes over their face he was such
a
i never had this close he never had a
privilege
to meet him but i
i've had this was to meet many who did i
know my own father was a friend of
brother
who was not a hero for
it's a very very careful person
every year there was the yeshiva the
adelphia initiatives descended
as a fundraiser they used to send some
of you may remember this they would send
an eight by ten
picture of a little israel they said
that you know some places said the
calendar
some places sent horizons
you know they sent a picture of a of a
girl
and my father would get them and they
would go in the door
there was one picture which he put up in
his office and that was the fun of
him
that he blasphemed and he cursed towards
the rabona shalom
what did he do
he took a woman a woman of ill repute
thought science the editor was a
parishes
he took a sword and he cut
in he stabbed the parishes the curtain
the nasal nest and a miracle happened
later
thought himself i killed god as it says
i would say wrestle the care of
your enemies roared in the midst of your
meeting place
they took their symbols as meaningful
symbols
you hear the blasphemy of that wicked
person
and you're quiet hashem could have
looked
knocked him out in a second because
it was quiet the world
is one where hashem is quiet
his home is empty
we sit at the yam
who is like you amongst the mighty
hashem and now we say
who is like you mute
quiet silence
hashem just took it you let him do it
he moved out of his house it's an empty
house now
you destroyed something which was
already a shell which was already
destroyed
he made it like a big basket
the baby called caleb shibamingo she
brought all the precious utensils
he threw them into this big sheet this
big blanket
and he wrapped it up by shivam and he
put it in a boat
to go into boast in his city
in rome where those caleb still sit
where those utensils of the magnus will
sit until this day
as it says
they will take pride in the city
for what it is that they have done
so he's traveling he's traveling to rome
with the caleb on the base from english
this scene couldn't take it
and the scene became stormy and a wave
of the ocean
stood to drown him to top
to top of the boat omari said
it seems to me that the god of the jews
he only knows how to fight on the water
but
my sister is all of his enemies
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he drowns them in the sea
a heavenly voice came out and said to
him
then russia then then i shall face
you are a wicked person the son of the
wicked person
the grandson of the wicked ace of
very accommodation
i have a little tiny creature in my
world that's a mosquito
i might cry the rarity of kali they're
not nicely refactorless it's
it can't live long it doesn't expel its
waste
go ahead go to the dry land fight with
my mosquito
oh
of titus and lodged itself in his brain
and it bothered him for seven years
the blacksmith's hammer
and the mosquito stopped stopped buzzing
in his head
omari says i have a solution i have a
solution
it doesn't mean when there's a hammer
going it stops
so he hired people or he appointed
people
every day he had blacksmiths banging in
front of him
and that was better for him than the bug
it was bustling in his brain
but tomorrow tells how much he would pay
them
he would pay enough this much amount of
this much for a jew
he said i don't have to pay you they're
getting
seeing me suffering like this that's the
way
this grandson is
it says that moira only worked for 30
days after 30 days the mosquito got
already
accustomed to the sounds of the hammer
and went back to doing its thing
and to drive it towards his teeth was
crazy
town of israel stood opposite
titus he also had a bug
a self-described bug
the fun of israel was driven
was committed he said i'm the only one
who's left
from a hundred and seventy plus
and he didn't want to just rebuild his
own he wanted to rebuild
all 18 of them
and he built and he built it he built he
built what he was in pune
and he built when he was in earth's
israel and he couldn't stop building
people asked him a man in his 80s
running around
trying to generate support for another
project another project
and he will say you know why already why
so
you already have you've done take it
easy
he says what can i do i'm addicted to
building
he said i have a weakness i have to
build
so we have this bug
and the only thing that caused the bug
to become
was the sound of a hammer it was the
sound of construction
of rebuilding type that was what quieted
the bug in his brain
but if he never got used to it he never
got
tired after 30 days
it kept that it kept at it
and it had to keep coming and keep going
that was the opposition to titus
if we could read one more passage of the
gemara and draw one more
homiletic comparison in the spirit of
the palmer sheriff
when tito's died the
husband or other said anime bengali
i have knobbed amongst the leaders of
they did an autopsy they opened up his
head for all the trouble that he had and
they found that the mosquito had grown
into a small bird
take this man and burn him take me
he didn't say this me didn't want to say
it by himself burden
cremated delivered the kitten
and spread his ashes over seven
seashells
he said that's the only way i'm going to
escape god
god has it in for me i destroyed his
base on english
how do i destroy this place look what i
did look like this
god he chased me in the sea he tortured
me in my life
i don't want him to keep coming after me
so take my remains
turn them into ash and spread them over
seven seas he'll never be able to get
a nephew
he was the nephew of titus
tell me what's going on with you i'm
gonna lay them in the passage
he says i'm getting what i was afraid of
call you
kidney every day they gather my ash all
of it
from the seven seas the dying way
and they punish me more the cold lay
um and then they scatter
that's broken
where are you where are you you can't
even find his ashes
only if there are bonus moments in his
desire to make things right finds those
ashes and puts them back together to
just destroy them again
just to destroy them again and what was
the point of israel
fisher of also spent his life collecting
ashes
the ashes that others tried to create
the ashes that others did create the
ashes
of the six million
the ashes of all those
precious lithuanian jews that the
part of israel wanted to eternalize
and he they who
wanted to give us a lie that there would
be no traits left of the jewish people
the pandavas gathered the ashes
and brought them back together and you
reload
you reduce the people
i'm going to say now to keynes
the first one sixteen zuharasana
as always say it
in the washing kind of shall the
original union say it
in in english
it starts with titus it's about titus
destruction
of the base in english again it's king
number 16
in whichever edition in whichever
edition you have
think about it more over the destruction
of the islam english the place of hashem
and what was done to it because a show
is no longer at home
no longer at home here so
sorry
you