Rabbi Moshe Hauer, Tisha B'av 5780, #1- The Ponevezher Rav and the Arch of Titus

foreign 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 [Music] 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