Devarim-Tisha B'av - How Did We Get Here?

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with articled wag recorded with a chums never-ending assistance in Rome a pitch images are off for these 779 this week's parshas parshas of the forum in artsy style include sloths we are all reading the exact same words of the Taira this week and it is the same partial that we worried every year as we lead in to Tish above the day of the destruction of the first base timing there's the second base some English dicks excuse me the day that so many travails so many trials so many tribulations of the Jewish people began the Inquisition began on this day in 1492 all kinds of we could go through history and talk about the the many things related to this negative day it was also the day on which the spies returned and the Jewish people cried that they believed that they wouldn't be able to get into air to sell into the Land of Israel it's a day of sadness it's a day of mourning and I'd like to to speak a bit about the parsha a bit about the idea of the valus the concept of the fact that Columbus abhilasha limes if every abyssum casa that whoever mourns over jerusalem merits to see the rejoicing of jerusalem and also how do we relate to the morning today of jerusalem when we have so much we have so much we have an arts israel we have you shall i'm it's ours of course we're missing of course we're missing so much too but how do we relate to that and to begin with I'd like to read to you from our parsha and Varro at the very beginning this is a long speech of my shirabe know that the Jewish people are about to walk into the Land of Israel as they're about to live the dream Moshe Rabbeinu gives them a tremendous tremendous pep talk so to speak talking about all of the midst of the terror all of the things that they need to be aware of and keep when they come into our cities from the land of Israel and most Robina tells them something at the very onset of his speech I'm gonna start from chapter 1 verse 8 Raina's how to definition is all rights sorry it's a strange mushroom let me save him we're standing the threshold of land of Israel go and inherit the land that a sham promised let me say from to your forefathers louder local Yakov to Abraham Isaac and Jacob now say slammin Lazar my friend that he promised he would give to them into their children one Marlin come by Asahi Moshe Rabbeinu says that I said to you at that time lay more lauhala vadas a system vicious has a very interesting thing because I cannot carry you I can't be the one to carry you along the Jewish people are a massive nation over a million people perhaps close to a million and a half people and most Robina was one person one leader I can't do it myself a shaman like KTM here but s convinced I'm I am confession I'm alive you are multitude you become many multitudes you are like the stars in the heavens sonic have a second case a file like Uncle Sam Ella Follman when Moshe banners points out you know I'm saying that I can't handle everybody by myself I can't do this by myself this job of leading you I'm not complaining about how many you are Shem should continue to make you even greater and more and many are if there is such a word as many earth and lift bombing there should be a thousand times Eve Arthas Klemke Shirdi Bella come he should bless you as he spoke to you but then comes the line which sounds like a sad line it sounds like a said line and in fact lorisha Sheba points out it sounds like a sad line we read it sadly in initial in the synagogue on Shabbos the Shabbos echo a solid body Thomas ahem how can i mush Rubino says how can I carry by myself all of the Tirico all of the trouble the pain in my sock em your your burdens you you came all of your quarrels all your fights avila common Russian common when we didn't should take on a silver shaker okay so he told the Jewish people Telugus people that they should they should have leaders besides from Russia remain on himself so that more people can be involved in judicata and being involved in in guiding the Jewish people it's interesting here as I read this what's interesting is first so a few few things first of all we have the word eco which is why we read it in that sad to me because it reminds us of eight huh it hi-yah Schwab a dud how is it how has it come to be that the the city of Jerusalem sits alone right just two hundred years ago just two hundred years ago they came to Jerusalem the Jewish people there was they weren't there we didn't have anybody there the students of the girl came in the early 1800s about 1808 1812 they came to Jerusalem so I'm just gonna read the sound of it is just everyman and they came there and there was they came in 1812 I believe and there were 29 Jews all together that's it and so very few people going on there right so that's how it was we don't even realize it appreciate what we have today but your mio Honda Navi who saw the who had prophesied about and saw the destruction of the base hamikdash saw the destruction of the temple he said how has it happened that this city which was bustling with people this place is land this amazing this amazing city of the Jewish people the center of the heart the center of the heart of the Jewish people has become desolate and empty a club how has it happened where's your evil voice out that this word Allah is like it's a surprise it's something surprising how could it be how could such a thing have happened it seems like something which is it couldn't have happened it's something I shouldn't have happened an interesting Lemos European uses that same Russian it caused celebrity how could it be that how would I be able to do it myself and and what what's what sticks up for me as I read these documents that motion Ravi know is not saying something negative Moshe is not saying a sad sad point he's saying you have become so many you have become so great in multitude the I can't do myself how could I do it myself I need to appoint others to be involved in leading the Jewish people so it's interesting we we kind of hear the word a clown we hear something negative but in the sukham it's not so simple that it's a negative thing okay that's that's the plastic we're going to come back this hopefully as we as we continue but I'd like to read to you from a kind of Friedlander interesting he doesn't have anything on the part of the forum but he does have numerous pieces about the mourning over Jerusalem morning that we've been going that's been going on for the past three weeks we'd like to share with you some thoughts that he shares with us he says like this cuz I'll take notice he may be numb it certainly may avail asylum our sages set up the three-week period as a time of sadness of mourning over Jerusalem you do should cause man vis man usually my loss of Ashbaugh semicolon we know that each and every different time time period along the longer time of the cat out of the calendar has its own special something special about it something that we can experience a spiritual aspect of some of within time caca mailer him you mean you called him I'm sure Casula solution line this is a special time that we can all use as an opportunity to mourn over Jerusalem and we're gonna see what does that mean how do we connect the mourning over Jerusalem how do we connect to sadness over something that we've never had Masha and came acharya shana travail social mean a philosophy a school of Avadh the rest of the year so there are your feet and our individuals are able each day they sink taking hot sighs they cry over Jerusalem but generally speaking during the during the nine days during the three weeks we feel it as a nation for sure and artsy swell everyone's walking around there unclipped beards Ariel and a certain sadness so you turn on the radio they weren't it's interesting they weren't even playing any acapella during the nine days it was all talk radio and there's a certain we really feel it we really feel it nationally you feel like the whole nation is mourning together Mousavi lives in Iraq Sarika sir I'll head there much inland of Havana system crying that the the valence is not just for what we had and what we're missing but our surveillance condition is a mikvah the purpose of the morning is so that we should get a definite well there's an issue finish taking the military siren we should realize what we're missing so that we should have a desire for that which we're lacking the point of the availa and this is really important really important the point of the valence the point of the morning is for us to realize what we're missing so that we can want greater we are missing that connection Douglas for who just telling my kids what are we missing with based on Mick - I was telling also a crowd a small crowd I sang for a group of elderly people say no what are we missing what are we crying about Morocco in touch roof sham come back we have your Shalom we have it's it's built already we have artists well we were missing the main thing across time in a safer the main thing is what we're missing which is the screen of the connection doctor - Prabhu the Rococo - the sensation is with us in Caine macabre sinhala - Aloha Viva mam is spot evolution I'm we need to understand how the veil is the mourning over the loss of Jerusalem is expressed not seriously as a chief is a Middle Eastern means you know what are we supposed to to be what are our aspirations supposed to be to take away this that we're lacking to fill that which we lack so he brings a Gomorrah to gomorian brofist enough Kim Oh haven't I invite go to solve a lot of asanas build Sarge you know urban are bicycles East well let's read about what the sages say in regards to the great sadness the pain I could Sparkle that God has himself over the fact that the base some English was destroyed in the Jewish people were sent into exile Nasik I might speak earliest are availa cell you shall I'm always interesting to read what reply them has the same time freedom because he lived here in the land of Israel he experienced the six-day war and he he's writing from the perspective of someone who lives in Eretz Israel rebuilt rebuilt RC strong but still where I'm missing that core so the Chimera says I guess I'm ready I see JC said Palma has say you see Mahalakshmi Derek one time I was walking in the Nacional korvac has been crucial and his pal I walked in to one of the houses that had been destroyed in Jerusalem was obviously after the destruction of the second temple and he went inside there and he was domine was praying bah Elio is affirmative is from early ella Pesa elijah the prophet who down till today we have people who have had gil le o people who have spoken to elijah the prophet in there cuz he never died so Elio stood there at the doorway but uh Marley Bennie Macko shamatha mokuba's ooh so he said to her be IC es he is maily testifies that Elio and IV said to him what did you hear what was the voice that you heard inside of this broken-down house I went to the schemata Bosco minimus I heard a voice a heavenly voice that it was wailing Keanu it was wailing like a like a pigeon like a dove my merits on the bottom shabana same here karate SBC serratus had called eglise on the minute one voice he said woe unto my children that because of their sins I destroyed the temple and I burned down my my Haeckel my sanctuary and I sent them into exile amongst the nations mom are Li ke ko kya rish go Elijah said to ready AC I you I swear by your life they shot zoobel vibe at Marist Kaka alcohol yummy mmm oh my scar not only at this time does that that heavenly voice come out but three times a day that heavenly voice repeats the same statement Eliza will vaad not only this Ella says some amazing thing a positive thing this is a negative thing but it says a positive thing I'll be sure she's from the colossal about the Canisius will about imagery NH maja Gautama vara when the Jewish people going to their places of worship when they enter into their synagogues and say yeah hey rob Evora then the great name of God should be blessed forever a college Bachman and their ratio God nods his head as it were but Mary says gosh really constantly basically praise is the king who they they praised him such in his house Milan the Akshay glass man of Hashem as it were he says when he hears the Jewish people saying how great he is or how great his name will be one of the Messiah arrives so so Hashem says why why did I have to send them out into exile woe unto woe into a father my Laila actually glows whenever I let him a bunch of going after him woe unto the children were sent away from the from their fathers table ok so it's very interesting so we have two statements one is a negative statement one is a positive statement one is woe unto us woe unto the Jewish people warrant to God as it were and one is what an amazing praise what amazing praise praise worthy ashrae how joyous is a king who is being praised in this way Sarek Lahav and sister crime we need to understand she's from the colossal about the connection to our me hey sh'mey rabo yes simply God Allah when the Jewish people go into their temple into their synagogue in to their base Knesset and they say that God's name should be blessed right so you some cookie does it's an amazing awesome joy because welcoming an arab liberation Arashi I'm Ellis my cost mr. right god nods his head like we said and praise worthy of the king moves praise this way you know he says a lot of those rocks of gamma star the same time he God also is sad like we said so what is the idea Malvika should've show us something about sorry active how does this joy and this pain come together what is the idea of the fact that God is rejoicing in the praise as it were and at the same time God is is sad over the loss that the Jewish people has but wait now I mean you could be Sheriff eh miraba what is also special about this praise of eh me rabbi Shimon officer McNamee of carbecue lesser than a sham is special joyas in this praise the AC misha brother su chuan more and other other types of blessings and phrases so he brings down and I don't have enough time to read every single thing here there's a lot really it's just so much here I could go on for an hour I try to keep these down to between 20 and 25 minutes sometimes a drop longer he says that uhm a rainbow is a unique thing and the truth is we really have to read this inside is a brings from the morale the morale says like this Behrami vark yeshiva has a shoe I mean a sh'mey raba morale malice is ro this special praise that God's name should be made great it shows the special advantage the special unique advantage of the people of Israel of the Jewish people keybindings commercial a nice cover shoe Shiva because it says something which is not mentioned in any other praise of God I'm a shoe who Mubarak la oil on or the all-male Maya that God is blessed forever and ever but Solimar the hoja I love myself lying on my body that's the key that God is praised in all of the worlds what does it mean all of the worlds I mean it's not just the world that we exist in now not just this world which we experience which is a physical world where spirituality is hard to discern but even we're saying a praise now that has to do with the future time with with island hub of the world to come and understand something the world to come is not some far-off place it's not some otherworldly place it is this world but it's this world in a state of takuan it's this world in a state of rectification where everything is as it's supposed to be it's you know in the in the way that it was originally made when other Mauritian the first man was created and that is where spirituality is obvious and physicality is that which is less easy to discern so we're we're saying a praise now which is really a praise of God for the future world not just for our world not just for our experience not just for our dimension let's say but for the ultimate dimension which is the times the musci after the Messiah the times above which which is after that time which is only over 6000 so we're saying something which has awesome power we're saying something now which has awesome power for the future and and the truth is he brings down that the the true really cool a day when is Hashem is covering when it's his honor going to be revealed you Haitian a your album Evora when will that happen only really in the future only really when the Messiah arrives in the Messianic age the times mashiac but really an item how Bo in the world to come which which follows that time period now what is the idea what is idea here and this is where he brings it down he says like this very clearly and there are two points here and the second point to me is extremely important and get to us something that we can really take home first point though man this is an introduction to the second point ETSU massif eliris Wikileak foot remind the fact that a person has an aspiration as a desire to see a Shems honor to be revealed let it be revealed so acquired keyless Gilovich am i'm it's not yet revealed but it's the beginning of the revelation Adama Shashi Vasa liras Gillick which to my a person who wants to see us shams hand in his life Maya Shem I want to see you in my life Maya Shem I want to see that when I trust you it works and that you reach down into my life and you picked me up and you raise me up other sheshe Vasilyevich in mind I've asked me to her she's a star in question I'm Gabriel so he's saying something not just on a personal level but something on a on an international level when we look around us and we see that Hashem zhannar is not seen we don't see I shall openly in the world of course there's so many my sash but there's so many things that are going on in the world there are clearly God's divine providence but it's not something that's openly seen when we have that feeling like we wish we we are yearning for the time when we can see our son in the world in quenette's light our gosh i softly sorry Clark yeah they can Aguila question my feeling that that's lacking is already the beginning of drawing down that that revelation of a Shem of his honor in the world Muslim art Dermot what is this comparative I know my height of a maja are you mo ni move the cloth of Commerce mats of a person who is extremely sick he doesn't realize how sick he is he has no idea what's going on with him he's he's walking along blissfully well he's in serious condition I assure you vada let him rest McCullough so your office Romero de beber of fools gopher it's not a good thing it's not an exciting thing for him to find out the truth but the moment that he finds out he can start to to take treatments to try to get better to to heal himself in quenette's immediacy McCluster heedless for for saying so the beginning of knowing about the problem is the beginning of the cure kaki beef eliris vigilic which reminds so it is when it comes to a desire to see the honor of heaven are questions eastern question Miami Gaelic mcgillich avoid sham I'm you look around you see how much the the mindset of the Western mind which is the opposite of the tire that das Bala bottom to the nth degree whatever you know whatever you they're saying in the world of the West you know it's the opposite of what America wants and that's such a terrible thing and they're destroying the family and they're destroying truth and justice and and and all of the values that we hold dear what a what a lack of coverage of mine what a lack of heavenly gosh Em's honor is being is being disgraced when a person senses that and feels that the beginning of a recognition that things can be better okey Shana rayou maven a scale case originally Bria when a person doesn't recognize and think about some contemplate how a shams honor is not present in the world clay sarahvani gufa mahavakya sir militia mind that very misunderstanding or lack of understanding is itself a lack of honor of Hashem Shana maven Malkovich Maya doesn't understand what is the honor of heaven Mela ain't like gamma Sashi if I meet this little eyes we get a quote you're mine so such a person doesn't have a true desire to see the revelation of conscious mind right so base our mikdash what do we what are we looking for what are we sad about we're sad about we are missing Hashem being in our lives Shems honor truth honesty good goodness family values all these things that we learn from the tyranny have to learn come on acid kindness all of these things are being trampled upon in the world and that's that means that kushma who godliness is is missing in the world we don't see him in our lives personally you don't seem in our lives nationally we're too we're so involved in coaching you got some yogi my own my own power is going to to do it if I put in enough ish thoughtless if I try hard enough I'm gonna get what I want that's pushing a Shem out all these things are pushing us I'm out of our lives personally and nationally and here's where we get to a point which for me is is that the point that's Niguel leb all these points are important and they touch me as well but this is the one that strikes the greatest chord in my heart to go la caja gonna be so static ISIF mr. Arsalan to the leader of the muscle movement writes as follows lemon amo sir hi hi Akari a person who learns muster is willing to do some introspection recognizes his strengths recognized what's missing in his life the things that he's doing wrong and things that could be better nyuk-nyuk are he calls out live live the Guidry included in this idea called crime Argos anyone was alive census lesson la llave has to has to pay attention notice lay that history so to know the things that are lacking in his life logistic ecliptic unum to try to rectify those things that are lacking those places that I in my relationships with my wife with my children with those around me those places where I'm not complete I realized that I'm missing something in my relationships Hawk Doris sorry yeah a person wants to fix those things hadera sky are gushes kisser nice of Cascina Marga SH a person what is the definition of somebody who's alive somebody who recognizes and feels and senses that which he's missing that which is not good that which is he wishes could be better but if he doesn't feel it sir if he doesn't learn most he doesn't learn about the things that need to be fixed and rectified anything to keep us Mott's Poonam idsurvey can't use his conscience to correct his situation gain Akash macaques aren't sure he doesn't recognize that anything's there it isn't it's just passing by doesn't notice I've a banana suit : oh Sh the truth is that he's extremely sick he's morally in danger Rakesh lemon most Rumaki are shiftless air-compressor nice when a person learns mussar he recognizes that which he's missing he recognizes his - the things that are there lacking in him so - yes - cool right hi hi Karan that's the beginning of the of the rectification that's the beginning of fixing when I realized what I'm missing when I realized look I have this bad me though I get angry in this situation I get to pulled into to checking my facebook and checking the news and checking and checking and checking I get distracted I'm not with my family and the press and all of these things that are that are you know part a part and parcel of a modern life we could say if I don't if I don't stop and notice if I don't stop and introspect look at what's going on I can never change it I can't change anything if I don't think about it I can't I can't hope for something better if I don't realize from that there's something missing so that's what he says is there is the point of the the morning is to recognize that something's missing a Shamir album of art means there's something much greater that can be Hashem's revelation is going to be in the world but we can actually draw that into the present when we say acre the worry comings what's going on with us it's not just like how'd it happen it's I think it's a shock how did this happen where are we what is going on what has happened to us it's it's a stark recognition of how far we are away from where we want to be that's what a car is how far we are away from a base on McNish how far we are away from a real relationship with a college bar how far we are away from a relationship with those around us how far we are away from being we really wish we could be how far we are away from do you Kaname this from from being greater people from being honest from being committed from being all of the things that we wish we could be that's a club okay is how did we get here how did we get it when we start asking how did we get here we can start having a shiva an aspiration for something greater to be something greater to have something right to have a real relationship with Russia to have a base of Mukesh to be able to have your personal lives on foot starts person lives outside the Land of Israel and did we ever think like what am I doing here why don't I live an artsy strong you can live in arts Easter Island and and not even notice that there's a you align that there's a caisson to visit how can I live in ITIL and Beit Shemesh and not and not visit the Chi Sol not visit you shall I'm not visit the place not the place a club how did it happen my Strabane who says to the Jewish people a club how could I do it how could I do it and and I think that in the context of mushroomy no it's not a negative statement it was a statement of it's it's too much for me I didn't think about it until now i Iike is wow it's a shock I can't believe how we got to this place where I'm trying to do everything myself I need to involve other people I need to delegate the power and the and instruction to others as well maschera Boehner was saying a shock statement but a statement of ASA how could it be a close to the shock statement that starts the next the next stage the next stage is where we move out of the place of darkness out of the place of our bad needless out of our bad character traits and of this darkness of gullets out of the darkness of exile out of hustlers back darts you throw out of out of the darkness of artists draw into the base hamikdash into the temple that's what we're looking for that's what a hoe is how did it happen where are we where are we Shem says the other marushin after some he says I echo where are you I mean where are you I'm right here no do you realize where you've got where are you how did you fall so far how did you how did you get there where are you because the question of where am I and where are you where are we is the beginning of getting to a new place and I've gone past the time I usually like to go but this is such a deep and important thing it's such a deep and important thing this is what it's about because miss Alex right if we realize what we're missing we realize what we don't have we don't have your shoreline we Millie we don't have that relationship with a college bar who that's the beginning of the tikkun that's the beginning you see it right away you say where are we because it's so easy to breathe through life and never ask the question I want to bless you and I ask you to please bless me that Shem should help us then we should stop saying mija we should start saying it so that we can stop saying it Shem should bless us then we should be able to recognize how far we are Shem should reveal that we are so close and that this should be the last dish above which bees like to opinion-based make - 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