Rabbi Perr zt'l on Tisha B'av - The Shock of Eicha

begins with a the city was so full of people and it's now alone Des it was and it was the princess of all the nations how did such a thing happen now I'm troubled by the fact that at the time that happen was no longer the SOS it had already descended very much from his position that held in where was a metropolis of the whole world the the split between Yehuda and Israel had a tremendous effect the Aus had led toon after attacks after attack the treasury of the B MDES had been looted much earlier the city was really in a terrible shape it wasn't s in fact B was a Buble was considered one of the most wondrous cities in the world one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World rer had built it had Hanging Gardens whatever that was it was a wonder it had Waters and rivers that were just very Lush made a lush City out of it it was unbelievably beautifully decorated it was before they conquered J they already were the capital of a great Empire conquered byous but nevertheless conquered so what does it mean over here when it says first B now today I spoke about the word said the word is really a but a is reserved to express mourning morning but why is the word chosen as the of the word for M because morning contains a tremendous shock my experience has been when somebody pisses away G with and the has been expecting it for a while this is in the hospital and all kinds of medical help and the person dies the family is still shocked some strange thing occurs that it's a shock how could be a shock it's hard to believe reality when reality suddenly intrudes into the world that we live somehow we live with such in such a such illusions that when they reality in TRS it's a shock I remember it's not the same thing exactly at all remember coming back from in New York on a winter day the whole practically gone which was then two School two um buses and it was uh the highway was not the same Highway as we have today and it was very tight packed on both sides they had plowed and the middle was open but the sides were piled high with snow I remember a truck saw a truck trying to get out over the pile of snow to make get into make a delivery or something and the bus was hurdling along and not noticing it seems the bus I was on and I saw it was going to crash I put up my leg my knee against the seat in front of me it was very clear from the big windows in the front was going to crash and it crashed a shock of the crash when the corner of the truck came through the window I saw it happening but when I saw it come through the window with a glass shattering it was such a shock so was the window and things is an illusion that no matter how much we our mind tells us and our tells us of what the reality really is but it's an illusion it was always that way when Jews being rounded up and they knew about the roundups and tried to get out of the European countries whatever it was in that late in the war and they were shocked it mean it really happens so therefore contains shock with together with the word for mning the special use of the word is used for warning we find in the also and today's Korea Korea says how can I carry how can I is a sense of there's a word of mourning there mourning for your mning for the fact that he didn't came out of M where they were penniless and they became very wealthy and then they had to sat there to be done for for them and finally he appointed the officers over them what was going on that they had to stand all day they came over they were come here with a a shower with a tle with a spoon of the milk FL what was he standing what was he passing over he was pasing didn't mous they just got rich Benny was before and they just got rich as they were fighting it was a shock how could it be frequently expresses shock in the midor how is it possible you don't believe in the he don't see what he did how is it possible was and yet he also seems to have been shocked by what he saw by CL is how could it be there's another place who expresses shock t says the people that were rooted out and destroyed by K so y will ask how do they serve their gods I want to do so wome isn't that insane you feel the God protects you don't you feel your own God protects you their gods protected them what do you what what you what are you going want to search V I can't get money how sad how shocking is another place where is a in but it's well hidden he's from the then he his he hears theam doesn't jump on him he makes a sound of feet walking in the gun of course course the feet that are walking are not don't sound like human feet they sound probably large pounding as you would imagine a burnish feet would be walking in the garden and and he hides and calls out to him where are you says over there it's written the word was written there it could have been written again with a with a long at the end was written wouldn't say is shocked but he speaks in terms of shocked where are you what's happened to you how did this happen a divine creature so special Salim Salim is before after a person loses to say you what happened not because burn is shocked but he expresses the shock to hear it's shocking what you've done to yourself be shocked a where are you you now be shocked this is to be shocked the it may well be the the first B of tonight when it says it doesn't mean that at the time because it wasn't but it means it had been at one time had been there was no bubble there was nothing else not because it hadn't done yet it didn't deserve to be yet was s and the whole world flowed to the Queen of Sheba came to to see what it was where is Shea I have no idea Mas was in Africa certain places of M and she came and she traveled to see it and she said what I've seen is only a mixas what I've heard is only a mixas of what I've seen and she didn't come St of but she heard is a mix of what of what it is the reality the reality reality of the of his whole court and this whole the whole beauty of it the beautiful mouth was isra so I think that when noi says that she was the Soso means she should have been the she had at one time look what's happened look at the Ender look at the look at the sad ending but there's more to it than just the same SCH built a space of MD which we mourn he built it with a draft of Labor had prepared Treasures to use in and did not use them he used his own he did not y did not volunteer here like they did in the Mish to come and do he drafted them what was the reason that the Bas of was built this Bas of M we mourn was built by schl with a draft don't you think that people would have volunteered if call for volunteers come chop stones and bring wood and whatever all the things that were necessary people would have volunteered perhaps what was it a CFT and why didn't he use the of who so conscientiously stored up for the future base of MD and he didn't use them put them into the treasury we didn't use them in the Bion what was the reason that I would venture to say knew that this that was being built was part of his malus his Mal is Mal there's one human being in the world whose name is shared by the that's how could it be why the same name shares that name was meant to be and the was meant to be it was who built it and was supposed to be the for the whole world it was supposed to be the Gul was supposed to msia it's supposed to be all over and it had to be done by schma himself because himself represented the Mal B and that's why he was emotional all this power and Glory because he represented m b he was A's M was just a m with the ruled through him this is what the Bas Min was supposed to be it was supposed to be the source of light for the world and the source of light of cloud as well of course and through this source of light and cure to it was meant to be ideally it was meant to be the GOA that we're waiting for for, 2500 years it was it it was done there was no msia was know anything it was it it was MIA it was done and as things deteriorated himself and besid the King's after him and the split in the Mal and everything has as recorded painfully and say say for down to the but as long as things stood as long as the building stood as long that V went on there was always a possibility of resuscitation the right King will come along from m b and just like there were other kings that got rid of some of their Idols he got rid of some of their sheras he got rid of the Bal and various other Abominations so become a king who picked the whole thing up who pick the whole thing up it's here it's there it's not empty it's still Shar the dead man is still breathing you never know what can happen he could be resuscitated don't give up so of is a shocking end to the possibility of us frankly ruling the world not in a selfish way not in a self-centered way not for our own benefit but for the brish being his ministers being his teachers being the ones that the whole of all of humanity is would find it to be a to touch to touch a real Jew to see his situs to grab wo assist and say Let Me Be Your evid out west believe it or not in those religious areas that West it's still possible and you sometimes come across it to bump into a guy who is so touched by bumping into a Jew are you you a real Jew I you know from the Bible that they study all the time the REALigion not New York area but there are in the center of the country there are there is such there are such people I've met it met people have tremendous D for for you as a Jew you really are a Jew like you know there really is such a thing as Jews not just in the book there really are this really is one wow imagine if the if the Rule the World Imagine what it would mean to be a yid so among all the things that happened and all things that transpired and the things that transpired that we mention in all the kinis what should I say I wouldn't say the Min are compared to the Holocaust but maybe they are it's very hard to believe the Holocaust it's really hard to believe it I know it's true no question but it's hard it's shocking it's hard to believe what you didn't went through it's hard to believe any of us survived it's hard to believe in a miracle that has occurred afterwards and you still remain through to still from community and building isas and building and haven't walked away from the whole thing there are those who did it's hard to believe it this whole thing is abs it's just too much it's hard to believe I don't want to tell you how itoc cost is but there are stories of heroics of course heroics and the stories of what should I tell you remember reading about a little child named Mandel mandal his father was darkhaired his mother was a blunt and M looked like his father and the father had gotten out of where they were and he had a graa friend a neighbor and he asked to get his wife out past a German checkpoint he was gone and the wife was a blonde and she didn't look Jewish but the little child mle looked Jewish dark eyes dark hair I picture him a little pale look next to his ears so they go took a wagon and he put Mandela inside in the wagon and he covered him with straw and he sat up on the front with the wife obviously she looked like his wife and the mother said to child she said Mandela no matter what happens you must not make a sound Mandela not a single sound you understand M was seven years old he said yeah man I understand no matter what don't make any sound not a single sound they piled hay on top of him and he went through a checkpoint the chairman at the checkpoint said what you got in the wagon he said hey you see it's say he took his bayonet and he stabbed it through the hay a few times and they drove on and they were out of range of the guy of the German they pulled aside the straw and menel had been stabbed and he didn't make a sound he said Mommy I didn't make a s sound yeah how many little children were like that children that broke through the walls of the ghetto to scr food for their parents in the ghetto the starvation unbelievable courage to remain a yid during them and after that it says that uh in we say you had no you had no and you can certainly say about the you can certainly say about the Holocaust there was no Rus but the shock of all this and of course Resurgence again anti-Semitism now the shock of it shock of it it's a shock and this this what's going on now and everything that took place is all one seamless connection back to the fact that the Mal did not have a K on the world and that his Representatives do not represent him didn't and don't and that's the automatic result of it that's resulted it's just one long story of not getting ourselves together and going back which we don't know how to do now there has been a turn in there's been a turn there's been a turn in people have said to me how can I say this of is not true how can I say that is not true I said to people don't say it if you don't think it's true don't say it there's been a term it hasn't become yet R's people we haven't come back yet neither the F nor the have that you come back but it's it turn and the noi tells us that he will indeed bring us back says he will bring us back and it says and he will be us over there said we will not have the to do that we don't we're not getting any better we did do a wonderful thing that we stuck with yish but we haven't gotten better very clever said to me we've rebuilt what there was in Europe but all it's Rus very true allr us but he says he'll bring us back and there will bring us back and there will pour out us be and take he says and I'm put in life boser and that seems to be taking place now that's beginning and we have this of seeing it and it should be very encouraging for us to see see this you notice that in in the third chapter there's suddenly a flash of light this I put in my heart therefore I hope every morning we go to we go we wake up again from a night and the day starts again for us and we're renewed and renewed that's a sment that there's renewal in the world that's a renewed the person works all day especially in the old days works so hard and goes and falls asleep and wakes in the morning refreshed and a new person and he makes sh again he's once again grateful of who he is and what he is and what it means to be a yid there's a so to speak on him every morning so since the world was created that way every morning is a newness so that itself is a riot that there'll be newness for us as a nation no for us as a people and we've been to see the beginning of that newness very beginning and of course it has to lead to where it's supposed to go which is once again including us of course that's where it has to go and it's it's going slowly we'd like to see a little faster but it's going slowly it is moving that direction there are positive signs and naturally he goes a couple steps forward and falls back a couple of steps and I wish the leadership was a little more all over the world in the United States and in Israel a lot of things that we wish were different but there are steps forward you know the steps back and the steps for come because we have remained hidden and we shall remain hidden and we trained our children to be hidden and they will remain hiden and because we mourn the we mourn but we still mour the at least in our exterior your actions if a heart doesn't have a connection to it but we sit here we're sitting here on the ground for primarily andd as I said before is the house the second was not this what the first was it wasn't this that the first was didn't have thees and wasn't just because didn't have thees it did not have it was already late didn't have that a possibility that malus that everything that it should be Mal did not have that the second one but we mourn the first one and the second one and the even have died in between and afterwards and the suffering and our nation we warn that all and that mourning itself we told told him that those who mourn will be to see and that's a nice thing to know the Tish our observance of is is one of the the the there an old is born insh no actually has to be born but he conveys a lesson that the Gul is born on it's hard to understand why so much has happened to us and those who can't bear it are recommended to sit down with a say from in English if necessary and see if you knock it off that you can appreciate after words how wrong we were how wrong we were and what this cast was what this anger is all about what this anger is all about I heard from Boston the tissue b gets lighter in the afternoon tomorrow afternoon we get put on film finally D sit on chairs why is lighter in the afternoon said because they burnt the b m on the day then they saw the fire going up and they saw the B is going to be burnt so he didn't realize that they would not be destroyed will be it in its place why the Jews understand they should be destroyed