Hashem Already Made the First Move — Now It’s Our Turn | Rabbi Benzion Klatzko | Tisha B'Av

I have been part of Kazakh for many years and I've watched Kazak grow and I've seen the partnership with Kazakh and Torah anytime and I'm blown away by how much good happens with this community specifically the Bkarian community. It's a very very unique community and I wish that the rest of the world would look at what's happening here and say if they could do it we could do it but until that happens we need to give a lot of credit to movements that were started by the Bkari community including for those who are watching Torah anytime itself was started by the Bkari community and that has spread light and love and Torah to the world like no other organization perhaps in the history of Judaism. So, uh I I want to just start off by saying that and uh if you uh are a person who has money to donate, they did not ask me to say this, but I'm going to say it anyways. I think both of those organizations are worthy of your Seducka dollars. So throughout the day, you're going to hear a lot about repentance, returning. Hashem wants us to return. If we just loved each other, then we would have the beta mikdash. And that's true. That's true. And we have work to do and we want to fix things. So we have beta mikdash. But I want to ask you a very simple question and I know there's a lot of speeches today and some of you are sitting down. You've been here for a long time. So I you know I want to try to make this not just another number of the speeches but something that'll stick out in your mind for the rest of the day. So I'm going to ask you a simple question. Why do we need beta mcdash? I mean my day is very full without beta mcdash. It is. I have my shul. I got my restaurants I like to eat out a little little sushi. I've got the schools I send my kids to. I got my seder. We like to learn Torah. Shout out to MDY. I've got um you know, I've got I've got my life and and when somebody wants like a half an hour of my life, I you know, it's hard for me to slot that in because I'm so busy. when or where is there time for beta mikdasha in my current life like I would have to like shift a lot of things around to start finding time for beta mikdash that's there's a lot going on a beta mikdash centric life is very busy and very different than I don't know if I have time for it and I tell you why that's important because if the whole point of fixing up is to have beta mikdash but I don't know if I have time for beta mikdash so the motivation the prize the carrot may not be there so I think we have to take a step back and figure out so why should I care about mdash now that sounds like a silly question what do you mean rabbi every day I wantd I wantim. I do things. Of course, I want yushim. But why? Why is it the building? What is it about yushim? What is it about beta mikdash that I want so much? I want to tell you a story about a young lady named Shashana. And I mean very young. She's 11 years old. And she turns to her mommy and she says, "Mom, I really would like a dress for Yomtov." Mother says, "I don't know if we have so much money for a new dress, but please, mommy, I haven't gotten a new dress. I'm getting a little bit taller. You know, I like to keep I'm a little bit taller. And also, y is coming up. It's going to be pesak. I'd like a new dress." The mother says, "I got to speak to to Aba about it." She comes back, says, "You know what? Aba said, even though we don't have a lot of money, you've been such a good girl this year, we're going to buy you a new dress. Come, let's go to the marketplace." And they go to the market. They go to the seamstress. And the seamstress says, "You've been a good girl, I heard. What color dress would you like?" And she said, "I'd like pink with a little white, but nice pink dress." Shashana and they go see and she says I'm going to make you the most beautiful dress for Yom to order the dress and she gets measured and the mother says you better not outrow this one too quickly. I'm just joking. I hope you outrow very quickly. Keep on growing. She says mommy Shashana says to her mother one more thing. I need shoes because my shoes are a little bit ripped and I'm gonna wear this nice, beautiful dress and the shoes are gonna be all ripped. It's not gonna it's not gonna match. It's not going to go. And anyways, I need new shoes. So, you may as well now I'll have new shoes, new dress for Yomto. And the mother thinks about it. And the mother says, you know, you're being reasonable. We'll find the money for shoes as well. And by the time the next week rolls rolls around, Shashana has beautiful new shoes to match her beautiful pink dress. And her father says, "Shashana, could you put it on for me? I want to see what it looks like just to get ready for Yam." Shashana puts on this beautiful pink dress. And Aba says, "Oh, you're going to look like a princess. You look so beautiful in that dress." And even little Dovy, cute little Dovy here. little brother. She says, "Oh, you look pretty." Oh, Shashana feels so nice, so cute. She's going to look beautiful for Yamto. And so, a few days later, Aba and Ima says, "Okay, time to get ready for Yamto. Pes is coming up. You know what we need to do, right?" And Shashana says, "Yeah, I know what we need to do." and she right away packs her clothing in his suitcase and she puts it nice on the wagon and the mother does, the father does and they begin their journey and they're on the road and they're going up and they're going up up up aliel to Jerusalem. They're being illegal and Shashana has got her beautiful new dress. She's going to dance around Jerusalem in her new dress. And as she's going up on that road, there are other people from that city who are being ol with with her as she begins to go up to Jerusalem. And as they're being ol and more and more people are being olaralled with them. And as the roads merge into each other, there's 10 people and then 20 and then 30. There's a hundred people and they're all with their families. They're all marching going up the mountain to Jerusalem to Basan Mikdash. And as they go, there's a few people who brought musical instruments. the toe, the kar, they're playing their the drums, they're playing the flutes, they're playing all the instruments, and they're singing. And soon there's a ru there's a ru. So they're being oil singing. We're going up to we're going up to we're going to see mikdash. We're going up to Jerusaleim. And as they're singing and as they're dancing, there's some bakram. The bakram are coming from another road. And that road is also merging. And the rash yes that yeshiva is coming. Oh wow. The rashiva and they hear as the bakram join them lael the bak are singing and they're singing for the big sadik. And the doiy's father says to dovi go get a bra from the sadik. And he goes can I have a bra? Sure. You're being with tati. Yes. And I'm going to go on his shoulders. very soon because the Minn the custom was as the father went up to be oliel the little children the the sons they sat on the shoulders of the father and as olarel you have a 100 200 they have a thousand people and then they could see the different roads and each road is filled with people and along the sides of the road there are people there with refreshments and drink because that was the minag as people went up your shalim. People would wait there with drinks and food and they would stop and they'd grab a snack and they'd continue the dance. What joy, what joy going up to Jerusalem? We're going up to see beta mikdash. And Dovy turns to his father and says, "Aba, can we see Coen Gadul? You want to see God? Dovi?" "Yes, I want to see. I want to see the tits." And the father says, "You ought to see the Urbatum." Yes, I want to see the Urbum. I don't know. Last time there were too many people. We couldn't see Abba. I want to see Coen God. Okay. We're going to make sure we're going to push through the crowd and you're going to get a chance to see the the great sadik the coal with the uratum. I'm so excited. And as they're marching up to Jerusalem with the singing and the dancing and the refreshments, they're coming. And soon they're the gateways to the actual city. And the noise and the music they hear, millions of people have come up for this national party of aliyah. And they come up and in every street corner, every street corner there was a sadik and he was giving a shur. Rabbi Vda Miller said, "If you picture the way it looked in every corner, there was a sadic who was giving a Torah here and you can go to one street corner and there's a sadic who was standing there and there were all sorts of people standing around listening and you can go to one street corner and one sadic is giving m and another street corner they're teaching the the Shabbat another street corner they're doing the the and you can go from one street corner to the next and all of a sudden through the street they see a group of very holy people and Dovy says to his Tati Tati who are Abba who are these people they have long hair and the father says you know who they are the Nazerimo the holy Nazirim the Nazerim used to walk around Jerusalem they had the long hair and Dovi says abba why are there nerim because they all want to be just like they want to be just like to the children that have to be sent away for the schulan of their father. Woe to the father that has to send his children away. Return to me says Hashem and I'll give you back everything. You'll get burim. You'll have my sashen and my you'll have the levim singing. You'll have the san. You'll have sadikim. You'll have nim, you'll haveim, you'll have you'll have you'll have you'll have everything. Just peacefully. Open up the a whole like the eye of a needle. That's all I want, says Hashem. Just have one moment of sincerity this one moment. This is your own thing. One moment when you could be so introspective that you feel it, that it's yours, that you own it. Just one moment. It could be right now. It could be in five minutes. It could be in the car. It could be walking home. It could be in bed. One moment. That's how small the eye of a needle is. I will open up for you an opening like the like a like a like a like like a a ballroom. I'll open up the biggest ball, the biggest opening. Just open up a little bit. Return to me, says Hashem, and I will return to you. When we turn to Hashem, we say, we wish we could, but we can't even do that. We can't. We don't have it. We don't have it in us. The olhagalis, the olhaparosa, the yoke of exile, the yoke of living right now with the internet, with the smartphones, with AI, with hashkafa and shmeir naim all in question. the nonos that we have, the test that we have. Hashem, it feels like you're getting further away. Hashem, you need to make the first move. You said, "Return to me and then I'll return." So, we end off Miguel's by saying, "Hashem, we need you to make the first move. Hashem, we need you to make that first hole in the eye of the needle. Make that, do that, bina, and we'll be able to return to you. You know what Hashem says? I did it already. I already created that opening. You know what that opening is called? It's called betabriel. It's called Torah anytime. It's called resources and tools to come closer to me. I opened up that hole for you. It currently exists. Now do what you need to do in order to get close and I will accept you. I've opened it for you. So when we say return to me and I'll return says Hashem says us Hashem you make the first move. Hashem said I already did. I was just if you haven't seen this daily dose there's a safer here. This is not an advertisement by the way. We don't get paid. I'm telling you this because um when you can spread Torah and Torah ideas, that's your job. That's our job. So, Daily Dose is this amazing WhatsApp group that you can sign up for and you receive doses of inspiration. I know that my students who watch Daily Dose and have that accessible are changed. They grow. You know why? Because what happens if a day goes by and you're not inspired that day? How could that be? Hashem gave you a day you didn't get inspired. But it's hard to be inspired. It's hard to inspire yourselves. It's a chore. 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But if it's spoonfed to us and it pops into our phone, we get a notification. Now, you know, I may as well click on it. I may as well. What's going to it's going to hurt? I'm driving anyways. May as well click on it. I'm walking somewhere anyways. I may as well. And by the time you finish, you say, "Wow, I'm so glad I listened to that." Somehow every time I listen to a daily dose, it is connected to something going on in my life and the words were me messages that I needed to hear. So, Hashem says, "I opened up that tissue of a possibility, walk through it, find ways to inspire yourselves, and be hashem with God's help, you will be inspired enough that you will be the catalyst to rebuild Bess Mikdash. And we'll bee this coming.