Rabbi Issamar Ginzberg | Tisha B'Av | CHAZAQ

first for hosting us thank you for thank you time this year has been given and thank you to also for getting me here and doing so much behind the scenes this year is also in Sweden there is a interesting they tried an interesting experiment normally not me not you but when a person travels on the highway and somebody else Cuts them off or somebody else drives faster than them they're traveling the speed limit and somebody else is traveling faster than the speed limit a certain kind of K certain kind of road rage that makes the person want to fix the other guy I'll show him what does he think he's doing he's driving like a that doesn't always lead to such great outcomes there's a highway in Sweden where they tried an experiment every person who traveled on a certain stretch of roadway if you traveled above the limit well you got a ticket if a cup pulled you over you got a big ticket but if you traveled on that Highway and you traveled below the limit or at the limit as would be expected you didn't get a ticket except the difference with all the other highways in this particular Highway in Sweden we're talking about is the money that was collected the knast that was collected from the people who drove above the limit instead of going to the government coffers was divided among the people who traveled on the same road that went below the limit so what did that change that Chang when a person is driving down the road and the limit is 65 mph and he's going 65 and the guy goes 80 M hour and flies past him instead of getting road rage instead of getting all upset that the person is flying faster than him cutting him off he's like yeah keep going keep going I hope you get a ticket if you get a ticket I'm going to get I'm going to profit I'm going to get part of the money and it worked and instead of Road rdge happening every time someone went above the limit people drove nice and R and happy and because they knew that they were getting a net benefit from it instead of looking at it the person who was trying to do something that was wrong they looked at it kaching kaching every time somebody passed you on the highway G Alik I hope he goes I hope he gets a ticket I'll make more money what does this story have to do with Tish the reason for the I put the second bias was because of s in English is translated as baseless hatred and this it must say such a v someplace but I an English who works even better than maybe that how does hatred start it starts with some and then it grows another layer and another layer and another layer so baseless hatred means that the base the baseless hatred the base is M something it shouldn't be there all the other L on top of it already they just come with time many times you have people this fight with each other and you ask them what's the fight about and they don't even remember it's been so many years ago sometimes even Generations ago they don't even remember what the fight is about they just know that the Min is to fight it's because the original thing that caused the whole H is not even again anymore nobody even remembers anymore and it's because the original started from something that's at this point at least if not originally when the r when the Romans went into the bdes and they saw the K the crew of them were facing each other now we know that when it was a time when the would face each other and when wer the would face away from each other if so how can it be that when the Romans went into the bdes which was destroyed from they came in to the they saw that the crew were facing each other it shouldn't be that way the K should have been facing away from each other there many different that talk about this many different about this but first there's a beautiful that I saw recently from that I find fascinating and I want to share here there were different Nim that and in addition to all the Nissim that we have that they used to happen every day the fact that two k made out of solid gold can move and can turn from one direction to another direction is a n since when the bdes was destroyed these n stops the therefore the ability for a piece of gold to move also stopped and therefore the KW went back to their natural the way they were formed State because the was destroyed so when the Romans came into the the supernatural ability for the to face away when no longer exists because the no longer exist and therefore the crew and went back to face each other the natural Direction we know many times many stories I think there's a quote I think it's from Churchill my enemy's enemy is my friend you see it many times throughout history you see it in business you see it in history that two people are fighting with each other and comes the third person who's here now and is making a problem for these two enemies suddenly those two people are best friends when MO so fighting whether they were brother-in-laws whether they were brothers so I understand that went over and so the one who was hitting okay he should be upset who do you think you are mixing into my personal fight over here but the other one the one who was being hit why should he be upset is saving him now your ter is that they two were relatives and whenu came suddenly they looked at themselves as one unit compared to M they both turned to M said hey stranger mind your own business when the Hades and they weren't acting the way they should they weren't and the crew of them were facing away from each other but once there was and the had the enemies of to deal with vers obviously was compared to the and therefore the is turned back to face each other when I lived in Lakewood about 17 years ago the P came to my house and he shared a story there I made like a like a evening for for Moa Pittsburgh and he said one of the stories he said there was the following there was once a very wealthy man who had an assistant he had an apprentice and he would go travel to liic to the market and he would buy all kind of at a wholesale price he would buy everything he needed take it back to his City where he lived back to kco and in kco he would go and he would sell it and that's how he made his parnasa one season he traveled with his assistant to leig and since it was a two-day journey and it was getting dark they tied their horse and wagon to a tree on the side of the road and they camped out on the side of the road not to travel at night to wait till the next morning so he took that little suitcase with all the money in it and they put it down on the grass they used it as a pillow and they went to sleep using the suitcase full of money that they going to buy that they were going to buy with as their pillow in the middle of the night they heard some scary sounds they weren't sure if it's G of them they weren't sure if it's wild animals but they knew that it's not a sound that they particularly was helping them sleep well so they picked themselves up and they jumped into the wagon untied the horse from the tree and started traveling the next morning becomes daylight and they realized that they left the suitcase full of money on the side of the road well they can't buy anything they have no money so they might just as well head home so turn around the wagon they start heading back home to crao on the way home even though they know that the money is obviously gone because see might right there on the side of the road in full view of every traveler and it's a busy road still they're keeping their eyes out they're looking at the side of the road and as they pass the area where they figured it might be they see right there on the side of the road laying there is the suitcase so they knew okay somebody opened the suitcase took out scooped out all the cash and left the suitcase on the side of the road they open the suitcase and they open it up click click and all the money is still inside and the balabas turns to his worker to his apprentice and says you're fired and the appren doesn't know it hit him he didn't do anything wrong it's not his fault that they left the suitcase hair and suddenly he's being fired sh the balabas takes out a certain amount of money that he owes his worker for the work he's done till now says here's your money goodbye we're done this Apprentice takes his money and he goes he already learned over the last couple of years had to do business he was a good taled he goes and he starts um doing business on his own he moves to a certain city and he does well in business he gets married builds himself a house then a nicer house than a mansion he becomes the and he has a Min that shab is day whichever an are in town whichever guests are in town could go eat wherever they want but Friday night everybody eats by him all the guest in town he's the b in town Friday night he makes I guess a Tish of sorts and all the AR come and sit by his suit the Friday night one week he notices a poor man come to sh and he recognizes him he recognizes that this is his old boss who NE had become a Yu that lost his wealth so he recognized his old bo but his old bo didn't recognize him in his nice suit and his you know his beard and his his nice tie with his tie clip and his cuff LS he looked very different than he looked when he was working for him as everybody knows Friday night everybody's coming to be his guest comes Friday night after daving and the the rich man comes home and he's sitting at his suda and all the are there and he's not starting Shalom so the smelling good food in the kitchen they're waiting they're hungry and they're like no why don't you start he's no no somebody Miss in I saw it was another another that needed a sud and I invited him and he's not here we have to wait for him so one of the other says maybe he went to eat by somebody else so the says no no it can't be everybody in this sh knows that Friday night I have a monopole on guest Everybody Eats by me if he's not here something happened to him we can start to Suda everybody please let's make search teams let's go around the village and let's find the that's missing okay well they see there's no suit till they find the guy so they go out and they start searching for him they knock on every door hello did you maybe take a guest tonight there's a guest That was supposed to eat by the and we can't find them this see there's nowhere to be found as they're at the houses at the edge of town suddenly they hear from the mikah which is like a little bit even further than that they hear sounds coming from the Mikvah so they go to the Mikvah to hear what the sound sounds are Friday night the sounds coming from the mikah as they get closer they hear singing from the Mikvah they go into the mikah and they see Thea looking for is literally in the bar singing at the top of his lungs they say what are you doing here we're waiting for you for the shabas meal what is it what what kind of thing is this he's like listen I came to to before shabas and somebody stole my clothes so I can't go anywhere I can't go back to town There's No spear clothes hanging on any hooks I'm stuck I'm sitting here waiting for someone to come figure out that I'm missing and tomorrow morning someone's going to come to the m shabas morning they they'll realize they don't have clothes they'll put on they'll go back home put on two shirts bring me one to put on anyway they bring him some clothes and he comes to the shabas meal and they have wonderful shabas meal started a little late finished a little late but they had a shabas meal shabas morning invited him again he calls him into his room says the who used to be the worker is now calling in his old B boss who's now a poor man and says listen here do you recognize me he's like no look closely no he says I worked for you loyally for several years and one day you sure remember the story says we went together to leig and we went to sleep and the suitcase was our pillow and we woke up in the morning and we forgot the suitcase and then we found the suitcase full of money and then you fired me that's one question I have for you I'm going to help you I'm going to help you get back on your feet I'm going to give you money I'm going to I'm going to support you I'm going to I'm going to get you going again but this question has been bothering me ever since why did you fire me what did I do wrong he says and while I'm at it I have another question for you I understand why you didn't come to the shabas meal you were stuck in the mikah that I understand but why were you singing at the top of your lungs what's the what's the SE behind you singing at the top of your lungs in the mkah and the responded I'm going to give you one answer and that answer is going to answer both of the questions he just asked me when we went together to lii and we left the suitcase on the side of the road and I was doing so well financially at the time and I came back and I found the suitcase on the side of the road and it shouldn't have been there and the money was inside I knew life doesn't get any better than this therefore I didn't want you my loyal worker to have to ride down with Me From Success down to failure I realized I me my father used to say that there people used to say that there's people that when the wheel of of life is they're on top they're successful they want to take a nail and knock it in they want to stop the wheel over there where they're on top but a wheel is not always doesn't always have the same place on top so he said I didn't want you to have to ride down right on the journey down with me so I fired you to give you a chance to go on your own you can ask me why I was singing I was singing in the mikah because I had nothing left but the clothes on my back and when someone stole the clothes on my back I know it can't get any worse it could only get better from here so I was singing cuz I know from here it's only going to be upwards a story with after son was in Lin and he was there for a couple of days after the shiv sh and another couple of days and then the children of the from divided his possessions that he had and ab headed home back to the city where he lived I believe was called T Sean he's on his way home he wasn't a wealthy man and that's an understatement and as he's traveling home it's a couple of days journey as he's traveling home there's a terrible terrible thunderstorm and the roads get extremely muddy it's impossible to travel so he stops by on the side of the road to stay there overnight hoping to leave the next day he couldn't leave the next day cuz the weather was so bad he had to stay a second day and a third day and a fourth day finally the weather improved andas told the inkeeper look I'm really sorry I wasn't planning to stay for 4 days I owe you money for a 4 days stay but tell me how you want to work this out should I wash dishes for you how are we going to work this out I Stay for 4 days and I don't have money to pay you if you want he says look through my that I have here maybe you'll find something that you can that's a value to you that you'll take in exchange for payment so the inkeeper looks and looks and looks he says I can't find anything let me ask my wife heps his wife he says listen come here go look through this man's suitcase maybe maybe there's something here that we can we can use that has value so Mrs in keeper comes in looks around looks around says look we're not them I can't I have no use for any of the things that are here but I see there's a clock here the clock will help us let me know when to look the cow every morning let's take the clock so the inke keeper takes the clock in exchange for payment and goes on his way back to tchin years later the was a ofin he's traveling and he stays overnight in this Inn comes the next morning and his eyes a bloodshot he hasn't slept a wink all night and the inke keeper says Reb what happened you look terrible was something wrong the bed wasn't comfortable the pillow wasn't soft enough what would happen and the says tell me tell me where did you get that clock in that room there something unique about that clock she says I don't know there was one a here his father was a re Lin and he came by and he stayed for a few days and the weather was bad and he asked me would I have a value and I couldn't find anything of value in a suitcase my wife said let's take the clock and that's the clock that's hanging in your room so the said aha now I understand why I couldn't sleep because clocks in general they tick they have three hands that the hour hand the minute hand and the second hand which is not the second hand it's the third hand but it counts the second so it's the second hand okay so every clock counts a very sad mournful tick another second since another second but this clock in the room was singing like more of a happy tick he was singing another second closer to the G another second close close to the G he says says I'm dancing all night I couldn't sleep because the clock was like it was like music it was making me dance from the Sim that was coming from that clock the ticking of the clock is not a remind of time that's lost it's ticking how close we are to the G about 15 years ago another story I went to visit my uncle and Aunt my uncle's name was my sher's brother he was staying in the in the Jerusalem Gate Hotel by Center one I remember was PES I went to visit him I remember I couldn't on PES I wouldn't eat anything drink anything ENT you go visit someone you can't like if someone visit someone this afternoon same kind of idea I guess so I went to visit him and I was sitting in the lobby of the hotel with him and his wife and I met there an old po another that was there for p and this year tells me a story he says he had a real polish he was from LGE it's hard to say the story in yish I want to say in English but it hard to say in English with the right with Polish accent so this year tells me the following as we know the war in Poland started earlier than it started in the other countries World War II I mean even though the in Germany and in Czech Slovakia Etc had in Austria May had sorus earlier but the official start of World War II was the official start of World War II was when hit together with the Russians went to invade Poland by the way that goes back to our enemies enemies our friend that quote comes from when Stalin went went against Hit that's when the quote came from wi enemy's enemy what we said earlier but in any case so tells me the following he says so this he tells me that he was in Lodge na came took him to a concentration camp to the ghetto concentration camp he suffered throughout the war greatly he says what did we eat what they gave us to eat bread and a soup the soup wasn't made not with GL Kosh meat and not with Kosh meat and not even with a me was made with horse meat he says that was our nourishment fish that's what we ate he says one day we saw the end of the war was near we saw the PLS flying by we heard the shooting we knew that any day we're going to be liberated and one day one afternoon we see all the Nazi guards disappeared we understood that okay the Nazis are gone it's going to take a couple of hours maybe a day till the Americans arrive we went he says and we raided the kitchen we raided the canteen the storehouses of the Nazis to see what they had in there he says that means like a salami basically we found a big slab of dried meat I'm sorry I'm trying I'm not recording so I'm trying not to say anything the whole time but please try not to make noise thank you so much otherwise all the people that are listening don't know why I keep stopping in middle of speaking can you do that for me so this he tells me so this tells me my friend says you out of your mind how could we eat TR he says I looked back at my friend and I said are you out of your mind for the last five six years we've been eating every day TR what suddenly you be coming from on me you're froming out on me so his friend says fing about the Nazis we didn't have a choice we were in the we were inmates in a concentration camp but now we're free we can't TR anymore he says I thought my friend is out of his mind but still he told me I accepted his Miss I didn't eat it he says the next morning we got up and we saw all the people that had eaten the food from the Nai storehouses were all dead the Nazis before they had left had poisoned the leftover food to try to kill before the Americans come and Liberate the camp another story theer who was the of M used to blower like the Minas every day he would blow after to die however on ER we don't but had anle his name was and he loved to listen to toow the so he went over to and said please blow the so said no we don't blow the the kid started crying please blow please just was taken in by his ankles begging and pleading he took out theer and he blew on he blew and when he finished blowing he turned to the I and he said iish we're your children what are we asking you for just blow the Cher what could be so bad give it Blow give blow blow one with and take a out of G Tish is full of different tragedies happened to CL starting with theam said if you cry for nothing will give you what to cry about but besides the many things that we know historically that happened Tish both that are mentioned inal and both that happened later we also know it says and if if that's not if L things don't happen the way we expect them to happen meaning to say if there isn't three days between or if he comes at a time that he's not supposed to come when he comes he'll answer those questions also of how he came when he wasn't supposed to come says is born you told me this week that many of the things that happened to ksh had to do obviously with of the that were destroyed in addition to all those that we know is that they were both on harabas meaning there were two buildings in harabas that were destroyed no is now in is and not the Iranian logic of saying that maybe they try to because it's it's a it's a day that a lot of bad things happen to it says that when made his when he wants to get rid of Cl when he wants to try because it happened in every generation he was happy about is a month that's bad for the Jewish people I'm going to go I'm going to try to get the Jews however he didn't know that was born besides the fact that a when is it's a every year the was higher and higher there are stories of different different that promised that when they get to yelt they're going to they're going to they're going to they're going to plead with and they're going to getem to agree to take to finish whichever was at the time and then they went and then the didn't finish and there's one particular story I don't remember off the top of my head who was that he came back and he said he he came to somebody and he said I guess and he said people see things a certain way and they see that happens to call something bad therefore they therefore they go and they plead to pleas take what take away this terrible thing from us however he says when someone comes to and sees the true picture they see that this is not the way things really are and therefore aad that's in cannot go and ask Hashem to take away X because here we see the truth and he we see that what looks like a terrible G is really not a terrible G at all there's a famous two brothers says two brothers and they were once in jail together and they wanted a DAV but they couldn't DAV because similar to today's jails except without the plumbing situation in the cell where they were there was a bucket foruse so they couldn't DAV because you can't DAV you can't dve him it's a terrible smell so what can we do we can't dve them okay so if we can let's we right now we shouldn't dancing together we I there's a famous tune which is they say it's some people say different not if that's the tune they were singing but I'm sure you all know the tune upon they were singing a tune whether it's this tune or a different tune I don't know they were singing a tune that they were not able to DAV and the Jailer the warden comes by and he sees the two Jews dancing so he asks one of the Goa prisoners what are the Jews dancing about he says they're dancing about the about the pale about the bucket a those Jews I'll teach them a lesson takes his big Key Warden takes the key opens the door goes inside takes out the bucket so the Jews shouldn't have a reason to be to dance and he leaves and of course no longer interested in dancing at the moment in ding cuz now the bucket is gone they can sometimes it looks like something terrible when you look at it from the right perspective you see not only it's not terrible it's actually something wonderful the previous speaker was was talking about uh a I reminded myself as he was speaking we know that gave and so ones exactly what are meaning how the words are divided into many say that the beginning of the that Hashem Hashem is actually two of the now there's a problem the problem is that when a person is trying to ask comes like we're asking we're asking to use the secret code of the and but there's a problem the problem is is that we don't say the name out of our mouths when every time it says in the we say and then no we don't actually say the the the the way it's the way it's written therefore how do we get Kap how does when we say if we're not even saying we're only saying in theory 11 of them because we're not saying we're not saying we're only saying I'm only saying 11 of the m not all 13 and if we're not saying all 13 then how is the to giving us use of this 13 um of this 13 attribute how is he giving us because we're saying if we're not actually saying them so I heard about it many years ago I don't remember from who but it's so good that I remember it and I'm sure you'll remember it too in the laning of today I don't have a sit in front of me but I'm G to say with with the because I want to be able to explain what I'm saying so if you look it doesn't say there it says meaning if you look in the you'll see that just a few lines earlier it says but here doesn't say in this word so is asking the Jews are a stiff necked people there's a famous go there's a famous Story by Goa chiropractor who came to open his practice in bar Park and he was from like Tennessee or some place and they asked him why did you come to B Park I mean there no place else in America to practice Bar Park he says listen we believe in the Bible and the Bible says the Jews name a stiff knif people we're better place for a prac to go besides B Park so since the need access to the and since the don't say we don't say that name of if I if I find favor in your eyes please treat the name and as if I had said so that the when they say they should be to the that comes and they say did I explain that well enough no slide no whiteboard okay I was very close to Liv the was in the Holocaust he was taken together with his grandfather who was my great great-grandfather's brother and kchn was taken together with him with his grandson with the whole family I believe giml that's when the whole approximately giml s his grandfather and many members of his family were taken to the gas Chambers he survived andet when the when by the Fring by The Liberation so the Allies came the Allied soldiers came into the concentration camp and everybody was happy and dancing the go the Nazi hell is over and was sitting inside crying and the other prisoners were looking at him like had he snapped like reab why you crying what happened he says listen I knew that this is a gam he had many stories about the Holocaust but I knew he said that one day it's going to be over and he says now that I see that we're being liberated by the Americans and I see that mess is not here yet I see that it must be we still have a way to go till Messiah comes because if hasem want to bring the Messiah today then he could just bring Messiah to take us out of the Nazis he wouldn't have to bring the American then a couple hours later bring mashiah so if we're being liberated in this limited way it must be that g still has a way to go and therefore I'm I'm I'm pleased I'm happy at some level that we're no longer under the Nazis but how can I be happy when I see that it seems that we're still Destin destined to stay in gas for a while so first bdish was destroyed on Tish second Bish was destroyed on Tish which means that twice on Tish at least besides all the other things that happen when they when they when they when they rake the the grounds it means that Tish has a connection with things being removed from the harabas call when in I like we are now we had different Wars everyone knows about the here in The Six Day War the Kipper War took a day you know the Six Day War didn't take six days it took six days for the whole War but the actual winning part was less than 6 days it did take some time all the wars did take some time until the sand shifted and The aish Descent that theen were able to be successful this war doesn't look like it has an easy ending with all the different MIM in geopolitics with all Iran direct Iran the pries of Iran every group separately they have more power they have less power the hoties maybe it's meant to Al to show us that when we have some threat we say we're good we'll take care of it when we have the threats that we have coming at us from so many ways we know that in sh as we discussed everything that happens to K is good and everything is just ticking closer to the G this should be our last of a fast and next year we should be ready to be singing