Rabbi Reuven Chaim Klein | Tisha B'Av | CHAZAQ

okay this year is sponsored and before I wanted start I wanted to say thank you to the here inad for hosting this event and for kazak for putting it on to anytime for doing the recording making this a real reality um before I start I was thinking you know just to get everybody in the mood you know on the count of three on the count of three we're all going to enter a state of aus and start crying and thinking about the Bas and just go right into it okay on the count of three one 3 didn't work I see it's not working everyone's just smiling you can't just you can't just jump right into Thea you have to think about it you have to realize what's happening you know why why why are we in aist what are we crying about what does it even mean to cry so beem in this in this talk I'm going to do three things first of all I'm going to try to Define these Concepts what's going on in Tish just P it simply defining the terms so and then we're going to explain the significance of it and then at the end we'll have some different about uh a way of looking towards the future says there of crying we'll get to the part at the end but what what exactly is di what exactly is what exactly is AOS so as I was saying before when you talk about these type of things it's sometimes very helpful to just very clearly Define what these terms are and when you have a clear definition of what the word simply means and maybe the atmology of the word how it relates to similar words then you have a clear understanding of what what's the concept that these words represent so we're going to try to explore the first section over here the word de tears crying Aus mourning trying to give a better clearer understanding what is De what is what is Aus spoiler alert we're going to see that all three of these words are related to confusion and and being mixed up and that's that's sort of the um the direction that we're going to take these ideas so let's start with the word de the word de we commonly translate as tears the the Shish of the word de appears 13 times in tanak in the sense of Tears as as we know it but in the has a different meaning right those who are learning t might be familiar with some concept called she the it's the it's the um amount that had been mixed in so doesn't mean tears it means a totally similarly unrelated concept of being mixed in becoming a mixture right the talks about a person who's who who damages another person by doing he takes your food and he which is you know a way of rendering it user to be eaten or M he mixes it into in a way that it's not bottle right he mixes sorry into truma in a way that it's not bottle and you can't eat it anymore so he's damaging you in that in that way so is a way of of mixing something in there's a special by truma that it's not BT it has to be btle in sheer of 100 times the amount so DEA is is getting mixed in so we have de in t which means tears which means a mixture and then we have an interesting where the says do not delay your and your di what's mea and Di so in the it's also say that mea is referring to B and Dima is referring to truma so so we have another use of the word means means Trum okay so now we have these three sort of meanings of De of Tears mixture and truma what does truma have to do with any of this why is truma related to tears or mixture so the explains that that truma is taken off of uh truma is taken off of produce when it's already in a later stage of development right B you take when it's still fruit but truma by contrast you take off truma when it's already wine or it's already oil it's already been processed okay so theak says that how do you make wine or oil out of the original Fruit out of a grape or out of an olive you take it and you squeeze it and it comes out drip drip drip drip drip until you have a whole vet of oil or a whole vet of wine so it comes out drip drip so radak says just like the wine and the oil come out drip drip the wine and the oil they take truma off of so too a Deo or tears that come out drip drip doesn't all gush out of person's eyes all at once it comes out drip drip different times at different stages so it's drip drip so that's why truma is called deas because truma is taken off of something a produce that comes out drip drip so that's why it's you know the the connection between de in terms of De and the terms of truma that's how the r says it but rash says something very interesting rash says why is truma called rash says I have no clue rash says I don't know rash say I don't know why truma is called why truma is called like what's the connection between truma and D in is usually tears or let's say talk about where it's a mixture like I don't know what Trum has to do with any of this so that's rash there's another rashash says why is truma called why is it what's the relation between truma and DEA because there's a special as I mentioned before that truma is btle only in one in 100 not one in 60 like other foods like other foods of is and so the the tah calls truma because of this that that truma when it gets mixed into other things it's different than other than other when they get mixed in so it's alluding to this idea of being mixed in that's how rash explains the connection between truma and and and and Dema on that asks what do you mean this that truma is only btle in one out of 100 as opposed to one out of let's say as opposed to row one out of 60 That's How could you use that to explain why the Torah uses the word to refer to tr so some say that to answer T they say that when Rashi says this rash that the Torah calls it di in illusion to this that later on the abon would Institute that's how some the B man in ezar explains defends Rashi what the point is what comes out of this is that de the terms of in terms of Tears in also means mixture the question is what's the connection between the two what does tears have to do with mixture so theal explains that tears are an outward expression of an internal confusion or M or mixture a person has mixed feelings they have in in their emotions they it's not clear they don't know how to look at something and they don't know how to approach it so that's what's happening that inner turmoil is shown on the outside in the form of Tears that's how it comes out they have these inner feelings and it comes out in the form of tears that come out of the eyes that's how theal explains the connection between these two distinct meanings of the Shish in in linguistics they call it polyus polymus means you know a word or a root that has multiple meanings poly means multiple sem means like semantics of meanings so the explains the polysemous nature of this sherish of by explaining that it has to do with the fact that tears are the outward expression of a person's inner to turmoil of his emotional confusion and and the mixture of different possibilities that he sees inside himself and it comes out in the form of Tears that's the and we find this idea of De or Dema in its multiple meanings it comes up in a few other contexts there's a gamar in the asked about the eight the the final of where it talks about the death of so the asks who wrote those last eight who wrote One opinion in says yesu wrote those last because it talks about the death of couldn't have been writing that he died if he's alive right so some say that it was yesu wrote it and thear brings another opinion it says you know who wrote those last day it was M himself wrote it but he wrote it okay thear uses this cryptic word BEDA okay now based on what we know until now we know that the word BEDA is kind of polysemous it has multiple meanings so what does it mean that wrote these last eight so explained when it says that wrote it it means he wrote it with with with with with tears he wrote it while he was crying some take that approach a step further and they said that M wrote it with tears meaning instead of read it with ink with like a pen he wrote it with tears he wrote those Final in in the Torah with with out of tears that was the material used to write the so that assumes that means tears some of say that when it says that wrote those final eight it means that he wrote it with a mixture okay wrote it with a mixture what does that mean how does it mean mixture in this context so the V explains that um the beginning of talks about how the entire Torah is Sheamus of it's all names of but that the the letters could be arranged in different ways and it could be arranged in a way that it's names of a or it could be arranged in a way that we read it now the the literal interpretation of the so the says based on this raan says when it says that wrote the last eight B it means that he wrote it in in a mixture he wrote it in a way that it didn't have the that of a story of talking about the death of in the way that we have it now it was written in a way that the the letters were mixed up in a way that that could be read in a different way that that was how M originally wrote it so in that context means mixing up another the brings what it means that wrote the last eight meaning mixed up means thatu was in his his mind was in a in a mind frame of being mixed up usually gives he had a very clear right there was no confusion no no you know no draw everything was very clear and here when revealed the last eight gave it to him in a of a lower level and that lower level is called Dema it's called confusion Vis the the regular state of so this is called a little bit of confusion because it wasn't as clear says how what the means what we see from this is that de is not just related to tears but it's also related to confusion as says that tears is an outward expression of a person's inner confusion we can talk about in the same way say there's a in beginning of it says that said about the Jewish people when they were on their way out of Egypt and they were right on Route towards the yamu says these Jewish people are these Jews are Nim in the land and that was what was the Catalyst that's what embold parro to to chase after the Jewish people and and and and and and and you know and then have the final showdown at the C what does it mean that so says two explanations first explanation of means you know like the the the guide to the perplex they call it mean that they were confused they were perplexed they weren't sure they were sort of Lost in their in their in their travels they weren't sure exactly where they were going and Par was like aha I'm going to get them now because they're on the way to the yam they don't realize where they're going and then I'm going to trap them right so they were sort of confused that's one that says about the other says ISRO said they're entering the desert where I see that in the future they're going to be crying in this desert that's a good sign for me I'm going to chase after them this this is a good sign for me it means that I'm going to be successful in my Pursuit against the Jewish people means that's how the says it so what we have over here in the is we have two explanations of the word can mean confusion perplexion or crying another we have is um where it says in millas Esther after H made these decrees against the Jewish people that he's going to kill them out so it says the city ofan was what does it mean the simple explanation is they were perplexed confounded confused they don't know what's going to be there's this big zero loing over us so we don't know what how it's going to play out we don't know what the future is going to be so they were confused they don't they didn't know what what the end of the story is going to be comes alongi and his he says that at this point in the story of PM recognized that they only recourse their only hope the only course of action they can do is to just sit there and cry out to hasem so according toi actually means of so again you have this polysemous nature of is related to confusion on the other hand is also related to crying this reminds me sort of a interesting anecdote that once happened to me about 11 years ago um I was taken in the middle of the night by the Israeli army they decided that I was deserting the Army and they put me in jail and they wanted they wanted they wanted to put you know forcibly either put me in jail or make me join the Army and we had a whole court case rabbitson cbak from the Mir was able to help me get a a good lawyer and it it came out that you know they had made a mistake a bureaucratic mistake where they were considering me an army deserter um retroactively from when I turned 18 even though I had only made Aliyah a year and a half before so it was a whole bureaucratic mess and we had a court a whole court case and you know so they dragged me out from jail they put me you know they put me in the court case and you know the court case went pretty smoothly because we had this good lawyer and because it was anyways it was a mistake and you know the military judge paskins you know we oh whoops military judge pasin you know I should be freed from jail right so when you're in jail and they free you from jail it's not so simple what they actually have to do is you don't just like walk home from the court case this is military jail they have to put handcuffs back on you put you in a military vehicle transfer you back to the jail and then they have to do like a whole uh processing processing process I guess you could call it and they process you and then they process your release and then you get out right you know when when they put you in jail they take away your clothing they take away your wallet all kinds of other things so part of the processing is they give you back all your stuff fine so they take me out they take me from the court the courthouse transfer me back to they transfer me all the way back to the jail they put me in a holding cell um by the by the jail now the court had already pined that I'm supposed to be released from jail right but they put me in the holding cell and there was another there who was who was on his way to jail and I was I my way out of jail they put both of us in the same room they you know they locked the door closed it and they left us there like what what's happening I'm supposed to be getting released from jail you put me back in jail like what you no no answer nothing and I look out the window I look out the window to see in the in the with the administrators what what are they doing over there and I see that the jail wardens are all sitting around and they're eating pizza they're sitting around they're eating pizza why because it's dinner time so they're on their break they're not processing anybody who's getting released they're not processing anybody who's getting incarcerated it's dinner time we have to sit down we eat our pizza we're eating our pizza we don't care that you're ready to get out of jail we're eating our pizza now so this was about a week and a half after a porum and um you know I was my I had I had one son already and my wife was about to pop with my second son who was born a few days later and you know I was like Mom is crying and this was like just the and we just had this whole court case and they said that I should go home or get to go home home and it's like they put me in I'm waiting for them to like finish their dinner I'm like so PK popped into my head I put my face in the window and they screamed out at the at the at the jail wardens and said and then the jail wardens came to the window and they looked they said like what's happening over here and they saw it's just saying a they came to close the window so he don't bother them anymore was laughing his head off and a few minutes later they came and they released me from jail right can mean crying is an expression of crying is also an expression of confusion the same saer that I mentioned before when we're talking about de the same says that crying is the same idea crying de is the idea it's an involuntary reflex to a person's confused emotions that are being expressed outwardly he he he in his in his head he's confused he doesn't know what's going on and he doesn't know how to express it and it comes out in tears comes out crying that's that's that's the way that's the way that's the way you you can tell the world that you have this inner turmoil in modern psychology one of the one of the one of the precepts of modern psychology is based on the concept that when a person has these emotions very strong emotions and and it's difficult for them to deal with it so putting those emotions into words is is um it minimizes it it constricts the emotions and it it makes it less it makes it less overwhelming because you have words that you can express these emotions in the in specific words right and I just heard this last night the shapir said that a baby who can't talk his only way of expressing you know his wants and his feelings and what he's trying to do his only way of doing it is crying because he doesn't have those words he doesn't have words to say it so that's idea of that crying and demoise has to do with this idea of confusion trying to express confusion confused state of emotions a mix a mixture of different things different mixture of different possibilities that could happen or that are happening or that might happen and and and that's the idea of of and deise my re marus who was n about two years ago um he was actually born on on Tish and that's why he was called he has a called has a called he writes in he he elaborates on this idea that crying stems from a person being unfold unclear about how the future will unfold for him and there's a mixture of options and possibilities and he says this interesting point he's also he's a of M inter in point that he says that like when when a person is teary eyed right he's crying what happens is his vision is it's um obfuscated right he can't he can't see clearly the the crying is it shows it makes it that he his his eyes are not functioning properly because it's it's blurry he can't see so clearly and he says that that that's an outward expression of his inside state of being his inside state of being is in in his itions and in his in his pus he is confused and he's not seeing things clearly and that's why it comes out outwardly in in the sense of crying he connects this also like we were saying to the two meanings the polysemous nature of Deo and that it means confusion on the one hand and on the other hand it also means crying and tears he brings a p of you know a famous those who who who they they plant their their their seeds with crying in the future they will they will reap their Harvest with with with rejoicing right when you plant it when you put the plants in you you you put the seeds in the ground you have no clue what's going to happen maybe it'll grow maybe it won't grow maybe it'll grow and then it'll get destroyed by the wind or by by the by a flood or maybe some kid will trample it you have no clue what's going to happen you're just putting it in right now you're you're you're a state of di you're in a state of confusion because you see so many different possibilities but you don't know which one it is which one is going to really happen in the future this unclarity unclarity is and then in the future you'll get to that state of Happiness um we we're on the topic of um on the top of of crying I always had I always found this I always found this really weird ever since I was a little kid I always found this really weird you go to and there's always some people you know everyone in the is smiling and they're happy and they're dancing and you know is is like theit right it's the epitome of of of of a happy occasion and then you always have the people that are crying right usually it's like the mother of the you have the you have the people who are crying like what are you crying about what's why are you crying everyone's happy over here what are you sitting here crying what what's this idea that some people they cry happy occasions what's the idea of crying at a happy occasion so I I I always found this a weird thing and when I was a teenager I saw that one of the far from Rim Schwab he talks about this and and rim Schwab writes that this is something that hasem put into the tea of the world Hashem put this into nature it's it's something so that people won't forget about the that even though you're at the the you're at the most joyous occasion Hashem put it in people's brains that they start crying so that they're going to remember the very interesting idea there's there's a lot of directions you could take this idea that's of shab's idea but I was thinking I was thinking based on what my said that you can take it in a slightly different direction why do people cry at a happy occasion like a cuz what's a a is just the beginning you have two people now you're putting them together now they're starting a family together what's going to be what's going to be with their children their grandchildren their great-grandchildren I have no clue what's going to be in the future no clue so the people who are crying are sensitive to this fact that we have no clue what's going to be in the future yes right now it's a very happy occasion but we don't know what's going to be in the future and that's why there it could be that's why you know some people are are crying by a by a [Music] a okay as I said before in the spoiler um and a are all connected to the concept of confusion and mixture avus is a little bit more complicated so let me give you some background information without getting into too much detail because laa it is Tish so we can't like you know get into the nitty-gritty of of ethology Andes there's all age old we've probably all heard about this there's an age old where the roots in are comprised of two letters or three letters held that sh comprised can be usually comprised of two letters sometimes three letters and the radak we most of us are probably only familiar with the radak approach holds R goes with radak holds that what we call the triliteral approach that letter shash are you are always comprised of three letters okay so if you're talking about the term a so you have alamid if you go with the three-letter approach it's Al be lamid if you go with the two-letter approach how do you understand that so comes along some people consider him a masil some people point to the fact that he was a Dyan and he was definitely a very very fir person so he was a religious mascal but he was a very important Garian named shomo papenheim Sho papenheim um he's actually the person that theak quoted when he was talking about that means crying and it also means confusion so he was quoting papenheim papenheim has this goes with the what we call the biliteral approach goes with that even if they appear to be a three-letter sh at their core are a twetter shish and that sometimes threel shim are products of a twetter shish so the way he has this whole system he has two written on the topic and the way he sets up his system the letters those letters are what we call um let's call it a radical it's not part of the core Shish you can add one of those letters to a core twet Shish to make a three that's how papenheim you know he sort of bridges Theus between two letter three letter even he's though he's going with the two-letter approach and he says it like that so according to RAB papenheim um system of shim a b the Shish is actually just the two letters bid and the letter Al is just an added letter that makes the two-letter Shish into a three-letter Shish so that's that's how appenheim explains the concept of the the word Theology of the term Aus um what's the what what's the theme what's the core uniting idea between the all the the words um that are that come out of the Shish B lamid so he has two approaches one approach is that B lamid that b lamid um words that come out of the Shish B lamid refer to mixture right means to be mixed up right says that is because mixed up all the languages called and says that is called because it's a mixture of mikra mishna and tud Al together and that's why Yesa is focus on t instead of focusing on mikra mishna and talud separately so B is a of mixing up in modern HEB you have a term hit bolut which is um assimilation you're getting mixed into other forces other other other influences so so one one set of words that come out of basamid is this idea of mixture and and sort of confusion and the other set of words that come out of B lamid is what we would say in Hebrew negation saying no making sure that something is non-existent right like when refer to in the the ter says and call it right we have Bal is like ation of ly do not no it's a negation it negates this possibility you think you could do this action and the thir is saying no that action is negated it's something that's out of the realm of of of the um of the possible right we have other words that come from B Lam that are that relate to this concept of negation AAL right AAL is but or however right like for example you you're giving your wife a compliment oh that's a very nice stress it's a very good um you know very tasty food but so when you everything you say after the butt is canceling what you said before the butt right that's the concept of aval so aval is also coming from this sherish of baz lamid which is a concept of negation so R pep has a whole thing where he wants to say that mixing and negation are also are also related to each other because when you mix something in it's so thoroughly mixed and diluted that it it it ceases to exist on its own so mixing and negation are also related the way he explains it and Aus is related to mixing is related to mixing because because when a person is in a state of aus he's again experiencing this mixture of emotions a mixture of confusion he doesn't know what's going to be he doesn't know how what the future holds he doesn't know is he happy is he sad is he this is he that there's too many things going on and that's why he's in a state of aus just like we said by and de it's it's a state of confusion he doesn't know what to do I I was thinking that maybe we could say that um that Aus is also related to the negation concept of the sh because negation means something existed and now it doesn't exist it's not a viable option it's not a viable existence anymore so what's an oval an oval is a person who you know lyu one of his relatives was nter right until now he lived life and this relative was part of his life and now that element of his life is gone it doesn't exist anymore it's been negated right and he doesn't know how he's going to continue living how is life going to look without PL how is life going to look without PL how am I going to continue what's going to be I don't know I don't know he's confused he's he doesn't he doesn't doesn't see how how things are going to play out so that's the the the concept of of aus there's this uh famous expression that people say there's no there's nothing happy like there's no level of Happiness like one who answers up a suff right you have a question you have a suff a doubt you're not sure you don't know what's going to be what what this is what not what what's the greatest what's the greatest resolution with the greatest joy the the greatest joy is When You Reach This resolution that now I don't have a suff anymore now I know what it is now it's clear by me now I know what's going to be now I know I have the answer to my question I'm not bothered by this anymore people think it's a it's not really there's AER fromi called Al Bet and he has a whole explaining what the source of the expression of it goes back to name who was a great philosopher people bring it the r but it's not in the any of the Ram's known writings but what we see is that I would say the converse is also true it's not just that is a reason for Sim but that not having Fus having a suff is a reason for the opposite of simp it's it's a reason it's a it's a cause it's a cause for Aus being in this state of confusion of of B where things are mixed up and Confused de all of these things together that was section one section two by now I should have convinced you that and and and and Aus are all all different words they refer to being mixed up confused confounded uncertain now we have to explain the significance okay we understand we very clearly defined our terms very clearly a we understand what these terms mean what does this relate to Tish what are we crying about what are we confused about now we have to discuss that question what are we confused about what what what's bothering us why are we in this Avil why are we have these de why are we doing this so first of all the very fact that we're asking a question that's already a reason to be sad you don't know why you're confused you don't we don't even know what we're confused about it's like a spec we don't know why we're confused we're M about why we're M what we're M about that that already itself is a reason to be sad to be in a state of Avance to be in a state of writes in the beginning of every should be in distress and should be worrying about the that's what the says every person who should be stressed about and what about a guy who's not a a guy who's not a he shouldn't be distressed about the everyone should be distressed about why talking to the we don't have where he says every should make sure he puts on you know his FAL y before no it doesn't say like that it just says what the rule is why over here does say every Yu should be distressed about it everyone should be distressed about it why is talking to the to the says the because if you're not a you should be distressed about the fact that you're not a when you become a then you can be distressed about other things but until you get there you have other things to be distressed about mean but it's brother of he he points out it's not that the the is saying something different than the they're both saying the same thing it's it's they're both saying that you should you should mourn and and and be distressed over theban except the talking about of yourself but the truth is if you're not distressed about the of the mdash it comes from the fact that you're not sensitive to to a person is not sensitive to a certain person is not sensitive to matters of Kusa so he's so he's not sensitive to the destruction he should be bothered by the fact that he's not sensitive to that destruction right he he's he's insensitive to to to spiritual matters because in his brain there's so many other things going around there's there's all the materialist things and then there's all the spiritual things and then there's all the psychological things and everything is all confused he can't see clearly you know what am I supposed to be distressed about it's far so be distressed at least about yourself right it's like the guy he could say it like this the guy is too busy eating pizza to realize that the is there waiting to be released the is waiting for the G and like you're just not even like on the same wavelength you don't even realize it sitting there eating pizza right like the like the guy in the jail um besides besides for my interest in language and ethology I also have a very strong interest in history and archaeology and I was recently reading up about the moim the moabites the history about the moabites the one of the the main god that the moabites worshiped was something called is mentioned in say is called the nation of K right K is the name of the the M of that the Moes were worshiping that's also mentioned in when he was talking to the Amon he said that oh you're God come on gave you your land it says that he built he built a temple to whatever exactly it means whatever means but it does come up does come up in and there's an interesting Concept in you know archaeology and history um it's called a theophoric name a theophoric name is a personal name a name of a human being a person that in his name is a reference to his God is a reference to to the deity that he worships to his to to his to his Hashem right so we have different what we call theophoric names where we have a name that in the name itself it refers to Hashem for example so you have Y which is like a reference to and then gives right he's a he's a a servant of of hem right so if you look in the historical archaeological Rec records have examples of that also had these types of personal names but instead of references to hasem they had what was called a theophoric element they refer to their God K instead of Y they have K instead of Y so they have K instead of they have Etc there's a whole Corpus of of these different texts and and and pottery that have these different names from from the mo and we know interesting things about about the moite god um there's something called the mesas steel which was an archaeological inscription which talk which was written by Mayim that talks about a certain War where their God Kam K was a war God and he helped them you know be successful in their war and if you look at the history of theim something very interesting happened and we have this already mentioned the king of came and he wrecked havoc on the entire Middle East and he conquered the all the different nations including the northern kingdom of he put them you know the 10 tribes into Gus a conquer he mixed around all the nations and we because of that we have that is not so it's to marry them is not is not a is not everything everyone's all mixed up nowadays right and then a few Generations later comes along and whoever was left of the came and he conquered them he conquered the remaining moabites and within 100 Years of that beginning of the the beginning of the second temple period beginning of B Shen period Like You by the time the Greeks had taken over AR Isel there is no Remnant left of no mention of K no inscriptions no the name Kam disappears it's not used as a theophoric element it's not nothing K gone some historians have theorized that it became mixed up with the Greek God of War Aries and the people forgot about Kam and it just totally disappeared when conquered who was to say that our Hashem would not face a similar fate just like when conquered the that was the end no more Kam nobody ever KN knew the name Kam anymore we have it mentioned in t but other than that no one ever heard of it it wasn't worshiped it was just gone right who knows when when when when were conquered by with the destruction of maybe that would have been that could have been the end that's it no more t no more that would have been the end that would that could have been the end right you know Exile if you look at other nations Exile Destruction has destroyed and totally eliminated wiped out all memory of a lot of different nations cultures societies religions maybe that would have been the end of maybe that would have been the end of everything that that could have been the end the whole of Judaism was at risk of being totally wiped out and forgotten about and only weird people like me who have an interest in history you know would would would even know that there was once this thing called the Israelite religion that worship God called who who would know who would know right who who would know this like thei says in the that we read this morning people are saying there's no like after the destruction of B people are like who this like what the people gone the the Jewish people are you know wiped out decimated exiled maybe that would be the end of that would that would be the end that could have been a point in history when from then nobody would know about nobody know about would just mix in just like he could have been right could have been as well mix them in dilute them within and then it would disappear right disappear be totally diluted and then be from existence in Lam that that could that could have been the story that really could have been the story now in hindsight of course it sort of seems farfetched you know we're like 2,500 years later you know after the destruction of the first B mdash and we see that you know we know that we get in hindsight you we we see the story of Jewish survival throughout the ages you know so it's kind of far-fetched to say that know that could have been the end of everything at end of that could have been the end but when the B mes was destroyed that was a very viable believable threat we had no clue what was going to happen we didn't know that this could have been the end this could have really been the end and we know that tell us beginning of any generation that the Bas of English is not rebuilt in that generation it's it's as if the Bas of English was destroyed in that gener eration now in the time of when it was destroyed we didn't know it was going to be and so just like we didn't know it was going to be then we still don't know what it's going to be yes right now we exist K all exist and and am all exist and the ter exists and and people recognize right but in every subsequent generation since the destruction we're still at risk of this total loss we have no clue what's going to be that exist the exact threat might change from time to time what is threatening CLA what might what we what we might you know assimilate into what what's the threat that might displace Claud or the T or the belief in hasem but it's still a big suff it's still a big suff what is the future going to hold for us what what's going to be right and that that's definitely you know we we survived you they say we survived the the the reform and we survive the hcal but who's to say that we're going to survive the smartphone the Tik Tok who's going to say that CL is going to survive these threats right atheism secularism these are things that are definitely on the rise in in a global sense you know how many of us could say for certain that our children our grandchildren our great-grandchildren are going to continue to be shz right who's going to say that the from society in is going to continue to last as it has been in in the previous generations maybe they're going to take all the yes put them in the army or put them in jail right maybe Iran is going to attack us 3 seconds and the whole country will be completely blown up in in a we don't know we really don't know yes we survived until now but who is to say that we're going to continue to survive in the future so I was asking what are we confused about what are what's this the the the demise the AAS what are we confused about this is what we're totally confused about we're confused about the future we have no clue what's going to be just like when the Bas ofish is destroyed we had no clue maybe Hashem is going to go the way of K just like no one knows anything about Kam nobody's going to know about it or or or maybe we will continue and and this is this is there so many different possibilities we don't know which one is going to occur that's the reason why why we cry in Tish because we have this confusion and we're still living with the same confusion that that that that CLA had when the Bas of mish was destroyed we're still suffering the same thing we also don't know what's going to be in the future we also don't we also see multiple possibilities and we don't know which one is going to occur right all of this of course comes from the Inus connects this when was in the midar and said you're going to go and you're going to conquer it and you're going to inherit it and it's going to be yours and then they started questioning it but there's no reason to question item said this is what it's going to be it's going to be B so what's the problem right why start questioning it so why are you crying we said that crying has to do with inner confusion and inner turmoil and and and and mixed up emotions and mixed up possibilities but when was in the midb and they and they experienced hasem firsthand in so many different ways with with the with covered with the it's like why what what reason is there to be confused right so say you know that's they're St crying for no reason so says you cry for no like you know like like like like a father says to this kid you cry for no reason I'll give you a reason to cry right so and now we are we we we're legitimately crying because we're legitimately confused we we legitimately we don't see AEM we don't see the Y like the like theid saw it so for us it makes sense that we're confused [Laughter] so that's what we're crying about that's what we're crying about this is far away from us what's this that we keep talking about right we said what is now we've G we we've come to the third section the different what is so the word in call it or what we call what the word in is is actually it's a verb right it's referring to he who is bringing it's a verb elsewhere in is actually the name of a person was the name of one of the last kings of before came one of the last kings of of was soim is not just a verb but it's also a noun it's a name of a person put the two and two together and they say that is also a name of a person when we're talking about that we want is also name of a person who's the person says is one of the names of M there's different names of mhia to say it very there's there's and there's and each one the maral says expresses a different aspect of how we understand what it doesn't literally have to mean that was his name right just because the guy's name is and maybe he was born in Tish that doesn't mean that he's going to be mashiah but the concept of the concept of Y the concept of sh so Y is related to the word n Grand in modern Hebrew means great grandchild but Ines n just means like a descendant it means a continuation so N means like y means that mhia is the solution that mhia is going to bring is going to bring a solution that's going to be forever Y is like the it's it's established and it's going to be stuck there has to do with um it has to do with the in gathering that everyone is going to join together all of the nations are going to join together and all the factions within CL are going to join together so shil has to do with the of MH being unifier why is M called another name for mashia that's brought in this F is that's another name that they bring for for mash the name is also related to is the of is so these is related to the concept of so let's talk about what is what is the the term in Hebrew is conventionally translated as comfort uh consolation soless it means you you were sad and now make you make you not not so sad anymore you P him on the back and it's okay it's okay I'll comfort you that that's Comfort right that's that's the the the simple understanding of the word we using some of the idea um some of the sort of linguistic tools that we were using before we can parse the word the root the in a in a deeper way you can understand what it is is related to means right means you put it you put it down you put something you place it here and you leave it in you place it here or you leave something in place that's like in the G you're like this right I have I have a logic and this piece of logic makes sense let's leave it over here place it down put it here and it's it's good it's good but then I have something else that that bothers me fine we'll discuss that right that's that's fine that we understand that's uproots that placement means put it down means you're taking it away when created man right he created man and he gave man the choice to do good evil and Hashem thought that you know man was going to go on this path of doing good things and what happened or when I say thought I mean thought right and it ended up man had failed in in in his mission and it says end said [Music] I I I regret creating man right it's the same sh as which means Comfort or consolation and here in this context it means to regret right um by some of you Domin already some of you didn't but today we read that was going to destroy because of the OS what does mean it means hasem was comforted cons consoled it means Hashem regretted it Hashem turned back he had he had his decision put his decision in place and now he's overturning his decision and doing something else so Rashi in a bunch of places rash says that this Shish of is is it refers more broadly to a person shifting shifting his way of thinking it's that's the idea behind it is a way is a shift in the way you're looking at things and regret or overturning is also a shift in the way until now I thought it was thought he was going to destroy clol now he decided he's not going to destroy CL so he changed it he changed it there's there's an old question it's a change in mindset there's an old question that people are bothered by but when is born it says um it says says oh this guy this his parents said this guy is going to be he's going to you know cause comfort for us for for for for mankind right so so why do they call they should call him or or or why Why without the me at the end this is a question a lot of people discuss this question but the way we're explaining it now I think it makes a lot of sense because means I play something here right mean Hashem had regret hasem put like Hashem put man in the world and then Hashem regretted it and now with the birth of no they're saying that hasem is going to regret the regretting right it's a from the fact that saying so when you regret the regret you're left with what you put in place so that's why it's yeah you like that you like that okay that's the idea of is is is overturning overturning your state of your state of mind it's it's a a par what they call a paradigm shift right so if and and a veus is characterized by a person who's confused and totally uncertain about what the future holds then is the antidote to and de and and and a shap says that is something that offers a Clear Vision of what the future is when you have a clear vision of what the future is that obviates the need to cry there's no reason to cry anymore crying is because you're confused and you don't know what's going to be but when you know what's going to be it's very clear in front of you you know what's going to be there's no reason to cry you see it there's no suff and like we said right and so you know when a person changes his mind that he looks at something straight without any confusion that that could lead to crying this changing Paradigm is known as and it's precisely this type of vision Clear Vision of the future that is coming to tell us he says saying I'm telling you what the future is going to hold there there is going to be a a Final Redemption there is going to be you know a b there is going to be there is going to be a there's going to be everything is going to be okay in the end right everything it's going to be okay and it's a speaking it's clear that that's that's this that that we're that we're trying to get to right that's the tell us I wrote a whole essay about this once tell us that we don't have any that are as happy for except for that are more so than right always falls out you know the same week that we read it always falls out the same week of right and we said before there's no greater happiness than than not being in a state of confusion being pulled out of a state of confusion when we get that that's we're just we're looking for that that shift in mindset that's that that's that's the the is the na is saying look you it's still the same the the same facts remain on the ground the same facts remain you're still in the same situation you're still in the same Gus but we have a clear vision of the future you can already be happier you can already be less less de L Avil us I saw an a very interesting thing once in the he brings from the K that the K says that in the future in the Messianic era on Tish we're still going to read we're still going to read but it's going to be with a different mindset instead of reading Mill with a nigan of for the lit Vox we're going to read Mill with a nigan of Miller it's not going to be like oh how did this happen how how could we we going to read it it's going to be like bit how was it that there was such a thing in in the distant past that there was such AAS that that CL was in this state in this desolate State it's the same fact it's the it's you're living in the same GS but it's a different mindset that's that's what isem we should Merit to fulfill the vision of and and all the that are telling us about the future where is all the sad days into Happy Days and we should see the coming of M sh