Rabbi Yitzchak Botton | Tisha B'Av | CHAZAQ

we'll start with a story that way you it's not a personal story so you if you if you miss it you miss it but this is your chance to get it uh many years ago about about 20 let's say 20 between 15 and 20 years ago I was what we call an alter Bak alter Bak because I started learning late I didn't start in Yeshiva uh until I was 25 so at 25 I started in Yeshiva and about 30 maybe years old is when this story took place which is uh about 20 years ago and I was in a Yeshiva and the rashash Shiva was giving a talk and someone asked him a question during this this this talk they asked him what would things be like what would be if the B mikdash was never destroyed and I assume he meant the either first and second or second but basically you know what would be if the second Bas Mish as far as we know that was the second one was never Destro and we would still have it so you would think that uh you know that would be a great thing you know we would have spared all these years of galut we would have we would have a b mdash we would have Hashem we would have what we have now if you're going to get a bit into more detail we realize that the second base of M didn't have everything the first one did so even let's make the question the first base of M that had the Aron that had the Miracles that had everything so what would be if that first make was never destroyed what would be where would we be right now wouldn't things be much better we would have been spared all of the suffering all of the hardships all of the galut all of the difficulties that until now we would have been spared so you would think that that would be the answer so instead what was the answer the Riva said that if this if the b m was never destroyed then we would still be stuck in that bet mikdash now now that answer you know shocked me because very very radical and revolutionary idea you know I would have always thought that the is a terrible thing never happened and here is a great gaon and rashash you know saying as an answer to all of us the students in Yeshiva and others that came to hear his talk he was a big G and famous people came to hear him speak and he's saying that you know if if the B never destroyed we'd be stuck in that b mdash why because we would not be able to get the third B mdash that's that we're in the middle of making and building right now we would not be able to have that b of mid which is so so much better so much greater I mean just think about one comparison that b of mid is going to come down from heaven the other two were made by by I mean think about it B coming from Heaven is obviously far greater than than anything we could produce uh but anyway it's not really it's not like that because really we together produce this final basis of English with with Hashem so the final basis of English is really a production of of of a co-production of us the Jewish people and of course Hashem so it's going to be a combination of our efforts so to speak so that's the story and so what I think though what leaves us with a very strong very very difficult question to to ask ourselves is okay we're getting uh third Bas is going to be amazing great but why did it have to come through such a difficult difficult Journey many people ask and I've asked the same question uh if Hashem really wants to just give us good and loves us so much so why does this package that Hashem wants to give us come with such a very difficult you know packaging very hard really on the surface life that we've been living the Jewish people are a symbol of of tragedy suffering abuse murder hate there's no there's no worse story that exist in in all of mankind all of humanity than what we've went through and the Torah is not even shy about it it says that parent mothers are going to are going to cook their children babies and and obviously we we we were abused by every nation that we have ever been hosting us and in every way we can imagine so the real question is how come all this could be happening that's really what what what how is it worth it how's it going to be worth it so again I don't know if this is the answer everyone's looking for but one answer I would like to say is this that um you know I think that the idea of of suffering is a result of Hashem working with us so to speak really Hashem loves us and Hashem wants to give us good and at the end of the day since this production of of the B and is a co-production between us and Hashem so we have to do our part and we could we could really just simply say that a lot of the suffering that we go through and it's not I want to blame ourselves but you know mean when we go of course so we create a new path and we have to find our way back on course and Hashem is ultimately working with us to to get back on course and so the hardships that we go through are are this hidden harsh really we love of hasem because if Hashem really didn't love us so much then how about he could have said many many years ago you know the first time we messed up okay you messed up I'm done with you I'll pick someone else to choose I'll choose someone else if you're going to keep messing up I'll choose someone else but the reality is that Hashem is never choosing has never Chosen and will never choose anyone else and that we have to ask ourselves why not because he only wants us and it's because he only wants us and there's a place where we need to get to together then we have to get there somehow and sometimes it's A Hard Road and sometimes it's not as hard but that's the basically short answer as to what why we go through suffering is because so to speak with our Free Will and when we we use it to do the wrong thing so we have to fix that somehow you could call it punishment you could call it a cause and effect either way the root of everything we go through whether it's good or bad is a love that an infinite love that hasm has for us more than we can measure and the patience in that no matter how long it takes for you guys to get where you need to be I'm with you helping you pushing you you guiding you but at the end of the day it's like a baby that that you're trying to teach how to walk if you do it for the baby the baby's not walking you have to sit back and let that baby struggle and fall and cry and again from the grown-up's perspective we see that it's just it's just a baby crying over falling on his diaper the tush is not really do damage it's it's fine but we with the with the mindset that we have in the world we have right now everything seems so tragic and so so terrible but again when we look at it kape the future when we look back on all of this the PK says that we're going to really be very happy with everything we went through because it all will have led to this unbelievable goodness that hem is is actually trying to give us right now and will give us when when we'll so that's that's what I felt like that's what came out I think that we're good it's almost 645 any right 37 okay so uh just a little bit more on this topic uh so you can ask a question I mean that was very dramatic we're going to go less dramatic right now but you can ask a question which is not my question but I think lot people can ask it we know that hasm fulfills all of the mites in the Torah it's fromi that that I was told ofi I didn't see it inside but that that's where the source is that hasem fulfills all the mites in the Torah so you can ask a question there's a that attributes the to mention that tus who destroyed the B mikdash all they do was reg grind ground wheat which is nothing how why because really Hashem decided that the B would be destroyed and it was just a CLE to do what Hashem wanted so the question is if hasem fulfills all the mitv how can he destroy the mikdash the P says that what we are meant to do toar we're not allowed to do to we can't destroyd it's a mitvah it's ass to destroy anything the mdash so how can destroy it that's the question you guys appreciate that question how can hasem destroy the the Torah says you're have to destroy so I think nice answer that I found from in my studies is this basically what kind of Destruction are we talking about when I destroy something and I destroy it that's destruction but look at the laws of shabas for a second there's a law of of of S on shabas if I break down a building on chabas so I'm not allowed to do it and rically I'm sure in any case you're not allowed to do but biblically what is the of of tearing down a house on chabas when would you be biblically obligated if you tore down a house on chabas when not when you so it in order to build it that's a real because there's something there and Hashem doesn't do things halfway when hasem does something he does it fully and the truth is when Hashem destroyed his mikdash he destroyed not so the truth is we could appreciate the the destruction is not the right word to use for theban what's the right word the right word is construction he put the under construction and this fits beautifully with the first answer that we said from the rashash Shiva if we wouldn't do construction on the bdash we'd be stuck there and we wouldn't have the B mdash that we deserve and need and want forever for and so that's the answer for example a Sho like this beautiful Sho imagine the got now another double or triple the amount of uh Patriot hope that's the right word then we have to do some construction we might have to tear down a part of it to rebuild it bigger so that's really what's happening the the the destruction of the bdash is not a destruction it's not a corbon it's it's an idea of rebuilding and rebuilding better and greater and when you fall and get back up you get up greater and so through the fall of the corbon we will rise with the basic and reach a level of perfection that the world will attain that we will attain and a with that we have never seen before and that will make everything we go through until then more than worth it may hasem help us see speed in our days the bet mdash