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CHAZAQ | Rabbi Shaya Cohen, Rabbi Aryeh Zev Ginsburg & Rabbi Akiva Rutenberg | Tehillim & Chizuk
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um okay evening everyone um we have a
really special opportunity
tonight
hear from two very very special
people um both leaders in our community
both leaders were very connected
to is very much connected
to here and
um I just want to share a short thought
of
introduction
I was learning last week in
the in program
and discuss very
fam
why was why was Shilo
destroyed the says that the first place
of we know is for some of the
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biggest and the
second and the
question asks is why was the first of MD
only of 70 years and the second B was
already much much longer and obviously
we can ask the question today you know
even more right it's it's almost 2,000
years and the says h
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we and um there's different ways of
understanding what this means in SC I'll
show with you what the says over there
and he says very straight out he says
they did a lot of but in their heart
they always have the T he says versus us
where we do a lot of right things
everything in our heart he says we have
K and we have hatred and jealousy and if
in your
heart you you have that then is not
ready to give us back the the theas of
English and I think when when we go
through such challenging events that
happened to us in the last two weeks you
really should push us to think about not
just how we act not just what we do but
how how do we feel what's going on
inside
and connected to this I I saw an idea
this week um you know the famous P that
says strength my efforts that that got
me this this
life and um not sure who the person was
quoting from but it
says in their words they say all the
right things
the it's all good it's all good they say
all the right
things and I think that if we can strive
to internalize our connection with
um we'll see yeshu very very
quickly for
those individuals and there are many
that are used to public speaking and
comfortable speaking in
public uh the
last 10 days has been especially
difficult you want want to speak maybe
it's important to
speak but how can you
speak the atrocities are
unspeakable they they're they're
incomprehensible and I from the distance
I'm overwhelmed RAB Ginsburg zunin was
actually there in Eris roal as a
firsthand uh account but it's just like
how can you open your mouth m sheni in a
time like this we're obligated to speak
we're obligated to strengthen ourselves
and to strengthen
others
and to
find the strength within
ourselves to attempt to do whatever we
can to help the
situation to to help to
heal those that are
wounded to help the Redemption of those
that are
captured and to help the healing of
those broken families that are so many
broken families and extended families
that are mourning the losses of their
Lov
ones I think there are certain basic
issues
that we have to
review we have to first strengthen
ourselves we have to review the very
basics of
yadus to make sure that we ourselves AR
shaken up by these events
spiritually we know Hashem is in control
of
everything there there is no other in
the world other
than and that makes it sometimes even
more difficult like questions why what
how we know the general answer that
everything hasem does is for the
good everything hasem does is for the
good that makes the question even
greater how how could we imagine such a
thing how could it be how could you say
such a thing and yet we know that that's
the truth that's the ultimate truth
that's the truth that
taught and passed it on to all the
future Generations that we in this
generation today with these challenges
with these Unthinkable and unimaginable
atrocities facing us that we have have
to know yes hashem's in control of
everything and everything Hashem is does
is for the good but there is one
thing we're not always privileged to
understand we're not always privileged
to understand now that could be taken as
okay we can't understand let's move on
but that's really not enough to help us
move on we can't understand we want to
understand we try to understand we need
to understand but we can understand what
do we
do we have a safer in our KES that is
really the handbook of suffering and
tragedy it's called
sa I was a giant of a sadic a
giant he had 10 children he lost them
all he was a man of great wealth he lost
his wealth he was healthy hey he lost
his health and he sits bemoaning his
fate shocked overwhelmed he sits with
his friends that came to be it's
described for seven days without one
person saying a word the Y has to speak
first he couldn't speak they didn't say
a word sitting there for seven days
finally he begin to talk it begins to
try to figure out what is it that I
could have done that could have uh
allowed that could have um merited or
Dem merited such
tragedy and only after 38 PIM in
per does Hashem reveal to him in a very
direct
quote where were you when I created the
world do you think you can understand
all of my
all of my considerations everything that
is involved will you hear from the
beginning of the T of time until now to
see what nishas came to the world which
nishas have to come back where they have
to go who didn't fulfill his mission and
so many other endless infinite
calculations that only a
knows question is why didn't he tell him
stra the very
beginning should have told him what are
you what are you doing what are you
looking for what are you trying to
understand it's beyond
you ter is it's not so simple to accept
that
answer even though I can accept it
intellectually I know it's true it has
to be true by definition it's
true I can't possibly think that I can
understand all of hashem's calculations
and
movements but it's so hard it's so hard
to to to to to deal with it when I have
no understanding whatsoever and Hashem
gave IO the opportunity to ponder for 38
Pim and not only that Rashi says in the
previous PUK that he hinted to him that
he's going to have children again he's
going to have his wealth again he's
going to have his health again and only
then
was HE capable of hearing from hasem the
words where were you when I created the
world how can you possibly think that
you can understand everything and I
think from here we see a number of
things say how difficult it is to accept
that we don't understand we're trained
to think we're born to think we're used
to thinking and trying to understand and
when we can understand something
something it's very
overwhelming we have to realize that we
are
limited by definition to understand
Hashem in all of his ways has to be
Beyond us
otherwise I don't know if we could even
worship him on the other hand we have a
need to try to make some sense to try to
develop some scenario to attempt at
least to to to to to figure out a little
bit what's going on just to soothe our
our to give us a little piece of mind to
soothe ourselves to to be able to cope
and yet it's very difficult after we try
all of that even after all of that we
first have to have a hint of optimism
things are going to change things are
going to be get better and only then are
we really ready to
hear it's very hard to try to make any
sense or create any scenarios at out of
such
tragedy I have heard I believe that it
was the giant of the generation in the
Yip War who was still alive at the time
rasal abramsky was
the that when he was asked and I think
others said the same thing why yipper
yipper the war
started he said you know says really
that was part of hashem's kindness
because we were at our best we were at
our purest we have been forgiven for all
of our sins and therefore we were what
happened as tragic as it was may have
been far less than what could have
happened because of the fact that we
were in a pure state that might be said
and some people are saying that that
might be said for this as well right
after the the the
the right
after a time when there's this unusual
level of closeness to Hashem who knows
who knows what it may have
mitigated
okay but that still doesn't give us much
to work with in terms of
understanding well we
know that many many many Maybe most of
the people that were affected that were
were were
murdered uh were not necessarily
religious
people and
maybe maybe for them if we look at life
with a different
perspective we could see
that the not to mitigate the tragedy but
to recognize that these people they died
because they were Jewish they died
because they insisted on living or
staying or being in Earth Israel they
were attacked purely because of the fact
that they were the descendants of ab
andov and the the the and part of the
Jewish people and that must be whether
that's considered dying Al M or
something akin to that but there a
tremendous and when this's the
when there's the ability to be
assured assured and a a an outstanding
place in the world to come a a pleasure
a benefit an eternal benefit an eternal
Bliss in that closest of connections
to maybe maybe that makes it a little
bit easier maybe that makes a little
sense maybe these people if they really
knew what they gaining by this eternal
life maybe they would have appreciated
it or appreciated a little more
themselves we don't know but possibility
we shouldn't
underestimate the power of knowledge
that we guaranteed a glorious place in
the world to come the
says
that his son rabish
Shimon and they came from all over ER
roal maybe it says I think 10,000 people
to the
levah and AKA was Mas his son and he
said a very strange H he says you people
coming here have brought me
consolation and don't and even had I
buried seven sons you would have brought
me consolation and don't think it's easy
to bury a son
but because you're coming here either
proved or caused that my son is
a that my son is guaranteed a glorious
place a place of closeness to Hashem in
the world to come that's my that's a
little bit strange the way he talked
even had I buried seven sons I don't
think it's easy to bury a son sounds
like what Raba was saying was
that consolation in the face of certain
tragedies is impossible how can we be
consoled how can we possibly ever
say okay we're okay with it we we we we
we we're getting out of it we accept it
we can go on with life how could it be
such
tragedy and yet that's what he said he
says had I even buried seven sons no
matter how great the tragedy I don't
think it's easy why should I think it's
easy cuz if you can find consolation for
burying a son maybe it's maybe you don't
care care maybe it is easy how could you
find consolation but there's only one
consolation he's
a we have to say we have to find for
ourselves and hopefully it should be a
for these families that are so grieving
and so broken and so lost at not only
the loss but the tragic and the
atrocious method by which they lost
their loved ones we have to be able to
say that these people they're guaranteed
a place
in and that has to be to a certain
extent on and that has to give us a
little bit of peace of mind and say
hey these people
hadem knows and I think we should add to
the discussion uh the following the
raboa says in um in par on the
Mitzvah says that before a person comes
into this world he's shown his entire
life from beginning to end everything
that's going to happen the big things
the small things every minute
detail and he
recognizes the good and he signs off on
it this is what I want this is what I
accept from that perspective everything
looks different you know they say it's a
little bit trite but this is the mall
that they give that the world is like
there a beautiful tapestry upstairs and
the the it's a needle point and it's
made with such precision and it's so
beautiful and each piece fits into the
other and it all is ends up to be the
most amazing beautiful symmetrical uh a
masterpiece of art but from down here
all we see is the dishevel thread
you see the back you see all the threads
here it doesn't look nice it doesn't
make any sense it has no nothing it's
terrible it's a
disaster no that's the way it is Hashem
understands we have to try at least to
to to to find the strength to be able to
cope with that from the place of that
world you know the them have a a
beautiful Story the way they they they
tell over this idea say there was a
kahila they had a rebba the rebba always
used to D for them and everything they
needed and the rebba helped them with
and one day the rebba passed away now
what what are we going to do somebody
came up with the idea the rebba in
heaven he could do even more for us and
they began to turn the re please help us
help us we have such sorus nothing doing
again and again and again and they were
so so disappointed and so lost and so
broken and finally one day the re
appears to the Rak to the head of the
community in a dream and says I see what
you're going through I understand your
pain but from the Vantage Point up here
seeing what no human being can see on
this world seeing from it almost if you
will a Divine perspective the broader
picture the entire history
the from the beginning of time to now
and Beyond I can't bring myself to end
it because I see from a different
perspective the benefits that you get
it's hard for us to see benefits in such
a situation but you know before this
happened the the Claus Royal was was was
hemorrhaging the the arguments that went
on the the religious against the non
excuse me the non religious against the
religious the left against the
right
it the the statements the the directives
the rulings that came from higher powers
in Israel were mindboggling mindboggling
not only anti-religious
anti-democratic the the the country was
falling
apart the rest of the world also seems
to be in a similar situation
but now people are
uniting those differences have become a
paled by the tragedy that faces
everybody we're sharing our losses and
we're joining together in unity to try
to do something about it who knows if
this wasn't something that like a
midcourse correction that cloud Israel
needed in order to be able to survive
life who knows what could have happened
in AR is Royal had we continued on this
Collision path where where where where
the next step could have been the the
the destruction of the society
altogether we don't know we don't know
we can't know we may never know I like
to say that even if Hashem explained it
today I probably wouldn't understand
what he's talking about but we have to
accept that have to try to see have to
try to make some sense have to try to
live with it and then and maybe only
then and also to know that things will
get better but not only that to know
that in
retrospect we have the ability to turn
things around in the half that we're
going to read the shabas the noi
says
I've forsaken you for a
moment a small
moment with great with great Mercy I'm
gathering you in and the is bothered by
the it's the Gus is long it's long and
bitter what do you
mean so he says when we will see
theay when we'll see
hashem's then in retrospect oh all of
the Suffering The Long and bitter gulls
retroactively will be removed and appear
in our minds as if oh we had a rough
minute or two over there that's the
power that hashem's ra could have and we
have to hope that should
have that there should be a to each and
every one of
the and there should be a pidion and a g
to each and every one of
theim and there should be a to each and
every family and
friends that suffer the loss the tragic
loss of so many of their loved
ones but we can do something about it as
well we can do something about it as
well we have
weapons we have an omness a a a a a
trade that's been passed on to us from
our over
from from and and throughout the
generations two weapons that are super
powerful one weapon
is listens to he's
the always accomplishes
something never never gets turned away
without some response we have that
opportunity for now we pray all the time
that's true
but when there's a crisis when there's a
need when there's a tragedy when there's
a threat when there's an unknown that
could overwhelm us
to everything is fine everything's
wonderful no problem everything seems
fine security life parosa everything's
going well it's a different we have the
opportunity to turn
to with with with broken hearts with a
broken heart say that the shear of is
for until you get
sick what does it mean sick sick of the
pray sick of the praying no sick of
internalizing the pain when there's a
painful situation and we can internalize
that pain and then we pray to as it's a
different it's a different it's a
heartfelt it's a it's a heartfelt F of a
broken heart that has such power and
there's a power even beyond the power
ofes says on the where you know they
went out of the AMU was over here par
was pursuing over here wild animals on
both sides and M was praying to Hashem
and says
to what are you calling to me speak to
tell him to go into the and asked the
question he says to whom should he call
out to whom should he
pray he says because of what they had
engaged in in
M the had the ability to be M to
interfere with Theos Theos would not
would not have worked for them at this
moment but there's a that's
beyond and that he says is the
and if they'll strengthen their belief
inem is the hasem controls everything
and the they trust the hasem will take
care of us we have nothing to be afraid
go into the Y show your
show and that will be the Yeshua and
that's what happened they went and the
yam split and they went through as the
MIT were drowning right in front of
them we have the ability to strengthen
our and
our we have the ability to turn to our
and we're counting on you we're
surrounded by
enemies and the friends that profer
friendship always comes with a price tag
there's always
conditions there's no free friends to
the colaus
Royal I shouldn't say no but it's not so
so prevalent and even when it appears to
be if we pay attention to the
nuances we only can rely on hem and
therefore we have to find the
strength to trust he's going to help us
when he was running for his life hiding
in a cave
in I trusted in your
you're full of you created the world
only for the purpose of kindness not for
any ulterior motive for yourself you
conduct the world only with
kindness because your with which you
created the world originally is Alive
and Well to this very day and we're
relying on that and we're relying on
that that you should heal the sick we're
relying on the that you should redeem
the the captives we're relying on that
you could console the broken people and
families we're relying on that that this
should be the end that there should be
no further Bloodshed and no further
atrocities and no further problems and
that we should be protected
bet when we rely on that that has a
power even beyond the power of even when
is limited for some reason whatever the
reason but
and then there's a secret this is not as
well known uh it's brought out by this
they they recent more recently published
a saer from uh one of the
the I
think believe that's the name and he he
has a on and he writes over there on
cap we say
said I trusted in you don't let me be
embarrassed don't let me down I'm
trusting you the next next
says also those that just put their hope
in you they're not trusting they're not
sure I can't say I am confident that
everything is going to be all right that
all the will be redeemed and all the
sick ones will be healed and all the
families will be B families and that
won't be any more
Bloodshed I can't reach that level of
being sure
but but I refuse to lose hope I will not
give up hope it makes no difference what
I hear in the news it makes no
difference what pictures I see it makes
no difference what's going on I refuse
to give up hope I will never
be and he says that even those that
can't muster the strength to have true
trust in Hashem that everything's going
to work out as long as they can maintain
the hope and they refuse to give up
hope and the that he uses there
name the you will answer their and you
will save them even just the power of
hoping I wish I could be confident 100%
but I don't know but I hope
yesu Hashem Yeshua comes in the blink of
an eye and the blink of an eye can turn
everything around and I refuse to give
up hope and with this sense with this
confidence
we can actually change we can actually
influence we can have a direct and a
powerful impact on everything that's
going on today
in K should
help that we should must have the
strength to maintain that amuna despite
all of the challenges to maintain that
to be able to help for the future to
recognize that Hashem is in total
control and not let ourselves get
confused and to look forward to the
r to the ra that we're going to see
we're not going to see it from people
and we're not going to see it from help
we're not going to see it from the
United Nations we're going to see it
directly
from and that ra should come with such a
she that we should be able to look back
on the past and say
yeah Rea oh thank you reaon there was a
mere moment over here of difficulty and
that moment it should console us for the
past and momentarily we should be to a
Yeshua to a and to
the thank you very
much uh most of you most of the guys in
over here don't know RAB K and and RAB
Ginsburg but uh my inspiration in my
life
is whatever I try to work on
is I used to be
a many many years ago when my when my um
brother was in the she but thank you
very much for giving us the to hear your
um and the words of inspiration now Raab
Ginsburg is going to address us I just
want to tell a little bit about Ginsburg
RAB ginsburg's
father was the right-hand man of the
Rosa probably most of us are here
because of the Rosa and RAB ginsburg's
father who supported the Riva I think I
heard stories even like mortgaged his
house to to to to save the ISA from
closing down and like like literally
took a mortgage in his house to save the
Yeshiva so the man that is about to the
rabbi that is about to address us over
here I don't know if we're we're worthy
of having this of having these amazing G
our community it's a big honor and big
ask Ginsberg to
address R
con only thing I have connected with my
father similar the same last
name I apologize in advance jet lag a
little bit of a
cold but
uh this subject this topic
you don't speak from your voice you
speak from your
heart the medish tells us comments that
the first
pk this exp passion in P Noak Noak is
mentioned three times noak's name is
written three times in the first
pk and the medis wants to understand
why and the medis accept says because
they really were three
Noahs Noah lived in three different
worlds it was before the mble was one
Noah Second Life of Noah was in the
Mable and then after the
Mable the rebuild the world was the
third Noah it was one individual but
lived in three different
worlds
remember he to we say over that he felt
like
Noah because he lived in the world in
Europe BN raised in
baranovich lived through the Shah the
war and then
lived for many many years afterwards in
the rebuilding of Torah in the
world he said he my name is Simka but
I'm three Simas three different
worlds I think
while we're still in the middle of this
geham I think it would be fair to say
that for
clusel we also are living in three
worlds before this
happened right now in the middle of
this catastrophe this
nightmare and ISB mentioned
there will be will be a new
life there will be a third
life where we look behind it and we'll
be better and
stronger well
clearly to understand is
mentioned runs this
world that the righteous
of is like a tall
mountain which means you could a
mountain you could see when you stand
right next to a mountain you can't see
the top of it but the further distance
you go you can almost see the top of
it
the often when we're living and
experiencing in our generation we can't
see it but Generations later from a
distance we could
see
the
m is the
depths we have never been able to see
what's in the depths nobody can knows
what's you really see what's
doing in the depths of the
ocean so to offer any kind of
explanation we're not we have
no we don't even have the
here but I want to share something that
I said
on I was
in and my
Sor
that last few
years I walk about a half an hour
from where I live in shed my apartment
and I go to a hotel where gateways is a
kir program has a sucus
program and I walk there
morning and I Davin and I speak before
Yar and then there's a break there's a
kiddish after Ding and then I give a
share for an
hour uh to all the participants of the
gateways
program and this year that was the
schedule as
well I started off in the
morning sitting in my sua cup of coffee
and
learning
and I heard a siren now I've been at
this many many years so I could have
lived there over period of three
years me to go there many many
times I've heard buses BL blown
up I've seen people on son being shot in
The Old
City I never heard of siren before
I didn't even know what it
was I stood up and then the whole
building shook it was the Iron Dome that
was and whole building
shook I didn't know what it was
and at 8:00 I left not my walk to the
hotel and it was a little eerie and
strange because usually the streets
there of King George of Karen Cay is
packed with people packed the
people many many shoes and hotels were
along that route I didn't see one person
on the
street and then I
continued at one person and as I was
getting closer to the hotel there was a
person coming down the street not a
religious fell so that he had a gun on
his side was obviously some kind of uh
civilian Patrol and com over he says
where are you going what are you doing I
said going to the hotel I'm supposed to
speak there he says
well hurry and stay off the street I
said what's going on something is
happening went to
Davin and started
daving during that shock was three more
Sirens went off and each time they went
off the hotel security everyone
immediately go into the
stairwells we stopped ding three times
one in the middle of H and we went for 5
10 minutes and then they said coast is
clear finished
Ding and there was time from
my and I was going to speak
about talk about what sh is all about
plan speak about the incredible of being
in on this
incredible
writes
ref to where it's only there's no
there's
no there is only Sim and I was going to
talk about what it means to
be and usually there about
15075 people that come to the lecture
come to the share came to get the share
and the place was full of wall to
wall people there were not religious
the hotel staff everybody was there I
said what what he said something big is
going on people don't know what to do
with
themselves and then I heard a little bit
what was happening I supposed to speak
about
Sim so I said the
following I said that as mentioned we
all know what it was like
to to be in our Israel in the past
year the
the the M the
fighting where if I tell
you I have no fear walking through the
shook the Arab shook to go to the coast
ofari I had fear walking on George
during some of these protests took place
near the prime minister's residence I
literally was afraid to
walk
and there was discussion over many
months fortunately four days
before
was sat in his house discussing what we
should do how we should make try to
figure something out here what should CL
Israel
do we were tearing each other apart so
what ises
that I Shar the
following Med tells us why what
is why do we have
a and says
said it's very hard for me to this be
separate from
you and therefore wanted to stay we just
had was together with us he doesn't want
to separate from us we all go back to
our homes leave leave the make go back
doesn't want to separate so he was he
ated another day a day of a day of one
more day together with
us but the L the language doesn't really
make
sense if I would tell someone that it's
hard for me to separate from you I
say our our separation is hard for me to
be separate from
you your
separation what does have to do how do
you I'm going to miss you so your
separation is
hard I saw in
the
that what a was
saying not his difficulty in separating
from
us but rather it's the day where brings
caros for 70 all the nations of the
world who looks at
says your division amongst
yourself your separation your M your
disagreements that
is was
pained by the division in
Israel kbo had to do
something the bring people together to
bring people
together and we
really struck me so
much was that we don't even remember
tragedies from
before but a few months before in
Ador there was a terrorist attack there
was
a an Arab yov was in a van and was Arab
shabas and went into a bus stop
remote and killed two twin two two
little boys
r five and seven years old were standing
at the busy with their
father father was critically
hurt was not expected to live and a
young was married 3 months was standing
there with his wife it was a bus that
was going
waiting for the bus to
come and the tragedy of these two boys
we also saw the pictures of those
boys it it I carry the picture of those
boys in my wallet I
just we tried to M the
family we helped the father bashem
through
miracle today walking still a long way
to recuperate
recover
and a shaba in the morning I went to
visit this
family and I went in I was talking to
the wife the mother of these boys and
and the father of these boys was sitting
there we were
talking brought some gifts for the
children and then she said something to
me says you
know at least if this would have brought
clell
together I I I would be able to accept
it but nothing
changed I lost my two
sons it didn't bring anybody
together 24 hours
later the world our world to bring clell
together and it's together in such an
incredible way and we it really I
saw a very dear C of
mine has
them unfortunately was given a job he's
the head of zaka he's also in Army
intelligence and he was put in charge by
the Army in charge of identification of
the
Mason and we all numbers we heard all
kinds of
things I will tell you
that we don't even have a sag a mus of
what it's really going
on there are 60 people working with him
Army
zaka and his job is to identify and to
notify each family when there's
identification now what's so hard
identify a person that family
come because they're not
identifiable these hardened seasoned
Veterans of seeing so much tragedy
cannot go
on we went to try to give them
some and what's amazing is you walk into
the
room and
there
from satma and told this
Aon standing arm to
arm shoulder toh shoulder with people
with earring
tattoos all working
together a month earlier these people
would be throwing stones at each
other
said turn the world upside down to bring
CL
together what what's the message for us
people last you saw some many things you
were there so what's the thing that that
affected you the most I tell you what
affected me the
most there was
a we back to
P first day on the news already was all
over and my wife had told me wife had
walked to meet me said she just the
thing she remembers reading about y
Kipper Soldiers with the Tes and the K
getting Into the cars going to the front
that she saw a firm soldiers going into
cars so I didn't see it but as I was
working to
Sho two short blocks from my my
apartment where I D
prum I was working that there was a
woman there from woman with a
soldier
G and his mother was hugging him and he
was hugging his mother and the car door
was open he was about to get in he was
going up to to the front to
Gaza and I woke by she didn't know I
wasn't but I guess with a hat and I was
wearing a suit in a hand and and she
said to
me give a blessing to my
son mother asked you to give a br for
your
son I went over it and I said I'll give
you a br but I want something in
return and it would say I want I want to
hug gave him AA and then he hugged I
hugged him I wished him
well I left Thursday night at the 1:00
a.m.
flight I went
early to a in my neighbor the gr
to when I came out I saw a whole crowd
on the corner and I said what's going on
he said there's
AIA Lev
now I
said who's
Lev and then all of a sudden a woman
comes out of the house to go into the
car to go to the L ofak faros the mother
of this
boy that's when I
understood I understood that this is
something so beyond our
comprehension such a loss of life such
such a
tragedy what do we make of it what do we
make of
it I was on a plane flying back and if I
tell
you I was listening to the conversations
behind me from Americans that were
leaving and these are wonderful people
community-minded people
as and either I was going to jump out
the window I was going to push one of
them out the window talking about Army
what happened this
this intelligence M they were able they
like
discussing how it happened why it
happened we come
mention don't remember one reason why it
happened so I want to share with
you what Raa stook said not this
time but what he said after
a tragedy just a few years ago as you
remember the meron
tragedy meon lb and
night terrible
tragedy after the hadaka the last hadaka
of the tus hour and rebi which is
midnight katos which is the most popular
adlaka I never been there but that's
what they tell me thousands of people go
they wait for
that
and it was a stampede and people trample
each other in 42
kabanas from all walks of life from all
walks of life from every single
Su to us Aon after this happened to rebi
was
impossible you could not console him
theuk is he locked himself in his room
for three days and three nights he would
not come out
three of his own died one of them
was his great nephew just made a brist
of a baby a week
before and it was on his watch and he
could
not he could not go
on his family they tried he locked
himself in his room would not come out
and finally at the end of three days the
door opened and he came
out and he said to his family he wants
to go to the rep
he just can't go why he wants to go talk
to his
re the senior
today and he went
to I heard from son was sitting there
and the lat I heard from
son he went and was talking to him
trying to give
him and at the end of a conversation he
said the
following he said I had a questioned for
so many years I finally understand
it thear brings down several of
the that would make statements that they
don't want to be around to see they
don't want to be around it it's too
difficult to Bear they don't want won't
be able to handle the see what
the and one of them the brings down
is don't want to be around to
see asked the following
question don't understand the same R
thear speaks about had 10 Sons lost his
10 sons and walked around with the bone
of his youngest son that he C around to
they all speak how can he do that but
anyway to go to and other people would
lose a child they would go to them he
says you'll be fine you'll be able to
get on with your life look I lost 10 and
I'm still
here the same
R it's afraid to be
around what what what could be more than
that what could be worse than losing 10
children say now I understand what it
means is is that loss and
pain that I can handle comes
from I accept it me a didn't and I
accept it but there'll be
a there'll be a time the days before
mhia
comes when this Masia when terrible
things will happen and people will not
be toilet
on to be totally
on a bad walkway in myON wasn't fixed
properly it was
wet on security did work Iran did a
Cyber attack and knocked out the
cameras everything possible except it's
not
K so that's he say that's something that
I don't want to be able that I don't I
could be I could deal with anything I
could be soille anything but to soille
to seear and difficulty and people will
not attributed to
a that's something that I can't handle
but that I don't want to be around that
I can't say
mentioned the challenge is to
see feel to feel's presence to see in
the midst of all the glory and the blood
and the difficulty and the pain and the
to see and there are so many things that
happened along the way that are
n you can't even imagine can't even
imagine talk someone today this
morning very major person in there in
the
Army used to
Beki many years
ago and he told me that if anybody has
any question of
amuna just look at what happens with the
rockets that
go 6,900 Rockets before this morning
went came from God 6,900
rockets and at some cars got damaged
buildings got
damaged command now one
fatality command Mount one and where do
they
land where do they
land if anyone knows of a community
called
bit it's a community full of benra many
many Americans
that is squeezed
together every building against the
other there is not a an inch of space
there and a missile went and landed in
betar
elit it
went right over a Bus full of kids going
coming back from
haer and landed in a area in a building
there's a
Sho and the Sho wants it to expand so
the Sho bought an old house next door to
it and knocked down the house and had
planned after the after to start
building the extension of the
shore it's the only dollar Amos that
doesn't have a structure that's where it
landed and this is just not one this is
again and again and
again who is
doing after for
us and it's hard to see all our glasses
are all
bloodied
but but we have to see that it's
all
all we suffered a very painful painful
thing and we don't know where it's going
to
end but the K said he used to be asked
all the time live in Isel after the show
people came survivors came lost their
entire family their entire town they
come to they come to the Kish
rebba explained to me the Shah how could
let the show
happen and K would never answer that
question never answered would never
answer Andi told me a few years ago that
one time a person came that the Kish
knew from Europe who lost
everybody and he begged him Reb tell me
explain to me didn't say
word and he asked him a second and the
third time kazes did not
answer and when the person left the K
was so pained that this person was in
such
pain that he said out loud and kki was
sitting there and he
said If Only They knew that there is no
pain no
tragedy too
difficult that leave clel to remain
to be a
nation chosen people to be a nation
that's considered the the
nation chose us selected us for the
incredible rewards that we're going to
be
to to have that and retain that right
there is no tragedy that is too
difficult for us that's what said why
didn't he tell it to the person CU
obviously it's not something you can
hear so easily but it's an incredible
message incredible message be able
to who we are and what we
are we willm come together this will end
bem and will it'll end mentioned we'll
be stronger and we be
better we'll forever be
missing part of
our
but it's the ability that that we have
to be able to go
on I told this and I'll end with this I
told this to this woman who lost her
son I said you know something that I
heard years ago and it helped
me I said maybe I told him maybe it's
going to help
you you know that
the put down the
Z that every one of the CL Mish is
connected
aad each one each each of the CL Mish is
connected in
a the heart is the Aron is connected to
heart because the Aron is the center
everything valved around the Aron and
the Heart everything revolves the
person's life revolves around the heart
the ER is connected the
heart I was thinking what does that mean
's
con what was in the
Y so the says in shabas luos shos we all
come the lucos and the shiv lucos the
pieces of the first
luos were put together in the were're in
the Aron side by side and begs the
question why the shos we need
the what happened broke it tells
us went back to shamay all have was a
stone and the stone was too heavy the
only he dropped it it broke put in
Sheamus why does have to be the we have
the real we have those second luos the
lcos that remained why put the
sh that maybe is a message that
wants to know
me that just like the Aron had room for
the lucos and the sh luos together side
by side and not only was they room they
had to be there there had to be there so
to the Aron so to the sh has room in
the life goes on in the heart a person
who lost and all of us have to feel that
loss incredibly your
pieces but in that in that same heart
there's room for luos there's room to go
on there's room for s
there's room for growth there's room for
building
generations for going on with life
there's room for both side by
side what I shared with her before I
left before I
left one thing we know the medis
promises us that things go on in the
world that seems so out of character so
out of place We're All Shook Up
but was busy preparing the G and the med
says this the medra
says before went down to for yob went
down with his family says
the what's says what
happened Ruan
yoseph was mourning that he was
sold Ruan was mourning that he couldn't
stop the sale Yuda was looking for a
wife Yakov refused to be
he lost his son everybody was busy with
their situation with their lives with
their
tragedy what was AES doing he was
preparing for the coming of
mhia Yehuda andar was the originally the
beginning the progenitors
of
Mia so while everybody was so busy with
their own
PCO that was their entire world was
focused on that
was busy preparing for the
[Music]
G is reeling kly is hurting kly is
bleeding
suffering is being tormented is
frightened through all this is busy
planting the
seeds
all