Chazaq Shiva Asar B'Tamuz

this Tower class is brought to you by torahanytime.com and we're very lucky to have brother Ben hayam both as our neighbor for Bayside and as a neighbor personally so every Rabbi has to have a rabbi so Rabbi benjam is my RAV he lives right next to me so this way I'm protected I feel very safe I feel very secure and with many happy and healthy years enumerates five tragedies that occurred on shivasa batamas foreign five tragedies happened on the 17th of Thomas the mission says number one is the tablets were broken came down from harsinai at the end of 40 days he was expecting to see the Jewish people eagerly receiving him and his utter dismay they were worshiping Idols they were worshiping the aega and he took the lucrez and he smashed the Lucas that happened on the 17th day of tamas the carbon tum had stopped being brought now when did that happen there's a big discussion when did the carbon Thomas stop being brought the you xiaomi brings two opinions the usami brings the opinion of Rabbi shiman that had stopped being brought in the times of the second base hamiktas during Greek occupation rublevy says no during Roman occupation the rambam says no it happened during bias reshine for Daniel says it happened during Greek occupation and this is one of the tragedies that was brought about by apostamus the mishna continues with the third tragedy the mishna says the city was breached when foreign if you look in the navi the navi says it was breached on the ninth of Thomas is that accurate so it's interesting the babli says it happened on the 9th of tamus and the navi is accurate the usami says no it happened on the 17th of Thomas and the Novi is not accurate so toasters asks how could the Novi not be accurate it's the prophet he's getting the word straight from God so Tyson says the times were so chaotic in order to preserve the chaos of the times they purposely distorted the date just so that you get a picture for how dark and Bleak the time was the fourth tragedy apostamus burnt the safer Tyra the authentic authoritative safer Torah and then finally the mishnah says they erected an idol in the five tragedies that occurred on Thomas and what's very interesting is it seems random that these five tragedies that don't have any common theme that they should all occur specifically on the 17th day of tamas and what's more unusual is that the mission is not even listing them in chronological order okay Moshe broke the luchos we know that happened in the mid bar all the way in the beginning of the origins of the Jewish people but in terms of the other tragedies when was the cell lamp put up in the heikau Rashi says by the king Menasha and the times of ice reshine so if it was put up in the times of ice we shine it should be the second tragedy listed in the mishnah why is it listed fifth according to the babli they breached the walls of yushalayim on the 17th only by bayashani not by by SRI shine so then why is hoof Collier mentioned third she mentioned later in the mishnah so it seems like this random collection of tragedies that are not connected there's no thematic approach to explain these five tragedies so that's what we would like to try to understand why did all these five tragedies occur on the 17th day of Thomas of course we know this Shabbos we read parisha's balak it's interesting that we would name a Parsha after balak he wasn't the biggest Sadiq he hired bilam to destroy the Jewish people writes do not refer to parashas karach as parsha's because he was a Russia of a shame rashov now karach was a Russia but I don't know that bilam would be considered greater than kairak so if you can't call it koirath why could you call it balak why would we name a Parsha after him and why is balak the preparation for shavasa batamas what's very interesting is that after billum was unsuccessful time and time again to curse the Jewish people it says he went up to the mountain Israel um saw he couldn't curse the Jewish people so he had to try a new technique Hashem this time he's not going to go to the snakes so he sets his sight to the desert says Rashi what's he looking at at the desert what's in the desert says Rashi kitargumai look at the Target says the targum if you have it on your sheetzema halach is looking at the Eagle now he'll get us he's focusing on the eagle now he'll be able to curse us what's his obsession with Diego interestingly that reason writes in the and I can't explain this I'm just reporting the facts you ask your rabbis for the deeper explanation but the arizal reveals that the soul of bilam's father means behema was trapped in the eagle and that was the voice that cried out Israel and I believe this would give some insight what bilam's obsession with Diego was this is his dad hmm his dad was a cow so billum is focused on Bahar furthermore that Ariza tells us in the Shah gulgulim who made the egal who built the egal you know billum had a lot of billum had two boys their names were yunus and yumbaras and they were the ones who built the aega how they got to the Jewish Camp how they made the egal can't tell you that's you'll discuss that after I leave but yunus and yum Bruce were in fact says that when billum went to travel it says he took his two lads who are his two Lads says so now we understand why billum is obsessed with the aegon his father's soul is in the egal his kids built Diego billum looks at the eagle and he ships all kinds of just made bilam he tickled him pink when he saw that aegon when that ego was mooing it just gave bilam such a good and warm feeling look he was successful in raising his children in the proper way now and safer to him in paragraph it gives us a whole account of all the various episodes that took place in the mid bar from all the Miracles that God brought to the Jewish people and then it talks about the egal watch this they exchanged their honor this refers to the sin of the golden calf they exchanged God our honor bitavnus in the image of an ox that eats grass so we took God Almighty and we exchanged him for a cow that's what about success here's the problem why is the Pasa giving me the diet of the cow you know what kind of cow the cow ate grass why do I care what the cow ate let's say the cow ate quebe or the coward kishka does it matter what the cow ate is it relevant with the cow Aid they exchange God for a cow why does it have to say the cow ate grass writes in a footnote is not giving you the diet of the cow double America's giving you the date that they made the cows we don't care what the cow ate we're giving you the date Asaf Shiva assar betamas in fact this word asev whenever you see that word asaph grass grass is always an allusion to the 17th day of tamas I'll give you another example the possible while the King was still at the party we gave off a foul smell what's this talking about here we are we're standing at Sinai God is the groom we're the bride and instead of being faithful to our groom we run off we're mazana we worship an idol we serve the cow and we gave off a bad smell we did something Despicable look at the words cesaroy Cafe is one of the reshining room Allah the master of the secret re Muslim of the Hamish again asaph why because this occurred on the 17th day of tamas now when moisturabino broke the lucrez because I'll say it brought a certain phenomenon to the world it brought people began to forget their learning was one of the all-time great we lived from 1798 to 1871. wrote a commentary on Shas en quotes almost on every page was an incredible Mass mid he went to sleep every night at 2 am after ticket and he was up at 5 00 a.m in Talus and villain and he learned from 5 a.m until and only then he would eat if you look at a picture of the artliner he was someone who attended University he was educated in all disciplines but he was such a lambdin rabbit wrote notes on the hedushim of the archana says that the five tragedies enumerated in the mission on Tinus are not a random collection of five isolated events but rather they are the five-step program of Jewish decline throughout the history of the world in other words if you see Jews in Western Europe or in America that are not observant that have given up of the faith that maybe have abandoned the religion you could take it to the bank that the way it happens is a five-step downward spiral these are not five historic events these are five phenomenon that occur to the Jewish people and that causes massive movement away from the Torah step number one you had a family you had a father you had a grandfather who had learned Tyra every single day he would come to the basement and then after shul he would join together with and then he said you know what maybe I need to make more money maybe I need to care for the family more maybe I just need to relax a little bit and instead of learning every day he said you know what I'll learn once in a while that's generation one the Torah is broken he thinks it's a minor thing he still learns he still comes to base that knesses he still gives tadaka he still eats Jewish traditional foods which of course is the most important thing but then the next generation instead of coming to basaknesses I once heard the rambam says even though you know Mario versus means that if you have a different Mitzvah instead of mariv you're allowed to do that other Mitzvah but of course we know that we shine him say Kalisa has already accepted it's an obligation so maybe I won't come to marive with a minion every single night and then maybe minha once in a while I'm at the office the the minion is 15 minutes away but you have to go 18 minutes now come on nobody really does that and then chakras I'll go Monday and Thursday and then Shabbos and then just Shabbos morning and then Joshua him and then just Rosh Hashanah Yom Kippur and then and then and once the learning goes and once the davening goes the city is breached the city is the Adam the small city the city is breached the itsahara has infiltrated now the itsara has this family pray and the next step is Surah they hate the tairas the Bolsheviks who destroyed Judaism were Jews the inquisitors we're all of Jewish descent turkamada was of Jewish descent you think a guy could do that no they would never figure that out all the enemies of the Jewish people of course they were Jews um and then the next Generation instead of wearing the Star of David around their neck Hemet salallah they're wearing the sign of a different religion how did it start not coming to this year not coming to the sadaram not being lacks in limeratara that's step one being lacks in Lima Torah being relaxed and coming to the Bayside can I said these are not five historic events these are five phenomenon in the downward spiral of the Jewish people so it comes out the whole Corbin came out as a result of slackening off which means that the avoida the job of cloud Israel during this time of the year is to counteract National quite an incredible observation how many days are in the three weeks 21 right the answer is there's no such thing as three weeks they're 22 days today is Sunday right Tish above will be Sunday so if we make a very complicated mathematical computation that if it starts on a Sunday and it ends on a Sunday that's 22 days it's a big question because the navajirmia so in a vision Machel an almond a staff of an almond branch and we know Rashi says the Almond Branch takes 21 days to Blossom but there aren't 21 days or 22 days if they're 22 days in the three weeks and each day is 24 hours how many hours in the three weeks 22 times 24 any good accountants present 22 times 24. now I was testing you because you're not say I'll pull out my phone but you know you can't take out a phone in a basic message that's part of Butler part of butla tummy is even if you come to the basic knesset but if you split your attention between the cedure and the telephone telephone or whatever it's called that's also but is you never heard me say this right is to serve God with all your heart but if your phone is on I'm not talking about even looking at it if it's on on that means even if it's not on vibrate if it's on you're going to be having these Phantoms and Sensations imaginary Sensations that people are trying to get your attention so you're splitting your time between the Almighty and some telemarketer who's trying to take away your money he's trying to scam you I mean when was the last time somebody called you for something good they just they just want to take something from you in any event they're 22 days of the three weeks each day has 24 hours that means they're a total of 528 hours in the three weeks gamatria Mafia they're the key of says you know what else is 528 says was the Raven Krakow in the times of the Tas and the bach he could go to his grave and on his grave it says he had gilroyahu upon him he spoke to Elijah the prophet face to face says there are 528 prakim and Shas they're 528 Pro Kim in shisha sidere mishna Isa says actually a pick the author of says they're 523. yeah they're 523 Pro gym of mishnah proper but there are another five prochim of toy SEPTA and Bryson so you have the fourth peric of bikurim the sixth paragraph twice so you have 523 procam of mishnah five prakim of toy SEPTA 528 the 528 prakim of Shahs correspond to the 528 hours of the three weeks which indicates we got into this mess we slack into often learning the way we're going to rectify the way we're going to correct that is we're going to dedicate the 528 hours of the three weeks to limudu Tyra golios Wisconsin it's actually the 523 prakim of mishna proper correspond to the first 523 hours of the three weeks the last five hours that are only toy SEPTA we already get off the floor on Tish above we're ready we've done them we finished the mishnah now you can get up you still can't eat but now you can get up which means think about it my job interview goes up to harsina on the sixth day of Sivan and we think that the Torah was given to the Jewish people on Shavuot but actually Moshe got an anchovus but when does he bring it down to the people Shiva assar which month tamos by the way one of the tragedies we said that happened today was that means the first 16 days of tamus they brought the tamad the 17th day they didn't bring the Tamil so we have to rectify the 17th day that's why in this week's parisha pinchas it says the word tamid 17 times Cesar Marshall Wilson now stands for foreign because this is the month God tried to give us the Torah but we weren't interested we were interested in the cow that eats grass that'sab that's why I never eat grass that's not a good idea to eat grass even on a Tannis don't think nobody's looking no no don't eat anything not even grass especially not grass what else does Tama stand for Tamu stands for when she broke the Lucas he brought to the world so Tama stands for remember the Torah don't forget the Torah so if nachman asks but what happened to the vov because Moshe broke the luchos so the avoida of these three weeks the 528 hours of the three weeks is to dedicate ourselves to the 528 prakim of the Shas now not you don't have to do all of them you could even do one that's also you take one you are dedicated to that body of information called the 528 even if you dedicate yourself to one mishnah you're dedicated to the 528. we're going to read the haftirah during the three weeks says he said there's no question to be able to uncover indones say Aaron do us a favor make us a nice cow Sauron was stalling for time he's pushing them off he said we can't do it today we can't start it now you know we're gonna have to do he says tomorrow will be a holiday wait till tomorrow sometimes Mahar means tomorrow and sometimes means far off in the future like when your kid asks you far off in the future what Aaron was saying was right now today is a tragic day we're going to make the egal the Lucas are going to be broken the Torah will be forgotten that's the first step in the five-step downward spiral but the day will come that this 17th day of tamas will be a holiday will be a yamta like the navi zacharya says so we hope in the Merit of our coming together to learn Torah to dedicate ourselves to the 528 prakim of Shas during these 528 hours we hope to rebunction will reverse the five-step tragedy of chodesh tamos of and will be able to experience foreign the dramatic music always helps so in parashas kisisa we're going to read it by minha that tells my Shabana Let's Make a Deal is in the presence of your people I will make Wonders that were never created in the land God doesn't make a promise he seals a treaty with the Jewish people I'm gonna make a deal I'm gonna make a treaty with you I will make wonders and miracles for you the likes of which the world has never seen and the ramban asks what's this talking about God already took us out of Egypt there is nothing that the ivanishum ever did that surpasses the Miracles of Egypt so what's this talking about what is this deal what is this Covenant what is this treaty that the abundance of is making with the Jewish people that he's promising to make Miracles greater than he ever performed in the whole world you know we have this very unusual element of Tish above that tishov the navier Mia says now literally we would understand that to mean it's a a time a pre-disposed opportune time it's a set time perhaps for tragedy there is a festive holiday aspect to tishabat you say we ask them we don't say it's one thing we could agree upon okay we don't say how about air of Tish above no we don't say we don't say either put it there okay so we don't say that an era of tishima we don't say foreign it's a joyous occasion it's a happy time what exactly is the moyade of Tish above what exactly are we celebrating analyzing the history of the Jewish people how in Egypt 80 percent of our nation was destroyed destruction of the first base samikdash the death toll was enormous times of the second base hamicdash those who perished or murdered by the sword 1.1 million Jews and then the Romans chased down every last year they could find during the Crusades thousands of Jews massacred 1391 in Spain 300 000 Jews forcibly baptized kalmanitsky programs how can the heretic not be utterly ashamed by analyzing the state of the Jewish people in the world we um the scattered sheep after everything we've endured thousands and thousands of years of tragic persecution says after three thousand years of this I swear keep his boiling when I contemplate The Wonder of Jewish survival God lawyers it is greater to me it surpasses me call Nissan you know people say If Only God would show me a miracle if only I could see the splitting of the Red Sea then I would believe in him but I don't see anything I don't see anything miraculous so it's very hard to have a Muna it says the miracle of Jewish survival is much more compelling and much more miraculous than any isolated or combined miracle that Hashem did for us in Israel and if this is what rabiac of emden writes in the 18th century what would rabiac of emden say if he came into of my beloved friends here and kihila Sharia Muna and he would see Jews today in 2022 after Holocaust after the last 200 years say about the miracle of seeing a Jew today perhaps he would say it's a miracles you see your ancestors in the desert they only saw kriad yamsov they only saw the man and they say God if you would only show us a real Miracle like a Jew in 2022 then we wouldn't be complaining every Monday and Thursday that we have nothing to eat and drink in the desert could you show us a real Miracle like this beautiful beta knesset that's full of so many have even foreign [Applause] when the almighty promises with a treaty that he will make Miracles that surpass the Miracles of The Exodus this was the miracle that God was referring to the miracle of Jewish survival which is indeed a greater miracle than yet and if we can be so bold as to say that if pesach has a yumptive that celebrates The Exodus and sukis is a yamctiv that celebrates is a day that commemorates the miracle of the giving of the Torah then the greatest yantif of the year is the day that celebrates the greatest miracle in history the miracle of Jewish survival the miracle that we're going to read about today is and you know after this whole three weeks we have Shabbos I must have missed it what is the consolation how have we ever been consoled we're waiting for consolation but Shabbos the answer is the consolation is our people are still here and that's a greater Miracle than anything ever performed in the history of the world and that Miracle God didn't do for your grandparents and he didn't do it for your great-grandparents he did it for you think about it the greatest miracle in the history of the world God made for our lowly generation that means the greatest in the history of the world is in 2022. two years ago it wasn't as great today it's even greater that means as much as Hashem loved our ancestors he has a special Ava for his Ben zakunim which is us there's something that we find favor in the eyes of Hashem more than any generation in history because he didn't make this great miracle earlier on he made it for us which means Hashem really loves us and he really values our Mitzvahs and he really values our Torah and he really values artifila and he values every time we say on Main and every word of Torah we learn and every accrue as much as God loved the Merit of our ancestors there's something special about our Merit and the famous question if our ancestors couldn't bring the mashiach how are we going to do it we don't know why God loves us so much that he made this great miracle for us but apparently he does and that means we've been empowered to take it to the finish line we've been empowered our midsts are so beloved Hashem that they have been empowered by the Almighty to bring it to the Grand Finale so in the Merit of our coming together this afternoon I thank them for allowing me to join you to share a few thoughts and uh we always uh I cherish my friendship with the rav and the whole kihila so may we all Becca together to see the fruition of the prophecy of Aaron hakoying that tomorrow in the Faro future should be transformed thank you very much you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com