Chazaq Tisha B'Av Event 5773 (Date: 7/15/2013)

this Tower class is brought to you by torahanytime.com I want to thank hazak for inviting me to join with you this afternoon thank you ravyaniv merav together with his brother with Elon meira for doing amazing work on behalf of Claud Israel I also want to recognize all of our thousands of Torah anytime viewers and I want to thank my good friend rebren kolyakov who is doing an unbelievable work for taranytime.com together with his brother Shimon and Joseph Davis should bless them Allah we have a few more hours left to Tish above and we're thinking to ourselves you know it's not really a great day but look it's almost over but we don't get it it is a nightmare it's not bad it's not something that's unfortunate or sad it's a nightmare it's a horror a devastating disaster life without a base time mix Dash is like death so we're used to it already we go on with our daily lives we go through the motions we're busy making a living busy raising a family we've been accustomed to a world without a base hamikdash but let's get a little reality check life without a base how mix Dash is a worse nightmare it's like Misa it's like death we say it every Shabbos Yan have mercy on you shall I am because it's our life that's what we're saying you shall I am the base Hamid us that's our life blood and without the base hamiktas it's like death when the wicked hits USA Russia enters the kailashim we said in kinetazion remember what that evil doer did when he went into the colors and he slashed the parocha says that he took his sword and he pierced up says the gemara blood came gushing out of the parojas to the point says the gemara that he thought that he killed the Republic what did Hashem do that for Hashem made a miracle so that Tittle should think that he killed God for what God doesn't make miracles for guyim God doesn't make miracles for going to think that they're successful says with Isaac share who is the son-in-law of the author of Isaac share the rebanish song was declaring a very important principle is the lifeblood of the universe it is based hyena at the base is the vehicle through which everything good came down to the world physical goodness spiritual goodness the matters tells us that if the nations of the world would only have known what the base hamiktas would mean to them personally they never would have destroyed it says with Isaac share the blood gushing forth from the paragas represented that the entire world had suffered a fatal blow a fatal wound to the heart the world was suffering cardiac arrest it was a dagger to the heart so it's an absolute nightmare it's a disaster of the most epic proportions if we were to think about individuals who have died horrific torturous deaths we make the our top 10 list of the 10 worst torturous deaths Yoshi would have to head the list the righteous King yoshiyahu he goes out to war against the forces of power Nakai says the kinna says the navi they shot at the body of yoshiyahu with 300 arrows they made him like target practice to the points every ounce of blood that emanated from the body of yoshio your Mia came to run to bury it yoshio was tortured to death every arrow in his body it took 300 arrows and he was still alive it's almost impossible to understand this because God came to yeshio he says listen up yoshio is don't worry everything's gonna be wonderful you're gonna die in peace Hashem comes to yoshio and he says reviewed you're gonna die in peace this is peace being pierced with 300 arrows with blood gushing forth from every limb of his body this is peace he was tortured to death Rabbi are we missing something answers died in peace yoshio died in peace because he did not see the destruction of the base hamiktas says was such a horror was such a nightmare that for yoshio to be tortured to death that was Paradise that was gone in then compared to having to witness the destruction of this if only we could lay our bare feet on the floor of the basement is that anyone who would merely placed their feet on the floor of the basement would attain and be imbued with a flow of hakma just standing on the floor of the basement with a noble the mind and the heart and endow higher levels of insight that is why it says to be honesterships before you enter the temple you had to take off your socks and shoes so there would be no no interruption no hepsec between you and the wall the floor if you could only spend one moment in the basement you'd be a different person forever says the murderous rabba and boracious that before the gallium entered they're very scared to go in they heard reports that even in the crying god of if he would enter the shaktoshima he wouldn't be on a high enough level he would drop dead immediately so they decided to conduct an experiment they sent in a rebel a Jewish Rebel a Jewish Russia a wicked man his name was Joseph mashisa and they said Yosef do us a favor you know you're really good at angering your God so do us a favor go into the basement do what you do best go in get God really angry and you know what you can take whatever you want you go in there you take some silver some gold whatever you take it's all yours Joseph mashusa said I've been waiting for this he walks into the basement he takes the most prized possession of the base he takes the menorah he comes out with the menorah the menorah is unbelievable it's Majestic beautiful the Romans for the King this is not for a commoner go in take anything you want it's not the Manara thanks he says you know what not right now not right now do you want something else we'll forgo your taxes for three years says I'd rather not rather not you better go in you don't go in you're a dead man Joseph mishusa says it's enough that I've angered my Creator once I'm not doing it again they took him they put him on The Carpenter's bench they took the ax and you always say if machisa cried out bye what happened to the man he's schizophrenic a moment ago he's a Russia marusha he's willing to anger God he's willing to go in to the holiest spot on earth and defile The Mix us in the next moment he's my sir nephesh he's a spiritual hero what happened to the guy says the great founder of the Panama Yeshiva reviews you know what changed him spending One Moment In the base hammock Dash the caduce the experience of spending one second in the basement transformed the biggest Russia until a spiritual hero and this is why we cry the loss of our home the source of our blessing the source of our success the source of all our spiritual wealth our physical wealth everything we had came from that house that stood on the Temple mount that Domino's we no longer have for us it proves difficult to cry even one tear we sit there on the floor and for maybe three and a half seconds we try to make believe that we feel bad we don't perceive the loss of the best we're looking at our watch how many hours left because we feel very comfortable with our lives we've been accustomed to a Jewish life without a base let's rev up the reality check anybody who ever attended some of our shiram knows that I can't help myself I have to give that handouts even on Tish above I didn't know what to do with myself today I had to make photocopies so we have uh we have a handout over here I want to read to you the words of the village from the safer called Safra that's neusa we know the village was proficient in all Realms of the Torah the revealed parts of the Torah the hidden parts of the Tyra the villanue wrote a commentary on a kabbalistic work called Safra that's neusa let me read to you what the villagan writes says the villagan kimes you know if you would try to rate how is claw Israel doing in the year 2013 we would say pretty good right we have big butt taking our sea ice we have Tish above events hundreds of people thousands of people we're doing pretty good says the vulner gun let me alter your viewpoint says the Gras from the time the base Amigos was destroyed yatza rujenu a teres roshano our spirit our lives have been sapped Below in FS Egra from the moment was destroyed spiritually we're dead we're dead we have no hears so you say okay not so bad at least we have our bodies at least the bodies are intact says the gra Vietnam but when the guy in exiled us from Earth's Israel whoever that spiritual barrier burying that's internment okay but the body's still there right says the Remo the worms surround us we have no protection who are the worms the influence of the goyam that consume our flesh so you say at least some of the flesh is there at least we have even if we're spiritually dead at least we have dead flesh says the gra at least we had the Great Horror academies we had Surah we had pumpedisa we had even somebody sniffs through we didn't even have an intact skeleton the bones were dismantled so you say at least we have a pile of bones says at least the bones were intact to the point where even the Bones have rotted away we don't have rafsadia going we don't have srira going we don't have high going we don't have Rashi tices random riff Rush ramban so what do we have says the grass the line we have corpse dust we're not even bones we're dirt we're dust so what do we hope for says we're waiting for Spiritual Revival with all the Torah we have with all the Sheeran we have with all the great academies boys schools girl schools we have nothing nothing we're dead we're Beyond dead we don't even have a body we don't even have bones we are Target says the gra when we say every Friday night his nari may offer Kumi we don't mean God Shake us off from the dust Where We Are says the grass Shake us off from the dust that we are there we are that's all we are at this point so to say that with database and English we're spiritually dead would be a compliment that would be a nice way of saying it and after describing the horror and the devastation and the tragedy and the Nightmare and how for a believing Jew Corbin based hamiktash is better than death we're faced with a very difficult problem because when we were in show this morning we didn't say taknon because you know why because it's a my age it's a yantef right it's a holiday says someone tell me what exactly we're celebrating well we're celebrating the Holocaust we're celebrating the Inquisition the Crusades I mean what's going on over here it's a young Thief and this is brought down that not only do we not saying you don't see an area of Tish above says there was once a levia on Tish above and they didn't allow the rabbi to carry out all the ceremonies of the levia they said you can't do a leviah what in the world is going on over here on the one hand for yoshioa torture was Paradise compared to the Corbin and on the other hand we're not saying perhaps we could suggest the following approach in Keen above this morning we said at the Euphrates River her Pious ones were mutilated and of course this refers exiling the well-known VM levium they said you know you're great musicians you've been playing music in the basement for a long time you know how to play the heart parp shiru lanumi do me a favor serenade me as we glowed over our Victory sing to us whereupon the levium hung up their instruments on the Aruba branches they took out their hands they put their thumbs in their mouths and they bid off their thumbs not one lady not two livium not 10 levium not 100 livium every single lady they mutilated their thumbs and they said now we're not going to sing We can't sing we don't have the physical capabilities to sing take a look at tices Ezra we're talking at the end of the first place seven years later they come up to reveal badushani Ezra makes an announcement he says we're going home says the pasok um Ezra said I can't find any levium they're in all of them he had kaihanan he had israelin every stripe and color of cloud Israel no levium foreign they had no interest in coming back in the film that came back in the times of Ezra were people at least 83 years old who had been exiled 70 years earlier Ezra said do me a favor we're building the basement you're gonna stand here on the duck and you're going to sing Shira they stuck out their hands sorry we have no thumbs Ezra said could I get a decent lady to sing Shira for me Ezra cannot find one lazy and Claudius road to sing Shira whereupon Ezra penalize Olivia he said I don't have a one decent Levy that's it from now on my Siri shine doesn't go to the lady anymore my serration goes to the client he's punishing nolivian for what for being moist or nephesh for not singing I mean they gave up their lives they gave up their arms they gave up their hands not to sing Shira and Ezra is punishing them foreign but why are they biting off their thumbs what they didn't think they would ever see the basement again didn't they know that in 70 years they're coming back they gave up hope they were mayaish oh a Jew never gives up hope a Jew is never miyaish and therefore Ezra said as Admiral as it was to bite off your thumbs we're punishing you because a Jew never loses his faith with great pride and admiration I would like to tell you Rabbi Sai about an individual of majestic personality soaring spirit that my grandfather have Gladstone Hashem should watch over him and give him my grandfather rap gladstein was together with his brother Uncle henoch all the years in the camps in Auschwitz and Treblinka and somehow miraculously they smuggled a pair of filling into Auschwitz and every single morning at the crack of dawn they would wake up and put on this villain if the SS officers would have caught them they would have been dead instantly every morning they would put on the fill-in first my grandfather and then our uncle uncle hanath one morning my grandfather finished putting on this villain he hands its fill into his brother Uncle hanuff puts on that's fill in chilead he then begins to put on that's fill and shall rise just then the SS officer runs into the room sees this villain shall rise lifts up the gun to shoot but then he looks again at this film sarish and all of a sudden he became Frozen he became awestruck he became frightened he dropped the gun and ran out my grandfather writes about this in an old edition of the other shavarts and he said this was an open miracle this is a fulfillment of the gemara and brachice on the Posse Hashem Nikola the nations of the world will see that God's name is upon you and they'll be afraid of you says the gemara and brachis 1945. the Nazis had to make a very important decision the American and Russian armies were approaching and the Nazis had a dilemma should they focus their resources at the warfront to try to win the war they could dedicate all of their abilities to exterminate whatever Jews were left in Europe they chose the latter so they rounded up whatever Jews were still left in the camps my grandfather included they pack them like animals onto the cattle carts without food without drink headed to the tarot mountains where they would dig their own Graves be shot and kicked into the pit with the help of the Republic the American Army discovered the plot not even if they would have discovered an hour later would have been the end of them under the direction of General George S Patton Jr U.S Air Force bombed the railroad tracks thwarting the plan of these Roshan when the SS officers realized the end was near they quickly exchanged uniforms with the inmates but when the American Army landed they were not duped the Jewish prisoners were skeletons they were walking cadavers the German officers were fat and robust an American officer came over to my grandfather handed him his pistol he said Rabbi take the gun now it's time to take revenge take revenge rabbi to which my grandfather responded Revenge I leave Revenge to The Republic it's been five years since I've been able to open up I was in middle of Mississippi now that I'm reunited with my gamara that is all I need I leave Revenge the Republic after the war ended Holocaust was over my grandfather was interviewed by the secular media and it's recorded in a book entitled after the Holocaust they asked my grandfather the following question and my friend will remember the story after being an eyewitness to the brutality of the Germans rabbi after seeing with your own eyes the devastation of your people the mass murder of your brothers and sisters did you at any point lose faith in your God did you at any point lose faith in the promises of the Torah my grandfather responded did I lose faith of course I lost faith I lost faith in humanity how could human beings become animals and barbarians I lost faith in mankind How could a civilized society like Germany shed their conscience how could the United States of America turn the other way and ignore what was happening so did I lose faith I lost faith in mankind but never for a moment did I lose faith in my God never for a moment did I lose faith in the Torah my faith in my God only became stronger who can fed there are no words to describe the Towering unbending faith of these Giants and as we reflect on Tisch above upon the greatness of these spiritual Heroes perhaps we have gained a new insight and to why tishabel is considered amayed because after all our nation has endured we cannot help but celebrate the Majesty the Grandeur the nobility of the Jewish nashama it's indomitable Spirits it's pure faith in its creator of the unbreakable unwavering pure emunaim of Israel that despite everything we've endured we have never lost faith in the Bible we have never lost faith in the promises of the Torah and we have never lost faith in the coming of Canada said you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com