Connecting to the Churban - Rabbi Ephy Greene

there's a story in the gemara babukama that tells us about rabbi elizabeth is the era very eliza the small he was humble so he's called small if eliza zebra was walking into a new town and the town noticed that he was wearing black shoes and black shoes in those days were a sign of avaelos of mourning so they asked him why are you wearing black shoes you don't seem to be in a velus he said ana is mourning over jerusalem or the khurban bias they said but it's not the three weeks not the time now so they thought it was uhura they thought it was arrogance and uh they threw him in jail so he explained to them no no you don't understand i'm a great man i'm a i'm a massive tom o'connell ask me questions and you'll see and sure enough they asked them questions and they let them out and the implication that gemara points out [Music] the implication is that to be a great person you're mourning over your time all the time it's not just during the three weeks but your morning will be islam all the time why is that because a person who's great in their hands a person who's striving and yearning for constant growth in the rochester bashem really feels the hormonal bias in this world and really feels the lack of opportunities that are connected to basa mikdos to not be able to achieve them to not be able to connect to them and this is something that we have to think about during this three-week period going into the more intensive mourning over you shalom with tish above thinking about how revolt we point out in ali shore that yahada's judaism is a religion of closeness we always want to feel close to kashmir we always want to feel a certain kirava a certain key roof of us between jew and jew a certain closeness to and yet this is a time of it's a time of feeling of noticing the distance however they say in modern society they say distance makes the heart grow fonder so therefore this is the time for us to reflect on what it is we're missing if it's hard for us to connect to that it's understandable we don't even know what the basement dish is we don't even know what the avoda in the basement was the kohanim of zimram were missing that but we don't can't even relate to it i once heard a beautiful mushroom from irvine pyansky rasheeda in silver spring he explains that it's like trying to explain shabbos to somebody who doesn't know what chavez is somebody who's never kept shabbos you try to explain how beautiful shabbos is lighting the candles and the zemiros and the beautiful food and the family time they just don't get it because they didn't have that experience so it's hard for us to get that experience but maybe we can use that marshall and channel it and say could you imagine if god forbid somebody took away shabbos from you could you imagine god forbid if nazis walked into the room and took your shabbos candles and said you can never keep shabbos again could you imagine the trauma could you imagine what would be lack lacking from our lives if shabbos was torn away from us that's what the base of mikdash was like so therefore during the three weeks we want to try to connect and feel that there's a massive part of our lives a huge part of our jewish culture and avodah's hashem that is lacking and missing and the more that we can focus in on that the more that we can focus we want to try to grow continuously and closer to karash baruch the more we'll feel the base of mikdash and its presence lacking in our lives and the more we feel the yearning to see that speedily in our days