Destruction is the Birth of Rebuilding - Rabbi Mordechai Burg

we're holding now by the three weeks shiva's sir thomas ghazal tell us five things happened on this day one of the things that happened on this day was mosha banu destroyed the lucho sarishonos the luhos that were given to him at harsinai what's the connection between the luhos that mosha binu broke and the destruction of the baisa mekdosh the last thing that al-qaeda says in the torah is yahshua good job you broke the luhos the question is why does maeshwa benu get a yasha kayak why is that a good thing breaking the luchos was a tragedy the luchos themselves were etched out of stone from akodeshbarahu and the writing was from akadesh barco the second luhos were significantly downgraded the writing was from but the luchos themselves were man made why was this a good thing sometimes the way we see destruction is that something is broken and it's over but that's not always the case for example when it comes to a seed the destruction of the seed gives birth to the beautiful plant that will grow and this was what actually happened when moisha avenue broke the luchos when claudius throated that terrible aveira of the kaita egel it was terrible for sure but from that came the understanding that claudius earl is so beloved by hakodushbarahu and that ultimately we were forgiven and yes the luhos now are man made but we also get to invest our own energy and participate in the building of torah and so it's uncomfortable to go through the destruction process but it's also amazing to see the flourishing that happens after the chaos and perhaps this is what hazal means when they say bamakum shibali chuvam dem insadikum has never gone through the process of destruction and so therefore they don't understand the beauty and the majesty of the imperfection and this is something that we understand deeply and its destruction is a tragedy that we cannot possibly begin to fathom what must it have been like to sit there in those days and watch hundreds of thousands of people going from one corner of the country and the other corner of the country to the center of the country to meet in the base of mikdash i imagine old friends seeing each other who hadn't seen each other perhaps since the last time it was shallow i imagine that they walked into the base of mikdash and they saw the majesty of the kohanim i imagine they saw the karbanos being brought and they had a visceral emotional reaction to understanding that wants us to draw close to him i imagine they saw the livium on the steps of the mesa meghdash singing the most beautiful nagunam that stirred the soul in such a deep way we cannot possibly begin to fathom what we've lost which is part of the tragedy of course but even more so we must recognize that in the wake of the destruction of the the basal as we've gone into this dark gullis we have also discovered the beauty of the destruction we have built claudius even in the darkest of places after the holocaust for example we built a generation that is flourishing perhaps and like any other generation the amount of torah being learned today the hassan being done today the mitzvot is being done today it's astonishing if any generation has shown that we can find the light in the darkness it is our generation and bar hashem even though it's been an exceptionally painful process it's been a process where we have shown our commitment and our loyalty to akadesh baruch and it's a painful lesson but it's an important lesson maisha habena was told it's good that you broke those luchos because it gave claudius all the opportunity to find the light and the darkness and so the destruction of the base of mikdash is of course a terrible tragedy but at the same time we have infinite hope because we know that akalashvar who only destroyed the beisan mikdash like maisha bainu in order that we should be able to show that whose infinite presence can be found even in the lowest of places and when we've done that successfully hashem which will be more beautiful more majestic more godly than ever before more importantly everlasting [Music]