Get Real With Coach Menachem - Tisha B'Av Message For Our Times 2025

Thank you every to have have you again this year and it's it's hard you know we're doing this already a few years of talking about tishov doing it again you know everybody is in different place but um we need some I know you um put out the book on on the essay from a piece of Yeshua. So you put out translation if you can tell us about that that would be uh interesting. Yes. So about a 100 years ago about the year 1913 wrote an essay to try to inspire Jews to yearn for the gula. And had a hard time publishing it. He wasn't able to publish it because of censorship. He had to slip it in as a as a supplement to a magazine that doesn't exist although the name exists. Hamodia that was the name of it at the time. It was a magazine that existed between 1910 and 1915. Was published by one of the rabbon in Europe in Paliva. And the the purpose of the essay was to remind Yidden that you know we have to do mitzvah. Of course we have to do mitzvah. We have 613 mitzvah. But there are certain things that are even more fundamental than mitzv. There are six questions we're all going to be asked after 120. One of them is did you wait the coming of Msiah? So the wrote this essay to be people to make yearning for Msiah part of a person's day part of a person's sed part of person's reality. So you see on the cover we have a etch of the third BA mikdash it's a beautiful cover it's a beautiful safar but it has to become part of us and Most Jews, if you speak to them about the subject of say, "Of course I dree times a day, by the way." I don't know if we could let the cat out of the bag. We're recording this on Hey, is that okay that I'm saying that? >> Sure. >> The truth is always good. Yeah. Right. Um, hey is the yard site. This is pre-recorded you know for those who think it's live you know here we are beforeh working on this preparing is the yard site of the Arizal tonight is the art of alav and the Arizal said that after 120 the question did you await the coming of Msiah the designated spot to be able to fulfill the obligation to await the coming of Messiah and therefore or to be able to answer in the affirmative that we indeed awaited the coming of Msiah is in the of when you say the words for your salvation we awaited the whole day. So during those words you need to stop and focus and try to be and to engender genuine yearning for for Msiah. You know, I remember when I was a bach had this to go to Victor Miller. So his custom was that on uh onesh he would put keys in his sid so as not to forget yal you know this way when you get to rit and you're wondering what's this big thing of keys doing there you say oh because it's uh because it's so we need to make some kind of mark in our s because three times a day we say these words we need to take advantage of the opportunity but it's more than that you know the para that we're going to read after say what does the word van means I ded say where does this word van come from so the numerical value ofan is 515 what did moshabu davin for so many times you know he says he daved 515 times what was he davinging for parasa he was ding for a raise he was dinging for the a new model of a car he was dinging for one thing to be able to enter the land of Israel to go into Israel. Moshenu davened incessantly 515 time to the point where Hashem said, "Stop it already. No more. Don't you dare say one more." But Moshenu, the greatest leader of Claus in our history, greatest person who ever lived, think about how much energy and time and emotion he invested to d to be able to be to go into Israel. some Yeshua makes from the from the time that Hashem told him you're not going in until he passed away. He did not let up again and again and again and again. He'd have 515 fel. He even said the say let me go in 51 am the is 50 wide. He said let me go in one amma no let me cross no 51 am just let me just step foot in the medish says said if I can't go in as a human being let me go in as a behema or let me be an o and fly through you know when we're going to say who would make me wings and I would float through arit where did he get such an idea that it has any value to float through arit he got it from raenu mohabenu was the med says was malo if I can't go in as a let me go in as a sh let me go in as an you know a from Jew who would make an honest assessment of the state of the Jewish people or even of of themselves even someone who's a even someone who learns three sedar a day to make an honest assessment What is it like to be a Jew without the ability to live in Israel? It's completely missing. He had to I think I think we could say that Moshenu had lambdos. He had amus he had to but he devoted all of his just to walk to be able to put his feet on the on the ground. You know, so if I could share with you an insight, I think this is not a but this is just a simple observation that we're going to have in the kinos. You know, the last 10 kos all begin with the word that kinos composed by Alvi. If you read them, they're not kinis. They're not kinis. We're not mourning anything. They're not mourning anything. They're not mourning the destruction of of Israel. They're not mourning the destruction of the Ba Mikdash. They're poetic. They're poetically articulating longing for the land, for the air, for the environment. How is that a kina? Akina, I understand. You want to say ken is for the crusades, for the Jews who were massacred, for the communities that were killed, for the persecution, for the burning of the shas. You want to say a kina for destruction of the bikdash for the those are kinos were we're lamenting tragic events but the last 10 kois they're not kinis they're they're poetry of love for so what's it doing in the kina what's it doing in the book and I think it it serves a very very important function that the kinois end with these 10 ko that begin with the word So let's think about why we had to go into golas in the first place. Maral says that on that fateful night when the moragum came back with the report about the says the people cried and hashem said you're crying for nothing. I'll give you good reason to cry. The maral explains that if you cry over something, if you cry that you don't want something, you don't just say I don't want it, but you so deeply don't want something that you cry, you're able to shed a tear, not because you don't want something, that means you are fundamentally disconnected with that thing. That mean that item and you have no have no connection. You don't belong together. The fact that cried overem said, "Okay, you crying." That means it's not yours, doesn't belong to you, you're not connected to it. I'm going to have to take you out of the land. It's not a punishment. It's reality. If you're able to shed a tear that you don't want to live here, then you don't belong there. It's not shy to you. It's not connected to you. So therefore the gulus of 2,000 years is because we cried over going to now you know the nivos was wrote one of the classic l because I don't want to be accused here of uh of some ideology that you're going to say I never heard of such a hashkafa really you learned the right theas wrote a per on the vasa Oh, your tear is on your cheek. The nivas taes and civas interprets the tear of the moragim is still on the cheek of the Jewish people today. Meaning we're still crying that we don't want to go back. We say why should we go back? We have motora. We have yeshiva. We have we have lambdos. We have shurim. We don't need it. What do we need for? We don't need it. We're not missing anything. We have we have to we have we have thera we have the the tear of the moragum. This is not what I'm saying. I'm telling you what the voice says. He says the tears of the moragum. They're still on our cheek. We still are telling we don't need it. We have enough without it. The tears still on our cheek. The only way to go back is to show that we really want it and we're really missing and we have an ahava for Israel. However, that expresses itself. The last 10 kin, they're not kinis per se that were mourning the tragedies of the last 10 kinos are trying to rectify what got us into this mess in the first place. What got us in the mess in the first place is we don't need erit is so therefore composed 10 kinos that we're longing just to fly through the land. were longing to step on the dirt like Rav Zund of Salant would be walking through say why are you walking so much he says the garra says you have to spend yes the last 10 kos are rectifying the problem that got us into this mess in the first place and what really substantiated this idea in the biography of the cloenberba says that when he was coming to Israel finally to to make residence in Israel, you know what he was doing on the plane? He was saying the 10 kos of the seen longing for Israel. So this is the if if you notice in this week's paras it there are many many things that um emphasize the centrality of Israel namely that you go up says what do you mean you go up because is the highest of all the lands really it's not higher than Switzerland how is it the highest I don't even know if it's higher than the catkills well what does it So explains that if you have a you have a ball any point that you focus on and you turn it to the top will be the highest point. When we say it doesn't mean the altitude of is higher than the Alps. It means because in the mind of a Jew is the center point of the universe. So we turn the whole world with on top. So it's meaning in our mind it's paramount or the the par says the great river. What's so great about the Euphrates? I don't know. Is it is it bigger than the Mississippi? Rashi says because it's associated with Israel. So sometimes in life people get carried away with side reasons for whatever in whatever hashkaf a person has why perhaps they're not able yet to make their permanent residence there. But at least in their mind has to be the center point. The ahava has to be there and it has to be a genuine aava. That's part part of part of mitzv and part of rectifying the according to the is we have to wipe away that tear. And the way to wipe and it's not enough to wipe away the tear. You have to counteract the 2,000 years of crying. You have to engender a deep love for Israel. When a person goes to sleep at night, do they imagine flying, gliding through the airspace of Israel like a bird like said that the ear of has spiritual lifegiving properties. We have to develop such an attitude so that we could start to think maybe one day maybe one day they would have yeshivists there that are going to work for my family. what maybe one day they're going to have communities because the first step is you have to wipe away that tear of the morag and you know there are many things in life we daven for I'm sure people have a whole laundry list of things they daven for imagine if you could see what davenin for maybe that would give us some insight in what we should daven for but we don't have to look too far that's the first thing we're going to learn after said 515 times. Not for a raise, not for Yeshua, not for not for number one on the list. So the thing the truth is we say these our ding is replete. Actually, we made like a bookmark. If anybody wants it, any of your listeners wants it, we could send you the digital copy of 14 times in that. When you say the par, you say that the should. And when you say you sayd when you say by the way the reveals 516 that's the 516th and I'll let I'll let the audience if they want to study the list you'll be able to send it to them but our sid is full of opportunities and tishabove it's a wakeup call to remind us of what our priorities should be what should be paramount in our eyes and we should all be because says it's not enough to ask for it. You have to be it like a debt like something owes us. You have to be says means to be the claim like somebody owes you money. So if we utilize the day properly, it's not only one day in the year. It will transform our entire year and we should be zed to really behing understood that without I think this is something we have to d him for that we should understand it so that we should d him for it because many people are trying to figure out so we're missing something so Hashem should help us this is what we should for we should understand what he is what is what is it it's all of part of it and we're in goalless we're forgetting so glassing thank you very Like you said, I think the biggest golus, the darkest golas is not realizing we're in galas. >> Yeah, thank you. Thank you. >> Thank you for the opportunity.