Tisha B'Av: Are You Living in the Real World? - Rabbi Akiva Klein

[Music] tsch above is a day of crying a young clear this morning we cried all morning long we cried on cloven baisama Kitaj we cried over the many tourists that happened during that time period and carbon-based humming - we cried over the tourists that happened in the years of Taffet at we even went through that sorry arooga malthus and we cried as we explained each one of the sub D Kim Kardashian they were brutally killed and then at the end we cried over the last four bin the most recent gurbin the Holocaust where we lost six million of claudius row my question today is why do we cry is this who we are cloudy Israel I'm a mean and been a momentum after every Torah a year though always learned to accept and not to ask questions and to move on to look to rebuild to look to start over the Empire of Torah over here in America was built by people that left the Holocaust were many family members of theirs were just murdered and they chose not to think about the past and instead to just think about the future and they rebuilt a world of Torah we never live in the past the great Ribera LaBelle's after the war scuffs even came to him and asked him how we gonna rebuild and he told him do you know when the hidden left material during Marcus wife 4/5 of Claudius row were killed out when if did during during Bacchus fascia and then a few days later after leaving material they stood at the and they screamed out shirishama oh sure you know what that means a barrel of Elza said you're talking about families the average person had lost many family members and still he gained the strength to look ahead understand that the young and sing or shiroyasha a barrel bells I said we're going to do the same some say if it tells us that the reason why we shaped by daven I wonder a Muslim why we shake it's because it brings out the essence of ahead you stand in one place and you shake you go down and you come back up and you shake to this side that was always what the yield was we get knocked over we get knocked this way and act this way but we stay right after we get knocked we stay straight and we move on strong with our avoider so my question is so why'd we cry this morning and why don't we cry the whole day why are we looking back what's the point of it and the truth is there's not my question this question was asked many many years ago by the great philosopher Plato asked it no less to you me yo 1.avi when he saw you me you are Navi bent down over the eights him and I've on him of the Homebase I make Tosh he asked why are you doing this a smart man never cries over the past why are you crying and you me you're not the answered him he asked me two questions and this was the second question on this second question me you are not the answer damn this answer I can't tell you it's a deep answer and only a Jew only a Yid could know this answer so I can't tell it to you but we didn't and today we cried so we have to know the answer so what's the answer why did we cry today why did we cry over clip of a Cermak - and why did we cry over all that sorrows we cried about around four months ago Claudius y'all suffered a fella a terrible terrible Torah it was a young cousin in color column of Asaph just days after they became a clustering collar a terrible terrible accident and they both went after the Claussen is thrall Evan was lives in the Flatbush community I personally I'm already in the Flatbush community so I was able to feel the Flatbush community was broken to pieces and especially the teenagers the buckram of the community you see you stroll Evan had a tremendous Ashbaugh on many many people in the community he was a counselor in camp he used to make programs for the boys to Mekons like them and Fela he would sit in their rooms at night and talk to them - gopher was a very very special boy and the Achieva that I'm in Russia Sheva rebel and out made a tremendous our sefa for all the bottom of the Flatbush community and the Miss IFTA and the daily issue all spoke and I want to tell you over what they're receiving from the Mirabelli abroad me sent rebellion Brittany started off with the question that every boy was thinking that night before while twisting and turning in his bed how could this be it makes no sense how could we live with this a young boy a special boy and a young girl just days before make your commitment to live a life of kiddush Hashem to build a house Lamanna Shambala monterroso and days later they're taken away how could we live with this and then he told the buckram he said you should know that sir is a terrible Torah but the real reason the real reason that we can't make any sense of it and the real reason we have no comfort in a story like this is really because we have a distortion in our way of looking at life we're confused and he went on every year believes in Olam haba we talk about it we sing about it or them happen as an integral part of a year's life but most of us view eylem happen Adam has as follows you see this world this world is life this world is is the world a next world is what we call afterlife we define a good life on this world when a person lives a life of happiness and pleasure and calmness in olam hasa we call that a good life and a life filled with struggles and pain and anguish is what we call a bad life we view of them have a more like or a pork our day one day will come up to shamayim and our sham will tell us how we did down here regarding keeping the rules and regulations of this world and if we were good we'll get a reward if we weren't good in class for showing the opposite but the merciless Hashem tells us in the first Parekh that this is a terrible mistake this is not our belief the Maceo session tells us that every year has to believe that this world that we're living in now is almost not a world by itself this world is a whole way appraiser this world is a day of preparation in Erev Shabbos the only objective in this world is to build ourselves a life in next world and we're only purpose down here is to create ourselves alive for next world and after a hundred twenty the day we move up the next world is a day when we start life an endless life of absolute pleasure and the world we will live in is the world that we created for ourselves down here in our life down here and then rabbi Brittany said you know what the small nakama you know what the comfort we have in such a tragedy the comfort is your through leaven is not gone it's your 11 and Escala are not gone they're living they're living in the real world they're living in the world that they created for themselves and their specialized down here delivering the mail in such a DQ edition and they're shining kazuya Rukiya and we believe that but then he went on and said but it doesn't comfort us and you know why it doesn't comfort us because we don't live with the truth of what Olam haba is we live without Rafa that life is down here and the afterlife is the day we get our test marks and we get reward so if someone's taken away down here at such a young age we have nowhere to move with it and no way to comfort ourselves today on Tish above we sent and we read stories we read a story about a young boy that his mother used to measure him as he grew year by year and she would donate gold to the base Armitage and then that boy died out of starvation and we could make no sense of such a story and we have no way to comfort ourselves and by nature a story like that we're looking for any type of way to make sense to ourselves for ourselves but you know what the end of the story of that boy is that boy is in the real world he's an euler mapper when we read the stories of that Sarah roogie Malthus and we read the story of her baqia as the ressure him peeled off his skin and he screamed out the word Sh'ma Israel asked Emily Kane wash and that hook and as he said the word echoed it was yachts Enosh macelli you know the end of that story the end of that story is Rebeck Eve at that moment started to live life the real life the life that the great Rubik Eva built for himself down here in all these years of learning tyre and being Magna tell me them can we imagine what that world looks like the famous story that the Gomorrah and the Midrash tells us in a cup Meldrick says it named the mother's name was Miriam but seven sons and each one of them was my sir navshell kedusha soshim and they didn't bow down to avoid Ozora and then she went to her youngest child right before he had to make the decision to bow down or not and she told her youngest child when you go up to Shawn I am you tell of Rama V know that he did one akkada and I gave up seven of my children seven Arkady's I gave Hashem and then the Magus tells us and the Gamora tells us out of pain and anguish she herself died but you know the story doesn't end there - Gamora tells us one more piece right after she heard the Shama went up to shamayim a basco came out from shamayim and you know what tabasco said aim at Bunnings Sneha the mother of the children is happy but where is she happy and how is she happy you know if she's happy she's happy in the world she created for herself the real world down here she was Mehmed she was mechanic seven children that were able to give up their lives out kaduche as I said can you imagine her peace of all I'm a BA that she's living now of course she's happy the real happiness in the real world tsch above is a day that we have to start this new ash gopher its new way of looking in life and the truth is every story that we read and every Kiner that we cry by it almost squeezes out of us this way of looking at life there's no way we could make any sense with the six million that perished in the Holocaust if not that we understand that they're up there as Malafaia Leone but we have to understand that the only way we could get this truth in our head and the only way we could live with this fact is only if we start looking at life differently ourselves you know one of the Dean amount of dish above last night and even today you're supposed to be in it sorry yourself paying yourself some way while sleeping you sleep with a pillow you're supposed to sleep without a pillow to sleep with a rack there's a minute to do there's an amazing story rip latzke Levenstein the marsh gear from pune vich when he was in shanghai together with the mir he was once walking with his Talmud the blade boxed the future Russia Shiva of Detroit the summer was very hot in Shanghai the people used to sleep outside on the street and on the sidewalk they were to sleep they would sleep out there and as they were walking together the Rebbe and the Talmud the pratical asked his Talmud said why is it that they sleep on the street we would never sleep like this on the street why is it Talmud was thinking and he told his Rebbe maybe it's because it's not called our Torah for us it's not it's not respect for the Torah a pratical Levenstein told him though you know why a young child in his own house he could fall asleep anywhere he could fall asleep on his bed he could fall asleep on the couch he could fall asleep on the kitchen floor but when he goes to a friend of his to the neighbor he has a hard time even falling asleep in the most comfortable bed do you know why that is because in your own home where you feel comfortable you could sleep anywhere but when you're not at home and you're a stranger you can't fall asleep catskill turned to his Talmud and told them you should know that the reason why a guy could fall asleep on the sidewalk because this is his world and he's comfortable in this world so he could fall asleep anywhere but uh Saeed this is not our world our world is oil Arab ah we are here in this world just to create the next world so we're strangers in this world and we're uncomfortable so of course we can't just fall asleep on the floor outside 46 years ago ramesha Feinstein the great basic outdoor wrote a letter he wrote a letter for all young teachers for young children the tea tell them exactly what they should be giving over to young young children and he told them it's printed in Greece Misha even as a hail agimo you're a day of healing mo but Moishe told them make sure you give over to the young child that he should understand that one Mitzvah in this world is worth more than anything any pleasure that he could get on this world and explain him because I'm its who will give him alone it's free and this world is a passing world and then relay she says strong words ramesha writes if a child of you could get into a child at a young age that he should live with this absolute truth that the only thing that's important for us in this world is Twitter I'm it's just to be able to create a real world for us a next world he says the child will never have in a Siyad not that'll be italic all the challenges that a child has later on in his life it's all because we don't have that clarity of what this world is and it's so simple if we just think about it you know that the baser mikdash was destroyed from sin Athena you know what cuz I'll tell us the word before it says right before it says the same names as their house I'll tell us oh yeah I'm a mess I'm a mine the sonim says their whoa fights and a little sinner that goes on in the world even Benetton llaha various only because our values are messed up so only because we don't have this clarity of what this world is and what next world is and there's no story that shows us this that the tenets of a child of Olam haba could make him make the greatest decisions in his life more than what the gomorrah tells us be she asked for base armitage be shots for him they saw my crush at one point there were 400 children girls and boys put onto boats and while they were on the ships they realized that what they were being shipped to do a terrible sin and the gomorrah tells us that when they realize that every single one of them jumped off the boat and drowned themselves and we let we set into kinah this morning while they were drowning they were singing sheera and they called themselves carbon a stash em but there's such an important piece of the story right before they jumped they turned to each other and they said mama died even Byam if we drown ourselves in the sea and we bottle it on a new boy in mahayana my bow when we get on am a bow and one of them came up with a plastic to say oh boy you'll get elem haba and the moment he said that they all jumped into the water and drowned themselves young little children had this in their hearts from young from the youngest age that life is not for this world all their happiness and pleasure in this world is only so that I should be able to build myself a world in the real world in Olam haba and the second they know that this will bring them toil Amado they all jumped at our mason official caduceus Hashem I end with one story well finished that I picked up myself I had a grandfather many of you may have heard of him he translated many swaram his name was rabbi Fink o Rabab Rocca Finkle he spent his life translating tens and tens of swarm into English and towards the end of his life he got sick and he went through terrible pain and then during the last year he had one foot amputated and then a few months later he had a second foot amputated and then remember those last few months of his life he lived with still such a simcha he never missed it Fela and he always had a good Vitara to tell me over and I yearned to ask him how he does it but I didn't have the hutzpah to do it and then on Hanukkah on Hanukkah in the nursing home he was staying they set up a bunch of an iris and I willed him up I wheeled him to his manure the first night of Hanukkah and he said the first two brofist and then when he said the third brother the air in his wheelchair with such qivana and with such simcha it struck me he said sure heavy on Oh Vikki amanu the hickey on all has Manas air he thanked the Kaddish Buraku for keeping him alive and forgiving him life to get to this moment for giving him life you know what his life was the last months before that but at that moment they realized this was a finish for me you know what he thanked I could wish for a who chef Ian Oh Vicky Amano the Higgy on o las monjas air Hashem thank you for life that I got to lighten Amira because that is the objective of this world this world is that I could do another Mitzvah and build myself a more beautiful world for the oil of man that sack for the endless life in the next world of course there's a shaky honor for that because it's last man Isaiah for this man for this sad Lucas menorah baby should L that all data that we read and all the kin is that we read should lead up to that last bus ik that we all screamed out because that's the only taxes when we screamed out Hoshi vain oh uh Shannon laughs ah then our shoe ha ha day Charmaine you kick Adam we want to start anew with a new look at life where our decisions in this world no more will be based only on what would give me happiness in this life because happiness in this world is only so that I should be able to build myself a better and bigger world for the other man that saw for the endless life that's endless pasture and oiler my boy we should all be joyful be us machinist came from here if you may know I mean [Music] [Applause]