How do the Three Cardinal Sins compare to Causeless Hatred Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz

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exists the first place Anita was destroyed because of the cardinal sins of Rhoda Zara Amelia Rose is Estonian idolatry sexual immorality murder these are the big three sins that a Jew must give up his life before they transgressed and notwithstanding the prevalence of those sins that governs only lasted 70 years 70 years from the bond or the first specimen - to the building of the second base image - seven years the second base again without tell us most of the juries were observant they kept them in truth they certainly were not guilty over voters are giving away a free customer but the sin that caused the court ban was to not sanam roundels baseless hatred and the governor comments more than a thousand years ago that look at the difference between the three cardinal sins and sin I've seen up the three cardinal sins resulted in a four hundred seventy years synapse Tina resulted in a gullet that a thousand years ago tomorrow commented how much longer it was and we just add a thousand years or more to that so this is really a tremendously time you think about cannot see Naaman again most of my talk last week was actually devoted to Sinatra namsan I'm not going to repeat all of those things other than then say that you know whether the social actor you say originally he wanted to change the world and then he saw that that was not entirely possible so he thought he would just change the city and then it's family then he realized ultimately he can only change himself and if we change ourselves but ultimately there are ripple effects when it comes to cementing arm obviously we look around in Israeli society in Jewish society generally there's a lot of polarization a lot of rivalries a lot of delusion a nation a lot of demonization and when you look at the person to the right of you and they're a fanatic and you look at the person to the left of you and they're a heretic or an optical it's and it's only where you are whoever you are that is considered to be right and I mentioned we need serve of the regulation of xi said that the Nazi numbers precisely the same that in matters of religion you look at yourself as exactly the right person and you demonize everybody else and they say this is something that marriages where we experience in state uncertainty a central part of our iboga is synapsing up and obviously this is extremely extremely extremely important I mean this is why we have a core bun today but that's not what I actually want to talk about tonight I want to talk about the first temple for a while because here's the problem you can raise the question are we morning first thing to make - because you might say no we don't think about the first place in your - because after all that was rebuilt with a second so we're only thinking about the second we're not thinking about the first but in reality when we mourn on the ninth about we are not only mourning the destruction of the second basically we are still mourning the destruction of the first and in point effect the Rambam writes in his parish on which night is commentary finished in Russia so know that even when there was a second base on weakness they observed the fast of key Shabbat because of the loss of the first place in English because the second base on lick - did not give us back everything that we had among other things we lost Naboo up prophecy we lost the intensification of the Shekinah the Kohen Gadol did not have the order of atonement which was a medium of prophecy and alike so in a sense therefore I behaved in that the Aaronic other side that's correct and we never got it back so in the fact when we arm it's a bell over the Corbin we are thinking about the first as well as such a second in fact if you look at the key notes you will see in the lamentation prayers that again will be recited and again those are very very difficult as number one there are so many of them and number two without a translation or at least the commentary even if you know it personally even if you know that the words are very very difficult the composure of the keynotes was most of the keynotes was a very famous the most famous of the liturgical poets rabbi Elazar collier and when he lived is anywhere between the second century and the tenth century except it's like eight hundred years of uncertainty exactly when he lived but he is really one of the architects of the Hebrew language in the sense that he literally made up a lot of words and he would take like a verb and make it a noun etc he changed the hunter in the cave ah so he had a tremendous amount of freedom in language so and also he constantly alludes to Midrash him by a single word or phrase so if you don't know the Midrash you're not to know what he's talking about so the commentaries are Makino's have to give you like a reference to every single thing that he says but if you look at the key notes everything is kind of a blur he mixes the Corbin bias region and the court meant by his Shanee and the Byzantine persecutions depending on when he was located it cetera later we have key notes about the Crusades but that is of course later that is after Robbie Eleazar Collier so we still think about the first place in English and in fact there's a famous passage in the Talmud you show me all the tell me Jewish Omni says every generation called or Shalom use now a bias be enough every generation in which the temple is not rebuilt ke loo necrovalley a month is as guilty as the generation in which the base of mikdash was destroyed meaning the way you have to view the Corbin Masonic - it was not an event that happened it is an event that happens every single day every single day the temple is being read astray because we still have the ave rugs that cause the court so the question I want to raise is this I understand and it's fairly obvious that we still have the availa of sonatina that caused the destruction of the second temple you don't even need a proof of that that's that's obvious every single day we are steeped and besmirched with hatred and if the hatred does not take a hot form of throwing rocks it may take the cold form of indifference of exclusion of certain people don't count because they're outside of our particular circle so that's perfect but the question is if we are still mourning the first torment of the base of leadership and the first Corbin was because of the sins of our Azara gilja riots Jesus comin idolatry sexual immorality and murder right those are the three cardinal sins so here's the question are we guilty of those meaning to say I understand guilty of sin a freedom will plead guilty to that but guilty of idolatry guilty of sexual immorality guilty of murder I mean most people are not that bad so in what sense as it were what sense is it meaningful to mourn over the first place on McNish since by and large we are disconnected from those sins that caused the destruction of the first by some English so I want to give you three answers to that question so tonight I'm not going to be talking about su not seen them so much as talking about avodah Zarah Delia riots really summon and their relevance to our situation because the horror you would think we're not connected to that so there are a few edges rough silk says the following answer you know cuz I'll identify a number of Aveiro as being tantamount to the big three for example because I'll have a statement Kalakaua anyone that gets angry te lieu of a avodah Zarah it is as if they worshipped idols so cuz I'll do the torch of all paths equate certain things that we do as if they are one of the gimel cameras one of the three cardinal sins anger is treated like idolatry embarrassing somebody publicly alban's the knife available robbing is treated as murder because you kill their spirit in terms of Delia Rios even if most of us do not commit adultery or incest but because I'll say sexual thoughts can be even more severe than the actual action and sexual thoughts are present all the time surrounded by all that we have in the meeting so even if we're not guilty in the most literal way of avodah Zarah gilja Raya shrivastava but certainly for guilty of anger that is treated as idolatry if we are guilty of humiliating a person in a public setting that is treated as murder if we expose ourselves to inappropriate types of inputs that may be treated as guilty arise by the way there's a very very famous passage from the dollar Tania about Latanya actually explains why is it so that we treat anger as equivalent to idolatry why is anger idolatry the connection so he said the following what is anger anger is when a person feels that they were shortchanged they should get a better deal than they've gotten somebody insulted me so my dignity was affected somebody cheated me in business now there was anger is the frustration of not getting what you want and it's kind of the instinctive reaction at the perception of an injustice but it's not injustice in the abstract but almost how why if we would get angry when there's injustice in the world we tend to get angry when there's injustice against us it's a very very personal response so it is not that common there are some people who may have anger at the injustice of the worlds most of the time anger is I didn't get what I want the truth or to the Jews okay well uh to us okay to us are you but usually to the veterans but usually it's even more personal a person feels I was cheated I was cheated so the Valentine says the following if you believe notices already have opens up a very big big philosophical discussion if you believe that everything that happens to you is to create by God that God decreed that you would suffer a humiliation you would suffer a pain then essentially who are you angry at are you angry at God are you questioning God's justice or do you disbelieve that God was in charge of your situation now if indeed you take the divine providence away from God and you attribute it to the human actor then that is a form of idolatry because you are no longer considering God to be the one that is running the show now this is why Gabala tanya says in all frustration and anger there is the element of idolatry in which one is denying the validity of divine providence and such Gaza now the reason why this opens up a huge huge Pandora's box of philosophical issues is that there's a well-known controversy it's a very very significant controversy whether human free will can actually override that God made in God's plan human free will can override God's intention meaning to say the following we believe in free will right you and these are pretty well so if a person goes into a convenience store in the middle of the night and gets shot by a robber at two o'clock in the morning so here's our question did God make the robber pull the trigger or did the robber have free will not to pull the trigger it's actually o matic in Jewish theology that God did not make the robber pull the trigger because if God made the robber pulled the trigger the robber could not be held accountable there are some exceptions god hardening pyro fire which clearly as as the rom behinds those are exceptional situations and in the normal course of events is an axiom of Judaism that there is bashira cup there is freewill but here's the thing how do you understand this paradox on one hand the guy with the gun could have chosen to either shoot or perhaps he would have done chuva the last moment and didn't shoot but can a person die if it's not the will of God does God decree when and how people would die now if you assume everything that happens to me is divinely ordained we have to assume that it was God's decree that I die at that particular moment but it was God's decree that I die at that particular moment how do you reconcile that with the fact that the guy who pulled the gun has free will not supported us what would have happen if he would have decided not to pull the trigger so one way of looking at it is okay if the guy wouldn't have pulled the trigger then the guy in the store would have gotten hard and he would have back meaning the carbonyl above us actually takes this extreme position the service old Weber says there's actually no such thing as a person truly victimized by another person because everything that happens to a person is decreed by God the actor ER had moral autonomy to decide to do better not to do that and it's that book hero for which he will be accountable but the net result of his action would have happened even without it that's the archives position and that kind of mirrors the ballot Anya's position that what am i angry about whatever happened was supposed to happen but there is a very very respectable view to the contrary this is a view that's associated with another great kabbalist the origin of high in Benatar was short sight we observed 22 weeks ago where the or FIM says that sometimes human suffering is a fallout from the fact that God gave human beings freewill meaning to say according to the era science interpretation if the guy in the convenience starter has bashira to pull the trigger or not pull the trigger that means if he decides to pull the trigger that a person may very well die who God did not decree should die at that particular moment meaning according to that there is a preservation of autonomy not only in the decision of who does evil but in terms of who will be affected by the evil that is done so I'm pointing out that if you go with the archives understanding then the ballot Anya's equation of why are you angry if God decreed this result wouldn't follow anymore because according to the arc I am things can happen to you that are not part of God's to create they are the inescapable fallout and consequence of the evil choices human beings do now as you know the problem of evil why do bad things happen good people is one of the major except it is book it is probably the single most important question in all village and not just Judaism because if one perceives of God is just and kind and merciful recognizing that I already contradict myself but whatever it is God is at a minimum fair and it's not more than fair so the question could be how do such bad things happen so the orihime is giving a possible response that this is the fall out of God allowing a free will principle to operate in the universe and you take your top out of the business more efficient office to the wrong person right to reality that yeah that's it yeah that's that's a little bit of a difficult point because certainly we don't perceive angelic forces as having in autonomy yeah that's that's hard that's even the archive doesn't doesn't fully answer that oh yeah in the second or in the first case where we accept that there are random forces swirling around in the universe yeah do we believe that God has an open account with the victim of that murder that God must make it up oh yes yeah yeah yeah that much is so because ultimately ultimately in an ultimate sense there is an accounting for rewards and and punishment in an ultimate sense we're simply dealing with looking at this world can there be happenstance but but certainly God will take care of the virtuous calculations that have to be made yeah I I think I think that that's inevitable yet yeah now here's a okay but the image is kind of a cycloid although it's a very important point let me just remind you of a certain analogy when governor Melek is running away from us shallow and he encounters a man of the family of Schaal that Kirsten shinny bengay one who says you deserve it so W MLS trigger-happy or sort happy general Yolo Vince Orillia who is actually doubles nephew as well said to Dov it should I kill this shimmy bangerra and Dov it or offered the lead the words that if God did not want me to be humiliated and shamed it wouldn't have happened again contrary to the orihime's position okay alright but be it as it may that is answer number one again what was what was our question we say that the first lay Semak touch was destroyed because of avodah Zarah gilja Rao's Severus Thurmond idolatry sexual immorality and murder but what connection do I have to those are they rose as if to say I am responsible for that hormone so answer number one is cuz I'll equate it right that even if I'm not guilty of sticking a knife into somebody I could very well be guilty of embarrassing someone publicly even if I don't worship a spat on Idol number one I could be angry at what God does and I could deny that God is the one that's doing it and with Eli right house even if one does not commit adultery but once again there are thoughts of improper sexual thoughts on the left let me mention to that in a deeper psychological way we actually regards emotional coldness visa via spouse as a form of adultery because it said there's anything that severs the bonds where do you see such an idea we see such an idea in the book of SROI well if you remember in the beginning of the book of Chanel we have the children of Ailee Ailee was the Kohen Gadol and the children of Ailee and that's why they died and Haley was a vegan they died and the house of Ailee was cursed that all of these descendants would die young and the classic says an amazing thing the Michigan in those days was in shyla which was not in usual I am and it says when women would bring their offerings after childbirth the sons of Ailee would sleep with these women would have intercourse with these women and as a result they committed this gross form of adultery and probably raped that's what it says now that's pretty astounding so the Gemara says in my second Shabbos following anyone that says that the children of a league committed the sin in the way it is literally described is making a mistake because what they did was not at all that what they did was the following what I wasn't after childbirth if she wasn't from wealthy family would bring a carbon of a bird little bird a little birds not too much for the calling to eat so the Kohanim put the women with shell birth at the end of the line where they brought other core bonus of animals so as a result the women were delayed in coming home they were unable to resume intimacy with their husbands until much much later in the day or maybe even the next day so consequently the prusik says that is treated like adultery now what's the connection I mean why would this Aveiro of keeping a woman away from her husband preventing a marital Union why would that be described as adultery so here you see a very very interesting idea that the essence of the sin of adultery isn't like you might think oh it's a sin called adultery the sin of adultery is the wedge that it drives in the intimacy of a husband and a wife kind of a different perspective adultery is so bad because it's results in one spouse not being able to trust in the other spouse anymore so consequently because I'll understand that anyone and anything that drives a wedge in the show long between a man and a wife is spiritual adultery even if there's no sex act there's no no no improper intercourse at all and that is why they're preventing women from being reunited with their husbands was tantamount to a great man in adultery so when we say Gilligan oh well so again once again number one we have the here hooray of error the sexual thoughts that surround us and number two when there is lack of Shawna Baez huh I didn't hear you say again I didn't hear you lack of Shama bias the exploitation of women all of these are aspects that are connected to give me away so that's kind of the answer number one now the answer number two again to the question of why are we morning voters OA gos versus W I want to give you a story you know a review of Cairo the author of the Shilka Nora was the revoked spot in the 1500s and spots in those days was a community that was much more prominent than usual I'm the widow of insurgents that had the lion's share of the great great rabbis avarage Israel you had of course of Yosef Cairo you had Rove Moshe all who was the preacher young of alphabets and composed of adobe who was the cousin you had a vehicle by Rob you had theories on towards the end result very young but before their resolver of moshe cordovero who's the great mystic before the Ariza just a phenomenal group of such greatness and you Joseph Karim was not only a great posting of course but he was on through a great mystic in his own right he was much much older than the every when the I result came to spot at around the age of 36 the result died just a year and half later Revere Saqqara was already in his 70s and he would go to try to hear Kabbalah from the aretha but he always fell asleep progressive Clara always fell asleep during their results lectures and be a result said Hashem is so concerned with your honor he didn't want you to be my student other words he told you he was comforting was in Cairo that Hashem is causing you to fall asleep because it's not come out that a person of your caliber be my students but still University of Cairo himself was amicable actually very interesting because the Shilka Nara has very little Kabbalah in some it's like regressive Cairo kept his whole logic worlds and his Kabbalah world very very separate they didn't mix he was not marabeth autonomy didn't intermingle the boundaries but immersive Cairo as a catalyst didn't have a private Calvary so with an angel he actually learned Torah with an angel that was called his maggot his creature and he left us a diary of his conversations with the angel you can actually get this became available for free online it's called Marga to make Shara the preacher of righteousness and integrity this was his angel and he actually writes about the discussions he had with the angel so in the Margit mushara reflective Cairo tells the following story there was once a passage in the Gomorrah that was very very difficult and he was learning it and learning it thinking about it and it took him quite a long time so he finally came up with a beautiful consistent logical explanation but it wasn't easy now you can imagine how difficult it was if the goggle had or Ragosa Clara had difficulty understanding it but he finally cracked it okay he's then walking home from his show we've been instructed on the know steve carell show let's say he was walking from the show to his home in the narrow alleyways of the old city of sweats again we'll go there today and he overhears a shoemaker learning the very same Gomorrah with his seven-year-old son and the seven-year-old son asks his father the same question that had been bothering of your SIM card now I assume regressive cairo didn't want to eavesdrop it at this point your scour got serious wanted to hear what the discussion would be so the shoemaker was a little impatient at his seven-year-old son because he said to his seven-year-old son I knew this would be too hard for you to understand why are you asking me such a simple question the answer is soda and the answer that the shoemaker gave to his seven-year-old son in which the shoemaker claimed was so obvious that a seven-year-old son should a bobble bubble of is what took her of Yasuhara weeks and weeks to understand sir Joseph Kara was was heartbroken because he said this is obviously a very simple explanation and I didn't get why did i shun withhold this wisdom from me what sin do I have that says I can't grasp what is expected of a seven-year-old aggressor so he asked his angel yes is Anjali what's nice in tell me I want to do children and the angel told him that it's exactly the opposite your understanding of this passage was a great secret it was a great secret it was something that the world was not deserving to understand but through your work and through your devotion and through your toil you brought it into the world once you brought it into the world it becomes as we say low-hanging fruit that anybody could get even a seven-year-old but had you not brought it into the world it would have been inaccessible now this is the story that is recording now the story from a rational perspective makes no sense at all what do we mean he brought it into the world he didn't teach anybody what this meant he didn't write it he didn't explain it all he did was understanding internally he was residing in his brain it is nowhere else how does that create a situation where the person next door is supposed to get it now it's interesting by analogy just by very recognizing we do have a process in science and mathematics of simultaneity of discovery you will often find that a certain idea is discovered in several places at the same time and sometimes as a whole Schuyler like who is the first one or who gets the credit as you know calculus claims to different originators Isaac Newton and Leibnitz there's no focus you know who gets the credit for it even relativity and the argument goes that have Einstein not come up with the theories of relativity it would have come down the pike not exactly the same time ago maybe a few years later but it's very interesting the argument is you know that relatively at the Einstein had a tremendous intuition Einstein actually said he did not think in numbers or words he thought in pictures density imagine things in mental images as your results are part of the complexity of relativity theory is that it did not come as a result of the normal progression of mathematical reasoning and therefore mathematicians had to go backwards and try to figure out I'm Stein's intuitions had it come down the pike a few years later it would have been the product of the normal development of mathematics and it actually would have been easier to grasp and easier to understand because I perceived things at a very at an incredibly high level of abstraction which was difficult for the layperson to to understand what was it though Einstein said that relativity is very easy compared to the Internal Revenue Code or even the tacit axle is much more much more than comment right Bob tikrit even even even worse and and the like so what is the basis it mean though that what does the model mean you brought it into the world so you see from here a spiritual idea and that is when we do acts of goodness acts of holiness acts of kindness acts of Torah learning we are generating waves of holiness that lift up and transform the whole world meaning to say even if I'm sitting in my private room learning Torah on some level the world gets transformed coverage science at once that Dietz aeneas of fashions in Paris was affected in some way by the intensity of the learning in writing it's kind of like ground zero of a bottom right if you're within a certain radius you know you get more radiation further further out not but even for thousands of miles there's some radiation so if there's intensive total learning and rather than right next to rather people will learn more by the time it gets to Paris maybe people won't be learning tough yummy but the dresses will be a quarter of an inch longer something like that these are radiations of holiness so consequently here is the argument if we live in a world good I as an individual you as an individual maybe we're not guilty of idolatry we're not guilty of direct sexual immorality we're not guilty of murder that may be true but we certainly live in a world which has murder and violence human suffering and exploitation we live in a world that is permeated with sexual improprieties and immorality and we live in a world of multiple forms of idolatry including pursuing the dollar or whatever it would be various ideologies that put God on the back burden birth or disregard in total so here's the thing if our goodness and our missiles would have lifted the world to a better level and the world is not on that level we are indirectly responsible for the avodah Zarah Delia Raya Shri host onon not because we did it but because we did not generate enough holiness to prevent those sins from happen so when the anti-semites like to say they like to blame Jews for everything that goes wrong in the world they are in a spiritual way correct because essentially the more holiness we generate by our lives the higher level of goodness the world itself is going to listen and therefore conversely when the world is decrepit and going to hell in a handbasket in so many ways we look at ourselves and we say I could have done more I could have done more not only in the direct way of protesting and light which is also true but even in the private way so when people say for example somebody sitting in learning Torah alone in their room what are they doing for the world now I can't I can't quantify it I can't tell you exactly what they're doing for the world but they are doing something for the world they're making the world on some level the better place so obviously one person is doing relatively little in that sense but by no use of a degree the world is closer to God it's not just that person the world that the main contribution of the main but one of the great contributions of Kabbalah in Jewish thought and as well they re Kaplan pointed out strangely enough as strange as it sounds Kabbalah has actually become the mainstream Jewish that is very very interesting you know if you compare for example pre Kabbalah Jewish philosophy let's say the Rambam the guides have been perplexed and roofs are gone and munoz from Deus and then you talk about how Jewish philosophy was studied and understood after the Ariza here actually say that Kabbalah has become the mainstream theology of Judaism to the chagrin of many rational intellectuals but it cannot be denied that Kabbalah has actually become dominance even if people know very little Kabbalah in terms of the formal discipline that is the way we view things we view things Kabbalistic alee whether you know it or not but be it as it may one of the great points that Kabbalah emphasized over and over again is the enormous significance of my actions instead of simply saying are you a sin so I'm going to get in trouble are you a mitzvah I'm going to get rewarded Kabbalah talks about whole world's being created by our goodness and being destroyed by our valence it's like you do in our area you are destroying wrecking havoc on the universe inside in ways we all really perceive and Cabala as it were that's why Jewish mysticism was actually very very different than many other systems because many mystical systems are impatient with detailed regulations they feel that the overall sense of connecting to the infinite should transcend boundaries and yet the Jewish mystics were almost obsessed with colonic detail they became obsessive about every little detail and I think Moe isn't that inconsistent I thought a mystical temperament doesn't want rules doesn't want regulations a mystical temperament wants freedom to experience the infant and yet the Mystics understood that the infinite power of good deeds and the infinite negative power of avails requires that that be done with the exactitude and precision almost good enough doesn't work here people say by the way this is what you can learn from computer technology let's say you're typing an email address see to the post office needs to be on a halfway-decent post office even if you make with you for some reason this country is not yet achieved in so many years but in a post office if you manually made a mistake in a letter it should be able to get to its destination because some human being should figure out something but if you're sending an email and it's a complicated email and all you did was you put a period instead of a comma or you left out one letter no matter you know the fact that it's 99.9% right it's not going to help you at all the computer has no recommend there's no means of reference okay there spellchecker there's some recommending in the computer system but certainly with rejection respectful addresses there is no Rackham and what does that remind you you got to be exact you want your message to go to the right place there is no tolerance of almost good luck the Kabbalists really thought that that's the way mitzvos worked almost good enough you know 90% right it got to be exactly the infinite significance so that's the second answer the second answer is even though I did not commit the sin of avodah Zarah GA ryuh Schriever stomach but I live in a world of our own as our regular x-ray burst open and that world is there because of me to some degree and therefore I bear accountability for the evils in the world because my goodness could have changed it in some way yet I'll say no not in the singular right right because collectively we will run it that's right that's right although it's interesting that somebody somebody asks the Rumba a question do I have to recite on Yom Kippur and I'll hate for those sins that I know I didn't do so the Rambam gives two answers why you have to first he says like you say since it's in the plural we're also asking forgiveness for every every Jew but then it gives another entry says you know you're an arrogant person if you were to truly think about these sins and the repercussions you would see there's not a single one you didn't do and someone will press on some level maybe not in the grossest physical way but on some level this to me okay so let me give you a third answer which in a way is kind of includes the other tail and that is that subtle points out that avodah Zarah idolatry gilja reyes sexual immorality and shiruko stomach murder our sins of course but they are really symptoms of underlying character flaws they are the extreme results of character malfunctions and as a result even if I'm not even from asymptomatic perfect even if I have not shown the symptoms I could very well have the root causes now what are they symptomatic of so the ideas perky Elvis talks about the idea that there are three primary metals that destroy a person's relationship with God this isn't creepy of us they are kin up jealousy and the Tyva excessive lust for hedonistic pleasure of a acceptance and the third is covered a desire for honor glory ego recognition self-advertisement power over others one is Pirkei avos a octina Activa a covered mode seein as how Adam mean oh yeah right right we mentioned that earlier yet before you came here that's in the Amarna darling you're correct this liner doesn't include anger although we would say that anger correlates with jealousy in a very good way but you'll you'll see but this my memory is from the Eleazar Kapoor aquinnah archive of our current mode CNN saga minä olen now here's what Roderick says now we'll see the correlation tree not be so obvious he says the extreme manifestation of jealousy is it results in murder the extreme manifestation of Tiber is it results in Delia Reyes and the extreme manifestation of Campos is that it results in our boat is over now let's see why why that is so jealousy can lead to murder in truth that actually is true you know most murders are crimes of violence your passion meaning to say I'm putting is I'm putting aside again in every cell we have it in unusual situation with terrorism and the like but if you're talking about criminal murders and I'm not terrorists or war issues they tend to be between people who know each other if you remember I know we just got out of prison Oh Jay Simpson right so what do they say the good language isn't that he got off for the crime he committed and he got sentenced for a crime he didn't commit it is a very very interesting with failure he grew up on the murder and then he got got evicted for some stupid thing that even the guy that he robbed said he shouldn't have been prosecuted for because he was just reclaiming his own property back but ok the beat is narrow so you remember the OJ Simpson murder trial around 15 years it was a long time twenty years ago I was really really on top of them and they're basically you know he was jealous at his wife having an affair or things like that so jealousy in which and jealousy leads to anger as well in which I am enraged that somebody has something that I think belongs to me in an extreme way jealousy can lead to violence and murder so even if I'm not guilty of murder but the the spiritual cause of murder is jealousy that could be there Tyler lust obviously lust in an extreme case can lead to adultery or incest so those two are pretty easy meaning to say ago the zora I'm sorry traditional stumblin was connected to Kenneth Ginley arroyos is connected to Tyra but what is less obvious is the connection between egotism a desire for self glorification and I voters over like the connection there is a little less obvious but spiritually would be the following idea the word a vote Azara literally means worshipping something other than God exact worshipping something that is foreign or strange meaning anytime you put any idea other than a Shem as the center of central focus of your life you are guilty of avodah Zarah so consequently it's entirely possible for a person to be guilty of worshiping themselves when I put my pleasure my needs my comforts my demands ahead of submission to the authority of a college for my coupled my ego is more important than God's will that is a form of avodah Zarah that is actually self worship narcissism is obviously self-worship and even if one is not psychologically diagnosed as a narcissist but the idea of narcissism can apply in all sorts of ways when I put my needs ahead of God's will what I perceive are my needs ahead of God's well that is a form of about Azara so well son Oaks argument is that when we mourn the Horeb on basa mikdash and we mourn the primary of a loss of our voters ARA gilja rajesh with estonian we're not necessarily saying i am guilty of those on a rose but they are symptoms of character flaws that we have we have the character flaw of jealousy and envy we have the callee character flaw of lust and tybo and we have the character flaw of putting our needs and our comforts ahead of the needs of the Jewish people and ultimately ahead of the will of God right so in that sense that is what we are mourning that is why packets or we are mourning not only the award one of the settings based on McNish which is because of Cinna Kingdom but we are even morning the first base of McNish which is abode Azara gilja reyes schrieffer's government but now i want to mention one other thought about the first base of McNish you know all of us know the Gemara in yuma that says the first temple was destroyed because of all orders or irregular right she was done but you know there's another Gomorrah in a different messiahs masochist Nidoran that gives a different reason for the destruction of the first base of McNish and it says that the Cohanim didn't know why it happened first of all and the lavinia didn't know why it happened they didn't know and they had to ask her Shem directly why did it happen why was the first-base I think mr. story not to make it the first so I shams answer was as the Gemara explains it based on a puss ik lo bears Alberto Rhetta Sheila they were learning Torah but they did not recite the brothels before they learned through and therefore the base on Nick - was the first base of macness was destroyed because they did not recite the Brazos before you learn so write in the morning we say berkos atone so this is quite an amazing tomorrow on many many kinds first of all not reciting percocet or ok it's a navarran but is that in that very row that deserves the destruction of the base of McNish second of all what do you mean the haka men didn't know that the vm didn't know we weren't that the committee is much more serious available avoidance our regulations of summon so they're asking okay we know this murder we know there is incest we know that there is idolatry but we still can't figure out why is the temple destroyed and the judge says you're right those of errors are no big deal but there isn't make beautiful subtle what does that mean and the ravine didn't know what did ravine talked about over and over again what did you hear we always talk about what did you have on because you're our very rows are gonna cause or but in color this is what the vm say and every chapter so when it happens they say gee why did that happen well you just spent fifty years telling us why this is going to end so there's a beautiful beautiful shot from one of the great great ballet Mooser rebellion rebellion was a person where Lawrence with the great pre-world war ii Godot Liam loser and he came to average Israel and he died in his 90s he lived was a link to a earlier generation just to give you an example of the type of personality he wants that he was once waiting for a bus and he was learning Mishnah XY was waiting for a bus and as you know often the case the bus was late now they didn't have the signs in those days that told you how many minutes the bus is coming and after around the 20-minute wait he finally lifted his eyes from the safe air to see if a bus was coming and then he started he was in his 90s at the time and then he started crying he said I in you know I'm over 90 years old and I no longer have the discipline to be focused on what I'm doing why did I look up would that bring the bus faster I should learn until the bus comes why am i showing impatience this is the kind of loser training that he had in which every single movement was calculated and thought-out and you would only blink your eyes it was appropriate to blink your eye at that particular moment there was no such thing of running on instincts or just emotions or wounds like your husband what is the right thing I'm waiting for a bus I learned until the bus comes when the bus comes then I close the safer for a moment and I get on the bus okay but B does it many this is what he says when the Gemara says in the Darwin that the prophets and the Cohanim didn't know why there was a Corbin the Chimera doesn't mean they didn't know what sins the Jewish people committed they knew very well with those sins were those sins were avodah Zarah Delia of Astana but the Cohanim and the VM were asking a meta question a question on top of the question that ago we know that Jewish people committed horrendous sins and the sins resulted in galoots and but the thing we don't get is but they were people who also learn Torah doesn't the Torah elevate you doesn't the Torah spiritualize you shouldn't the learning of Toland make you a better person it's like Urania shiva from nine to one and then during your lunch break you rape pillage and murder and then get back in time for the afternoon Seder it doesn't compute a person can learn Torah and it doesn't affect him that's the question in other words when it says they didn't understand it's not they didn't understand why there was a Corbin there was a horrible because of avodah Zarah Delia while she was stunning but they didn't understand how the Torah didn't change them so what's the answer so here you remember at the beginning of the book of Melaka double hem ella is old he's on his deathbed and he's shivering and he's cold and he can get no warmth and no matter how many blankets he's covered with and how many garments he wears he gets no warmth that will not discuss the unusual solution that he devised that to talk for another time but that you've already well ok because that said I don't have a lot of sanity ok well but but the ending point the Gemara makes is why was dubbing punished that he got no warmth from clothing because because I'll say if you treat clothing with disrespect the clothing at some point is going to take its revenge and not take care of you right and if you remember when during the earlier years when Scholl was pursuing dove it at one point somebody was able to cut away a piece of Scholes garments when show was relieving himself and he was able to show show oh you see I was so close to you I could have killed you so cuz I'll say oh he treated garments with disrespect so the garments Union so to speak tiny size moccasin clothing will not give them more so which is an interesting lesson that even inanimate objects that have served us we have to treat with a certain respect or they will not serve us well so what do you see you see from there an idea that that which you treat with disdain will not do its job for you on someone so if that's true for garments talvik homer is true for Torah meaning the sin that caused the korban is about a Zara gaily arrives before stomach but the NIV EMR asking how could they do those sins shouldn't the Torah elevator raise them up make them better people the answer is just as if you treat a garment with disrespect and disdain it does not give you warmth if you treat the Torah with disrespect and disdain it will not give you spiritual elevation even if you went so not reciting the blessing over the Torah once again is a symptom because what is the blessing say the blessings thank soshim for the gift of Torah if you don't recite that blessing you regard the Torah as a burden as an imposition as something that you do out of wrote you're out of habits but you don't regard it as a gift so that you are grateful so the disheartening lesson for us is that if one learns Torah and if one embraces Judaism generally but without a sense of joy appreciation and gratitude they transfer Shalom the Judaism big practice will not transform them and indeed you will have the scenario of I learnt in yeshiva 9 to 1 and between 1 and 3 I raped pillaged and murder that it is not inconsistent that you can have that type of personality and that's an important lesson to us that British investors are not going to go to that extreme but if we want the Torah to work on us to change us to elevate it then we have to come to it with an attitude of joy and appreciation at the privilege that it gives us not a sense of burden nor of Moshe finding once remarked that the old Yiddish expression to share design a year there's no thing that people say is so hard to be a Jew so the expression is really hard to be a Jim moshe feinstein felt that that was responsible for the loss of an entire generation in the 1920s and 30s when immigrants came to the united states we're talking about and they lived in poverty and they worked in sweatshops and if they were shomer Shabbos every single Monday morning they had to get a new job because if they didn't work on Saturday you know they were fired so they coined the phrase it's hard to be in general they meant it it's hard but we got to keep up but what do the kids hear the kids who grow up in the land of the free and the home of the brave they hear it's hard it's hard it's hard it's hard and they don't have to live that way anymore because it's not the shtetl and it's not The Pale of Settlement and they have the freedom to do whatever they want so if Moshe says with what they hear over and over again how hard it is to be a Jew at some point the Rebellion's say I don't need it through Moshe said that the attitude we have to try to cultivate because we have to believe it ourselves is the joy and the privilege of being a Jew even though it involves work to be sure and then that way when we convey an atmosphere of joy and atmosphere of simcha then the Torah can elevate us and trends for months and then for a volume up beyond sense once again that when it says the basin weakness was destroyed because they didn't recite blessings over the Torah it doesn't mean that was the sin for which the temple was destroyed the sins were about as ROG Leroy series of summon but why didn't the Torah elevate us so we wouldn't commit those sins because we didn't appreciate it we looked at it as a burden and therefore it didn't do its job and if it didn't do its job then indeed we were guilty of the most serious of a loss of a bonus or Angela - Teresa stone so these are something to think about as we approach at issue Bob and I was I say although I didn't discuss too much a synonym of the bio Cheney and then he talked about it last week but I don't want people to forget that as well the polarization and divisions in amuse rail are very very very great and I will just end with the teaching of MELAS slow monolith tells us to my yamaja poem upon him Cain Levada my Agha as water reflects the face that you show it so to the heart of one person reflects what is shown to it by the other I look into the water and I smile I will see a smiling face it reflects back I look into the water and I frown I get a frowning face but the heart of one person reflects back what that person is shown we show a person respect we sell a person love we show a person concern we show a person compassion they will feel that for us again I'm talking about fellow Jews I'm not dealing with the other elements that are a bit more problematical we show a person display and we show a person indifference hostility they will feel that way towards us as well and thus we are faced with a never-ending cycle as one group considers the other group to be bad people the other group considers them to be worse people and then it keeps on building and building and building and at some point somebody has to break the cycle and sometimes people say well why do the religious Jews have to break the cycle let the secular Jews break the cycle but the short answer is you know somebody has to be an adult in the room at some point meaning same thing in a marriage husband-and-wife or fighting somebody has to take the initiative here and if you live your life by saying will warn me let it be built well don't make the same argument and nothing ever happens so the strategy you can call it a strategy of religious life in Israel in which the whole goal is to yell and scream about how bad somebody else is is not a strategy that is likely to work because Mela already told us it's not going to work because the more you insult the other the more the other will think poorly of you so you're not going to convince anybody of that so somehow we could see in our own lives ways of building bridges and ways of making connection even on the smallest scale eventually God willing there could be a critical mass of bridges of oxytocin bridges of law and bridges of togetherness that can indeed bring the goldish lemma that all of us are yearning for us good night and hopefully made this be the last of that issue [Music] amen okay kiss [Music]