A Push of Love - Rabbi Yisrael Feld

three weeks every single year is a time where we pause and we mourn the destruction of the base of my dush and we've had a tough year and a half at this point but even through the hardships of life if you have a base of medias you can walk in and understand that hashem is running the world it's true that even the jews at that time they had ups and downs because all people have ups and downs but there was a place where they can go and see clearly that hashem is running the world day in and day out and we're missing such a fundamental part of what judaism is supposed to be our relationship with hashem imagine a beautiful family happy parents and kids but they have no house to dwell in together and that is what we're missing with our college powerful the fact that we're lacking the base of maintenance and the question is is why why why was the basement just taken away from us so we know the second base of interest was destroyed because of baseless hatred but it always bothered me because do people hate others for no reason at all baselessly there's no reason at all i'm walking down the street i've never seen this person before and i'm just gonna hate them is that true is that possible so i heard a beautiful idea it's not that there was no reason at all humans sometimes frustrate other humans they get under our skin they're small little differences amongst each sect of judaism that sometimes we look at as a little bit strange it's not that there was baseless no reason at all but they were so small the reasonings that it was baseless for us to actually get that upset to look at each other and be frustrated with each other it's so different he wears that and she wears this and they go to that community in this school and all those different things these aren't reasons to hate another two they're baseless it's not that there was no reason at all but the reasons were so small that it wasn't worth us getting upset at each other and because of those small reasons we're now a nation without a home to dwelling with hashem i believe we need to stop and think during these three weeks and say what is it that frustrates me about this jew or that you and are these reasons big enough to lose the bash is it something that is worth such a big idea that the small things that make us different are worth separating us as a nation you know we we say about when we receive the torah but it have one heart is when we're going to be redeemed that's what we're going to get back the base habitat there's there was a beautiful line going around at the time of shavuot is that omar was not allowed this year the jewish people saw tragedy and made wrong that didn't know what type of sect you were it was everyone was involved and then she was rolled around and she wasn't she was there was another tragedy just this past week three people the third person of carlin was nifter there was a tragedy right before schluis it's our job this year to make sure that tisha both is not fishable either but not cause of tragedy because of it should be a day of celebrating each other we need to make sure that this tisha ball [Music] i'm loving you for no big reason at all small little things that you do the fact that you're my jewish brother and sister that's the reason i love you it doesn't need to be anything greater than that baseless love there's a nice story i just saw i read this past week about there was a uh a race and there was an uh kenyan runner his name is the bell mutai and he was winning the race the whole time he was leaving the pack and he finally gets to the end and he stops just short of where the race was supposed to end he got confused with the signs they were written in english and he thought this is where it ended and he stopped literally just feet in front of the finish line starting to celebrate and the person behind him was yvonne hernandez and he saw him coming they noticed was going he was screaming at him in spanish to keep going keep going he noticed that he got confused but obviously the candy runner didn't speak spanish and he just stayed right in front of no idea what he was saying and so the spanish runner yvonne came and he pushed him forward and the bell won the race and afterwards they interviewed him and they said why would you do that you could have won so he says i hope one day to live in a land in a world we're able to push each other even though we're different and i just thought that was a powerful thing because these are two totally different people from different countries different religions different everything's if that all the jewish people live amongst themselves i hope to push you forward and love you no matter what even though we might be different so this three weeks i think we should stop and we should make sure that we are loving each and every jew for no reason at all in a minute to send this tisha but will not be one of sitting on the floor mourning but celebrating and dancing with jews all over the world