Kollel Shorts: Midrash on Tisha B'Av and How To Rebuild The Jewish People

[Music] T Bob is coming and I saw a beautiful H rash Tuma in theum it's the second to last one and it gives some insight on the gulus that we're currently in one of asav and Edam it's an interesting story from schmuel say for schmuel where yav the general who worked for King David basically went over to to asov and showed up with the Army brought brought King David's Army and they decided that they were going to kill off all of asov all of Adam over in the land of here now in darum in the par Dum it says that that uh that hashem's giving them this particular piece of land at this time so the Emissary from Edam comes out and says hey didn't you read the Torah your own book it says first of all you're not allowed to hate us says you're not allowed to hate asov he's your brother and also it says that he's giving you the land so how could you come and and kill us and yav turns around effectively King David says midash tanuma had this sort of Nua that hey this Last Exile of Asa where you have all this baseless hatred against Jews you have pograms you have inquisitions I mean you have this story in Portugal where they decided to have the Inquisition every Jewish child under 14 they bring to an island they abduct and forcibly convert to Christianity I mean 200,000 Jews I mean it's mindboggling the amount of abuse that asov and the Christians have mounted onto the Jewish people absolutely mindboggling and here David has this idea that hey let's just get rid of them let's just for foreshorten it and let's make sure that there's no last skullis brilliant idea effectively Hashem is like no no no no no you have to have uh you have to have asov asov is in the story and not only that you have the blessing between yakob and and asov and asov in the blessing is basically a stick that Hashem uses to beat down the Jews when we're not doing what we're supposed to do so in the second Y in 9B it says that the second temple was destroyed for baseless hatred we know why the first temple was destroyed for three cardinal sins but Y is saying that the second temple was destroyed for baseless hatred and in the Sika the opening of the explanation of of uh Esther in in the midrash Rah for Esther schmuel the Great Sage is saying that hey these are these Exiles are all occurring measure for measure and because you hated your fellow Jew I'm putting you into an exile where they're going to have baseless hatred of you they're going to just hate you measure for measure there's a really interesting midrash rabah that talks about returning the mother's bird the the eggs to the mother's bird nest it says that it brings you life and the midrash explains that that this is actually a way to force foreshorten the Exile The Last Exile and the idea is that with hashem's Mercy if you're showing Mercy on hashem's creatures hem is going to show mercy on you and the midrash explains that really the idea about this Mitzvah is to start thinking about your fellow Jew and have mercy on your fellow Jew I'm not talking about guys who are sitting there protesting uh to break Shabbat and Tel Aviv things like that I'm talking about guys who maybe they read the a little bit different than you a little bit differently than you but they're keeping toward mitzvos maybe they have a different knitted keeper than you maybe maybe they're from you know a different area in the world than your families from you have to love these people and you have to treat them with respect you have to think think well of them you have to to to to treat them with with care this this is these are people that are try and keep touring MZ vot and one of the great ways to care for your fellow Jew is to look for the people that are holding together the Jewish people these are the tour Scholars these are the guys that are sitting a full day in a cola that are learning the word of Hashem the details and the implications of all of the MIT vat and the idea is is that is to to help support them is to is to find a coell and to give a little money to to the coell to help support these guys who sit and learn because this is how the the real kindness Comes This is what makes sure that the is here with am Isel you know the further we get away from Tor and mitts vote and the more we go into this dark long gulus of asov the more materialistic it gets and the more asav convince convinces us to get away from T MIT vote the laws the details the implications and convinces us to get away from a spiritual life and in the BR that y gives to yob and to and to ASA it's really pointing to asov saying that look this is going to be a very materialistic uh BR that you get and for Yakov it's going to be one that's more spiritual and so the idea of Judaism is to get into a spiritual framework and a spiritual life and to get away from a focus of materialism yeah we live in a material world and we can use material things to to to live here and to to transform our experience and to and to make KES Hashem there's a beautiful Yi that says that when somebody passes away that they're going to be asked the question sh they're going to say did you see beautiful fruit and did you buy it did you did you get it did you eat it did you enjoy it and the person says no say why not I made it for you hasem made it for you to enjoy in this world so we do things like we say BR over it we say BR after it we do things not just to have a material life but to transform form that into a spiritual life and that's why the most important thing that you can do is to invest in yourself and to go to a structured learning program and learn and also to support guys who sit and learn fulltime in a structured learning program because this is the ultimate kindness and love of the Jewish people this gives some insight on Tisha and why we have this gullis and again it's it's looking at BAS Bess hatred and the and the quickest way to end that is to undo baseless hatred we have to look at the way we speak that's intricately connected with baseless hatred we have to look at where we give our money for charity are we giving our money to theaters or are we giving our money to what makes us connected as Jewish people which is a place where people learn Torah are we thinking about for are we living a materialistic life and chasing material instead of living a spiritual life are we transforming the world into a world of spirituality are we treating our fellow Jew and loving our fellow Jew are we loving ourselves best investment of your time today is to get into the structured learning program and to connect back to the Jewish people and to our Traditions have a great day good Tish