NSJC TISHA B'AV 2019 video

our first Speaker Yakov Siegel who will be giving words in memory of Rabbi Zev Siegel we're obviously about to begin Kenneth and before each Kenneth somebody will get up and introduce that particular can I explain that Kenna but before we do that we're just going to give a general introduction to the Guinness and a little bit about what the day of Tish above is about Posse tells us that everything has its season and there is a time for everything under the heaven and the plus 6 says there's an ace lived Christ there's a time to cry in zuckerashi when is this time to cry this time to cry is on Tish above and while on all other mayadim we have Mitzvahs on Roshana we have the Sharif we have matzah and on Tish above we have something as well what we have is we have crying and if we can try to take a deeper look into what are we crying for what does our crying accomplish what is our crying all about we know simply that on tissue above we cry we mourn for the destruction of the first place I make dollars the destruction of the second base I make those it was the day that by cochlea's Revolt was crushed and his stronghold that beta was captured by the Romans and we're told that so many hundreds of thousands of Jews were murdered that the goyam used our blood as fertilizer for their Vineyards for seven years it was the day that turned his Rufus had yerushalayim the makama miktos raised and plowed under but we are told that Tisch above is rooted in the Sin and the other of the miragam the spies that moisturaben was sent out when Claudius was standing at the threshold of Heritage Israel ready to conquer our sister only sent out the spies to go tour the land and they came back and they spoke dibasaurus they spoke badly about the land and the gemara tells us the day that the Mirage the spies came back it was air of Tish above and the plastic tells us and the nation cried on that night that night obviously referring to the night of Tish above and the gemara goes on and the gemara says you wept in vain on that night of Tish above I will establish this date for you as a time of real weeping for all generations and simply the way we understand this is that we wept in vain and I call this bar who was punishing us and he said you have no real reason to cry and because you cried for no real reason I will give you a reason to cry and for all generations on this day you will cry but if you think about it it's not that simple first of all what is the zelu um what exactly is the punishment there I understand that because we cried so we should be punished for crying but why because we wept in vain does that translate into crying for all generations and secondly if you think about it was this really the core of the sin the Avera that took place by the maraglam the spies came back they spoke terribly about Heritage Israel Claudius throw was ready to look for a new leader we didn't believe that our College bar who could give us the land the Bahia the crying was merely a symptom of everything else that took place yet the Gamora is telling us that what we're being punished for is the crying and seemingly in the bigger picture as well this doesn't seem to add up because we know that Tish above aside from being the saddest day of the year is also the climax of the three-week morning period that we have for the base of beginning with shavascript is a day that a number of tragedies be felt quality Israel amongst them being the eagle the sin of the golden calf when my sharabena went up to our Sinai he was ready to come down with the Lucas and Claudius show was Toya they made a mistake they thought Maisha Ravena was supposed to come down already and they formed they formed the ego the calf and they said this is your god of Israel that took you out of mitzrayim yet as terrible as the day that shivasa batamas is it does not come up to the level of sadness of tragedy that Tish above is but it's an interesting thing because if any of us would be asked what was the worst surveyor that claudiusro did was it the sin of the golden calf or was it the sin of the Mirage the sin of the spies we would all obviously say that it was the eagle the sin of the golden calf it took place at icinai it was a beginner at least for some in Claudius worship the mafarsham say that if Maisha abena would have come down the the purpose of the world would have been complete yet in the say there in the order of the days is lined up with the eagle the sin of the golden calf while Tish above the day of the dairus of the day of the ultimate Corbin of the ultimate tragedy is lined up with the sin of the spies the sin of the Mirage seemingly it should be the opposite and to understand this we need to First understand what is crying what does it mean when somebody cries where does his crying come from we know that a person is typhus a person grasps things with Seiko with understanding the way we communicate with each other is through our understanding our Seiko but then there's the deeper part of the person the person himself his Chuka his rotten the person's desire who he is all that's tied up in himself the person's emotion and in the world of sehal of understanding the burim words are its expression but in the world of emotion of who I am at my core the moment crying is its expression we know that lathe the heart and Becky crying has the same Gematria the Gematria 32 because when somebody cries it's an expression of his heart when somebody is at a loss for words he turns to tears tears come from the heart the sin of the golden calf was a terrible terrible are there that we pay for until this day like the Apostle says that in all future Generations when Claudia Israel sins who's going to throw in part of that punishment that we should have gotten for the eagle but as bad as it was it was a defined act it was a defined Avera it wasn't the lack of a catcher of a tie without College Baruch rather we made the wrong husband we got caught up in the Avera and as bad as it was there could be harota you can regret it it can be true for repentance on such an adira and as bad as it was the person tells us that Hashem was comforted but when it came to the miragam the spies the terrible moment of Tish above was We Cried that we didn't want to go there when we just didn't want to go that was one thing but when we cried when our innermost self our being our emotion who we are was saying that we don't want to go for that there's nothing to do repentance can be done on something bad something terrible like but for the lack of good for the lack of a desire simply that we didn't want to go that can't be changed and therefore the eagle is lined up with Thomas while the sin of the Mirage despise is lined up with the day of the ultimate tragedy Tish above so what can be done foreign that's a tick in the way to make up for that crying of freedom is to have a Bahia crying for something real to feel that deep hurt that somehow although we never saw the base time it's something we can't describe somehow when we all say The avoidanium Kipper it tugs at our heart it's something deeply rooted in us a deep Earth that only gets harder with time that in order to forge a new bond with the land of herits Israel the same tears that once dissolved are linked to the land must now be shed in love and yearning for the land only once our souls are merged with the land can our bodies follow imagine a child delay Elena loses everything he has he loses his family he loses his house he's homeless he has nothing and a friendly neighbor takes him in and they give him everything they give him food they give him shelter they give them education they buy him anything he needs the kid has everything yet somehow when the child goes to sleep at night he's still sad because as much as he has everything he's not home he's missing he's missing the main thing and in a sense that's what we are we're a generation that has everything our grandparents and great grandparents could have dreamed of the access that we have to minion to tell your yet as much as we have everything sometimes when you have everything that's when you feel the void more than anything else and we have everything but we're not home in a sense we don't have anything and for that on Tish above we cry but we cry for more than that as well we know that Kenneth is divided into four parts this kid is on the bias region the first place I make those kids shall Tire the destruction of tarah and there's Kenneth on the golos on the Exile and it's the same kindness that we say every year but unfortunately every year we never have our Newt Sorrows our new tragedies to bring into the Guinness and rep Volvo once suggested his talmudin a meaningful approach to the structure of Kenneth he noticed that on the day of Tish above we say 40 Kenneth and he said the number 40 is not a coincidence he referenced abelia and that Goddess that says that Hashem did not only inflict ten Marcus on the Midstream on the Egyptians rather he inflicted 40 Marcus as the pasig tells us is Fury wrath trouble and a band of emissaries of evil and each plague was a different form of pain and he said that in mitzrayim there were 40 makas and throughout history the Jewish people have endured their own 40 Marcus how much we have suffered destruction murder deaths of leaders deaths of children brutality torture inquisitions Crusades holocausts suicide bombings foreign we cry as well we say at the end of the vehicle last night for even if you utterly rejected us Hashem you have already raged against us enough I'm sure we've all heard of the famous kleisenberger the closenberger Reba who won the war lost his wife and eleven children to the Nazis in maximum and the rebel was known for famously and heroically after the war rebuilding power in America and Eric Israel being all those in Europe as well shortly after the war the rebel came to America to speak on behalf of the Plato the survivors who were never still suffering in the DP camps in Europe at the time the rebel was holding a minion on Shabbos in the Beth Moses Hospital in the bedstuy area of Brooklyn one of the weeks that the rebel was there was the week that we lay in the curses that will be full clout yourself if they don't go in the ways of Hashem and the minute the customer Israel is the one reading the Torah the balcony Lanes it in a lower voice so as not to arouse our enemies to these Clovis to these curses that we are reading and the balcony begins to read it in a hush tone in a lower voice and suddenly the Reba bangs on his stand there and he screams Hecker say it louder assumed that the rebel just couldn't hear him so he said it a little louder but the redness still wasn't happy and he banged again and he said Hecker say it louder finally the balcony was laning the way he does on any other week but the rabbi kept banging say it louder say it louder by that point there was a commotion around the river the balcony stops he looks at the rebel with the face of Reba what do you want me to do and the rabbit says we no longer have to read these miserable curses quietly there is no curse we have not experienced there is no Affliction we have not suffered we saw it all we lived it all let us chat with pride to Our Father in Heaven that we have already received all these curses we have survived these curses and now it is his turn to bring us the blessings and the Redemption the rabbits stopped talking look back into his whole mission the valkyria continued laning loud and clear as of singing his nation's anthem there is hope there is a future there is an end but on tissue above our job is to show like other Sparkle that deep down we truly do on it and that's the idea of kindness most of us I'm sure know from years past that the kidneys is truly hard to understand and this is partially because the kidneys were written with hergish with emotion not with the way one would write a regular essay and ideally Tish above would be a day where we would all sit and beyon to sit alone say the Kenneth and cry but unfortunately we don't even have the Calum to properly mourn and therefore we turn to explanations to words but it's certain that at some point throughout the kidneys everybody can find something that they relate to and to tap into the emotion of the Python the one who wrote the kinner and I'm here who will see the Bahia of our laive and answer our call of Hashem we'll now begin with Zion kinazion on page 158 begins with and the idea of the kinner is really a constant asking from Hashem to remember us for good and one would expect in a massive in a give and take with a friend that one's trying to get a favor from that he would try to remind the friend of the times that he did a favor for him and because I did a favor for you so you should not return it and do a favor for me the soul kinner is phrased as a dialogue between Kalisa yet it doesn't say anywhere in the kinna that we did good for you Hashem so why are we suffering so now stop so now do good for us rather it mentions it mentions that the Golem and mentions are Sinai the Brisbane abasaram mentions good times that we had with akadash baraku the times that our College Barack who showed his love towards us and it would be like saying to someone you helped me once now help me again what exactly is the masamat and what is the give and take over here it should say we did great for you now do for us for example like we say on Roshana and the chronus if you go through darpokems seemingly it should be the same over here explains that imagine a father decides to punish his son and the sun begins bargaining with the father and he says you know I helped you last week finish your work I helped you with this I helped you with that that's not the way for a son to bargain with a father in a sense that cheapens the relationship between a father and a son a deeper child will understand that he should start jogging his father's memory to the moments of Ava the moments of love where the father showed love and mercy where the flow of father to son was the way it should be where he arouses in the Father the sense of fatherhood and that's very hard for a father to ignore and that's the idea here to remind that College of article of the moments of Ava the moments of love and try to arouse his Mercy that way but the kinda doesn't end there because the kinna goes on and it says and not and you did not recall the Covenant between the parts and every paragraph has its own something that a college park who did not recall and then we end off different expressions of crying and we say remember Hashem what has befallen us and the explanation is that there are two ways to ask somebody for a favor there's a prideful way to ask somebody for a favor do it for me out of love do it for me out of respect and then there's a sad pitiful way to ask for a favor that if the person doesn't want to do you the favor out of love and he doesn't want to do it for you out of respect do it for me out of Mercy do it for me because I'm homeless I have nothing I'm penniless do it for me do it for me simply for no other reason than to be nice to me I noticed last night we say nikina on page 60 we say one who takes pity on the Pauper where Asia see how long our Exile has been do not be overly angered rather take note of the degradation and that's the idea of this kin over here we're saying if you don't want to do it for us out of love see Hashem what has befallen us and do it for us out of Mercy um are you foreign [Music] Beyond it is foreign begins says how those did not really happen but it goes through the colors and it says how the colors did happen but I like to focus on a different Dakota an aspect of this is how they have thrown my Splendor from my head a few pages later we say year after year he added anguish to my morning since the moment he was angered and said I will shatter the pride of your strength when we talk about the guy in the guy in Yakov were obviously referring to the base of miktush take a person who goes through a crisis what gives the person the strength to keep going to keep bouncing back obviously his resilience where does his resilience come from his resilience come from his gaiva when we say guy over here we don't mean arrogance as we Loosely translate it rather we mean Pride but imagine you destroy a person's gaiva a person's Pride his whole system is gone he would be like a sick person whose body is completely ravaged trying to recover from an illness it doesn't work you don't have anything to bounce back from there's a difference between The Giver of a guy and the guys arrogance all about himself for example take Harmony was all about himself who he is we're told it's just the opposite we're told that cloudy Israel has giva as well the possible the sword of your pride it's saying that Claudia's Pride call yourself and it says that I call this bar who has gaiva as well in our College baraku's Giver is nothing to do with ourselves but our givers totally about somebody else and the place where Claudius borrow who came together was in the basement was a is a place of meeting and that is the idea that the pride of Kalisa was the base was asked what topic should be discussed the most on Tish above and he said the pride of yaakov Because if you think about it the guy in the act of this that we we lost our pride is an integral part of the Corbin we had our pride and even if we wanted a little bit we had our backbone we had the strength to bounce back the guy in yaku was not our luxury it was our spine it was our pride it was Who We Are unfortunately I don't think any of us have to think hard that and realize that we're not together we're not the pride unto the Nations anymore we don't know what it feels like when Claudia was viewed as the pride to the Nations there was a time where it was well known to All Nations that the Jewish people are cutlassborough whose children and in fact this is what we mean in the public that we say last night the kings of the earth did not believe nor did any of the world's inhabitants that the enemy could enter the gates of yerushalayim the center of the world now said and this is the explanation of what we say over here that year after year he added anguish to my morning because if a pride is gone every blow that you take it just keeps getting worse and worse you don't bounce back rather every hit you take makes everything worse and because we have lost our pride therefore foreign to think this looked like during the Glorious times dressed in their Priestly garments how the city sparkled with beauty and Holiness saying their songs how the land Shone in its splendor if one can picture this the idea of the korbon the idea of the qurban of the base will definitely shatter him the posca near me says it's talking about honoring Hashem having proper covered shamaim and the plastic says that if you do not heed this my soul will cry in its hidden Chambers because of holiness and the gemara says what does this mean because of gaiva um like we just spoke it's because the pride of Israel that was lost and given life they could call them to the game says and there are different ways to learn this gimoro but we'll go like Rashi who learns literally that the Navy gave us because of the giver the covet of the Malco that was lost as well that not only do we have pain not only has our pride been lost but I call this as well as that is used to say why is it that we need a cry so much for mashiach he said is it for paranosa that we should all have paranosa that those that we know that are sick should get a refua he says of course that will all happen when mashiach comes to send you paranosa now he could send it without sending mashiach rather the reason we need to cry for mashiach is because of the desires because still in pain in the golus and that is a big part of this Kino that our pride is gone our pride in our College Barak whose pride is gone and it's truly a tremendous part of the Corbin please um [Music] uh [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign we'll now move on to Kino yud on page 174 the kingdom begins with Sharon it's a term used in to describe Khali Israel however this kinis speaks mostly of a terrible suffering of the kohanim in particular since while all of Khalid Claudia suffered because of the qurban the kahanam felt it the most their lives were completely scented around the avoid and the rituals they performed in the base they spent years studying the halachus and how to do special services and every year they would spend at least two weeks the mishmar serving in the base amigdush therefore obviously when the Corbin happened was destroyed the kahanam lost everything the world totally crumbled around them and when we and when we recite this Kingdom we realize how attached the kahanam were to the base of mikdosh we can get a sense of the suffering they experienced as a result of the korbon we can realize how Irreplaceable the avoid in the basement and therefore gain an appreciation for what we are missing there's a story told over that a man once came through a Byron Cutler and he said I don't understand something why is it that we are so sad on tishaboof true we don't have a base I make those but we we did return to Heritage Cyril the holy Heritage Israel is now a Jewish country with yeshivasam and plenty of yiddin living there haven't we already experienced part of the gula rabaran responded with a story he said during the times of the Corbin there were two yiddin who were exiled one was the cayenne and one was a farmer from the Galileo they were both crying bitterly each one weeping over his life that he had lost the farmer told the client about the mitzi's boards that he used to perform how he gave trumas and misers he had lost everything the Cayenne cried as well bitterly over the loss of the avoida that he had performed in the basam the utensils that he used to use the unique carbonis he offered and they both cried and they said it is all lost now a number of years later the two met again this time in Italy the queen began to cry again over his loss and the farmer as well began to cry over his loss a few years later they met in Spain again and the same thing happened wherever they would meet each other they would both cry over their loss eventually the two of them met again and I heard system the farmer came rushing over to the cayenne and he excitedly said my dear cullian I got my donkey back I claimed my land back I am so happy to which the Cayenne responded Yes you may have your donkey you may have your land but I am still without the base amigdush I still can't sacrifice the carbonus nor can I perform the special avoida you have yours back I have none of mine we are still in golus to truly appreciate and to truly yearn for the coming of mashiach the first step is to realize that we're truly in golf I'm speaking a memory of my grandfather by Zev Siegel so I'll just say over one thing then I heard from my father that he was a kid and he was driving with my grandfather in the car and yerushalayim I believe the year was 1969. the summer of 1969. and they heard the news on the radio and the radios and the news says that the Alaska mask in yerushalayim was bombed something was thrown at it and my grandfather wasn't one who often showed outwardly emotion but at that time he jumps up and he starts screaming he assumed that because the Malcolm Amigos was beginning to be cleared away for now the base I make this to come down and this is something somebody who had an appreciation of the fact that we're in golus and the fact that we're in golisan we that we always have to yearn for the coming of mashiach is um foreign [Music] together [Applause] Kino 's services foreign [Music] and we welcome everybody to the new Springville Jewish Center tissue book program our next speaker some Slimer Schwartz who will be speaking words in memory of his father of David Schwartz next cannot is Kenny at Olive Kenny at Olive is notable for being the oldest Canada that we say and it was composed by the navi Army himself and the Kenneth starts off this was the the lament that year Mio gave over and throughout the kinawi we say the story of um is a very very tragic figure in our history he was a king of Claud Israel who came along at a time of very very severe moral decay of the Jewish people he had not seen a safer tyro until 18 years into his reign his father and his grandfather had both been evil Kings they had brought Avada Zara and made it the culture of aretz Israel and a safer Terror was discovered during yeshio's Reign and the safety was opened to the spot to the spot in the terror where it says and when yeshio heard about this when he saw this was the first cafeteria he had ever seen he immediately said he said it's our job to uphold the Torah the pasak had said that curse curse be those who don't uphold what's written in this scroll saw the scroll and he said it's our job to it's our job to to do what it says in the Torah which had not been the reality for Jewish people for many many years and yoshio fostered a massive chuva movement throughout claudiusrall and he he changed he changed the the whole face of what was going on in arts Israel at the time and he made it his job he made it his duty to eradicate avidazara idol worship from the entire land of Israel among from among the Jewish people he was very successful in this endeavor but not as successful as he thought so in the Kenna it talks about it it says foreign of the generations scorners the late sonum clung to him those who stood Idols behind the door and the McPherson explained what that means is that there were there was people among cholesterol who were very attached to have a desire they very they wouldn't they didn't want to give up on their idol worship so what they would do is they would have an idol on the back of a door or between two doors so when the doors would be opened by the inspectors the SEO had had sent around to root out about the Zara and the the doors would be open you wouldn't be able to tell that it was enough I desire would be disguised it would be on two halves of the door the doors would be closed you wouldn't see it and then when the doors would would be closed again then the idol will become intact once again and people would be able to worship it and this was a secret uh uh surreptitious that that yeshio didn't know was going on his inspectors didn't know what was going on and what ended up being the tragic mistake was that yeshio overestimated the the spiritual quality of his generation there had been a lot of chuva there had been a lot of work done but not to the level that yeshio thought and there came a time when the Egyptians wanted to pass through Arizona and yoshio felt that at this time Theft Auto was was in effect which is a haftaka from Hashem that that uh at a time when the Jewish nation is doing what they're supposed to be doing they will Merit that a a piece so complete that not only will they not be at war with any other nations but Eric's Israel will be so far from any militaristic Endeavor that even a foreign army wouldn't couldn't pass through Eric's Israel couldn't use it for an unrelated War and the Egyptians wanted to pass their Arts Israel and yeshio felt no we're at we're at that and he refused against the advice of the navient and this triggered this triggered a war against the Jews because of their failure to cooperate with the Egyptians and yeshio himself ended up being killed in this war and with his dying breath he said as we as we as we mentioned in the later on in the kinna ruach's all right with his final dying breath what did yeshio say he said it is Hashem who is righteous for I have disobeyed yeshio who was it was what we call he he saw the righteousness and admitted to the righteousness of assam's judgment on him for him to die speaking was air conditioner was my father my father for many years Schwartz he he uh he spoke for many years on Tesh above he led the Tish above program in his shul and in the Jewish Heritage Center of Queens and Long Island so I'm going to say over some of the things that he said he would say this kin every year and and the theme that he would return to is the view of yeshio as a as a potential mashiach who who was killed but unlike other mashiach figures most often the dynamic throughout Jewish history is that a desperate Nation A desperate suffering Nation puts their faith in the wrong person unfortunately here we have we have a a reversal of that script and we have someone who who was right to be a mashiach somebody who created a massive truthful movement the goliathral who started who made Moves towards build rebuilding the base amigdush he put his he put too much faith in an unworthy population and the lesson that we have that that that has for us is that you know we we sometimes we sometimes criticize arcadilum too much we criticize our leaders and we don't appreciate them we don't appreciate the leaders we have and we've lost a lot of leaders over the last few years we don't appreciate the leaders we have we criticize them we second guess them and and we're not worthy of them it's not that they're not worthy of us we're not worthy of them and this is a lesson we could take from this kind of it's to appreciate the leaders that we have and and let them lead us let their do their job another thing my father used to quote is from the left hand dimmer that that the the usual read on this kin is that the people were defiant they they you know they they wanted uh they they loved if I desire too much they didn't want to give it up but there's another reading on it there's there's a way to understand this that they loved yoshio too much they appreciated and they felt that they said he's such a big sad that he's such a big he's such a he's such a big leader that it doesn't matter what we do we could be and and we don't need to give up our flight desire because we have this this topic who take care who takes care of us and they were riding on his coattail so to speak and that also has resonance for us we we you know there's certain things shortcuts shortcuts we take in our Hashem and our spirituality certain certain things that we we've made too much to too Central as part of our yiddishkite and it's important to remember that we need to do the real work we shouldn't you know we have to do we have to work on ourselves we can't be Simon on shortcuts on different things that that people use as a substitute for for authenticness another point my father used to make was that it says here the possibly mentioned the line we mentioned from the Kenner that the breath of his lips and when we're talking about a mashiach figure we we can't help but think of the phrase Hashem is usually referred to as the breath of our nostrils the breath of our nose and over here it's called so we know that that at the moment of Creation The Great the the the ultimate moment in human history when when human beings were were put on this Earth and and set here in this in this setting to do to do a sacred work that Hashem wanted us to do it was started through the nose that's where that's where the mo that's where the place of creation happened and and moments of creation are associated with that and the moment when mashiach will come will be a ruach happiness will be a moment of a new reality starting a new a new creation a new a new massive of of of completeness in the world of Harmony in the world but unfortunately the moment that we're talking about here in this kinna is a tragic moment it's a moment of of something dying of something ending that's why it says if it was an exhalation it was the opposite of it was it was it was a dying exhalation through the mouth a final breath and and the dying breath of what could have been a really glorious era for for Jewish history um one final point before we get to the Kenner you know just on this idea of a hidden avoidazara of the disguised that can only be seen internally by people you know we don't we don't really struggle with if I deserve the way that people in this era of Jewish history did but we all know for ourselves there are things in our in our in our lives that have taken the place and one thing I just want to mention is that you know it's very interesting the the Torah tells us that is if somebody breaks something when they're angry it's as if they worshiped an idol so it's hard thing to a hard thing to understand why the Torah equates what seems to be just you know an overreaction angry overreaction to one of the worst possible things we can do but maybe a way to understand it is that psychologists tell us that the reason that the reason that people break things when they're upset is because it's to reassert control they feel they're upset something happened that they don't like and it's given them the feeling that they can't control anything in their life so they they throw something on the floor they break something just to show no I do have control I have control over this over this plate I can throw it on the floor and break it and when we think about it that way we can understand that the avoid the Zara is that illusion avoidazara is the illusion of control when we break a plate because we're angry when we're so desperate to reassert our own control and the illusion that we control things and not Hashem we are the fighters are our own ego our own illusion of control that stuff I deserve that we're worshiping and that's a hidden avoidazara that's internal that's something that happens in our own mind so if this is a lesson we could take from this kinna maybe to to realize whatever internally whatever whatever we're worshiping internally whatever we're putting too much focus on that stuff I desire that we should try to that we should try to eradicate from our hearts and and hopefully bring uh bring about a better amount of for for uh for ourselves and for and for the Jewish people can you get olive by economy near me foreign thank you [Music] foreign the form of the Kenna is two questions that are asked in each stanza first question that is uh that is asked is the ones that start ahali which is which the first few lines that each in each stanza they cannot talk about the glory of the base I make those miraculous things that happens and then it will say to them is the first line it says why is it forever why is it forever plundered in the hands of plunderers and each line says it Compares it juxtaposes the glory of the base of English have special and porn the base of English was and it says why is it seemingly forever not in that state anymore why is it even seemingly forever destroyed degraded and the second question that's asked is which mean which is a question about Hashem it's a question of why do you Hashem seem to be you've become like the first line karaya baitav or ashtavaraganta you've become like a lost a Shepherd veiled in mourning over his lost flocks now there's two questions that we ask as we go through these two questions are basically unanswered besides for one one Short Line at the end where it says foreign destruction is engraved on his palm hashem's palm nevertheless my healing is certain but for the most that's one short line for the most part these are just anguished questions without answers that we asking and so let's first talk about the lines that say lamella the lines that start Lama Lanetta um you know we're talking about the base of English being Beyond oh yeah in the hands of enemies in the hands of tormentors and you don't need to think too hard for that line to be very evocative when we think about the Maka mamigdush in the modern era this line really resonates with us it's it's very literal biats are but uh the second the second thing that we talk about there's also a more metaphorical meaning we'll get to we'll get to that at the end but uh the lines that really are striking are the lines that save in hiesa because it's talking about Hashem and you know we're human beings we we need to talk about Hashem we need to talk to Hashem but really there's no way to capture the infinite in human language we just use the tools we have so when we're talking about Hashem we're using Marshall Demian kinoy we're using metaphors and that's the only way we have to talk about Hashem but when we talk about Hashem usually we talk about talk about a father a king a judge we use metaphors of power metaphors that we think are more fitting at least for us on our level to talk about Hashem and the metaphor is that the makinen uses here are are are so starkly different from what we're used to that if it wouldn't be written in a Kennedy you'd almost be scared to say it comparing Hashem to a to a lonely Bird on a roof saying that Hashem is like a shell-shocked Soldier or like a beggar at an inn these are these these are very starkly and very jarring language that we're using but but I think what this really meant to be talking about we're not talking about anything of the reality of Hashem we're talking about we're talking about us we're talking about our reality our job is to be America was supposed to be the the vehicle for for godliness in this world we're supposed to be the agents the representatives so to speak of Hashem and through our failures through the through the generations to to live up to a certain standard this is what we've reduced the idea of godliness to this is we've become a shell of what we're supposed to be in terms of reflecting of Hashem so when the Makai in here is talking about the talking about that was talking about it's talking about what we've made the muslig of godliness in this world but we've made the concept throughout Hashem that we make the voiding of hashem's name the voiding of hashem's presence from this world the makinen is calling us out he's he's really talking to us when he says that why is it that this is what Hashem is represented by now in this in the world um another point that it struck me you know it's another aspect of Corbin that maybe we don't talk about so often in the art scroll if you have the Arts World Kenneth's here you'll notice in the first page in footnote nine and the second page in footnote for it talks about how words in this kinna were changed by sensors and you know it's maybe something we don't think about that often but I think it's a tremendous part of the Corbin that we've dealt with over the years is the cultural Corbin of of our our culture the things that we hold most important have been in the hands of enemies for thousands and thousands of years is there any more mikdus biatsar than the fact that for for centuries the church could censor anything people couldn't print what they want and people couldn't say what they wanted it started really with translation of the Torah many many years ago when they had to change words in order not to offend a certain King and it's just continued up until up until the very up until today we have a we have a long history of censorship in our modern era we don't deal with the same kind of censorship but definitely here in New York we've started to feel the stirrings of you know maybe not being able to say what we want and Yeshiva is not being able to teach how we want we've we've seen the the first Rumblings of that and and uh there's other aspects of mickeyzar that we deal with now that in the modern era with with technology and with the way that all our information is out there we've seen things that are so precious to us considered so internal so much a part of our internal culture and and the things that we find you know the things that we feel are are our foundations have been tossed out into the streets Kabbalah which is the panemi panimus of Tyro over the last I don't know how many years has been turned into just some subject to be prodded at by dispassionate academics or to be utilized for whatever Purpose By by very Vain and superficial people celebrities it's it's a real tragedy and it's a and it's a it's a real it's a real example of miktashbiatsar and uh when we when we say this Kenneth we have to we should we should think about all the aspects of mikdar's biats are that we know of the the physical literal miktor spiyatzar and the and the uh and the cultural Corbin of of miktors that's happened over the years can you advance Ali Asha tafta it's after ugly Mauritius in case um [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] um next kind of we're going to say is kinetazion the focus of this Tina is it's called zechar assets the first line and this kind of kind of Zooms in and focuses on on one of the the Crux of the destruction of the second base and this is the the actions of of the wicked Titus Titus was the son of espasian and he destroyed he destroyed the base amigdush but like so many other times in Jewish history you know a military Endeavor a military campaign really was about so much more it was about it was about humiliating and utterly utterly destroying the the the spirit of the opponent and that's particularly true here and this cannot Titus did Titus did incredibly depraved and degrading things in the Kardashian in the in the holiest place of our of our uh of the base of magnesh and one of the things it says here is that upon him struck Terror throughout the land of our heritage when he desecrated the showbridge upon him and he impaled the two-sided curtains so hazal tell us what this means is that is that he he stabbed aside from all the other things that he did in the karate he took his sword and he stabbed it into the into the periphas and the nase occurred and blood flowed out of the parathas and the gumar tells us that he thought haragus atsumai which is Allah we don't we don't even want to say the misconception that Titus had but the Titus was under the impression that he had killed the Jewish deity he knew this was the holiest place in the temple he stuck his sword into the prayer because blood came out for a person with a twisted paganistic view of reality it was in his mind he assumed that he had that he had killed the Jewish deity I mean obviously Tito's thought was not the reality but why did this Nace occur why did blood flow out of why did blood flow out of the Paratha what was the message for us in that so one of the things my father used to say over was was from from hudner that that uh we call murder even when the spilling of blood even when there's no blood being spilled whether whether a person gets poisoned or or drowned it's always called a murder is is identified it's it's thought of as a as a spilling of blood why why is that so in in the other side we don't we don't view death as the way other people do as just the breakdown of a very sophisticated piece of biological Machinery we view death as a divorce because life was a marriage between Body and Soul between these two seemingly opposed elements that are that are mixed together and and form a creature that walks through the world is capable of of thought of speech of morality of living a Sanctified life and the moment when those two things separate that's what death is death is a separation of those two elements of the divorce the departing of these two elements that had been together for so long and have been capable of of incredible things when they were together that's and and and we we say that we view on some level on some mystical level that the blood somehow is plays an essential role in in binding those two things together so when somebody is killed which means that the body and soul have been separated we call that because whatever the manner of death was whatever the manner of murder was the the result that I saw what's happened is that there's this tragic separation of body and soul when Titus stabbed the paretas it was the end it was it was the culminating moment of Destruction and there was no death there was there was there was no death in the way that we understand it but there certainly was a separation Hashem had for many years when the base I mean there stood there was a there was a connection there was a there was a spiritual connection with the physical world it was there was a there was a hashara sashrina Hashem hashem's presence could be felt in the base of English and when teachers destroyed the basement that that presence left and there was there was a connection that used to be there that was broken and it was it was a separation it was a death and and what's dead is the world the cosmos is dead the world is dead in the wake of the destruction of the base of Magnus and that's what that blood hemorrhaging out of the out of the park has signified was that we now from from that moment of Destruction onward we were fated to be residents of a dead world of a comatose world and that's something to think about as we go through this as we go through this uh as we go through this Keno that what is the status of the world we live in today there's another another point about this and other kinis I don't know if we're going to say the next one the next one is a particularly good example of this but but in this can as well and everything that we talk about and we we read about on Tesh above it's incredibly graphic and Incredibly harsh we we you know we talk about things from from periods in our history that that we have very little frame of reference for they're very it's it's incredibly harsh depictions of the kind of suffering that that we have no ability really to understand but I think this is this is badafka this is It's deliberate and maybe it's it's it's it's been this way for so many years that we talk about the the most harsh things on tush above and maybe it's only in our door that that is that it's come to its full importance because we live in a very comfortable jar very easy Dar and we always talk about that it's hard to understand these things it's hard to feel these things and what I think that really might come down to is Aslam was talking about before imagination comes down to a failure of imagination really you know most of us for us we call the Demian our imagination it's usually an Escape Route out of reality we're using our Demi in our imagination we're using it to fool ourselves to make you know to make big big pronouncements about our about our about our rooklia's big uh you know big cabalis that we're going to make how we're going to improve and our imagination is just a tool to escape it's just a way to sway to disguise the reality of life we use it to to come up with you know big averis that other people did to us we build these huge edifices of imaginary insults that people did to us that were really not meant that way at all that's where we're using our imagination for most of the time but the imagination is a two-way street sometimes the only way to see the reality is by using your imagination sometimes it's a it's the only entry point that's not an Escape Route and you know I'll I'll give an example uh there was a Ramesh Shapiro very close to his death was very involved in in encouraging people to get involved in setting up tier of schools Outreach schools to help to help kids who who are not who are from communities where there's not really an educational infrastructure and he was he was in a meeting with somebody and he was he was really you know he was really making the case to the guy and really you know pleading with him and he said to this person who he was asking to work in one of these schools he said you know there's a train full of kids going to Auschwitz every day if you can pull one kid off that train your place in grenade then will be incredibly not not shy far beyond what I what I myself will get that's what ramaysha said most of us would say we're in America Hashem there's no there's no cattle cars there's no Auschwitz but ramesha was able to use his Mind's Eye to see the reality of the situation that there is a Corbin going on in this country is there any greater sword stuck through a Perez in the state of American Jewelry oh are we not hemorrhaging the lifeblood of our people every single day is that not a Corbin and when we when we when we read about these qurbanas these horrible tragic periods in our history the Corbin the Inquisition the Holocaust the Crusades whatever it is when we read about these things we need to use the the things that maybe during the rest of the year we wouldn't even be able to stomach we need to look at them head on and let that use that to spark our imagination to spark our Mind's Eye to see the reality of what we're living through right now we're living through an era of a secret chorbanas we need to look we need to look past the surface level placidity the surface level peace and comfort that we seem to enjoy here and we need to use our Mind's Eye to be real on Tish above and to see the real quranas that are going on just want to end off before we say the Kenna with something from the kusri to maybe connect some of the themes we've talked about for this kind of and to end on a somewhat hopeful note the kuzri talks about how the basement he in his explanation of the makama migdush he talks about how he uses to explain it a muscle of a human body so I'm just going to read I'll try to translate as I go so the the kusri says to the cover that he said you've explained to me everything that that in the mix that corresponds to the human body except the head the The Head and the Heart The Head and the Heart so what the cover responded was that the head on the heart was the Aaron and the Lucas that were in the iron so the kuzri asks the heartbreaking question to the hover he says if that's the case that the Aran and the Lucas is our head in our heart he says today we're like a headless and heartless corpse without the iron without the base I make this we're like a dead body with no head no ability to have any sensation or sense and no heart the cover responses the kuzuri says he says it's true what you're saying but it's even worse he said not only are we headless and heartless corpse but we're dismembered corpse we're we're scattered all over the world we're we're separated one from the other we're like a body that's been chopped up and and discarded and thrown out like garbage but he says however he says these these scattered limbs this this dismembered body that currently is the the Jewish people that has something in it that has something in it from from a body that was once alive he said it's better that this body that was once a seat for something living is better than all the perfect perfectly sculpted bodies and the perfectly intact bodies made of Stone and Marble that never once had the spark of life in them and they'll never have the capacity to have life in them once again what what what he's talking about here is the fact that you know we find ourselves in a shattered State we find ourselves in Exile spread out under the control of others and we see our our building our our place is totally destroyed and we see the seats of government of other places see to government the corporate headquarters they're beautiful big buildings totally intact but what he's saying here is is that we may be we may be shattered and broken but we once held life in US and we will hold life in us once again we understand this from our from our Messiah from the level of army Sarah Mason and uh and even even in modern science we know that you can isolate DNA in a in a in a living in a in a scrap of biological matter and you could you could reconstitute it so we have to what we have to think about here on tissue above is that yes we're shattered yes we're broken but we are shyak to life we once had life in us and we will that's the Hashem of life life in us once again whereas all the other things that we see around us that are fully built up never had life in them and never will see life in them so if we just end off before we say the cannot because we're sitting here today together on Tisch above the cutsker famously said that there's nothing more complete there's nothing more whole than a broken heart there's certainly nothing more whole than a community that sits together and shares a broken heart and that's what we're trying to do around tissue above and let's hope that this is the the first step to bring the ghoulash Lima Kenneth Zion is [Music] um [Music] my message camera outside continue we again thank everybody for joining us we're not from signal Network we thank ZK for being here making sure that everything is going smooth and we will continue the new Springville tourist center dish above program preparing words from our dear friend Rabbi Yehuda Kovacs memory of his grandfather or the liaquin Coleman as was just mentioned there are certain kinos that are very very difficult to read not difficult because intellectually they're hard to understand but rather they're difficult because it's hard to comprehend it's hard to wrap the mind around how low and it became at the time of the famine at the time of the hormone that people could sink so low as The Kino describes in grotesque and graphic detail that we're about to read how women would be forced because of the famine the butcher lay Elaine with their own children and eat their flesh The Killer goes on to describe how not only that but it was so bad that women would make deals with each other we'll eat my child today we'll eat your child tomorrow and then they deceived each other the next day the child was already eaten by the mother and yermia begs to know the understanding he asks the question why is this happening how could it be that things have deteriorated so much that we've gotten to this state and if you look at the end of the kinna ruach a voice calls out and says it's because you killed in the basement one of the kennels later describes in Greater detail 250 years before the Corbin basant zacharya came to rebuke the Jewish people not only didn't they listen to him but they murdered him they killed him the truth is that this Kino is really based on apocious in the curse the admonishment the terrorist says you're going to come to a point where the famine the suffering is going to be so bad you're going to eat your children your own the Flesh of your own children but there's a magic over there and The Kino is partially based on this madrish I'd like to read the words the short measures it says that the Kino is really based on one specific person one specific episode there was a man living at the time of the qurban his name was Doug Ben yose if he passed away he died and he left the Widow emo he left the Widow and one only child and this mother loved the child so much every single year she used to measure the child with hand breaths with her hand she would give his weight in gold over to the basement when the enemy surrounded The Fortunes of Jerusalem she butchered this child and she ate him well laments and he says is this what happens women who have to eat the ones that they raised with tender care but it's a play on the word tipu him is like the word the handbras the ones that was that were measured with their hands ends the voice of Hashem calls out and says like we mentioned that this was all retribution for the heinous murder of Zechariah I saw in a safer barriers he speaks about this this Kina and he asks the following two questions number one why was yermia so shocked it's a public in the terror as we said it's nothing shocking about it was a navuah this was a fulfillment of the nabua how come you're me I couldn't understand what was going on number one number two is where is the middle where is the punishment that's measured for measure that because Carl Israel 250 years before the qurban killed zacharya so therefore they should be demoted to this level where they have to eat the Flesh of their own children how is that a punishment that fits the crime part of it is his own answer and part of it he says is an answer that he heard when he was a child in the name of itself and he says the following every parent loves their child there's no question some a little bit more some a little bit less but there's a natural Ava there's a natural love that a parent has for a child and so this curse of them that you'll eat the Flesh of your own children it could have been fulfilled with any parent by any parent if they would have had to succumb to this level of depravity that would have been a cure already but look at where it got to this woman the Widow of dayek Ben Youssef who loved her child with an extraordinary kind of love in fact the gemara Yuma has a different Visa has a different version on the magician it says that it wasn't every year that she would give his weight and gold to the base I make that she was every single day she would measure her head rest and she would give his weight in gold every single day to the base of mikdus it's almost an abnormal expression of love and for that kind of person yermia says for this type of woman the me I love if you look at the beginning of the pasok it says to whom look at to whom you did it the kingdom the Fulfillment of this curse had to come about in a way in a wood with a woman who had such an extraordinary type of love for her child how could it be cesium answers you're wondering about what's going on over here that the kium of this curse could have happened through a standard expression of love you know what happened in the basement murder is a terrible crime with whoever it's committed to whoever the victim is it's one of the worst Taveras but look what kalal Israel did they didn't just murder an ordinary person the measures tells us that zacharya he was the son of the king he was the kind God of high priest he was a prophet he was a die and he was a judge they killed a person like that where did they kill him not in some place not on the Alley Corner they killed him in the Azar of the base in the courtyard of the base and when did they kill him says the gemara they killed him on a young Kippur that fell out on a Shabbos so it was a murder of an incredible person of amanigador of the leader of generation in the holiest place on the most holy time of year and that was the neither can I get Meda over here but it runs a little further and he says why send us a navi what was the tafka of Zechariah was to come to rebuke the Jewish people that they should do chuva they should repent they should realize what is their wrong doing what happened not only did they not listen to him but they killed the messenger it wasn't just that they didn't listen to the message they killed the messenger they turned everything around and on that comes this suffering famine difficulties in life are supposed to make a person better they're supposed to challenge you to do chuva to make you better to be memeric to purify a person never think about this woman the almana the Widow of diag Ben Yosef what kind of karata she must have had that the suffering of her famine not only did it cleanse her to make her better but a few hours later maybe a day later she must have had about the terrible terrible crime that she did to kill to butcher her own child to eat its flesh and what did it do for her she's still hungry a couple hours later so the Surah and the suffering not only didn't it help her but it made her sink even lower and lower that's something that we have to think about as we read as we read this Zion difficult things happen Messengers come to us Don't Kill the Messenger but listen to the message I think [Music] thank you foreign easier [Music] everybody um address the Collier tries to draw a contrast between the original closeness of Claud Israel the Jewish people Hashem throughout history we see as the king of the scribes the promise to yakovino taking Claud Israel out of mitzrayim splitting the yams of building the basement which is the apple of hashem's eye and if you look in the keynote it talks about based on a gemara was actually built before the creation of the world Hashem was he built it corresponding to the physical that we had and at each step in the kinna it describes how even though those promises to the others happened and even though we were taken out of mitraim all of this was taken away from us there was a closeness that we had and now there is a tremendous tremendous Gap and your Mia the color speaks about it yermia asks it in a question form how could it be how could it be these things happened the exalted state of vinay Israel and that we are so low and at the end of the Kina the answer is given because of the Alvarez Allah closing words of the kinah is that it's basically all our fault why are we lamenting and talking since all this has befallen us because of our guilt revolva in the safe rally Shore quotes from his rebbe says a very interesting thing Tish above is known as a yamtiv oyed he says that there's two types of yamim there's a yumptive of closeness to Hashem and that's the Charlotte where we feel the closest to Hashem but then he says there's a yamtiv of rehook there's a young div that's established based on distance from Hashem and that's the yamtiv of Tish above because as he says there's only one thing that's even worse than being than being distant from and that's not even realizing how distant you've become so we need a yamtiv a yumptive of Tish above to take stock and to stop the excuses and to start realizing and doing a little bit of introspection to understand how we've gotten to that state your Mia himself if you look at say for yermia he goes to cloudy cell and he says how is it that you people claw Israel you keep saying there's nothing wrong you have an excuse for everything the murder is not really murder and the avoidazar is not so bad and the immorality The Gila arise there's a shot for that stop giving the excuses yermia says takal Israel and so as we go through this keynote we have to ask ourselves what exactly is it that we miss so much about having the base hamiktas when we had that base if you go to any child child in kindergarten and you say where is Hashem where's the Sun Hashem is here Hashem is there Hashem is everywhere so what are we missing by not having the base we have Hashem Hashem is with us Hashem is here what do we need some for very powerful question what's the answer the answer is of course Hashem is everywhere and if you look in the rabbinic literature there's different terminologies that's used for this Hashem is but what we're missing by not having the base is the feeling of closeness what do I mean when you would walk into the basement there were no distractions everywhere else in the world where Hashem is of course in Hashem is present there but you can't feel it it's like listening to a radio station where there's static once in a while you could hear like one line coming through you could maybe decipher what's going on and that still happens in our lives it could happen at a different times throughout a person's life he feels a strong connection to Hashem maybe it's when he's standing under maybe it's when he's standing in maybe it's a woman once she's lighting Shabbos candles but it comes in it goes out it doesn't last it's not something where you could have access to at any time you wanted in the basement you could walk into the basement you could walk up to the stairs in the basement at any single moment and we did it during the Charlotte and there was no static and there was no noise all you felt was a connection that was a thousand times the connection you could feel at any point today at the most inspiring moment that a person has in their life today he could feel that at any moment when you would walk up the stairs and you would go to the basement and what was the proof to that the proof to that my friends is anybody that was that's in this room or listening if you've ever walked through the ear hatika you've ever walked through the old city of yushalaim and you come and you come to those steps that are just above the coastal Plaza especially if you haven't been there in a long time and you see and you see the case and you see that it's lying in the ruins and there's such there's a feeling it's your nashama is tugging at you it's a feeling in your heart that you can't really put into words there's no lexicon that can describe it but that was the feeling one thousand fold that you would feel when you would walk into the basement imagine how intense that could be imagine however lasting that could be how the inspiration would stay with a person and that's what we're missing we could go and we could get that inspiration and we could visit we could travel and we should of course but it's not the same it's better than it used to be my grandmother Allah used to talk about how when she was growing up in Hungary to go visit you shalim was like a dream it was like a fantasy nobody ever visited you shall I am nobody ever went if you went you weren't going to come back it meant you went to move there she used to tell me how the Rob and her little schtetl in her little town in Hungary once went with the president of the show Terrace Israel they went for like four months and they came back and that's all they were talking about for years was about their trip to yerushalayim it was a fantasy and we could do it today but it's nothing near what we had during the times and as we read this kind of that's what we have to think about let's remember how we got here why we got here and what does it mean that Tish above is a yamtv of rehook it's a yantev of distance a yamctiv and a time that we have to think about introspect about and feel what it meant to have the basement [Music] all right [Applause] guys [Music] whatever it is foreign [Music] foreign is based on a story in the gemara and get in a well-known story the son and daughter of the famous Korean Garden Alicia were taken captive by the destruction of second base each taken captive by a different officer and the gemara explains how the two of them bumped into each other one day in the marketplace and one said to the other you wouldn't believe the beautiful attractive girl that I have that I've taken captive and the other one said you wouldn't believe how handsome the captive that I took is they had an idea with each other that they'll put them in a room together they'll marry them off to each other they'll have children who will obviously be handsome and they could fetch a good sum and they'll split the profits that was the idea that they had the gemara says they put them in a dark room and as you go through the Kennedy you'll see what each one was saying to themselves how could it be I the son of the Korean godo should marry this shifra this maidservant and she was thinking the same thing along the same lines how is it possible somebody who descends from arunachoyan should be placed in such a difficult situation should stoop so low and in the morning time they recognized each other brother and sister they embraced and the shamas left them because of the sadness of the moment because of the sadness of the experience and of course it's a terrible story it's a sad story it's a story that year Mia as the gemara says cries about but the question is why is it that this story is emblematic of the hormone what is it about this story that captures the tragedy of the Corbin base ambiktos there are probably many similar stories why is this one the focus of the lament of your Mia and Avi I'd like to share with you a beautiful story that I just heard remember from Solomon he said that inherit Israel there was a girl her name was Riva unfortunately this girl she was raised in a religious home but unfortunately she left the fold as they say she had gone very distant she had met a boy from a different religion and she was engaged to marry him she was going to assimilate her mother was very understandably distraught she tried to talk her out of it but nothing helped she couldn't get her to change her mind what's she supposed to do so she decided she's going to take her to rabbits in kaneevskya shalom finally this girl agrees to go to Robinson kanyevsky they go to benebrock to the famous house of the kaneevskis and they start talking and at some point in the conversation the mother pulls Robinson kaneevsky aside and she explains through the situation of what's going on and Robinson kaneevsky says of course I'll talk to her I'll I'll see what I could do so she pulls aside this girl privately this Riva and then she starts talking to her and she says you don't realize what kind of mistake you're making we have such a beautiful tradition you're going to come to regret it etc etc and she goes on and on for a long time finally this Riva who's taking it all in she says you know rabbit's in I can't go back on my decision I've made up my mind already I'm engaged I'm going to stay engaged but I feel your sincerity I feel your warmth and because of that I'm willing to accept one Mitzvah you decide which Mitzvah what give me one Mitzvah that I should do every day and I'll do that one mitzvah so the rabbits and thinks for a second and she says okay the Mitzvah I would like you to do is say one paragraph of the Hill every single day so the girl says okay one paragraph to tell him not so difficult I can handle that no problem she gets up to leave and as she's about to leave the Robinson says to her you know what since you made the commitment today it would make sense that we should say you want the hill pick up it'll tell him right now together let's do it today okay no problem the Robinson pulls out at the hill and I don't know if this is Nutella backwards and forwards with stomach but she opens up to it to heal him Gibble number 43. remember this girl's name is Riva and the possuk in the Capitol film starts out shaftania like him viriva rivi avenge me Hashem and Champion my cause foreign against a nation that's unkind and this girl is thinking to herself oh my goodness this paragraph and tell him it's talking to me she could barely go on but she continues the public with the rabbitsun I deliver me from a man of Deceit and iniquity and she breaks down crying this girl she can't even get to the next person and she says to the rabbits and I see I see God is talking to me I see I have to change my decision and she just changed her decision and perhaps that's the shot over here I was thinking that maybe this is why your miyahu was complaining was crying about this story because terrible horrible destruction but there was at least a glimmer of hope that the memory of the base of mikdush would stay in the Holy mishbach Israel and the families of claw Israel as long as there would be a a strong firm family structure the memory of the korbon would be able to live on but look what happened here Ruby schmold and Alicia the crying godel's own children how they could have built beautiful families beautiful but look they're taken captive the family structure was now ruined there's no more hope for even a memory of the basal miktas and that's why this tragedy was so emblematic of the qurban because it would mean that there's no continuity but we know that was not the case for Hashem Israel the god of cloud Israel doesn't sleep and does not Slumber and there's always hope and I'll leave you with a thought from he says a beautiful explanation the daughter of Paro saw baby emotion floating in the river so the person says Ayala she opened up the casket and she saw the child there was a child who was crying a timer she said this is a Jewish child all of the commentaries asked Colin fashion say how did she know this was a Jewish child there's many answers given to that question but censor by there was because of the way he was crying there was a child crying when a Jew cries he doesn't cry out of Despair he doesn't cry out of Abandonment he doesn't cry out of a sense of use that Hashem has left him he cries a cry of Hope and when she saw and she heard baby Moshe she realized this is a different kind of cry this is a cry that has a ring of Tikvah there's a ring of Hope in this cry and that's why she said this must be a Jewish child because when a year cries he cries with the hope the hope that the basant will return the hope that Michelle will come speedily in our days thank you yeah some results [Music] services [Music] foreign program here in Staten Island our next speaker Seagate Leo sunshine thank you Kino 26 [Applause] is the kinner that was written based on an episode a conversation that took place that's brought in the Madrid whether Navi that he should go to the Quorum of the others he should go tomorrow he should go to moishra bainu and he should ask them to stand up and to cry for their children ask them to stand up and to plead a case that there should be a gaula for their children who are sitting in destruction that children who are sitting in the ashes Mourning go and ask the others to complete a case for me ask the others ask their fathers their forefathers then we asked them the founders of our nation avram to come and plead a case that there should be a gaula there should be an end to the pain and the measures tells us how abramovino comes and he tries to bring us a merit why his children should be redeemed and he's instantly shut down comes he tries he's also quieted yaakov they're all quiet at almost the instant they that they begin to talk there's custom their merits aren't worthy of redemption for their children and the mattress tells us how at the endo the mama stands up and she tells the Rubina you know you know that I gave over the Simon and I gave over the codes to my sister I was supposed to marry yakovino my evil father love unswitched me with my sister Leia and though it was my right to marry her I didn't want to to marry him I didn't want to embarrass my sister I didn't want to embarrass Leia and I gave her the Simone and I gave up on uh is there a greater is there a greater husband than yaakovino I grave I gave up on the greatest ever I gave over the Simone to my sister Leia so she can have him so that she shouldn't be embarrassed such a mysterious nephe and instantly the Republic responds miyad Nissan because of you because of this tremendous Cross of giving over the Simon and talaya there will be a future for your children because of you you need not cry anymore because of your tremendous Trust of giving it to Leia for that there will be a ghula and it needs an understanding over here in this Madras certainly certainly giving over us giving up on a civil giving up on a giving up on a spouse like yaakovino to a sister is a tremendous tremendous mysterious nephesh that's giving up a tremendous amount more than anyone can be asked to do came with something worthy also avram was ready to give up his only child the only child he would ever have he was ready to slaughter him isbayak to bring him as an island his eternity his everything the mark that he would make on the world he was ready to give that up and yitzrak was ready to go willingly is that something to be knocked away to be shut down we were ready to do the arcade doesn't want to hear of it but Rahel is ready to give up on a spouse and that's instantly answered I would imagine that if one would ask a mother and a wife to make the extremely painful decision of giving up on their spouse or giving up on their only child as painful as it would be I think that every woman would hold on to their child every woman would hold on to that Ben Jacob their mark on the world their everything their eternity was it a greater mysterious nephe what Rahel gave up than what avram and ready to give up the truth is that in terms of mysterious nephesh in terms of what was given up it is possible that Rahel didn't give up the same amount was ready to give up it could be that on the scale of what weighs more in terms of what was given it could be avram and yet gave more and if what the Republican was looking for was mysterious nephish certainly avram and yitzler would have been answered before but there's an added Dimension here there's an added Dimension to the mysterious nephesh of rochel that we're not addressing were ready to be Miser nephesh they were ready to give up their everything to the urban they were ready to bring a carbon to Hashem was standing there she had a sister two great people and they knew at the time that there were two brothers that lived somewhere else and their names were Jaco even asaph and at the time they knew that their Destinies were intertwined they knew that Rahel was the Civic for Yakov and she was assidilios she was destined to be the aim of Israel the mother of claudiusra and Leo was to marry Asaf and become the mother of Eden Rahel didn't give up in Hashem Rahel didn't give up on carbon to Hashem Rahel gave up her future her acid her glorious Destiny the most glorious Destiny they would ever be being the mother of the shiv taika being the mother of the schwaten being the mother of claudi Israel she was ready to give up what was rightfully hers what she was owed what she was promised what yaakov worked for what they yearned for what they looked forward to she gave that up to give it to her own sister so she shouldn't be embarrassed and then live a life of watching someone else live in the role that was rightfully hers that's not a mysterious nephrase that's not an islet Hashem that's an uprooting that's a ridding oneself of any sense of kinna any sense of Rights any sense of it's about me the kinna that had to be uprooted over there was so miraculous Rahul stands up and says maybe what they were willing to give up is not enough to be miscalgal rahmov to bring a girl Urban you brought a Corbin because there was avoida Zara and when there's avoidazara idol worship the rabbin becomes a kale kanui a god of Revenge a god of of jealousy there's a killer towards the average stands up Rockland says I did not feel any kind whatsoever and I'm made of flesh and blood um you're the great God you also shouldn't feel any kinna the uprooting for that from oneself the uprooting any sense of jealousy any sense of it's about me from oneself that's what brings that's what talks to Corbin that's what rebuilds the runes there was a younger man of Aaron Baxter who became one of the guys Torah and Claudia Israel from a few days ago and he was offered the job by the outer of slavatka to become the slavatgarish Iva is one of the most prestigious yeshivists that ever have ever existed much of Torah jury today was established and those who are responsible for it are those who are the products of slavotka he was offered the job to become the receiver of slavatka a once in a lifetime opportunity perhaps once in many lifetimes and he spoke with the author and the altar offered him the job and he said he needs to give it some thought he returned to the altar and he told him that he doesn't think he can take the job the author asked him don't you want the job he said certainly I want the job the mark that I could make the fertile ground that I can plant with Torah is more fertile here than anywhere else any other opportunity I'll ever have the amount of satura that can take place over here is greater than any opportunity I'll ever encounter ever again certainly I want it but I can't take it let me explain when I was young I got engaged to a girl she was a young orphan whose father left in the will that her daughter his daughters should only marry the greatest and the almana the Widow went about and found the greatest one of them married with the other one married another going from Europe and the third one I got engaged to Robert Aaron baxt certainly fitting the bill of being a guy in Terror got engaged to the third daughter perhaps it was the middle daughter and at some point during the engagement the Mother-in-law broke off the because she felt that I wasn't Worthy she felt that I wasn't kulai Terror I wasn't 100 Tire she felt I wasn't worthy to marry her daughter she wanted someone who was stronger and tired and that girl ended up going and marrying remote Epstein who became one of the good daily atsum atra Epstein I went to find out if this almana is still alive is this Widow still alive today because if she's still alive she's gonna have pain she's gonna have Tsar in this that the person that was engaged to her daughter who she broke became the slavatgarish I can't cause a widow that kind of pain I can't take the job if it will cause her that pain but I have someone in mind who can take the job who fits the bill perfectly a big guy who for one reason or another doesn't have a stellar he doesn't have a position his name is Epstein the person that married the coward who broke off the with him and that's what happened emotion Mark Epstein became Islamabad that capacity is the capacity of someone who has the DNA of Rock Lee mainu in them IR Yeshiva found itself On the Border of Arab territory during one of the wars in Earth Israel and it was attacked many times many times the building shook it was a frightening time the area was bombarded and many times the building shook from the bombs and everyone in the Yeshiva and everyone in the surrounding areas would Gather in the basement would Gather in the it was like a mcclat it was like a makeshift bomb shelter they would gather over there they would say to him and when the war was over the mere Yeshiva was was safe and it was secured and nothing had happened it was frightening many times but nothing had happened they survived and everyone said that the Merit of the Torah that was learned in the Mir Yeshiva is what saved it what protected it from the onslaught of bombs but said that he believes there was another that saved the Yeshiva there was a woman that lived right next to the Yeshiva an older woman who was miserable in every way she was an aguna she was someone whose husband had walked out on her years earlier without leaving her a get leaving her in that horrific gut-wrenching situation in life where she can never move on in any direction and she was talking miserable because of it she was in pain and she acted as such and during one of the bombings this woman went running into the mirror for safety and she ran downstairs and as the building shook she stood up and she cried out Hashem my husband who left me so many years ago who abandoned me in pain who left me in a situation that I can never get past who left me in a situation that my cheeks are more wet than they are dry a man who left me in a pathetic situation a life that no one wants to ever live my husband did this to me years ago the pain is real but I forgive him I forgive and believe Charlene with all my heart I forgive him I let it go I let go and eat a tightness Hashem forgive us forgive us let go of the tyness let go of the pain that we caused you let go of it and let's Thrive let's Thrive together let's get past this said he believes that that was this that was this ultimately that was not till that protected and saved the Mir Yeshiva is not about merely what we give up sometimes it's easier to give up more to the Republic than to give up less to someone else and when we talk about the source of rebuilding when we talk about what it takes to get past horben to embrace the very first place that we need to work is not on what we're willing to give up but what I'm what we're willing to uproot from within ourselves is foreign thank you [Music] thank you foreign pointed out should really proceed kinner 26 the order should really be switched for whatever reason it was put in this order both kind of 27 ends with year meal being instructed to go to the chlorum of the avoids that we mentioned before if I can I'd like to read the way the measures brings this instruction and why year Mia was told that he his crying isn't enough he needs to go and awaken the crying of the others says the medrish um I am compared today to a man that has an only child and I made for him and he died under his own that's the way the rabbin was comparing himself and his feeling of the destruction that he brought to claudi Israel the Ben yachid of the rabbin don't you feel the pain from me and don't you feel the pain for my children from their quorum because they know how to cry the two words here that I want to be ointment on that I want to speak about for a few minutes and that is to know how to cry the wisest of all men said Christ there's a time to cry orphan crying is viewed as a spontaneous thing that happens it's just something that's sort of the the situation Rings about tears sometimes seen as an embarrassing act to let the tears flow crying is is something that happens it's a byproduct of certain situations and certain things that bring it about but said that there's an ace lives there's a time to cry and the major Shear tells us that there's something called the others knew how to cry they knew how to do there was to this there's a wisdom there's a method to crying there's a purpose for crying it's not just an expression it's not just an emotion but crying is he didn't know how to cry we have to go to avram because they knew how to cry what does it mean to know how to cry what does it mean a time to cry and why is it a good sign to cry the person tells us in schmois at the breaking point of Claudius the king of Egypt died Israel felt the weight of the avoida they groaned from it via his Aku and they cried out that and their cries were brought to the rabbin they cried they cried because it was too much but interestingly they cried when the malachim died why is it that they cried when the military died one would think that for a Slave for a servant for a laborer when things are in transition there's a little bit of a break from the Shibu there's a little bit of a break from the bondage things don't work as well in transition between Kings in that time between Kings things should have did if anything gotten easier why was it that the Misa the death of the malach mitzrayim was what brought about they cried out specifically then it's not just a timeline but dwarming Island ain't on the micro big things are not a coincidence and the person tells us the king of Egypt died and then they cried why were they crying from the alvida specifically then there's an interesting halacha regarding slaves avoid him in Jewish law a Jew owns his children a non-jew also owns his children but interestingly a slave does not own his children in that sense a slave is less fortunate even than a non-jew a slave does not own his own children what is the depth of this what's the meaning of this that a slave doesn't own his own children and the meaning is simple and profound at the same time the difference between a slave and any other laborer is not merely that he works more or is on call for more hours or that he has to work harder there are very protective rules about slaves in Jewish law the Gomorrah the rambam go on to protect slaves very much we can't work them too hard we need to treat them well the difference between a slave and a regular laborer the line that's crossed is that a laborer is a person with a sense of self who is going and working for another person a slave has no sense of self he is entirely meshibit he is entirely enslaved to the person who owns him he has no sense of self because he has no self he doesn't actually own himself he doesn't have any himself he has no grasp on himself he has no rights to himself he's a slave it's the life of a slave it's it's a slave mindset it's a slave mentality he doesn't own himself he isn't his own once child is an extension of himself a manifestation of himself if a person doesn't own himself certainly he doesn't own his children he has no biolence he has no ownership on those children he has no ownership on himself someone else owns him and someone else owns them apparently knew very well Parry understood very deeply as the ram Khal tells us and he used this technique to enslave Claud Israel he was so hard and the purpose was to distract them they should never be able to think for themselves they should never be able to think about themselves they shouldn't have the time or the feeling that they have the right to think about themselves to to to introspect to give deep thought to be Miss binding about their situation in life about where they're coming from about where they're going to about how painful things are they don't have a right to cry they don't have a right to express the pain they don't belong to themselves they belong to someone else they aren't their own but then there was a break there was a break in the shebuds the Triumph died and the new Melech didn't have things up and running just yet and there was just enough time that these slaves were able to break from that slave mentality for one moment for one moment things eased up enough that they can they had the right to think about themselves they had the right to look inside and at the moment that they looked inside that they looked at themselves in the mirror at the moment that they felt the right to be able to call themselves by their names at the moment that they felt the right to be able to understand themselves to be able to realize themselves at that moment they cried out from pain they didn't have the capacity to cry before it wasn't that things got so difficult that they cried things were very difficult and yet they couldn't cry they weren't they I live Christ they didn't know how to cry because they couldn't look at themselves they couldn't give thought there was no River there was no time there was no space in their life to be able to give thought to themselves to understand themselves to understand where they've come from where they're going to and what they're in the middle of at that time and when there was that break they became and that's when they cried crying is progress crying is productive one who cries is one who has the capacity to face himself one who cries as one who refuses to live in the bondage of the currents of the life that carry him those who don't have the capacity to cry are those who life distracts too much for them to ever be able to look inside and we all know about ourselves and we all know about all people the times are tough life is distracting but while life distracts us from most is from ourselves from being able to be that your day to be able to know how to cry there's a time that we're able to look at ourselves to understand those flaws that we've been living with for years or for decades but somehow never be able to look in the mirror to be able to call it by its name somehow never be able to look at ourselves to investigate to think deeply to have a revocles by name to pull ourselves apart in a productive way and then to face it and cry to look at it Call It by its name and cry to be a day I live that that is the first step towards building it's not the last step in destruction the others were lived in the destruction and the rabbinished said to him you don't know how to cry you don't know how to feel the pain how is that the year Mia couldn't feel the pain he witnessed it all that's exactly why he couldn't feel the pain he didn't have that revocation saying that foresight that the others had where they looked forward they were Builders they were the Builders of our nation and who knows how to look inside who knows how to be misplaining more than the Builders of the nation who knows how to cry more than one who's building one who's making progress those are the idea the tears that will rebuild the base when we plant with tears we'll one day reap the benefits with great joy only a nation that can cry today will one day learn to laugh foreign thank you foreign one of the more poetic kinase which contrasts the bitsies contrasts the situation that we were in when we left mitsarayam the greatness the great Glory that we found ourselves in when we left mithrayam walking out like princes and kings to the situation that we find ourselves in as we leave Yu shalayim the mourning the destruction the ashes everywhere as we leave yushalayim from the hormone I think that more than the ironic contrast between more than a tease of How Far We've Fallen more than showing us this great display of what we once were and what we are today more than that I think there's a dimension over here which speaks very much to the moyad of this above let's try to imagine a person who rents a home for 10 or 15 years he lives there peacefully the landlord is fear he pays his rent there's an ongoing relationship and then from one day to the next the landlord throws him out he doesn't have another place to go to he wants to sell the house or develop the home or for whatever reason he throws him onto the street and he stands there with his suitcases looking at the door as the landlord closes it's trying to figure out where he's going to go this fear this pain perhaps this anger let's contrast that to a son of 10 or 15 years that lives in a home peacefully with his parents and then from one moment to the next he's thrown out onto the street and he stands there with his suitcases as his parents close the door as they just threw him out of his home and he stands there watching and the tears are flowing down his face and he feels pain and sadness what's the difference between these two people standing and looking at their place of habitat for 10 or 15 years disappear in front of them the difference is that the one who was thrown out feels the pain of being left alone the one who was thrown out who rented from the landlord feels the pain of being left alone being left on the street and that pain is nothing to laugh at but the child who was thrown out of the home of his parents is not feeling the pain of being left alone in the street without knowing where to go next he's feeling the pain of betrayal he's feeling the pain of what was once expressed as love now being expressed as hate the depth of that emotion is immeasurably greater than the first person's emotion can ever be because the weight with which he fell is predicated on the height from which on which he once stood only something that weighs that much can shatter so terribly only something that felt so good can now feel so miserable only a love that was that deep can now be expressed in a hate so disloyal and so with such ankles and such pain try to think of the pain that goes when a Jewish marriage is dismantled Islam and it's messy and it's horrific and there's this hate and there's accusations and there's tears and frustration and horrific emotions at play and no it can't be settled peacefully necessarily it can't be and the reason why is because a Jewish marriage is built on a strength of emotions of Love of giving of building of connection it's very simple to peel a Post-It off of a wall but if the paper was glued to the wall you have to scrape at it for hours and hours to get anything off when something is connected so strongly being able to rip it apart is a heartbreaking and heart-wrenching we're not just looking at a contrast of bitsaicrayim but we have to be able to understand their hair to be able to see to perceive in the ashes what once was we feel sometimes in our goddess like the pain will never end and that's only because we are a nation that will one day see a joy that will never end we feel a pain so deep we're trampled on like no one else and that's because we will one day ride up high like no one else only those who were but says only those who walked out of mitraim with such height have the capacity for the pain of that and we have to be able to perceive in the assignment and almanace in the widows and the Orphans of yerushalayim the princes and the queens that walked out of mithryan and what will once be there's an emotion there's a dimension that outweighs that transcends sadness and joy there's an emotion that's far outweighs sadness and joy it's an emotion that can give explanation to a day like today being Sarah and a maid at the same time more than sadness and more than Joy is something called greatness the greatness of Aid and we have to be able to perceive in the tears in the ashes in the hormon in the destruction of of today the greatness and the glory of tomorrow and that's why we say this is because once we understand that our hormone is it's based on the greatness of our bitsaicrayim will be to what it says at the end of the kinner the gladness the joy and the fleeing of any sort of anguishalayim when we return to yerushalayim ES itself solution foreign we continue at this time we will have the last speaker who will explain in kinis here at the new Springville Jewish Center tissue above program in Staten Island and that is Siegel in memory of his grandfather of Joseph C next kennel is canalam evolve 36 it's on page 328 in the art scroll this canopy grins the period the the kennels that are known as the ceoins it's a section of canis that every Canna begins with the word ceiling and these Candace will describe the yearning that the Jewish people have to return to Earth Israel this evolved was written by behuda Levy Levi was born in the year 1075 in Spain he worked his way up he was he became a Spanish Lord he was a physician he was very high up in the Spanish Society of that time he was one of the leaders of the Jewish people he was also known as a great poet and he's most famous for being the author of The safer akuzari Safra kuzuri is one of the great works of Jewish philosophy which outlines a conversation between a Kazar King proving the authenticity of Judaism over the other monotheistic religions stories told about a conversation between an old Jew from Europe and a young Jew who was born here in America they were both very successful they both lived in Manhattan and they had the following conversation the older fellow said to the younger fellow let me tell you the difference between you and I when mashiach finally comes I'm going to tell mishia you want I know you want everybody to come to you shalim but I need two weeks I have to liquidate my assets sell my real estate take care of everything I have to do and then I'll be more than happy to join you in your shine but he said to the younger fellow he said you're going to tell Michelle you're making a mistake what are you doing in your shalayan you belong here in Manhattan that's a cute story even the question is you know what exactly are we yearning for to return there to show why was this younger fellow so so wrong in what he said I believe that this Kino helps us understand the answer at least begin to understand the answer of what we're yearning for in this great desire to return to Earth's thrall I will read some of the lines of the Kines of the kinna the Kenneth says for their and seeing the divine presence resides and there your creator has opened gates for you opposite the Gates of Heaven tells us that is that anybody who lives outside of Artis fell it's as if he had no God he has no God now obviously we know one can worship God outside of Earth's cell so what is the meaning of this Kamara the simple meaning of this Kamara is that you can't compare worshiping God in Earth's Israel as in worshiping god with narrative Soul everything is on a completely different level and that that's what these words mean that they're the divine presence actually resides if we go further in The Kino there's a line that says a breath of life for our souls is the heir of your land we all know that a person is made up of a girl for body and Sharma a soul and the goal of a Jew is for the nashama to win over the body the battle of the spiritual over the physical McKenna is telling us that the actual heir of herits Israel is the air that that contains a spiritual energy for the nashama that can't be compared anywhere else if we go further in The Kino it says which is Bothell and pastors which is Egypt the great civilizations of the time compare with you from Heavenly Dominos and can the worthless deities be likened to your urine between what does this mean this means that going back to that story Manhattan has Stones it has beautiful buildings but it is just that it's dead there's nothing more it's stones and beautiful buildings there's nothing deeper contrast that there to Saul we're in the times of the base War you can ask a question for the urban tumin and in Stones would light up with an answer and this is what the kin is coming to tell us the kin is coming to tell us that the spiritual energy the the closeness the levels that one can attain inert Israel can compare to anything outside of Earth's cell I want to read a letter that was written from grazenski to his nephew just a little bit of a background of Rome grazinski was a talmud of Altus Altus he was actually a biakov kamonesky's brother-in-law and together just the background on the altar because one of the leaders of the pre-war European Yeshiva World the slovakis Shiva produced many of the roshishivas the great roshishivas who rebuilt Tyra across the globe after the Holocaust through Baron Cutler from Lakewood was a talmud from the list goes on and on and gazinski was one of the close tal medium of Walter of slobotka it was a very holy Jew I actually heard last night I was listening to sheer drum gazinski in the he was such a Muslim personality he was always working on himself that even in the ghetto he he would give musservade them he would give different classes on how he can improve himself imagine a person being in the ghetto and what he was worried about is how how he can work on his character and his avoid this Hashem to set up a branch of the cover of the subatka Yeshiva in Heaven and Earth Israel and remember set up the Yeshiva and then he was called back by the altar of Slovakia to come to slovaka and to lead the Yeshiva over there where he remained until he was murdered by the Nazis in 1944. went there to Israel in 1925 he was there for two years until 1927 when he passed away in Jerusalem he's buried in haraz Asim the Yeshiva remained in Heaven until 1929 the heaven Massacre which is 90th anniversary is uh is about a week and a half away on the uh on the 18th of of and so the alt and then the issue eventually moved to yerushalayim where it remains till today so the altar of Slovak and never spent time together in eritusel wrote The Following letter to his nephew bemoaning the fact that he wasn't able to be together with the alternative Israel he wrote his followers the early days of the altar the altar in Europe did not compare to the later version of The Altar he says you couldn't compare the altar was a different person in there to show well let's not forget the altar was no slouch in Europe so what changed what changed is is that the the the the kayak the quote-unquote spiritual energy of erits Israel had such a great effect on the altar that he was a different person he writes further it's only how you got the love alerts Israel I very much wanted to come there to sell the social while alter was still alive because where I can learn from the altar the true Tower of Earth is he was understanding that the altar was a completely different person and that his tire was completely different just from being an artist Israel from tapping into that kayak that isn't there to throw and he goes on about how the difference of his Secrets his schmooz and his div retire were completely different and the tremendous desire and difference in the altar between artistro and between and Europe it was set over that somebody once asked a pun of it somebody once came to the punivitarov asking for advice on whether or not to move there to sell the panovic's response was please don't talk to me about Airtel because when it comes to matters of air to sell I'm like a Shaker I'm like a drunk with love so I can't answer you objectively because I just love the land so much now we would assume that the punavicharov's love of the land was probably not based on the culture of the food or the Aesthetics it was the real difference the real difference in close and stuff college baraku that one can reach an error to sell if we look and say for our quizzery so the khazar king is essentially working with the premise that all religions are systems or shells and he was looking for something real and he questioned him extensively about Earth's cell and after Levi gave him the answers you know about the true difference between artist cell and every land so you have no excuse to be in Spain you belong there The Story Goes there because I'll let you listen to him and historians argue about exactly what happened if you ever made it there to sell if he passed away before he made his Heritage so but everybody seems to agree that he made the trip there to Israel and this kinner was written somewhere along the way so you now say the cannot see our analysis oh yeah energy [Music] thank you the bedroom s the next kinner we will say is Page 360 in the Arts girl was written by the marami Rutenberg marami ruttenberg was one of the Giants of the generation that he lived in he was this was around the 11 the late 1100s early 1200s he was a dominant of the Riff he was the rebbe of the rush he was a Rob in Germany suffered greatly in his life at that time not surprisingly Germany was not that nice to the Jews there were blood libels and pagroms and high taxes he actually encouraged German Jews German jury to flee Germany he himself fled Germany he was caught he was thrown into jail he remained in jail the rest of his life the Jewish Community led by his talmud to rush actually raised the money for his Ransom he refused based on the mission in Gittin that says that not to allow such not to allow the ransom to be paid as it would encourage other such activity eventually he did he passed away in jail and many years later the Jewish Community paid to have his body taken out of jails actually paid for by somebody who wanted to be buried near him and he was able to be brought to pop to proper burial as we said he lived a very difficult life and from everything he lived through this next kinner is what he chose to to write about next kin is Charlie talks about the famous burning of the talmud in France in the year 1242. The Story Goes that there was a mishomed in the past state which is a Jew who converted to Christianity by the name of Nicholas danan Nicholas donon being that he was a Jew he was an Insider he understood that Judaism can only survive if we have the talmud if we have the Shahs well they formed a formal complaint against the Shas with Pope Gregory his complaint Was Heard eventually there was a public debate which was a mere formality and on air of Shabbos in the year 1242 00 volumes of the Shahs were brought to the town square a lot of the Jewish leaders was among them one of the great balitis had to actually watch this they were burnt in the Town Square we have to understand that this is before the printing press so being that it was before the printing press every volume of the shots had to be handwritten so can imagine how much work went into writing 1200 volumes of the shots how much work how much expense and how difficult it would be to recover what was lost additionally this was the time of the balitisfus the famous commentary of tysus which is on the side of every of the vilnesia so the grammars that we use and many commentaries of tysus were lost forever in the burning of the Shas just as a side um I actually spoke to a historian about this where the this year in April there was uh the Notre Dame Cathedral burnt down and using Google Maps they somehow figured out that this was within a mile of where this public burning of the shots took place so the question is that we understand that this was a tragedy but again marami ruttenberg lived a very difficult life why was this the tragedy I chose to write about additionally there's a minute brought in halacha that there are some people who until today there are some communities where they fast on Arab Shabbos parishes hookahs every year to commemorate the burning of the Shahs question is again that unfortunately Jewish history is full of tragedies what is it about this tragedy of the burning of the shots in France that we commemorated until this day the other fascinating thing about this is that any event in Jewish history is commemorated by the date right Tish above is on the ninth of all it's not on the it's not on the day of the week that it happened so why did we commemorate the burning of the Shahs on air of Shabbos so there's one answer that's given to that question that the Giants of that generation were able to ask heaven in a dream it was called the Shameless Halloween why this happened and they were told and the answer came back this is hashem's Will similar to the red cow the paraduma which is discussed in paris's hookahs we don't know the reason for it so the answer was this Lucas attire and we don't know the reason why this happened so that's how it connected to purchas Ed but there is a fascinating who writes about this tragedy and he writes that just as in the times of the base when the Jewish people were impure they had the burning of the paraduma to purify them he says so too golis this Exile that we're in he writes we are in a state of Michigan this is a plastic that we read last night we're walking in the Darkness and we need to be purified and he said this invent this event was symbolic that the Torah has to be burnt in order to come out of purification and what is that purification writes that that is tied into another in Paris the plastic of Adam if a person dies in the tent which the gemara the which the gemara learns out that a person has to sacrifice himself for Torah a person has to sacrifice his time a person has to sacrifice his energy trying to understand the warning of the Torah and a person has to work hard to learn Khal says that this was a message that this is the only way for the Jewish people to survive in this Exile that we have to have a connection to learning tire and if we don't have a connection to learning Torah then there is no way we can survive in this exile and now that's how he understands the connection to partial skukas and that's also how we can understand why this was such a great great tragedy because we need the Tyro we need the shots we need the talmud in order to live and survive in golus and when this town when when the gemara was burnt when when it was destroyed there's no greater tragedy than that and in fact French jewry which had a glorious period of time Rashi was from France many of the Bali tices were from France as soon as right after this event French jury that period of French jury came to an immediate end because we can't exist without the talmud without the learning of Torah there's Lamar says about Tisha of the hearts it says why was why was the land of Earth Israel destroyed Kamara says we didn't make the prophetara the understanding of this is that obviously they made Miracle attire just like we all make America but they didn't view the tire on the learning of the Tyra as their lifeblood as this is this is everything this is how we survive and that was the great tragedy and that led to the destruction of Arizona it's interesting because you know we talk so much about the yearning for mashiach the rambam says that the whole that the whole reason why we yearn for mashiach is not so we can be free is not so we can rule over the world it's that we should be that we should have the time and the ability and the freedom to learn Tyra and that's ultimately what what it was all about and it's there's a tices in yuvamus just to this point about this being from everything that the maram chosen his life to write about and well this is why this is such a great tragedy that a person is not allowed to be Korea Al Mesa the gemara says somebody dies a person is not allowed to I shouldn't say curry Elementary a person's not allowed to inflict the wound upon himself and the Titus asks from a great admirer who actually didn't flip the wound upon himself how is he allowed to do this entice was the second character of Titus is that he was mourning the destruction of Torah and when you mourn the destruction of Tyro which is eternity that is on the higher that is on a higher level of mourning for any human being and that was how that was why this Amaya was able to create a wound on himself because we lost nitsky's we lost something that's eternal that was the great tragedy of the burning of the Shahs and that was what that was what we work every day to fix to fix by learning of the Torah foreign [Music] museums foreign is on page 386 this is echina in memory of the martyrs of Corbin Europe the Holocaust obviously to talk about the Holocaust is very difficult there's so many different aspects and everybody is affected by it you know there was the destruction of the many The Six Million I was reading yesterday that there's a research center in inert Israel that actually found the map from one of the German offices and then that map was every town where Jews lived and they're obviously the Big Towns but there were towns with as little as five people that were on that map that was the extent of the destruction of Europe and what the Nazis wanted to do that even a town of five Jews they wouldn't ignore obviously there was the mass destruction and you know destruction of communities and shuls and great Hasidic courts and you know who knows how different the destruction of Tyro who knows how different the world would look Judaism would look if not for that but there's another aspect and I just want to mention for a minute which is that the Nazis viewed the Jews as they referred to them as under mention lower level of people and their goal was not only to exterminate the Jewish people it was also to dehumanize the Jewish people and if you look you know if you read about the Holocaust you can see that it was a lot more than just killing Jews it was it was also it was to dehumanize the Jews to destroy their psyche as and you know that they really are you know a lower level of people and one of the lessons of the Holocaust is that even with the with the Nazi goal of dehumanizing people there were Jews who at that time reached the highest levels that a human could reach and I'll just read from Victor Frankl excerpt from man search for meaning he wrote that everything can be taken from a man but one thing the last of the human freedoms to choose one its attitude in any given set of circumstances to choose one's own way you can take everything away from a person you can imprison him in a dungeon and starve and beat him and torture him but the one Freedom he has left you can never take away from him that is his right to decide how he will view what is happening to him this book Frankel tells of people who shared their last bit of bread with those who are more ill on weak than themselves while others let go of their humanity and gave into selfishness and cruelty those who remained human remained free in his book from def cam to existentialism exists then we'll listen Victor Frankel explains how finding something positive to focus on Saved people from Death it kept them from being defeated by the suffering loss and despair that surrounded them and this is a lesson that whatever anybody should go through anything that compares to that but that whatever person goes through in this Gauss in this Exile that he has a right to choose he can always work on himself and choose and as difficult as it may be and choose how he wants to view it and how he wants to take on life's challenges um [Music] demolition foreign foreign yes we'll now be finishing the kindness after the kinis we will have two speakers we'll be speaking about Tish above we ask everyone that's here to please rise page 390. remote foreign [Music] all right foreign [Music] foreign [Music] thank you foreign [Music] thoughts [Music] again [Music] oh not around [Music] faithful [Music] Ness they should have moved to go around I'd say [Music] I'll talk [Music] foreign this is wow cold [Music] for you foreign [Music] Mr [Music] universe thank you foreign [Music] thank you foreign [Music] foreign [Music] thank you foreign [Music] okay before we continue I just again be welcomed the not from single Network everyone listening across the world and we thank ZK we've been here doing a phenomenal job and we thank you for that we want to thank our speakers who explained the kindness so beautifully shalomyakov seagull in memory of his grandfather of Siegel Schwartz in memory of his father of David Schwartz by Kovacs who the Kovacs in memory of his grandfather of the outcome Kovacs avilio's sun and shine or Shiva Shiva dailavar hadash in Seagate with Joyce's Siegel in memory of his grandfather of Joseph Siegel We Now call upon for thoughts about this above mayor Sim hasigo whose words will be spoke into memory of his grandfather his mother's father ramosha Weisberg the rambam in Hillcrest Milwaukee begins describing what it will be like when mashiach arrives and he writes will come and return the kingdom of as it was in the days of old um and gather in all the dispersed of Claudius all the Lords of old will return macrum and carbonis was once again and then the rambam continues with a powerful ocean boy anyone who does not believe in mashiach not only is he denying the prophecy of all the prophets he is a heretic and denying the existence of the Torah and meaning to say you can have a year to Hashem fully observant he believes in Hashem he believes in his Torah he believes in Maisha abenu he even believes mashiach will yet come and may even come today does not eagerly await mashiach's arrival seemingly says the rambam he is a kaifer but her over maishraben the simple definition of a kaifa is someone who denies denies that God exists deny that denies that there was a terror given on harsinai so how can it be that you have a yid who believes in believes in the Torah even believes in mashiach and yet because he is not he does not eagerly anticipate mashiach's arrival the rambam calls him a kaifer to help understand this would say over Allah if you have a yid on Yom Kippur who is hungry and gets into his head of michigas that he needs to eat a certain food and without it he will die the halacha is its Piko life and death so he's allowed to go ahead and eat it so here you have a fully healthy ID who gets grabbed by the sickness that he convinces himself because he's hungry and he convinces himself that without this food he can't live if you are unable to calm him down he's allowed to go ahead and eat this food explains how man has many desires but the deepest desire man possesses is the desire for life itself a person's life is bound up with his desire to live if you were to pump out every ounce of the desire to live from a person the person would die gets sick sometimes the doctor talks about how much Faith the person has in him how much this person has to live for and if he has very little desire to live to fight the sickness may never overtake him and he dies because what keeps Us Alive above all else is our desire to live a person can go so crazy and have such a diver such a desire for something that his entire will to live is bound up in that in that piece of food and without it he has no desire to live and it becomes a true danger true a person dies says there ishiva claw Israel as a nation is also nekas de bonus the soul of clause Israel is also bound up in a desire that keeps Us Alive as a nation that rotten that we possess is called Yeshua is called longing for the gula the deepest desire that we have which keeps Us Alive the life for Aaron Sharma which without it we cannot survive is being longing for and awaiting mashiach's arrival the heartbeat of Claudia Israel's inextricably bound up with Yeshua with a longing for the days if someone is not mitzvah for the gula he is removing himself from the life source of Claus Israel he is removing himself from Kinesis Israel and removing yourself from that says the word sipia which we Define as longing for the goula comes from the root Cipher Cipher to look is to gaze out and to take in a vision a man can go to the Grand Canyon he could put his head down look below him and focus on one specific point and he can see beauty the color of the Rocks the formation but yet for him the canyon is not that it's all is not all it's made out to be but if you would just lift up his eyes and decipher he would gaze out and take in the entire Majestic Panorama the grander vision it would take his breath away living here in Iowa physical world very often our eyes cannot see past our own selves we live with our heads down we oftentimes live with the vision of how best we can enjoy this world and what we can do to make ourselves more comfortable in this world to lift up our heads gaze upward to take in a much grander view to taking a view of Aqua same to realize the purpose of Our Lives is to live for something greater than ourselves to live to bring about the day of Ohio if we live our lives with a grander view with a vision towards the topless the purpose of creation a vision of the day the sheifer will be heard and every Jew from the four corners of the earth will be gathered together and we raise our lives not to live for ourselves but to live for our who that is called Yeshua who is here with us today and who he himself Hashem survived the war to see darus shared with me the following story about a year by the name of Khan out the Roth who lived in Borough Park until he was Nifty a few years ago went through four years in Auschwitz and Mr Katz would very often schmooze with him about their experiences in the war one time they were schmoozing and Mr Katz asked him four years in Auschwitz every Torah that you went through what was the worst day that you experienced during the war didn't need to think about it he didn't say that it was the day of a death march he didn't say it was the trips and cattle cars or even the unimaginable amount of death that he experienced during the war Center of time out there the worst day of the war was the day the war ended the day of liberation because for four years every day every sorrow we went through we lived with the longing and the hope that the only possible way this can end is with mashiach's arrival imagine that after four years of Gahanna on Earth with every form of torture a human being can take his worst day of all those days was the day of liberation if requirement was in any way living for himself there could be disappointment there could be frustration even sour over the fact that Michelle did not come but the day of Liberation would have to have some form of relief but this year lived his life with a grander vision he lived his life his entire existence was bound up into piecesally Yeshua so when the war ended and mashiach had not come to a demon rather he saw the Soviet soldiers walking into the camp it was devastating and more painful than four years of unimaginable torture the halaka is that when a couple is getting divorced the husband must give the must give the wife a divorce document called the get also is that you cannot force the man to put the get in the hand of the woman against his will however the mishnah tells us a man who has no desire to give a get and his wife will thus remain in aguna what do we do Clifton we forced this man by any means necessary until he says the words I want to give the gift how does this work and why is it not called the ghetto against the man's will the only reason he said I want to give the get is because you forced him into saying it so why is it better than forcibly taking his hand and having his hand give the wife the get the rambam famously brings down this halojo and says that the reason it is not called against his will is because we don't say someone is forced unless he is forced into doing something that he is not obligated to do from the Torah ke going like one who is being beaten until he decides relents to selling an object or giving it away and he is hit and beaten until the point that he does what the Torah obligates him to do this is not called forth rather he entrapped himself therefore garish one who does not want to divorce his life Israel after he still wants to be a part of Carl ISRO the rightsues and he desires to do all the Mitzvahs and distance himself from that various evil inclination which grabbed them the cavelin since he is beaten to the point where his weakened the um he says the words I want to give the get in fact Jewish word saying that it is called giving the get of one's own volition someone who does not want to sell an item does not want to give away an item you beat him and beat him until he finally says I'll give it I'll sell it that doesn't work for we know his true desire was not to sell such an item but a yid who has a chance to do a Mitzvah in front of him and he says he doesn't want to do it he doesn't want to give this gift if you beat him until he says I'll give the get we call that his rotten his own desire why what's the difference because we know that this Jew still wants to be a part of classical Israel and deep inside he wants to fulfill the Mistress of Hashem but as yet Sahara took over and holds him back when you beat him to the point that he says I want to give the gift he is once again connecting to his roots his deepest of desires which is to fulfill the rottenham's will and therefore the get is a valid get I heard from one of my Urbane who set over from the araktana who wrote A pirush on the rambam it seems that in his time in the time of the arachana there was Russia was dying the camera should they go try to encourage him to say vide at the end of his life to say the confession or since he lives such a horrible life and if he was to continue living another 50 years he would live the same way what's the point and the truth is when we stand year after year on Yom Kipper and we say we confess our sins in when we know tomorrow there are certain things that we will go straight back to doing certain things we may not be holding by or we simply can't control ourselves but yet we clap our great on them year after year based on this rambam the aracano pascan that even a Russia who has been involved in sin his entire life if he is willing you should go try to encourage him to say the video we don't know how it takes effect and there are obviously many layers of that this video has to get past but if at the end he chooses to save the video knowing what he's saying somewhere deep inside beneath a lifetime full of avirus to an inner desire that the nishama of every ID possesses to have lived his life as a better Jew and who knows the effect that can have on this roshesma every year on Yom Kippur when we clap on anavero we may do again tomorrow if we think to ourselves that at least we desire that we should be able to control ourselves we want one day to reach a level where we won't do that who's somewhere deep inside of me there is a rotten not to do this aveiro and I want to connect to that desire we do connect to that inner desire and that too is true it's like a person who gets sick craft monolith son and he can be in so much pain that he says I'd rather not be alive but we know that of course this person didn't all of a sudden lose his desire for life rather that desire is hidden beneath layers and layers of pain and if we remove that pain his will to live would rise to the surface once again every Jew who shows a desire to be even a little bit closer who to raise his eyes up and live a little bit beyond himself every Aid who walks into shul on Tish above to at least try to be missable over the urban abayas who shows the desire to be connected to Claudia throw is connecting himself to our life source and is connecting himself to what keeps Us Alive as a nation our tea peace no matter how covered over our longing may be with the unfortunate Pursuits the nishama of every year is connected to this longing this and as long as he does not give up hope from that desire for the Gula continues to burn deep within each and every one of us I want to share with you a beautiful story that was shared by rebeccaim Berlin Ibrahim Berlin was the son of the famous Native Berlin and was born in the 1830s in the city of Elijah he held many different positions throughout his life including Chief Rabbi in Moscow abbasden and valajin eventually moving to your shalayim in the early 1900s where he was elected Chief Rabbi of the ashkenaza community he was known to be a beautiful bakare and every week you'd have people come to Daven with him just to hear his career shabbosak was a special time as multitudes of people would come to here in Lane shirashiram as he would do so with tremendous attractions with great emotion as he would bring alive the tremendous Ava that exists between classical as depicted in shirashiram his entire career was extremely moving but every year as he would begin parentalid and read the words behold you are beautiful my beloved behold you are beautiful your eyes are like the eyes of the dove the words of Schleich comparing the eyes of Claudia to the eyes of the young of the dove he would begin to break down in fears one year of Aria Levine the sadak of yerushalayim who was a talmud of Abrahim Berlin decided to ask him what it was about this posix specifically that would bring him to tears year after year Berlin shared the following story with her barrier he said when he was the chief Rabbi of Moscow one day he got to knock on his door a seemingly non-jewish man enters demanding to speak to the rabbi privately not knowing what it could be he brings him into his office and this fellow shares the secret news with the ROV that he just had a baby boy and he wanted heimberlin to perform the Bruce Miller crying wishes him a big mazel tov says he'll be glad to perform the brzmila but and why all the secrecy what are you so nervous about the fellow replies Rabbi I need you to know that I live in a city completely occupied by non-jews I myself live a life with not even a semblance of Judaism and not only that my business consists of buying and selling Christian religious articles if it were to become known that I am Jewish Not only would I lose my entire livelihood but I would have to fear for my life as well I want my kid to have a breastmila but Rabbi must be done with the utmost secrecy in Berlin gathers more details about where he lives how and when it's possible for him to sneak in undetected they devised the plan and come the Eighth Day the crime and a Jewish doctor who is very well respected by the non-jews as well quietly show up at the man's house to perform the Milo not only did his home not have a single sign signifying a Jewish presence but on the contrary his house was full of gachikas and all different types of religious Christian religious articles performed the Milo with the doctor as the sandik and as he was leaving he asked this Jew to report back to him three days after the bris to tell him to let him know how the baby is doing three days later he returned syrup Hashem he can report the baby is fine and before he leaves him the question that's been bothering him for three days already he says I came to your home and I saw a home that is completely devoid of the slightest trace of yiddishkite and that is the home you're planning on raising your son so why Place yourself in such danger why all the mysterious nephesh to give your son a kosher Bismillah upon hearing these words the man begins to cry and says Rabbi I know that I've distanced myself from God and there are even times where my heart breaks over it my son will grow up even more distant from Yiddish kite than I am because I was raised in a Jewish home while while he will be raised in my home without the slightest trace of Judaism in his life however I know that one day in the future it is possible that he will yet become acquainted with Jewish life and perhaps the spark that lies deep in the heart of every Jewel ignite and he will desire to live his life as a religious Jew if that day ever comes I don't want to be the one to have placed the obstacles in this path from returning to his faith so with great personal risk and mysterious nephesh I gave him the brzmila so that if that day ever does come the door will be open for him to return to his father in Heaven kazal asked on the Posse why the repetition why do we say behold you are beautiful twice behold you are beautiful before the hat before you sin and you are beautiful after the cat you are beautiful after you sin Berlin Center of Arya for years this has all bothered me what does it mean that there is a beauty to Claudia Soul even after they sin this man gave me my answer the next words of the posseck is our eyes are like that of a dove the gemara explains that one of the unique characteristics of a dove is that she will never go so far away from her home that she won't know the way back the the eyes of the dove when she turns her head back will always be able to see her nest the eyes of Claudius like the eyes of the dove even after our sin no matter how far away we've gone from our home Our Roots we never go far enough away that we cannot find the way back and that is the beauty even after our khaton after Claudius throws sins we never throw it all away rather we remain close enough to Our Roots that when the spark is ignited we always know the way home Center of Kai in Berlin and that's why every year as I read this I begin to cry as I remember the Jew from Moscow who had gone so far away from his roots and whose son was to be raised even further away than him but even he understood that in the depths of every Jewish Soul lies a burning desire a spark that may one day be ignited to come back home to his roots each and every one of us has that spark of tsipiso that sparked her return home deep within us but is it too difficult for us to reattach ourselves to it is it covered over with too many layers is it too far away for us to live with it the gemara and brochus says over a story that one day reviews was walking along the roads of yerushalayim and he entered into one of the corvus the Runes of yerushalayim tadavan as he's governing eliola Navi comes by he waits until he finishes his davening they greet each other a conversation ensues about whether it's Prophet or Daven in a horrible and then my son what voice did you hear emanating from this rune reviews I Heard a Voice come down from shamaim that was wailing like Aina a dove and saying woe to my children that due to their avails I had to destroy my home burned down my Kardashian Exile them between all the nations of the world The Voice demoning the fact that he had to destroy his miktush and send his children in tagalos and what form does this voice take not the Roar of a lion rather says wailing like a dove why like Aina says the marao another unique characteristic of the dove is that the male Yana has only one female as a mate his entire life and even if she is lost or dies he does not go searching for another mate rather he waits for her return or Mourns over the loss of his mate in this kimara whose cry is like the Cry of the yayna whose mate has been exiled and he Longs for its return who cries over the Exile of his chosen people and he Longs for their return desires no one else and just like the Aina he looks only for claudisro he waits only for Claudia and he desires only quality Israel and no matter how long we're in golus and no matter no matter how buried our spark of sipia is who will never abandon us and continue to and will continue to wait for us until we return home I recently saw a story told over by Robertsons that's how during the Holocaust at one point he was working in a labor camp in a small polish town star Chavez doing harsh slave labor for the Nazi regime because the name of Bruno Pape was something of an of an anomaly while he possessed all the external trappings of a Nazi inside he was somewhat human and even somewhat sympathetic to the Jews review also managed to develop somewhat of a close relationship with Pape and at times he would act as his interpreter for many of the others in the can at that time in the camp together with her bustle there was a hash of the Year by Kiva goldstaff as pesach came closer this herb goldstaff approached Herbie also and asked him if there's any way he can get permission permission from paper to bake Mattis Pate gave permission even helped if you also acquire a little bit of flour and these minute you didn't manage to bake a few matters on Pace half morning when Pape walked into the barracks and saw these Jews eating only the matzus but not the bread he began to shout you are idiots friedensen s bright eat bread you're loving God has forsaken you and you still believe in him with such loyalty also no one dared to answer him we were terrified in uneasy silence fell over the entire room until rebecciver goldshaft stood up and in perfect German answered did you say that our God has forsaken us maybe for now but not totally and not forever three months later as the Germans were preparing to send these laborers to Auschwitz and a deep despair settled over all the people as they knew something very bad was happening Pape himself attempted to comfort them as they were leaving the camp as he reminded them of the words of radakiva goldstaff Nick Turtle Nick not totally and not forever even in the camps where I call this borrow who was the Hester so hidden from his children The Cry of the Yana was still heard not totally and not forever who will never abandon us as the gemara continues when rabyasi finished telling Elio on Navi the voice that he heard Elio and Navi responses not just today in this horrible who cry for his children but throughout this longest sorrow after sorrow every day three times a day there is a basketball wailing like Aina as he waits for his chosen people to return home he cries like a dove and all he wants from us is for us to turn our heads back towards our home and to show him we truly want to return the coffee used to say over the story of how the basalevi became the rav of brisk when he was in the city of sloth the city of brisk sent a delegation asking him to become Wrath continually refused them but as they were leaving a partial yid from bris turned to the base of Levi and said very simply I don't understand Rob there are 000 yiddin awaiting your arrival in the city of brisk and with these simple words from a simple yid the basalavi can no longer refuse imagine if we were able to tell the Avista there are one million yiddin waiting for you to send moshia possibly refuse is waiting for is for us to gather together as a nation and say we want but how do we show our country that we want it how do we show that we are metaphor Yeshua that we do await mashiach's arrival how can we be the daughter to find the right words couldn't find the word the woman Guardians are couldn't find the words yet we who cannot even comprehend the levels of previous terrorists were supposed to find the words we're supposed to find those words that we want to end this callus as we spoke before ours our heartbeat is Yeshua all we have to do is connect to that how to that heartbeat if we raise our heads upward a little bit and take in a grander vision a vision of who that were willing to live our lives a little bit higher than we were before that if as far away as we've gone we at least remember the way home that we're here in shulam tishom sitting on the floor saying Kenneth at least showing the desire to be missable properly to try to understand what we're missing if we stand by minkra today and when we say the words because we await your Yeshua all day we think that we don't even know what the miktas was we are so far removed we have no appreciation for what we're missing but we're here on Tish above said and by that we're here on Tish above trying to connect to the inner spark that resides within each and every one of us trying to connect to the inner rotten that we all have of Yeshua if we can at least show that level of CPO that level of longing then he can look back into the depths of our Nationals into the deepest of our desires and feel the heartbeat of the entire amnestro awaiting the Gula and with that the cries of the Aina can stop as his finally returns home to the loving Embrace of akadesh Baruch with the building of the third base all right we want to take a few moments before our last speaker thank thee not from single Network which allowed well over a thousand people to watch and to listen for the live Tish above program here at the new Springville Jewish Center in Staten Island we again thank ZK for this tremendous work in making all of this possible again we thank the speakers from the echo Siegel spoke in memory of Rabbi Zev Siegel INE Schwartz in memory of David Schwartz who drew the Kovacs in memory of his grandfather Leon Kovacs Seagate Joyce's Siegel in memory of his grandfather of Joseph Siegel mayor simply Siegel who just spoke memory of Marsha Weisberg in uh six minutes probably in the middle of Rabbi lairfield speech you could switch from the floor to a chair and um when the rabbi finishes we will wait at two o'clock it is a great honor for our shul and for everyone across the world that is watching to be able to hear words now about Tish above from the Yakov learfield the rabbi of the Young Israel of Staten Island thank you thank you Rabbi Siegel for allowing me this honor to come and speak in your show Robbie Siegel introduced me that it's a great honor the rabbi the Young Israel my great honor that Rabbi Siegel and I happen to be dear friends I've been here for 20 years in the neighborhood and he took me under his wing like a younger brother and it is my covet and my honor to call Rabbi Siegel a true friend if one were to open up their kinos you would find that a good part of the Keynotes have to do with the Corbin based amigdisharishan of course based on acha first temple being burnt by bovill a good part of the Keynotes have to do with the corbyn vice shiny which was by Rome and all the suffering that entailed and since Rome we've been in gullah's for now two thousand years and over the course of two thousand years there were many kinos of various calamities that befell the Jewish people on our wanderings from for two thousand years from country to Country we are wanted we are expected we they invite us to come before we set ourselves up and within 50 years we speak the language we are powerful we are doctors and lawyers and accountants we're involved in business we become part of the country uh but sooner or sooner or later no matter what happens or a lot of the Jew and gaulas always is to be expelled and that is what happens with the kinos that we were discussing today this year every year I pick a theme I pick a topic and this year's theme this year's topic I decided to speak about the Golden Era of Spanish jury which is going to end with the expulsion from Spain you have heard many times that many things happened on Tisch above first base Amigos was destroyed on Tish above the second base Dominguez was extraordin tissue above the city there was July afterwards the story was raised over and plowed like a field by tornus Rufus Batar the great city was overthrown millions of Jews were killed all of these things happen on Tish above and it goes back to the original Tish above when the miraglim did not show the love that covered their respect for the land of Heritage Israel and therefore we have been forced to wander for two thousand years until the third base to make this will be built by Kurdish baraku bimanu in 1492 the Golden Era of Spanish jury came to a screeching halt I would like to just explain a little bit what was going on and why it happened and to get some perspective how it affects all of us to this day the church when Rome fell the church took over Rome accepted Christianity as its religion for the entire Roman Empire in the late three in the in the 393. even though Rome was going to fall something more powerful takes Rome's place and that is going to be the church the church was more powerful because until now different countries had different rulers different leaders different dictators but there were different countries now the church is going to act as a unifier and put together a good part of the world wherever the church now set its foot part of their religion is to proselytize proselytize comes from the word of Rus was it was a gay artist and when you proselytize it means you convince someone to come over to your religion rumor has it that yashka at his last meal which was a say there in yerushalayim before he was taken by the Romans to be killed he called out to his disciples and he said to his disciples I would like to tell you the gospel gospel means in Greek the good news what's the good news that yaska was telling his disciples he told them that I am going to be killed yashkar and my death will give forgiveness for the entire human race on one condition the only way that my death will act as a forgiveness and an atonement an appeasement for all the people for all other sins is if you accept me and therefore yashka tells his disciples to go out the fan out across the world and proselytize and save everybody because the only way I can save them is if they believe in me and therefore part of their religion is to proselytize we as Jews don't believe in that if there is someone that's non-jewish and they are kind and they are nice we call them when you go to Erich Israel and you go to Yad vashem and see what happened with the Nazis yamakshman and six million qurbanos before you get into the exhibit there are Gardens and each Garden has a tree that was planted for one of the khaside um we don't proselytize Our God the Jewish god the only God understands that different people have different reasons why they were put here the Jews of course are a beacon of light and the rest of the world they can live their lives as a non-jew and if they do it properly they don't have to become Jews we don't accept them as Jews we turn them away but everyone could find the place in this world that we believe God gave us the church yashka didn't believe in that if you don't proselytize it's not going to work and therefore many Keynotes that we have are because of the church in the year 711 711 the Moors in Arab country an Arab Nation Islam from North Africa Africa came into Spain Spain until then was a Christian country and they made the lives of the Jews very difficult the viscos the Spanish people did not let the Jews keep shopping for anything and when the Moors came in at 7-Eleven they invited the Jews to come and Jews from Morocco and Jews from Yemen and the Jewish Center that was in Buffalo until now where all of the onimur they all came because they were invited by the Moors an Islamic Nation from North Africa they all came into the Iberian Peninsula and the Moors threw out they kicked out all of the Spaniards and this went on now for 450 years when you speak about the Golden Era of the Spanish jury I find it a little bit wrong because it wasn't Spanish it wasn't the Spanish people it was the Islam the Moors that allowed us to come in Spain which was a Christian country hated the Jews and made our lives miserable the Moors came in gave us a right to practice our religion and now all of the names of the reasoning that you're going to hear because the great centers of the governing that were in bovill now have moved to the Iberian Peninsula the famous man the rift the Riff rabbit he is going to become the reputation is the rebbe of maimon which is the father of the rambam so the rambam is coming from the roof this is all because of the Iberian Peninsula you speak about the ramban the ramban thought the rajbah the Raja was close with the rush the Iran they reverse all of this was going on in the Iberian Peninsula because of the benevolence of the Moors Islam you speak about reputation the one that wrote the kuzari all of these all of these were all found in Spain a good part of our we shown him we're living in thriving the biggest yeshivas of the time we're now going on in Spain in Europe as the Jews were doing so wonderful in the Iberian Peninsula you had in Europe the other reason the balitosis they were being forced because of the church all of the Crusades the Golden Era of Spain is going to come to a screeching halt in the end of the 1200s because the Spanish people Spain is now going on something called the Reconquista which means the reconquest and they wanted to take their land back from the from the Moors Moors this this nation from North Africa began to fight internally and therefore the Spanish Kings of Aragon Castile Granada kicked the Moors out by the end of the 1200s Spain already conquered a good part of its territory and they began to consolidate themselves and Along Came the church and the church told them your job in the Iberian Peninsula is to get rid of the Jews in the year 1469 two of the states in the Iberian Peninsula one of them was Castile and one of them was Aragon Aragon had a king by the name of Ferdinand a queen called Isabella they had a wedding a royal wedding the wedding was simply not just because someone made a shiruch it was because they wanted to consolidate the Iberian Peninsula they Consolidated it the reconquest was over the Moors were expelled and after they got married and the entire Iberian Peninsula the Spanish Peninsula was now under the king and queen Ferdinand and Isabella so they decided and they called upon someone none other than done yet the abarvenel was the financial advisor he was the chief of state he was the chief of staff when they went through the reconquest the Spanish leaders they all relied upon one person who put it all together when the conquest was finished and Ferdinand and Isabella got married they decided it had to be because their God wanted something from them and they called the abarvenel and asked them what do you think we should do in honor of our God who gave us this gift that we threw out the Arabs we threw out the Moors and the entire Peninsula is now under our protection Isabella Queen Isabella who hated the Jews told her husband God wants us to get rid of the Jews Along Comes something called the Spanish Inquisition the church always had an inquisition the church began its Inquisition because of heresy amongst its own ranks but inevitably it's going to turn to the Jews the Inquisition which was now put in place by the king and queen of Spain aimed their target on the Jew anyone that was accused of any crime was brought under the Inquisition you were guilty to proven innocent in those days there were Jews that were called anusim anusima is a very nice word it means you were forced you were compelled there were many Jews that were baptized but they weren't baptized because they believed in a different religion completely Jewish but they couldn't live with the Inquisition and therefore outwardly they pretended to be Christians but inwardly they were a hundred percent year of them there were those that were called new Christians the new Christians accepted a little bit more of the Christian belief not because they wanted to they had to but even though they had to inside they believed in God and they were waiting for the mashiach to come the king and queen to allow them some rights to act as Jews and then there were the conversions in 1391 the Dominican monks The Franciscan monks began a terrible virulent anti-semitic Crusade against the Jews the pope pushed them in fact he set up the Dominican order and The Franciscan order simply to clean out the church get rid of these Jews the programs began in Seville in Spain