People of the Moon - Tisha B’Av - Full Length Shiur (Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair)

okay good evening everybody I have to start off by saying that we're not going to be talking about IBM and the Nazis tonight um I decided I decided to do different subjects if you want to find out about IBM and the Nazis I I made a video of it a fairly short video I think it's about four minutes long so the contracted I uh um explanation of the I the link between IBM and the Nazis according to one individual who researched it the essence of it is a devout Torah which I heard from Shapiro secretary many years ago so if you want to see that please go and have a look at my website it's on my website the the YouTube channel which is rabbisinclair.com it's called IBM and the Nazis not too unsurprisingly or I think you'll find it on Torah anytime and I'm not sure it's on the awesome AIR website but if uh to over there you can check it out if you'd like to I I wanted for various reasons to speak about a different subject tonight and actually the subject I'm going to speak about tonight is also I made a video about I'm going to expand on that video um it's called the video is called people of the Moon again that's on the same video on the same website Rabbi sinclair.com it's also on terror anytime and I'm pretty sure that one's also an awesome air people of the Moon and to expand those ideas we just started tonight the nine days of tragedy days of sadness there are 12 lines in the get a get is a divorce document a Jewish divorce document is called a get Transformers citing the Robina time explains that's because the gamachia of get is 12. gimlet get and the number 12 corresponds to the total number of lines which separate each of the five the books of the Torah the distance distance between the lines which are left blank between braces and schmosis IV and some between schmois and by mitba three times four is twelve now interestingly enough the lines which is also for are not between by midva and safer Divine which we start reading this week is not included in that why not in other words I get is the ultimate symbol of separation the breaking of this of the connection the ultimate connection between man and woman the foundation of the world again breaks that it's a symbol the ultimate symbol of disconnection of breakup of qurban of Destruction so really the fact that we don't factor into the word get into that 12 the four lines between barmer and the Forum means that there is not really a real separation there you know in more than that it's really a connection between the subject matter of the books that precede the volume and divine itself as we know devarium is basically is also called missionaries a repetition of the Torah which Moshe write that wrote down shortly for his death therefore the spacelift team by midrand devarim is really a gap it's an empty space that joins two things rather than separating them the weekly Torah portion which the way the passionate appear in the Jewish year was fixed by our rabbis and they're very often associated with other events which are simultaneous we read the volume at the time of the qurban of the destruction something which we had for hundreds of years was taken away from us and therefore the theme of quruban of Destruction is connected to devarim how what is the connection what does the mean to understand the connection between what is this space between Bar Mitzvah and the varim how does that relate to the qurban how does that relate to what's going on now the destruction of the base of mcdosh the Exile of the Jewish people the great darkness that we find ourselves in as a an interesting facet of Tish above which is explained that Tish above is really annoyed amoid is a festival we tend to think of a moed being something like pesach happy times sukkas the ninth of of is called a moaid it's actually a possible book of Lamentations that we read on on Tish above contains that verse and from there we derive the understanding that Tish above is a moate mo Aid is comes from the expression means an appointed time of meeting a yard is a destination when you're flying to the states you'll see in Hebrew it says time to your destination how long is it going to be that's of course always too long but a yard is a destination more Aid therefore is a destination of time and place of meeting together in those times and places during the year be it Pastor so because we meet so to speak together with our courage and as a result of the fact that it is a mo Aid it has ramifications in the tefilla of Tish above meaning for example we we don't say slichot supplications penitential prayers instead we say things called kinot kinos allergies it's a day of pain of crying but because it is a more eight it's not a day of petition of seeking slikha so to speak forgiveness and that is essentially because it is a it's a moate it's a festival so this needs to be understood understood in what way could we possibly construe and understand the Tish above is a Moet is a festival foreign now to take it one step further the Gamora also proves that rosh khodesh is a a moed um and actually and it brings this brings this proof the fact that is also called a moaid from that Saint posic in acre which we just quoted Coraline which is talking about so in some way Tish above and rosh grodish which is today tonight are connected together and they're both called moadim they're both called festivals what is the moate what kind of moment is Stitch Above and what kind of mind is is Rose goldish as we know the moadim uh except for these exceptions about the yetis mitzrayim the leaving uh Exodus from Egypt they're all connected to pesach of course that's quintessentially the essence of itself it seems rhyme and all of the is different and in a sense the opposite is true it's not so much that rosh grodish is a memory as a remembrance of yitzy Smith's rhyme but reverse it seems Miss Ryan is so to speak the first Mitzvah that we got is Rosh grodish it says his rhyme so to speak is powered by roshkosh it comes rather than the reverse the Commandments of Corbin pesach to bring the pace of sacrifice comes only after the command to kaddish the Lavana to sanctify the moon to sanctify the kodesh and again the mighty Rajkot is is unique there are no Miracles there's no yetis in its rhyme there's no mutton Torah there's no sukkas there's what happens on Rajkot is is there is a birth that is the day that the Moon is Reborn as we said before a moed is connected to the word yard meaning destination the place towards one travels all the moadima stops on the path that we travel to the ultimate stop of Jewish destiny and therefore the more these in the sense is the same and the molad The Rebirth of the Moon represents that same march to our ultimate destiny now to understand this we have to go back and to a Gomorrah which describes the creation of the Moon the moon did not originally exist in its current state the gemara says that Hashem created two it's a deer from the sukim Hashem created two moroccodolim two large luminaries it the moon was created as large as the sun and yet see if I can find the person here no I'm sorry yes it's actually do you have if you have a hummus you could look it up Zion somebody read it for us thank you very much in the Arts girl it's page six foreign and God created the two great luminaries great luminous two great luminaries the great luminary to rule by day and the small luminary to rule the night vesa and the Stars now Rashi immediately points out that something happened in this position at the beginning of the Posse it says two great Lumen risen by the end of the positive one was great and one was Katon one was small says Rashi they were created identical equal not identical equal foreign because it complained and said it's impossible for two kings to share the same crown so a college book who said go and make yourself small okay obviously these are very deep ideas but the point that we want to bring out here is that originally the Moon was created equal to the size of the sun and something that's very very interesting if you look if you've ever seen a total eclipse the size of the Moon almost completely exactly obscures the orb of the Sun now if you think about it there could be few celestial Stars objects which could be more different than the Sun and the Moon the sun is a piece of rock I think it's about um anyway relative to the sun it's extremely small the sun is 93 million you know 400 times smaller than the Sun okay all right but for sure nobody's going to disagree with the fact that it's considerably small of a different Power very very very much smaller completely different in every way and if you think about it it's interesting because we maybe if the astrophysicists in the room you'll correct me but it seems to me that we on planet Earth are in a place one of the few places in the entire universe where those two objects look the same size it's something which is uh I think always before before even I knew this gamara something that sort of Drew how do you say it's something that's kind of something something weird about that something unusual about that that we happen to be from our perspective where we are in space that those two objects seem from where we're standing almost identical to the extent that in a solar eclipse the the as I said the Sun the moon totally I mean you know within a I mean but as there is why so which if we can try and understand what's going on here the two it says that both they were both created as great the same size and we'll come back to what that means Hashem compelled the moon to shrink itself and not only did it shrink itself but it continues to the to wane to the point that for 24 hours it is it is completely not there now of course we're not talking astronomically the Moon is still there but from the point of view of it being a luminary a creation as it says the Torah says which was created to shine it essentially does not exist for those 24 hours as illuminary the Moon is born from a complete state of Darkness of nothingness and then it waxes to grow towards the greatness it once had and as I said since the moon was created as illuminary when it's no longer visible giving off light its reappearance is considered to be quite literally a new moon why are we calling it a new moon it is a new moon something in terms of its light which is new and never existed prior to that point in time now the decree for that Moon's diminution never applied to that new moon and the Moon can and eventually will grow to the size of the sun that it was in other words the birth of each new moon and it doesn't of course because we haven't reached that time where the moon will go on and grow and grow and groan until the light of Hashem fills the entire world that decree of diminution doesn't exist on that moon but at a certain point the Moon is still restrained it's not allowed to grow to its full brightness but each birth of the Moon contains within it the potential for it to return to its original stature and it is therefore a more Aid it has the potential just like the festivals which point to the ultimate destination of the Jewish people the Moon too each new moon contains within it the potential the unrealized potential to grow to that final yard that Final Destination one day as I said there'll be a new moon on which there will be no such decree of diminution and its light will be like the light of the sun is a Moet because it celebrates that potential to restore to return to its original brightness and splendor in other words the potential for every moade contains within it the ability to bring us back to the original state pesach brings it within it the potential for the eventual Google I've redeemed you as in the end as at the end is it in the beginning that salvation that being rescued that Liberty Liberty the pasig represents in many many cultures you see in the black culture of in America this idea of redemption of there being slaves and the idea of pesach for them of being led out of that's an idea that grabs them the conscience of mankind consciousness of mankind and within that idea of the gaullah of the Redemption the complete Redemption that's also the new moon and therefore all of Isaiah let's see is from its rhyme they remind us of the destination of our Redemption we are the people of the Moon the Jewish people compare to the Moon so many times in our history it seems that we've been snuffed out and many times in our history there have been many who've attempted to do that and each one of them fail it always amazed me we read in our hagada every pesach that because in every generation they rise up to annihilators saves us from the hands you know when the you know when the hagada was written in the time of the mishnah how long ago is that two thousand years 1500 years how was it that Ghazal who authored the mishnah would be able to say a prediction like that but called over though and every single generation they rise up to annihilators and a college book who saves us every generation Witnesses the attempt of the World At Large to annihilate the Jewish people and every generation witnesses that failure but it doesn't stop them we are the people of the Moon we are the people that just at the moment where we seem to be completely extinguished and vanished like the moon we are reborn in kirish levana and to this world who said that it should renew a as a Crown of Glory to those who are about to be born a muse those who are in the the point of gestation the Jewish people those waiting to be born just as each month is born in complete darkness and deficiency such that there's no remnant of what came before our renewal will also come as something completely new Hazard teaches the mashiach will be born on Tish above the day of total Destruction the day of total darkness from there comes the rebirth Redemption flows from the day of total darkness total emptiness and it's for this reason that Tish above is a Moet because it celebrates the birth of the new moon that's the connection between rosh grodish and tishabab that's the day of rebirth from the greatest Darkness restoring everything to its original status the gemara calls the calls the called the beta mikdash the light of the world Herod King Herod regretted killing he killed on all the Torah Scholars came out all of them and he asked what he could do to repent the answer was the he had seeing as he'd extinguished the light of the world so he should rebuild the light of the world by rebuilding or renovating the base amigdush that's about the beginning of a cover excuse me he extinguished Aura shall only extinguish the light of the world or the Torah is the light those who teach the Torah or the Guardians the bearers of the light what should he do is the light of the world the Nations will flock there now the word nahara which means to flock also connotes light nahura means light the light of the world the gemara tells us the windows of the base are mikdosh we're white on the inside and narrow on the outside which is the reverse the way you build the building normally normally you want the windows to be wide on the outside so they focus the light inside but seeing as the base I make those radiated light so therefore its windows were wide on the inside and narrow on oh sorry narrow on white on the outside narrow on the inside excuse me and wide on the outside to radiate the line to the light to the world so therefore listen up it follows that the destruction of the base of migdash parallels the darkness which will produce the Redemption exactly the same way just like the darkness of the Moon that comes from nothing like the Jewish people who return from nothing the base I make those which is in Ruins that parallels the fact that the light of redemption will act will eventually return not the ones on top of the Aaron which were extruded from the plate covering the top of the iron Shalom large statues of cherubs they're called in English the gemara says comes from the Aramaic ravia like a child because they had the in the faces of children they were these large statues and at some points they looked towards each other and sometimes they they looked away the gabbar explains that the crew of them were like a barometer of the relationship of the Jewish people to the cloud Israel sorry when we performed the will of Hashem the crew of him in the basement would face one another and when we didn't they would face away this happened until the days of yoshio one of the last kings of Yehuda who did hashem's Will he also saw the end was coming and so he took the Aaron and the crew of him and he hid them in the Subterranean tunnels under the base of migdush and they will be revealed in the third the time of the base Amigos is a well-known story that apparently they found some of the cane on the base amigda somewhere in Jerusalem and I think they went to the coffee and he said put them back the time isn't right so one would think that at the time of the Quran of the destruction of the base of mikdish there would be no greater separation between us and the college world the Nadia of that relationship s heathens party in his sanctuary how is that possible And yet when our enemies entered into the base of Magnus they saw the crew of him intertwined as a sign of intimacy Gamora says like a husband and a wife in an Embrace of intimacy how can that be at the time of the greatest and the nations of the world mocked us the Romans said ah this is the Jewish people they're so holy this is sort of sort of stuff they're into that's what they saw in it but they didn't understand what that interest intimacy was they didn't hear the whisper so to speak of the crew him but the wisdom The Whisper that the crew them were telling us mm-hmm so for the non-jews that Miracle as it was of the crew of him being embracing one another was a bizoyan was a matter of shame that they could disparage us with but if you listened well Hashem was sending us a message he was saying from here on The Only Way is back The Only Way is back to me the only way is out of the darkness just like a rebirth just like a new moon from the world's point of view it was an awesome desecration such a thing the intertwining of the crew of him the Embrace of husband and wife but we know that the crew of him represents our relationship with our College boho so to speak Hashem sent us a message we are the ones who understood that message let's go back to this idea in the context of Tish above and its roots stemming from rosh grodish the connection between the two and let's return also to the idea the concept of the Sun and the Moon the sun is called the is the greatest mashpia the word mashpia means to to influence to means to Allah meaning influence I don't know if there's a good English translation radiator the greatest radiator the greatest mashpia is the Sun the bestor of abundance and the Moon is the mushbies the makabel is the receptor it says moshe's face was like the sun he was the quintessential mashpia and teacher yahushua his talmud was like the face of the Moon inasmuch as he was the quintessential mccabel talmud student when the receiver receives all the all the influence that is being proffered the macabell is the same size as the mashpia when there's a situation where the receiver can receive everything they're the same size once the moon was limited so the amount of hashbah of influence that it could receive was also Limited it could not receive everything that the Sun had to offer Hashem of course is the greatest and we the Jewish people are the his macabell the whole bris idea of the bris Mila the Covenant that Hashem struck with the Jewish people the Vilma gone goes into an interesting idea that if you think about it that the idea of we talk about the bris as korres bris cutting a pact I imagine 45 I think we have the same expression English the Kata Pact but if you think about it the word to cut courace is to separate and the whole idea of a bris is to join together in a covenant of unity the word bris actually is connected to the word to the same word in English to bar if you talk about barring somebody you leave them out a Brisk basically says you and me and everybody is barred The Outsiders is a Baris in point of fact the same thing we see in the Gomorrah we learn things which are called by Rices barisas what is a bar Isa it's a piece of tanaitic information a statement by a Tana that was I mean I don't want to make it too strong barred from the mission that was left out from the mishta rabbi decided that it wouldn't be included in the Mish there was barred again the word English bad has certain kind of negative connotations but the idea of being outside so a bris leaves everybody except the two elements of that to people the two whatever it is the subjects of that Covenant bars everybody else why is it called cutting why is it called chorus Bruce cutting a pact when two people want to be together and they form a bris a covenant each one gives to the other the most dear thing that that person has and then wherever they are however physically separated they will be they will always be together the place of the brismila is the place of the future the place where we do the Bismillah is the the point the place of the future of a person that organ of the body represents the future that's where a person's future comes from we make a Brisk on that part of the body because it was this as though we say to Hashem everything that we will ever be as a nation all our progeny all our tomorrows we give to you and the reciprocal statement that Hashem says to us gives to us is so to speak himself he gives to us everything that I saw to speak Hashem says everything I will be in this world will be through you through Clan Israel that bris the Jewish people saw the message even in that darkest of times even the time of quruban even when everything seems to be destroyed even in that total darkness we saw the molad we saw the birth in Tish above we saw the mo Aid in destruction I think it's fair to say that everybody in the world would like to get rid of the Jewish people at best we're in an annoyance with a filthy rich with the filthy poor where the left-wing extremists were the bastians of Industry we're all anti-Semitism all anti-semites while they agreed that the world would be an infinitely better place without the Jews in no way can agree exactly what is the exact crime of the Jew the entire world wants to get rid of us they'd all prefer if we were gone from the world some of them would take active steps to see that end and the others would be perfectly happy for other people to take care of it for them I'm not talking about the very small minority of khasidi um righteous non-jews who there are but in terms they're vastly outnumbered by what most of the people in the world would like to see happen right of emden writes in an introduction to his siddha that the greatest miracle in the whole world is the is the survival of the Jewish people Louis XIV once asked Pascal for a single evidence of God in the world and he replied to him the Jews your majesty Paul Johnson in his history of the Jews goes within this close of actually admitting a Divine historian but of course he's a professional historian so he can't admit such such a thing like that and so he comes up with this wonderful idea that the Jews believed that they were the chosen people with such power and with such conviction and for such a length of time that they became the chosen people people I think that's you know wonderful I mean I'm a great believer in positive thinking but that positive thinking just goes so far you know you can believe you're a martian until the middle of next week but I doubt you're going to sprout ailerons coming out of your head there's just a limit to historians don't understand it because it's not understandable it's beyond it doesn't make sense and I think many many years ago as a child when I was at school and we were learning all about history and I thought I said well you know what about us what about the Jewish people why aren't you talking about us and the reason is there's nothing to talk about if we don't fit into any Theory theory of History we are an anti-historical people Arnold toynbee arguably one of the most prominent historians of the 20th century called us the fossils of History for fossils I think we're pretty Lively why did of course because we don't fit in We Are anti-historical and the fact that we're anti-historical proves like nothing else the yard Hashem in the world we're despised with downcast We're a nation I mean I don't have to look around now at the state of the Jewish people in this country and yet and yet somehow we go on and we go on and we go on as Mark Twain wrote in 1876 All Things Are mortal except the Jew what is the secret of his immortality well gentlemen I think we can answer that question that Urban that destruction that absolute Darkness created the space created a distance with the potential to bring us closer that's the point that's what Tish Above All About is all about that's why it's a moate that's why rosh grodish is a moaid the absolute absence of the Moon the complete darkness allows the potential for a molad a birth of a light which will grow to which original size and that is why coming back to our original statement about the get the 12 lines the space between Bar Mitzvah and devarim which brings us back the mishna Torah a recapitulation of everything that we can possibly be which is in davarium brings us back to that original level of connection with Hashem every year that we sit on the floor in Tish above there's a hope and there's a despair the despair is that we're still here I remember hearing from my Robbie and we'll finish with this I really came towards Israel wow must be 60 more yeah about 60 or 70 years ago it's just 99 of her so probably 70 years ago and he went up to Mayor sharim you know on Tish above to the stable and there was this Alti rashami sitting there and he had the aquinos you know the Keynotes are the how do you say in English the Lamentations the the durges the the the the allergies the the poems of terrible destruction the Keynote the key noise he was sitting there is key noise and next time he had this this box which was marked on it Shameless you know and ensure when you don't we're not allowed to destroy holy books so when they were out we can't use them anymore we put them in what's called chamber Sheamus actually means names geniza is the Hebrew word in fact the so this is xiaomi was sitting there and as he finished every single page of the keynote he would very carefully tear it out the book and put it into geniza we're not going to need this next year is that why not this year that this year before Tish above arrives the utter Darkness with which we're faced and anybody who has eyes to see looks around at the world we're in and sees nothing but Darkness but it's from that utter Darkness strikeless like the moon which is born from utter darkness and we have a promise that it will one day rise to the size to be the recipient of the total Radiance of hashem's light and all the world will see who the Jewish people are and who we've always been my blessing to all of us is this year gentlemen we won't be sitting on the floor we'll get up once and finally with the radiance of the world of Hashem filling the world with the coming of meshirts again