Powerful Tisha B’Av 5780 Message from Rabbi Ilan Meirov

we're sitting here today another tisha b'av another day where we mourn the destruction of the betterment dash of the holy temple but still sitting in ruins without the house of hashem and the truth is if we think about it this year 5780 this year tisha b'av has a little bit different meaning to people across the globe the past few months we've been going through this covert 19 which has changed everyone's life in one way or another everyone was impacted everyone's life had a sudden halt to its normal activity and as we sit here at the shabbat some people are starting to have things easing up in their local countries cities whatever maybe whereas others are still going through the time and the pain as the pandemic is still raging in their cities regardless of the situation this year we felt something missing in our lives we're starting to appreciate the things that seem so simple going to shul sending the kids to schools going to malls and shopping and visiting people everything had a major sudden turning events and maybe just maybe hashem is telling us he's letting us feel what caviar all he feels about not having the better mcdosh where we should just feel like something is missing we should feel like something is not a hundred percent so you can awaken us to know what it means to appreciate the basics of life and to know what it means to recognize that something is missing in this world for the creator of the world and it's missing because of our actions because of our behavior today i just want to focus on one nikuda one little point that i'm sure most people heard at one point in the con at one point in this pandemic a famous famous statement that was written by ramos [Music] one of the greatest ballet musa were the greatest mikubalim that lived in italy a few hundred years ago i want to repeat this because i believe the message is something that we have to really we have to really really listen to and live by because even as this rule started opening up here in parts of the united states in new york new jersey i feel like maybe the message wasn't didn't hit home the way it should have and we have to really wake up now he tells us something very fascinating he says that when hashem closed when he destroyed the door the large fence when hashem destroyed the large gate he opened him he opened up some small windows and those small windows were just a tiny glimpse of what the large gate was all about and what exactly is this large gate what are you referring to the large gate is referring to the betamigdash that is the gates to heaven the shaman and what's the small windows referring to it's referring to the schools the batomir the particular seot nowadays that we have no better mikdash what's our mig dash mat what's our minor sanctuary it's about the glacier the schools that we have synagogues so the ramkha was telling us that when hashem closed when he destroyed the shah regardless he opened the small windows he opened up the schools the synagogues now listen very carefully what he tells us that tells us at the end he says that when hashem is ready to rebuild to reopen the character the large gate when hashem is ready to reopen the medemic dash then he'll start closing the small windows he'll start closing all the schools all the bad shots all the learning centers around the world this is unbelievable if you think about it when in history do we have that every part of the world had to shut down the shulls all the synagogues were closed in energy said in america and europe you name it whatever whatever it may be they have to close their shoes because of this pandemic all them at once if you think about it even by the holocaust yes certain parts of the world were destroyed by other parts we still had thriving communities and schools were opened and torah centers were were full of life but here we are during this pandemic where we had a certain time frame were all schools around the world were closed at the same time this is what is telling us when hashem is ready to open up the large gate he's ready to give us the better big dashback we'll start closing the windows some of the windows are still open we see schools still open right now they're reopened but they're not fully opened we have all these restrictions we have all these fears mass social distancing different media name at different times you don't want to have too many people at once that means hashem hasn't shot it hasn't shunted completely according to the shot completely eventually but the question will be slammed by the sheriff slam the window shut or could it be a nice smooth closing and then he could open up the door the better mikdash once again our behavior in the shules will dictate how hashem has to put an end to this rules quote unquote before opening up the buttermilk dash are we gonna go back to school and talk once again and laugh and use our phones and do our emails and and check our stocks gold silver this that or we're gonna realize you know what business is business there's a time for everything in a better nest and i'll focus on my trila my prayers my learning and then when i'm done i'll step outside i'll check the news i'll check the stocks we're going to give the proper kavod the proper respect to the sanctuary to the ba technician to the schools then hashem will close the shulls he'll close the windows it'll be done in a nice transition as he opens up learning our lessons then it could be a closing that's not to our liking quote unquote so this is the message we have to take to heart and to shabba we're closer to the geola we're close to the gila we're seeing so much suffering so many times that have lost their lives over the past few months because of the pandemic so many lives have been changed so many people are yearning to see their loved ones again we need them in order for that to happen we have to all increase our kavod give the proper respect to the rules but also we have to decrease the hatred that's still taking place amongst different people and communities and segments of cloudy slide any generation where the better my dash is not rebuilt as a generation in which it would have been destroyed as well in that generation we haven't fixed the problems of sinatra inaudible hatred we're still judging people based on their backgrounds we're still judging people based on where they came from and their customs and me nagin does they put an end to it if they show unconditional love respect each other show love to each other doesn't matter what your last name is doesn't matter where you came from this is what hashem wants we're all one man one family one one body we have to feel that way we have to feel that way we have to live that way this ladies and gentlemen is our mission not to let the shabbat have go to waste let's have a little introspection look into the way we treat our but technology and look into the way we treat each other imagine referring that is referring to how you treated people at work and how you treat people in true how you treat people in stores how do you treat the people in your own home we have to start working on our challenge with our spouse with our parents with our children with our siblings with the people that we live with not just with the people outside four is that as a world but also the people at home so many people having shalom bite bombs so much tension in many homes unfortunately let's try to fix that up as well let's let this let's make sure this tisha bab doesn't go to waste we're so close to the left hand we're ready we're giving the proper respect to the mccoma mikdash the better mikdash we're giving the proper respect to each other we're trying to improve our shabbat observatory effort is all hashem wants no one's perfect no perfection we've got to put our efforts but at the same time rabutai get involved with bringing others closer to torah you know i always say this every year when the different staff members of khazak put together this marathon we're doing this already for unfortunately too many years we used to do it primarily in a shul and queen's bed gabriel strong partnership that we have with them and touring time would give it to the world now kazakh is doing it exclusively this year only through technology because schools are still not 100 opened but we don't want to have to keep doing these events there's so much work we have as a nation just to think that in queens we have so many kids in public schools kids that come from good homes that are understand maybe the value of a jewish education we have to all get involved and inspire other people we have to tell people the importance of sending their kids to yeshivat the importance of giving a jewish education and the dangers of giving them an education that's lacking torah and today's public school system they think that they're being taught hashemishmont it's very scary with these kids are being taught at a young age but some people don't know that and we have to all it's not just responsibility it's everyone's responsibility speak to your family members your neighbors your friends get involved get involved with any way you can to save money because the google is almost here bizarre you want to get as many people onto the boat onto the train yeah that's only if we take these messages to heart we're going to be we're going to be that this should be our where we last mourning where we are crying over the destruction of the bat hashem here and out we should be so hated foreign