Rabbi Benzion Klatzko | CHAZAQ Tisha B'Av Marathon

A great big thank you to Khazak and Torah anytime for once again spreading Torah all over the world. One of the most difficult things when it comes to tishab is just understanding what happened. uh when I was young I don't think history was my thing and to understand everything sort of mushed into each other and it made it made Judaism together with it a little bit blurry so I thought you're going to be hearing a lot of muser today let me give you a few facts and then this way you'll come away understanding what actually happened on tishab in the grand scope of things so we all know that many years ago, actually 3,338 years ago, the Jewish people left Mitsraim. Hashem said, "Go to Eric Israel. You're going to be able to conquer very easily." And the spies came back. And 10 of the 12 spies said, "We're like grasshoppers. We'll never beat them." And they cried. And the Jewish people cried. And they told to turn to Mosher. And they cried and said, "Why did you take us from Mitim? You just want us dead. Is it a prank? Is it a joke? Are you a sadist? Why would you do that?" And of course, Yeshua and K said, "You have nothing to worry about. Hashem just decimated, destroyed, obliterated Mitzim, the greatest power in the world. Of course, he could do that to seven nations who would live in Erit, Israel, sharing the land together. Of course, you're going to succeed. But they cried. And Hashem said, "You cried for nothing. From now on, tonight's going to be the night of tears." And so it is. And so it was. Tonight became the night of tears. The day of Yum Kipper, I'm sorry, the day of Tishab became the day of tears. Now, it's interesting because the way it's written in the Gmorra, it says, "You cried for nothing. I'm going to give you something to cry about." And when you think about that, it sounds like one of these old school teachers like, "AH, YOU CRIED FOR NOTHING. I'm going to p you up. I'm gonna frin pun as we like to say. It's going to be really strong. you're going to regret you ever cried for nothing. But the truth is there's a totally different way of looking at it. You cried for nothing and you wasted the most precious commodity, the liquid gold. The liquid gold is not Iranian oil. It's not Saudi Arabian oil. You know what liquid gold is? It's tears. Tears are almost like magic in in Yandas. It says in that the gates of tears are always open. No matter what's happening, you can cry and Hashem will listen and Hashem will change the decree. Tears are so precious. If you watch the movie and there's a sad part, don't cry. That's silly. That's foolish. That's nothingness. Why waste good tears on fake movies or a fake book where you got a fictional book and there's a sad part in the book and you feel like crying? Don't cry. Your tears are precious. Use your tears for good purposes. And so it is. Hashem says, "You cried for nothing. From now on, whenever it's time to cry, whenever I have to give you chastisement, m onesh, you're going to cry for a good purpose. And I'm going to listen and I'm going to save you because your tears are precious. So, let's speak about times of crying on tishaba and what happened. Well, first off, we need to begin with the bayas rishon because that's the epicenter of teshab. The bay rishon the first bish mikdash was so beautiful and lasted for so long that it was impossible to destroy it. It was it was considered not in reality. If you would say, "Wow, basic is going to be destroyed, burned down." You would say, "That's nonsense because it's the BU. It's the Bloim. Hashem made the B mikdash. You can't destroy B mikdash. Bikdash had nimuim outright miracles. There was you were able to look at these stones and based on the stones, you could see what Hashem was trying to say. You could ask questions. You could see the Aron Kodesh with the Sadibbras, the very stones made of sapphire as brought up by Mosher Abenu, the fixed ones and the broken ones. You saw the original Torah written by Mosheren. All of that was in the first Bikash Nim, the fire from heaven. When Bessamed got destroyed, we lost Nissimu. We cried, "Hashem, we need Bameikdash. Mikdash mel the mikdash, the temple, the holy place of the king on in the mala in this in the kingly city. Get up from the ash. Get up from the dumps. Too long have you sat in the valley of tears. Tears can bring you out. Tears can rebuild. So we had first bas and then we had second bas mikdash. Well, I want to tell you something. Without the first bases being destroyed, the second BA mikdash would not have be destroy. Would not have been destroyed. Sometimes in this world until there's one calamity there can't be a second one. It has to be brought down to the world. You know when an anti-semite especially today with what's going on politically we find anti-semite say Jews to the gas chamber to the crematorium what are they monsters? Of course they are. But how could you ever think of putting another human being in a crematorium and a gas chamber? The answer is it was brought down to the world. If it can happen once, it can happen a second time. Without the first baseline mdish being destroyed, the second bime never could have been destroyed. It was it brought down the reality that you could have a baselu that doesn't last forever. That's a dagger to the heart. So the second bes mikdash was a leftover of the first bes mikdash being destroyed. Both of them took place on taba. That's a wild coincidence. So it would seem. They took place five 500 or so years apart and yet on the very very same day and that was on the same day as the moragum. Not through yet. The first B mikdash in the secular calendar was destroyed in the year 586 before the common era. That's according to the Gregorian calendar. The second mikdash was destroyed in the year 70 in the common area era. You know why you need to know this? Because the mikdash is not rebuilt by the year 2020 2070. What are right now? We're in 2026. If [snorts] the year 2070 hits and we don't have a mikdash, we will have at least according to the goes calendar exactly 2,000 years of no mdash. But that wasn't it. The rashim weren't done trying to destroy Israel because not too many years later, 65 years later was the Barva revolt. And then you had this huge monster of a man whose name was Hadrien. Hadrianus. And he said, "You know what? We're gonna destroy all of Yiddishkite. No learning Torah. No doing mitzvot. If you learn Torah in public, death. You keep Shabbat, death. Yum, death." And he went and he destroyed Bar and all the surrounding cities. How many are we talking about? We're talking about more than 300 cities destroyed. We're talking about 700,000 yeden murdered in Betar. Now that's on top of the 1,100,000 that were killed by Corbin Bayas. We don't think of these numbers. We don't understand these numbers. decides based on mikdash being destroyed 1,100,000 were killed during bay sheni if you want to know how big that numbers that's how many Jews were killed in Awitz could be Awitz even had 1.3 million but at least 1.1 million the same amount in Awitz as second bes mikdash then Hadrien came 65 years later and fought against Baroko and the Eden and killed another 700,000 Eden. When did that happen? Tishab Moraglam first bes mikdash second bes mikdash betar not done yet the very next year there was another Russia from Rome whose name was turnis rufus and turnis rufus said it's not enough that we destroy bes mdash we kill the hidden you know what we need to do now we need to plow over Jerusaleion we need to make that the yin, the Jewish people have no memory of what Jerusalem was all about. We're going to make it into a Roman city, aliyah capitalina. And no Jew may step foot in Jerusalem. And the Jew who steps foot in the city will be put to death instantly except for one day. Listen to how the Russia works. One day we're going to allow the Jews to come in to Jerusalem. That day is tab of we want them to cry like babies. We want to watch their agony. The church by the way took this and they kept this going for so many years. They would have two statues. the statue of the Christians, which they made look usually like a lady looking all beautiful and dignified. And then next to that lady, they would make a statue of another lady with a blindfold like her eyes were poked out, looking down, sad, depressed. And that came that came from a coin that was made by the Romans right after Besame Mikdash. The very next year, you could actually see the capalina coin. And in that coin is your as a woman sitting on a chair with her head in her hands crying. That is a Roman coin. You could go on to eBay and buy it. It's about $20,000 to find the coin that was made the year after Bam Mikas was destroyed. I want to tell you, I was in Arizona. I took my daughter to a butterfly display where they have live butterflies. Butterflies can land on you. It's very pretty. And in the lobby when you buy tickets, they have a tree trunk from the oldest tree in that area. And they had cut it in half so you could see the rings. And they and they showed you put little pins in rings from important years. So my daughter and I counted and we found the ring on the tree from the year that B mikdash was destroyed. I cannot tell you how moved I was to see that ring was in the world witnessing on some level the destruction of Baselu. But we're not done yet. Jerusalem is plowed over which means you know the the Jews in Poland after World War II many of them went back to their cities. They went back to their houses. Now what do they find? They found the Polish peasants living in their houses. They couldn't go in. They would be killed. The Polish people used to kill the Jews who would c come back to reclaim their houses. But at least there was a house. There was a memory. I remember in that house, that's where my daughter got engaged. That's where we had a shalom zak for my son or my grandson. I remember that house. How much Torah did I learn in that house? How much dafomi? At least there was a house. The Romans said there's not going to be a city. We're going to plow the entire city. There shouldn't be a memory. Turn Rufus did that. So there's no betar. There's no Galil. And the Jews were sent to BL. And from BL they were thrown from one end of the world to the next. They came to France. Oh, and France things were good. The Baltosas were there. Could you imagine? RASHI FROM FRANCE, Rabbi Nutam from France. Well, guess what? In the year 1240, they came and they burnt 24 wagon loads of manuscripts of Gomorrah, of the Tosfas that we don't have today because they were burnt. We don't we don't imagine that what that is because today we have a daily dose and you look at the daily dose you see the book it's all in a printer you print it in those days there was no printer in those days everything was written by hand painstakingly you had cities that didn't have one garra or that had one or two gumaras very few cities had an entire shas they were valuable they were the most precious precious. When we speak about this, you know what we're really speaking about? We're speaking about the destruction of Torah being uproot uprooted to its core. There were no sarim, so there can't be Torah in France. You know why this happened? We have a cabala. This happened because the Jewish people had burnt five, six years earlier. They burnt Rambam. Now how did they burn the Rambam? They didn't like Morim. They didn't understand Rambam. So they burnt the Rambam. And there were some big people who burnt the Rambam. But you know what they did? They got the government to agree. They have Rambam burnt. And the government encouraged it. And I want to tell you something. At the heart of tishabove, at the heart of of baseless hatred, it's going and relying on the non-Jew to intervene. This is why every story from the beginning involves Jews going to the non-Jew and saying, "Save us." All the way back to Dustin Ner who said, "We're going to tell on you the Mitsim are going to save us." You go to the non-Jew Baramsa. He was upset. So what did he do? He went to Rome. Save us. Take revenge for us. During the times of the Kashman, the two brothers who both wanted to be Kohanim Gdoleim, their names were Hadrien and not Aspacion, uh, Aristoblo. Hri Aabla Aristol wanted to be coal. So did Asian. So you know what they did? They fought each other. They went to Rome. Rome says, "You want us to be involved? We'll be involved." And you know what they discovered? There's a lot of gold in Bas Mikdash. So they took all the gold out of the Ba Mikdash. Then they made Jerusalem into a vassal state. And then you know what they did? They destroyed Bas Mikdash. You go to the non-Jew. You take it out of the family. We are family. We have issues. Speak about it. Don't go to the non-Jew. Don't be the Bernie Sanders of the world. Those hateful people who go and they they get Jewish people in trouble. This happened in Kaneka. This happened with Baramsa. This happened when they burnt the when they burnt the swarm in France. You want us to burn the Rambam? We'll do better. We'll burn all the swarm. This happened when the Mishnagdam were fought fought each other. They went to the government. This happened to Germany again and again. We go to them. So, Hashem says, "We're going to burn it, but we're not we're just we're just getting started in France because 40 years later, actually 50 years later in England first, King Edward of England said, "You know what? We're going to kick all the Jews out. We don't want any Jews in England. You think it's only now the anti-semitism? It was then as well. And they kicked every single Jew out of England. And King Edward said, "Any Jew who steps foot in England expelled. No Jews in England." And for the next 350 years, not a Jew was allowed in England. That's why England never became a place of Torah. It was never a foundational place. France was, Spain was, Egypt was, Germany was, never England. My mother's from England. England never became because they kicked the Jews out and didn't allow the Jews back for so many years. Well, France looked at England and they said, "Oh, that's a good idea. You kick all the Jews out in the year 1290 on Tishabove. We'll do the same thing on Tishabove." So in the year 1306, France expelled all their Jews and guess what? All the Baltosphos and all the Rashi's descendants and all the Kakam kicked out. How many were kicked out? You may want to know. Well, guess what? Almost as many as were kicked out of Spain. in Spain 200 years later. Also on Tishabove about 150,000 Jews were expelled from Spain. In France between 75,000 and 100,000. It was a horrific calamity. It was huge. It shook up the Jewish people. Tishabove England. Tishabove France. 200 years later, the accursed King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, they said, "You know what? We're going to we're going to um kick all the Jews out." I brought a group of students to come and we got the government to take out the original document as signed by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella. And we took that document, us me with a bunch of non-religious students from Olami and we began to sing Schweki song Shimma Shima Israel around the document. According to Barl Wine or Barl Wine Zatal, the expulsion of the Jews from Spain was the beginning of the Holocaust. He's able to trace it and he's not the only historian that says that one Jew they said could stay. Don Yitzk is Barbanell. You could stay. All the Jews have to go. Ditzkabarbanel was the head of Spanish jury. You know what he said? He said, "No, if the Jews are being kicked out, I'm going to go with them." And they were kicked out on tishabove. You know what? They played music down the street. Could you imagine if every Jew had to be kicked out of his country? Go on the road. Every Jew in Queens, go down this road and start walking. Where to? We don't care. What about our house? It's not yours. Your car not yours. Where are we eating supper tonight? We don't know. Where are we sleeping? Hotel? There's no hotels. Just walk. Imagine stop knocking on a guy's door. Please, can you give me food? He opens the door. There's 100,000 people outside. can't do it. 100,000 people, where are they going? Go to a relative. All my relatives lived in Spain also. We're all being kicked out. There's nowhere to go. And so without anything, they were kicked out of Spain. And that was on Tishbove, my friend. Fast forward. Fast forward. The final solution. By the way, I was thinking of this. Do you know why we didn't like the two-state solution for Israel? Beside that it's nonsense and it's suicide because it has the word solution in it. Whenever we hear the word solution, we take a step back. Solution means there's a problem. The final solution is the Jews were the problem. Tuesday solution, the Jews are still the problem. We don't like solutions, right? The solution comes from Hashem. The final solution was inscribed on tishabove. Tishabove. You know, I was in Warsaw and I went to a place that would make your blood run cold. It's a concrete. It looks like a parking lot and it's got a horrific German name. It's called the Schlag Plots. Schlag Plots. That's where the Jews from Warsaw were taken and they were told to take one suitcase and wait in the Schlag plots for the train to Palestine. And so the Yiddin left Warsaw, they left their homes once again being kicked out. They left their belongings. They left their shoes. They left everything to be brought on trains. How many Jews in Warsaw? 265,000. That my friends is five times as big as Muny, New York. I live in Munie. Rabbi Kolyak lives in Muny. It's big. MUNIE IS BIG. FIVE Munies brought to this concrete place and they were brought to trains directly to Trabinka where the lifespan of the average person was 25 minutes. From the train they walked down Himlra, heaven street straight to the gas chambers, straight to the crematorium, straight to their death. Schlag plots started on Tishabove. It's much deeper than you may realize. And the last thing I'll tell you, the 1990s, there was a bomb in Argentina in Bonazaris in the Jewish community center. And that bomb was the largest terrorist attack against Jews until October 7th. And that bomb killed 85 Jews in Argentina, injured 300. and that bomb went off on Tishab. It's a night of tears, but it's also a night and a day when we remember these things and we see a Yeshua. Just yesterday, our president decided to team up with Israel and they're fighting together against Hisbala, the mockery named party of God. No god that we know likes what his balah does. And the Hashem, these enemies who wanted nothing more than every one of you to be six feet under are going to be attacked by Cla Israel and her allies. Do you know who it was who set off that bomb in Argentina? It was Hisbala. We are seeing the Nickmas Hashem. England that kicked the Jews is falling apart. Trust me. France, the Islamists have taken it over. Italy, Rome is a joke. There's nothing left over there. Spain also a mockery. A nothing country. One country after the next that try to destroy us are are are a joke. They're a laugh. And Israel and Kali Israel and Torah is being spread far and wide. that this little bit of perspective on what tishab is, what it was, and what it could be will allow us to feel that sense of kusha and to take all the mus that you hear in Beth Gabriel and all the other shim and all the things that you read and allow you to take it to heart. allow us to take it to heart so that next year instead of being in Queens, New York, we're in