Rabbi Daniel Glatstein: The Darkness and the Dawn - Hands of the Beis Hamikdash

welcome everyone to a special presentation hosted by hazak in honor of the new book the new safer the darkness and the dawn published by art scroll this is our second darkness and dawn event thank you everybody for joining us this book was released upon the occasion of the shlochim of my revered grandfather zechariah martin labe gladstein who endured and lived through all the years of darkness through the holocaust and emerged with unwavering unbending ironclad towering faith in akkadish baruch and he was an inspiration and a source of strength and support and encouragement to anybody who encountered him or had the privilege to meet him may this book be in aliya to his neshama begane dentahe menuhasai this special event is hosted by our dear friends at khazak i want to thank ravilan mayrov ravi aniv mayrov i want to thank my good friend robbie and whatever you could do to support this worthy organization certainly tava alechem bracha especially for their amazing efforts enrolling 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behind you rabbidig.com and i'm going to give you a special promo code and you could get free shipping rabbi dg and you could have it in your house you need to have this for tish above there's a lot of very important reading material about the holocaust and related subjects of kinos and echa so take advantage of that opportunity every mata shabbas we usher in the new week we say may the pleasantness of our god be upon us our handiwork may hashem affirm um may he affirm our handiwork two questions here number one why speak about our handiwork so many times why the emphasis the work of our hands it could just say elena why the work of our hands now this chapter in tihilam was first recited by arun hakoye and in parish meaning the positive says but you say aaron lifted up his hands and rash explains the first bracha in paragraph bay apostrophes is referring to berkhas kahane which by the way that's another seemingly unnecessary emphasis on the hands why do kahanam bless the people with their hands but there's something holy about the hands of the kahanam what exactly is the kedusha associated with the hands of the kaihanem and then rashi identifies the second bracha that arun gave rashi says is specifically referring to the shrina resting upon the base hamikdash claudius rashford says we're embarrassed that hashem shriner was not on the mishkan and they called out to martial banu we went to such trouble to construct the mishkan to demonstrate that hashem forgave us for the egal and now hashem is not coming and resting here our efforts have been in vain they were afraid they had not been sin they had not been forgiven for the egal and therefore for the return of the shrine so we see that there is a specific connection between vihinayam and the mishkan and the vasa maktash interestingly mustafi sandaf nung tells us that a yadid a friend the son of yadid the son of a friend he will come and build all you did he will build a friend for the you did for the friend in the portion of the yadid and the portion of the friend and the yadidim the friends will gain kaphara atonement what does this refer to who exactly is the yadid the yadid says the gemara is shloimai he's called yadidya like the pasik says in shema he is the son of the yadid namely abraham avinu who is called he did as the navy says babaes he will build the basa mikdash which is called the yadid as the passage says he will build it for the you did the you did the friend is god like it says he will bri build it in the portion of our test that belongs to the yadid namely binyamin binyamin is called the you did live in yamin omar you did hashem yes are the adidas who will gain atonement as the pasek says amazingly we know that hamel had a number of names when do we ever refer to him as yadidya only in reference to the basal mikdash avraham avinu had many names when do we refer to him as yadid only in reference to the base of mikdash hakodeshbok has many names when do we refer to god as you did only in reference to the base of mikdash what is the base i make this called you did everything connected to this entity called mcdosh is referred to as you did why refer to everything associated with the base hamikdash as you did what is the meaning of this how do we explain this says that when hashem what was about to destroy the base of mikdash he went into the vasak dash and he noticed abraham avinu standing in the base of mikdash and hashem said to abraham ali adi di babasi what is my dead what is my friend doing in the basement dish why is avraham referred to as you did in the context of the base hamikdash furthermore if you go to magilla the final the penultimate possible we say hashi veino cat damn renew our days like the days of old what does this refer to renew our days as the days of old the simple interpretation is bring us back to the good old days when the ways to make their stood however the medrish interprets this pasuk differently the madridish interprets this passage that hashem should bring us back to the days of other marishan in ganesden like the palestine says so here it is we're saying is lamenting the base of mikdash and one would have assumed that the echo would end with that fila to return to the basal mikdash but instead we say no ribanus returned us return us to the time of adam harishan and ganiden what is the admin hareeshan and ganiden got to do with corbin they said now after other men have a sin by eating from the forbidden fruit hashem chased the man of ganeden hashem was not happy with this and he lamented their banishment where are you says the madris the word ayaka has the same letters as the word echa hashem was lamenting mourning the banishment of admiration just like we lamented echa when we were exiled from jerusalem god too lamented when he traced admiration out of ganeden the madrish explains that adam richon being chased out of ganeden is parallel and similar to claudius being chased out of the mikdash and the base hamikdash being in earth israel being in the yerushalayim was like being in paradise like other marisha and being chased out of you shalom was like other marisha i'm being chased out of paradise so at first glance the parallel seems to be striking other marie shone leaving ghanai then seems to be mirrored by claudius going into ghosts but it seems like their respective sins were quite different adam ahrishna ate a fruit claw israel committed three cardinal sins in the times of the first base of mikdash avoid the zara giliarayas srikhastamim comes the vilnigan and this vilnigan interestingly is quoted in a letter that was sent by hagon of david kayen the rashiva of kharan too maisha shinerman the rav in flatbush who wrote this say for ayahuas did in fact violate the three cardinal sins and he also explains how the marichon gained atonement for these cardinal sins the grub brings an amazing tradition that other marishon gained atonement through his through through his three gil gulem who were the three gogulam of the marishan they were none other than avraham yitzhak and yaakov now the gurl does not explain how admiration violated the three carnal sins but he does explain how he gained atonement for them adam richon sinned with avoiding zara and therefore avada zara it says in devarim hen aloy hey hem tistrophon ba is thrown in fire avraham avinu who got gained atonement for the sin of adam marishon for serving avatarzara was thrown into a fire well gitzra cavino gained atonement for gilearios arrios was blinded yaakov gained atonement for admirations yaakov avinu went into golos golos is an atonement for now the guru does not explain how in fact other marishan violated the three cardinal sins but he explains how he gained atonement for him the maharao similarly explains how adam gained atonement for the three cardinal sins and the morale says avraham aveeno was masaki and gilearayus as igumar says in baba basra avraham avina was even on a higher level than iaive said says i sealed the covenant with my eyes i will not gaze at a basula but a woman in his own family perhaps he would gaze at but abraham was even on a higher madrigal he was on the madrega of hine ahmavinu's extreme purity and guarding his eyes gained him atonement for guillers vino being brought as a carbon gained atonement for avoiding zara yaakov avinu gained atonement for shrikha so the first base of mcdush the morale says which was built in the merit of the voice gained atonement through the lifetime of the others so the morale and the gra are both presenting this very novel idea that admiration gained atonement and did in fact violate the three cardinal sins and they were atoned through the others but how did admirishon violate the three cardinal sins so with this we come to an amazing sla and if you want to know where the schla is you could look in the end notes of this piece it's in divarim ice test namely even the torah even though the torah just mentions that admiration ate from the fruit nevertheless that eating of the fruit contained all three major sins the gemaran sanhedrin says other mauritian was a heretic he was an api karis now that certainly cannot be taken at face value but to some extent by not listening to the command of hashem there was a degree in heresy in that number two when the convince hadas the gemara says and if you want to know where i will tell you the gemara says lived with khaba and put in her poison spiritual grime so that was akin to gilley arayas and then finally from this zohama cayenne was produced who was the first murderer hence srikasdamin in fact the chavez khayim quotes the shelah and he says that the heid of the nakhash was also responsible for the destruction of the second temple second temple was destroyed because of baseless hatred sanasrinam which is the cause of lashanhara well the first lush in hara was allah the nakhosh spoke about hakadosh baruch and he told khaba you really need to eat from this fruit the reason why god doesn't want you to eat from this fruit is because he ate from the fruit and he this he created the world by eating from this fruit when hashem expelled adam and chava then because the sins are parallel and the situation is parallel and in that case there is a very compelling similarity between the stay of the jewish people in the mishkan and the mikdash and the state of admiration and ganedan and therefore the banishment of other marisha which is lamented with the word ayaka was also mirrored and paralleled by the lament echa when we left yerushalayim now when the mishkan was finally completed the torah says and it was on the day that moisha completed picking up putting up the mishkan the matter says the word vaihi implies something that once was and now has returned again says the matters when hashem put admiration resided there the shrine arrested there as the passage says in the garden so he implies a return to the original state in other words the stay the state of basamik dash was similar to that of other marisha in canada how is that how is the base hamikder so to speak a microcosm a facsimile of the ganeden of admiration after the sin of allah and hashem said now adam's like one of us maybe he's going to stick out his hand and he's going to take from the eight sakai and the taurus is a very unusual thing maybe he'll stick out his hand why the emphasis on the hand again just say maybe he'll take from the eight sachaim why the emphasis on the hand the gemaran coolant tells us something also quite remarkable the german colon says on hammond base there's a cloud enhanced maybe takala god does not bring stumbling to the tsadikim but literally the gemara is saying hashem does not bring stumbling to the hands of sadiq why the emphasis on the hands why again the emphasis on the hands in small aleph also we find this irrelevant emphasis on the hands fatih ruach hashem ra el shaw there was an evil spirit on shaw hubba so yoshi was sitting in his house with a spirinus and vidaven managing david was playing the harp with his hands of course he was playing the harp with his hands what else he was playing with a different part of the body another emphasis on the hands and finally why do the kohanim why are they mavari klaus specifically with their hands comes the baneshkai and the baneshkai offers an amazing revelation this is an adarassa yo parasha's boracious and that revelation is that when adam hari showing sin from the eight's hadas now this revelation it could be cited from no one other than the great ramami pano who lived from 1548 to 1628 one of the great all-time kobalam students of robiswarook who was in turn a student of the arie the ramami panel likewise learned from the ramak in fact the ramak's widow sent him a personal copy of the paradise remind him and the ramami panel author appears on the riff al-fasi zuti he wrote menachem azaria as well as and a number of other suffrage and he has an incredible revelation that when adam are you shown sin by the eight zadas he saw the fruit and he defiled his eyes and he listened to his wife and he defiled his ears and he ate the fruit and he defiled his mouth and his digestive system and every single cell in his body was affected there was only one part of the body of other memes that was not affected and that is his hands other mauritian could not do nothing with his hands god does not let the hands of the saddek sin so adam instead of stretching out his hands he merely he ate the fruit of the eighth hadas he did not sin with his hands there is one part of the entity that ret of other marisha that we obtained its primordial purity and tara and pristine state namely the hands of admiration of all the body parts the hands are the holiest part of our body says this is the reason why when the kahanan bless the people they hold up their hands their hands are the one part of the body of man that was never soiled now owed great debt of gratitude admiration gave david seventy years of his life david was destined to live only three hours and he gave adam and other mauritian gave him three hours of his life gave him gave him 70 years of his life in fact david was a gilgal of adam adam stands for adam david this is the reason the navi emphasizes david played with his hands he used the pure hands of adam harishan to be masake and marishon by the way even though this is a sheer to uh in commemoration of the release of the darkness and the duan hashem were working on another safer on borasias in los angeles and that safe arab as a sachem will have about 60 chapters and primed to come out for the new safer boratious habbalena letova with the help of the ribbon of shalom and i'm working on a chapter on boracious the different parts of other meristem that were unsullied by the original sin the hands the windpipe the sense of smell and the loose bone which never derived benefit from the sin of other marisha now let's talk about the basan mikdash because if there's one part of the human body that was never sullied by the sin of the marie shine it's the hands the mishna tells us 10 miracles happen daily in the temple number one no woman ever miscarried as a result of smelling the meat that was being roasted number two the meat in the in the mishkan and the minknash never spoiled despite lack of refrigeration number three there were no flies present in the basement in the slaughterhouse in the temple number four the kangado never became tame through kerry on yom kippur number five the the rain never extinguished the flames that were consuming the carbonaceon number six the column of smoke that rosella's maya ascended in a straight column and never swayed number seven the carbon oymera the shibuya the never became possible number eight even if people were crowded while they stood there was enough room to prostrate fully on the ground number nine no one was ever stung by a scorpion or a snake in the entire city of ushalayam and despite the throngs of people who congregated to be oily red girl nobody ever said saliha malcolm sha'al and bushlaim there was enough room for everyone sofa says the miracle wasn't that there was enough room the miracle was that nobody complained that's the greatest miracle of all the christians is troubled what is the common theme and denominator between these ten miracles and the chaos says an amazing thing that there's one place in the world that transcends the sin of other marishan adoration sin brought decomposition degeneration aging corruption to the world tuma spoilage decomposition miscarriage these are all a phenomenon a result of the sin of admiration but there's one place in the world that the sin of other mission doesn't touch is impervious to the sin of mother marishan there's one place in the world like the hands of a body that maintains its purity namely the basa mikdash in the basal mitosis the the existence of the vasa mikhtash was like in ganedan kodyam where despite no refrigeration the meat didn't spoil all entities remained the way they were there was no death no breakdown nothing degenerated so what name would you think would be the best possible name to name a location that is unsullied by the sin of admiration i would call it yad yad you did you did like adam's two hands the only parts of adam that remain pristine undefiled by sin are the mikdash and the mishkan flawless unaffected by the sin this is perhaps the reason why i think the gemara says yo you did ben you did you did leah did the show you did via ska bro you did him says the music isaac clever the reason why the basa mikdash is called yadid is because it's composed of two hands the base of mikdash is called yad yad because it encapsulates this idea it's the one place in this world where like the two hands it is unsullied undefined undefiled by the lackings of adoration and the sin of other mission now we understand why at the end end of eicha we say ashi venus take us back to the existence of other marie shine in ghanai then what does ganeth and got to do at the base of mikdash that's exactly what the khasrew says the base of mikdash's the best is a microcosm a facsimile of life in ganeden the same way ghanaidin was koidamn impervious to sin likewise the day samikdash now we understand why the tifila associated with the rebuilding of the vasa mikdash we asked hashem to affirm the work of our hands just like the hands were unsullied and impervious to the sin of other marishon like sotu is the mikdash called yadid as the gemara says him just to conclude we know that tish above is called the mayad it's called the yamtif what kind of yamato is tish above what kind of holiday is it is there a joyous aspect of tishav but in fact there is a number of particularly joyous dimensions to tish above if we sort of scratch the surface and uncover some of the deeper meaning here are a few ideas number one we're going to read in the torah of the shiva denakanta we will read that pashatsev said that the days of sorrow the days of tragedy and there are many it's been two thousand years in the eyes of hashem it's beshadzef it's only a moment of hashem's fierce anger these two thousand years in the eyes of akadesh barco are a fleeting moment we're really not a long amount of time well if two thousand years of jewish tragedy and jewish suffering and holocaust and crusades and inquisition and pogrom were a fleeting moment and hashem says the achros is eternal is endless is unfathomable it's hashem's is 500 times greater than his meet up perennials so if all of this is called rega imagine how long the chaser oil is if this is called cotton imagine how long the hassad rachamim gadulam is so as bad as tish above is and as mournful and sorrowful tishbo is but it's only a moment and it's only small let's extrapolate based on this scale how great the achrosm is how long it is it's magnitude and this by looking at tishb in this slide it will give us a tremendous glimpse of the incredible proportions of the across you know what would rebbi akiva say regarding tishb when rabi akiva saw the success of rome when we