What We're Really Missing (Ep. 140)

it's another tissue of another year sitting on the floor fasting morning destruction of the basin mikdash exile the jewish people and the fact is that most of us have difficulty understanding the significance of the day why this is so important to everybody it's almost 2000 years i understand when we read about the pogroms i understand what we read about the holocaust i understand when we read about the inquisition okay it's we're going through a rough time now there's been tragedy but nothing like what the jews have suffered throughout history for centuries jews were kicked out of towns thrown out leave close on your back leave behind your homes your businesses your possessions abandoned everything with the clothes on your back in spain the jews were an aristocratic class of people living on a very high level they left with nothing boats attacked by pirates sold the slaves wandering from place to place we have nothing to compare this to my brother gedalia for his bar mitzvah present asked to go on a team tour to shalom 1966. bruce line was still divided if you wanted to see the old city you got up on the roof looked off into the distance now jerusalem building roads tunnels trains israel is viewed as a world power under the world stage it's a whole different world and one tissue above this ruff gets up and he says i don't know what all the morning is about i don't see destroyed temples i see buildings i see you sooners i see everything being built is he jews with an army i see security we don't even understand what we lost we don't even understand what it's supposed to be the cannot that i want to speak about this year is one with a painful refrain in mind islamic base it's both sides shuffle the issue of say no flu oya we went down from our greatness and the city has fallen over have gone into gulas and all the enemies are at peace mikdash and all of its azaros in the day of anger they collapsed that would destroy oya and they saw him with sorrows and the faces of the princes the princesses became like blackened pots and it goes on a terrorist to pharaoh's law earth nigras our crown and our glory dragged down with the little bells and balls at the end [Music] everything is gone it's not a building we're not mourning the destruction of a building we're not even mourning the loss of life unfortunately there's been a tremendous amount of jewish blood spill over the centuries i had wanted to take out a an ad at one point when all the commotion was going on in america called jewish lives never matter the same people who are worried about certain lives mattering the worst anti-semites out there nobody cares about jewish lives but that's not the focus of tish above yes we use it as a basis to talk about all the suffering and all the terrible things that have happened but that's not the emphasis what's the emphasis the basin migthus was destroyed and we were given permission to rebuild it gimmel says the hedway you sit secure in your houses and the basement is destroyed i am you plant and you only harvest a small amount says rashi the avon bikuram shabbat lu because there's no big corum because there's no basa miktash to bring it to and because you were mavatalet so therefore you don't bring in the harvest the way you should ah [Applause] you eat and you're not satiated anymore the meal offerings shaw they're in the chakra you drink wine and it doesn't have its usual effect says rashi nito tamayon the fish of butler and the zohem wine has lost its power because you don't bring the wine offerings anymore you wear clothing and it doesn't keep you warm says rashi but big day kahuna shabbat light and all the money that you make it's like you're putting it into a bag with a hole in it called rabbah says rashi it disappears as if you put it into a bag with a hole hashem think about what you're doing this also shown when he quotes this posik [Applause] there's no audiophile that comes with it the answer is obvious because he repeated it twice for emphasis [Applause] you remember when there was a base in big fish it wasn't destroyed that long ago you remember what food tasted like you remember what it was like when you harvested your crops you know what the wine is supposed to taste like what clothing is supposed to taste like don't you see you're living a shadow existence symbol of alcohol think those were people who saw the first base of mikhtash they remember what it was all about from shim and gum leo who's vervato the girl's tightness the magilla that discusses all the special happy days and sad days on the jewish calendar why he says something very powerful he says just like a needle in dead flesh if a part of your body the skin is dead the needle doesn't hurt that's us today he was speaking one generation after the corbin his father reverend gamble leo was alive in the time of the basic magnesium leo one of the asura ruge mouthless was one generation later and he said we're dead we don't feel anymore we don't know what it is to be happy and we don't know what it's like to be sad because we've lost a part of what makes us people that was 2 000 years ago so now we talk about the base of big dash you can't imagine what we're missing you can't imagine if hamas doesn't shoot rockets at us we're happy the ceasefire if people aren't stabbing people on their way to the hotel in the old city we're happy people are throwing rocks and firebombs at our cars we're happy that's all it takes for us we can go out to eat restaurants drink the finest wine drink the finest scotch go stay in the finest hotels stay in palaces what are we really missing okay every now and then some of us get killed but for the most part things are great because we don't even know what we're missing take one day to think about what your life could be like would come the best english would come you came to the base of mikdash and you could feel the shrina you could feel god's presence is where god is not a god is he watching me is he not watching me those were questions you could only ask when the base amigos was destroyed when there was a base of mikdash when there was navuwa rashi says that vulan used to do business with people they would come to do business with him they said as long as we're here let's go to shalom and see their base of mikdash and they would be so overwhelmed that they would become jews they could feel the strainer it was real atheist is a greek word a means not like asymmetrical atypical theo is god and ist is a believer atheist one who believes there's no god that's a greek word the greeks invented the concept of atheism because until then there was navuwa it was the base of mikdash with all of the power of the first base of mikveh was there you couldn't deny god exist okay so you could be led astray by your buddhazara and by other things by your tavis but that god doesn't exist it wasn't a possibility you could feel him three times a year you'll come to your shalom ice to see hashem that's how real the experience was like you would see how kurdish borough the jews were the intellectual leaders of the world it's ironic that there are bible scholars who suggest that certain books of tanakh could not have been written by the jews because they're clearly of greek influence they can't even begin to imagine maybe the greeks took it from us of course not the greeks of the intellectual elite that they would come and go to the jews slo-mo melody would have written cohellis can't be it's greek that they could have stolen from us through the intellectual powerhouse of the world through the spiritual center of the world through the physical scent of the world because i'll tell us until the corbin everyone knows that the jews were the most beautiful people on earth josephus writes this even the time of the romans everyone knew the jews were the most beautiful people in the world josephus writes that eritrea was so fertile that anyone ordered a piece of land planted because it was silly just threw the seeds in the ground and it grew it's the most beautiful land in the world can you imagine an existence with the base of excession all the barakah comes to the world through the base of mcdush and spreads out every place else from there we've never had a piece of meat we have no idea what it means we've never had a piece of bread we never drank a glass of wine we've never worn clothing we've never had a sense of shalva and manuka of peace and mind and rest we've never had a spiritual experience we only have shadows of shadows of shadows we are a shadow people walking the world because we don't have the base on mcdush there's a school that we can go to the to the coast i'll go to the western wall diving for 40 days you can get something it was a a girl father's trouba she decided she was going to do this she was going to go for 40 days and davin that she should have kevonna and fila concentrate concentrate in hooked feeling she stopped at day 24 or 25 i don't remember she said she couldn't handle it she would open up the sitter and start to doppen and her whole body would be shaky he used to go to the base of mikdash the cloud hanging over it and feel hashem's presence you could have navier where ankara's borough was speaking directly to you not just in general to you sean mellick loses his donkeys he says let's go find a navi and ask him where our donkeys are and why hashem had them uh disappear in the first place what a hard question people ask me what's my top kid in this world i don't know i'm not a navi but when there was another you would go to him and say what's my task in this world and he'd say this is what hashem has in mind for you this is what you could do this is who you could be you would do a hate you would do a sin bring a curb into the basement and you were cleansed onion kipper they would hang a red string and at some point the yam kurpa avodah during yom kippur it would turn white and everyone knew directly that hashem forgave their sins the happiness the fulfillment the base of victish represents the love between a husband and a wife that love in marriage was more intense when there was a base of mikdash that tells us yeshiva once said we think mashiach and life will go on the way it is now he says imagine a world where everyone was blind society would build itself differently if suddenly everyone could see they wouldn't just go on with life the way it is everything would change comes and once again we have a base of mikdash and our eyes are opened we're not going to have the same life it's going to be a different life you'll be the center of the world everyone hashem in their lives your needle tastes different your bread will taste different your wine will taste different your clothing will be different your blind person who suddenly opens their eyes and sees the world sees beauty sees color you're a deaf person who can suddenly hear music one of the side effects of coronavirus was that there were people who lost their ability to smell and to taste some people never came back some people when they finally were able to taste again they said you don't know what it's like to eat have no taste in your food you have no idea what it's like not to be able to smell anything young mother said i i had to keep checking the baby i didn't know if he needed a diaper change i couldn't tell imagine a life without smell or taste or hearing or seeing and suddenly it all comes back to life what we're warning on tishima of is the fact not that we lost a building it was a building that was an interface between shamayim baharets this shah shamayim going up in coming down this is where shamayimbahara comes together that's what we lost we lost the bias a place where we could have an intimate relationship with the kurdish who we lost that power of our intellectual and spiritual greatness whatever we have is nothing by comparison but we're okay we're okay it's good enough no one's shooting missile at us today the food on the table it's good enough it's good enough it's tragic when you know you have something wonderful and you want to share it with someone and they they're just not interested you say do you like music yes i have the most beautiful piece of music that's okay you like tasty things yes i'm the most delicious thing in the world now that's all right did you ever daven a meaningful feeling in your life yes yes i have not often but i can take you to a place where you will lift yourselves out of this world with the facility was spent an hour before it's going to s right an hour saying you wanna sra and an hour coming down from the experience because they were so out of this world that took them a whole hour to come back down to life i can give you that where you will dive in and feel hashem's presence now that's okay that's enough people are depressed they don't care i don't care like a needle and dead flesh no feeling we said it over in the past every left says i'll tell us that all the things that we're not allowed to do in yum kippur now um they don't have any of those physical things just sadhikum yoshin burushi and so one day a year yom kippur we get a taste of we don't eat we don't drink we don't do business we just enjoy the presence of hashem one day a year we get a taste of gehenna is none of those things no physical pleasures and also no learning torah if we stop and think about what we had there was an ouron kurdish borough who spoke in between the two prove him it was a shokhan we put the lucha upon him and the bread stayed warm a whole week and from there came all of the power of food in the entire world you brought a carbon and you had a capara they offered up the tyrus the incense and no woman in shalom ever wore perfume because the smell filled the whole city it was so beautiful and so wonderful you know what the world could be like we don't we don't even know we say akina i may ilana we try to recreate what it must have been like in a world where there was a base of mikdash where hashem's presence could be felt with a cloud hovered over with a with a goodness and the brock has spread all around the world where everyone recognized the jewish people and what they were that's what we're missing it's not a building it's a life it's an existence we're functioning at a tiny amount of our capacity to live as human beings there's a famous story based off chrome whenever he speaks on titular he always starts with that story but these two soldiers these three soldiers three soldiers the six they were when they liberate the western wall and one is from and he goes up he leans against the wall and he starts crying the other two come from a non-religious kibbutz one of them starts crying his friend says what are you crying about he says i'm crying because i don't have anything to cry about i don't even know i don't even understand what's going on here if we can't shed a tear that we don't have nivua if we can't shed a tear that we're living a shadow existence we can't shed a deer so we don't know what food or clothing is so let's shed a tear we don't even know where to shed a tear up now it's hashem this will be the last year that tishrov is a tragedy and hopefully next year tisha will be a yandeff that we'll celebrate together in the basin big dash from here