#555: Amida: V'LiYerushalayim (Part 7)

sponsored by the Saka family and sponsored by foran we are on the we give a long introduction we begin to examine the words of the BR itself notu our city we refer to it as Hashem as your city we are specifically positioning this braa unlike the others in the amida as not only being our interest not only meeting a need that we have but for for the almighty to be manifest in this world for his presence to be felt intensely for the world to acknowledge his Dominion his sovereignty his Providence K has to return to as we discussed in the introduction not only a geographic place but a theme a concept you a mindfulness and then we turn we ask we askem to dwell within y just as you have spoken which if you think about it for a moment and we've all had mle opportunity saying these words three times a day for all of our Lives if you think about it what is the words Kash Hashem we ask you to return toim and to dwell in it Kasher just like you said just like you've spoken takes a little brazenness it's almost a little a little G to say just like you said we have to remind Hashem of his plan we're reminding Hashem of his promise we're reminding Hashem of what he said why are we invoking what do these words really mean so one approach could be means that unlike the other parts of the am that we ask for ourselves we want Health we want parasa we want knowledge we want all the other uh personal individual needs that we ask for they're our agenda they represent our needs but as we said is notu is we get to this is the first of two Once Upon a Time as we mentioned from thei they were combined now they're separate and apart but this is the first of two that we're asking for Gula we're asking for Redemption so Hashem Redemption is part of your plan even if we're unworthy even if we're undeserving nevertheless this is part of your plan and all we're asking is that may you make good all we're asking is that you follow through on your plan the V says on the words that what we're asking is because it's out of order the gr is paying attention to the dwell in it just like you promised and build it quickly in our day an everlasting building what order should it be do you first ask Hashem to dwell and then you ask him to build it or build it and then the structure the house the B the that'll be Ro that will be worthy of your dwelling then we can ask really it should be dwell in the building that we just asked you to build why are we out of order the go the girl is picking up on dwell in it as you said is your plan oh yeah also build it speedily quickly in our day and let it be Everlasting Let It Be something that continues so the Von explains why is it out of order it's not out of order the assumption that Hashem won't dwell there that his presence can't be felt until we have the till we have the building is wrong it's incorrect there can be there can be a divine presence we know the medish tells us it never left the Kos it never left the kotel the fourth wall the supporting wall of our abas we have a tradition theal go all the way back and tell Us's presence never left and that's why it remained intact the remains there says the girl so you can come back and your presence can be felt and we can connect even before the building returns even before the Bishi descends even before we have the third basa mikdash we can still feel your presence we can still bask in your light you can still return you can still come back and he points us the Von and his son point us to a says says I'll make desolate your M your sanctuaries which kazal explained to mean that we'll still have sanctuaries the will be there in some form even when the Bas mik is destroyed even though I'll destroy your B mik the will still be there so we askem even before the building even before we get to nevertheless let us be worthy of having you there and being able to go and be present and access which we weren't always able to do over the last 2,000 years interestingly specifically we couldn't do from 1948 to 1967 even after we got sovereignty over Israel not all of Israel and not this Most Holy special place of Israel we haven't always been able to be near the S is we haven't always been able to access your presence your even before points out that this is logical it's compelling the inside of the gr and we all know it and how do we know it that is there even before the building how do we know it because there's a kadus there's a sanctity toik that limits our ability to go there are there Parts you can go can you not go anywhere there the raban who are the said nobody should go even to the parts potentially you could go because a fear people won't go to the Mikvah Won't Go properly won't remove their leather shoes whatever a person's personal perspective of or what P they follow about going on Aras but certainly the majority the overwhelming majority the makik of we can't go to why can't we go to I guess we'll we'll pick up tomorrow night because the kadha remains which kadha remains we'll take a little tangent tomorrow night is the kadha of Yeshua asra where does the kadha stem from there's k if there were no kadha we could go back on right now we can't go on arabas because there's still a kadus that kadha harabas today even proceeding even in between the second and third mik is a fulfillment of before so the Gres seemingly it's out of order but it's not it's such a positive and hopeful message for us is even as we D and even as we long even as we yearn even as we wait for the third basa mikdash it doesn't mean that until then we're orphaned doesn't mean until then we're on our own just like you said and just like you promised Hashem you can still be there even before you're building