#560: Amida: V'LiYerushalayim (Part 12 of 12)

respons the Saka family by Al for we are the conclusion of the the which we hope we share our Dream for a rebuilt to be rebuilt is not only the buildings the edifices it's not only the Metropolis of it's includes as we said should be a Everlasting and a that represents the all the merits all the building blocks that are contributed by the oil and by the whole world we don't only long for and want the physical but the only that is all about being am not a that's interested in consolidating its own power and we conclude we began to discuss B is in the present tense not in the past tense the the pointed out go we have several examples of this several examples of this we saw several examples of the uh of the of this language of in the in the present tense we end in the present tense this is based points out it's based on a we say say in is the one who builds yes there are constru construction workers yes there are Architects and GCS but the real that is the light of the universe that is is the one who builds it will gather together the remnant shom explains that this is in the present tense because it's not going to happen all at once it's not all or nothing it is something that happens gradually incrementally it happens over time it is process of rebuilding and therefore we should see Gus as really the first stage of gula he gives one musle that the basement of the building is the foundation that the building is built upon so when you dig to put the basement that too is the building then you can expand that mush sometimes see it more and more in Jewish communities its own conversation but sometimes a home is demolished in order to build another home a nicer home a bigger home a more updated home a more elegant home so if somebody's just watching and they see the home that's demolished they say there's a demolition there's a destruction there's a waste C could it be if Kal was a tornado or hurricane that took down a house you'd watch that same destruction you'd say there's aan but if you know that there's another house there's an architect there's a designer there's a builder there's a replacement already ready to descend there's something already to fall on that property so you don't look at that and say it's aan you say that's the first step of the new house that's the first step of the new building destruction precedes building not a destruction which is the ends but it's a destruction which is the first step the beginning of the process of building you see this in the law in the in the rules of Agriculture as well when you put a seed in the ground the seed doesn't take root and Sprout and grow and produce what happens to the seed first rot Decay death dissolves first the seed falls apart what looks like hban that seed there's aan of that seed but it looks to The Outsider superficially as theban of that seed is really the beginning of the blossoming the sprouting of the planting of what's going to grow the Perros that are going to grow from there so the same is true same is true Bon even the harshness of this Gus and we're feeling it we had a reprieve we had a reproach we had several decades where the world at least fed being kind to us at least pretended to be but we're feeling again the harshness the isolation the loneliness the worry of the gulls but we're reassured in this we're not waiting it's until it's it's a process it's over time even within this gas the Gus itself is the first step of G the Shalom points out that the K tell us that y was destroyed with fire and it's going to be rebuilt with fire destroyed with fire we know know we just observed the 3 weeks bam the nine days and Tish what does it mean it's going to be built with fire so it means the fire of our Torah and mitz the more on fire we are the faster we build it because the building blocks of the third and final Bas mikdash and M and the g that comes with it those building blocks are Torah and MIT and the more on fire we are in the way we perform and the way we observe and what we do and the faster the more meaningful that those that those uh that that Kula is going to come I'll just end by reading you the on the fourth he writes that's small that's desolate in his time it was in Ruins not we're familiar not to that when we climb that road heading toim today it's another Mountain it's another city it's another raote it's another Community it's another yes it's another it's another like we read in and we we're waiting we're longing for its light to grow great when a person when a directs all the Torah and mitz everything that we're doing we're seeking to repair this world we want to redeem this world we want to mold and shape this world in's image according to his blueprint of Torah so if the pus if what's driving if the presence if the mindfulness of the performance of Torah and mits is not just a checklist I'm done I can move on but I'm on a mission I'm on a mission to repair and redeem A's world so each time we do that says the we're putting another brick says each Mitzvah it's a whole different attitude a whole different mindfulness to the Torah and mitzvas that we do instead of discharging an obligation good now I can go live like them I D in my shakas I learned my da I gave my I did my instead we realize every Mitzvah opportunity we have every moment of Torah that we learn we're pointing Another Brick we're building we're building we're building and who who doesn't want to hasten neb neb the families who got back the bodies six hostages and a heroic rescue to get them back but but they they they got back bodies they didn't get back they hostages we want home if you knew there was a direct correlation if you could draw a line from your next Mitzvah your next moment of Torah learning your next the your next and loving kindness you could do you could connect the dots between that and having good news for the family of a hostage allowing a soldier to return to their family you wouldn't do it so here's the thing it does we connect the dots that's why it's Bon every time we say that do it with the mindfulness and the kav Bon it's on me in the present it's not I'm doing and hopefully the third basa mikdash you know it's gonna it's gonna fall bring the house down the third basa mikdash it's G to fall no Bonet in the Lova in the present if that's my C if that's my mindfulness let's lay brick after brick after brick until finally we're ready to bring the house down