An Idea for the 9 Days

tragically the base of mintage was destroyed but if we continue to draw from its messages we can Merit for it to be rebuilt one of the Caitlyn one of the vessels in the basement was the table upon which the carbonos were offered were consumed the gamara Wonders now we have no base how do we achieve kapara how do we achieve atonement and the gamara answers when we take our dining room table we can achieve atonement we can repair and redeem the world when we use our dining room table to invite guests toast those less fortunate to share divret Torah to have a conversation that uplifts and that enriches rather than knocks down when we turn our table into a shulchan We are continuing to draw from the message of the base one who has a long table has long days a long table filled with guests and filled with good activity the great Spanish commenter in the 13th century tells us there was a custom the pious people of France he writes would take the wood from their dining room table and would make their coffin they were buried in when they came upstairs to meet their creator they arrived in the very coffin that was made from the dining table could testify in their behalf the learning the hospitality the good conversation indeed recently as the ruggage ever gone of Josef Rosen who died in 1936 he was buried in his dining room table use your table like a modern day and continue to draw from the base Merit for it to be rebuilt [Music]