Rabbi Moshe Bamberger Chazaq Shiva Asar B'Tammuz program 5778

Poston with widow Sonia like to thank the good assist role of cue garden Hills for hosting this event I'd like to of course thank via NIV and the physic organization for being the force that they are and spreading yiddish kite in such an amazing powerful way to the Queen's community and beyond and I'd like to thank to her anytime for all that they do to spread the words of Tara all over the globe I think I was one of the earliest speakers for Tara anytime and I would call Yaakov I remember we met and he convinced me that it was going to be a good idea and it really it really took off in an amazing way with tremendously out dish Maya and it's a big plus that he is here today with us the amount of scar that this one man has for spreading and proliferating Tyrel throughout the globe literally is one that makes me extremely envious of him and his clothes should be should go his his custom should accrue to his to his beautiful mich bhava and beyond when we stand here at the beginning of the three weeks it always makes me wonder what we are exactly morning I understand the people maybe throughout Europe in history the Crusades Spanish Inquisition the Holocaust those are people that really felt and tasted gulleson on a constant basis but we live in America and Lee I in her America has been a fabulous golus for the last 60 70 years we've enjoyed freedoms we've been able to rebuild after the war have you Shiva's and Basie ACOs and and hadarom restaurants camps beautiful organizations has Akhtar anytime we have an amazing ability in America to live with freedoms that were really unimaginable to generations before us and so how do we feel Tish above how do we feel the three weeks how do we feel shavasana Tamas how does an impact on our regular daily life which seems to be really good I want to share with you something that's very important to be shared on a day like today it's something that was said by a very lush of otama thoughtful man the name of our motto pogrom on ski but Mordecai pogrom on ski was a brilliant brilliant man who was in tells you Shiva in Europe before the war he was a rabbi of Roberta high gifter and many other brilliant people so that gives us a little bit of a taste of how brilliant he was another example of understanding how brilliant this man was is that legend has it that he was once shipped a package that was wrapped in a newspaper from Holland and so we would just throw out the newspaper and eat whatever was underneath it but he kept the newspaper and by just merely looking at the newspaper that wrapped the package he was able to learn the Dutch language just by one newspaper that gives us a little bit of an inkling about the measure of brilliance that remote opah romansky possessed I want to share with you something that he said but I must share it in the context of a personal relationship that I have not to remote oh because my mother was an if there way before I was born but a link between myself and or multiple romansky in the form of somebody who was just NIF to himself a week or two ago by the name of Rob Simmons Segal if Simmons Segal was 95 years old when he died and he was the man aisle he was the head of the cabinets you Shiva in Brooklyn he was a man that was never married and he built her in a tremendous way personally I own a very big hot car so I'll tell you because he was the person who gave me my first job in kennels I was a 12th grade rabi before I came to Lander College for men in yeshiva that was literally right next door to my house we lived on Avenue N in Brooklyn and literally you go down the steps of our apartment and we and you make a left turn and you go up the stairs into the confidence building and that's that was my job I was a 12th grade gravity and rabbi Siegel as the final of Rafah was always very encouraging to me and gave me a lot of physic and just one brief anecdote about him he was very clever he was very sharp and it was very funny and he asked me one day if I had some spare time if I could possibly when I was done with my 12th grade class if I could come and take over for a week my seventh grade class a seventh grade elementary school class and of course I wasn't really interested in doing that I was very happy in high school I wasn't really interested in being a seventh grade Rabi which was you know was it was not as interesting a job but as a favor to have by Siegel I said I would give it a try and he said okay says but one thing you have to do is these kids are very tough these seventh graders are very very tough and so you have to be very stern with them don't ever smile don't ever do anything that you the impression gives them the impression about you that you're a human being you have to come in there and just take control because you're not going to be able to get them to sit and learn otherwise you can't just be regular Li's kids are very tough so I was up to the challenge I thought and I came into class and sure enough I smiled for a second by accident and they were on top of me they were like as soon as they saw me smile I was finished but I went back the next day and I thought of an idea kids like bribes so I said to the boys I said listen I said I know that boys don't like substitute teachers and trust me I don't really want to be a substitution I'm doing this as a personal favor for every seagull we'll make a deal every time when I read the Gemara I'm gonna miss a word here and there I'm gonna skip a word every time I skip a word if somebody catches the word that I skip five dollars the five dollars is a big deal to a seventh grader so these kids were like so excited about this and they were sitting like staplers they were all sitting like this over the Gemara every single word and Rabbi Siegel passed by I was expecting to see me like being crucified or something on the back wall of the classroom and instead he sees like total control over the over this class and he was like amazed and of course I skipped very few words if you know me I didn't skip many many words but it was a very good week on the whole I mean there's a lot of other stories that go into it it's not really for sure Buster Bahamas but at the end of the week rabbi Sego offered me to be the minal of the whole elementary school and I serve I see go I appreciate the offer I must be honest though every day you know I live right next door to the Shiva every day I love my 12th grade job but this this seventh grade job it wasn't for me every day I came down after the job was over I went straight into my apartment I had a big glass of schnapps so I had to just afraid just to calm my nerves it was like a crazy job he said to me rabbi Bamberger that was your mistake he says you should have had the schnapps before you went into the classroom yeah buddy Segal was once driving in Borough Park and he went through a red light and he was stopped by a by a cop and the cop says to him rabbi didn't you see that there was a red light there and he went right through it sir how by Siegel with his fame he says officer the red light I saw you I didn't see and the officer at such huh know that he let him go have a seagull was a high spot sir he was a he took care as a buffer of remote Oh Parker Manske and so he was like the last living link to her motto pogrom on ski and a lot of things that we know about Roma told they just put out an entire biography about this brilliant Thomas Holcomb a lot of it was from rabbi Siegel and like I said if I seagull wasn't if they're just a few weeks ago so I just wanted to mention just a little bit of the Messiah before as a backdrop to the Vaart that I'm gonna tell you that I think is so significant for us on Shabbat Sabbath Omelas through Tish above I need it to speak of Erebus ego and to tell you that rabbi Siegel was so fond of rebuttal that he spoke about him all the time he took care of him throughout the war and they had a very close catcher there's a puck in Paris that you gosh and safer beret sheis it's probably the most climactic moment in flemish one of the most one of those great moments when Ben Youngman and yes they finally reconnect these two brothers these two full biological brothers that yearned so much to see one another to know one another but yet because Yosef was sold and taken down to MIT's Ryan he was never able to know his brother and finally after all of the all of the incidents that happened with yo safe and his brothers and getting people to stay in Egypt and getting them to go back to you Cody know and bringing back Ben young man they finally have that moment that if I was a cinematographer this would be the climax of safe operations as Joseph and Benjamin finally get to meet a moment of great passion the e pile out savoir a benyamin affair by F will bin young men both outs of olive then young men and I say fall on one another's shoulders and break down and cry and Rashi brings a kazow about what's really going on behind the scenes why are they crying al Schnee mikdash acid 'only a special coach Albany omnis awfully far I've been young men Yosef cried on Benjamin's shoulder because in the portion of our test rel belonging to Benjamin that's where the base on Nick dish was most of the base of mikdash was on the halacha benyamin and so yes if was sort of consoling Benjamin at this point in history crying on his shoulders over the two bought a Mick - that would be in his fail like that will be destroyed and Ben yeoman in turn cried on the isafe shoulder because of michigan Sheila the in-between based on Mick - which was built in Sheila before we got to your shall I am that was in the Fela core would be some day in the Fela Covey a safe and it would be destroyed so here we have a very strange incident we have two brothers that are so passionate about seeing one another they loved one another even though they had never met and they cried on one another's shoulders and for some strange reason Rashi gives us a historical fact that wouldn't take place for thousands of years as the reason why they cried why do they have to do why did wash you have to ruin a great moment if I was explaining to you the reason why two brothers cry on one another's shoulders after not seeing each other for so many years I would say they were crying tears of joy isn't there a concept that we're familiar with or at least the women are familiar with of tears of joy if you're ever by a chuppah and you happen to look at the mothers of the bride that are standing and the groom that are standing under the chuppah very often you'll see that they're crying and it's a strange thing I mean sometimes I guess they're crying because they're not happy with the up but more often than not they're crying because they're very happy with this off in fact they're so happy with this shut up that for some reason they're crying even though tears are generally a symbol of sadness there's another form of tears that are when you're really really happy you also cry for some reason so that's why I would say is the processional mickr the simple shot in the public is that yes in manana were crying because they were tears of joy after so many years of longing to see one another they finally got to meet they finally got to embrace and they were crying out of joy but yet cuz I lopped the right away cast a pall on this whole incident and say no they were not crying tears of joy it was tears of misery of sour of Corbin Beit HaMikdash by history shined by a shady Michigan Sheila obviously it's hazel are telling it to us it's true but why need us make this the purpose of the tears of yay cinnamon Yemen can't we just keep it simple and pure that these were tears of joy this is where a motel pogrom uncie's question on this possum and his answer is equally remarkable remote till says the following he says did you ever wonder why it is that there is a concept of tears of joy why are there tears of joy doesn't make sense if I'm so happy why would I start crying I should just be happy I should just be smiling and laughing why would a person all of a sudden start crying and he says you know why there is such a concept of tears of joy even though it seemed so contradictory if I if I'm joyous why would I be crying he says this is a tall dough this is a a child of the hormone based on mikdash he says in the olden days before the besan McNish was destroyed there was a concept of pure joy that I could really be so happy for something happening that I would never ever cry the phenomenon of tears of joy stems from the fact that there was a whole Masonic Dush you see the besan mikdash was a beacon of joy we say on every Monday morning there's a they're looking into hill and the Sher Shah yeah I am you say knife miss ice color our 'it's your shall I am was a city of joy it radiated such pure simcha saw sign it was a if a knife it was a beautiful city mrs. Cole arts and it caused the entire world to be full of joy of sheer joy of unpolluted joy when the besan McNish was destroyed by an insane robbing that changed that concept of mrs. color our it's that concept that there is unadulterated joy in this world it seems to exist it will never exist again until the third base on mikdash that should be rebuilt in the arab you may know we will never have another moment of pure joy now so motto after the masonic Dush if you could picture in your mind's eye an entire ocean of tears and then on the ocean there are a few pockets of joy there are few islands of happiness even in this godless that were in in spite of all the tears of the besan Mukesh there are a few moments that were allowed to be happy by asana by a Bar Mitzvah by a bris by moments that we see loved ones that we haven't seen in a long time we're allowed packets of joy but on the whole we have to be swimming in this river and this ocean of Tears from the storm a systemic dose we don't have that joy anymore in this world a few times in our life we're allowed to enjoy a little bit of a taste of joy but very it rarely and when says our motto we overstep our bounds when we're enjoying the moment a little bit too much we start stepping out of the bounds of that island of joy and we start now waiting back into the ocean of tears of the horn a synecdoche and that's why a person unbeknownst to that person when they are too happy in this godless after the home masonic Dush when they are too happy they start going into a world of tears again and that's why at a Fastenal you see people that should be so happy should never be crying they start crying you know why in Meshkov kathira shall i in we start we reminiscing all of a sudden subconsciously about your shall i am and it brings us the tears so her motto explains that it's true Jason and Ben Youngman when they met after all these years they were crying tears of joy but that concept of tears of joy is something that was manifest many years later after the Masonic - that's when it developed and that's how cuz all understood that if we have tears of joy it's because of the her masonic dos it's because we are going out of our bounds that were allowed the permissible bounds of happiness and Gullah and now we're entering into the sea of Corbin you know there's a story about Rebecca I'm Leo that the gomorian said Hedren brings her become we l had a neighbor who had lost a son a woman who had lost a child we should not know from this and she was inconsolable she cried and she cried and she cried and her become Leo heard her cries and when heat when she cried he cried i chen nostril risa aina of until his eyebrows and his eyelashes started shedding because he was crying so much and the tell me them saw that it was affecting their Rebbe and they have to remove this woman they have to say listen either you have to stop crying or we have to relocate you because it's very stressful for our Rebbe to hear you crying day and night RIF gifter explains that the reason why this woman's cries affected or become Leo and made him cry well become Leo's tears were from the Corbin base on Victor she was being miserable on your show Lian he was in mourning over Jerusalem over the base on McDuff when he heard this woman's tears why because he understood that all bad tidings in Gullah stemmed from the fact that we don't have a base on Mick touch and I think that the combination of these two ideas of her mother pogrom on scanner of gift there together really bring home in Gullah Samara Co where it shouldn't be so sorrowful these days because we have it so good and the answer is yes we do have it good but everything that we have in our life is affected by the whole Masonic - both when we're happy at sym cause it's marred in some way by the Masonic - and all but saris that we have Monowitz lon all of the sickness all the death all of the bad news anything that you could think of any single bad hiding that ruffman old song we should not know from but that we are very well aware exists it all is a direct impact from the fact that we lost the base HaMikdash they based on mikdash was not an event that took place thousands of years ago and that today it's just something that we reminisce about and we recollected out and we have a day of mourning the turbine based on mikdash is very much alive with us at every fastener at every bar mitzvah at every bris at every sudha every Shabbos and every on Ted everyday and it's certainly alive ruffmanowitz lon in bad times when a person is sitting Shiva the blessing is homogamy not a mess time how could a schwa flow should console you this I evaluate seeing Rochelle I am amongst the people that more and over CNN your show I am because it's directly affected if there wouldn't be a Mesa McNish of the base image will be around there wouldn't be deaf there wouldn't be sickness there wouldn't be mourning of any sort there wouldn't be bad news there would be three SMA some all the loved ones that we lost would come back we would be sitting in your shell I am back again in Masai scholar are it's a beacon of happiness a place of sheer joy once again we don't understand how the home base on mikdash really impacts every single minute of every single day that is the message that I came to bring to you today this is the message of the three weeks don't think that the Mason mikdash is something that we have to so many people say I can't wait to get the three weeks behind me how many of us have that attitude you know as Srivastava Tamas fast it's a long day and it talked a hot outside and you know can't wait to break our fast and then we go through three weeks and we can't wait to listen to music again and get a haircut again and and have simcoe's again and so because of that we sort of try to fast-forward through the three weeks and turn off our minds turn off our emotions and just get through it and that would be a very big tragedy in and of itself the only way to really appreciate the hormone based on Macduff is to understand how every single minute of our lives are so sorely affected by the hormone it has an impact on us even here in America maybe especially here in America because I'll tell us a column is a bell you shall I am as I have arrived in FMO so those of us that taste the urban that experienced the morning that feel the pain of the Masonic - they will be the ones we will be the ones that will merit to once again see the simcha and the rebuilding of the base HaMikdash how could a ship ratha should give us that's close we have gone through too many millennia of urban of sour a Bahia shall simcha and official Evo now Kadesh brothel grant us now finally after this long all was this close to be Zechariah Vanessa Massa to see the nemesis Ian Rochelle I am sure even here abaya may know our main Nami