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And those that are
part of this wonderful event.
So we'll have continuous and this may
occur.
Very big and good.
To Isaac
the mayor of brothers of the mayor of
Robbie and the entire team for all the
hard work that they're doing.
And they do a phenomenal job. Remember
uh years ago
maybe close to a decade.
Um they had
something that really really hit a
chord. And the first thing ever one of
the first things I ever learned about
them is what they do
uh day in and day out. Had they have an
entire team and organization within them
just taking children out of public
schools.
And had they worked child by child
working on them
to find them the best Yeshiva.
And now there way over a thousand
children that they saved through Hashem.
And
when I got the tour
the administrator showed me the Excel
sheet that he had.
And how detailed it was. And I was so
impressed with all the hard work that
they're doing. And he showed me this is
exactly every child and where they're
from and the many times that he called
them to reach up to reach out to speak
to them about it and to follow up with
them. And they knew exactly what they're
doing. And it was unbelievable just to
see all the hard work that goes into one
of the things that they do. So really
they're doing phenomenal things saving
day in and day out. And they shall
continue
to have my say to him to go with him.
Also very big and good to my dear
friends
the Jacob brothers for all the
unbelievable work that they do.
Uh literally 24 hours a day, seven days
a week because Tor and time is in every
continent. And when it's Shabbat in
America, it's not Shabbat in other
places. And they're learning Torah and
they're literally spreading Torah 24/7.
And as much as I'm against technology
and all the tablets and all the nonsense
that's out there, the one thing that I
let my children have is Torah anytime.
It's only thing my children know that if
they want to be some kind of a you could
watch it. There's rabbis and there's
unbelievable content of Torah and
Shiurim and the daily doses and it's
unbelievable how they're able to connect
to so many people around the world. Just
thinking about how many great rabbis
gave classes about Tisha B'Av 20 years
ago and if it wasn't recorded, then
where would we have all that today?
How do we have all that Torah today if
they didn't record it? If my wife wants
to see a class tonight, yesterday,
today, on Tisha B'Av
and they want to go back and see a great
rabbi that said something about Tisha
B'Av, they could go into the archive and
they could see Rabbi Paysach Krohn and
dozens and countless rabbis and content
that they said about Tisha B'Av for who
knows how many classes and it's
unbelievable. Now imagine the parashah
and imagine halakha and imagine the
musar that people could get and they
could just tap into this unbelievable
database of Torah and really what they
do is
it's priceless. It's really priceless.
You're saving armies today.
And the more that I'm so happy to be
part of it, the more that I'm not only
seeing it,
just I'm also feeling it.
And the more we're hearing about it and
the more I see it with my own family how
much they're loving what Torah Anytime
does and obviously beyond that. So
really to school them it's what you have
continuous success. The whole my say to
him to see that you will actually be
able to be there to share
and all your hard work that you're doing
and really what you do, how you do it
for free and that's a big thing that
they do.
That they stand on doing it for free no
matter what. Yeah, they have a
fundraiser. Just at the end of the day,
you could log on and get any class and
it's all
accessible to bene Israel and they're
they're to help bene Israel grow and to
spread Torah of all the rabbis that they
have and they're they're doing a
phenomenal job. Keep up the great work
guys and
soon we'll be able to have classes with
Mashiach Tzidkenu bimherah b'yamenu,
amen.
And every holiday
there's an Avodah.
And that means that there's something to
do. On Pesach, we have an Avodah. And we
all know we go home and then I say that
and we have the matzah. And on Purim, we
have the mitzvot and we have we have we
know exactly what we do on every
holiday.
The question is what's the Avodah on
Tisha B'Av?
What's my Hanukkah candles today? What
am I supposed to be doing today?
What is the Avodah
that a Jew is supposed to have and every
Jew is supposed to have during Tisha
B'Av? What is What are we supposed to be
doing today?
And the Avodah, my dear everybody,
is one word.
And that is
that we have to cry.
Our job today
is one word. Bechi.
And that means, as we know, to cry.
If we want Mashiach, the greatest thing
that we could do today is to cry.
When the Meraglim came back and on Leil
Tisha B'Av last night, they said what
they said and our ancestors cried,
Hashem said, "You're crying for no
reason."
And that's what you're crying for? I
will give you a reason to cry.
And we have the Churban Beis Hamikdash
and we lost both of them today.
And the only thing that we ever cry for,
and that's worth crying for, is the
Churban Beis Hamikdash.
The Zohar Hakadosh says,
Amud Beis Yitzchak,
Purkana d'Yisrael la'Tanya ela b'vechi.
Rebbe Yitzchak says, "The redemption of
Bnei Yisrael is dependent
on the tears."
If I manage to somehow in 24 hours to
shed a tear,
that is very special. If I could somehow
on Tisha B'Av sit down and cry a little
bit,
that would be very, very special. That
tear is priceless. As a matter of fact,
Rebbe Elazar ben Azariah, one of the
great rabbis, whenever he cried for the
Beis Hamikdash, he saved his tears in a
cup.
When people would come to the rabbi,
afterwards they would come and say,
"Rabbi, they need Yeshua." He would go
to the tears and he would use the tears
to heal people. The tears have koach.
If only I understood the power of a tear
that a person could cry on Tisha B'Av.
And Rav Gifter, one time when he was a
little boy and he was lost when he was
in the camps, he started crying
because he wasn't found and no one was
finding him. After a while, he said,
"What am I crying for? Just because I'm
lost.
They'll find me eventually and they'll
know where I am. If I'm crying, at least
let me now use those tears and whatever
I'm crying now so that I should have now
the Beit Hamikdash.
Tears are meant for the Beit Hamikdash.
If we cry for the Beit Hamikdash, that
is something that is priceless. And the
Gemara even teaches us that from the
time that the Beit Hamikdash was ruined,
we do not have Sha'arei Tefillah.
And that means that the Sha'arei
Tefillah are locked. However, the
Sha'arei Dema'ah
Lo Nina'alu, they are not locked.
And the rabbis teach us and they remind
us and they tell us all the time, a Jew
has to know, we have to remember
that a Jew has to remember at all times
the power of a tear.
Moshe Rabbenu,
when he was born, the first thing that
we know that Moshe Rabbenu did
is that when Batya opened the Tevah,
she saw Moshe Rabbenu.
And the first thing that the Torah tells
us about Moshe is three words, "Ve'hinei
Na'ar Bocheh." He was crying.
And right after that, the pasuk says,
"Va'tahmol Alav."
She had
a tremendous amount of compassion.
And if we cry, we could be zocheh to
have the rachamim that we need.
Bnei Yisrael need to cry. And the avodah
today
is to obviously cry for the carbon beta
mcDash.
To show that we care and that's one of
the greatest things that we could do.
The paleo edge writes
Shakola de ma ocha dam murid leshem
shamayim any tear that we could shed for
the sake of body of them for the honor
of Hashem
Khadija amor de coca de
de
hem
lesnay Hashem
And they are very important.
In front of
body of them himself I just so far on
that he counts the tears on my knee hand
and he places them baby gonna have in a
special place that he has that he saves
just for those tears.
And he says I don't understand.
How am I supposed to now cry?
But I I have tears I could just pull out
of my sleeve he says.
How in the world am I supposed to cry?
What if I can't I want to cry rabbit.
I want to cry I want to I want to cry
what should I do? How and how can I
start crying? And he says something
unbelievable and he says just do your
best.
And he says and even if you can't cry
just sit and say make a sound of as if
you're crying.
And that's also worth a lot.
And today we could still find the time
to sit down in a room
and to try to think about the beta
mcDash
and to try to cry
and to even try to make it look like
we're crying
then that would be worth a lot.
And that itself of course as we know is
priceless and that would be great. Rabbi
brings down the mercy
with the young Aubrey that when his wife
was pregnant and she went to the
delivery room
after the baby came out they didn't hear
the baby cry.
You could imagine
the feeling of the parents
that they're waiting for the baby to
cry.
And they're waiting and they're waiting
and the baby didn't cry. And after maybe
close to a minute, finally the baby
cried and THEY WERE LIKE, "OH, BARUCH
[screaming] HASHEM."
BECAUSE WHEN THE BABY CRIES, that's a
sign that the baby is alive. AND THAT'S
THE BEST SOUND THAT PARENTS COULD HEAR.
And today, Borei Olam wants to hear that
his children are crying.
Because that will show that we are
alive.
If we could try to cry today
and make a little attempt to show that
something is there that's bothering us,
then that is priceless and that is the
avodah of Tisha B'Av.
The redemption of Bnei Yisrael is
dependent on the tears.
Which means the more we could show that
we feel the churban, then the greater
will be zocheh to get out of this galut,
to get out of this awful exile,
and that we could be saved
from where we are and that we could have
the Geulah Sheleimah Bikarov. What we'd
like to speak to you today about
is how do I cry
over the Beit Hamikdash
if I never saw the Beit Hamikdash?
And this is something that I think many
people ask. And they say, "Rabbi, how do
I connect to the Beit Hamikdash
if I actually never saw the Beit
Hamikdash?"
And yeah, it it seems like it's awesome
to have korbanot, obviously.
However, they don't connect to that
sometimes.
And yeah, it's awful that the Shechinah
is in galut.
However, not everyone could understand
what that means even.
So, sometimes, as much as we try to
understand what it means that there's a
churban and millions of people have died
and the
streams of blood and the churban and and
even whatever Yirmiyahu tells us,
sometimes at the end of the day, a
person still doesn't connect.
And we're so physical and we're so
gashmi that it it doesn't penetrate this
thick heart.
AND I CAN'T GET TO IT.
AND I'M TRYING TO cry and I'm trying to
relate to the hurban and all the
pictures and everything that they're
showing and whatever THEY'RE SAYING. IT
IS SAD AND STILL RABBI I CAN'T CRY. YOU
KNOW, OKAY, IT'S AWFUL JUST you know,
but we have our yeshivas and we have
Torah now and and and they can't imagine
how great it would be when we have
mashiach. When when we have the beta
migdash. So as much as we try to make it
be explained
maybe to some of us
we still can't cry.
And for some reason we still can't
connect.
And the question is
so if that's the case, what could we
maybe do?
If none of that works, so that maybe I
could cry today.
And the Gemara tells us in Maseches
Avodah Zarah
about a man called Elazar ben Durdaya
who to say the least was
a Jew that did a lot of aveirot.
He did so many aveirot
that he was even told that he can't even
do teshuvah for those aveirot.
And Elazar ben Durdaya when he heard
that
he sat down
and he started crying.
And he cried
and he went and he started praying and
doing teshuvah
because that was the only thing he was
able to do.
And the Gemara says that he died from
crying and his doing teshuvah.
A heavenly voice came down and said that
Rabbi Elazar ben Durdaya
is mezuman L'CHAYEI OLAM HABA. WELCOME.
YOU ARE GOING TO OLAM HABA.
AND NOT ONLY HE'S going to olam haba,
he's going direct and he doesn't have to
go through gehennom and he doesn't have
to have any yissurim and he is going to
olam haba
WITH CLASS A SERVICE.
HE'S GOING STRAIGHT INTO OLAM HABA.
WOW, WHAT AN unbelievable maaseh. Here
was a Jew that hit rock bottom and he
made it to the top and he's going to
Olam Haba and it seems like it's really
something amazing. However, the Gemara
tells us that there was a great rabbi at
the time called the Rebbe. Rebbe was, as
we know of course, the great Tanna Rebbe
Yehuda Hanasi. And when he heard this,
he started to cry.
And he said, "Yesh koneh olamo besha'ah
achas."
There's a person that can get his olam
haba in a moment. "V'yesh koneh olamo
b'shanim harbeh." And some people they
buy their olam haba in a lot of years.
And he's saying, "Look how a Jew in a
second
just did teshuvah and he made it to Olam
Haba.
And look where he is now." And the
question is, "Rebbe, what are you crying
about? It's great, isn't it? Good that
he made it to Olam Haba?
And that a Jew that was maybe not going
to go is now going to and and he's going
to be in Olam Haba. Isn't that great?
Are those tears of simcha?
And are you crying out of rejoicing for
the person? What are you crying about?
Is it a good thing that you're crying
about?
And one of them, the parshanim, some of
them, the parshanim, they explained, I
heard this from my father. He says that
Rebbe was crying not out of happiness
for him, RATHER OUT OF SADNESS.
AND HE WAS SAYING, "Look what you did in
one second in Olam Hazeh.
And how many of those
did you lose?
How many chances did you have TO GET SO
MUCH MORE OLAM HABA?
And all you got
was that one mitzvah?
The only thing that you have to go to a
bar with and it's grief for him but
however that's the only THING THAT YOU
HAVE. That's so sad.
Because how many seconds did you kill?
There's over 80,000 seconds a day.
And how many of them did he kill?
And Rebbe starts to cry and he says,
"I'm crying for that."
What a shame.
That that's all you did.
The urban.
Says Pinkus that we are crying for.
Is ourself.
Today a person is supposed to do a
little nefesh.
And look at himself.
And think, "Am I
the reason for the urban?
Am I doing what I could do in my life?
AND AM I REACHING MY POTENTIAL?
NOT AM I THE GUY THAT AM I DOING MY
BEST?"
AND THAT IS WHAT THE URBAN SAYS IS
ABOUT. And I'll read you the Sean. And
he says
we don't Becky.
Beyond say he says on this day we speak
about things that maybe all year long we
don't feel comfortable.
We don't feel maybe
you know, you can't it's too sensitive
to speak about certain
things.
And we look at the past.
And we do
nefesh and he says that's what the is
dependent on.
Today it's a day
that we afflict ourselves
without eating and drinking.
And we do a little nefesh.
And we start thinking about our life.
And we think, "How am I doing in my
sham?"
Forget the beta and forget the millions
of people that passed away and all the
sadness that happened. Because right now
a person can make that difference and he
can say a Jew can say a person can SAY
TODAY, "I WANT TO A DIFFERENCE, AND I
WANT TO SAVE THAT FROM HAPPENING AGAIN.
ME? I can make a difference?" And person
says, "Yes, I could make a difference."
And every Jew today
any Jew, when a Jew today does teshuvah,
that's one of the greatest things that
they could do today. That bechi that
we're crying
should be also over ourself.
We should be crying for where we are,
and we should be crying over my churban,
OF WOW,
HOW SAD IT IS
THAT MAYBE I forgot
at the end of the day who I am
and what I'm supposed to be.
How is my tefillah?
Is my tefillah habitual?
And is it out of rote?
And do I really connect when I speak to
Hashem?
And how is my brachos?
And how is the kedusha?
And if someone were to take
a person's phone
besides for the siddur app and Torah
anytime and all the wonderful Torah
that's on it.
However, what else maybe is on it?
Do I really need all that?
Is that what a Jew has to have
access to?
And if Mashiach comes and he says, "Can
I please see?" He's going to sniff our
phone.
He'll just He wouldn't even have to look
at it. He'll sniff. He'll just take a
whiff, and he'll know exactly who we
are.
We can't hide anything
obviously from Bori Olam.
And a person can put any combination on
his phone.
And we have to think today, is is my
phone kosher really?
All the YouTube and all the garbage
that's out there.
And the TikTok
and the nonsense and the pity too to say
the least let alone shalom PG movies and
anything else that's out there.
And is am I done now?
And is this the Jew that Hashem wants me
to be?
And today we're supposed to be thinking
about our life and saying where in the
world
how far am I?
And how removed am I from being maybe
that Jew
that I I'm supposed to be today.
That's a bad.
We are worth more in a way than the
mcintosh.
And I should save the mcintosh.
And he ruined the mcintosh just to save
us.
So that means we are important.
And if HE'S SAVING US, THEN WHAT DID HE
save me for?
So how is my to show?
And how is that what?
And how is the name?
And this is just a few of the
things that a person maybe should today
think about.
And do a little reflection and say maybe
I could do a little better.
And obviously I'm talking
to my students and to my children and to
myself.
Because maybe I have a lot of in my
life.
And maybe there's a lot of nonsense.
And today is the day that I cry. And I
say I got to get better.
And I should get rid of some of that
what.
Maybe I have too much of that garbage in
my life.
And maybe I forgot how valuable my life
is.
How is my Shabbat?
And we all know that this year Shabbat
is going to be the first day of the
year.
And
is going to be on Shabbat.
And that's exciting.
And we won't have the shofar. However,
we will have Shabbat.
And we all know
and already for almost maybe a year,
we're all getting ready and saying we
got to get better at Shabbat.
Because Shabbat's going to be in the
courtroom this year and we're going to
want to respect Shabbat and we still
have a few more left.
So really we should really make our
Shabbat a lot better.
So the person has to ask himself, how
much do I know Shabbat?
How much do I know about Shabbat and how
much am I keeping
the gift of Shabbat?
And how many of us actually
mitasek in our Shabbat?
And do what we need to and mitasek and
be better in Shabbat.
And it's so important to know that it's
not only this year
that Tisha B'Av is going to be that Rosh
Hashanah is going to be on Shabbat.
And it's going to happen and it's going
to coincide on the same day. Just we
should also know it's going to happen
next year also.
And 2 years in a row we're going to miss
out on the shofar
and Shabbat
will be in the courtroom.
And the best thing that we could do is
to mitasek and maybe to make some time
on Shabbat Kodesh to really learn
to mitasek and to appreciate the gift.
Today is a day of cheshbon nefesh.
And today is the day that we're supposed
to be realizing
I could be better.
And I have life.
And maybe I should stop ruining my life.
One of my sister-in-laws
is a babysitter is a babysitter.
Actually, many of them are babysitter.
And they babysit for children in the
morning hours.
And one of them, she has an interesting
minhag. That by a certain time
a child doesn't come through the front
door
then she calls the mother to let them
know
that, you know, just to let you know
your child is not here.
This is attendance. She's taking the
attendance and it's okay he's not here
so I guess the mother didn't bring the
baby today and she just okay let them
figure it out. No, no. Let me just tell
the mother that the baby is not here in
case she thinks that the baby is here.
And why would the baby be here and the
mother not know that? Whatever reason.
And that's her minhag. She has that
custom that she calls the mother to let
her know I didn't get your baby today.
And maybe you were you sent him with
your husband and maybe you sent him with
the family man. I don't have your baby.
That's her minhag. A few weeks ago
one baby didn't come
and 15 minutes after time that the baby
was supposed to come
she decided to call the mother.
She calls the mother and she tells the
mother, "Hi Mrs. So-and-so, your baby is
not by my house today and I just wanted
to let you know. I hope you know that."
She says, "What do you mean the baby's
not there?
The baby is obviously there the baby's
supposed to be there. And and and the
baby's supposed to be by house by now.
What do you mean he he's not here? Did
you Did you drop him off?" "No."
Her husband was supposed to drop the
baby off. Okay, so your husband didn't
drop off the baby. I'm just letting you
know that I don't have your baby.
So she started to get a little nervous
and she hung up the phone and she called
her husband. Dead.
Nothing. She couldn't reach her husband.
She calls back the babysitter and she
says, "Listen, I I don't know where the
baby is." And she cannot reach her own
husband and she's getting a little
nervous. So my brother-in-law happens to
know
babysitter's husband.
He heard about this and he says, "I
actually know where he is now."
And he knows his schedule. I guess they
live in the same part town and he knows
exactly where he's supposed to be. So he
ran to him and he sees him and he goes
over to him and he says, "Uh excuse me,
sir.
Uh where's your baby?"
And the guy froze.
He stopped.
And then he remembered how he left the
baby in the car that day.
He runs to the car and with him there's
a whole entourage.
And the baby was in the car for 45
minutes.
Closed windows, closed doors, it was a
hot day.
And they get to the car and with
tremendous
of
the baby was alive and well. Maybe it
was a little in distress and
uncomfortable. However, the baby with
was alive.
And you can imagine the
baby the parents have.
You can imagine that that they had that
their baby is alive.
And obviously they went and they thanked
the babysitter and her husband and they
got them gifts and they took care.
How precious life is.
And we have so much
and that and that little and that child
and I'm thinking, "Wow, how is it that
baby? Imagine, imagine."
How sweet Shalom.
And the question is what about us?
And do we care about our life as much?
Do I care about my life as much as I
care about that baby? And do I realize
that that baby's life is a gift? And do
I think I should have for that and I
think I should have also maybe perhaps
for my life I say, "THANK YOU I SHOULD
HAVE FOR MY LIFE." AND DO I TAKE
ADVANTAGE OR DO I just try to maybe a
second a day put something towards
into that but
and he starts crying and he says, "WHAT
A SHAME THAT YOU'RE wasting your life."
And that is the one. And the
is a person self and he says, "Maybe I
could be better." And maybe I should be
better.
And maybe I could actually bring
so to leave you off with the last
question is do I really make a
difference? Okay, I got that I should do
and that today is the day of
just do I really make a difference?
Because at the end of the day
even if I do
I will buy
There's 20 million Jews. And you know
how many times people ask me, "How about
how is it possible that Messiah is going
to come if we have to get all of Israel
to keep Shabbat?" And so many people are
bothered by that. And they keep on
saying, "Rabbi, how is Messiah going to
come if we have TO GET ALL OF Israel to
keep Shabbat?"
And people always ask that question. And
I'm sure maybe many of you even thought
of that of that question.
And it's really a great question.
That how in the world
is Messiah going to come today if we are
maybe not where we're supposed to be?
SO, WHAT IS MY TESHUVAH at the end of
today going to going to help anyways?
Meaning, even if I did teshuvah today,
and even if I sat down, Rabbi, and I
cried today, and I got it maybe a tear
out today,
WHO SAID THAT MESSIAH WILL COME TODAY?
SO, IF ANYWAYS HE'S NOT going to come
today because it takes a team effort,
then I'll just wait till everyone starts
doing better, and then I'll get on with
the program.
Shouldn't I be doing that maybe?
And the answer is obviously that that's
incorrect.
Because
the Paleo Heights, by the way,
the Paleo Heights in his unbelievable
sefer,
he writes five times.
Five different places he writes.
All you have to do is your best, and
that's it.
All you got to do is your best. If
Messiah came by 8:45, and if he didn't
come, that's not your problem.
It's our problem. It's not your problem.
Because all you have to answer up is did
you do your best? And the Mesillas
Yesharim SAYS SOMETHING EVEN MORE
AMAZING. AND if he didn't say this word,
I would never use this word.
I would never say this word. I would
never think you could even use this
word.
And it's the only thing I think in the
entire sefer that he says is about.
And he says, "V'im yomar adam,
v'im v'im yomar adam, if a person is
going to going to say, 'Mi ani? U'mah
ani?'" safun tzedek palel al hagelut
ve'al Yerushalayim. Who in the world am
I to pray for Mashiach?" Okay, I had a
had a little more kavana in etzem the
Mashiach to come. And at the end of the
day, if you think about it, even if I
prayed, who am I to pray? I'm a little
nothing. That's his question.
He's saying, "Who are we?
Hameipnei tefilati, just because of me?
You're telling me that a little
little nothing. I'm going to pray today,
"Hashem, please build the Beit
Hamikdash." And God's going to answer
me? What Avraham didn't manage to do,
and what Rachel is crying for, so I'm
going to do the job? And now I'm going
to pray, and that's GOING TO TILT THE
SCALE?"
And he says, "YES.
YOU BETTER BELIEVE IT. AND THAT'S WHY A
PERSON was created by himself
to realize that the whole world is only
dependent, actually, just on one person.
And you got to feel like you're the only
one in the world. And that's why the
Aseret Hadibrot
these these Ten Commandments, they're
all lashon yachid. Lo tirtzach, lo
tin'af, lo tignov, lo ta'aneh, lo
tachmod. All of them, it's as if God is
talking only to one person. Wait,
THERE'S A WHOLE NATION. There were
600,000 men there. Lo tirtzchu, don't
kill. Speaking to
half a to the entire nation. Lo tachmod,
no, IT'S ONLY SPEAKING TO YOU.
THE TORAH IS SPEAKING TO YOU ONLY, AND
AND ONLY YOU, AS if you're the only
person on Earth. Why? Because that's how
you have to look at it.
And then he says,
and this is the line I was talking
about. U'chvar nachat ruach hu lefanav
yitbarach.
It's such a nachat ruach kavyachol, when
he sees his children praying for the
Beit Hamikdash. Ve'af shelo te'aseh
bakashatam mipnei shelo higia zman. And
even if you will not get answered, and
even if by 8:45, God forbid, the Beit
Hamikdash is not built.
For whatever reason he says, "Oh, may
the time she yearns he knew him as we
actually HAVE YOU DID YOURS."
The Hakadosh Baruch he says, "These are
words. The Hakadosh Baruchu sameach
baze." And God is pleased with you.
Sameach?
Baze? And God doesn't have God is proud
of you? God doesn't have feelings.
God doesn't have feelings that he's
sameach? He says, "No." The Hakadosh
Baruchu whatever it means, sameach baze.
So, at the end of the day
if I do whatever I could today, and I do
my best, whatever that is, and I make a
commitment and I say, "You know what?
Maybe I should take
a step to mitkazeik in my Torah and
commit a little more to learn Torah. And
maybe I could do a little more in
berachot, and maybe I should pray a
little more with minyan, and maybe a
girl could be a little more modest, and
maybe a person could mitdahed himself a
little more." And a person makes A MOVE
TODAY
AND SAYS, "I GOT TO BE BETTER."
THEN AT THE END OF THE DAY, YOU SHOULD
FEEL I THAT YOU DID YOUR BEST TO GET THE
BEIT Hamikdash built. And Hakadosh
Baruchu is sameach. So, instead of going
tonight and breaking the fast on the
burekas and whatever a person maybe has,
and feeling, "Oh, we didn't do it. Oh,
look, we still don't have the Beit
Hamikdash. Oh, look. Look, we're still
here. We fasted and Beit Hamikdash
didn't come." And look where And he
feels so rejected, he's saying, "Don't
feel like that. You should actually feel
proud of what you did today. And you
should feel great. And you should dance
tonight AND SAY, 'I TRIED MY BEST AND I
DID what I could so that Mashiach will
come.'"
And that's all a person is in his entire
life expected
to ever do, and he's not expected to do
more.
All we have to do today
is to realize that I could bring
Mashiach and it's up to me, and I have
to do teshuvah, and the fast I'm able to
connect today that's one of the greatest
things that a person could do. The
Ramban writes, "HaMashiach
bitshuvah
yavo miyad."
If I do teshuvah
and when the nation starts doing
teshuvah, he'll come immediately.
And if I do teshuvah and I make chazak,
miyad, he says. And that's a powerful
word.
So, we don't have to think about the
entire nation, what are they going to
do?
However, a person just has to think
about himself and say, "Maybe I could be
today
a little more better in my personal I
would in my personal what I'm doing in
my avodat Hashem.
And maybe I could do
something that can make the difference.
Yes.
We all have to feel like we have to make
that difference. You better believe it.
And a girl that says today that you want
to be a little more modest, she should
know that you could tilt the scale.
And a boy that says that he's going to
edit his phone a little bit more and
he's going to get a a filter, you got to
know that that is priceless.
And a person that says today I'm going
to also in my
and I got to make a commitment to say
that the right way that that is
unbelievable.
And every single one of those
commitments which a person can make is
priceless. So, we shouldn't be lenient
on them.
And if a person obviously can always in
Shabbat and
in any of the
that they have
and they say, "I'm going to be better."
And they sit today and they cry about
over the who they are and they say they
want to be better.
That is of the greatest things that they
could do today. So, as much as we think
about the burning of the house we also
think about our own personal Hashem.
And how maybe I could do a lot to bring
closer today. And that's exactly what a
Jew always has to do.
The teaching us that don't look at
anyone. Just look at yourself. And
realize that you are important and you
could bring closer. The faster that we
could do that, then the faster we'll be
to see
the
building of the
from
the mouth from the mouth from the
and we'll be able to dance together
before the fast is over with amen amen.
>> Amen.