Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz - 9th of Av and The Pain of Exile: What are we Missing? Devorim 5778

[Music] okay thank you everybody for coming we get started I just want to mention tonight she ward is dedicated in the memory of high music then Yuta Leia tonight is his yard site the six above tonight tomorrow it should be the leader Michelle with the name think of everybody again I'm still a little under the weather in there not well the entire week so excuse me if my voices it's a little low obviously we normally do the haftorah but since the haftorah is very much linked to the ninth of our program this Shabbat is of course not only is it the Shabbat before Tish above it actually is the Shabbat of the ninth of of itself and the haftorah that is always read is called hezonia shared vision of Isaiah it is the first parekawhia Yoho and it really talks about the moral and spiritual disintegration of the people that will result in exile and Corbin and estrangement from from God so tonight I'm going to talk a little bit about teach above generally and obviously it links to the October because that Tory is about that type of spiritual disintegration now let me start with an observation of Joseph's elevation very very interesting observation he points out that if you look at the hella haut of private morning and you compare them to the how the host of public morning you see an opposite trajectory in private morning we start off at a very very high and severe level we first sit Shiva but you don't even leave the house and you're not allowed to do many many things not allowed to wash and laundry and then you move into solution the 23 days up to 30 days after the ship up you can already leave your house and foremost relatives that is as far as morning goes and for a father or a mother the Torah requires not the Torah the rabbi's required that the morning extend for a whole year but it's much more lenient meaning of the Lord's of a young kid that they of a private nature starts off may not harm or at a very very severe level and it progressively gets easier and easier and easier until eventually you reenter life when we talk about the weeks of the year that are devoted to mourning over the beta Macduff's we actually find the opposite type of pattern we first started off with the three weeks from the 17th of Tamas we have certain restrictions and actually according to the law of the Gemara there are virtually no restrictions but the men hug at least among Ashkenazi that's developed is that we don't get haircuts we don't make weddings we don't listen to music and then you get to Rosh Chodesh of where cuz I'll say mission if myself once the month of art begins me Martine with simcha we diminish our joy and this is the famous nine days where the ganache can awesome restrict her than smarter than this perhaps it's the Mediterranean temperament I got you a beam Archangel will go towards where the whole book about the Sephardic tendency in Halawa but be visit many at least for Ashkenazim the nine days is a very very severe you don't bathe you don't do laundry etc and then we get to the week of tissue buff now this year interestingly enough whenever a tissue bug is observed on a Sunday whether the sunday is the 9th of up or whether the Sunday is the 10th above there is no week preceding tissue buff so if this rug would be on a Wednesday so Sunday Monday Tuesday would have certain votes called Shasha how bow tissue buff this week there is no she washes how about a Shabbat because - bubby is going to be observed on a Sunday but for most people Jewish albo is not different than than than the nine days themselves but for argument makes a big difference because swear them do begin to observe the restrictions that Ashkenazi em keep during the nine days in the Shavua Shabbat issue of which means this year they get a freebie they don't have any of those restrictions but be it as it may Shavua Chicago is stricter than the nine days then there's air F Tish above and then there's the crescendo the ultimate of a loads which is tisha birth so you see it's an opposite direction for private of a loads you start in a very strict way and you go downhill getting more and more lenient for public of a book you start light and you move to greater and greater come close and rough so basic explains that this is because the psychological function of the morning rituals are opposite purposes with private morning a person's life is shattered a person loses a spouse a parent god forbid a child a sibling they are overwhelmed with grief they don't feel that they can actually go on the grief can destroy them so having looks creates a psychological mechanism of healing that will eventually allow you to re-enter and to readjust to ordinary life so for the first seven days don't leave the house people come to you they build you up they give you strength then after seven days you're able to make your first tentative steps outside Leon Leon you don't get go to weddings after 30 days perhaps you can go to weddings already and alight because the whole function of of a moods is to create an inner healing you know I still remember very very vividly this is when I first became a rabbi in Silver Spring in 1988 and this is actually even before I became a rabbi was already higher but I wasn't there yet and and unfortunately a member of my show member of a future to be show lost state child that he had had from a prior non-jewish spouse and the child converted and etc and they were divorced and he was already remarried to a to a Jewish woman and I still remember very very vividly that it's always a little awkward when a divorced couple loses a child but it's definitionally a very awkward situation but I remember how the Jewish man the Jewish father was surrounded and protected and comforted by all of these rituals and all of these humble homes and I still remember my heart was really very breaking about the mother who was not Jewish who did not have this particular support system we don't realize anyone that's gone through it if he does realize the remarkable psychological healing of something like Shiva and in fact sometimes ship is not observed if for example a young chief intervenes if a funeral is for example Arif cog there literally is no Shiva the only observe ship until the young turk that's it and people have told me afterwards how difficult it was that they didn't have that experience of of Shiva so one of the purpose is not the only purpose but one of the purposes of of a looks is to bring you back to ordinary life so you're able to have a certain amount of healing and a certain amount of normalcy so as a result you understand that the trajectory of availeth will start off very very strict and it gradually eases off so you'll be able to reenter life with the korban Beit HaMikdash it's exactly the opposite how many of us are so broken over the destruction of the temple that we can't function how many of us say huh I just cannot get up to that because not having the base I make does not having the Shekinah is destroying me our problem is not that we're so overwhelmed with grief that we can't function and we need some type of reentry program it's the other way around we don't even know what it is that we're supposed to be crying about we never had a betta McDuck and again again and obviously the base image - is not not about a fancy building we have fancy buildings we have you know architecture the high driving debate semuc - its physical beauty although the Beit HaMikdash of eret was quite a beautiful structure but the basic McDonough's symbolic of a certain relationship with God a certain level of holiness a certain closeness a connection that we can have with each other on with revonnah Shalom and just as a blind person who never had vision doesn't really get cannot really understand color and a person that was born deaf cannot truly understand music so we really don't don't know we really don't know what it is that we're missing what it is that we're praying for you may remember a very famous story from the six-day war that when the idea finally captured the the old city and and they they they arrived at the Kotel at the western wall so the religious side of them were praying and crying they were overwhelmed with emotion and there was a secular soldier Killiney who was not observant of Judaism at all and he was crying as well and when some of his colleagues said what are you crying for you don't even know what this is he says I'm crying because I don't know why they're crying and I see that there's something on this in reality the story of that feel Oni is the story of us this is not in us then type of situation and that is we should really cry i'm tish above because we simply don't know what it is that we're supposed to be crying about and therefore of salvation says that the purpose of the mourning rituals is not to take you out of grief but to move you into grief that somehow maybe there's a sense that by externally going through motions of bereavement and sorrow perhaps the external act may cause me to internalize certain feelings then the otherwise wouldn't have so it's quite logical it's eminently logical that you go you start off light and you move to a crescendo because we're moving you into grief not away from grief because in private mourning grief is the norm from which I need to extricate myself public mourning grief is the matzoh that I need to get to because naturally it is not in my heart and it's not in myself now you know that after the Six Day War there was there was a discussion even their religious circles about reforming the Tisch above liturgy because the the prayer that is resides the keynotes but in the Amidah for Mincha we have a paragraph called not can we ask God to comfort the mourners of your shown I am and it uses expressions about Jerusalem that some people feel don't really apply today have mercy on the abandoned birds destroying desolate humiliated City so some people felt again may even with the religious circles they were they were discussing you know that's not our situation I mean Burroughs Hashem you shall I miss United are not totally United but you know the old city and the rest of the city and and Jews are flourishing and we're the startup nation and then many many good things the growth of Torah as well maybe especially the growth of Torah learning so granted we don't have mushiya we don't have a stomach - but how can you talk about you Shanaya Muskaan favor show me my bazooka is that really true but the answer is in some ways in some ways living in your shamayim you might be able to feel the pain of goblins even more so then in the government you walk by and whether you how long can we take the position that you're allowed to go and on our buyer - whether you are loving this and you can't go in the heart alliance but everyone realizes that if you're on the Hara buy it and you say a broth on a glass of water the police are going to arrest you it is against the law it is against Israeli law to pray Jewish prayer at least the other party the other people are able to but it is forbidden for a Jew to pray and the Hara bind and you'll be arrested and you see that we still live in a state of war and a state of terror and of course the Sinatra phenom within the Jewish people is so devastating because I'll say that the Second Temple was destroyed because of sin are three men you know Josephus records Josephus a bit of a controversial figure Yosef it met this young very very interesting person some consider him of the Benedict Arnold of the Jewish people Josephus was of course a general in the Jewish army during the war against Rome and he basically surrendered although it's interesting that in many ways Josephus had a very similar hash-table to the sages to close out who also were very much against military struggle against Rome so actually kill cheapest I'd have been more of the rabbinic position but Josephus did spend the bulk of the war after his surrender in Rome but he was an eyewitness from the Roman side to many of the active he's connected to Titus's teachers destruction of the base on McDuff and his history of the jewish war is still a very very primary source for that war but obviously you have to take everything just c4 says with a tremendous grain of salt because he was writing under the protection of Titus so he couldn't discredit the Romans he couldn't describe them as monsters etc but he within his very very difficult position he tried to elevate the Jewish people as well showing that they were a noble people etc so he records a conversation that Titus had with one of his generals and to me it rings true because it actually fits what's close al said at some point Titus was musing that perhaps he doesn't have to destroy the beit hamikdash or destroyed jerusalem because he said you know if I just leave these people alone in a few months they will destroy it on their own and Josephus describes this tells you cynically NAM didn't just mean people didn't like each other he actually describes the warring factions of Jews different parties of zealots trying to take over the city and he describes while the temple was still up that there were two sides on opposite sides of the courtyard of the temple that were shooting arrows at each other and the Kohanim were ducking the arrows to bring the court but notes this is the scene that he actually describes in the Beit HaMikdash itself so that was that but because I'll have a very important teaching because I'll say any generation in which the Beit HaMikdash is not rebuilt is as guilty as the generation of the korban itself this is an extraordinarily important teaching because what this is saying is don't understand the Gemara as saying very were guilty of sonata phenom and we hadn't gotten the temple back because of what they did that's not the way it works if we would not be guilty of those very same update hoods we would have the baton retouch badly so if coz I'll say the biood Shanee was destroyed because of Sinatra phenom then definitionally if we have not gotten the baton Mukesh back we are guilty of Sinatra now afterward the matter is I don't think I need to prove this with any level of sophistication because it's quite obvious that the Jewish world is beset with Sinatra phenom on all levels whether it's religious secular whether it's conservative reform Orthodox whether and City been most distressing the tremendous number of divisions that exists within Jews that are committed to talk on mitzvahs the fact that they're giving you one Oaks one minor example but it's a striking example there was there were two kindergarteners that were adjacent to each other I'm not sure if one was a secular one was religious or one might have been her ad and one ducky leave me alone I'm not even sure and what happened was during recess children were communicating to each other through the chain-link fence that separated the two playgrounds so somebody decided I don't know who decided that there needed to be a black tarp placed over the chain-link fence so there could be no communication huh well this is what it is but this is the norm and this is the norm and indeed as a rabbi I get Shiloh's all sorts of times all my neighbours so I'm so open about my kids I mean it these are the common types of questions that people are asking all the time we can't talk to them we can't interpret whatever them is I'm at identifying it them here we can't talk to them we can't interact with them you know they they will be a bad influence one way one way or the other this is so not Tina now if they're if a person says in their defense oh it's not Tina I have a good reason well listen nobody nobody hates unless they say they have a reason I mean somebody said I'm against hating people for no reason but anybody I hate I have a good reason obviously cuz I'll consider whatever reason you have not to be a good reason meaning it's still called me not and hatred is not only about throwing stones it's about coldness indifference cliquish this the concept that I have my grouping you have your group and what happens to your group the Division of the Jewish world into an us and again again who everything else from the memory I don't intend to you know designate any particular a particular group but the concept of we have our ours you know us there's of them and what happens to them is of no concern to us everyone knows a famous parable of the Talmud you shot me as as if people around the boats and under my seat there's a hole that springs water and when you try to fix the other thing get out of here that's my business there's a hole is under my seat but the answer is you know the water comes in everybody sinks if any Jews are in trouble we're all in trouble and only by artisan by love and by caring by concern can we rebuild the base of make time so again this doesn't need a lot of proof and it's not even anything I mean we need to talk about it a lot just erase it just be sure it's in our minds but intellectually all of us know that the world the Jewish world is beset with Sinatra now on all sorts of levels and it's really such a tragedy because so much of the world already hates us and so much of the world wants to destroy us so you know we need to be our enemy as well you know it's it's something that that's very very tragic in many many ways but what I want to talk about tonight is really a part of the Gemara that is often not discussed I want to go back to the first step all the way back to the first way to make - that was destroyed and this is also an interesting historical problem the second Beit HaMikdash we kind of know when it was destroyed although it's still a range of years it was destroyed between the years 68 and 70 70 is the most common year sometimes people give 68 69 the first beta make - is actually quite interesting there's a major major chronological controversy about the year of the son of first beta Mick - if you open up any world history the year that will be given for Nebuchadnezzar's korban of the Temple of Solomon of schlemm I'm Alison usual I am is said to be 586 BCE now the problem is that is inconsistent with the Jewish reckoning of time for the following reason Casal had a miss aura that between the Horeb and Beit HaMikdash be shown and the Horeb at Beit HaMikdash Shani is 490 years because there was 70 years of the Babylonian exile and the biood Shanee from the time it was built till the korban is 420 so therefore from korban by accretion to korban by cheney is 490 years that's rabbinic chronology and this is actually based on an interpretation of one of the visions that the neo had when God decreed 70 weeks a week there in that 15 7 years there'll be 70 groups of seven years until there will be the core but that adds up to 490 now the problem is very very clear between 586 BCE and 70 CE is more than 600 years as opposed to 490 so you're dealing with 120 years or so and these are the famous Jewish chronology these are the famous missing years meaning say Jewish chronology seems to be around 120 to 150 years short which means perhaps the Second Temple actually had a longer duration than is normally the case so the the religious historians who try to reconcile secular history through been a chronology have many many different answers to this some say the secular chronology is wrong some say the rabbinic chronology is wrong some say the rabbi's deliberately did not want to count 120 years of the body Cheney I rep shroud for various reasons were a shrub then changed his mind on it or at least he got probably got in trouble he didn't want to didn't want to stay with it so there are literally many many different answers rabbi barrel wine in his that's a long footnote on it and he says he's not going to resolve the contradiction but be it as it may whatever the year is it's not that important for our purposes but it is a very interesting issue because I'll tell us that the first big comic Dutch was destroyed not because of Sinatra phenom but for the worst of a rose in the tour the three sins for which a person must give up his life that is a Buddhist or a idolatry killing a Rio sexual immorality should be hood dumb him murder right now because I'll make the point ah bow array the first base of McNish that was destroyed for our Buddha Zara gilja why should we put some him the exile only lasted seventy years the second base on make - that was destroyed for Sinatra now we are still in the gutter to this very very thing so you see what cynically nam is but going back to the first place in Mick - I vote as are Aquila right should we put them in what's interesting is when we warn the Corbin beta Mick - are we morning only the biood Shanee or are we still mourning the by accretion because one way of looking at it as well there's no reason to mourn the buyer - rishon we got back to buy a Cheney so wrongly morning to buy a chain and yet there's an interesting comment of the Rambam in the parish of Matthias the ramp-up says quite an amazing thing the road map says they observed the fast of the ninth of us even during the four hundred and twenty years of the Second Temple Tish above was a fast day during the Bayou Cheney now why would you be fast at issue bob is a fast commemorating the Corbin base hummock - why would you be vast when you have a beta Macduff now there are a few possibilities erupts electric actually suggests that since it was known already that the second temple would eventually be destroyed they didn't know when but there was a sentence would not be forever Seraph celibate chick says an interesting point tisha Bob during the Second Temple was not a morning observance it was a prayer that the other shoe shouldn't drop it was a prayer that God should keep that right so it's switched when there's a core bond we mourn when there's a paid to make - we pray that the temple shouldn't be natural that's also basics understanding that tissue broken the bio Cheney was not a dinner Bobby looked it was a dinner of like Yom Kippur of doing Juba and top Arab but the other way of learning which i think is true as well is that during the Second Temple they still mourned the loss of the first temple because the bias Cheney did not have all of the holiness of the by 'try shown among other things there was no prophecy during the Second Temple except at the very beginning of the bio chain you had the last novotná vm cog i sahajiya Maliki when they died there was no new Voula in the bio Cheney because I'll even use the Russian there was no harsh rock Tichina in the bite so as a result what we are mourning is not just the loss of the bio Cheney we are mourning that we never regained what we had with the by atresia know that that wasn't the right Shamy so so they were there were there were obviously there were some manifestations of God but but still it was not the same if Allah was a major thing the Orion petroleum that Hashem would prophetically answer various questions was not operative during the biochip so what this suggests therefore is the following when we think about the Ave heart that caused the for them we're not only thinking about the Sinatra phenom that caused the Corbin of the by Cheney we're also thinking about avodah Zarah gilja ryan seafood um him that caused the Corbin of the by atresia so here I think we immediately have a problem if the problem is not phenom so unfortunately we are cursed with that and there's plenty to think about but come on I'll go to sorrow Kilauea because oven we're not that bad we think we're not worshiping idols where most people are not Oh second Delia Rio should be host on him now there's the question I want to raise is I understand the relevance of meditating and resolving to improve in the areas of sanity no but what is the relevance of thinking about the original sense of avodah Zarah gilja hb4 stomach are they really problems that we face so in reality we they are problems even today and let me give you a few different possibilities possibility number one and these are gonna be interrelated they're not gonna be totally distinct is because I lied enta fiying many many types of available as connected to the big three for example because I'll say call her co h ke Luo vada Beaudesert anyone that has anger is and amount to idolatry because I'll say call a movin pen a carve a rubber Robin if you embarrass a person publicly de Lucia fathom in it is as if you're a murderer because I've also talked about God all here hooray a favor if a person has sexual fantasies that could be as bad or worse than the Avera itself so on one level even if I don't murder people have I embarrassed me even if I don't bow down to an idol have I been angered angry and not accepted as gems judgments have I had fantasies as the old that Jimmy Carter used to say have I committed adultery in my heart again I'm not gonna fault them for expressing that that sentiment that is what because I'll call here hooray hooray available so in many many ways even if we don't do the actual Avera in a very very literal sense but symbolically we're connected to it in in in in various in various ways and of course I'll go to surah itself can take on all sorts of things I'll go desorber the concept why for example is anger tantamount to idolatry so the Bala Tonya where Zalman says it's very much connected because if you believe that God runs the world and if you believe that everything that happens to you is the will of Allah this bar then what are you angry against you either reject God or you believe that God is not in charge of what happens in your life so that is a form of avodah Zarah of not accepting Hashem as the ultimate arbiter of what happens in your mostly because somebody well that triggers okay that triggers a huge huge users yeah the questions that people get angry because people have crossed boundaries people who have abused me in the various ways so the question is is that coming from God that's a huge huge mark locusts you know the art of the Cobras Allah Baba's writes that although human beings have free will so God did not make that guy insult you but if it wouldn't be God's will that you bear that insult it wouldn't have happened so in a sense Hashem is simply utilizing that person's free will to carry out hashem jazeera so the horizontal of us takes the extreme position actually that no person can inflict any type of harm on another person unless it is the will of god we don't know why God will build it but that's the truth of ourselves that's and therefore the person who ever says although the guy that crossed the boundaries has committed a sin and will be held to account by the Almighty for his free will but in effect that shouldn't affect you because it would have happened anyway if not through him through somebody else that is the view of the funnel of us and the peloton who seems to be following that that everything that happens is from a shepherd now admittedly the orihime does say the options the earth I am says that any injury that is inflicted on you through human choices is not necessarily coming from God because if God created a world of free will then definitionally implicit in that concept is that human beings are capable of harming other human beings in other words even in something like the Holocaust again it's not the subject tonight and that's a vast vast difficult difficult to subject but the Holocaust made according to this film may not be what God had decreed but rather if God creates free will that enables evil human beings to wreak havoc in the world so your point is a big big controversy and how you understand the interaction between God's divine providence and human autonomy and free will well I think you'd have to give another another explanation I'm not sure I think would still come out to the idea that one is supposed to look at the difficulties in life even if they come from human choice as vehicles of atonement meaning once a person does suffer there is a tournament of sin if you don't accept what what God allowed to happen even if God didn't decree it that's also a rejection of God in some ways right so that's the answer in number one answer number one is even if I'm not guilty of idolatry perhaps I'm guilty of anger and even if I'm not guilty of murder perhaps I'm guilty of embarrassing people and even if I'm not guilty of actual adultery perhaps I had various here whoever they were particularly in a sexually saturated Society that bombards you with messages one after a time now let me tell you a story that literally shocked me it may be maybe it'll be a minor story but I did not take it a minor and somebody told me that they had gone through a divorce recently one we went through a divorce two religious people and the father is you know not quite there and he went to the school and he complained that his daughter in seventh grade does not show him proper respect and she wants to teach you to do something about it whether the father is right or not I think it makes no difference as you'll hear in the story so the teacher announced in school that this young girl does not fulfill the Mitzvah of keeping up the aim so nobody should doctor because he does not fulfill the mitzvot love keep it up being now in my opinion the teacher ought to be fired what type of teacher publicly humiliates a student even if even if the father was on your present correct the halacha of giving would sir the luck of giving tokoha the luck of giving instruction is you do it privately you never embarrass a person publicly that is treated as murder and this young girl had kids who stopped talking to her because the motor said this is not a good girl you can't you can't talk to her so this is an example this is Recife this is murder that's all same album play for you forever wrap it up so did you want to say something down yeah yeah this is considered fatal stomach and and the principal or to give this teacher two choices you apologize publicly to the girl which in which case we would accept that that sugar now they'll be fine or you leave my teacher cannot be allowed to do this a parent is not a lot to do it a parent of course is supposed to discipline the child and guide the child I'm not suggesting your children do things you know you don't intervene to instruct them and even punish them but you don't do it in a way that humiliates because what happens simply is children you know what what's the saying people who hurt hurt you know a child is humiliated will grow up to be another person who humiliates other people including their own their own children right so this is answer number one that yeah we are guilty of abode Azura gave why should we to stop him if not in the literal form in the forms that comes out car related to it answer number two is the following idea you know Raviv Cairo the author of the children article was the robbed of spots in the 1500s and this was really the glory days of spots but was a much bigger tourist center than usual I'm in those days Yosef Cairo was the rough and he was also amicable as well but you had revolution cordovero who was the knitter and then the aerosol came we just had their results yard site it results on the in spot for a year and a half but he made such a tremendous row shamans flat roofs lamar of schlemm while kibbutz was the cousin of moshe al was the darshan really had the kedusha there was under my bits I mean tremendous tremendous unbelievable conditions so of Yosef Cairo sorry agency where Instagram user count was something himself was a great macoco he was a great mobile he was already in his 70s when the IRAs are camped at spot at the age of 37 and revere Saqqara would go to the arezzo to hear shiorin but he always fell asleep and so the IRA said it was nixar in shamayim that i should not be a remedy because of your greatness it would not be proper for me to be a rebel so i didn't want you to hear kabbalah from me but your guess if Cara didn't have even a better source maybe even than the iris Cara had a mala but he would learn one and this was called his maggot his preacher and yes if Caro has left us a diary of his learning with the mama this is a safer that is called market may Sharia I believe we can even look at it for free I'm Hebrew books dot-org Margot may Sharon so in the market Misha in Reverse if karl has defined the following diary entry that he gives the story that one time he was trying to understand the very difficult piece of the Gemara and he worked hard on it that he was me a gaya for for weeks and weeks and weeks and finally he had clarity and finally had shot he was very very happy so he's walking in spot then again if you've been there you can imagine the narrow alleyways of the of the Jewish quarter of Sparta and he overhears a shoemaker learning that same Gomorrah with his eight-year-old son and strangely enough the eight-year-old son asks his father the same question that bothered of Yosef count so I assume this car didn't want to eavesdrop but you know he was just curious at that point and the shoemaker was annoyed at his 8 year old son he says I know this was too hard for you and why can't you grasp an elementary point and he says over the shot that it took her of your sake I rode the gondola door weeks and weeks to try to understand and apparently it was so obvious and so simple that the father is annoyed that the eight-year-old didn't get it so it must have been pretty simple even if they truth was obviously very bright but Stefan still have the father thing why don't you understand this it's a B and C so Joseph kind of figured that he must have been guilty of some tremendous of error that I Shem withheld from him something that was so obvious that even an eight-year-old should have gotten so he asks his angel he asks his market my contactee what is my sin why couldn't I understand something that is so obvious and clear and he records that the angel told him the following idea he says your understanding was deep and profound and the world was not deserving of it but through your work and through your efforts you brought it into the world and once you brought it into the world it becomes like low-hanging fruit than anybody could get in them but without your work it wouldn't have been in the world you actually find a similar concept even in scientific discoveries there's a certain time when the world is relevant for example calculus was discovered in stores at the same time leaving this and Newton there's still a monk locust who gets credit for calculus who should the high school seniors hate and the like and even relativity they say Einstein you know Feinstein wouldn't have discovered theories of relativity that would have come down the pike you know the world was ready for it but if we look at this from a spiritual sense what the momma told you of Yosef Cairo actually makes no sense because what do you mean you brought it into the world you didn't teach anybody you didn't communicate it you didn't explain it all you did was think it through and it's in your brain in what way does that somehow mean everybody can al get ahold of it so you see here a mystical idea that when a person through their own I vote as a sham brings torah and mitzvot into the world the world itself gets elevated people say oh you're sitting alone and you're learning Torah you're diverting what are you doing for the world you are bringing all sorts of powers into the world that somehow the the idea they are may woods in Tehran that you yourself are doing in the privacy of your room somehow can elevate the world in all sorts of imperceptible ways the hobby time used to say much later that the the intensity of learning in the little village of Ratan affects these needs of the fashions in Paris you look at it like an atom bomb and that is there's Ground Zero then progressively there will be waves of radiation that may get weaker and weaker and more attenuated but the radiation can go for thousands and thousands of miles so to Ground Zero is the shiva bradden little village in poland where people who are learning with great intensity but that will create waves of kedusha that raised the world so by the time it gets to paris maybe you won't have people learning Torah because of that but the skirts might be a quarter of an inch lower as a result now what that means therefore is the converse is also true and that is when we don't create all of the canoes you were capable of creating then the world will be diminished in various ways so the old anti-semitic argument that Jews are responsible for everything I hate to agree with them but in many many ways they happen to be correct don't tell anybody and that is we believe that our Torah and our mitzvot can change the whole world for better and conversely when the world is not changed for better we bear a certain share of negative responsibility so I vote is our regular rifle stomach right the question I wanted to raise is hey maybe I'm guilty of sin on screen I'm on plead guilty to that but I'm not guilty of our voters or a young white people stomach but here's the thing even if I myself or you none of us have done those things we certainly live in a world well keloid right because Thummim is obvious we live in a world of rampant sexual immorality and all medals we live in a world of violence we live in a world of murder we live in a world of people being tortured we live in a world where these things happen and if we say yeah but it's not me well the answer is maybe it is me meaning to say maybe if I would have lived a whole year life I would have been a better person and enough of us would have done that the world itself might be affected you see the idea that the Jew is an immoral my going in a light to the nation's has never meant first of all obviously there's never meant proximalization thank the role of the Jew is not to apostatize and try to make other people Jewish it's the other way around somebody wants to be Jewish initially we are supposed to discourage them and talk about other avenues so but look I am is primarily in the way we live our lives with morality with goodness with kiddush Hashem I'm not saying we do that but but if the ideal is the ideal is that we do that and it has an influence on the world so therefore my second answer to avoid is ovulations don't miss that even if I'm not guilty on my own if I live in a world with that exist and I go to Sarah I would also say exist besides him there was an actual idolatry but as they say I vote as or it can be anything that becomes the center meaning the central meaning of your existence other than God so our borders are at can mean money can mean power it can be in control it can mean careerism whatever it is any ideology that dominates your life and becomes the central meaning of your life other than the service of Hashem in accordance with is well becomes our desire so there is plenty of abode Ozora in the world in that sense so consequently the idea is that if I live in a world that is chikuwa in a boat Azara gilja Raya schrieffer's done him divine to some degree I'm guilty for what is going on okay so Jews are guilty for a lot of things you know they they have one of the survival mechanisms that the Jews have developed over the centuries of persecution is the sense of humor and I mean I would I would you know I feel very uneasy by telling you a holocaust joke but only he's not going to tell you what elico is because it was said by people during the Holocaust meaning that it's not my joke but just to show you that hidden even during the Holocaust try to see things in a humorous way because it gave them physic this was in the early years of Hitler in 1933 34 the Nuremberg Laws the various anti-discrimination I'm side the descriptions criminally laws against Jews so the story goes that two Jews were on a bus and they already have to wear the yellow star and one of the Jews is reading the notorious Nazi paper disturbing huge Julius Streicher which was a rapidly rapidly evil anti-semitic paper so what did you sister the other Jews Jewish how can you possibly read that he says listen times are very tough we're losing our jobs we're losing our property with missing our houses we can't immigrate our money is being confiscated things are very bad so I pick up this newspaper and I see Jews control the banking Jews control the wealth I want again I want to get a little bit of good news so that was the idea so Jews control things but they don't control necessarily physical things but spiritual keys of the world collie show has great power I said he was yes humor is a wonderful wonderful coping and survival mechanism and it you know gives a person the ability to see the the bright side in things the ludicrousness of life that's correct that's correct for secularism needs a definition like what are you committed to but everybody has some core of commitment and if they don't they're really in trouble and that becomes a boaters are because it is service of something other than God so that would be answer number number two answer number three again this is not totally distinct is offered by replica of the bling and your silicon movement says avodah Zarah Helio riot we could amend our obviously behaviors that are the lowest worst behaviors in God cetera but they are not just negative behaviors they are symptoms of deep character flaws so as a result even if I am not guilty of the symptom I can be guilty of the character flaw which gives rise to the symptom and in particular he identifies the three cancers of the human personality based on purveyor vote cannot have avocado director ever be a lesser on top of copper says keen about tava vodka boat load CNS are domina ovum Tina is jealousy tava is lust for the hedonistic pleasures of the world in an excessive way and kavod is a desire for glory and ego gratification these are modes see as Saddam Mina oh mama they take a person out of the world they destroy his world oh my boy and even though the mother becomes a very very frustrating life so here's what drove suffered wants to say where sonic wants to say Tina jealousy when taken to an extreme gives rise to murder which actually is empirically true you know most murders outside of terrorist situations let's go back to the other states are really various rivalries whether it's gang rivalries or family rivalries they're literally jealousy they could be over something as seemingly trivial and stupid as you know you have a coat that I want you have sneakers I mean they're gang killings are over this all the time so the show rich of Tina in which I deny your legitimacy for whatever attainments you have I wanted for myself - god forbid lead in an extreme case to receive her so she hosts um M is connected to Tina Delia result is of course an expression of type of lust and avodah Zarah is connected to cover because again going back with the idea that when you replace the worship of God with self worship your power your money egocentric you become your own God and therefore obstetrics argument is that even if I am not guilty of the symptoms of our borders or regulatory forced on him this shear regime of kena habakkuk our ballots are very much present in our personalities and therefore the ninth above is when we try to rebuild the beta make again as I said last week is to repeat it all of us have a job to rebuild the beta main - but the way we rebuild the beta make - is not by bombing the mosques and and physically doing a building that is the role of mushiya that is not our role but the way we build the beta mag - is by making our heart and our soul a place where as Shems presence can resigned as the past success by the Mishkan the us olymic - make for me a Mick - a sanctuary bischoff aunty pitocin so I won't dwell in them meaning it's not in the building it's in us when the mixed up when the streamer can't dwell within us then we're zoca to that building that symbolizes that resting of the chelina so therefore our tissue bub is really a day of reflection in which we ask ourselves how do we rebuild the bay something - in the way we live in our hearts and on our soul so let me just end with you know at each above morning we have these prayers that are very very difficult prayers the keynotes lamentation prayers and little commercial at least or Samaras where I teach we have a keynote service that lasts for around three hours I'll be doing around 15 there are a total of 45 keynotes we do around 15 of them with commentary like I I think I think it starts 9:30 meaning after davines 9:30 to 12:30 no women are invited to there's an s restaurant or something yeah main base - yeah yeah yeah yeah so it's a Kino service and I think they put it on YouTube afterwards again yeah yeah but but OB visit may the keynotes are very very difficult but the very last key and not the very last of the necks of the last t-nut is the one Tina where we stand up and we actually put it to music that is Eliseo the REO and le does not mean gems not Kaley it's they were through diversity Kaylee's I know Ellie is a way to lament Eliseo laments for Zion and her cities and it's a very heartbreaking type of tune you know it just reminds a person of the heartbreak of Jewish history and the sufferings of ami Israel and the sufferings of God when he sees his nation suffer and the screen is not in the world but it's very very interesting two points about this it says one should an immense Fritzie own like a woman who is going through labor pains and like a young wife who is crying over the husband that has left so I would like to suggest that these to Michele them are very very important too because we feel like a widow we feel like our husband has died we feel like our husband has left us no longer here that's the sense of hopelessness that a person could have but in reality but the Python is suggesting is the perception of widowhood is the wrong analogy the true analogy is the woman going through the labor pains we're out of the pain and out of the suffering comes new life and new growth a new birth so in one hand yirme'yahu at the beginning of April who is describing the nadir of the of the suffering ASA yushkevich God I saw tammana how is the city sitting so bereft like a widow because that's how we felt but in reality all of that pain is the pain of the mother but it's gonna give birth the pain is not the pain of the unending suffering of bereavement but it's the pain that will come to new life a new redemption and this is why reps elevate Rick says this is why we stand out let me say earlier you because standing a right to most of the keynotes we say sitting down on the ground or a very low bench and that represents bereavement here we're ready to get up we're ready to go back to life we're getting up but there's an important point when you get up remember the basic victory even when you get up don't think I finished the morning now I go back to my regular life you have to take the of a boat with you and that is why it is brought down at the shore another that a person should feel the pain of the bay to make - every single thing that they tell the story you know there is in the city I mean very few people say it but subsidy or habit she couldn't hot zones what is T could cut so that there were righteous people there are some people who still do it they get up midnight or they didn't go to sleep yet and they say prayers every night over the floor but based on McNish some madad could do it during the three weeks of your during the nine days but the original ritual was literally every night he couldn't results that breslav pushes it so they have a Contras that's called the sweetest hour and I think they talk about the secret results so rebellion up yonder was a great great bamboo sir started doing tika cuts oats when he was in his eighties so somebody said like why are you starting this now he says well you know after a person dies they test a person if he kept all of the hollows so they go through the whole show from my record page by page by page by page so listen rebellious said if I didn't keep something that's on page 455 and there by that time I've already had a track record but ticket hot sauce is actually mentions page one he says if they already got me on page one he says I'm gonna be in trouble so I want to be sure I do the page one thinks but still for most of us Deccan hot soda is not necessarily something we're physically physically able to do but the concept of working to create a beta Mukesh is something that's very very worthy of us and the way we do it is pretty try to make our heart and our soul a place where God's presence can reside so be a threat to Shem we still have a chance that even this year tisha Bob will turned into a day of samba simcha but if class for Shalom there has to be a fast even this year made exactly the last night above that we keep as a [Music]