Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz: G-ds Reversal of Bilaams Curse into a Blessing

[Music] thank you again i apologize for being late uh unfortunately as as many of you know uh for the past year we have been uh this year has been dedicated among other sponsors for a refuge leima for benyamin israel benjamin sadly tragically our prayers have not been answered and this young man did pass away uh he died i'm just coming back from the leviathan leviathan eric israel although he died in the in the in the u.s and what can you say when a uh 15 year old boy dies of incurable cancer i hope that god should give the family the strength to go on and to rebuild and to remember the noble and good life that benjamin israel lived he only lived a few years but in those years he did many many mitzvos he put on fill-in he darvened he learned torah he accepted the pain that god put into his life in good cheer and with faith and with pitaka he had friends he was loved by people and uh keep in mind as well that in his merits people did so many mitzvahs so literally thousands and thousands of people learned torah gave stukka all because of him and in shamayim all of those mitzvos go to his credit even now carol and ron his parents are sponsoring this year i think even tonight uh not for reforeshleim anymore but aliyak nishama so i think all of us with a great deal of sadness and pain uh pray that the learning in the torah and the mitzvos that we do here and in many other places should elevate his pure soul to the highest highest level of ganeshan and that the family should have much comfort and strength in this time of great great suffering our hearts are with them and we share in their pain if that gives them any measure of of a little bit of of comfort in addition uh these sponsors tonight are the york sites of uh frank ebermoff ephraim benjakovitzrock on the 12th of thomas and jane abramoff shaina yata basmaisha on the 11th of thomas and once two the learning should be for an aliyah for their neshama and finally a refuge lima to shift galileo who have been sponsors for quite a few weeks already on one hand we're very grateful on the other hand we hope that they should get better vimahyra and they're always welcome to sponsor a share but it shouldn't have to be for a refuha refuse lima so we hashem we have sponsors again i apologize for being late but in many many ways i think it was appropriate for someone that has been such a loyal supporter of ibana in general and this year in particular uh the parsha this week is the very very interesting parsha of balak i'll tell you a little i'm going to start off with a little bit of a humorous sport although it is a vort but it's a it's a humorous word i had mentioned last week the after rav who was a great great khasidhirebi of the 19th century who was called the oahe of israel the lover of israel because his book on hamish is called the oath israel and the afgharev famously remarked that he could find delusions to loving fellow jews in every parasha in the torah so somebody asked him where do you find it in balak now in truth i don't really hear the kasha i mean matovo bullock himself i'm not about bilaam himself praises on yourself but somebody asked where do you find a direct reference to avats israel in parashat balak so the absarov said ah that's very very simple the very name of the parsha bollock the vase is the laminate is and the kuff is kamoka love your friend as yourself bud luck is an abbreviation so somebody said rebbe with all due respect via hafta is a v and balak is a vase or a bet le reacher islamic okay but kamoka is a huff or a cuff and this is a kuff so two of the three letters don't match up at all so the after robbie said after i've said that's the point when you have of us israel you don't look so closely at this you learn to overlook you learn to be a little more you know forgiving right you want to be meditate you want to be meticulous you want to be exact that's a contradiction to about israel because when you look for negativity you will always find it you will always find something to criticize but about israel says don't look so closely at what you might perceive as the flaws of people so that's a little bit of an introductory joke but the parsha itself talks about the fact now remember chronologically we are in the 40th year the torah literally skips over 38 years from the heidemar raglan to the 40th year we're not told anything that happened during that whole period of time now we're in the 40th year and a lot of stuff happened in the 40th year miriam dies and our own dies moshe will die later and then we have the whole story of balak and baalak is the king of the moabites and baalok is afraid of the jewish people because they had conquered the lands of sikhon and balak hires a professional sorcerer billam whose curses are very efficacious right half curse will travel bilham's curses seem to work and he hires bilaam to curse banay israel and of course as we know the story hashem turned all of billam's curses that he wanted to do they were turned into blessings and braggarts so as a preliminary tasha the mufasam asked the following what is balak afraid of hashem actually commands the jewish people that they are not allowed to conquer moabite territory moab is a descendant of lot and god gave that land east of the jordan remember the land that we conquered that was given to ruvain gods and half of menasha is not the land of amon and moab the land of ammon and maya is in violet we're not allowed to touch it it was the land of sikhon the king of the omori who is one of the seven nations of canaan it happens to be the torah itself tells me that sea cone conquered that land from the king of moab but that's the whole point once sikhon conquered it it is no longer moabite territory and we're able to take it that's true but more by territory itself the torah says i'll taught sarat malav do not wage any war against moab do not engage in muhammad because i have given this territory to the bene loat as part of my covenant with avraham so if that's the case bullock has absolutely nothing to be afraid of why is bullock afraid of bene israel and he has to hire bilham to curse them one simple answer might be that perhaps bullock himself is not aware of the commandments that that was given to moshe about not waging war against moab so perhaps bullock is acting under a misunderstanding but the shame ishmael gives a beautiful answer and the answer of the shame ishmael is that bullock is not afraid that ami israel is going to conquer his land that's not going to happen balak is afraid of the jews going into eret's israel he doesn't want them to go into heritage israel why does that affect him because here is the thing if we compare the spiritual existence of the jewish people in the desert to the spiritual life they're going to have in eretz israel you see a very important difference the desert is a spiritual cocoon the desert is an artificial environment of pure spirituality the man the bread comes from heaven there is a traveling well of water there are clouds of glory god's presence is open and obvious and clear and supernatural and undeniable it is a total spiritual cocoon of kadusa now that has its cross when you live in the presence of god in such a tangible way every misstep invites immediate response you do a sin now thousands of people can die because you're dealing with the revelation of god without the veils of concealment that are typical of the world that we live in right this is the world of the midborn the 24-hour spiritual cocoon of pure rookney's kidusa spirituality when we come to eric israel life is going to be very different there is not going to be the mon we're going to have to plant the crops there's not going to be a traveling well we're going to have to dig wells or rely on rainwater there will not be clouds of glory we will need an army we'll have to fight we'll have to build cities we'll have to dig dishes ditches we will have to have lawyers and doctors and accountants and police and fire meaning we will be living in a world of concealment we will be living in a world of hester panim we will be living in a world in which we have to engage with materialism and dashboard so here is what the shame ishmuel says bola is perfectly happy to have a nation living in a spiritual environment that is not connected to the real world because the fact that there's a jewish nation that's devoted to god that learns torah that is not a reproach to the immorality of moab and other cultures because they could say hey the jews are not living in the real world they don't face the real problems of society they don't have to deal with the issues that we have to face every day so let them be holy let them be righteous let them be kaddash their life is irrelevant to what we have to go through but once am israel comes to erect israel and at least at their best we're not always at our best but at least at our best we demonstrate that even in a life of materialism and physicality and building societies and digging ditches and planting crops there is still a torah and a mitzvah and a morality and an ethic that becomes a reproach to all of the degenerate societies that don't live by at least the moral standards of at least the noahide laws and therefore balak is determined that the jewish people should not enter irish israel and that's what he thought the curse would accomplish because he said let him be this spiritual disembodied entity in the desert which has no relevance to the real life of man and that's what the shame of shmuel says that in many many ways although you might think that life in eric israel was inferior to the spiritual life of the desert in fact it's the other way around the life of the desert is simply the school the preparation that we kind of absorb this pure spirituality to then be able to take it into the gritty details of everyday life sanctifying the gash meat sanctifying the material is even a higher level than the pure spirituality of disengagement from the material if the midbar represents disengagement from the physical building of a society eric israel represents transformation of that society to holiness and kedusha and that is even a greater challenge but to the degree that we could successfully meet that challenge that would be a reproach and a moosa to all of those degenerate cultures so this is how the shame ishmael understands why balak wanted to hire billa now let's look at bilum a little bit how would we describe bill right what's billam's character so the truth of the matter is we have three different prisms through which we examine this complex character that we call villain because he's really a composite of three different personality types type one is bilaam was a navi with extraordinary clarity of vision and understanding of god that the medrash actually tells us that the nations of the world would have complained to god and they would have said if you would have given us a prophet as great as moshe we too would be righteous so god acceded to that request and gave them a prophet who on some levels was as great as moshe and that prophet was billa bilam was a prophet of greatness of depth now you could ask an interesting tasha on that well wait a second here this is a non-sequitur the nations say to god or they would say to god we have no historical evidence they actually said it but god was forestalling an argument they would have made if you would give us somebody like moshe we would be righteous so god gives them bilaam and they're not righteous okay but they can just repeat the question if you would give us a moshe we would be righteous you're answering that by giving us a bill up right what's going on that's not that's not an answer the answer is this moshe and billam are actually the same meaning to say god gave moshe tremendous prophetic powers and god gave billam tremendous prophetic powers god did not make moshe righteous and god did not make bill of evil but you have to understand the dynamics of having tremendous power everyone knows the old aphorism in politics lord acton's statement power corrupts absolute power corrupts absolutely well imagine how this works when you have divine power imagine you wake up one day and you have the power to bless the power to curse the power to build the power to destroy you simply say let this building collapse the building collapses you're given this god-like power what happens to you at that point well what had happened was when bilum got that power it turned his head it made him arrogant it made him evil it made him selfish it made him egotistical moshe took that power and used it to serve god and remain humble so yeah if the almost all of them say if you would have given us someone like moshe we would be good god gave them somebody who was like motion the fact that that most shell-like person became bilum is no different than the fact that the bilum-like person became moshe that's a function of free will god didn't give the umo a bad prophet and give the jewish people a good prophet he gave them two people both of whom had the potential for greatness and both of whom had the potential for evil so image number one we have of bilum is a tremendous tremendous prophet and when i say prophet i don't i don't only mean the ability to see the future but the ability to effect things the ability to say things that just happen like magic that's version number one bilaam the great prophet of the umotes like moshe rabeno is the great prophet to the jewish people aspect number two bilaam is the cool collected cynical profession professional have curse will travel think about the three-piece suit lawyer who will represent any type of case he'll take any side of the case billam was a mercenary bilham had tremendous power and bilham hired out his abilities to whomever paid the highest price indeed one could have argued that if the jewish people would have paid billam to curse moaf he would have done that a man without ideology a man without any moral stature a man without any foundation a mercenary who had no sense of any ethical grounding whatsoever in fact some want to say even his name suggests that bill um could be a contraction for boli um a man that had no nation a man that had no loyalties a man that had no foundation the mercenary who hires out his talent to whomever pays the highest price so think about whatever it would be the cool collected professional who really has no sense of morality at all that is the second view of billab first view is exalted prophet of god second view is a cool cynical mercenary with no moral core the third view of billam is he was a train wreck beyond control a person addicted to power to arrogance to selfishness to egotism a person who was not in control of himself because these passions ruled him let me point out an interesting observation of the we know in the torah that we have paragraph divisions if you ever get an alia you'll see this but even in the art school hamish it gets marked in other words uh the terror is divided into paragraphs there are two types of divisions uh some parshiots some paragraphs are called stew mode closed that actually means the next paragraph begins on the same line after a break of nine the space of nine letters other times a paragraph might end in the middle of the line and you will begin the next paragraph on the next line that's called an open paragraph because the last line is left vacant these are surrounds or stewmotes in a printed hamish it'll say pay when it means betsukha and say samakh when it means stuma by the way these are quite important talakali even though it doesn't change the meaning of any verse because it doesn't change the words of the torah if a torah is not written with the proper sukhot and stumot the torah is puzzled so this is mama's a very very important matter hola quickly to get the suhot and the stumot kashir even though it's only paragraph divisions now normally the terror is divided into paragraphs every part is divided into paragraphs in parashat bullock the whole story of balak trying to curse us and god turning it into a blessing is one unbroken block of text with no division into psycho density mode very unusual why are there no sukhot or stewmotes at least in the first part of parchas balak which is bilaam's prophecies explains that the gemara itself tells us what is the theological significance of paragraph divisions so the gemara says that when hashem would speak to moshe he would give moshe breaks in the middle so moshe could think about what he was learning and then hashem would go on in other words a sukhar indicates quite literally that god was giving moshe a break a coffee break if it's a stuma it's a shorter coffee break if it's a petuha it's a longer coffee break now the time is this is a bit subtle that the idea of a coffee break doesn't mean moshe's had a coffee break right it doesn't mean he needed to take a nap but rather moshe rabeno had other things to do in his life other than talk to god he couldn't just talk to god all day he was a leader of a nation he had the answer shineless he had to pray for abby israel so the rev meaning the space between the perseids enables moshe to navigate multitask navigate back and forth between his spiritual communion with god and all of the other responsibilities he had as leader so moshe learns from god and then moshe answers people shyless or prays for them or gives them comfort or gives them and then he goes back says the ability to navigate from one thing to another can only work successfully if you regard all of those activities as part of the same thing meaning the following if you view your whole life as service to god then when i stop my learning to give stucca when i stop my learning to give somebody physic i'm not interrupting what i'm doing i am simply doing my job in a different way so the rev bacon from oshawa was not a break in continuity it was part of the same continuum because all of the non-speaking to god activities of moshe robeno were also part of avodah's hashem so the rev basically means moshe could move in and out of revelation now in one moment he has a revelation from god in another moment he's answering ashila in one moment hashem is giving amidst us in another moment moshe avenue is davening this was not in and out because all of this was the same continuum but moshe feinstein is a more modern example marcia feinstein spent most of his free time to the degree at free time writing his chuvos his famous responsa now rav moshe's responses are notoriously complex when people look at igrasmosha and for unfortunately many people don't even learn the truths they're too hard uh they look at the sheila what's the question and then they look at the last line what the answer is that's right they want to know promotional monsters will shosters but all of the reasoning is very very complicated now usually when we're involved in something very very complicated and we have to we get interrupted it takes a long time to get back into something you're writing a paper and you're developing a subtle point a difficult point a complicated point and then you have to take your son to a soccer game maybe i'm using american examples here or you have to drop off the cleaning or you have to run carpool and that takes up an hour of your time or an hour and a half of your time or two hours of your time and then you get back to that complicated paper it's not going to be that easy to do again i can speak about this from personal experience to get into something again so how could moshe move back and forth when maybe mosh urbana spent hours on non-divine communication now with ramosa feinstein the way it worked was your emotion feinstein was interrupted constantly people would come with their own shyless they would come with life crises they would come with they needed these they were suffering bereavements sicknesses illnesses and he would stop and he would give you all the time you needed that was one of the great characteristics of ramosa you never felt you were taking up his time he had all the time in the world for you and he would cry with you if you were going through a difficult time and he would empathize with you and give you all the time you wanted one hour two hours three hours four hours and after the four hours when he had stopped in the middle of an intricate complicated chuva he was able to continue in the middle of a word and just continue writing without any preliminary preparation how could that be once you get out of it how do you get back into it and the answer was he never got out of it because even the activities that were not his learning were part of his service to god and therefore the circles and the stumos indicate this ability to move back and forth because everything is a continuum now with bill um says the opposite was the case bilaam had two modalities in life bilaam had a prophetic modality when he was somehow connected to god and he was ecstatic and he was suffused with prophecy and inspiration and bilham had his materialistic selfish egotistical side when billon was in prophetic mode he couldn't shut it off because billum was a creature of whatever mode and mood took him over at the time so when he was a prophet he kept on going and when he was not in prophetic mode he kept on going as well so it's not shaykh with billam to interrupt his prophecies when he goes into his other mode because once he's in prophetic mode he can't stop and if he stopped he wouldn't be able to get back into it as the covetous points out that bilum was a slave to whatever emotional states grabbed hold of him at any given time that's why there are no psuris there's no rev be not because once he leaves the prophetic mode he can't get back into it because these are not points on a continuum these are simply opposites and the opposites are not reconcilable so bekitzer once again to go over this there are three prisms through which we view the personality of bilum the great prophet the cool mercenary without ethical values and the runaway train wreck who is totally totally in control of or totally controlled rather by whatever emotions are grabbing him at the moment as an extra dimension of the tragedy of billam and again i use tragedy in the greek sense we talked about this with korach there's an overlap here the greek idea of tragedy is not if a building falls on top of you that's very sad but the greek idea of tragedy is when you are destroyed by a flaw within your own character that is tragedy milham had greatness but bilum was destroyed by the fact that his emotions his passions were uncontrollable they pulled him in every possible direction and that destroyed him what makes it even worse is billam was smart enough to know this about himself bilham was not oblivious sometimes oblivion can be a source of comfort for you in other words i don't know how bad i am billam knew exactly and this brings me to the point of how we wanted the curse beneath israel this is from the kusam soviet listen to this very interesting point the gemara in brachos discusses what was bilum's great power to curse why were bilham's curses so efficacious so guaranbracho says there is a split second of the day when hashem has anger and fury on the world just a split second and if you know when that is and you curse in that split second it's like you're pushing the nuclear button and that releases a tremendous amount of fury in the world and bilum knew exactly this is called in the gemara in aramaic that means the moment of anger the gemara says you can actually know when that is and that is a rooster that has a red comb there's a split second that turns white and that's the eden risk mark says robbie mayer had enemies and he wanted to curse his enemies so he decided to tie a chicken or a rooster to the foot of his bed and he would stare at the rooster and the moment he would see it white he knew when to go of course i'm not sure how that could ever work because blinking would already miss it but the gemara says the mayor fell asleep he was not able to and he realized it's not hashem's desire that we use curses but bilaam knew by the way what what's the purpose of that why would there be a reason that there's a second of the day where there's total din and not rakhamim in the world so everything that widalya sure says that that is what puts the fear of god into people meaning to say that most people even gaium most people have a basic sense of morality i mean unless you're psychotic or sociopath i mean most people understand it's wrong to kill it's wrong to steal and they feel that you know they're going to get punished somehow if they break these laws there's kind of a natural fear of god that people have what gives us that fear is that little split seconds in which the universe is suffused with midatadin so even though the rest of the day rakhim is by far the dominant component but the raisham the impression of that eden risk is what gives us the fear of god in that thing maureen braco says what happened basically was that that particular day the reason why bilum couldn't curse is because hashem canceled the eden riska so bilham is cursing cursing cursing it's like he's pushing a button that's not connected it's not connected hashem canceled it that day okay in fact that actually explains what dalia short says that explains bilum's plan b if you remember what happened billam tried to curse banay israel three times and every single time it turned into a blessing balak is understandably upset and bullock says you know get out of here you're a bum and bilam does come up with a plan b bilham says well i can't curse them but i'll give you something else to do let's get the women of moab to entice them to fornication and idolatry and god doesn't like that and in truth billon was kind of successful in that one 24 000 people died as a result of a plague because they gave in to the fornication and the idolatry and more would have died had pinchas not rose to be zealous for the glory of god so plan a was bill on wood curse when the curse didn't work we have the plan b of being machil them in the sin of gazalia sure says these two things work in tandem this is really very interesting because if bill um sees he can't curse banay israel he's pushing the button and the button is not connected that's because god took off the idon risra the moment of anger now if the function of the moment of anger is to create the inhibitions we have against sin billam is a smart cookie if hashem took away the ideonrishka that actually means the normal inhibitions the jewish people would have against sinning they don't have today because that fear of god is not present therefore bilum says they are especially prone to enticement for sin sabilum kind of is a master manipulator because when he sees that plan a doesn't work he says then badafka plan b is going to work as indeed it did work okay now tosos asked takashi like this going back to the gemura bilam's great success was that he knew the iden but the eden risk is very short in duration what can you say in the eden risk that's going to be an effective curse because by the time you say it you know the time has passed so ptosis gives two answers one answer is a technical answer that the asian ritual just means if you begin your curse at the right time you're allowed to keep on going hashem keeps the window open once you began your curse if you got to the beginning of your curse in the window hashem keeps the window open some want to say we've got your short brains this is derek rush that this might be the justification of some in the hasidic movements who say that as long as you begin davening before the end of this month you could finish your divining afterwards because if you see for curses if you begin your curse within the time you're allowed to extend it afterwards for good things hashem is going to give you the same prerogative if you have that option for negative things hashem will surely give you that option for positive things okay that's the first answer of tosos now then toshas gives a second answer that there is in fact a curse that you would be able to bring in even within the time and that is the two-syllable word kalem kalem is destroy them you can get it in under a second right that would have been that would have been the curse that bilaam would have wanted to use except for the fact that it didn't work so the hassam cipher says the following idea says rush that kalem could actually be an abbreviation the could be kaved which is liver the lamit is life which is heart and the mem is malach which is the mind which is the intellectual and moral sense of a human being kaved liver is understood by gaza although we don't necessarily connect it that way in modern anatomy with the seed of passion and desire love is emotion moach is your moral and intellectual understanding of the purpose of life kalem when is a person destroyed when their passions and emotions rule over their mind meaning when my decisions are driven by my passions by my yearnings by my desires and i use my mind to simply give me the means to indulge in my hedonistic lusts i am destroying myself as a person so based on the question cypher the curse that bilaam wanted to give the jewish people which toswa says is the word kalem is essentially the curse may you be like me bilaam himself a man of phenomenal intelligence and spiritual insight but bilum was controlled as if by a demonic force with egotism and selfishness and jealousy and taiva and the desire for covert but bilum is aware of the tragedy of his own existence he's aware of it he's aware of how awful it is to have so much ability and you just can't harness it in positive ways because the taiva and the ego are so addictive that you can't break out so when he would curse i'm israel or anyone else the curse is may you have what i have may you have the disease that i have may you be a person whose passions and desires and typhus control and direct and take over like a virus like a bacterium right they have these viruses that kind of are parasitic they take over the nervous system right bilum the kinah the taiwan the covenant they hijack the intellectual and moral sensibilities of a person but bilaam was not oblivious to this and the curse of kalaem is exactly that the opposite of khaled same letters instead of leif king is moach in other words it's in both versions some say the are the kidneys which are also a seed of sexual passion others say it's the liver which is considered to be the seat of material desires so collage or corvette you'll see both versions but the point is melech is the opposite of kavett what's the message here who is a king a king is a person whose mind controls and directs the passions and the yearnings and the desires now this does not mean that one is supposed to be an automaton in which you're controlled only by your brain like the the guy on star trek uh mr spock i have to be careful i always say dr spock uh but dr spock is the baby doctor that's somebody else mr spock was a very brilliant guy but he did not have a phd or an md so it's mr spock not dr spock but mr spock right had no emotions no feelings everything was the mind that's not what a jew is about a jew should feel deeply a jew should love that you should should have joy and you should have sadness when it's time to be sad we are supposed to be people of feeling and not just cogitation but the feelings have to be directed by the higher faculties of man the intellect and the morality that are in the malach and then a person is a king if your covet and your life control your mind kalim you are being destroyed if your mind controls your feelings and emotions and directs them and channels them in good and productive ways you are a melech you are a king and that is why you find the word melak used over and over in bilaam's blessings because what does the tara say the terry literally says hashem reversed bilaam's curse to a bracha the fair hashem kill us bill says this is quite literal bilaam wanted to say kalem and hashem converted it into the blessing of melech okay and this is the idea the idea here is that there are many types of addictions of course addiction has a technical scientific medical context and you could say that the average person is not addicted and again that may be true if you have a particular technical definition of addiction but how many of us include myself we are such creatures of whatever mood happens to grab us when we're upset you know no matter what we can't get out of that and yet the highest level is that your mind tells you what is the appropriate feeling at this point when it's joy i feel joy when it's sadness i feel sadness i always focus on what the torah is commanding me what is sachem's will at any given situation any given moment in time and that is what it means to be a melech and that is what it means when it says hashem converted bilaam's curse into a bracha you know we know that the greatest gift of a human being that hashem gave to a human being is free will we have the capacity to choose and when you ask a person what does it mean to have free will so people will say well i can choose to do whatever i want but the truth of the matter is that's a very big mistake true bahira is the ability to choose what i don't want to do because to choose what i want to do at any given moment that is what an animal can do when an animal wants to eat it eats human free will is the override system that says i'm not a creature of whatever emotion happens to grab me at a given moment in time a bald bakira can badafka decide not to do what they would really like to do or to do what they really don't want to do right so if i feel angry at somebody i want to punch them in the face a baal bahira can still decide i'm not going to do that it's not right so we make a big mistake when we define bakhira in terms of doing what i want to do because that's simply letting the taiva control you like the virus that takes over your nervous system the bowel bakira is badafka the override capacity in the human being that can delay gratification that can decide not to do what it wants to do they can decide not to lash out even when i'm angry and that is the great great gift that hashem has given the the human being you know we're about to enter uh the three week periods starting on sunday the 17th of thomas the three weeks during the year when we formally and officially mourn the destruction of the basa mikdash and rav sadaq points out that the reason why there are three weeks of mourning shivers over time to fish above is because there are three negative me dots that spiritually destroyed the base of mikdash they are jealousy kinna envy taiva excessive lust and hedonism and covet a desire for honor and ego gratification and since in these three weeks our goal is to try to rebuild the basa mikdash in our hearts because only after we rebuild the basa miktas in our hearts and our souls where we get the basamiktas from the shamayim so the three weeks we're designed to try to work on eradicating from our heart the kinah the taiva and the covet those three destroyers of the temple get rid of the junk right before you build a building you have to clean the building site of all of the garbage the kin of taiva the kawaii is the garbage that prevents the building of the besan miknish in our hearts these were the meadows of bilum bilaam was controlled by them we have to work in the opposite direction to become a melech over these meedows and then we are zaika to goula may this period of time be a time of healing be a time of comfort be a time of strength may we be zaika to rebuild the basa mikdash in our hearts and our souls and in that way bizoka to the actual basa mikdash coming down minashimayam and may it be [Music] revealment [Music] is