Rabbi Yosef Palacci | CHAZAQ Tisha B'Av Marathon

Thank you very much. Thank you very much for having me. And like Reb Shimon said, it's very important today as much as you can to give tzedakah. As much as you can. And of course they're running their campaign as always. And I'd like to say the more money an organization has, the more they can help us. You heard that? It's very important. The more money that they have, the more they're going to build more things. And this is you could guarantee it as you see what they've been doing. They don't stop. You know, and every time you ask Reb Shimon and Reb Yakov Reb Rubin, what's the next? They say, "We're just getting started." They They didn't even start yet. They started a little They just They didn't even start. I could imagine I could just imagine what another 5 10 years from now What What else they're going to have another like three more of you know, both in seeing what else they they they put out. So, we're very excited for that. We'll rewind this like in 10 years from now and see how many. Okay. Uh is the mic clear? Yeah? Okay. Thank you as well chazak very much on the beautiful work that they're doing setting up uh to spread more Torah and more Torah and more Torah. You know, it's very confusing. There's a lot of chazaks out there. Chazak chazak chazak, but this chazak, you know, is unique. It has a Q at the end. So, for What is it? The Queens? Queens. You had the uh Starting Queens. So, that's what it is. Okay. Adonai, let's start. Let's start. And that is I'd like to, you know, what would you have done if you were there when the Beit Hamikdash was burning? What would you have done if you were alive and you saw Hashem's house burning, what would you do? Tell me, what would you do? Think about it for a second. Think about it for a second. Think about it. What would you do if you saw your father's house being burnt? Let me tell you what they did in the first Beit Hamikdash, and let me tell you what they did in the second Beit Hamikdash. First Beit Hamikdash, and I like to quote for you. Turn to Rabbonim, it's a Gemara Maseches Taanis daf kaf tet. It says, "Mishichla bayis barishona." The first Beit Hamikdash, what happened? The younger Kohanim, the youngsters, the teenagers, they came out and they went on the roof. And they took the keys. They had the keys of the Heichal. They went on the ROOF AND THEY SAID, THIS IS WHAT THEY SAID. "RIBONO SHEL OLAM, LO ZACHINU. We don't HAVE A ZECHUS NO MORE." THEY SEE IT BURNING. THEY SAY THEY'RE OUT OF THE ZECHUS. You hear a big lesson over here. To do a mitzvah, you have to have a zechus. It doesn't just happen like that. It doesn't just happen. Don't think, "Oh, they Whoever you you're doing a mitzvah, don't you had a zechus for it." They didn't have a zechus. What are we going to do? They took the keys. They threw it up to Shamayim. They took the keys of the Heichal and they said, "Hashem, this is for you." They threw it up. They see a hand come out from Shamayim and grab the key. You know what they did next? It says, "Kaftzu v'naflu l'toch ha'or." THEY JUMPED IN THE FIRE. THEY COULDN'T CONTAIN THEMSELVES. HASHEM'S HOUSE IS BURNING. YOU'RE NOT GOING TO JUMP IN? You going to stand there and watch it burn? They couldn't contain themselves. You understand what's going on? They They couldn't They Their Their brains couldn't fathom what was happening in front of their eyes. And we can't handle it. We can't handle it. First Bet Hamikdash. What happened in the SECOND BET HAMIKDASH? WHAT DID THEY DO? Second Bet Hamikdash. Gemara Bava Batra. It says there was a group of people when the second Bet Hamikdash got destroyed and Rabbu Perushim b'Yisrael, they said, "Lo lechol basar v'lo lishtot yayin. Never again. Never again will they ever eat meat." Imagine we have nine days. You know Imagine right now I tell you, "By the way, you can never have meat again in your life." What would you do? That's what they did. In the second Bet Hamikdash, a group got together and they said, "For generations, we'll not If Hashem's house where they bringing korbanot, they're bringing meats, they're bringing animals, they're bringing it, AND IT CAN'T GO ON THE MIZBE'ACH, THEN IT CAN'T COME INTO MY MOUTH. That's it. IF THE BET HAMIKDASH WHERE THEY POURED WINE IN THE PIPE IN THE BET HAMIKDASH THEY HAD SINOR, [screaming] IF THEY THEY DON'T POUR WATER ANYMORE, in my mouth no water, drinking wine, that's it. No more. No more ever again." And in passing, they're talking about generations. You know what's going on over here? Generations. But what happened? Rebbi Yehoshua heard about it. Calm them down. And he went to speak to this whole group. About time we make a meeting and all the group comes. RABBI, THAT'S IT. WE DECIDED NO WINE, NO MEAT EVER AGAIN. doesn't have it, we're not having it. He says, you know what? Wait. Wait, wait, wait. If that's the case, you know there was carbon, they had offering was what? Flour. If that's the case, don't have any flour. And he brought no more bread. No more no more cakes, cookies, cup pancake, waffle, cupcake out. Danish is out. So, no problem. THAT'S RIGHT. YOU'RE RIGHT. NO MORE. DONE. OKAY. The rabbi says, if that's the case, then guess what? You shouldn't be having fruits. Why? Says because the fruits there was something called green. And they would bring the FRUITS TO THE DASH. And now there's a you go and have fruits. Says right, you're right, rabbi. But that was only the what? The which was what? We won't have pomegranates, figs, dates, olives. You're right. Out of the diet. No more. We'll live on apples, bananas, pears, oranges, plum. That's it. That's it. Okay. The rabbi says, if that's the case, guess what? Don't drink water. Why shouldn't we drink water? Cuz 7 days the dash, there was something called during and they would pour water. Right? They had a pipe and they pour water. So, no more water. Okay, rabbi, you got us. You can't drink You're not able to survive. You can't drink water. You know what it is? No no water. You know what it is? No water. So, what should we do? The rabbi said, do what the rabbis commanded." And he gave a whole list. For example, you're building a new house? Halacha says, "When you walk in, which we keep today, you have an ama lama. You walk in, you don't have a complete When you walk in, you have about a A FOOT AND A HALF TO 2 FT by 2 ft unfinished when you walk in. Smack when you walk in, you see it. Boom. I I got gorgeous but what is this? You The guy forgot to paint the No, Bet Hamikdash. That's it. Boom. But right when they walk in, boom. What's going on? Bet Hamikdash. What? Okay. That Okay. And he goes on and he tells them the list. And by the way, the going with the says, "That's why if you look because of that the minhag, what's the minhag? That we don't have meat and wine for how many days? Nine days. Where did it come from? From this story." He writes it's because of this story. We can't take it forever because the tzibur Imagine NOT HAVING WINE, NOT HAVING meat the whole year? I don't know if everybody can handle that, but 9 days we can handle and that's where the minhag came from. So now we see what they did when the first Bet Hamikdash got destroyed, second Bet Hamikdash got destroyed, but my question is why were they so devastated? What was it that they were so hurt and so bothered? And of course we know cuz the cuz Hashem's house and of course we know that, but it has to be much deeper. It has to be Of course, IT WAS MUCH MORE THAN THAT. You know what it was more? I'll tell you what was more. Imagine right now you have a problem. Right now you have an issue. You have a struggle. You don't know what to do. And all of a sudden you go inside the Bet Hamikdash, you walk outside the Bet Hamikdash, and all of a sudden you feel so good that you realize your problem is not a problem. Your struggle is not a struggle. THE ISSUE IS NOT an issue. Imagine we had that. Imagine right now you're going through a a something with business. You don't know what TO DO. YOU'RE YOU'RE YOU'RE YOU'RE YOU'RE CONFUSED. YOU THIS. You that. Person's having shalom bayit issue. I DON'T KNOW, [screaming] RABBI. I GIVE HIM AN ADDRESS. GO TO BET HAMIKDASH. Here's the address, Bet Hamikdash. You walk in, you walk out. Wow. All right, I'm good, Rabbi. I got everything I needed. That's what we lost. That's what we lost. We lost that. Prove it. I'll prove it. There was a fellow, Jewish man, his name was Yosef Mishita. Midrash says this. Who was Yosef Mishita? He was a Jew, but he was really with the Romans. So, he was, in a way, betrayed us. And when the Romans captured BET HAMIKDASH, THEY SAID, "YOSEF, WE KNOW YOU'RE JEWISH. WE KNOW YOU CAME WITH US, BUT GUESS WHAT? WE'RE GOING TO GIVE YOU THE HONOR of going FIRST IN THE BET HAMIKDASH, NOW THAT WE HAVE FULL CONTROL OVER IT, AND PICK ONE ITEM THAT YOU LIKE. THIS IS GOING TO BE YOURS." SO, what does he do? Yosef goes inside, grabs. Anybody knows what he grabs? What does HE TAKE? A MENORAH! HUGE MENORAH. WHAT DO THE ROMANS SAY? "Excuse me. There's already uh This is This is not for one person. This is a big item. Go back, get something else." He says, "No. I angered my creator once. I'll never do it again. I'm never go I'm not doing it again." And they fighting back and forth. He didn't go back in. What happened? The answer is one step that he took IN THE BET HAMIKDASH CAME OUT, IT CHANGED HIS WHOLE LIFE. WE LOST THAT, RABBOTAI. WE LOST THAT. We don't have that anymore. We don't have We don't have that. Now, the question is, why? Why don't we have it? I know what you're going to answer me. Because what? We hated each other. Okay. So, you hate each other. So, you take down something a beta mig dash that was the the most fundamental foundation of the Jewish nation? So, we hated each other. What is so bad? Is it so bad? No, seriously. Is it Is it so bad that if I don't like you, that means take down beta mig dash? Take down the the the house of God. Take down the house where where where where people came in and got his duke and got strength and got uplifted AND CONNECTED. TAKE DOWN THAT HOUSE. WHY? BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T LIKE the other guy. Explain to me what is the connection to take it You you have to explain me couple of couple. Anybody? Floor is yours. Anybody want to give an answer? Anybody have an answer? Okay, so it's good I came today. [clears throat] Tell you the answer. Okay. Like this. Okay. There's a story happening Babylon. A poor Jewish guy Haham Poor Jewish haham He meet He goes to the Jewish neighborhood of the Jews and um and he sees What does he see? He sees some people some Jewish people and he tells them, "Listen. Do you mind? I need some money. Give me your merchandise. Let me sell it and I'll give you back as soon as I make some money, I'll pay you back." No. No. No. No. No. No. No. Everybody saying no. He take them, "Okay, you know what? How's this? I need money for food. Give me money for food." No, no, no, no, no. What does he do? He gets up and he screams, "YOU'RE NOT JEWISH!" [screaming] "YOU'RE NOT JEWISH!" AND I TRIED TO CALM HIM DOWN, LIKE, YOU KNOW, "Calm down. Like, what? What are you saying? You're in a Jewish neighborhood. This is all Jews right here. What are you saying? Like, relax. Take a water. Take a drink. Eat something. Here's a cupcake. Relax. Take a donut, you know? What's going on? What are you screaming about?" You try calming him down, calming him down. He's screaming, "Not Jewish!" So, what? Why do you say that? And he says, "This thief, the possuk says, ben adam lacha lachamim, [screaming] RACHAMECHA. WE HAVE A TRAIT IN US. YOUR DNA. IF YOU'RE JEWISH, DEEP DOWN YOU HAVE MERCY. AND OVER HERE, I ASKED FOR SOME FOOD, AND YOU SAID NO. THERE'S NO MERCY. GUESS WHAT? IT'S IMPOSSIBLE THAT YOU'RE BORN JEWISH, AND THAT'S WHY IT SAYS, KOL HAMELACHEM AL HABRIYOT, if he IF HE HAS MERCY ON PEOPLE, YADA U MIZERAH, MIZERAH, mizerah shel Avraham Avinu. He's from Avraham, Yitzchak, Yaakov. But if he's not merciful, IF HE'S CRUEL, [screaming] IF HE CAN'T HAVE PITY ON SOMEONE, GUESS WHAT? Yada u she'eino mizerah shel Avraham Avinu. You know what? You know what's going on? You was going on over here. And by the way, this starts much earlier. It goes into the Nevi'im. >> [clears throat] >> You know where? Shmuel. You know what happened? At the time of David, there was a time in history where David Hamelich, right? And when David Hamelich was king, there was a time in history that 3 years they had a famine. They didn't understand what's going on. They didn't understand. They looked. First year, famine, maybe they're doing Avodah Zarah. They check. They're not doing Avodah Zarah. Second year, okay, maybe they're doing Arayot. They check. They're not doing that. Okay, 30, what is going on? Oh, maybe they're pledging pledges out loud in front of people and they're not paying their pledge. They check. They're all paying their pledges. What can it be? They asked the Urim Vetumim. Hashem, tell us, what is it? They said, "Giv'onim." Who are the Giv'onim? The Giv'onim were people that same kind times OF THE YESHUA BIN NUN WHEN THEY WERE COMING TO CONQUER THE LAND AND THEY SURRENDERED AND THEY SAID, "YOU KNOW WHAT? WE'RE GOOD. WE DON'T WANT TO FIGHT WITH YOU. WE'LL SURRENDER TO YOU. WHATEVER YOU WANT, WE'RE IN. We're good. We'll be We'll be with you. We'll be with the Jewish people. We're in with the Jewish." And what happened? Shaul Hamelich killed Einav that WAS SUPPORTING THE GIV'ONIM. AND BECAUSE OF THAT, BECAUSE THEY HAD A PEIDAH, they had a Peidah, they they hold a grudge, A BIG GRUDGE THAT WHAT? THEY COULDN'T GET UH FOOD AND DRINK AND THEY COULDN'T get That that's the case. David says, "In order to wipe out the famine, I must go appease and comfort this this these people, the Giv'onim." And he goes to comfort the Gibeonites. And he says, "We apologize. What can we do to make it up?" What do they answer? "Give us seven descendants of Shaul Amalech." Of course you know maybe kill them. What are you going to do kill them? What are you going to do with them? "Yeah, we're going to What? You forgive us? Forgive us? They wouldn't forgive? David got up and says, listen what David says. You want to hear what David says after they didn't give him a hila? You ready for what he says? Let me tell you. David gaz aralehem. He says, lo mibnei Yisrael hema. They're not from They're not Jews. DON'T MARRY THEM. GET OUT! [screaming] WHY? WHY? BECAUSE A JEW HAS MERCY. IF SOMEONE'S COMING AND ASKING YOU FOR FORGIVENESS, YOU PUSH HIM AWAY LIKE IT'S CHOPPED LIVER. GET OUT OF MY FACE. I DON'T WANT TO TALK TO YOU. I DON'T WANT TO KNOW YOU. HE'S COMING AND BEGGING YOU FOR HIS SORROW. PLEASE, I DID SOMETHING WRONG. I'm begging you forgive me. You right, it wasn't right WHAT I DID. I FEEL TERRIBLE. I really feel bad. AND WHAT DO YOU SAY? NO, get out of my face. I don't want to see you ever again. This is not a Jew. This is not Jew. No. And by the way, this isn't the halacha l'maaseh. The Rambam, he quotes and he says, he says, that asur l'adam lihyot achzari. YOU IT'S AVEIRA TO BE CRUEL. Uve sha'a shemevateish mimenu and him a hotel and call When something's coming to ask you, "Please, forgive me." But I feel it's even if he did a major damage. He's sincere. HE'S COMING WITH SINCERITY. FORGIVE ME. He says, "Forgive." Why? There who that come shall there I say L. This is a Jew. He has mercy. He has forgiveness. The channel mirror I give a name. No more clue. They didn't forgive. No more than I say. They're not from the nice sale. Because a Jew if you're a Jew you have to understand what are you made out of. Inside of you you have mercy. Inside of you you have inside built in that you want to do kindness. You want to do a headset. You want to be nice. We're bashful people. We're not arrogant people. We're good people. AND WHEN SOMEONE HATES SOMEONE ELSE, HASHEM SAYS, "HOW CAN I HOLD YOU HOW CAN I HOLD YOU AS MY JEWISH PEOPLE? YOU JUST HATE. WHERE'S THE MERCY? THAT'S CRUELTY. It's cruelty. I'm sorry. I'm not in." SO, INSTEAD OF DESTROYING US, HE DESTROYED THE BETTER THAN THE DASH. HE HAD TO TAKE IT AWAY BECAUSE WE WEREN'T REMINDED WHO WE ARE. DO YOU KNOW who you are? DO YOU KNOW? You have all good in you. Why should you hate another Jew? Never in history. It'll never happen again. When you see ANOTHER JEW EVER AGAIN, never ever take it out OF YOUR BRAIN. TAKE IT OUT OF YOUR HEART. Never again will I ever feel animosity to another JEW IN MY LIFE? WHY? BECAUSE HE IS BUILT DIFFERENT. HE HAS CHARACTER TRAITS OF MERCY, HESED, [screaming] BASHFULNESS, THE BEST OF THE BEST OF THE BEST OF THE BEST. HOW COULD YOU HATE SOMEONE THAT has all good in him? It's impossible. And therefore, right now, IF YOU HAVE HATRED IN ANYBODY, ANYONE HAS HATRED ON SOMEBODY ELSE, RIGHT NOW, forgive them. Why should I forgive them? What do you mean? You never asked me. Because you have to understand who he is. He's a person that has good in him. He might have did something that you didn't like and this and that, but at the end of the day, you have to understand the depth. It's not It's not him. It wasn't him. It was Whatever it was, yeah, you're right, he did it, but still, I feel he's sincere. He wants to come back. He's asking you for forgiveness. Forgive the guy. He's asking you for forgiveness. All right, about that, I'll conclude this. I'll conclude with this. And that is It says Hallelujah the shame called Golem. Shabbos called Golem. Key Golem Alenu has dough. The Golem are praising us. Key Golem Alenu has dough. Hashem did tremendous kindness with us. What was the kindness that he did? Golem. What's Golem? What does that mean? Golem Alenu has dough. What is this hesed? How do you spell Golem? Golem, Gimel, Bet, Resh. Gimel stands for Golem has a dim. We are people that love hesed. We want to do, we want to do kindness, we want to help, we want to be nice. Bet is bashfulness, Busha. We're not arrogant. We're humble people. And last is Resh, Rachmanim. We're merciful people. And when you can understand that and you can understand the traits that we have in us, there's no way that you'll ever hate another Jew. There's no way you'll ever feel animosity because you know deep down this person he's a Zera Melachim Avinu. He's a Zera Kodesh. And we know that we're going to Be Zera Hashem Zoche. Inshallah with all everybody's tefillot that we pray today that the we be zoche to see the building of the Beit Hamikdash, amen.