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Thank you for the warm introduction.
We're going to speak about a topic
tonight.
one of the most well-known and spoken
about topics
that's relevant to tishabala.
I've always resisted speaking about it
because it's so overspoken about. It's
so overabused almost and everyone's
always talking about it and there isn't
so much to add.
But I would like to talk about this
topic from a new angle and as a sashm I
would like to put the entire subject in
a new perspective and really
revolutionize our entire approach to
this very important and basic topic.
We're going to go to one of the most
well-known gumaras in chass. One of the
most well-known gumaras about mikdash.
The garman tells us that the first base
of mikdash was destroyed because of the
three cardinal sins. Miktoim
the three cardinal sins. Everybody knows
that. So the asks
The second they learned, they did.
They engage in acts of kindness.
Empty, baseless hatred.
Everybody knows this kamar. It's the
most commonly perhaps hackneed overused
statement of kazal. It's coming out of
our ears.
Says
is really bad. It's like the three
cardinal sense. So a few questions are
at hand. really sin is like one of the
three cardinal sins for any of the three
cardinal sins. There's of there's
what's the punishment of somebody who
harbors hatred against another Jew of
noisa
on the totem pole. It's the lowest
level. How could it be so terrible that
because of it the B mikdash was
destroyed? How could it possibly be
equal to the three cardinal sins? What
does the gamarra mean? It's should it be
taken literally? Is it just a hyperbole?
But the garra says straight out we're in
gullis today. The reason we're in
flatbush today, the garra says the
reason you're in Burough Park or
Lakewood is because we didn't like each
other
and it's so terrible. It's like the
three cardinal sins.
So, by the way, the
for 2,000 years, nobody ever interpreted
this garra like the
not 2,000 years,
1,400 years. Since the gamarra was
codified, no one ever interpreted the
garra this way. The says
the gor does not mean but it says says
it doesn't mean really the yeah you ever
hear of safer
I didn't get up to that part you did
it's on the first page
the first even if you didn't get past
you know the first week of let's say you
just did day one you read this the
nobody ever said this before. Not to
notif
the
unloaded a bombshell of a kdosh. The
garra says destroy the base of mikdash.
This the says it didn't. You know why
says it couldn't have? Cuz it's it's not
so bad. It's not as bad. It's not so
bad. There's no way would have destroyed
the Bik.
So what does the Gar mean? Says there's
another
making it that
you all know is the biggest you ever
heard in your life even though you
already know the
but sometimes because something you're
so used to something you never realize
how astounding it is.
says there's a gar another gar
says
a desiled
there's another garra that talks about a
different aa that there's a second a
that's the equivalent of the three
cardinal sins what a is
and it says
says what about the test says
says when the says that destroyed the B
mikdash it doesn't really mean that it
means because we didn't like each other
we badmouththed other Jews and because
we badmouththed other Jews that's equal
to the cardinal the three cardinal sins
says
alone is not the equivalent of and what
the means is the led to lash the says it
can't be that they're two independent
gamaras and shas identifying two
different ace that are shuckled
connected to a
you have one gum in Yuma that says
equals the big three one in that says
equals the big three says it's not they
work together
that leads to
is equal the big three
you remember that of the it's an
astounding
takes a it says straight out
equals the big three and the says the
following words.
It can't be. It can't be. It means
that led to lash. But it doesn't fully
answer the question.
Why would lash be the equivalent of the
big three sins? After all, what if we
warn someone? You know, you see a guy,
he's listening to a drussa and you
haven't seen him at a drussa in a long
time. And you know, he didn't come to
the drussa to absorb the message of the
drussa. He came to the drussa to be able
to criticize the rabbi. You know what
he's up to. And you go over to the guy
and you warn him. You say, "Rabbi, I
know you're about to speak lash. We're
giving you don't speak lash." What would
the be if somebody got not to speak
lash? Would they be
Shayim. No. Were they malus? No. What do
we do to the guy? Nothing. He might even
get the next day in. You know why is
misa?
What's worse? Wearing shness or speaking
lash? Oh, based on the punishment,
wearing shness.
So how could lashinhara be the
equivalent of the big three?
So
ra noa famously writes in charuva that
the analogy would be as follows. Let's
say you have a guy he murdered a few
guys. So let's say in the course of his
illustrious career of murder he killed
four people and he bowed down every
every uh third Wednesday night. He went
down into his basement. He whipped out
the Buddha and he did he was
and then occasionally he was.
So in the course of his career he
violated the big three 17 times.
But says that ra but someone who spoke
lashhara
even if each word is a minor sin the
analogy is it's like the a thread of
silk. If you double it and triple it,
you could cut it. You quadruple it, you
could cut it. But you repeat it again
and you double it again and you double
it all again. And it becomes like the
thickest chain
says in one minute you could speak 200
words of lashhara. That means in a
10-minute conversation that's 2,000
words of lash. So here you guy have a
guy in 50 years he only violated the big
three 17 times. But this guy in one
telephone conversation, he's already in
the in the red 2,000 and he has five
10-minute conversations a day and he's
been doing it for weeks and months and
years. And in the long run, says Raboya,
someone who regularly speaks lashinhara
is going to be much more in the red than
even someone who is oor gillas. And
there's an amazing moral. The Maral says
that what we've set forth so far
explains the pattern and the the
organization of migillah
migilla consists of five perf
begins with the word perimid
five.
Ask the
why did lament with the word is gatri of
36 that they violated the 36.
Okay. Now we have three aas per alfer
bay peraled. So why doesn't perl begin
with says maral? Why perk alf bay and
dal? Theim are very long. There's the
these little bite-size.
Sometimes you don't even have an in the
there's no these are not even full the
paragimal they're tiny little bite-size
perf and each p is a full length
legitimate pk says mar perak alf b
andalid is bias reshine basian was
destroyed a
These are big time sins. These are
whoppers of sins. So therefore we have
big
and they start with the word.
They violated.
They didn't violate. They didn't violate
Gile. They didn't violate.
They didn't violate any.
So it doesn't start with the word. But
what they did was they violated these
tiny little sins.
The problem with
is you wake up in the morning and you're
harboring resentment and then during
you're harboring resentment and then
during bareno you're harboring
resentment and then during breakfast and
then during lunch and then during your
coffee and throughout the day little by
little by little by little tiny little
alo that's pergiml that's bay sheni and
the reason why there are three how
manyukim peric olive 22 how many peric
bay 22 how many Peragaled 22, but periml
has 66.
Threeim for every letter of the alipes.
Says the marales
avoid gileas.
So what we would like to present this
evening
are three or four revolutionary
understandings
of why
is so destructive
that the had to take away the Ba
Mikdash. You know what happened? We're
in the midbar. You have a guy by the
name of Kak. It's bad bad guy. He
challenges the authenticity of Kala. He
challenges Mosha Rabenu. What happened
to the Mishkan when Kyra came and he
challenged Mosha? He said Moshe, you
appointed Aron, you made it up. You
appointed Alit, you made it up. The usi
says
what happened to the mikdash? Nothing.
It's beautiful. It's standing there. The
khanim continued like nothing happened.
Hashem didn't touch the base of mikdash.
Then they send the moragum and the
moragum say it's a bad land. Bad fruits,
bad cantalopes, bad avocado,
bad bananas.
It's a rotten land. What happened to the
B mikdash? Nothing. It's as good as
ever. They bring themed Shakar. They
bring themed.
They bring the everything. It's like
nothing ever happened. So it withtood.
It withtood the moraglin. It withtood
the misin.
But if I don't like you, then all of a
sudden we can't have a B mikdash. How
does that how do we understand that?
So, we're going to offer a few
revolutionary understandings.
I have not seen these in any sources,
but I think based on the McCoy we
present, it's obvious.
We're going to start with the vagin
comments on the mikdashi.
Ask the villag where's the
where is he?
You know most people
you came out tonight to hear a shir. You
also want to you want to dav you came to
a shul. What? What's in the shul? Why'
you come to the shul? Why? Why couldn't
you dav in in your living room now? I
need a minion. So bring a bring a minion
to your living room. No, my wife doesn't
let Okay, that's one answer.
Why' you come to the shul? What's in the
the reun's in the shul? Oh likes this sh
what he likes. What are we at? J and
29th the So you're telling me the
from the he likes J and 29th. What does
he like about J and 29th? Because
there's a shul here. Yeah. What does he
like? He likes the He likes wood. The
rebunch likes wood. So I came to because
likes the wood. What does he like about
the wood?
So the vigin saysam doesn't rest in wood
and he doesn't rest in buildings. The
rebon rests on the Jewish people. I
remember I once heard from Victor
Miller asked on the second it says
is hovering over the water.
Miller why isam hovering? He can't land
on the water. Helicopters could land on
water. The rebanam can't land on the
water.
Birds could land on the water. The
ribbon can't land on the water because
the ribbon doesn't land doesn't sit on
water. He doesn't sit on buildings. He
sits on Jews. There are no Jews. The
rebam rests on Jews.
So why do you need a mikdash?
We on which Jew does Hashem rest? On me?
No, I'm not worthy. On you? You're a
good guy. I like you personally. You're
a big sadic. But is not going to just
rest on you. So who's he going to rest
on? He's going to rest on
the entity of Kalisra.
He rests on the Jewish people. What what
part of the Jewish people? The Sham
rests on the Kalisra.
So how do you create something called
the Kalisra?
So one you know like
says that the road to the purgatory you
know where that is that's a very hot
place okay the road to the p they have
these hooks and on the hooks are beating
pulsating hearts of all the Jews with
good hearts you know so they they rip
out their hearts and they put it on the
hooks like a meat locker how do you
create the heart of the Jewish people so
what are we going to do everyone's going
to go to cardiologist they're going to
take out the heart and put it in a bowl
and all the hearts are going to be there
beating. How do you create the heart of
the Jewish people says
that's the idea you know in it says
every heart pulsating with generosity.
Wh why when it comes to the Mishkan was
it necessary for people to give with
generosity? Let's say you had a shul.
you know, I have a schol in Cedarhurst.
So, let's say somebody came and wrote
out a check for a million dollars, but
you know, he's giving it with such um
sorrow and such stinginess and it's only
because his wife took a broom and banged
him on the head five times and he's
getting social. But, let's say you know
someone's writing out a check out of
Soros. What do you do with the money?
What do you do with the check? You cash
it immediately.
You run to the bank. Don't waste one
second because he might he might change
his mind. You run and you cash it. But
yet when it came to the Mishkan, it's
the guy has to be generous. I don't
know. How do you determine if someone's
generous? Maybe they they they scanned
him. You know, they there's an app on
the phone. You scan the guy. You see if
he's being generous and then you take
only then you take the money. Who cares
if he's being generous or not? says the
villag because the rebaram rests on the
collective heart of the Jewish people.
How do you create an entity that's the
collective heart of the Jewish people?
If Ruv gives with his la and Shimon
gives with his la and Ley gives with his
so then the general collection the
building built with the generosity of
the Jewish people represents reflects
the le of the Jewish people.
But when Ruvane can't stand Shimon and
Shimon doesn't like Ley and Leyy's
annoyed with Yehuda and there's piral.
So it's not that the B mikdash is
destroyed out of a punishment. It's not
a punishment. It's a natural
consequence. You don't have a B hame
mikdash. The B mikdash is not a
building. The B mikdash is
representative of the collective heart
of the Jewish people.
So if there's
and there's it's not that oh
comes and punishes us not a punishment
it's a natural consequence you can't
have a mikdash if there's no
if I think that my avoid is what's
holding up the Jewish people and the way
they serve Hashem in Williamsburg or in
Israel or in a different yeshiva is not
valuable to Hashem and only I'm on the
team and nobody else is on the team. So
you don't have a B mikdash. There is no
edifice called the le of the Jewish
people. According to the villag, it's
clear. It's simple. Why destroy the
bdash? That's the first approach. Here's
approach number two. It comes from a
very important safer. You should all
have it. I personally think if you'd ask
me, you should all have it. And
amazingly it's available on the back
table. That's how important it is.
It's called it's a safe balance.
There's an amazing medish. The medish
tells us
that why did Hashem ask us to build the
mishkun and to build the ba mikdash says
the medish and
you are my children
and I'm your father
please make a house for your dad for
your Father,
it honors the father if he could live
next to his son.
Says the medish. The concept of a
mishkan of a mikdash is it brings honor
to a father if the father could reside
in proximity to the child.
What do we learn from here? says from
here we learn that the mikdash reflects
Hashem's relationship with the Jewish
people as the father of the Jewish
people
that we in the capacity of being
it is appropriate that we make a house
for which then means that if we have the
status of
then the wants to live next to us it's
appropriate for him to live with us it's
correct It's proper. It's nice. But
Hashem living in the B mikdash is
contingent upon us being
also writes if you look in the Pim.
What are the next words,
>> right?
What does we learn out from the
says from here? We see
you're the children of Hashem.
But if you're the children of Hashem,
then you're also brothers with each
other. So
don't make yourself into different
groups. You don't have to look the same.
You don't have to think the same. You
don't have to dress the same. You don't
have to believe the same. But you're
brothers. If you want to be God's
children, you need to be brothers. Your
brothers,
don't break yourself into audas.
Actually, there's a
from
the bach. You ever hear the bach in the
back of the in microscopic letters? the
asel a of bhach. Every good ka is found
in the microscopic letters of the asel a
of bach.
Don't think you'll find anyone who could
actually identify where it is. That's
why if you're not if you want to have a
ka and you want to blame it on something
it's don't say it's because now they
have the no one will ever call you out.
You know you lots of luck find what what
page it's either the 17th or the 18th
page of the asel Abra actually when I
was raving queens I had this to sit next
to
Warman
Worman was the author of seven volumes
yo his name was Warmanach was his last
name was Warman he had a brevil by the
way thisman was the rashiva of Hebrew
Academy of Nassau County. He was a tal
of blazer silver. He was a kus of Ramosa
Feinstein and the stipler and the Alvi
held his in the highest esteem. He had a
revival in his house. I saw it that
traced him back to the Asel Aram of
Bach. Says Aramach in Tanak you find a
individual called a Sar Shalom.
Sound familiar? You probably heard of it
because he sings once in a while. Yeah.
So the is of says like this. He he has a
on this.
Hashem could be our father.
He could be our mel. What does it depend
on whether Hashem is the father or the
mel? Ai.
The difference the barometer whether
Hashem is the father or the king is
shalom. It's dependent on if we get
along he's our father. If we don't get
along he's our it's only
if it's if it's
the whole concept of mikdash it's a
covet for the father to live next to his
children. But when are his children
considered his children? If his children
are brothers, then they're his children.
So then he's he lives near them. But if
they don't get along and they don't act
like bunim because they're violating,
so he's not in a he's not in a he go
he's elsewhere. He's not in the mikdash.
He can't have a mikdash. It's no longer
a for the to be in that mim.
Here's another very important aspect of
aas is
I haven't really seen this or heard
this. I think this is so fundamental.
You know, usually when people talk about
aas, they talk about, you know, putting
your arm around another Jew and having
some kind of very warm and cozy kumzits
like this somehow is related to Israel.
If you don't like another Jew because
you don't like the color of his socks or
you don't like the shape of his yamaka
or the material his yarmaka is made out
of, that's not sin. You need therapy.
You're out of your mind.
Why would How does that affect? He's
your brother. So it matters what color
his socks are or his yarmaka is or what
material they're made out of. That's not
that's low-level insanity.
What are we talking about over here?
This is such an important concept
writes at the end of the seafair's
honor can only be magnified
through the honor of the Jewish people.
Why? Hashem's honor is dependent on our
honor. Why is honor dependent on the
honor of the Jewish people? So it's a
very important concept
and Israel is our king. He's our father
and we are his ambassadors here in this
world. We represent
Hashem is holy. His name is holy and
that holiness is reflected.
But it's much more than that. It's
not only
you ready for this. It's
what? How does me getting along with
another Jew? How is that connected in
any way to
we say in the
remember the Russia say an astounding
statement
what do we say
he removes himself from the community
he's a kifer why is he a kifer how is he
a kifer he's a believing Jew every day
after ding he says why is he a kifer
because he doesn't partic participate
with the rest of the community.
The answer is the appointed the Jewish
people with a very important task in
this world. We reflect the reality of
one of the most important dimensions of
Hashem's reality is his unity, histo.
And what if we're disparate? What if we
fragment oursel into different nations?
So then what are we saying about the
we're saying
lack of Jewish unity is like heresy
it's like
the Russia who takes himself out of the
community he's a kifer he's a heretic
because our job in this world is how do
we say how do we declare there's is one
Hashem. I ask you a question. You know,
every day we come to SH and we declare
the unity of Hashem. How do you think
you declare the unity of Hashem?
Everybody thinks because YOU SAY
God is one. Because you said so he's
one. Yeah. You really think so? You
believe that? You believe because you
said the words God is one therefore he's
one. Or therefore you're you're pro
promoting the message Hashem is one. No.
No. That's not what's happening.
You might be familiar maybe when you
went to yeshiva you learned this p you
remember this p are you familiar with
the pama
hashem
sound familiar
what does the p mean
so what mean I I open up the art scroll
sther and it translates here o Israel so
who's the Israel that you're talking to
when you say here o first of all I don't
know who the o is you know here o Israel
who's which Which man in the show is the
O?
But we'll put that aside for now. Okay.
Here. O is Israel?
The guy next to you.
So you're talking. Who are you talking
to when you say Israam? What does the
word sham mean? Says the villag says the
you know the kared was rebel. Revelar
wrote
of he was a contemporary of the says the
word doesn't mean listen
it means gather galvanize like in the
sha
your empty declarations have no meaning
you know and we live in a society that
when something happens important people
have to give official statements you
So a senator died. Okay. Now everyone,
anyone who's a somebody has to offer an
official
statement.
It has any meaning or any tlas or
anybody cares what the official
statement was. He was a good man. Oh,
thank you very much.
And if he wouldn't have said that, you
know, that really adds to the legacy of
the poor guy who had to die. What do you
think? Schma is an official statement.
Schma means as follows says of
gather O Israel gather Yidden come
together as one and if we come together
as one then
our actions declare there's one God
because we reflect Hashem's reality.
What's a statement here? O Israel
doesn't mean here. It means gather
together
is gather as one. Unite. When we unite,
then we're declaring the act of unity
declares to the world there is one. And
what do you think it declares to the
world if we can't get along and we're
like three.
So heaven forbid the declaration is
it's not it's
some aos are so fundamentally
destructive.
Yeah. Korak couldn't do it. Karak tried.
The moragum couldn't do it. The messenim
couldn't do it because at least there's
one god. You know, at least there's one
rebum.
But now is making an open declaration.
There's not one god. Got to close up
shop. It's all over. Finished. Here's
another idea. I was just in I had this
that
I left the night of the yard of the
so I made sure to go to I thought you
know I thought at night already who's
going to go at night probably everyone's
going to go the next day it's very at
night I wasn't even sure if it was safe
but until I got there and there were
100,000 y in there
in paras says
on the words.
So every human being has 248 limbs, 365
senus. You need them. They're important.
You need two eyes. You need two ears.
You need a nose. You need a heart. You
need lungs. You need kidneys. Each one
of our limbs corresponds to another
mitzvah. Each mitzvah breathes life into
one of the 248 limbs. Each time we're
careful not to violate nava,
we breathe life into one of the 365 sen.
problem is that we're not able to do so
many mitzvah. You can't be a ley
is live in and in there's no feasible
way to actually fulfill all the mitzvah
in the Tyra
says. Therefore, that's why the key to
physical, emotional, spiritual viability
is you need to align yourself with the
team. You have to be part of the team.
I'm part of the entity called Israel.
The khain will do his mitzvah. The ley
will do his mitzvah. The men will do
theirs. The women will do theirs. The
people in will do theirs. The people ins
will do theirs. The yam will do his. The
will do his.
Everyone has their tapid and as long as
you're a card carrying member of the
team called Israel, you could connect
and fulfill all the 630 mitz in the
Torah and be mashim you're aim and beam
your gimm. But if you say no no no
it's my it's my way of doing things. The
way I serve Hashem is all Hashem needs.
So then you're fundamentally and fatally
lacking not only in your spiritual
accomplishments but in your ability to
be a viable Jew and a viable human
being. Without the mitzvah of
it is impossible to mimit
but even some of the mitzv. The only way
to be able to connect to all the mitzvah
of the Tory is being part of the team
called.
So I want to uh share with you
opportunities,
daily opportunities to be in the mitzvah
of
Israel and the mitzvah of
and if you take advantage of these
opportunities that come up again and
again and again throughout the day. So
you accustom yourself to practice this
this mindset and this perspective of
associating with the team and being part
of the team.
First of all, the Arizal teaches
that
every morning a person should make a
declaration
that they accept upon themselves the
mitzvah of
Now when are you supposed to do it? I'm
going to give you a good even if this is
the only thing you walk away with, it's
worthwhile. Okay?
If you go to Schul in the morning,
don't bring your phone with you. The
best thing you could ever do is not to
bring your phone into it will change
your entire life. If you have your phone
on you while you dabin,
then you're not giving yourself a
fighting shot to attempt to dab into
Hashem. It's just plain too distracting.
I don't care. Don't tell me it's on
vibrate. If you say your phone is on
vibrate, then you've already turned off
your brain. You've lost the ability to
think rationally. If that's the
response, if you say your phone is off,
you're still too distracted. If your
phone is on you, you're tethered to your
phone. You're giving about If your phone
is on, you're dedicating about 4% of
your brain to dabing. The other 96% of
your brain is still tethered to the
phone. If your phone is on vibrate,
you're giving 8% of your brain to dabing
and the other 92% is tethered to your
phone. If your phone is off and in your
back pocket, you're giving 89% of your
brain to your phone and 11% to dab.
Leave it at home. If you leave it at
home, if Msiah is here, he'll take
probably maybe a quarter of a mile
advance toward the finish line. Just if
you do that now, you freed up the time
you have walking to shul in the morning.
You know how many great things you could
do walking to shul in the morning?
You could be mimitz
to me. You know said not a day of his
life ever went by without thinking the
mitzvah
they once asked you know should a Jew
fulfill the
you know or maybe you know you learned
you learn
maybe it's for ballet no no says
he said not a day of my life went by
that it wasn't
and then you could be this and if you
say you're not into doing it's already
codified in the
Ara brings invalid
mitzvah
Now, okay, many are familiar with that.
It's in many sudurim.
Now, here's a very important thing.
Here's another fromal. The Arizal said
and it actually is not sourced in. It
has an earlier mar. It's well known that
Arizal was the one who recommended the
recitation of
technically speaking is not part of
it's from the Arizal is from the Arizal
is the one who encouraged it.
At the end of the though is three words.
Those three words read as follows.
Bashim
is you're familiar with that bashame is
actually it doesn't come from that. We
have a misoira that the rashbammo benme
mayor the grandson of rashi the son of
the daughter of rashi that went on he
was on his deathbed he called over one
of his close tidim and the rashbam says
I want to share with you a is every time
you give sodaka let's say you're going
to give a million dollars give a million
and one and that extra dollar you should
think you're giving it
and it's marumas in the
t don't just give Give a bit more.
It's a do mitzvah
call is
now what does that mean to do mitzvah
bashame call is that means like this
sometimes
people who are yeshiva educated they
think
most Jews know how to learn tyus
all Jews know how to learn rashi and
even those they for sure know how to
learn gamarra
But the reality is most Jews don't even
know who Abrahamu is. They can't even if
you would tell nine out of 10 Jews, I
want to tell you something. Uh, Mr. Jew
Israel, Hashem,
the overwhelming majority of Jews today
would say, "Did you just say an Indian
incantation?"
They never heard of that. They don't
know what Shmayur is. you know because
you went to yeshiva
but his mother's also Jewish but he
doesn't know it he doesn't know the
difference between Yeria Hanovi and
James Monroe he doesn't know the kick
between James Madison and Kagay he
doesn't know any of them he doesn't know
Ravina he doesn't know Raashi never
heard of these people
but you know how to do mitzvah so when
you do a mitzvah you're selected by
on behalf you're an ambassador of the
Jewish people. So when you put on your
titus in the morning and there are a lot
of kavanas to have
first of all if you just put on your
titus and you don't think anything you
don't get a mitzvah
you need to have a formal
also you should think I'm doing the
mitzvah
you know what else you should think I'm
putting on for cl Israel Well,
I'm putting on sitsus for Jews in
Wyoming. I'm putting on sitsus for Jews
in Israel who don't know what sitsus is.
I'm putting on sitsus for the millions
of Jews who don't put on sitzus bishame
you ready for this comes the bach
he also wrote a sar besides the
microscopic letters in the back of the
he wrote a sar famous it's called
and in the to he says whenever you do a
mitzvah
is you should think by doing the mitzvah
bashame call is your mim the mitzvah of
loving Jews of Israel.
You hear this? Whenever you do a
mitzvah, so when you say, you're doing
it for the team. And when you put on
fillin, you're doing it for the team.
And when you say, you're doing it for
the team. And when you learn Tyra and
you're coming in a shir, when you sit
down at a Shir, by the way, anytime you
come to a Shir, the first thing you
should do when you come to Ashir is you
should think I have to the mitzvah of
you're here. You might as well get
credit for it. No, even though there are
a lot of good things that happen on a
first important thing is you're not
eating.
Number two, you're not speaking lash.
Number three, you're not fighting with
your spouse.
So it was already a product but you you
came to learn so you might as well get
for learning. So you should always think
I have kavana to mim the mitzvah of
don't forget why should you forget
besides that you should think I'm
learning for
I'm learning for the Jewish people
writes in parakeotess
what isosidos
is when you do avoid
for the benefit of the generation
What does that mean?
To bring them
to protect them. Here you are. You're
sitting in Brooklyn. You're worried
about Israel. Maybe you're worried about
Jews in the north. You're worried about
Jews in Yehud. You're worried about
Yidden and Shalim. So, you know, you
should think I'm putting on sitsus to
protect Yidden. I'm putting on to
protect Yidden. I'm learning Tory to
protect Yidden. I'm saying to protect
you and I'm having to
sh to watch over the Jewish people. I'm
having to
protect yen. By the way, every morning
there are not that many that you do.
How many mitzvah you think you do in the
morning? You could correct me if I'm
wrong. I have a calculation
about seven.
Finishes
and
then according to the once a day is
seven mitzvah.
You want another mitzvah before you come
into the you leave your phone out and
you have the mitzvah.
You're not scared to bring it into a
shul. You should be scared. You should
be frightened. You should be afraid to
bring the stupid phone into the shul.
So that's an eighth. And then you should
think you're doing it to protect the
Jewish people to watch over them, to
guard them. Sometimes person wakes up in
the morning. What could I do for the
Jewish people? What can you do? All the
mitzvah you do, you could do for Israel.
You do them bashame is you're making a
big difference in the world when you put
on your bashame is and you think I'm
doing this because I love my people I
love Jews
doesn't mean he doesn't annoy me doesn't
mean sometimes I don't want to what do
you mean he blocks my driveway he's so
inconsiderate you can't pick your family
if your brother would do that you'd be
annoyed with him but you'd still love
him. So, you can't choose your family. I
don't like what he puts on his head. I
don't like what he puts on his feet.
It's funny. He wears a funny hat. He
wears funny socks. Get over it. You
can't choose your family. You love him
anyway. He's part of the team. Don't say
only your avoid Hashem is holding up the
Jewish people. the hashem of Jews inim
in Tel a Viv in Williamsburg in Miy
they're all your brothers don't say no
no no only Jews who are sitting and
learning in the B I'm going to say
something now don't repeat it I don't
care if you don't like it only Jews who
sit and learn are valuable only what
only they're your your brothers no as
soon as they pick up a weapon no they're
not part of my No.
No. Only Jews who fight are important,
but they're just sitting and learning.
Same thing. You You can't choose
Mahanise. You don't have to agree with
it. You don't have to subscribe to it.
You don't have to endorse it. But
they're all part of the team. You can't
exclude people.
You have seven mitzvah every morning in
which to be the mitzvah.
Can you imagine? I'm putting on fillin
in the privacy. Nobody could be in the I
could wake up early in the morning and
put on and I'll be the mitzvah of
Israel. I'm learning Tory in a closet.
I'm being a Israel.
How? because I'm doing it is you know
when else I'm being mad is we said
earlier the word shama the exercise in
shama
is gather oh Israel hashem
you know the have a very interesting
practice now when I say the have a
practice I've never seen them actually
do this but it's in the beneskai so
maybe somebody here will tell me that
they they sees Sparam doing. I never saw
Sparam doing it. When Spardam uh take
the three steps back to Sichan, they
start like know looking around and like
motioning, you know, like they have a
routine. That's what the Benes they
like, you know, motion like okay on your
mark, get ready, get set, we're all
going to d
says the what are they doing? It's
because like the
They're all doing it together.
And by doing it together, it brings
honor. It's a way of davening together
with everyone. I don't d by myself. It's
not just my I'm part of the team. I'm
part of the winning team. I need to dav
with ruin. I need to d with Shimine. I
need to d with Ley. I need everyone to
be on board. We need everyone together.
We need everyone
to
so that we're ding
and we're all being
of
it's a key ingredient in
the doesn't rest on me. He doesn't rest
on you. He doesn't rest on buildings. He
rests on the collective heart of the
Jewish people. And the essential and
central ingredient to ensure the sham is
with us
is to engender the feeling we're all
together.
Whatever he wears, whatever he thinks,
whatever his ideology is, he's part of
the team called
even someone who's unworthy, even
someone who doesn't know about to
mitzvo, I'm his ambassador. I do the
mitzvah for him.
With this kind of attitude, with this
kind of perspective,
we're able to start to inch forward to
bring the
back to rest on
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