The Week that Wasn't: When Tisha b'Av Follows Shabbos "Keynotes" For Tisha b'Av 5785

Heat. Heat. [Music] Welcome everyone. This is our special tishabove Shabbat Kazone tishabove video. I hope that by listening to it, you will have a unique and hopefully uplifting and inspirational message to carry in to this week and into Shabbat Fazone and of course the observance of Tishaba next Sunday. Um um as we what what I would like to share with you are what I call keynotes. Three historical relevant and inspiring themes based on our keynotes but with its origin in the text of this week's uh of of Shabbat Kazone's Torah reading uh in the peric olives. So let me explain. First of all, we must know that Kazala rabbis always chose the para of Dvarim to be linked with Shabbat, the Shabbat prior to tishab why why is that? Why would that be? What's so unique about paraim that we want to start? You would think just the opposite that since we want to get past tishab which is a difficult time for claw Israel tuba which in uh in uh kindness teaches us was the most glorious day for the Jewish people and purim and that would link with pur too because purim kipurim those are the three keyynotes of our of our Jewish calendar. So why not wait to begin paraim for Shabbat the Shabbat afterwards? important question and the there is an obvious answer in our para we find um the first reference and so we so is the cancellation we read actually ah in this week's para hence kazal chose this para which includes subtle but powerful critique of mosher benu what kai Israel needed to do in order to merit entering the holy land and survive the peace as we shall as we shall see. But in in the beginning of Sheni it says Mosha generally off character seems to be complaining how can I alone carry these three problems. What are these three problems? And actually it's ironic because there are three. So let's first go to the three ahas. This is a number one and it's chanted in the tune the mournful tune for lamentations for a that we read on of night and for some in the morning as well. And then there's a that's referred to in the book of yeryahu. Wow. which is a real critique that the Jewish people have become faithful to others, have left the company as it were uh keeping company with and gone off other lovers which is what it says in the beginning of the book of itself that that all of the great friends that Israel thought that it had the nations that it loved and loved it were abandoned them at their time of need. And this is uh goes to the experience of Jewish history in which there were certain countries in which Jews flourished for many many years only to face bitter and horrible expulsions. Example of which of course is uh Germany the greatest of all examples and then later in Poland which which was the historical home for the Jewish people for 500 years. um 500 years and then suddenly it became the place of their mass extermination. This is the ex this is the one of the major ahas of tishab is also the abandon is the theme is the abandonment of Israel by the nations and the converse of it is of course the nations being drawn to Israel it's this model of mameik where all nations come to learn gain wisdom and profit and and be blessed as it says aboutu those that bless you shall be blessed and that's the opp opposite experience. Okay, that's the converse. And the third which appears in the book of itself is the opening verse. That is the Jewish people bereft of all its supposed friends and the utter decimation of the city of of particularly. Uh you might say today you might say today that the concept of conion has probably never been as unpopular among the nations as it ever has been truly truly not that this hasn't been going on for 50 years going back to United Nations visit of Arafat of Zikro who came with his pistol his uh you know cle Zion to kill Jews and they declared Israel to be a racist nation and Zionism is equal to racism. So this has been an old an old calumny an old uh you know accusation that goes back to the beginning of time as we say that the nations of the world bracious that Hashem will say is gracious I've chosen the people of Israel to represent me in the world and represent my teachings my values and my blessing and offer my blessings from the mdash and yet on the other hand they're going to say Eritim were some of the lowest nations in history. Their behavior um was despicable in every way to such a point that the Holy Land could not tolerate their evil and eventually spit them out. Let us hope and pray that that is what has happened and will happen now with Gaza. It was actually a kind of a miracle that took place and that was Davening and probably you were too that these negoti these humiliating negotiations with Gaza and supplying them food because the world is in the third aub those who supposedly helped Israel. It was France who gave Israel um its tremendous uh nuclear program in the beginning of its existence. The French were the only ones who gave us anything to defend ourselves in the 50s. And now they lead the charge to destroy uh the the quote unquote state of Zion that they helped uh survive its early years. Not not surprising. Britain soon to follow suit. Of course, their task was to create Zion and now their goal is to declare it unJewish, a non-Jewish state. But this is to be expected. But what did but what has happened at the same time of the classical three ahas is something else something very optimistic and something that we should hold on to and cling to as we transverse this very very unique part time in our history. And I we'll preface this by saying that there is in no way, shape or form should we try to pin a particular event or particular thing that happened as um as a sign that Msiah is is imminent. We wait every day for Msiah. That's our credo. That's our that's our belief. Yet at the same time, we have no right to be pureim trying to read signals in. And there's a great danger in that, especially when things don't emerge because it's God's will or because God's extending the deadline or whatever it might be and for for the reasons that are good and only known to Hashem. So, but we can make observations. Let's make we can make many observations. And this is what the villag goan actually said that there's going to be simul and this even speaks about inc there are signs that things are moving in the right direction. So I want to talk about specifically this tishab. This tishabove has a unique quality to it in that there is no week of tishab shabu shakalo in uh in our halahic literature whether you're suardic or nazic the week of tishab has the ma main restrictions very similar to aut no bathing uh of any kind that is not of course for for medical or hygienic uh uh needs No pleasure bathing, no eating of meat, no drinking of wine, okay? Not uh not doing anything that would preage sim and the the Jewish world has universally accepted that the the Rama the the Eastern European Jews extended it back in full force to Roshkesh. But if you're a safari, you're having a you're having a week that is different than the normal experience. Why? Because the restrictions of the week of tishabove are not as relevant because there's no week. The first day of the week is going to be tishabove Sunday. So where's the week? If tishab is Thursday, then you have Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, a whole week of tishabove where those observances are relevant. But if you don't have if tishabove is on Sunday, then that whole week disappears. So the first piece of good news is that tishabove is restricted to one day and not a not a week. So that's great. This was a reduction in the in the ael Yesh of yushim of the three aas. But there's more also by definition since tishab is Sunday that means that shabas is a prelude and is the era of tishabove. So we cancel something else. Normally we sit on the floor and eat a suda mafus the ashes the bread sitting on the floor not benching together putting around ready already your tishabove shoes before even uh we reach sundown and the fast begins. You do the sudamis the final meal but it's a meal of of of veus. It's like a meal of of of deep mourning and we sit between what the ashes of the Tor. It's so interesting that the figure that um Kazal use the the image is of someone sitting between the cinders of the of the out of the oven. Little did they know or perhaps they did know that that would become the symbol of the Holocaust itself. It's unbelievable that there was this kind of prophetic vision that what tishab really represents. And then and then of course since there's no suda we can eat shall the third meal of chabasudas schlommoto just like Solomon in all his glory. What was the feast of Solomon in all his glory? First of all of course meat. Of course wine. wine right up till Shia, right up until sunset. And after sunset, we're in this in between zone which we can still wear our Shabas shoes and our Shabbat clothing even and until we go to Sha to David Mar. So that's another unique aspect of this year. the the big day shabas breaks and interrupts and intervenes into scaring away shushing away the impending creeping aos that descends upon us. You sit at your shabas table in your finery and you can eat until you should really bench at that time but you can sit there in your shabas clothes all the way till and then you dawn your tishabove shoes. You're sitting royally at the royal table of King Schlomma. What's what's the symbolism of the royal table of King Schlommo? Well, that is the opposite of tishab. Tishab represents the destruction of the bas mikdash schlom is the polar opposite where you actually can indulge in meat and wine shayim. And not only that, but you can have as many uh you can have a zeon, you can have a a a a group experience. You're allowed unlike a regular arishhabove in which we bench individually but on shabus which is aravish we bench as a group there's a unity there's a wholeness it's not completely destroyed and more importantly two things must we must know about the the the kingdom of that was the apex of Israel among the nations as experienced in shirashirim we we find all the nations of the world in a dialogue because Schlommo realized on that first day of the Bamea Migish that unfortunately his Bameish wouldn't be forever. It was a taste of eternity. That's what it really was a taste of eternity. Okay, but it wouldn't last until the final beta mdish would be would be built and he knew that. So we have Shir Shirim with the longing of the of the of the husband and the wife and that longing represents the the fact that there would be a galut and the nations of the world would get involved and feel that they have a right to dictate to us the absurdity of absurdities that a nation like that a nation like France could actually declare a state on our land- which would be the equivalent of us getting up and saying that Paris is now part of Palestine. Although unfortunately it already is although it's not recognized as such. In any case is adored by the nations. Schlomma has the visitors the queen of Sheba. Everybody from far and wide. Every nation in the world including our most bitter enemies come to Schlommo for success for sakur and for wisdom. That's it. And guess what? This tishabove we go into tishabove in that posture which again mitigates it. So this tishabove is slashed down. We slash down the ais to its most minimal minimal portion minimal portions. That's a good good thing. That's a as we've explained many times in the year where Shabas it dominates the the moadim dominates the Moadin then it it it impre himself when there's Shabas Rashashan as we spoke about there's no chauffear it's Hashem's chauffeur when it's um you know Shabas Kipper and we can't say au and all the supplications the way we normally would it's Hashem is involved Hashem is taking it as we've suggested taking it personally this year. Tishab Hashem is also taking it personally. It's a shabas er of tishabove. Now what we're hoping for what we're hoping for is is signs that we're moving from the d from the direction of sitting between the ashes of the oven to sitting on the throne of King Solomon which is the turning point from the point of uh Israel has never been more isolated among the nations and if not for the of the current American president not even the rest of America but only the American president which miraculously Hashem put in to do his will hopefully he will hopefully he will listen and even whether he likes it or not Hashem will use him as a tool to protect and help the Jewish people which he has done but must do much more particularly in Gaza. So the friends of Israel, the 60 the 60 swordsman that guard Schlomma's bed. That's exactly the imagery from from the song of Swanks from Shir Shirim and they are Gibbor. They are the ones that will serve as protective forces. Who is protecting Israel right now? Who? No one. that Iran was allowed to rain missiles, the Houthis, the Gazins from the north, Lebanon, from Syria. Now, it's unheard of. It's unheard of how bad we have been, how vulnerable we have been. But Hashem took it personal and the hand of protection has been covering us in this past year. And we must acknowledge that going into this tishov. We must we much we must thank Hashem. We must thank Hashem that this is a diminished. It's a period of time in which we have not seen the disasters that others wish to bestow upon us materialize. Not Iran and not Gaza who is now facing. They have to they have turned into that tanur into ashes and are underground. But says, "You've put me underground like the darkness of the darkness of the dead. This is what they are. This is what they want." And they hold on to a few Jewish souls and also gimm which contain the kadusha, the remnant of the kadusha. And they wish to keep those individual Jews in the darkness and they still will not relinquish their grip. But something amazing is happening and we have to continue on this tishabove to davin that we take a that we that we take a step towards the transformation of tishabove into a moade. So the theme is when Shabas takes over due to the fact that there's no week of tishab due to the fact that we sit like in Schlommo's throne on tishabove an on air of tishabove itself where we can bench together where we cannot do it in any other type of year where tishab is not observed on a Sunday that we go further tishabove must turn into a moade the the polar opposite of tishabove is yumkipper and purim That's and tub which is linked to linked to um yum kiper and what does that mean and what what would that look like? So first of all you should know that we do not recite and the reason given by the post scheme is because in we we bemoan the fact bemons the fact is as if there was a holiday convened to break our our young soldiers. Oh, no. And we didn't see that. Eight, not close to 900 broken soldiers. plus how many more thousands injured. And Nebak, one young man who was so destroyed by what he saw at the Gaza Holocaust of of uh the October 7th that he could not get out of his mind the tragedy, destruction, the stench of death that he had to shower 10 times a day and eventually took his own life. that darkness and destruction okay has to be transformed and is being transformed in front of our eyes but only through the I'm going to explain the three stages of this when and shabas is the ultra is the ultimate moade meaning when you read when we read in the Torah about the moim shabas is the laws of shabas are mentioned first and this is because the root the root of all holiness is the divinely bestowed shabas kesh then the Jewish people and draw off from the power of Shabas and and uh fix dates for the other Yum toy in which Hashem gave us the opportunity to indulge and spread his light into the holiday of Pesak by being by picking the calendar day for the 15th of Nissan by based on the the um calculations of the astronomy of the new moon and testimonies. It's up to us our best and our son. Okay. So now um I'm I'm just saying in passing what will and should happen in Gaza is a repossession. It should be conquered and then uh righteous uh distribution of of of uh food, clothing, shelter should be for those who do not who choose to live in peace with us. about bugdub the people we thought were help but we help that we are helping bdubar so the conquest of Gaza which is clearly a section of Israel as outlined last week's para mats mas and is outlined in this week's para so let's go back now to understand so in summary just so far this is a different type of tishab this year it's a halfway tishabove it's a tishabove that has been limited to one day not an entire week it's a tishabove in which the initial hours have been compromised by the kadusha of Shabas to lift us to a taste of of the of the um malus of Schlomma melik where the nations of the world feel blessed by us and receive blessing from the restored mikdash in such ways that are unfathomable. I recently saw a video which traced how every nation since World War II that helped Israel actually prospered. Even West Germany, when West Germany decided out of their guilt, whatever it was, that they were going to give all these reparations to the Holocaust survivors and all this money to Israel, they regain their power. They regain tremendous economic power. They they are the only viable economic power in Europe. That's it. Them and a little bit France, but Germany doesn't need France. France needs Germany. England doesn't need uh Germany doesn't need England or France. They need they need Germany. So that's one example. Another example is Brazil. Brazil now has this president Mle. But Brazil helped the Jewish people after the war and maintain decent relations unlike other South South American nations or like some of them did. Many voted for the recognition of the state of Israel, more friendly with Israel. And now Brazil has done through a remarkable turnaround just by the fact that they have a leader who blesses Israel and goes to the gravestone of the Bavaji and prays for the welfare of Israel and amazing amazing resurrection of a country that was completely on the path to destruction. That's the power of the restoration of Israel and the Betam Mikdash. People fail to understand, as they say, if the nations of the world were only know how much blessing they're they're withholding themselves from and how much misery and suffering they're causing themselves, they would use their unlimited wealth, which is unlimited wealth, and build the B mdish in 10 minutes. In 10 minutes, the money would be there. Not even 10 minutes, 10 seconds. So people don't realize even Canada which has now turned you know very Muslim but at the be Canada was a country that supported Israel quietly and even had a very pro-Israel prime minister not that long ago before this miserable macro miserable most recent government last couple of governments and uh Trudeau before Trudeau there was there was Harper a big oh heavy Canada has always prospered now what are they saying about Canada it could fall apart It could fall apart. It's under tariff pressures and and the states that want to secede and go to America which is supporting Israel. Follow follow this line. Any nation that supports Israel is blessed. Any nation that attacks Israel is cursed. Look at Lebanon. Look at Syria. Look look at these countries. Look at Iraq. Look at Libya. What has happened to these countries? And now what's happening in in uh in Yemen? was happened in Iran. That's it. The the the the turning of the tide we can we can witness in this year and say to Hashem let the the the light of Shabas destroy the fire of destruction of mdish and this is a very very big theme in Rabbi Nathman's teachings about tishabman has a Torah 67 in which he describes two forces in the world. Aman this is again Torah 67 of Zion in the first volume his core primary teaching about tishab is this he says in the world we have two forces or if you remember at the begin and we're going to start with this right the first you make on since you can't make and drink the wine is you say only one bra and that was made historically uh for mate Shabas the first day of the of the creation so as it were because it symbolizes man's discovery of fire the gift that Hashem gave to mankind of fire energy which of course would be the blessing that they could use to shape the world and and survive okay to make tools to build things to warm their food to warm themselves from from horrible climates and dangers from animals and so So there is something so there is a blessing to be made on the ash but if it's used properly but it's not always mankind has we call ash is ammunition or fire. So it has this aspect or this element of destruction, right? A fire that's tended is a blessing. A fire left untended is a mazic. It's one of the um sure according to some aso is is a is a destructive force. So says in the world there's only two operating things. When one is up the other is down much like Rome and Jerusalem. when one is up Christianity and and uh and and Judaism. Put us put Islam aside for a second. So the the force of ore is the orb. That's the or of shabas for the aura of Hashem. Our essence as human beings as explained in this Torah is to recognize that our hope for our own personal salvation and for the world's transformation and salvation is by associating with and spreading the aur of Hashem and those who are repositors of those great lights that and the the balora and the bal and sadikim who spread the light of of hashem to the world. It is through them that we will achieve emotional health. It is through them that we will achieve success to conquer our deepest deepest problems and fears. It is through them that our midos will be transformed and we'll become the people that we are capable of being our higher selves and not our lower selves. That's called ma or that's the world of tikun. That's the world of sudashlait. That's it. And there was a great light in the world a great wisdom a great transformation. You know it's known that when the Romans destroyed the B mikdash the they they said it says kabbo shalam is called shalom the light of the world. So the Romans were they put out the light for close to 500 years. There was no Jew that stepped foot in Jerusalem. There's the darkest of the dark. And then there was the Arab conquest. But in Europe, the Roman era came to an end approximately the year 500. Rome was sacked, was taken over by barbarians. And then from there the uh you know western Europe fell into the hands of some of the lowest and some of the most brutal uh people who plunged the world into darkness especially the Christians who by the year 312 had adopted Rome had adopted Christianity and they spread that darkness to the world that mor people individual would kept away from from science and education were not allowed to read because if they read the Bible They might see contradictions between the real Torah and what they were trying to pedal there. And they kept the people illiterate and powerless and useless surfs. And the world plunged to darkness into into um superstition, magic, witchcraft. They they didn't believe in anything rational. They had no rational. the the world that flourished in the years of the Basa Mikdash, the Greco Roman Empire of wisdom, the Roman technology was only relevant until the Basam Mikdash was destroyed. And after that, they have not progressed or produced any light at all. Lots of darkness. But as we get closer to Msiah and the technology began through Hashem's great gift filling the world with the wisdom of the impending gula. So man has progressed but again in twisted ways and using and basically it's creating weapons of mass destruction that can destroy everyone as their primary scientific search. uh which really should be about extending life, providing food, clothing, and shelter and wellness to everyone. When it's used that way, it's a tremendous blessing. When it's used the other way, it's moes. It's planting the light. It's the light of destruction. Tishabove represents a day of moish. But the the transfer of tishabove into a moade, we do not recite tanun on tishabove because it is called a holiday. A day informed by the light of shabas and it has a of the light of yamto to it. The ultimate yamtoim that will remain for all time which is purim but really purely pum. Perm we say that is a day where Hashem's light is spreads not only to the Jewish people but to the entire world because the resolution of the McGill story is rebuilding the B mikdash and the nations of the world being following the teachings of Morai. It's the reprise. It was a taste of a reprise of Sudashmo which culminated in the entire bet mikdash sheni period which which really was the was the light that has sustained us khan for example through all these years of of ma. But we see bar hashem signs that are turning a rekindling of the ore of people who want the the light of Torah and the light of so let's just analyze that in the context of the three shall we in our para Moshe says that it's also on three parts what is Mosha talking about here we he's giving his his teachings to the Jewish people as they enter the land of Israel and the first thing that he says to them he gives them a blessing that they should be many numbers. And then he introduces a very strange thing. If Moshe is really blessing the Jewish people, why would he say such a critical thing called interpret as follows? means again how you see things wouldn't allow his friend to to to succeed in a contest of money. It is not our way to be contentious with each other over money. It's not a good sign. That's a because what Moshe did, he explained to them at the very beginning of Dvarim that he chose 70 elders to guide them as they entered the land of Israel. Why? So that then society will be justly guided and not fall into the chaos that we are seeing engulfing so many places in the world, not only the Middle East and Gaza, but even places like Chicago, New York City. Uh and uh you know did you know that on this Arab dish we of uh nine days excuse me um the Bell Parkway was blocked by Muslim haters of Israel. The Bell Parkway there used to be in 1945 a time where there was about the neb survivors who came flooding into America some to Israel but it was it was war time. It was terrible, difficult time. And then you can blame that on the British. But when they came to America, there were 900,000 Jews in this in the burrow of Brooklyn. 900,000. Today, there's only 600,000. 42% of which are Jew are are Orthodox. Okay? It is the clearly the section the burrow. But there's other places too. There's a lot Manhattan. There's a lot in Muny. Okay. There's other pockets and places too, but the core, the life core was always Brooklyn, Williamsburg, Burough Park, Flatbush, Midwood. Okay, all these areas, Canary, even you know, every place, every nook and cranny, it's filled with Makomos Torah. It's unbelievable. Today, we're down from 900,000 to 600,000. That's a reduction of 33%. And guess what the Muslim population is? So in 1945, the supporters of quote unquote Arab nations versus Israel totaled zero. Zero, not one. Maybe if there were, but they didn't say a word because people understood after the Holocaust. The Jewish people need to be have to be on them. You have to support them to help them. Hayas, the immigration society, Jewish welfare board, you name it. They were rescuing people left and right welcoming the immigrants to rebuild a life in Israel from from Europe. There was 900,000 supporters of Israel plus everybody around who was their reim or many of the university students were Jews. especially in Brooklyn today. And I just checked this out. There are 1.2 million Muslims in Brooklyn just in Brooklyn and 275,000 hostile City University of New York students whose chancellor was just castigated in the Congress for his tremendous anti-semitic uh policies. Amazing. That's a change, but it's not necessarily a negative change. It's a change that will bring if we ignore it ash but if we listen to it or meaning there's something brewing for the Jewish people to recognize to rethink the long-term prospects of life in an environment which is growing daily uh that the Jewish dominated suburbs even of burrows even of New York City, the city with the most Jews outside land of Israel in the entire world has now been the balance has been tipped in the in in the balance of haters of Israel. And now the the mayor that they're trying to put in is an avowed anti-semite Muslim. He's from Uganda. You know, Uganda was also one of the countries that supported Israel when it first uh Israel had a strong connection with Africa and it bore in the in its early years. Uganda didn't shun Israel in the 60s. They they looked for help. They looked for the light from Israel and Israel sent them agricultural help and everything like that. They and that's why in 1976 the intebi rescue they Israel had all the maps of the airport and everything that that wicked mass murderer Idiamin eldada who again took hostages and prisoners but that time there was a long arm that Hashem sent a great blessing and it cost us uh the brother of BB Netanyahu. So there's a really a remnant a shadow of Uganda and that great heroic action today because one of the reasons one of the main reasons why BB Netanyao is is the head of Israel because that family represented the principles of Havat Israel Ms nephesh in the army taking risks to save Jewish lives. So Uganda has now produced for us the mayor the the the uh favorite for mayor of New York out of Uganda. He was there this week to get to get to make a shidd and gonna bring it bring her to New York to be his co-conspirator to turn the Jewish town. You know they used to joke poratively. They called New York Haimey town from Haimey town, right? Uh it was filled with Jewish life. Now they want to burn with a of the Jewish people. We shall see. We shall see if Hashem can turn that into or we shall see. and where. So Mosher Abenu said three things. I need to set up judges for you as you go into land of Israel. I need to make sure that there will be people of integrity to keep law and order and prevent lawlessness as we as we see even it says in pray for the unity of government. Unity. Shalom. below. Without it, people will swallow each other alive. And this is what we have seen. Now, when the police and the mayor are not misham, they're not the same goals and and this mayor or this governor feels this way and and the and the rest of the country feels this way and they're pushing in opposite directions. That's not Schlum Mauus. That's not a unified voice. That's not unified values. So we not we need schlamus to recognize to protect life, sustain life and to battle against evil and remove evil people and evil activities. We shall see. So that's number one. Then number two which was in the times uh of the where we say there that corresponds to the second theme of Moshe. This is shocking. Gomorrah in again it saysim. What the Jewish people hadim. What does aorus mean? Listen carefully. It says they started questioning Mosha's every move. Oh, he went out. Why is he going? It's a conspiracy. Where's he saying against us? What he's trying to do? And all these horrible challenges and and and negative thoughts about Mosher Rabenu. That is the negativity against this the teachers of Torah and against the people who represent authority. and sedic mosherenu is the ultimate sadic. Mosen is the ultimate rebi right when you're an apicores the definition of that means epicurion which means someone who denies God or eat and drink for for tomorrow we die in other words a denial of a heavenly or right and they say what fire is this man coming to do no but Mosha's or or he or the the the light of Mosher was from the from his very birth and yet these people are looking at Moshe and They're the villains. Look at what's going on today in Ar Israel. It cannot be to look at people who learn Torah as villains. Yes, there's deep issues and problems that divide the society, but these are if there's a spirit of war, people will see there's a place for everything and everyone pulling together. many many soldiers where it sits is now because they need a they're looking for some sort of divine connection to protect them in their difficult difficult horrific hellish battles till Kabul Shabas people are not stupid people are coming around to the light and saying if there's a purpose for the state of Israel and for all these horrible wars then it has to be because we're filled with ore or that's our job. We can't be filled with ash only. Israel is not a they say you see Israel is a destructive nation. A they just want to kill people and kill babies. They by the way killing babies is the ultimate and always blood liable against the Jewish people since time in memorial. The reality is is that parro had the idea of killing babies and parro had the idea of spilling the blood of infants for his own benefit and they turned it around on us. It's because it's the ultimate um I call it transference or broadcasting onto your onto the person you hate the negative attributes that you are thinking about. It will always be in forever that the nations of the world say you're killing our children. That's the magic words. As long as you can show that children are being victimized by the Jews, that's their nirvana. That's the That's the magic. Every hater of Israel for no good reason will chant this mantra. You've killed all the Gaza babies. What is that all about? They they know it's not true. They know it's ridiculous. Well, why are they saying it even? They know that's the core hatred of the Jewish people. Why? Because here's why. Because we represent eternal life. And we have the Torah. We have the we have the tree of life. But they don't want to accept it. They want to say they want to say we don't have it. So therefore the Jewish people by claiming to have Torah and having Torah and representing Hashem are a threat to their mortality. They also want to be immortal. They also want to live forever. And they can if they would just attach themselves to Claus Israel and to Torah, like MLE, like to a certain extent Trump, like others who want to be blessed. You attach yourself to you'll see light. You'll see light. Trump went to Davin. He won the election from that day forward. He won the election. Bless us and you'll be blessed. It's not such a difficult formula. And but but they see it as you are the source of eternal life. No way. You are the source of death. They flip it around. Okay. So that's why it's always about blood liable. It will always be because they say you're taking you're killing us. You're making us mortals. I we didn't do that. That was Hashem's decision to bestow Torah and immortality on Jewish people. It wasn't wasn't our fault. get with the program change oration to now the last the last thing that Moshe said here is three points Moshe made number one you're hating each other and you're fighting over a dime for no good reason you don't fim you know forgive is you don't look for other person's success you're not looking at the other Jewish saying let him have some success let him win let him win one or two no I have to win number two the the competition and the the this the striving that every penny should be yours and you can't look into a good eye at at somebody else and say let them share the wealth. That's number one. Number two is the despising of Torah leaders and scholars and sadikim as opposed to embracing them and seeing their me benefit for you. It's a ore that light has to dawn upon these people and it has on so many already and on the a lot but there's lots and lots of people who that ore has not yet touched and it must Hashem will make it anyway one way or the other. And then finally the thing of being rogenim which means being re riv is complainers complainers negative attitude despondency not believing that Hashem can actually help us succeed always trying to accommodate accommodate accommodate evil accommodate evil feed evil help evil serve you don't believe you don't have the positive voice and attitude that there can be complete victory so what I want to what I want to just end with is let me pull together this idea by demonstrating how tishabove hopefully starting we already started already but with this tishabove in particular should be a turning point of moade in the end there will only be two holidays left right two holidays left and two books to read from in the Tanakh the Torah and the book of Esther the book of Esther is the story of the an of the tikuin of tishabove literally the bu rebuilding the base of mikdash what happens there the Jews unite and pray the Jews get together to save each other's necks through prayer and through intervention of the sadikim morai and Esther okay and then through that the nations of the world are changed in our direction was influenced by hmon he could have easily seen to the he did he was ready to sign off in the destruction of Jewish people, but it can just as easily be turned to or who by affiliation with changes their perspective and then and when the aura spreads and they see the benefit of supporting Hashem and Cal Israel in its best sense they will see the light too. They will see and they will have joy and they will be blessed. So the three mitzvah what do we do in pasim we take care of we feed our poor we make everybody happy we give mat we give to show unity and love and friendship and then of course we read the migilla migilla is the hal is praising hashem we praise hashem as the source of this great salvation I'm really hoping that we'll continue to see the reality that hashem's hand is protecting The 12-day war against Iran is being studied now in the militarymies of the world. How is it possible that every single plane came back? These are not new planes. I have news for you. America, Israel doesn't have the luxury of the most sophisticated planes. One shouldn't drop from the sky. One shouldn't be hit by one by one missile. Not even one. That's what happened because there was a resolve to destroy and confront evil and Hashem blessed that operation and it went beautifully well. Contrast that to Gaza where there is ambiguity where there's not a clarity. There's not an understanding of what needs to be confronted and destroyed. And it's been a hell is non-stop aish. more soldiers dying, more soldiers injured, more people suffering and and and and ruined their lives. The clarity of the attack on Iran has to be transferred to Gaza and then there will be light. I'm really hoping this is encouraging news. We have to do it and davin that the ore that the av of of Pishop Tishab's past is replaced by the ore. This is the deep teaching of Rebman and it's a tipping point perhaps. These are the key notes of our key notes. Number one, okay, to support and stop the fight between Jews, the demonstrations, the hatred. Two is is uh to not deny Torah and and and Sadikim. Three is not to look at things pessimistically but to fight for optimum uh optimum res confrontation of evil with courage and with conviction and we shall be blessed. Look at those two operations. 12-day war versus Gaza. A how many year how many days? 12 days versus 6 or 700 days. It's all about having a perspective of or not a perspective of a let's hope. So that begins as another step in the direction of the moide of the moade of tishabove to emerge to merge as one of the most joyouish days. Tuba and Purim. We should see us soon in our day. Have a meaningful fast. Heat. Heat. [Music]