Despair and Refuge, The Transformative Experience of Tisha B'Av - HaRav Azarya Berzon

part of Tish above I believe is the midst of zakar remembering the Torah commands us to remember our Molech many years ago I accompanied my students both from the boys and the girls school we went to Poland I don't know if you've been there to see the camps and I remember we spent Shabbos in the city of Warsaw and I was asked to speak about the meeting of taking a group of 400 students 18 year old boys and girls who had just completed almost completed a year in Israel to see the camps to enter into maidanic where they stuffed us in my tonic by the way today would take about 24 hours just to get it up and running so without going into the Gory details of the feelings that we had experienced there in maidonic I was called upon to speak on that Shabbos to put some sort of halachic perspective to this trip the Heritage program that took so many so many young students to Europe to Eastern Europe to see the camps and the only thing that came to my mind from a lucky perspective why bring so many hundreds of students to put it in some sort of a lucky perspective I felt it was a fulfillment of zakar Asa Malik we'll discuss later if we have time whether or not those who destroyed us during the Holocaust the Nazis valves rayam those who helped them are halachically defined as a Malik but be that as it may we'll get to that at some other point but just emotionally I felt this is what zakira sambalik is all about to remember to re-experience to take young people and bring them to the camps in Echo there's an entire chapter the third chapter that seems to be a little bit out of place you're beyond Navi deviates from his pattern in the first second fourth chapters he begins with Echo the third chapter sort of wedged in the middle is a chapter that in a sense describes his own feelings his own personal experience in golus and in urban according to the Bali Kabbalah if one were to read the third chapter of aha meticulously he or she would find their own selves in that chapter it's a mystical idea you could identify with some verse Within Chapter 3 of echo and I believe the reason why that chapter was inserted integrated into itself is because here we are at Navi is conveying a very important message to us and that is that it's not enough to talk about the hormone it's not sufficient to describe history in the past but rather take it in first person what was your experience and so if tishabov is successful then our goal is to reach this so to speak frenzy a frenzied emotional experience a passionate experience in which we feel the curb on them one of the stories that the gemara Tells and I think once again the way the major embellishes the Gamora it would indicate the connection between but says about 400 youngsters literally youngsters men boys and girls who were taken by Ship by the Romans and captured and we'll talk about this later but they went and jumped themselves into the sea and according to the majors when they jumped into the sea al-qirish Hashem because they knew that they were going to be violated they recited the Shira sayam could you imagine tells us that call me call darshallah it's as if we are experiencing the urban today not not years past and what we have to understand and appreciate is the urban as it's impacted on our entire voters Hashem our service of Hashem we're not only talking about the loss the tragedies the atrocities the murder the millions over the course of time but we're talking about something even more spiritual we're talking about the impact of Quran on our lives on our ability the echo says that it's Luffy daito it's got to be relative to the person to feel the calamity the purpose of kinos then is a certain in a certain way is to invite all of us one to the other parents to children parents to grandchildren to re-experience the qurban we even invite them all welcome we turn to the angels the Heavenly Celestial beings and we ask them to join us in avellus in the Clermont the goal of kinos is to appreciate what will lack you what we're deficient what we don't have anymore that the Universe the world is not the same after Urban as it was before that Corbin has had and continues to have an impact on everything in our lives the loss of screener the loss of that close relationship could you imagine the going God all on yamakipurium entering in the holy of holies Kurdish Kardashian to bring the Taurus with the shrina and do this imagine the level of that relationship that existed and reached its apex on the holiest day of the year on Yom Kippur and all this is lost and the Rama writes into this tinyos that we have to re-experience the qurban all the losses the Mitzvah here is called zehalem we remember the migdash I asked myself the following question if you had asked me for a sauce in Tanakh for the midst of remembering the Midas I would quote the position and yet the entire in Mississippi raises the question of the Tacoma and zakai after the qurban he established and acted that we should take the rule of all seven days the Torah says we take the Love on the first day and zakai and to this day we take the rule of all seven days because in the basement the Torah commands who smack them all seven days the lulav was taken in the base of the entire suck is from beginning to end and the gemara asks why did raviolk enact this takano what was his scriptural basis and the gemara quotes the navi is castigating the people of Israel because they're not duration they're not remembering seon ARA says from the fact that they are taken to test for not remembering Theon we can infer the conclusion that we're required to remember CEO but ask the question why does the gemara looking for a sauce for the tacon of the enactment of zakai to remember the big Dosh and instead of quoting him quotes the Posse compadresha and I believe that the answer is very profound and it really impacts on all our kidneys today to remember the migdash you have two different categories two different fundamentally different obligations what is called being duration and the other is image means remember the base amigdash in its beauty and its Glory when econom served when the people flocked to you shall I am to the base of three times a year remember the base of Midas when the simcha the joy in the base of English reached its apex daily every day of circus when we took the dialed meaning it is Glory and then after you fulfill that obligation then you're ready to move on now you can remember that we sinned and our sins caused the destruction and the Quran you cannot speak about Quran you cannot appreciate destruction without first appreciating what the bigness was all about the Beauty and the Splendor the glory of the based on vignage it's Haba Italia they're interdependent it's amazing that the the word that appears over and over again in our kid is to describe them English is vol the literal translation of the words vul is a location that's designated for the Hassan and Kala to Rendezvous after the clipper this is represents that beautiful relationship that Glory of a place that's designated for the Hassan is called the Dove and the kala that's Kinesis Israel we get together the word Moab which describes our festivals really comes from the shoresh the Hebrew grammatical source of VOD is a place that's designated for members of a group to get together in this case the base am ignition is full because it reflects our close relationship with the screener this is the place for the federal this is the marriage relationship the shrina Israel and therefore see on duration we have to be duration we have to remember the beauty of Theon in its Splendor in its Heyday and its glory and its glamor in the intense manifestation of that profound relationship between Kinesis Israel and once having done so we can move on to Avail us to grief to mourning to Kino to echra and appreciate the loss that story that we just read on Shabbos just a day ago it's interesting the word appears three times is not the first in yesterday's Korea satura 's dvorim U opens up with the first Etc ishaiah gives us the second is and he speaks about then we get to the third that's yummy in kinos she sits in solitude I'd like to appreciate the significance of the word Echo which is a word that most romanu employs over and over again and throughout the kennels especially of khalir is the opening word let's begin with moshrabin what is the nature of Moshe Alabama's cry Echo I believe that moshrabenu is an example of a leader of Israel who faces a state of ambiguity of confusion of perplexity the people of Israel are not doing the right thing they're rebelling and moshebenu is perplexed about that he feels a sense of Crisis it's a leader in crisis to appreciate Moshe Bay News we begin with the period of venaminsarin the three-week period we call it finally the driver is kicked off by you Zion vitamus the 17th of Thomas on that day moshrabenu destroys the lujos in the aftermath of the sin of the ego could you imagine moshebenu's perplexity coming down going down from the mountain holding the Lucas which is meant to consummate that marriage relationship that we spoke about before and instead he sees in front of him the wild Joy of people dancing in front of an eagle Israel and he breaks the luchos this is the kickoff of dry vacuum of the Bain Hamid sorry imagine this is the greatest moment that the Jewish people were meant to experience to receive the luchos this was that would receive the Torah of Hashem and instead they're dancing around an eagle worshiping idolatry the worst of sins and this begins the period of Avalos the period of Bain amitsar benu hints at the beginning of safetvarim at this sin of the ego he says I have Rashi has a whole description of why moshabbin was not more explicit and outspoken using as it were something that you would call diplomacy very good politics you know instead of castigating the directly it's a soft Landing vidisa have the gold and then Moshe Adventure goes on to mention puran Ghazal tell us that Paran represents the end of the period of pain Hamid sorry on is where the people had sinned in the Sin of the ego oh excuse me of the moraglan now again there were many other sins and moshebeno hints at them but I think if you talk about the bookends the beginning and the end of the period of being a midsom you can focus your attention on vidisa Havana these are from the perspective of Moshe as the leader of Israel the most perplexing periods of time the moments in which the Jewish people deviate and when in Paran the miraglim returned from their mission with such a terrible story about the land of Israel at that time the people of Israel break out in tears in crying and hazal say that crime would be decreed for all generations that night of Becky at the time that the miracle returned was tishima and so Tish above is designated year in and year out as the moment of berri of crime because of that original Bahia it was vain and it's going to be a bahili Doros there's one statement which I always find fascinating about vidisa Huff because I'll say that mosh raveno had two things in mind he was accomplishing two goals simultaneously he was on the one in castigating the Jewish people actually calls it divrey tokokos real harsh words of rebuke but at the same time khazal tell us that moshebenu was a defense attorney on behalf of the people of Israel and in the lotion of the madridish foreign because of the wealth that you showered upon the people of Israel that's why they worshiped Diego I'd like to understand what is the Jewish philosophy the ashkaphas Israel on wealth on the one in wealth is a great blessing and if a person knows how to use his wealth properly he could accomplish great things but sometimes and more too often wealth is a distraction wealth is something that takes the focus of a person away from serving Hashem ARA tells us that even someone as great as one of the time he was so wealthy his father had bequeathed him 60 Seaport cities and he got involved in all sorts of business deals and so forth he got involved also in the pleasures of this world he became so intoxicated that when he returned to the Jewish Community he couldn't read Apostle Quintana properly that's how a person could be impacted really the hater ego represents I believe an overlap of two kinds of sins and they're both emanate from the same Source on the one hand distraction losing the focus on serving Hashem and on the other hand self-centered pleasure a person who has all this wealth very often it goes to his head he has access to all sorts of pleasures and there's a tremendous desire and he's pulled by the eight Sahara the evil inclination to enjoy hedonistic Pleasures because I'll say that at the time of the ego different things were going on so certain immorality and Moshe Have Made It by saying you Hashem so to speak are a participant a cause in the Sin of the eagle moshebenu playing his classic role as the defense attorney on behalf of Claud Israel does so but this averav really means that I am the center of existence I'm the epicent of the world the eight Sahara lures me to believe that if I accumulate wealth then I can enjoy all those pleasures so this is the first occasion in which is so perplexed he's so set aback by the Jewish people that he breaks the luchos that the punishment the Divine punishment meeting out meet it out for the Great Eagle continues even to this day we are all still guilty to some extent of the sin of it these I have as we see ourselves as the center of selfish pleasure of the desire for more and more wealth that distracts us from serving Hashem and then we get to tishomo three weeks later not in that history but on the ninth of the of the miraculum come back with their message with their interpretation of herits Israel totally different type of sin he is God had promised us the greatest gift the land of Israel and he promised that he would destroy the Nations that we would have no problem Conquering the land of Israel we have it also in this week's Parish that we just read yesterday and yet the people said we can't do it it's impossible they accepted the description of the morogulum and where did their faith go here we have a different kind of sin not a sin of selfish pleasures of overabundance of wealth but rather the sin of the lack of faith This was meant to be the greatest Crossroads in Jewish history moshrabena would take the people across the Jordan and conquer the land settle the land moshebenu in the original plan was meant to be Malik hamashiach if only the people I believed If Only They had faith relying on Hashem where was again this is a sin that continues to plague us to this day so we can understand the echo of Moshe rabenu especially during this period of time as we reach the climax of The benavidson the two sins the book ends a sin on the one end of people who are so involved in this world in worldly pleasures in the accumulation of goods that they lose that focus on the service of Hashem and on the other hand a sin of lack of faith lack of immuno and so we can identify with most tremendous frustration and his Echo I believe that if moshebenu had to summarize his message in a few words he would have said man has to live with God in every aspect of his life Now we move on to the second Echo the second really shows and demonstrates most revenues frustration in this case it's your shayola Novi enough Torah that we read yesterday again man giving way to desire losing his Focus his sight of spirituality the power of the eight Sahara and the navi interestingly at the very beginning of that story of yesterday says that we are a people who are cool we love bribes what are these bribes that is in mind first and foremost material bribes monetary bribes the entire perversion of the justice system that we were guilty of one of the sins that led to the qurban but I think the word bribe so hard in this context means a lot more we are bribed from every pleasure that we can seek and enjoy hedonism the desire for pleasure to base how Levy based on Avengers has an unbelievable insight into the concept of harlatry of Ozona and he writes that ultimately the Zona herself becomes addicted to pleasure so the desire for wealth the perversion of justice of Shogun and a selfish desire for more and more possessions more and more pleasures as this farno writes impartial says he writes at the root of evil is the yatesahara the pleasure passion the passion for pleasure the sin he calls it of selfish desire foreign is symbolic of all our sins and Claw Israel is compared by ishael a novice self-centered selfish pleasure seeking he opens up by writing bonim goddaughter should be Hashem says to Claudius you are my children I raised you we have a close relationship a parent-child relationship but yet Paul should be they deliberately rebelled against me pesha is considered the most severe category of sin and then we speak about the sin of the hate hamar raglib for you by name the lack of faith there were two miraglan who came back with a positive report and khalev declares h what is the nature of the land don't be influenced by the maraglu it's Tova Mio the word Meowth can be spelled with above or without above if my old is without above it equals the number 50. 50 is 7 times 7 plus 1 7 always represents nature so you've got seven Cycles which is the natural seven cycle of seven years until you finally reach the number 50. my old is the number that indicates going Beyond beyond the limits Beyond nature that's what Cole represents calling together with Yoshua we tend to look at reality on a superficial level we have that natural perspective of what you see is what you get and nature itself provides a covering concealing as it were the ribonacial alone our job our responsibility is my old is to go beyond to have a perspective to penetrate and reveal that which is beyond to seek godliness in everything in nature and to have that faith that hashem's promise will come true there will be a conquering of herets Israel it's a it's an ore sahi Tova me old my old Khalif says what is we will climb and we will conquer the land Rashi says that the message of khalev was a Philo even if there was something up in the heavens The Who over all of and according says to us make ladders and climb up to shamayan says kalevolo Nala will do it will succeed commanded us we do what he wants our goal is to fulfill the will of God and I believe that this message lies at the heart of another Parish in the Torah impartialach es Hashem you may remember what this is about living this is the partial of man and Moshe rabbin who commands the people to take a jar of man and hide it away for all Doro slid Doro say him for all your Generations Rashi comments Rashi says and this has a special meaning says Rashi with regard to the generation of yumiowa Novi when you're me all I know he will ask the people of Israel why aren't you dedicating your energies to the study of Torah and the people will answer they'll respond um how will we be able to support ourselves if we dedicate ourselves to the study of Torah Rashi says at that point here we all I know he takes out the sincere saman yes she says there are many ways that God could bring about a person's ability to support his family to put food on the table the gemara says in the Dharma of the aretz why did we lose the land foreign they didn't bless before they studied the Torah the base how Levy says they didn't have an appreciation for torah's study Tara's study was either an intellectual pursuit or a means to an end it was just a way of learning so they would know how to live their lives but there's a greater level of Torah ubator means to appreciate that the Torah is our way our only method of getting close to Hashem especially since the qurban abayas and the Torah tells us about another mitzvah that requires us to live on a level together with God above nature and that's the midst of Shri is coming on and the Torah says with regard in the talk at the end of US territory people will be exiled from the land and why it'll be a media connected me though we didn't allow the land to be fallow and not work the land on the seventh year and therefore we're going to be sent into golus in the seventh year and this is the media for me the US tear itself so when we put these two mitches together on the one in Alma of the Arts we didn't have the appreciation for Torah and you're real I know he has to take out this incentives we didn't have that level of faith but put together our heads of tamut Torah together with us and I believe we can integrate these two misses together as the two violations that caused the Exile the ghosts with regard to smears the Tanakh Compares so many Spears those who observe spheres which could you imagine my friends let's let's try to take this in in contemporary terms imagine you have a business you're doing okay it's running smoothly and then I tell you that every seven years close shop imagine an Agricultural Society every seven years let the landlife follow anyone is invited to enter into the land so the hazal tell us that in order to reach that level you have to be like a Mala Hashem you have to be so close to the almighty that you live on a level of total faith in Hashem because God promises that I will bring down and bestow the blessing you will suffer no loss as a result of being Shoma now let me ask you the following question who can compare themselves to my location there are a couple of school out there who are on that level but yet the Torah demands of every single Jew to live on the level of Malachi asharis to go beyond nature to rely on Hashem and let the land lie fallow once every seven years and the great Russia Siva the mirror SEC who love it as a whole essay in which he presents the fact that God demands of this of every single Jew to live on the level of Malachi this is not a Mitzvah that's given to a great Sadiq a group of exceptional people this mix was demanded of every single last Jew we are all meant to be like and there's another equation of a mitzvah to Malachi's awesome [Applause] themselves came down from heaven and they recognized the greatness of the Jewish people and they crowned every Jew with two crowns one for nice and one for nishma but why does the gemara say Sheikh dimu NASA what's the emphasis here on the fact that they started with NASA and then with nishma nishma represents the study of Torah NASA means the mitzis the actions that we have to implement says the greatness of NASA and ishma is our understanding and appreciation of the study of Torah if they would have said it in the reverse order nishma Venice and then Torah would mean a means to an end it would mean study the Torah so that you know how to observe it but not at all NASA NASA means you know give me the give me the kids to show canara you know give me the uh you know I always give the example of how goddess El pesach you know you read oh here you pick up the cup of wine and here you cover the matches you know why I have no clue but you know I'm just following instructions that's nasty but now comes nishma we've already achieved NASA we've already fulfilled the mitzis and observed the midst as they meant to be but now nishma now we learn the Torah and why do we study the Torah because we want to get close to Hashem because the Torah embodies the wisdom the infinite knowledge of God and this is the way we can get close to the srina kazal tell us over and over again that he who studies Torah the screen is there with him it's that relationship the Raman dedicates an entire chapter of Hillcroft to the uplifting experience of studying Torah but of course at the time of yearia the people came forward and they said what do you mean study Torah who's going to go out there and work the fields and that's Shalom and that's why had to take out it's insane as a man who supported us for 40 years in the desert so the Jewish people the Jewish nation is called upon to live a code of behavior on two very high levels on one level the Vegeta have violation we have to avoid that self-centeredness in which we just gather together all the pleasures of life all the wealth and on the other hand to live on a level of faith in Hashem like the Malachi assurance to be crowned with the sorrow the crowns of the of the Malachi and finally we get to the Third in this I believe really touches on what we are meant to experience on this day of tissue my claim is the following we can understand the answer to Echo to the tragedies to the punishment on one level on the level of man a physical being material limited finite who is challenged in so many ways by the evil inclination and we fail and we don't live up to this challenge that I can understand I think is raising a different question a different kind of his is predicated on the love of Hashem for his people as we said before this vol that Rendezvous color the shrin of the bris means total alienation but even worse than that says that Hashem became the oyev God himself became the enemy of the Jewish people it's bad enough if God takes a step back and lets nature and all our enemies do what they have to do and we are killed we're murdered we're persecuted we are tormented and we suffer but worse than that Hashem in a certain sense is actively participating so says here real I wouldn't have said it in the destruction in the Exile and we ask the question why this is the only day of the year that we're permitted to ask that question the audacity that we have but we have to ask the question says how could it be care balaila the dimassa speaks about two very similar Concepts they're always synonymous one is crying and the other is dimmer demo the teardrops there's a fundamental difference between the two I would like to understand why double language of Becky and why about Lila at night vidimasa Ali Lefty he doesn't mention twice he doesn't mention ninth and why the sequence first and then demo I would like to suggest that Becky represents black despair the inability to come up with any rational explanation moreover the inability to take any sort of action when you s when you're faced with with such tragedy I don't know comes from the word demide my means something I can't understand I don't know how to identify I'm confused so Dima symbolically metaphorically represents confusion but when a person is confused he certainly has the ability to take action our leaders take for example at the time in the time of the Quran there were many decisions that had to be made vis-a-vis the Romans and so forth that's demo that's confusion but Becky is a whole different experience the Posse describes the destruction of the firstborn in Egypt foreign first born of every Egyptian family was was found himself dead and it was black despair what does when I cry out because I have no program I don't know where to go I don't know the first thing it's it even an animal feels Becky it feels threatened Lila why is it Lila I believe that Delilah means that night is a time in which man is drawn so to speak into his own world an emotional sensitivity and awareness at night we are very sensitive Lila represents in Tanakh insistent insistent crime non-stop Lyla the possible I will not stop crying we're totally lost we are groping in the dark we have nowhere to go nowhere to turn no leadership no answer to any Iraq questions tragedy after tragedy that's and that's Lila and that's total alienation total loneliness but then there's a second dimension to Tish above and the ramam codifies this tinos and the Rama writes the following he says that time is fasting requires contemplation and introspection and he lists all the tinyos that commemorate the tragedies of Israel and in this list he has Tish above and he goes through the five things starting with with I'm sorry with the uh that happened on tishova that occurred on tissue and the Rama writes that the purpose of a Tinus the ultimate goalie agenda at the end of the day is native we are guilty of the same sins of our forefathers that brought about these tragedies and therefore we are required to be native to do better to improve our ways this is the ultimate goal and perhaps we could suggest I have no idea if this is right that there's a difference between the night of Tish above and the day of Tish above the night of Tish above is La cry a double a double crime you're in Despair and black no way of going no way of knowing where to go what to do for two reasons first of all because the physical destruction and secondly because of the spiritual destruction of the big dogs but that's balaila and on the night of Tish above we have nowhere to turn no answers to the question but then during the day of Tish above now it becomes the Yom shaltine it's a whole different cube a whole different mitzvah it's no longer the mystery because Lila but now we move on to them to a state of perplexity of confusion we ask the question as we did last night but at this point the acha turns inwardly and we are compelled to ask the question why did we bring and how did we bring about the destruction what are we guilty of and not just our forefathers because every generation in which the biggest is not rebuilt it's as if it was destroyed so now there's a calling a requirement of chuva and I would ask the following question if the day of tishom of is the time in which the mitzvah the dimmer the native darkenu the tiniest element emerges what triggers that off what generates that transformation between the echa of Bahu of Dimas of time is Tinus emerge and in my humble opinion it's with the kriya Saturn the Torah reading is what triggers off and engenders a change a transformation in the essence of acute of the day itself but before we start with kisolid Van imp e let's move a little bit earlier a little bit backwards and see the context the broader context of asks a question and offers two answers Israel in the context of the echra of Uriah our adversaries ask the following question who are you what makes you special why are you claiming to be the chosen Nation what is unique about your people and the Torah gives two answers love God is close to us when we call out when we cry out to him that's Fila that's prayer and I shall loo Kim um that we have statutes of Hoku mishpat of setic of Justice what makes us the unique people two Dimensions two answers and they're both correct one is Fila we are the nation that's close to Hashem Hashem listens to our prayers the tragedy of Tish above is when we believe that sasam's philosophy God does not respond and number two I shall love we have a moral code I was always curious about the difference between zedek and mishpat I wasn't there but somebody told me they're a bar in salivations said the following then on the one hand this mishpat mishpat means a legal system a system of Law and Order that's meant to protect the people every nation in the Civilized world can claim mishpat but the Jewish nation has something that goes beyond this part and that's called sedek means when you juggle all different needs of all different persons not just one person the example was the following I don't know if there are any lawyers here today who can answer this question but what would you say if I would apply for a job knowing full well that the job although it wasn't officially you know clinched but somebody else was going to get the job or even worse than that supposing I offered to work for free knowing that someone will lose their job any lawyers here are you there any laws against this I don't think so it's a free country if I want to apply for a job or offer my services but then it's something called said that and the post scheme addressed this question is there a requirement here of Jewish sedek which I have to consider not only myself even though I have rights to be selfish but to consider the rights of others what kind of loss Will I be causing indirectly to another Jew this is sedek so we have Fila and Cedric and these are the two unique dimensions of Claud Israel the Korea fetish above in the morning is a calling to wake us up you get so old in the land what happens when a person gives you a gift initially you feel great you feel excited you're uplifted you express your gratitude but with the passage of time you get so used to it you take it for granted and we take it for granted we have the land of Israel do we thank Hashem to appreciate it especially during these times one of the few countries where you could actually travel in and out I mean again I don't know if that's going to change but in the meantime so where is that sense of gratitude where is our excitement where's the newness I remember when I first went to the hotel I was 16 years old I almost fell apart today I go to the Coachella okay so what's the big deal the national it becomes old it becomes trivial it's taken for granted it's not fresh it's not new and the Taurus says we just read it and the Taurus says we will seek out God and if we seek out God foreign with all our hearts then the Torah promises umat Sasa we will discover God and this is the calling the young Tinus of the day of tishomov to recreate the intimacy the Torah requires of us to remember our Sinai and the talk goes out of its way to say that we should remind our children and our grandchildren yum to pass on a tradition a transmission of legacy of generations and that Legacy is embodied in the very essence of Toshiba to pass on that Legacy to get at children and our grandchildren excited about being Jewish about being unique of being a being of Allah to improve our ways if we failed Hashem says I promise you wherever you are in the face of the Earth some could be on the other side you've all heard the stories I have to tell you about Israelis Jews who find themselves sitting at the feet of a guru somewhere in Asia and the guru tells them to go back to Jerusalem um you'll find Hashem you never know where you never know how in hasidus the belief is that it's the total learning of Sadiq him somehow has an impact on the entire Jewish world and all of a sudden the Jew wakes up one day he's far and Far Away from you this guy no background all of a sudden he has this desire this interest in his Jewish roots no nobody understands why it's it's it's something metaphysical and the call is out there and mishpalud stock and when the Torah says guy gadol it doesn't mean great in number it doesn't mean great in finance it doesn't mean that we have the you know the CEOs no God will mean spiritually we're a great nation spiritual and this day of tishimov calls out to us and demands of us to live up until we could fulfill what we read in this week in today's parisha this shaft we could reach the case the holy throne and over and over again we're going to repeat one word four letters see on what is CEO there are many many interpretations of what the word Xeon means we ask Hashem to rebuild to return to Zion what is seon in his lucute Torah writes that the word seon comes from the shortage of siyun see Yoon is a sign or a marker like for example if you have a cemetery you put up at seon cover so the corner will know that they shouldn't come in contact they shouldn't get too close but CEO really means this is something unique Sion is a pointer at that which is unique what is unique about Siam it's these two Dimensions it's the closeness to Hashem and that expressed itself in Fila that God listens to our prayers we have that special relationship that's the bris relationship with the others and also we have tedek and Cedric itself is the greatest limitation of Deo in which for Allah we imitate Hashem sedek and we have a perspective not of selfishness but of the opposite of selflessness this is the essence of seon and what are our enemies saying they denied seal you are a nation like any other Nation your flesh and blood worse than that you're subhuman this is the humiliation is all about bad enough if we sin and we don't live up to these demands of living with God but worse than that the desecration of God's holy name with a blasphemy of our enemies don't don't pass this on you're barely human and this is what golus is all about an experience of loneliness in which we are denied even our basic right to claim Salim Elohim in Christianity and Christian theology the bris relationship is no longer we've passed all the red lines and the bris the Covenant between God and his people is no longer binding but yet when we read the of Torah and I have to say it was read pretty well today uh but anyway in safer year Mia a sofasi famed the entire raft Torah is one depressing description of Destruction and yet when he ends the after a comma Hashem Hashem he speaks so and we change the tune to that of Torah Hashem the um Hashem means there's a message God is transmitting a message and we are called upon to transmit that message further the um Hashem can we understand do we have all the answers do we know the answer but what is God demanding of you he's demanding of you to transmit into umashem to stop believing in yourself the rich believe in themselves and so the Korea of today which demands of us to live up to the greatness of the Gaga doll is connected to the aftura that we read today it's one theme of ubikashim Isam of seeking out God and that's the message about faith every morning we wake up and we recite Mo thy me I don't know if you've ever paid attention the last two words in Modine they are very strange how great is your faith what do you mean how great is your faith man has to have faith in God what's wrong how great is your faith and the Supreme makes a short but very profound comment that God believes in US sometimes we lose faith in ourselves but God never loses faith in us in US and we every morning commit ourselves to affirm that God has faith in us and if God has faith in ourselves heaven forbid that we disappoint them imagine the case of a couple a married couple and she has faith in her husband if he is not loyal or the way around this is the greatest disappointment we don't want to disappoint you God because how great is your belief in US and you command us as we read will be cash them until Hashem and what is Tish above what does it mean when we recite Tish above means that we point an accusing finger inwardly and we achieve and experience that which is called in which means accepting the Judgment of God is something that defies rationality we cannot as rational beings appreciate and understand what city is how is it possible we're still in that Paradox that crisis of echo intellectually we can't understand it but Tish above is a different kind of holiday in that sense we go back to square one it's similar to PESA it's the holiday of faith it requires a faith it cannot be Quantified in logical intellectual terms to be in foreign yes this is part of a divine plan when we're in a state of bahut but we make the transition to the dimasia and at that point we know that we are called upon forum to find Hashem which means to pursue to commit ourselves to being better people to ascend the spiritual ladder and to be magic something that on a physical level defies understanding but it's all in the context of the sanctity the condition of this relationship between Hashem and claudiusra at the end of parashas vayera after the story of the Arcado there's a series of I think it's about five six very strange this I call anti-climactic now from comes down from the mountain after the harrowing experience of the arcade in which he had to slaughter his son and the person describes what goes on around him with the children of of Rob's cousins and the grandchildren the Torah actually enumerates their names it's oh it says I can't even pronounce the names and Frankly Speaking who cares and Rashi says experienced the Arcada now the time was ripe and we had to marry him off and the entire list over there at the end of Paris Vieira ends with bisul yolad es Rifka my review of Salvation who is not happy he said to follow if it's true that the whole purpose of this last section is simply then why do we read that section on Russia's son Russia's son is the day of judgment we were looking for some some Merit I understand we read the arcader the great Merit Hashem remember the arcader but why utsans and boots and all those guys why do we meet that on Rosh Hashanah and if the truth is if you calculate you need five crew him you can work out the five even if you omit that last paragraph said rev Salvage so profound the greatest challenge of the arcade was not the arcade itself was coming down from the mount and finding that everyone all the idolaters are living out they're living a very comfortable existence they're having children and grandchildren having Grissom and bar mitzvahs they're enjoying life and I who are dedicated the night of faith to a Muna and I have to experience and undergo the chat this this tremendous experience this travail of the arcade of having to sacrifice my son says nothing the greatest achievement of our wrong was saying nothing his silence as we see also in another Parish of beneironment silence is sometimes just something that it's like a thunder that without raising a voice that's that is a claim an admission if you will and a statement that God is righteous we don't understand his righteousness the Bali kabala speak very often as you know about Gil gulna shamos this is the only answer that we could come up with perhaps in explaining Untold and unexplicable tragedies but whatever your hashkafa is the challenge is to accept this as part of divine judgment you know during the second war during the Holocaust there was a country in western Europe that was neutral who's that the Swift Swiss is very neutral and if a Jew somehow across the border from Germany into Switzerland you would you could Bet Your Life that the Swiss Center back to Germany that was the neutral Swiss but imagine the Swiss went through the war very wealthy you know the very successful they didn't have any suffering because they were neutral and we have to somehow accept that foreign to accept the will of God that is perhaps the greatest challenge of Tish above Hashem kimorisi this is the message before we begin the Kenneth Hashem momentarily and again I want to say up front that we may not read every single one of the kidneys we'd be here all day but I encourage all of you the Mitzvah of Yom Kina this day is day of Kina continues even Beyond khatsos and if you can find the time to read those Keynotes that we won't get a chance to read but I want to add one point we're going to begin our Guinness with a theme that repeats itself over and over again which is called Hester upon him when the screener itself the divine presence of God is so to speak lost and God moves himself and Rises to another level we'll speak about the massive destruction of Jewish communities all over the world and will speak about the concept of but I'd like to leave our discussion with one story about the mountain you may know the mild women is great commentary on the Torah he was a very Pious individual a man of great Sid Christmas but he did one thing that incurred the Wrath and the opposition of his contemporaries it's a very interesting piece of History if you don't know about it the Malden calculated through his great wisdom his understanding of Tanakh the case would come and this by the way the data is passed already and you know the leaders of the generation were up in arms the gumar tells us vacates that let the bones of of anyone who calculates when the Messiah predicts the mashiach should be rotten rotted away and the mountain went and it was makashi the case how could he do such a thing the gemara indicates that if the Cates that's predicted passes people will show them go the wrong way you know they'll start becoming deniers you know we're we're supposed to be he's not here so the Malden in his typical Style answered with emotional and he said the following there was once in the city of I think it was Nevada I'm not sure which city it was anyway there was a rich Jewish businessman again what Rich means in that day don't don't get any ideas but relative and he heard that they were doing a there was a fair a very major Fair many buyers and business were coming to the city of Leipzig in Germany and he decided he has to be there it would help his business and he hires a a carriage and he decides to take along his young son no it's an experience for his son to see the the marketplace maybe he'll learn a little bit about the trade and he warns his son that it's a long trip till we get there Leipzig is far away after a day of traveling in the carriage the son turns his father this businessman and he says to him dad you know he's uncomfortable he says what are we going to get there says father gives him a deceiver you know what the zifa is you know a stock you know and he tells him quiet down son so his son you know it was a little bit uh sensitive but he was quiet and then two days later he couldn't contain himself and again he said to his father when are we going to get there so his father told him look Leipzig is in the Horizon you can see it so his son said but Abba when I asked you the first time you got angry at me why did you now you just gave me the answer she said before when you angry was at the beginning of that trip we have a long way but now we're at the end of The Journey now it's appropriate to ask when will we get there so the Maldives said that in the earlier Generations this was the nimchal when the tainoyan knew this that the golis was going to be a long bitter golus it was inappropriate and determine when mashiach would come and predict that date but now when Sheikh is coming we're in the last stages now it's appropriate and it's so fascinating because about three centuries before the Malibu like in the maybe it was the 1500s there was a member of the very illustrious Jewish Italian family called tarani he was called the mobbit he wrote a book called um Bay solo Cube and he responds to the following question people ask them why do we pray for seon for for the Redemption over and over again and our prayers do we fool ourselves into thinking that our prayers could have an impact on the high what about the prayers of generations and generations before us of the great leaders of the tanoyam in the amoriam if they couldn't succeed with their prayers and their petitions to God how do we fool ourselves with audacity to believe that we're going to pray three times a day in our essay and over and over again do we think do we fool ourselves and the mobit says that you don't know that our praise could be more meaningful and more powerful to bring about the ultimate mashiach then the generations before and he gave two explanations one explanation he says because prayers are cumulative and we're standing on the shoulders of those who came before us but he gave a second explanation which I'm more fascinated by he says that the further you are away from your goal the less effective is your prayer but when you come close to the goal then your prayer can be effective and we live in the generations that were so close to the goal that therefore how it feels to be more effective even in his filos of by God of years by God and I thought that that really is what the Malibu had in mind so let's now I don't know does everybody have the art school I don't know if you have it if not right so on the sheet it should tell you to look at page 152 am I right I uh I only have one copy so as we read through the kidneys these are Hashem I'm going to try to do is I'm going to try to give short introductions to each Kino and then maybe as we go through a kin I might splice in some extra words of embellishment of interpretation the first kinna for a Tish above is authored of course by rebelsa khalir as are most of the kidneys at least for the first major section of the kidneys hakalir again the historians debate exactly when he lived but he probably lived in the 6th Century which may makes him a Tana and in effect learning how khalir is learning a vishnah but truth be told he makes learning a vishnah look like a cinch because he has woven together in very complex poetic tapestry hundreds upon hundreds of sources in Madrid and very often he just hints at you know what he wants to say his choice of words is very very critical it's literally like learning a vishna like learning a hazal and he opens up with the word shavas which means to terminate there was a termination something terminated something changed something drastic happened and you get the impression from the word shavas that the people of Israel did not expect the destruction which is very enigmatic because the Nivea improve prophesized over and over again that the herbal would take place but somehow we fail to take seriously the words of the prophets and we don't believe that this is really going to happen if I would give you a muscle many people unfortunately will deviate from the will of Hashem they will not live up to their requirements and fulfill the Mitzvahs but they have an attitude you know it's all going to work out you know God and I are good companions we're old friends you know he'll be mocha me he'll delay it and with regard to the Exile from the land of Israel the people fooled themselves rejecting the words of the prophets living in a fantasy world this could not possibly happen God has promised us the land we have conquered the land we're living there dwelling therein and we will not be exiled we will not be booted out and perhaps a deeper meaning which would really put so much into perspective for Tish above can be derived from the following Posse is this was the re the reading of today is on to warn the people about the tragedies about totally doing my hair my lords we will be exiled from the land and the commentaries asked the following question why does moshra better invoke says he does also in our zenu at the end of the Columbus why did he just say hey do it why somebody we tend to believe that exile is a Divine punishment for moshebenu is telling us we're making a mistake when you talk about Divine punishment you might have the attitude that God is described as Eric he's not quick to get angry he will delay meeting our punishment until the very last day of the sin is life until the last day but most Charmaine tells us something else there's something a mechanism that goes beyond punishment it doesn't operate with the mechanics of punishment it's not that the Divine being decides now the time is right to meet our punishment there's something that's built in show my envirus it's built into nature imagine the following case a person has a sensitive stomach I don't know how many people fit that description but it's quite common and he goes to a dietitian or a physician and they tell him you have to avoid such and such this is very bad for your stomach and the person goes ahead cannot overcome his temptation and he eats that which he wasn't meant to eat he's going to have to regurgitate part of the expression this is not a punishment his body cannot tolerate that Eric's Israel is it has a certain natural propensity could you imagine in the climate of emergency Israel taking some sort of a a vegetation that grows in Northern Canada you know some some polar State and it needs freezing climate you know try to grow it here in Israel it's not going to grow take something that needs a tropical climate and it won't grow everything on the face of the Earth has a certain nature to it and moshebenu is telling us that the land of Israel could not tolerate certain very severe sins like avodizoram will be vomited forth around develops this idea over and over again in his commentary on the Torah so don't think that you can square with God that you could be you know you'll work it out you know he'll wait for us and we can sin in the meantime no no the land will vomit you for this the natural spiritual nature of the land of Israel will not tolerate your sins foreign [Music] that we are like refuse we are totally you know repudiated or or rejected by the nations of the world they consider us like SRI umos like filth and these are these are even amongst my so-called friends you know we have the nation you know the United Nations you know we think we can rely on the United Nations but uh ultimately and the next word is so critical in khalir's liturgy says sakosa sakosa which really comes from the same show says sukkah that refers that protects the people of Israel but where is the sukkah it's completely removed psychosa of lagugi borai our Mighty ones have been destroyed soft and we're the people we're our friends they're standing on the sidelines and they're clapping to tell you a quick story my wife will correct me with some of the details of the story but this is how I remember it um the day that my wife was meant to give birth we were living in Malaya not to Malay to live today which is on the road to Hearts of film through Abu dhis and al-azaria all our cousins over there and that morning there was a pigua there was a terrible pigua and quite a few Jews lost their lives the Arabs blew up a it was a terrorist attack and then they were taking injured on that road to harizofim to the hospital and on the issue of my land where we lived there was a an ambulance I remember the drive of Miss Rafi remember and he offered to drive us to the hospital so my wife could give birth the our cousins were standing up lined on two sides of the road clapping because they thought that we were taking more injured Jewish people who are injured in the terrorist attacks that's soft what we have seen is the falling the sinking into the deep Waters of all our dreams all of our goals and he mentions here that we wait for the Fulfillment of the prophecy the vision of hazon Remember at the end of a sector Marcus they were walking from the Arabia and they saw foxes coming out of their advice it was shortly after the destruction and they all started breaking down in tears and Robbie Kiva was laughing so Rabbi Kiva turns to them he says why are you crying and he said look this is the holiest place on Earth the Zara Curry vumos and now we see foxes that are going there and they turn to Akiva they said why are you laughing said because I know that until the the promise of Uria Uriah was another Navi who predicted the destruction until that would be fulfilled then the promise and the prophecy of zacharya odia was located who's shall I would not take place now that I've seen the destruction now that I've seen that you shalim is inhabited by Foxes I know I'm guaranteed that the Fulfillment of the great prophecy of zacharya Novi and that will be oh Jesus and sometimes I feel that we don't appreciate as I said before what we have and what we see is Kaden was Canaan skating and scanos you know sitting in your shalayan we should really appreciate that that's the beginning of the Fulfillment prophecy RAF salvation used to tell us about a person that he knew in his youth you know of Salvation came from Lithuania the destruction in Lithuania was during the Holocaust was just unbelievable it was overwhelming and this person came from the city of Vilma and after the Holocaust ended I think the Russians freed certain areas in Ukraine and he came and he traveled back to vilna he wanted to see if there's anything left in film and he remembered there was a certain Street that had all the shuls on that street and he closed his eyes because what he saw in front of him was total desolation there was no one there none of the shoes were functioning there were no Jews around and apparently the time that he visited vilna was right around Yom Kippur time and he decided that he would go visit his parents house there wasn't much left but he was able to get inside and there was no shul that was functioning so whatever prayers he was able to pray on Yom Kippur and private he do and he remembers that his mother who was a very great sadakis is the leaf shul at a certain time let's say it was 12 new I don't remember exactly she would come back home to feed the cat because she said the cat doesn't have to fast on YouTube at 12 noon he hears a knock on the door and it's the cat the cat was coming to be fed by his mother who was no longer and all of a sudden the weight of the qurban of of vilna fell on his shoulders imagine the sense of loneliness of desolation that was what's left from the Yom Kippur of vilna with thousands and tens of thousands of Jews would celebrate Yom Kippur what's left as a cat that knocks on the door because it wants to be fed and the time see the foxes that are coming out of the kodesh Kardashian that's what's left of the base Hamas and they break down in tears it's the best that we spoke about to despair the black Despair and Rabbi Akiva sees the light at the end of the tunnel as he always does and we are waiting in anticipation for the other prophecy to come through that of it is here the the python has a reference to a measures that even according regretted what happened the destruction Alpine Frost news I want to point out that it was a big surprise to me that hakalir would mention Kate Shiloh as you know besides the base and before the base of English was built by Miller there were many misconos these were temporary botte McDonald's the most permanent and the long lasting one was in Shiloh and the mishkan lasted in Silo for 369 years almost as long as the base amigdush and at that particular time which is called the hait of Shiloh the sin of Shiloh in charge of Shiloh and people would come to bring their carbonos to eliaco and his sons were in charge of implementing and executing all the carbonos and what happened was that women who had given birth were bringing their carbon which is called the carbon of your lettuce and they were bringing it to Shiloh and the sons of Ellie procrastinated and instead of bringing those carbonus immediately they told the women that they should remain overnight in Silo before they go back home and tomorrow they would take care of the karma because they couldn't leave the Michigan of Shiloh until the carbon was brought and hazal say that that was a terrible sin the sukim if you read them they describe this as immorality as if this was adultery because I'll say that's not what went on but as a result of the fact that the married women after birth could not return to their husbands it was considered like a sin of adultery now let's be honest about it with all due respect to the sin of of hafni and pinchas I wouldn't call that immorality and the Gomorrah says but why does hakalir mention Ed the fear of the sin of Sheila I don't even understand the sin of Shiva okay they they procrastinated it wasn't a nice thing to do but that brought about the destruction of Shiloh and it's a sin that we have to think about even today and I believe that this comes under what's called which means that God demands retribution like a thin thread why because it's Sadiq is meant to live on a very high level what's for you and I would not be a serious offense for it Sadiq is a serious violation we are talking about the relativity theory of sin and Punishment for the Benet and the entire nation of Israel was dependent upon them in the mission of Silo for them on their level it was a sin like to this day the mafarian the commentaries they're I don't know endless number of of approaches to try to understand you know the terrible punishment of moshrabenu in the aftermath of the hate of may meriva yanglo hemanta be lucky Cheney what was such a big deal but on the level of emotion relative to a leader at Sadi who is bearing on his shoulders the responsibility of the entire nation that is considered a serious sin and that's the Pacha that we have over here because amongst the tragedies and the kinos that we're going to read about today A lot has to do with the destruction of the sadikim of the great leaders of the Jewish people and the python speaks about who are these people that brought about our destruction whether it's the first big Dosh at the time in the second at the time of Titus the Romans who are the people who are destroying us they were gazire they were low people the only reason we know about them is because they played the role as so to speak the messages the Agents of almighty God to bring about destruction otherwise they were the lowest of the low this is true also of the Holocaust many of those who perpetrated the most vicious crimes against the Jewish people with the lowest of the low and potsu the word potsu means to break out in cynical comment and this as we said before is the greatest tragedy of of Tish above above and beyond the physical destruction I'm not trying to limit that is the desecration of the name of God Parts those who said who are you at seon do you deserve to be counted as seon and all these are the so-called javerai the friends these are our reliable friends foreign [Music] is so typical of our enemies you know they they present themselves as if they're working on our behalf when in truth they are very often too often fooling us and the Yoshi give on they said they were going to bring out water to the Jewish people when they were thirsty and instead they filled up the the canteens with salt and many Jews perished at that time kohliabarov who me I worry myself I called out to my beloved friends and they deceived me news [Music] our flesh is darkened because the furnaces that they threw us into viewers [Music] interesting he quotes a positive again everything here is in sukim and and hazal that's all hidden and and whoa moving into the text of this poetry he's quoting a possible that describes those who stand up and declare we will destroy the Jewish people speaks about our worst enemies and they actually make a declaration they're not embarrassed about it they will declare we want to wipe the Jewish Nation off the face of the Earth and my rabbis to say in the name of his father emotion salvation there was a whole issue about accepting reparations from the Germans and there were those who were opposed to it and of Salvation himself initially was opposed to it because his father said that he believes that Germany has the status of abolic it doesn't even it doesn't mean just Germany it means all those Nations who help Germans and they declared be God and he had a Duke in the rambami was very careful about reading a certain text in the rambam and based on that text he came to the conclusion that a Malik is not a genealogical generation or Nation but rather amalek is Any Nation at any time in the history of the Jewish people that stands up and declares we will destroy the people of Israel and they therefore get our lucky status as a mullet so we're still suffering from a bully today [Music] guys the lips of the mesharim the singers of the levim you know the god the villagon used to say about the Shira salavian we have no clue how profound the songs of the Levine were he says that in our physical state today our spiritual state if we were to hear the Shira saliva our nishamas would not be able to tolerate it and the shamas would have to be poorer from the Goof that Hebrew that connection between goof and and and the Shabba would not be able to subsist and all this became silenced so we're talking about remote we're talking about the enemies just trampling and and stomping and destroying on everything that's holy foreign who's called ishtam His Image is engraved underneath the Throne of Glory and we're asking in this particular paragraph that jakov avinu should be our defense attorney out spokesman he should plea our case because his Demus is and that means that Jacob represents all of Claudius for the embodiment of the entire nation of Israel is yaakov yaakov represents the middle of Ms of Truth titanium and yaakov is the is the perfect candidate to recite because we don't see the truth over here we don't we are confused and this is a plea for vengeance we say about God Governor says Hashem there are many people who mistakenly think that the Torah is against Vengeance against Revenge it's not so God himself is defined and described as the god of Vengeance and here the python it says when we get shortly to the the Holocaust you'll see this theme appearing again and again those who survive the Holocaust who pleaded with God for Revenge because at the time the Arc of Avida we were able to see the the image of God flitz Salman is something that we should connect to Hanukkah but anyways oh God don't forget the evil that was perpetrated against us and give them to drink from the coast that very poisonous Coast let them get a little taste of their own medicine foreign [Music] remember let's see it in front of your eyes everything that was all the crimes all the torture that was perpetrated against us and the next couple of of uh kinos of khalir all begin with the word and I made myself a list let's see if I find it that's another problem oh here it is yeah I wanted to point out a few kids that we won't have time to read but just to mention that themes one you'll take a look on page 182. for a Split Second is 182 on our list I forget oh it is on our list okay so so let me skip 182 and get right back to it because that's we're going to read inside but take a look on page 192. here we go in the art scroll again if you don't have the art school I'm not yeah now each each killer has a number to it so this is the number 13. so if you have a different kind of kidneys look for number 13. we're not going to read it inside but I just want to point out a few of the highlights of this kinna by akalir which again like all the others open with the word Echo because khalir saw himself as playing an interesting role there's miguelas which is part of Tanakh and that was authored by your Mio and Novi and a khalir took it upon himself to write what's called the Taurus to interpret the Taurus but what's unique about this particular quinoa if you take a look at the word at least in my Edition again I can't tell you in yours do you notice something a little strange yeah he splits it into two words he's got a and then he has Co with a space in between and he offers a whole new twist a whole new interpretation or perspective on Echo and he turns it into a CO which literally translates as where is co what is coal Co is actually a secret password and hakalia is going to prove it to us from one Posse after the other the word Co appears over and over again throughout he starts for example with the apostle or in another paragraph he has a Zara or another person over and over again we find the word Co on page 194 he refers to apostate well for example kotomayor Le basicovus I gave Lebanese soil over and over again the word Co what is coal Co is used as I said before it's like a a secret code word Co is a word that refers to the ultimate Destiny it's a vision of the greatness of Cloudy sir when we reach our Apex our Glory then the Tanakh will use utilize the word Co y yellow means the victory of Eternity means eternity also means victory so koi element or for example Hashem takes I'm sorry Hashem takes out of his itsagninus above nature after all Sarai was an akara according to the rabbin Baha'i she didn't even have the physical capability of of having a child but cow yes that's an indication that the people of Israel are above nature or when Hashem says I will protect the people of Israel in Egypt and Carl bakar who makes Ryan commercial base Israel KO the most fascinating Co in my book is on the way to the Acadia from a video drops if you pardon the phrase excess baggage and he tells them to RM that's Eliezer and you smile stay back here I'm gonna go with my son Yitzhak up to higher Maria you you stay here stay behind why because the co of the Jewish Nation begins with the Arcada this is the co of the Jewish Nation its Essence and its future on the one in its tragedy and the other end is Glory and on this day of tishima of hakalir tells us that we're going to ask the question but a slightly different way a CO where is co where are all the descriptions and all the promises the Divine being gave us as the people of coal we are the co people and that secret of Co really manif is a manifestation of what's unique about the Jewish people where is co where are all the Divine promises and that's the question we're allowed to ask only once a year on tishabot let's go back to Vaya Kone in your Mio for a moment on page 182 number you Olive and this is a eulogy for Melech yoshio a was a great Savage in one statement in hazal he was compared to mosharabino there was no one from Moshe to ishael who is as great as he was as ishael and a python describes some of the various dimensions of his greatness and gazal tell us that Kasha misocial that the death of izadiq is even more tragic in its implications than the destruction of the mignwash and this particular quinoa in which hakalir is following in the pattern of year be oh I know in in Echo because here we go I know he dedicates the fourth chapter of to eulogy that he himself I know he gave after the murder of yoshiowa this is unbelievable at the age of eight eight years old you know we don't appreciate what children are capable of you know if he would have said this about the village of God they say that they're going to do more at six than we'll know in a lifetime but eight years old he was a tremendous scholar and at that age he was appointed King over Israel and he began to be Dore shalokov which means he looked to the people to try to determine what were they guilty of what were the sins that were common at his time that maybe he could undermine their sins and bring the people back and he found that he discovered that there was idol worship that was rampant amongst the Jewish people and you say oh I know he took it upon himself to obliterate idol worship he took all the monasteries in Israel and he destroyed them and so forth and so on but what led to his death I believe that is a reference to mits Ryan fellow husseinu amongst all the kings of Israel even Dominic properly that's a terrible sin and that's why here we are took it upon himself in our career to eulogize this great Sadiq Davidson why was Israel destroyed what sin was he guilty of he was pure he was holy he was not guilty of any sin but again as we said earlier when we spoke about God is very demanding of the tadiq and in this case the DAR the generation was guilty of a voting sorrow what does that mean after all destroyed all the other Zara what did he mess up on what was his sin US list that even though he destroyed the idols people could not separate themselves from the idols we don't understand we don't appreciate what idolatry is about and how back in the day before the Sahara was destroyed how powerful an alluring was yet Sahara tells us that Menasha was guilty of about Azora and in a later generation one of the amaroyam I think it was ravashi if I'm not mistaken he said uh Menasha get out of here like who are you you're you're an idol which so Menasha said to him if you would have been alive at that time you would have lifted up your skirts and ran to avoidazar that's how powerful was the allurement and people took their Idols their guesses as we call them and they hid them behind their doors and yes I know he was totally unaware of the fact that the people were still holding on to their idols but yet the leader of Israel is held accountable even for sins that he didn't know about somehow in the Divine perspective he should have known about it he shouldn't have fooled himself into believing that he had uprooted Zara the idols there is [Music] this last paragraph describes the death or shall I say the cause of the death of Israel how did he actually die so as it were the midterm the Egyptians wanted to pass through the land of Israel on the way to assure to destroy they were involved in a confrontation with Assyria at that point they turned to Yeshua yoshio and they asked him if they could please have permission to travel through the land of Israel they would not open up in war and here what broke out was a controversy between your Miola and Navi and yoshiowa said that we should allow them to go through the land and yoshio quoted Apostle the Torah says and he understood that was a command that we're not allowed to let any military might or Force travel through the land that holding on to acherev said no that that possum is only referring to the enemies of Israel but now Egypt wants to maintain a peaceful relationship with us so let them go through but yoshio didn't trust mitraim he was very suspicious he thought they would open up in battle and at the risk of antagonizing which he actually did he antagonized mitzrayim he would not let them travel through the land but this led to the destruction to the murder of Yeshua Miller he made a mistake it was an honest to goodness mistake in judgment and as a result they shot him and we'll see soon how the python describes the way he died katos stirras mezuzos again behind the mezuz they were Sinners they were holding on to the idolsos [Music] The Archers started shooting arrows and went through his body and the python hints at it that 300 arrows so then hey it's foreign his body was like a sieved they shot him with 300 arrows calling me to akarova's own Mozart for you somehow they they they saw that as he was dying you know with his last breath he was mumbling something so they gathered around and put their ears to his mouth to hear what they could hear the ad meat so in average myself hey Pharaoh a few rules they were able to somehow hear that last breath and what was he declaring [Music] has 22 stanzas to it which represents all the letters of the olive face and you'll be oh I know he wanted to convey the message that to give a an adequate eulogy for a person like yoshio so great who is so righteous and who saved Cloud Israel from destruction we would need all the letters of the alphabet that represents the entire Torah all songs and now we get to one of the most powerful of all the kinos on page 248 hello and this of course is the story of Asura malhus and you may recall that we recite a similar at least thematically similar put on Yom Kippur I was once privileged to be in Lakewood yeshivan Yom Kippur and when they got to the pute it was unbelievable one one student in Yeshiva started crying and almost instantaneously the entire Yeshiva started crying hundreds and hundreds of students it was unbelievable the reason why we recite that period on Yom Kippur is because hazal tell us the day of capora and through the beasts of the death of sadikim the people of Israel achieve atonement for their sins and that's why it's appropriate for Yom Kipper why is it appropriate for Tish above obviously Tish above is the day of Avalos Tish above in the avails of khurva we say that is even greater it's a it's enough it deserves a grief and a morning and avails that supersedes even that is destruction that they said and I believe there's a very profound idea here we think of the base of which it was a physical edifice that was made of stone oh and that's really not the essence of what the base of English is about every home in Israel every Jewish Home is really a mini base Amigos and when we talk about the destruction of jury we're talking about the destruction of millions upon millions of bate mcdoshos every family has its own approach its own flavor it reflects its own personality of what Judaism is all about it has its own men hugging its own traditions and God takes pleasure and is glorified by all these Miniatures of each particular family and all this is destroyed it means the base I make this is destroyed over and over and over again in the case of Sadiq of the Asus we're talking about a concept of Haru malchus when a Jew is murdered simply because he's a Jew without any fault whatsoever no crime that he committed and hazal tell us about aruguay malhus they go straight to a place in Canada and apparently Ghanaian has its different neighborhoods and that neighborhood is something which it's impossible it's it's not it's not feasible for us to conceive of what kind of gun Aiden that is and the heires trees the cedar tree how does he translate it oh the cedar tree is considered in in the Tanakh to be the most powerful and tallest tree because the sadikim are meant to have an influence on the entire generation and uplift the generation and therefore they are considered levanon is a reference to herits Israel they are this the the cedar trees of Israel Torah palette they're experts now tracing really means when you go out to battle then there are those who hold a a sword in one end and a shield in the other end the people who are the leaders of the generation they are designated to hold the shields and they protect not only the Jewish Nation but also they protect the Torah itself like the famous Marshall you remember the Marshall of a father and a son that are working in London and they passed the Big Ben so the son turns to his father and he says Dad why does the Big Ben have to be so high up so his father answers him if the Big Ben was too lowed down everybody would try to adjust the time you know based on his synchronize it with his what so the arcel of one of the idea Torah the Balia Tree Center up there to defend and protect the Integrity of the Torah there are so many so many in every generation that try unfortunately tragically to falsify the truth and to pervert the Torah perversion of the Torah is a malady that has affected the Jewish people in every generation we need to abolish racism they are dedicated to work incessantly in Torah the um they didn't all die at the same time Israel these are the beautiful cherishing jewels of Israel clear code and somehow the leaders of Israel or bahad there and God chooses them to be the the ones that are killed tahore live they are pure of heart kidosium Sanctified they died very severe deaths cruel deaths and now we start with the first one that's what shipment zero [Music] now when rep shimmy was taken out to be killed he started crying so his colleagues I don't know exactly how they were able to do this engineered but they asked them why are you crying so to this Ravi Shimon said I'm not crying because I'm afraid of death I'm crying because of the way they're killing me I'm just being destroyed in a cruel death of herev of sword so what was he afraid of says Apostle compasses mishpatim called the Inuit do you remember this and it says the posix says that the punishment for Inuit which I'll explain is the sword and Inuit means when a person is not sensitive in this case to a widow and tells a story that when he was appointed as the leader of Israel to negotiate with the Romans and he traveled to Rome and he came back trying very desperately to save the Jewish people from the Roman decrees so when he got back he said to his shamish he says please I have to rest I'm exhausted Beyond exhaustion Don't wake me up and a woman came by and she knocked on the door and the shamish said how can I help you and she said I need to ask the Remy a question so the shamish said and apparently republican from the back I cannot disturb the review he he's exhausted and A Tear Shed from her eye she thought that maybe if her husband were alive she was an almana she would have gotten a different treatment so if Shiva was afraid that he wasn't sensitive at that moment to the needs of an almano and those almada really represents those who are alone we have to reach out to them we have to feel festered and certainly not do anything that might irritate their sensitivities and that's where she was afraid of that he was guilty of such a crime and that's why he's being killed in the terrible gruesome way that he was killed Allah says foreign [Music] his daughter was so impressed with her the beauty of of this great God all that she wanted to make you know maintain some sort of image of they didn't have photographs in those days so they stripped his his his skin off his face and they made sort of like a little doll out of it I don't know when he reached the villain so I asked all companies that is all over here it's his foreign is very appropriate for you for tissue because the world itself the whole universe Shook at the time of the qurban at the time the destruction of that and especially at the time of the destruction of Rabbi Akiva who suffered a cruel death as you know hey view is he knew how do we analyze the Torah on the greatest and most profound levels you your son is most of the vehicle he recited krishma and he gave back his new showman when he got to the word [Music] could you imagine maybe a kivo is not buried because I'll say what happened to his flesh after they killed him I don't want to go into detail because I'll start crying foreign and this is the greatest expression of dim tovavo the world was created by God and we have to accept the God God's judgment then bother abuse [Music] even at the expense of losing his life he gathered together the people to teach Torah because both revia Kiva and Robert understood that the key to our lives to the continuation of the Jewish people is the Torah and without teaching the Torah were lost like a fish out of water is smaller when they caught up he was teaching from a safe guitar they took those those evil people took a safer Torah and they wrapped him up in a safety Torah [Music] they placed wool that was saturated with liquids on his heart so he that to slow down the process of his death and at that point I'm sorry according to Kumar navodaya turns to the Executioner and he says to him can you remove these these balls of wool so I could die quickly and the Executioner said to Rebecca [Music] what can you promise me if I do this he says I promise you a share in the world to come and the Executioner complied with the request and then he himself jumped into the fire and he died thank you yes he was dying what did he see in front of his eyes and he responded feeling this traffic [Applause] [Music] you see the parchment to the safety Tower Going Up In Smoke but the letters of the safety Torah are traveling to another climate another place and other locations the enemies can destroy us physically but the ocos of the Torah continue myself [Music] foreign I would like you to turn for a moment to a killer We're not gonna have time to re recite on page 270 I'll tell you in a minute what number it is I don't know the numbers by heart it's number half hey and it's called me itain roshi Mayan now we know that Tish above and the kidneys that we recite on teacher not just about the two corbanos of the first and second base Amigos but also about Jewish tragedy throughout history and this is the first kinner in a series of three about the Crusades so we're talking about right before the 1100s you know the Crusades was sent to Palestine to free Palestine from the infidels from the from the israelian but they decided that they have business on the way you know so when they left their homes each one had a beautiful you know a cross and so forth and on the way they started the Crusades in three different cities in Germany worms spire and mites if you know anyone with the name Shapiro they probably come from spire oh worms got it the worst by the way the total amount of Jews that died in these three Crusades and these three communities I'm not talking about all the Crusades was probably around five thousand and I want to point that out when I get to talk a little about the Holocaust and here we have Colony moose one of the great python and we're ready beyond the echras of khalir and he probably came very close to witness with his own eyes he was one of the baliatosis the destruction and a murderer of these three communities in Germany and he says he says if I had enough water in my eyes I would be able to to fill you know buckets and buckets and oceans and rivers of water call you mostivali and he goes on and on to describe the events and at one point which you'll see on page 272 he cries out a Torah vitalwood talmud villam probably what happened is he came back after that Crusade and he went back to his own Hometown I don't know which with the three towns he lived in and he saw the destruction with his own eyes he saw that there was no one left like the story I told you earlier about the cat and the foxes from the Kurdish Kardashian etoro where's the Torah talmud villumdale where are those students who learned it hello all I see is Desolation where are the schools where are the yeshivas who were learning with such enthusiasm with such excitement and once again I always add the comment we don't appreciate what we have today albeit Israel they were destroyed and on page 274 again I apologize if you don't have the the same pagiation but he says this is the hormone of um in other words and a basicness is considered a migdushman it's a microcosm of the basal mignon and then he says Opera foreign you can compare and evaluate way the destruction of bought akinessos to the destruction of the base of amygdos but here he is a very important line we do not add another day to commemorate and mourn over Jewish destruction you and I would have said the Crusades this should have been another day a fast day a day of mourning and you should know that the issue of Yoma on a halachic level is a very profound issue you know the Israeli government decided to add a day for the but it is in violation of this principle by one of the Rashon and one of these Tish above is designated as the day to commemorate all Jewish tragedy and we're talking about the Crusades we're not talking about the destruction of the bate but this is the day of echina for all Jewish tragedy and if we want to have a Yama it should be unteachable and that's what we're going to discuss in a few minutes but first let's look at page 304 is that on the list okay so this is kinolam at all if I had mentioned it in my opening line today and if there's anyone who's musically inclined you know knows the traditional niggan this is the comparison between you'd see us mitzrayim and the qurban [Music] foreign Korea foreign they say savior living is [Music] foreign foreign [Music] foreign [Music] I would like to give a little bit of an introduction to the next Kino which was authored by the above for the show ah and that is on page 384 if you want to turn again I don't know in other words oh did I skip something oh yeah 320. thank you so much yeah three give me a second to find the page 3 28. yeah 320th [Applause] now this opens up an entire series of kinos that were authored by the balakuzari reviews and of course all of these kinos are about seon about the loss of Theon and the Exile function but mostly about The Glory of Zion and as we emphasized see on boy drisha the Gomorrah establishes that we have to be doors seon and review that Levy a reason from Spain who was perhaps I would say the epitome the personification of the love of seon according to one tradition when he came to see on which was his life's dream he was up in the north somewhere near AKO and again they're different versions nobody knows exactly but in Arab Horseman trampled him to death so he didn't get to live much in in seon but he did come to see on what is it about Siam you know you say the word seon and automatically every Jew feels inspired he feels shall we say are somewhat connected the land of Israel and the love of the land is something that defines the very essence of a Jew you know that moshebenu was not buried in the land of Israel Joseph was and the gemara asked that question why was Yosef worthy merited being buried in the land whereas Moshe did not and the gabbar gives a very interesting answer actually it's a medrus when Moshe flees to mijon you may recall that he held till he helps out the daughters of Israel and when Israel inquires about the man and most apparently was still wearing his Egyptian wardrobe and Moshe did not say anything hazal take motion to task on the other hand when Yosef was incarcerated and they asked him who he was he identified himself as ish ivory as in every a man who comes from Ava and nor the other side of the of the of the river that's erits Israel he identified with Heritage Israel and the Ghazal say call hamotivares so again it's hard to understand what moshe's guilt is because he let them call him Anish Mitri and he let him get away with it without making a a protest but be there as it may as well points out in his seagulls this was not a punishment most Revenue was not punished because he was silent when they called the Manish Mitri but if you don't identify with the land of Israel if it doesn't mean enough to you then that's just a natural consequence you will not be buried in the land you will not have that connection enjoy see on if you don't identify with sin you'll say if identified with Theon and was buried therein Moshe was buried in the sand dunes of the wilderness and we had recently the partial these were girls who identified give us a portion of the land in the world to come when they ask for a portion there it's Israel the land of Israel represents our claim to Olam Abba to a world that's eternal and what's fascinating about about is that he treats Sion as a living personality you know usually we think of stones and ground as inanimate but seon is crying out where are my people why have you sent them into gold so that's the theme of this particular Kingdom is [Music] either in Israel or about Israel he's expressing his long yearnings to come to Arizona it's called love like the latter that led up you know where yaakovino was sleeping from the top of shemaim towards it's the actual manifestation of it's the connection between heavens and earth is Earth's Israel is imagine this man comes there it's Israel and he sees its desolate we're the Jews foreign [Music] here I have to share with you a Gomorrah at the end of a septic service that makes a big deal about Apostle in vaconena safari the Gomorrah describes the love of the land of each of the amoron each Amura the gumar goes through stories and histories they came to the land and they expressed their love for the land and one particular moral when he got to the land of Israel he wallowed in the dust of the land maybe that's the source for I don't know if you've ever seen this minute of those who come they get off a plane for the first time they kiss the ground of Israel Anna gamara says why was it wallowed himself in the land in the dust of the land of Israel and he quoted Apostle until him and David MILF describes the love for the land of Israel and he says that you are avoiding the Servants of God ratsu ratsu means a deep will for the advantage for the very stones of Israel their sapphora and for the dust of Israel on the ground along and in order to fulfill this person it seems that Ganda when he saw this passage we decided to dip himself down in the dust of Israel and reviewed our lady says I would do the same there's only one problem with that Gomorrah it's really not a problem with the gumar it's a problem with Rashi Rashi writes the following end of quote basically Rashi just reiterates he repeats the apostle no commentary Rashi nowhere in all of Shahs will repeat the Apostle you know sometimes the gearsa issue in the gemara but not an apostle so my father's told me to follow him he said that on rare occasions instead of adding something to the Rashi wants to subtract something from the gumar and this is one such occasion rashio omits the word senemar that we have an hour text to the gemara what was the why was that irking rationemar implies that opened up and he saw her Apostle until him and he says I have to be mikaian the dictum the Mandate of dominum Ellis no no no take out the original the reason why God got down and while in the dust is because not because it's apostle 15 reasons why you could stay in but if you have a desire and a craving for the lamb if you love the land cook the first Chief Rabbi Palestine cook used to say that what's the difference between a vanilla and afaro specify both he said that if would only say a pharah afarah is where we plant things people might get the misimpression that Governor milk loves the land because he can plant the seed and with the growth of vegetation from that scene he could fulfill all the midst of saturas no Stones you can't plant the thing in a stone we love Eric's Israel in and of itself even if we cannot fulfill the a lake foreign [Music] foreign it's so profound I mean it's such poetry but who has the time I mean we really have to take a month out to learn so it's a pellet [Music] foreign [Music] come on foreign [Music] if we long for the land and for the screen on the land for the beauty of the land and to be able to come into the land and connect and we will be in the land and now on page I think it's 384 as I said at the outset this whole idea of setting up a separate day to commemorate the tragedy perhaps of all Jewish tragedies and that's the Shoah is problematically we saw before the kinomies that it's it's very problematic almost almost undermines tishabo to um to set up another day and commemorate these tragedies so the appropriate day for commemorating with Salah is the availus of Tish above and as we said at the outset the availance of Tish above is twofold it's for the destruction [Music] the atrocity the atrocities and the murder the physical destruction and also for the hill Hashem and the spiritual desecration of God's name now in front of an audience like this I'm very inhibited about talking about the shower because I'm sure there are people here who would do a better job than I would do everyone has their favorite so to speak stories about the shower I remember one Tish above I took out the encyclopedia Judaica and I looked up Treblinka the only day of the year I recommend reading it is on tissue bub I mean it's just almost 800 000 Jews perished in Treblinka and they were just brought there to die there was nothing there was no labor camp or anything and he described how the how the Nazis after a while they ran out of out of gas and how they killed the Jews and one of the few survivors of tremblica was a dentist I don't have to tell you what his job was but I have here a book and honestly again this is very very personal very individual subjective this is my Bible for the shower makes you rest in peace she's not gone that long hundreds of stories she calls it Hasidic tales of the Holocaust she herself is a Survivor as you know and there are just hundreds of stories each one is more powerful than the other she actually won a literary award for this book and I have my favorite story and I'd like to share it with you you may know it you may have heard it you may have read it because to me this story that I would like to read to you or maybe I'll read parts of it at least is a great introduction to the above a rabbit that's my humble opinion now amongst the various uh survivors that She interviewed and she wrote up a summary of their interviews one of them possibly the most outstanding of them was the Blues his name was Spiro he died close to 100 years old he was in many different camps and he survived a camp that it was it's hard to even describe the atrocities of this Camp it's called the janowska camp I don't know if you've read about it the numbers of Jews that died in the parish there is beyond our comprehension not as much as Treblinka I don't I don't mean to compare but the cruelty of the Nazis there was so she has in this book six different stories from the blues of Arabia and this story that I want to read to you if I understand correctly was the only one that the blues told her told Dr Elliott that you should publish this story in other words he told it to her in the presence of his khaside who were in tears but he said that I would like you to please publish this and we'll only see at the end of the story because there's a little bit of a PostScript to the story why at least in the way I understand it why the blizzard review wanted this to be to be published so in the janowska road camp there was a foreman of a we call it the capos you know what I mean the Jews that were hired you know they were so to speak appointed by the Nazis yeah maximum two to you know whatever had to be done you know to before the Jews were murdered before the cables themselves were eventually murdered as well anyway his name was schnewis and he came from the city of levov that's an important point for the story because the belugiverebbe himself for a long period of time was in Lavo now as you know and again I I'm I apologize I'm saying things that is so obvious and so well known but the Nazis had particular pleasure in destroying the lives of Jewish leaders and if they haven't forbid God wind of the fact that so and so was the Hasidic Reva it was not a good idea it did not forebode good I mean you can get killed by the Nazis in one of many ways but not this this is not the way you want to be killed and in this camp only a few hasidim recognized him and knew he was there and it was top secret another thing that we have to know about the Nazis in maximum is that the worst time for the Jews were always would always coincide with a holiday you know many of the Jews had lost count of when the Hebrew calendar was but the Nazis didn't lose count they knew exactly when Tish above was and when Yom Kippur was and so forth now Yom Kippur is approaching in the janowska road camp and the fears in the camp mounted everyone knew that the Jews especially liked to use Jewish that the Germans especially like to use Jewish holidays as days for inflicting death and Terror and in janowska a handful of Old-Timers remembered large selections for death on subhas Torah and Purim the year before it was the eve of air of yomakipuru and the tensions and the fears were at their height a few has see them amongst the Mendel freifeld and others came and they approached the blues of Arabi and they asked them would he be willing to speak to schnewis and request that on Yom Kippur his hasidim his group would not be assigned to violate any of the 39 major categories of Labor by working on Yom Kippur the rebbe was very moved by the request of his hasida and despite his fears for he would have to disclose his identity he went to approach schnewis he knew well that schnewis did not have respect for Jewish tradition even prior to the shower he had publicly violated all Jewish holidays transgressed all Jewish law and here in janowska he was a cruel man who knew no mercy with a heavy heart the Revy went before schnewis you probably remember me I am the rabbi of prunesnick rabies schneides did not respond you're a Jew like myself the rabbi continued tonight is kolidry night there's a small group of young Jews who do not want to transgress any of the 39 main categories of work it would mean everything to them it is the essence of their existence can you do something about it can you help the Revy noticed that a hidden shiver went through schnewis as he listened to the rabbi's strange request the rabbi took schnew Ice's hand and said I promise you as long as you live it would be a good life I beg it I beg you do it for us so we still can find some dignity in this humiliating experience existence the stern face of schnewis changed for the first time since his arrival at janowska there was a human spark in it tonight I can't do anything said schnewise this is the first words that he had uttered since the rebbe had come to him I have no jurisdiction over the night Brigade but tomorrow on Yom Kippur will do for you whatever I can the revi shook his hand in gratitude and left that night they were taken to work near lav's Cemetery to this very day thereby has scars from the beatings of that night they returned to their Barracks at one in the morning exhausted beaten blood fresh blood flowing from fresh wounds the rebbe was trying to make his way to his bed on one level of a five-tiered bunk bed made of wooden planks covered with straw Vivid images from the past of Yom Kippur at home with his family and he's got to see them passed through his tear-filled eyes that that wretched night of lilium suddenly the door opened and into the barracks can be young hasid by the name of bencion rebby we we must recite called Ninja who can recite cold injury now people can't even stand on their feet ready I used to pray in your stable do you remember the tune in the darkness of the barracks amongst tens of hungry beaten exhausted Jews a melody was heard the soothing comforting Melody of Yom KIPP has been CEO Enchanted the prayer is [Music] ready the heart wants to hear a prayer we must recite called lidrin then Sam was talking to the rebbe and about 20 men gathered around them the Webbie said how can I refuse he took out his Palace we had which he had kept well hidden underneath destroyed his bunk he was about to begin called midre no one to this day knows how the new spread fast in barracks number 12 the news came they were chanting called nitrary and out of the dark Dark Shadows of the Janowski barracks one could see dark shapes against the Barrack walls as they made their way to Barrack number 12. they recited with the rebel whatever they could recall from their memory when they reached the prayers the voices were drowned in tears the next morning the Arabian a group a small group of young was summoned to schnew Ice's Cottage I heard that you prayed last night I don't believe in prayers the US told them on principle I oppose them but I admire your courage for you all know very well that the penalty for prayer in the Janowski Camp is death and with that he bowed he motioned to them to follow him he took them to the headquarters of the SS and the camp to a large wooden house you fellas will shine the floor with any without any polish or wax and you Rabbi will clean the windows with a dry with dry Rags so that you will not transgress any of the 39 major categories of work he left the room abruptly without saying another word the rebbe was standing on a ladder with rags in his hand cleaning the huge Windows while chanting prayers and his companions were on the floor polishing wood and praying together with him they were singing the flow is wet with tears you can imagine the prayers of that Yom Kippur at about 12 noon the door opens wide and into the roomstorm two angels of death SS men in their black uniforms May their names be obliterated they were followed by a foot of food cart filled to capacity noon time time to eat Bread soup and meat announced one of the two SS men the room was filled with an aroma of freshly cooked food such food that they had not seen since the German occupation white bread steaming hot vegetable soup and huge portions of meat the tall SS man commanded in a high-pitched voice you must eat immediately otherwise you'll be shot on the spot no one moved the Remy remained on the ladder the hasidum on the floor and the German repeated the orders IDE remained glued in their places the SS man called in schnewis schnewis if these dirty dogs refused to eat he called it fresen fresen is a word you used for dogs I will kill you along with them and you will die schnewis pulled himself up to attention look to German directly in the eyes and sent him in a very quiet tone we Jews did not eat today is Yom Kippur our most holy day the day of atonement you don't understand Jewish dog Roy the the taller of the two I command you the name of the fuhrer and the third right s composed his head high repeated the same answer we Jews obey the law of that tradition today is Yom Kippur a day of fasting that German took out his revolver from his holster he pointed it out anyways his Temple schneiders remain calm he stood still at attention his head eye a shot pierced the room she always fell or the freshly polished floor a puddle of blood was growing higher and bigger the Rebellion stood Frozen in their places they could not believe what their eyes had just witnessed the man who had publicly just transgressed against the Jewish tradition had Sanctified God's name publicly and died of Meyer's death only for the sake of Jewish water and the ready ants that on that day on that yomaki Purim in janowska only on that day did I understand the gamara says that even gauten Israel are full of good deeds like a pomegranate like a remote and I say this as an introduction to the next Keynote of the bavarabi because in this Kino when I read it the first time I think I missed the poem I'm going to read The Kino with you and then I'm going to leave out one line that I think we should dedicate one line of this Kina in memory of schnewis [Music] he was very hesitant to read me the right Aquino because he realized that to write an author Aquino that would be included in the recitation requires probably the level of ruachakodes but he capitulated and is a very fine footnote here which I just saw for the first time today on page 386 in the art scroll what was the mark of the patish no it's just a footnote in art school I'll read it to you it's on the bottom of page 386 in art school and he says that the reason why he gave in and agreed to write this Kino is because he he got a hold of a book called Cedar ayon which was written by a contemporary of the arizal inspired 500 years ago and this Russian Shiva inspired from five centuries ago in a book called Wright said who he has the English translation here I don't have the original whoever can well on this day should well and whoever can recite kinos should recite kinos either those directly recorded in the Holy books or Kenneth said he himself composes with the intellect that God has granted him this is an amazing statement and it means that no matter who you are you could write a keynote not everybody would accept that approach but that's what the Revy saw and he thought that this must be a Simon Minister Mayu that he should agree to write a keynote and he actually agreed that artscow could publish his Kino I think it was the year 1984 maybe what year was it do they tell you I don't know [Music] let's try to remember it's interesting that this kinner is addressed to claudi Israel and the reason why I emphasize that is because if you look at the next king again if you happen to have the art school you will see on page 386 there's a keynote that was authored by the one of the leaders of the German community addresses his to God but the remedy this really addresses his keynote at least half of his keynote to the people of Israel he was afraid that's how my take on this that we forget about the soah that we might forget about the Salah yes no generation should forget what happened our days is if you were here at the beginning you remember I mentioned to you that we took a group of 400 students to see the camps and in a sense this is a fulfillment of the rebels request that we shouldn't forget that all the generations we should transmit the tragedies and perhaps this is of the Nazi Holocaust a date is Hashem to consolations [Music] he talks about the camp called the cattle cause now he's talking to God God please never forget those cries the Cries From the cattle cause famous story about the the rebbe who went with his talbidim into the into the gas Chambers and before it was their turn to go into the gas Chambers he spoke to the talbidim and he recited issue whether he recited Hashem and after he finished the broadcast they all answered amen and they recited yes she was not noticed that in this paragraph in some of the next paragraphs he emphasizes the great Scholars if they tell me because I think he's sort of paraphrasing Apostle about the death of heavil at the hands of cayenne When God says to have I hear that you know the dam of a victim is considered like a live dumb it cries out because this is from the tree that we recite on Shabbos honestly I don't know how he quotes the possible which really implies that in this nakama that we're asking for every last man woman and child should die unless he holds like ravocious elevation that I mentioned earlier that there's a bit of our malague with regard to the Germans and therefore we should kill them Allah called the shaman Owen should survive but then I wouldn't have quoted the possible I would have quoted the Posse that commands us because to do with the Seven Nations that occupied Israel but maybe he means that Mitzvah the Mitzvah Beyond of our Malik al-ray if I be just again he's emphasizing about himself [Music] then he who lights the fire has to pay damages and I believe he's invoking that says that God feels guilty so to speak for burning the way something through his God who's torch through the shluchim would burn the based on things again he's speaking about all the cities that had within it with all right so say Ropo kilo sale who could even imagine what those communities were like like we discussed about vilna before these are those who received they received the visora and the kind name is Sarah they were good to transmit them as sorrow all of these are gone how much of the visora has been lost against me emphasizes that Sadiq is um and frankly I was a little bit disappointed I don't know if you can identify with my feelings here because it seemed to me that the rebbe was was primarily lamenting the loss of of the great Scholars over and over again but then take a look at the last paragraph [Music] unbelievable how many Jews left me sir I am by 10 you come up with six million he's not talking about this idea now he's not talking about the Russian yeshivas he's talking about every single Jew he's talking about schnew ice and every single Jew of six million is called harukus and as I said before when we when we recited arseh alvano and we can't even imagine what kind of either what section of God that is designated for these come in basement this is a very fascinating measures about you know that alcoholic is a descendant of Asa and the Matrix says it is a concept called bestowed upon asab you will live by the sword you will enjoy the the pleasures of shedding blood something so antithetical to us to our sensitivities to Jacob and the major says that beware of asav and his descents find Refuge don't confront them face to face they are too powerful of an enemy you will not succeed in defeating Asa so where should we run to and the measure says El Besame to the Run into the study hall and study Torah and often it occurred to me that this measures would fit like a glove with the famous story of the kleisenberger you know the kleisenberger rabbi lost 10 members of his immediate family during the Holocaust he endured suffering for two and a half years from one Camp to the other only I could have spark who knows how he was able to survive he even survived the death march at the end of the shower during this two and a half period of of his life when he went from one Camp to the other in one particular camp when they found out that he was a rebel the Nazis decided to punish him with what they thought was the worst punishment possible and that was solitary confinement he was locked up for two weeks he couldn't even speak words to the wood totally out of communication with with him after two weeks he comes out and some of his hasidim couldn't believe that he was still alive and he had all his marbles they sent him revi how did you survive and boy were they were surprised when he said to them those were the two best weeks of the last two and a half years of my life because what I was doing during those two and a half years and no one was disturbing me is I was studying the Torah that I'd studied for all my years I was able to pray in peace and quiet That's What I Call finding Refuge from our enemies from Aesop the message goes on and it says that ultimately we will find refuge in the Torah and I could have spark who will therefore bring about the ultimate nakama the comfort that we need to purify ourselves from all the contamination from all the contact with evil our problem is that we don't appreciate what Torah is and what it can give us the strength connecting to the source to the Torah because hazal tell us that when Aesop is Up yaakov Is Down but when yaakov is up Aesop is down so how do we achieve the goal of yaakov being up through the study of Torah and as we quoted earlier we didn't bless Hashem we didn't appreciate the gratitude that we have to have for Hashem giving us the Torah the Torah is endless the Torah is infinite it's depth it can preoccupy the morning it's the lifeblood of the Jewish people and this is what's going to give us refuge and save us from our enemies in The Kino which we won't read today that was authored by Schwab the emphasis here is on the comma a shift the entire Kina is addressed to the ribonish alone and it opens with you should remember and in this Kino RAF Schwab expresses the the idea of rev of revengeance he says go Adam we know that if a person commits murder in the case of an inadvertent murder unintentional he has to run to the Army Club because otherwise the goal Adam has the right to take the Lord to his hands and destroy the life of the road sayak of the one who killed and here of Schwab is begging to take on the role of goel Adam to write it down and in a paragraph at the end of page 386 that starts with the words call he writes collect the cries and the tears of the Jewish people over the generations into your flask at Ace elbow and I'll leave him until you could avenge their humiliation and I believe that this is based on speak about a node a certain flask up on high in a metaphoric sense where God keeps the tsakos and the demos and the Weeping tears of the Jewish Nation so I realized the lateness of the hour I had prepared a little bit of a half hour Shear for hasidus how does the world of hasidu's approach Tisch above the three weeks Tish above that comes afterwards so I don't know if I'll have time to do justice to that but I would like to raise one question and the sauces in hazal on this question are very ambiguous in fact almost contradictory who is going to build the third base of English in the measures and this seems to be reflected by the gemara as well God in heaven will bring down the base amigosi the third base of English however other sources in hazal indicate that will build the base of the Raman in codifies that amongst the various mitzvos that will be fulfilled at the time that we re-enter the land the mashiach will build the third base apparently the Rama understood that it was man who would build the third base hung and many many commentaries have tried to reconcile these two positions will the base of bigness be built by Hashem come down complete or will it be built by man and a Melody is I want to share with you one particular approach there are many as to how to reconcile these two opinions you may have heard of the Auckland there he claims that there'll be a physical base on big Dosh and a spiritual base of English but I want to share with you the insights of the my real discon who was the rush basin in the city of brisk back in little and he quotes a talmud of the god who wrote a word called the siat Yitzhak and the ciaf Yitzhak is a commentary on the sitter we have in the sitter Inu bibiniano this is show us God the construction meaning of the third baseman and give us joy bitty Kuno now when you talk about Construction in a Biblical Hebrew the taken means to construct something in the city says what's the poetic license over what's the repetition what's the difference between and some some Kuno why the double language foreign took it upon himself this challenge to try to explain the difference in those shonos and he bases himself on a majors the majors is here in Echo in the second chapter of echo you'll be oh I know he says that is the gates of the base hamidash were buried under the ground and the message asks what's this all about we know that the enemies of the Jewish people destroyed the Magnus what's the point over here to tell us that the gateways to the migdash were very subterranean what's that all about so the major chances that at the time of the rebuilding of the mignus at the time the body is sleeping the Elders of the generation will know exactly where these entrance ways these doors are buried and they'll bring it up that's without seeing Spielberg's movie right so that my real me this can ask the obvious question what's going on over here the the the doors that are based on English are buried and they'll be you know it's like ganesa they're in Canada until there's cicadem will bring up the base we'll bring up the uh ancient swings in a brilliant move that my real me disco Mara at the end of the gemara raises the following question ruvane we'll call him ruvane comes along and he builds a structure on honors on his owners land on Healthcare but he didn't finish the entrance ways he didn't build the doors Shimon comes and he builds the doors and igamara raises the question who acquires ownership over this building and the gemara concludes that Shimon owns the building because a building without doors is meaningless and he Shimon completed the construction of the building and they were thereby acquired ownership says to my real diskin according to the yalkus and it's reflected in three lessham in this if God is going to bring down the third base we're not going to be happy about that because one of the 613 myths was that we are commanded is the Mitzvah to build the base our biggest fear building the bigness is one of the 6 13. the doors of the basement will not come down from heaven the doors of the basement will be built by human effort and when we will bring those submerged doors up from the from the underworld and we will now build them and construct them into the based on bigness we will have simcha and therefore show us that billion we're waiting to see that building come down from heaven but as far as tikuno is concerned tikuna means to perfect it with Hakeem let us complete the mignon through you and effort and that's what we'll achieve simcha and will have fulfilled the midst of yasulu a brilliant understanding of how to reconcile these two sources in kazal yes the migras will come down from but not complete it's going to be missing its doors its entrance ways and that's where I could have spark who points his finger to us and we are responsible to build this on this day of tishima we dedicate ourselves to believing and praying for that double nakama that the revi spoke about here in The Kino of the above me and I'll tell you the truth if you'd asked me how could we pray for nakama so quickly in minha we're now going to pray for nakama next Shabbos how is it three weeks of morning and grief culminating in yomaki in in tishima and now boom we're ready for nakama I'll tell you what I believe is true until Tish above we are being compared the Jewish people to the ideal of the Divine requirement the ideal and the Divine being's mind of what we should be and tragically we fall shy but something changes unteachable a whole new perspective on Tish above our adversaries all those blasphemers all those guys that open up their mouth and defile and they say you're worthless who are you you claim to be the chosen people and now the picture changes completely instead of God comparing us to his with a capital H his ideal of what we should be now God Compares us to the nations of the world and no matter how far we stray and Allah what sins we're guilty of we are a thousand times better than the usola and there are so many violations that we're not guilty of and never were and never will be now begins with a change of perspective and now Hashem we want to prove to you that we deserve to be your chosen people your beloved people the other return the screening to us we will do better as we said in the kriya and the kingdom of Titus on page 390 Dominicans to stand I don't know how to stand there well look sorry foreign [Music] [Applause] Adrian [Music] praise to me [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] thank you I just want to close with the following this elizion Compares our woes to a woman giving birth and we know the suffering of a woman today there are other things epidurals and all that but still they still have natural childbirth very painful but we always say that the Gula has to come after suffering and that's really you know if a pregnant woman knows that she's giving birth to New Life it's hard it's difficult but that's what we're hoping for so all of Tish above is about the suffering of the Jewish people but it's alizion and we're waiting for that wonderful ghoulash on me what time is milk at 120 120. so yeah if anyone wants to read you know you could read shamrohn I don't know if you have that and then we'll put on to fill in oh wait we still have volcion right okay so let me just organize myself not give you energy foreign happy shortcut s so you've changed the match attention towards the one for the camera device how come I have no sound that's all turn it on no it's on mic check one two one two three four one two three four foreign hello testing testing one two one two three before receiver he has three bars a little bit okay um probably um yeah but it's still for your head and as long as you don't stand up back and forth so um how are we doing like I hate telling people if it's fine when I'd set up so it should be okay right right you know it's all perfect there's nothing set up yet I've done it before finished I'm not going to have sound in the room if there's no um Power if the pat you know blackout but this will keep transmitting in a blackout I mean testing one two I don't know you're gonna be here for the beginning at least or I'm going to dominate maybe Oscar you want to just quickly show me where the volume control is foreign thank you I'm gonna go foreign it comes out yeah but you're on the phone give me an input too yes shot side and Half-Life instead of close oh okay let's let's wipe down is that camera articles I don't see it that's the place what you think HDMI I want 1080 60pm what time everything [Music] uh 1080p today yeah before it is okay not great with the window but uh thank you it's fine the thing I'm going to put up a punch light but I took out thank you foreign right outside [Music] thank you so much [Music] foreign