Rabbi Moshe Hauer, Tisha B'Av 5780, #3- Ahavas Yisrael

upon visual rev love jewels he had an average israel a love of jews that's that was indescribable you know tish above we mourn the destruction of the day some english we also mourn the killing of at this point we could say countless jews we have of course the the six million of the holocaust that we mourn on tisha but there were millions for beta as the gemara describes the destructions of all the bhattai meghdoshis the crusades the blood-soaked history of the jewish people all the destruction and all of the tsar all of the anguish a lot of tish above is crying about people not just about the bass amigos the first kinna shava surumeni number six the first one in the booklet will say later doesn't speak so much about the verse speaks a lot more about the jewish people the suffering the jewish people ironically it's opening line shavasuru many move away from me suru tame kiru allah my quran they move away from me i'm tummy distancing it's not a it's not a it's not a joke people stayed away they kept their distance from us we speak about gullah as captain and the jewish people were despicable and they were unapproachable right we went right in our little winter here all our little year we went from 100 000 people gathered in one place and celebrating you know to not having a minion not being able to hear you know we have a couple people here in the room so that i'm not you know talking into the other you know everybody's far away from each other with our faces covered shavasuru many a lot of suffering when moisture abandons when there's a canister beneath his feet it was what appeared as a sapphire brick rashi writes with hazal say that kept that brick in front of him from the sheba mitzrayim he was remembering the jewish people who were toiling slaving away at brickwork and hashem never for a moment looked away from the suffering from the pain of the jewish people when call yesterday suffers the gemara says my head is killing my arm is killing but when we're suffering he's suffering hashem shares our pain and we always have to ask ourselves if we join hakure's borough in sharing in the pain of others maisha abana was the person who took the jewish people out of mitzrayim because he walked out of the palace out of his safe haven and he went to see what the jewish people were experiencing right now aina of the liberal elites made sure put his eyes in his heart to see what they were going through and the next thing you know put his eyes and his heart the empathy of the jewish people the empathy with the jewish people to move to action happens when the jewish people start feeling for each other i would point out to you two things just you know it's too delicious tyra maybe to say on tisha brook too delicious attire to say on tisha but it's a tire of the bay samindas and that is so we say the best we mentioned the heavens is my throne and the earth is my footstool but where on the earth is so what do we say we say that this morning say it every day in babylon uplift hashem bear down to his holy mountain uplift hashem down to his footstool and what's the footstool of what they saw the footstool of the cottage what was it it was the sapphire brick reminding of the troubles the trials and tribulations the brickwork of the jewish people in israel is home down here now one could say when the revision doesn't need a home down here he's got plenty of place but if he's down here then he could know what we're feeling he's a little bit more close to us we can come and whisper in his ear no long distance charges right jim comes down i want to see what's going on his footstool is where he feels what the jewish people are going through that's the brick and you know what shloim it's the place where hashem says amy the libya my eye and my heart is there all of the days it's the same eye and heart of compassion english is built of compassion certainly the second base of english was destroyed because of lack of compassion because people didn't care because they hated each other they spited each other because when somebody was embarrassed and humiliated people kept eating their dinner and they didn't stand up and do something about it because nobody cared if we don't notice the pain and the destruction of people the people are going through now if we're lucky enough that our job is intact or our business is intact we're lucky enough that now in our world of social distancing we have other family members in the same room in the same house in the same building we're not sitting alone but we're fine is going to be built from caring the bricks are going to be the bricks of empathy the eyes and the heart of empathy and when we mourn our tisha we have to think about all the suffering of people millions then and the millions now so i want to tell you a famous speech of the puna vigilance it's unbelievable fantastic you see the tone of jerome i started to say before but i couldn't finish so we'll try again of israel had many things which haunted him one of the things which haunted him was he traveled all the time from plunders as we said i mentioned you before i mean he he visited south africa he had a legendary relationship with south african jewelry very significant relationship with his outside having a jury he traveled there before eric's a big there is a big community of lithuanian expatriates in south africa the community in south africa is a very little community and he traveled there traveled there to help build his institutions and and more we'll talk about it later but um he left all the time when he left amazon the 28th of adar to go as a as the emissary of the lithuanian government to try to find refuge the city of pune visual company the kids came to the train station the kids of his yeshiva kitana the kids in his orphanage he came to see him off it was his last trip from punjabi they didn't know what they knew and the part of israel would repeat he said i gotta they all came to see me off and i was getting on the train one of the kids he was very attached to children one of the kids said rabbit take me with you and it became a chorus take us with you take us with you the world was collapsing it was collapsing and he was going to he said wrong in his ears one of the big tasks of the fun of giraffe that he did was he created a homes for child survivors of the holocaust the assignment orphans he did it already for the orphans of the first world war he did it near to israel for the children survivors of the second world war it was a big issue big big conflicts maybe we'll touch upon slightly later that surrounded this but he was there out in front he you would have thought he's a rav or a shiva he dedicated himself to the building of torah he was absolutely committed to jews he loved jews he loved the children he loved the children and the birthday of us he loved the children the children who grew up today are you know great people they remember when the part of israel would go on his frequent trips to merits israel he would come to them to the he would lean over them give them a kiss i'm going to be away for a couple of weeks say goodbye then to each of the children he was worship already he had hundreds of people but he knew his role he knew what he meant this was still early this was in 42 i think 43. he recovered from his illness and he uh they were what were known as what was known as what were known as the children of tehran but i mean the children of tehran so there were polish children there were hundreds 700 polish children who who escaped europe through trans siberia etc they ended up in one of their staffs was in tehran and they came many of them came from their parents israel and they needed homes they were children without parents most of them and they they and they came there's history so he created a home for them and he was busy preparing a home for them and shabbos he prepared they were supposed to come to him literally mate chavez he was going to get them from the transportation transit camps and he he had prepared and he didn't have linens he asked if he could give it to russia in the main troll in benebrach wherever it was on chavez and he and either then he was an amazing speaker everyone came the he said you know we have a parashat ivri of the hebrew slave the jewish slave the jewish slave uh in the beginning of a partisan right after the tyre is given it says he works for you six years the seventh year goes free but let's say he says i like it here i like it here so he doesn't want to leave so then there's a procedure for him staying longer so hazal say if you have a jewish slave he eats with you and he drinks with you if you're having prime rib he's having prime rib if you're having whatever it is a great wine he's having the great wine if if you have a feather pillow he should have a feather pillow but if you only have one feather pillow he gets the feather you have only one nice mattress he gets the mattress asked upon a visual of i don't understand we have a rule in the torah and the torah says that even though you're supposed to love your fellow man like yourself your life comes first right the two people traveling in the desert your life comes first so if that's the case one bottle of water the your life comes first so so if that's the case why over here if you have one pillow why do you have to give it to the slave why is it different said the point of israel of course your life comes first but the torah knows what this master would be like what's going to happen is a nice beautiful feather pillow and that night he's going to go to sleep and he fluffs his pillow and he lies down and he's going to stop for a second he's going to say what one second my evid what's he sleeping on only i should have a feather pillow he shouldn't have a feather girl when he's sleeping i sleep on some little a little piece of cloth doesn't feel right then he tosses and turns he can't sleep he gets up and he knocks on her and gives him the feather pillow he says when the tyre says give it to him there says you have to take care of yourself first and you won't be able to manage you with a jewish heart you won't be able to manage if you know you have a pillow so you give it to him first that was what the carnival said he said he said today i'm going to be getting the simon orphans are coming from the holocaust they have no parents they have no home and i have the privilege i set up something for them you all know they're gonna have a home with us right and he never called it a bassy assignment he never called it an orphanage he called it the house of fathers because we have to be their fathers this is the home which we're creating for them as the parents of this community because i have rahmonas on you because i you know i got beds i don't have proper blankets i don't have proper pillows i know you're not gonna be able to sleep tonight with your pillows and blankets you know if you know that these kids aren't going to be there and they're going to be they're not going to have it might say shabbos right after shabbos people start coming and coming and coming and coming he had enough pillows and blankets for the eventual population of the batter maybe they're still using them he moved people because of his passion that he couldn't rest you know the fun of israel was once giving it russia i've told the story to some of you before horrible story and a wonderful story it's this it's the tragedy is expressed in the story it was once giving the giving of russia i think it was in 1945 and in the middle of the dresser he's he cried out it was his son's bar mitzvah that day his son and pony visually thought was still alive was 1945. he thought he was still alive they'd been killed relatively quickly after he had set up the the the poured the foundations of the basement in thomas of of 1941 they were all slaughtered and uh he said today would be his bar mitzvah today is his bar mitzvah and he cried we went on in his russia and and and people came over to him afterwards and they wanted to comfort him and he said yeah i i have my child but there's so many other children he he refused to allow himself to get caught up in his own thing in his own issues his own things alone rav lau of israel mayor lau tells the story when he came to paniwish as a talmud to be examined be to be for admission to the yeshiva and he gotta hear from whomever and then he uh he uh he said i wanted you to go to meet the ponyville he went to parliament and he said [Music] he said what's your name he said my name is israel he said where are you from this is from his arms just hugged him remembered him they were both leaders in cloudy israel together many times it wasn't just him every child every child was tucked in i want to mention it when we finish this guinness part of the program i'm going to project hopefully it'll work through the through the zoom two short films which are very beautifully done at lunch with a man named reuben falmouth and you wish a lion last trip here at israel not eight months ago seven eight months ago and he mentioned to me that he worked on a film about the punisher ponyville so he sent sent to me and there's one and one film about the birthday of us about these this project of these orphanages or whatever we're gonna call them he didn't like that term the care that he had for each person he cared for jewish lives nemt mir mit my wine tells an incredible story beautiful story it might even be on that film i don't i don't remember that's the beautiful beautiful story or the part of his rubs later years spent a lot of time in florida because there were a lot of jews who traveled to florida for many months and it was a place where he was able to work a lot for the yeshiva my wine was a rabbi in miami beach and uh and that's israel miami beach and he as a result developed a very close relationship with the bone of israel the thunderov i want you to invite to your house all the young families in your shoe from between 20 years old and 40 years old i want all of them to come to your house for parliament so rabbi wine said the rove it's not worth it they're not the ones who have money you want the older people the young families they don't have any money one of israel said i'm asking you to make the meeting they said he never he was not a demanding person he never asked him to make a parliament meeting at all like what's going on so fine fun of israel have asked him so he and his wife made a parliament meeting they prepared food all the young couples came from twenty to forty conventional got up to speak their wine introduced him told them who he was gave him a proper introduction of it gets up to speak he says one and a half million children were slaughtered in the holocaust there are one and a half million souls of those children are floating around in this world they're looking for a home you need you need to create the next generation of jews you need to have children he didn't ask them for a penny he asked them to have children to replenish the ranks of israel i was israel everyone knows it everyone who met the pawn of israel that's why they get all misty-eyed that's what they remember the incredible love that he had for jews of every kind hillel zeidman was a writer involved in many many things from before the war during the war post the war zidane remembers hearing the pun of israel speak before the war and remember how he spoke about that for you so we say as we say in shalom we don't just have just love to do kindness you have a love of kindness not a a mandate to do kindness but a love of kindness it was so apparent his caring and his love of kindness he came by it honestly the part of his roof himself used to say that his mother his mother when they didn't have wayfarers poor people at the table his mother would say to herself on their breath i such a sad empty table nobody to share with such a sad empty table nobody to share with his grandmother would have travelers who would come traveling on the dirt roads of the of those towns and villages and they would prefer to go to sleep in the main room next to the furnace so they could warm their their cold bones they would fall asleep whatever time she would take their clothes that they were muddy and wet she would spend half the night washing the clothes and then setting them out to dry so they would have clean clothes for them in the morning these travelers foundation considered it a big part of the lit bishop personality a disdain for selfishness disdain for selfishness he wanted to to do for others there was a story that he told that he was very happy that he heard from one of the litvaks that he knew in south africa who told him that his father woke him up in the middle of the night and said excuse me but could you give your bed there's a guest there's a travel that just came through and the person said to his father he says well what am i going to sleep on his father had his hammer and he was knocking up the hinge pin from the door of his bedroom and he took off the door and you lay it down he laid down on the ground so you have something so he could sleep on the door he would be sleeping on the floor he would sleep on the door he says really i should sleep on the door he says yes he says you know you're gonna have a bed tomorrow night and you had a bed last night this fellow was traveling to i don't know what he's left on last night i don't know what he's going to sleep on tomorrow night the the pawn of israel loved that story he loved that story it spoke of the simplicity of hesed what made him have obviously thrilled the baby got it from his mother maybe got it from his grandmother maybe he got it because he was a little i have to tell you the amazing story that the fun of israel would say something which he attributed it to it's a it's an astounding story with a spectacular post script the stanley story is that uh the punisher of and you know i've told you as always when we do this in a fraction of the story of the fun of israel but he spent three years learning in radhan he was already an accomplished he had learned for years and tells after he left home to go to learn with a better mother when he was 10 years old he was bar mitzvah away from home he left him when he was 10 years old he entered tells very very young because he impressed raf who came to the town where he was to give a shirt and um he was in tells for many years and then he went for a short period of time to the navardik yeshiva to the town of the varnik into the maybe six months and then he went a little bit and when you picture the conversion of the time it's not it's not like two peas in a pot right because you know we have him as a very austere serious tabitha the pandavas rav was a personality that filled the room israel spent three years he considered the israeli and whatever he did he always wanted to think what would the huff have said he came to radha and he came to the house of the hobbits and he came you can come in wait here and he comes in and he sits and he waits in the in the simple room and he hears someone wailing crying like crazy and it's going on a little bit and he's sitting at a certain time you know responsible he goes over to the reversal and he says is everything okay and she says yeah you know that's the that's the the love that's kind there's a woman in the community who's going through a difficult childbirth and their husband came they asked how it's kind to them so he's dabbling for her said that when he heard that that this rope is dabbling like this for for a person and he's wailing and crying at that moment he decided that he's giving himself over to the catholic sky the times gonna be his teacher and his mentor that's the best story that helps you understand where this empathy where this care with his love and just come from but the the spectacular postscript that almost almost not worth saying it because it takes away from the human miracle here is that that that the pane of israel said the story in the basement of the lower east side in manhattan when he was there once he spoke and he said the story and the fellow came over to him after the speech he said did that happen in 1908 and the son of jesus said yes so that was me that was me he says i i know when i when i grew up i know my parents told me that my mother had a very dangerous childbirth my father went to the sky while during the childbirth and the time that him very hard and as a result that was born go figure at another time in the same area the punisher of david gave to russia and he told this story and someone else came over to him and this person was one of many many many hundreds of jews who were in this category jews who had come from europe who had a rich rich background and now we're in a very different context and we're very different now some of them were you know turned to resent loyola to hate the world of faith but some of them didn't they had good feelings that they would sometimes go to rekindle and this person wasn't from at this point in time who was an activist in the labor unions which were you know socialist hotbeds of you know many many jewish people who turned away from their faith but he heard that the fun of israel was speaking there and he came and he listened and he came over to the point of israel afterwards and he said that he as a young man went to went to raven to learn whether he was very young man and he came to radha and he didn't know where he was going he arrives by train in the middle of the night and he walks in the city and he sees a dim light coming from one house he knocks on the door and the person answered person answers the door says can i help you he says yes i came here i came to try to find yeshiva the person said just rest here in the morning in the morning we'll help you find it and he went to sleep he says he remembers he went to sleep the person put him to sleep next to the stove gave him something to eat put him to sleep next to the stove and he remembers as he was sleeping the person took his coat and wrapped his feet his legs in his coat so he would be warm he came to the house light was on in the middle of the night he was learning he says he says you know i've traveled a long way but my feet are still warm from from what the profits did for me to feel for others there's a story in the gemara second verse yes how it sits alone the city that had so many that was teeming with a large population and now it's kalman now it's alone widowed right then it says cry she shall cry at night with the muscle tears stain her cheeks so the the meadow says the gemara as well similar thing will he lama balaila why at night because sound travels much more at night the devil said lila maesha at night people more readily lament myself there was a story with a woman that lived in the neighborhood of ruben gamble and she had a benthic iris she had a young strapping son umace he remembered the destruction of the base amigdas and he wept with her at shannon until his eyelashes fell out he was so weeping so much they cry and they get others to cry along with to stimulate others to cry and there are those who hear that they're those who get it i'll tell you a beautiful thing from the big hearts on the phone of israel first visited eric israel in 1935 he came to cabaret he was a crying his name is kahanaman and he had the abbasi he came to to uh he came to cabarocco and he couldn't go inside but he stood outside and he said he stood there to daven and he heard inside a woman diving and she was crying mama mama mother mother as you can hear it never heard it before he was very moved and he said now i understand the possible which implies that she brings others to theaters because you see people go back to the mamma rocco they go back to the mother and they're moved to tears she doesn't just cry she touches the emotions of others and gets others to cry but not everybody cries it needs the right heart to cry not everybody like leo would have taken the tears of this woman joined her in crying and cried over the base hamilton's cried over the fact that there's so much pain in the world because the world isn't right because the world isn't fixed but one of the giraffes said i can't you can't put your head down on the pillow if the if the other doesn't have a pillow how could you you won't be able to sleep have rahman is on you you won't be able to sleep that's an awesome israel that's a love of the jewish people that's care that's another liberal you guys made sure he was completely completely enraptured with him i want to end with a thought i've shared it with some of you before i think it's something which is essential for urban advice and i think it's something which is essential for us now i made a conscious decision not to spend all of tisha bus back speaking to you about coronavirus i think we we have our fill but a few moments to focus on what we're what we're going through is extremely extremely appropriate and important i want to share with you a ghazal that's in the gemara that says as follows cries every day three times a day three times a day he cries over the fact that his children aren't ghosts and the gemara says it tells a story about the ici who entered one of the vice one of the abandoned buildings destroyed buildings and the gomorrah says that elio navi came to him and said to him you know it's not only then but whenever jewels get up in their body with russia's in their shules and their bhattai madrish and they answer yahei shmayagar hashem shakes his head and he says ashrae fortunate is the one who is praised in his house in this way woe to the child who had to leave his father's house and woe to the father who had to send the child children away from the state when paulie still comes together in the show and we do what we're supposed to do we say that our biggest wish in the world is that hashem's name should be known and should be sanctified is the name of hashem should be great the name of hashem should be uplifted in a world that he created according to his will be created with something in mind may it be living up to what it's mine may the name of hashem be blessed and we want it and we want it says that's the stuff that the base of english is made of that's what hashem cries he says you know it's a blip i wish they were with me i wish they were around my table i thought i had to send them away i for them that they have to be away that's what hashem remember is every time there's a glorious thing when we come together and we do something glorious to be makadi to sanctify his name in the world that makes hashem say uh it could be this could be only this could be something we could be together creating the great kiddush hashem of the english woe to the father who had to send the ways doesn't have his children at his table well to the children who can't be of their father's day you know we're supposed to have empathy to each other we also have empathy for the revenge we speak about shrinter the shrine is us as we miss him we get the metaphor now i think better than before families were not able to be together for a long time to some degree still a significant degree still you know i uh like many just separated i don't don't uh complain at all at all at all at all but you know family members who will see each other would be together don't have it the same so i don't go to sleep alone in my house you know we have people there but there's separation there's tremendous separation tremendous anguish tremendous pain people who aren't able to be with each other people who are alone can we relate now a little bit more to the tsar of the shrine can we focus more on the tsar and the anguish of those people many many people who because of this pandemic and they left their parents table their parents their children the parents don't have the children around their table the shrine cries how can we be comfortable you know who the mashiach is right the um a resting place for the strong one of yakov said i live in a palace made out of cedar wood and hashem's hashem's ark is in a tent in a temporary dwelling was sensitive he couldn't sleep at night because hashem didn't have a proper resting place so we have the pawn of israel we have david we have the person who shouldn't be able to sleep at night because either their servant or the orphan from the from the holocaust doesn't have a pillow under their head we have the rebellion who feels bad that his children aren't around his table there's so many people who don't have their children visiting them or with them their parents with them and the revenge on this is us there's one common denominator to all of this and that is to have a big heart and open eyes and realize that it's not just me it's not just me and the way some english will be rebuilt when we have lofty thoughts about the pain of the shrine lofty mystical thoughts maybe i don't know i think david amelo's thoughts were much more grounded i think the real ones which will rebuild the base i think this is when people start thinking about what other people are going through they aren't lofty mystical facts they're just plain human sensitivity thoughts and hillel taught the person who came to convert i'll teach you the tire on one foot if you insist and what is it what you don't like don't do to somebody else asks rashi that takes care of the being right that takes care of the interpersonal what about the religious stuff what about the first lua what about the first tablet says there's a positive that says your best friend just treat the robuston like you would treat a friend he's been a good friend it's been a pretty loyal friend to us for a while just treat him like you would treat a friend is the rule for the whole tyrant is to be people with hearts without us israel with love of others the love of the jewish people you