Tisha B'av 5783/2023 - Rabbi Azarya Berzon: Light Emerges from Darkness - Live from OU Israel Center

about the kinos and all that we're going to experience today after all we recite the same kinos year in and year out and everything that we did last year we're going to do this year etc etc we have for example in mitzvah on the night of passage of cyprusius does that require every year a super khadosh [Music] what is it about Tish above that requires a haspeljada something new every year I want to quote a safer called him [Music] from Lakewood and I've never seen this before except in my preparation [Music] and he quotes apostle and the measures on that post the message says that is something in night time that is very powerful and profound to lead a person to Becky fine then the majest goes on to tell a story about Ramadan I'm going to read the language of the majors a woman who lived shall we say next to a terrible UMES and she had a young son who died she was crying over the loss of her son during the course of the night foreign he heard her cries and he reminded himself of the Quran foreign he cried together with her action [Music] they relocated her because it was too much showing up Leo was crying incessantly until his eyes were ill-affected but the question we want to ask you is what does that mean the word IMA indicates that there was some integration between her crying in his but after all he was crying for the qurban abayas she was crying for the loss of a son rahmoud Islam so what does it mean what's the emphasis here in the medrish on the word Ima and the answer is and we'll sort of jump forward for a second in order to come back the brisk of rubs and Carl of Rocco was asked should we establish a separate day a separate fast day for the tragic losses of the Holocaust and he quoted akina which Emirates Hashem will recite this morning roshi Mayim and that kinner was authorized authorized by ravclonimus and he writes in the Kenner that we will not establish any other day as a day to mourn the tragic losses other than tissue box it's exclusively tishable shall we say a one-man show no competition with tissue and the principle here that underlies this statement of the risk of Love Is that during the course of the morning we are going to be Mourning so many different tragedies that took place during the course of Jewish history we're not limited in our grief and in our very in our crying to the destruction of the base am ignos and we're going to talk about for example in that particular Kenner that I mentioned roshi Mayim the Crusades the destruction of German jury in three major cities in worms and spiers and mountains what does that have to do with Tish above where does that connect to Urban abayas because afro foreign that the loss of these great leaders weighs as heavily as the loss of the base itself and then the mcconane adds the following sentence we cannot add another day of crying and grief and mourning no room for another day and the mcconane says instead on this day we will express our sorrow and with theosi our sorrow I will arouse says the risk of love we will not establish another fast day or another day to commemorate all the tragedies of the qurban in Europe because Angela Joseph moed chever we don't end so it means that during the course of our kinos we're going to recite kinos for the Crusades even though the events that are described in the kinos did not take place on tishimov and why is this so because apparently the ninth of of is not just to commemorate Urban abayas but rather to commemorate Israel all the destructions that befell Israel during the course of its history during the course of its long bitter goals so when we recite for example a Kino which is called arzay halavanon foreign that were murdered and died of Hashem they did not die on Tisha but we have no reason to to assume that they died on tissue box and nevertheless this is an integral part of our grief and Mourning we're going to recite Aquino called which is about the destruction of so many cart loads 24 cart loads of manuscripts of the resonim of the ashkenaz the baliatosus that went up in flames once again this did not occur on Tish above but yet Tish above encompasses all Jewish tragedy so many of the tragic events that took place during the course of Jewish history pivotal events all of this Urban of Israel is going to be commemorated on this day why and the answer is that Tisch above and whoever abayas is responsible for Jewish tragedy we want to explain this principle because I think this is the most critical introduction we could have for today I will quote to you the language here of the arachabad he writes H be Israel the message everything that took place during the course of our exile whom he told it's a result of the fact that we had a protection we had a protection God saved us he spared us but with the urban abayas his protection over the Jewish people and so this the removal of the took place at the time of the qurban is responsible for all Jewish tragedy during its history and therefore this day we mourn not just for the destruction of the migdash but for any Jewish tragedy not just for the qurban and so we're going to list all these catastrophic events all these tragedies all the sufferings all the disasters that befell the Jewish people during its long colors all this would be included in the urban Israel which is a result of and is generated by huben abias after the bias God so to speak hides his face what we call Hester upon him and therefore once this has their Parliament God so to speak lifts his protective arm around Claudia Israel then the yard the arm of assonum of our enemy have a free has a free hand and therefore we're going to mourn all the catastrophes that befell Claudius will during its period of golus throughout its history whether it's whether it's the Crusades whether it's the burning of the talmud whether it's the show a and the destruction of European jewry all this all these sorrows were generated by the kubernet bias the sauce from which it all results is the governor bias when Hashem removes his protective screen off and if that be the case we understand very well why the brisker of based on the the Italian roshi Mayim Kino about the Crusades was opposed to establish another day because that would in a sense undermine Tisch above and it would sort of confuse us about the source and the cause of all Jewish tragedy which is Quran abayas and basically we could go a step further every tragedy even of an individual if it's a low-key dark ocean if it's not within the natural course of events every tragedy is a result of the fact that I could Sparkle removed his shrina his protective love for cloudy Israel at the time when he removed that then tragedy befalls and so let's get back to where I'm Leo you remember the rubber gum Leo heard his neighbor when she cried and cried throughout the night for the loss of her young youth that loss was a result of Corbin abias because it's Hello Kitty and any tragedy even that of an individual is a result and is connected to the human abayas and so when Robert gum Leo broke out in tears for the kubernet bias it was for who it was the Bahia together with her with the mother because her tragedy like that of the human abias Was Won and the same and therefore we understand now what the python means when he says and we asked the question what is the husband the new has made of tishima year in and year out it's the same hespay that we recited last year but the answer is no that's not true because every year brings its new tragedies and every day's Claw is worse than the day before and what goes on in our world from now until last year tissue above if we take a look and we see the tragedies that befell and let's not mistakenly assume that those tragedies are not connected to qurban and to Tish above that would be a grave mistake because from the story of Robin gum Leo we derive the conclusion that even the loss of an individual that Sarah Eve in the morning of one individual the mother for our son is part of urban abayas and we can think about the events that took place in in the last year every one of us has been impacted in some way or another by the terrible events of last year the year before and the year before and all this we remind ourselves we remember on tishimov who remembers not far from here in America's rough cook when eight boys were killed who cannot remember when a mother and her two daughters were killed people from a frat who can forget about naksha who could forget about so many so many tragedies and on this day we remember those tragedies we understand that even the even individuals is part of the bahria for the qurban abayas and how much more so when there's an attack against the people of Israel as we say in our gutter because and we need desperately the return of the shrina to protect us against those enemies yaakov but we should point out that with the corona bias The Sinner the hatred against yaakov of the descendants of asaph took on a whole different whole different experience as long as stood let's not fool ourselves our enemies hated us but that hatred was primarily rooted in jealousy in fear there was a fear of the Jewish people but once the bias took place and I could have sparkle was mississaug the hatred against the Jew took on a whole different form as we're going to see in the kinos the covered Israeli Karen Israel went down down down and now the hatred for the Jewish people is because we are considered as the lowest on Earth and this is what we've seen throughout the bitter long gaulus since the kubernavius so on this day of mourning on this day of Bahia we are crying together with those individuals who experience tragedy with regard to yet the experience of Yetis which Triumph doesn't change from year to year maybe it was smarter one year than we were last year but we're appreciating the same you'd see us with Triumph year in and year out there's no room for a sleeper hadash but with regard to the haspaid for the urban abias there's a has paid says year in and year out because basically Tish above encompasses all Jewish tragedy because it's all the aftermath of urban abayas and we have a new has made every year for the recent catastrophes that befell the individuals and claudi Israel and if we would subtract for one moment to misped khadosh from our experience of Tish above then we would be left with what I call a velus hadosha the old avails but our availus for the urban is Hana we have built up ourselves over the last three weeks the driver to intensify to upgrade our availis you son of what happened thousands of years ago to a brand new Avalos and when we cried today on Tish above and we grieve it's not for something that happened so many and so many years ago two thousand years ago it's for the Sorrows of our day and very often I wonder why is it that we don't weep and we don't cry on Tish above it's so hard for us to do so and the answer is I believe we are guilty of falling into our valency and we mistakenly think that we're grieving and mourning over what happened so many centuries ago and therefore it's hard for us to grieve and to break out in tears even though I know the mandates us to cry on this day and all the kiddos do but it's hard for us but if we understand that we are not experiencing simply available but that this is the python says that we are now mourning and grieving over the most recent catastrophes that befell out people then perhaps if we feel for the orphans and for the widows and all those who sustain losses on unnatural losses then surely we could feel an availis and we could grieve and cry and mourn on this day I want to discuss for a moment with you the concept of Bain Hamid sorry we are now at the Apex at the Pinnacle of a period in the Jewish calendar called Bain amidstorm that began on the 17th of tamus until three weeks later on Tish above the destruction of the Temple We Begin that period of time on the 17th of tamus the day in which was meant to give the lujos to claudi Israel but it was the day of the eagle and Moshe chose to break the luchos that begins and kicks off a period of Bain amitsar the deceiving Shalom the slon Arabi writes every moate by definition is for the purpose of creating zikaron of met of remembering however we're not interested yadus is not focused on remembering events of the past when we have an obligation of zikaron of remembering it's because those memories they have an infinite message to teach us and if what happened in the past has no connection to the Future we're not meant to live in the past but rather to live and recall the past in order to experience the present and learn for the future that's what the word zikaron means in the context of mod so a moyed says the salon Arabian I quote Islam it has to have some sort of Eternal meaning to it and now we have to ask the following question when we are commemorating those events that took place during the three-week period between the 17th of Thomas and the 9th of Av what is the infinite message what is the zikaron that justifies this day of Tish above as the culmination of the three weeks to be a day of zikaron how does that see karon fit in with let's say the other three each one that has a very fundamental message for us whether it's herus whether it's matantora whether it's the Divine protection of the of the ananiac whatever the message is it's always an eternal message what is asks the Sloan already the Eternal message inherent foreign and he says the following on this day of Tish above we are making a declaration the qurban is not final it's not that once there was a base on migdash and that's a piece of our history it's no longer let's just go on in life let's just pick it up and move on leave behind this qurbana bias somewhat argue this is ancient history it's part of a distant past but the answer to that is a flat no we will continue to remember the base amigdash how is he Quran our Mitzvah of remembering on this day is a zikaron of chuva that's meant to bring us to repent to improve our ways to investigate with freshman and ephesh honestly are we guilty of the same sins and the same failings that brought about to mignwash but it's also a day of sepia it's a day in which we say the migration is not gone the Midas we wait for its rebuilding for the third base on Magnus we are not classifying the qurbana bias as something that belongs to the ancient past we desire we have tipia we have longing for the rebuilding for the restoration of the base on big dogs uses a term here which I think reveals what this day and its obligation is all about he calls it Gago him if I were to translate Gago him into English I can never do it justice gagawin means yearnings Gago it means longings a desire for something that was and is no longer and the swollen Arabia is pointing in a sense of finger of accusation we are guilty of falling short of Gago him we accept the reality as if there's no basement there once was you know read it in the history books where are we as far as Gago him is concerned where are our longings and here he tells a very interesting story about the oh if you throw the up the rough hey came into the ready and he poured on the table all his Sorrows one sorry after the other and he noticed that the rebbe was hardly paying attention there was no sense of empathy and he was amazed and the Revy responded you're crying over your sorrows I've cried because today we did not bring the carbon torment on his back and the base of English that doesn't bother you that's sorry you didn't put on the table who amongst us learns catch him one-sixth of Shahs and reads the carbonos every day daily with a feeling of veterans we want the carbonos we want the based on bigness we're longing we're lacking we need it do we have those Gaga our goal on this day is to achieve a state of ishtokagus of gagum of longing for something that we're hoping will be replaced and hear the Revy says and I can't over emphasize this kiddish this breakthrough of the revi I quote hey when you long for something that yearning is even more profound of an experienced than getting the thing itself and if we have got guim for the rebuilding of the base on big gosh in a profound way if we really really miss them ignash then says the revi this is the beginning of the building of the Baseline because we are now on this day beginning the process we are laying down the foundations for the base of ignorance because they got guim or even greater than the Dover atsumo who could believe such a thing to me this was such an eye-opener we have a kinner that says we're going to sing this Hashem at the end of our Guinness for today in which we compare and contrast with lion and at the end of that kennel after describing the terrible awful horrible catastrophe of in contrast to it says we end with the Folly words we are asking Hashem with all our heart and all our soul to return to us the base of Magnus perhaps the process is not far from conclusion actually hazal Commandos with SI peace Yeshua we are commanded to long for the ultimate Yeshua and honestly I have to share with you a personal feeling this year I really was fulfilling that Mitzvah properly because I was hoping the bashiach would come and I wouldn't have to present the kidneys for four hours especially when some of my friends told me that they already heard me twice before so I had to come up with new ideas so last year I spoke about tishimovic we had a lot of fun with the love this and had to classify and why is tissue called the Yom Kino all that I'm leaving out but here I am but maybe the Messiah could come and we could end in the middle in any event what's this all about it's all about gagu him when we ask Hashem to bring us back to you shall I am and it'll be sauce predicts it and this day will be a day of a simcha that longing has to be profound it has to be genuine and that is even greater than the ultimate it is the beginning of the billion based on biggest so here we are of outside on the day of tishom what are we doing we are now building the base of Magnus this is what we are meant to be doing today if we can experience if we can long for the return of the protection of the overt love that now is binister that we don't always see that love of Israel the paskins based on a possible because the possible means that this day of Tish above is a holiday it's a moment and the post he went a step further and they said even on air of Tish above we drop for many people that itself is a good cause for a moment but for the for those of us who are very marketed about saying what does it mean to drop an area this is a day of tragedy this is a day of catastrophe this is a day of crying weeping Mourning grieving over all the losses the tragic losses over the course of Jewish history from and caused by the bias and onwards moate so my favorite Posse is the arakash who lived about 120 years ago writes that anubit to him based on zacharya Novi we have a Divine promise in his prophecy that this day will become a mode of simcha visasan according because of what we call anticipation we anticipate and we rely totally with perfect faith on the Fulfillment of the Divine prophecy given to Zechariah that this day will be a moment are you happy with it I'm a big fan of the Orca no one could accuse me but in this case I'm not happy if we are just waiting for the Fulfillment of the Divine prophecy of zecharia regarding the rebuilding of the mignas and establishing this day as a day of simchandise okay right now it's not a Moet we'll wait until that happens knock on my door do me a favor if anyone here would just volunteer just wake me up when this happens you know when Zaria navis uh prophecy is fulfilled and we build the base on big Dash and tishomov is a day of susivism but today we don't have the Fulfillment of zakai we don't have the base of because we're still in a state of We Still rip at clothes we still sit on the floor and mourn and grieve on tishom of the loss and the destruction the base of mignon why then can we call it a moate today and the Orca doesn't address that question but I want to share with you an insight lived about 150 years ago in in presbury in Hungary and he says the following he says let me try to explain those two words which are his introduction to this brand new fundamental principle that I've never seen before at least myself which I think we can attribute to the example there's something happening in Jewish history that is absolutely amazing I would even add the words it defies Human Nature that some Sophie asks the following question a very simple naive question how could it be that we still haven't forgotten the qurban abayas it happened so long ago if I die enough was still shedding tears over that which has happened so many years ago and he goes on to say mashallah um he challenges us those who are experts in the history of the world show me one nation one Ube on the face of the earth that is crying over a loss that took place two thousand years ago and yet we have such a thing and he establishes the following principle the opposite of Avalos of grief and mourning is consolation we go into the avel and we fulfill the obligation of to console the bereaved however we have another principle we cannot receive and accept consolation for something that is still alive with someone that is still alive however even if immediately after tragedy we're not capable of receiving consolation because it's almost High because our loss is so fresh and our wounds emotionally are so profound that we cannot accept on whom and it's like accepting but yet despite that with the passage of time we are obligated and capable of accepting and why so that some sofa quotes and gemara says mace with regard to death and some Sofia reads this very meticulously xera xera means a Divine decree the almighty put into our nature perhaps call it a defense mechanism which allows us to continue alive live so on the one hand we say that there's no time human as long as this high on the other hand once there's Misa with the passage of time then Allah what I want to do is analyze this some sofa in psychological terms as it applies to our ability on this day of Tish above to mourn and grieve over an event that took place two thousand years ago now I apologize I don't usually like to read from my notes but I spent a lot of time writing this out so I would say it properly and even my reviews anyone who is in my age record will remember that on certain yard sites to Europe and public serum he would read from his notes so I know I like to make eye contact but in this case I understand because I'm self in the following way when one suffers Allah what we call avelusa he's intensely connected to the deceased it's almost like the deceased is still alive and therefore with that intense feeling of the loss and grief and the dead is still very much alive and he's connected to the Dead he really cannot let go it's impossible to let go there's a refusal almost psychologically to let go and in effect the mess is still alive and therefore in that state of available when we return from the grave and we turn our backs after burial it's impossible really to accept Hanuman on a psychological level however How could a sparkle counters this with xera in which a divine intervention to change human nature allows a mechanism of of gradually forgetting about the mess such that now we could be comforted but that's with the passage of time to bring the Orville back to normal life what is the critical moment in which the avel can return to normal life and can accept I would like to use the following word finality at some point the Avail senses the finality of his loss it's impossible to change it's final once the mortar the grief is final beating biologically there's no chance to bring back the dead and revive the Dead at that point once we sort of gradually let go of that grasp at that point zero shall mess and at that point we can resume again it's a gradual long very painful process and resume normal life we accept the finality I'm so fast if I asked the question why why are we crying in mourning over the loss of the base amigdas isn't it final what about the xera of a mess why are we still Mourning why are we still crying how could it be when this xera that the messes Nishka I'm gonna live there's a legend I don't know if it's true that Plato the great Greek philosopher encountered your Mio and he was crying over the qurban abayas and he asked yerbio he says Jeremiah why are you crying over the loss of a building of a structure and supposedly Euro said this is not something that you could understand and he didn't give Plato really an answer why is there known the Xavier should kick in it's a 2 000 years ago isn't there enough time that passed since the destruction of the Corbin for us to resume normal life and I missed this guy's gonna leave says that sounds so fair the active agent that brings about is Misa what does miso mean in this context death it means the finality of death it means that the bigness is gone says like some sofa we don't believe that the meekness is gone we don't accept the finality of Misa with regard to the base how big does we're still attached to the base on big Dosh there's no shikha it's like available as we described it earlier no finality we are not willing to accept that the migration is gone we cannot accept that aravalus's testimony to the fact that the mignon will be rebuilt it's temporarily missing it's ascended perhaps to what we call the Mida Mala you shall I am so Mala but conceptually the mignus is still alive and I believe that the conclusion that we derive from this some sulfur is one gigantic paradox and that is that the nakama is the availus and the avails is the very fact that we are Miss Abel and we can grieve and we can undermine the xera of Hamas this proof that the bigger still exists because after all if you ask me what's the relationship between Avalos and nakama in consolation I would have to tell you the mutually exclusive they're antithetical availas by definition means that it's Mesa Mutual of fun of and that excuse me so that real profound avalus doesn't really lend itself to tan tanhuman is just the opposite it comes to neutralize but that's with regard to velusa with regard to a personal loss for a personal loss is only feasible after a certain period of time passes and it's no longer High it's the finality of death but not so in the case of available here we have the Paradox that the very experience of grief and mourning of the loss of the migdash is itself the fact that there's no and that the Magnus is still high and therefore we cannot accept an human that is the greatest that we can have and an Avalos yes itself it's inherent in the availas the fact that we could be Miss Abel for events that took place two thousand years ago means and proves that the English is not gone because if the bigness was gone and it was Final then xera a mess we could not overcome and neutralize the Xerox and still be Miss Abel I would say that our Avalos is a queue of nakama we've not given up on the base of we have not come to accept it as final it's not part of our reality the Becky itself is proof that we have faith that we accept that the Magnus is temporarily gone but it's still very much alive and it's not exactly now live because it's not a mess it's a cry and if you ask me where is the tag human on this day the transhuman is a result of Arab values the very fact that we can be Miss Abel is a testimony that the weakness is alive that is our nechama and here I want to mention in the name again of the salon of Arabi he says there are two categories of Becky there's a Becky of yayush of Despair and there's a Becky of Tikvah of Hope and optimism Plato and the goyum they have one kind one type of Becky they have they're crying and mourning is a result of accepting the finality and despairing of Ever Getting It Back but we the Jewish people are unique we have a different category of Becky our Becky is the fact that we can cry and ain't a mess is proof for our hope and optimism and that's called Tikvah we relate to the base of big dogs as if we had just lost we can always touch the base of English with our hands me so let's come full swing back to our question says that we don't say on Tish above because we anticipate down the line the Fulfillment of zacharya's the Divine promise in the in zecharia's Prophecy but what about now the answer is now it's a Moen today on tishima we have a Moen it's the Moab not based on the Fulfillment of a future Divine promise but rather now it's a moment because we are declaring and aravalus is a proof that conceptually the migdush is still alive perhaps the physical big Dutch is not here it's temporarily as we said before ascended up to shemaim but aravalus is proof that we have the migdas that it's available that that we feel the base how big this in front of us it's aravalus that generates the sheamoid and if heaven forbid we would experience and Claw Israel would not mark this day of Tish above for morning and grief then it would not be a Boeing then it would be available we've accepted as final the destruction of the base of I believe that this is what the salon of Arabia had in mind when he said that God or even more profound than the Dover at small if we will have gagu him if we long for the Magnus if we really genuinely cry because it means that the meekness is alive because if it wasn't if we had accepted the finality of korbon then Zera shame and the possock says that when boss Sparrow when bisio if you pronounce it when she opened up the table the possible [Music] she sees a baby probably three months old crying is that Homer and she declarese this is a Jewish child how does she know he's a Jewish child so on one level of shot you can give me 15 answers to that question but we believe in Paradise there are many different levels deeper and deeper of revealing the meaning of the Torah the deeper meaning is that what she saw in little moshrabino and this little baby was a different kind of a Bahia it was a Jewish book here it wasn't a Bahia of yayush of Despair but rather it was a bahria of Tikvah of Hope had the hope and the optimism that this whole period of persecution of the mitzrim would come to an end and therefore moshebenu had a unique a Jewish what is a Jewish a Jewish hope it's gagu him and therefore getting back to the club so fair the ETS itself is really a gila it reveals that the big dush is still with us and we are building the bigness now as we mourn for them I want to share with you an insight of Isis Salman Meltzer who is a rosh hashiva not far from here in erits Israel he bases himself on a kinner which we're going to recite very soon please don't accuse me of forgetting about kidneys we will get to Kenneth and viewed what does it mean God you forgot viewed viewed is translated in the art school as rendezvous and my review of Salvation so we say that what is viewed it's the Rendezvous of Claudius rail during the three mods and when we come on and now we are so to speak cutoff says the Russia Shiva foreign comes from the word viewed which means a rendezvous with God after all Tish above commemorates the exact opposite of a rendezvous with God it commemorates our re-cook from Hashem and he says that his vadus meaning his karvus or his actus with a Kurdish Paul who comes on the two categories this is of his values we talk simcha and then is his what does that mean it's vadus that is called a Moen How could a valus indicate his actors without and in order to explain this the great rosh hashiva quotes a posse that we know by heart from says um I understand means that God we lean on you you are our protection but what does it mean that you're giving me pets and in order to explain this where Mr Salman Nelson gave him Marshall he says a father and a son were traveling together through a deep dark Forest very dark and very scary the child the son sees something in the distance that catches his fans he starts walking in that direction and before you know it the father can't find his son and vice versa the son experiences the entire night in that forest in a state of fear every single sound that he hears he doesn't know what's happening who's going to attack him so many dangers in that Forest in the morning after Daybreak the Father locates the sun like he sees him from the corner of his eye of course he's very upset with his son because his son you know straddled away he comes up behind his son and before his son could turn his head he gives him a slap on the face and the Sun is petrified doesn't know what happened turns around he sees his father kisses him and he hugs him he is so happy the nimsal says or this is Salman is that we don't realize that it's not just but it's also shift and shift is the patch that we get from a loving father we have a loving father in Heaven and it's so difficult and so challenging for us to accept suffering and all the calamities of life what we don't realize is that it's really shift and if we would understand what shift is that we have drifted away from Hashem from our Father in heaven like that son in the forest and that the father is coming around to give us that patch and set us on the right path if we would only appreciate that if when we receive punishment we would understand this from a loving father in Heaven it's shift can we accept those Marcos with joy to recognize that our pain and our suffering comes from the Creator foreign it's coming from a father who is supervising over us like a father over a son as somewhere I'll be no and therefore Governor milk says lo iraqiato you might even whether we go through the gates of mothers it's the most profound suffering that you could imagine it's shift but nevertheless it's not a shift of Sinner it's not a Karishma who's taking a Vengeance against us but rather it's a shaved Musa it's shift from the great love of a father for his son and this is what shift is all about we can begin to appreciate even in shift you are with us and if we could succeed in that challenge then says Salman will begin to understand why tishop of is called be Lush on moed it's what could that mean we asked how can you be missing and get close and Unite with your father who's hitting you with the most profound suffering how could it possibly be his vados okay I understand the show should go this father shall simcha but what is his father shall Avail us but if we appreciate that it's shift and it's the loving father in Heaven and that this is all part of a divine plan then as we said before in the name of some so for inherent in the Avalos of today is [Music] the fact a that we're not willing to give up and accept the finality of the destruction there's Noah because it's like a brand new avalis we are touching the base on vignage and that's proof that it's with us the biggest is here with us say number two it says vadus of Avalos in which we are Miss law and when we can appreciate that shift um we're going to begin now the kinos Hashem let me just announce that the first kinna that we're going to recite him it's Hashem is called shavas and if you have the art school you'll find it on page 152 if you happen to have the Quran it's on page 195. it's called number six I believe let me just double check that yeah number six again the numbers change from like for example if you have the authorized um you know the British volume that looks like this which is called um the authorized keynote for the ninth of if you have to have this it's a different number they change from one to the other but I believe that in this case in the current does it say love uh Dove say number six all right okay now as you know the author of kinos there are many authors of kinos but the main author of kinos is and the first very very long uh group extensive group of kinos were all authored by khalir where Allah as you know is a great scholar he was an unbelievable Python and much of his uh put of his liturgy we recite during Yeoman tovim not just on as the kindness of Tish above and toastness in many places actually quotes as a basis for halachic ruling that's how great of a scholar he was the challenge for us on the other hand is that um since he knew almost everything he knew all the midrash him he knew all the gamaras all the I got it is and he never footnotes it he just basically takes a word and builds on a word and his Hebrew syntax is more complicated than we could even describe that's our challenge to understand the kidness but there's been a kind of an Awakening in recent contemporary life to try to understand the Kennels if I had to capture in a couple of Senses what is hakalia's goal what is his agenda what is kid is all about there's no other word that I can find to describe it and Define it other than the word paradox the kinos represent the greatest Paradox that you could imagine and what I mean by Paradox here is from one extreme to the other there's a variation in which the kinos are meant to integrate polar extremes you know someone once compared human emotions to an electrocardiogram they know that checks the heart you know emotions fluctuate and in the Guinness we're going to see an amazing radical fluctuation of emotions in my mind that's what the human being is all about what does it mean to be human if not to have fluctuations and emotions and if I had to quote an example from the modern state of Israel I would talk to you about dollar ER and hay ER dality ear as you know is yomazi karon and you know immediately when that day passes it's yomatoos but somehow almost Define human nature the Jew is able to make that fluctuation to transfer his emotions from one extreme to the other and the kinos are focused on the one end on frustration and confusion I would even go a step further and again you might brand me whatever for saying this but I think it's even more than just confusion it's an outright claim almost like in litigation if you are a litigant let's say you're a plaintiff in front of a court and you get up and you sue someone with a claim against them and the kiddos really reflect a claim against the ribonac shalom I'm going to try to prove this as we go along but it's a profound kind of confusion on the other hand although the theme of what we call of Kalisto that we are low low down and in the eyes of the Nations we are the scum of the Earth we are sub-humans and we have no covet and the kiddos cry out I've lost my sense of self-confidence the Jew no longer has confidence in himself the challenges of the destruction of the atrocities are so intense that the only response we could have is frustration and confusion almost depression however On The Other Extreme the theme and the agenda of kinos is to re-establish the relationship between Claudia Israel and the almighty that's been lost and been broken the Kennels paradoxically are meant to prevent our feeling that we've been ripped off we've been cut off from The Amos the from the Almighty and Tisch above through the kinos is so fundamentally radically different than the response to suffering during the entire year because the entire year we can only allow one single response to suffering and tragedy to Calamity and catastrophe our response is what's called God you are righteous and there's no room for any other response and that means that Hashem everything that you did is Sadiq Hashem you are exotic God is righteous in all his ways that's the only permissible response to suffering during the entire course of the and basically that responds during the entire year is our attempt to deal with harsh reality to maintain our closeness to Hashem in the face of suffering but on this day of Tish above give me oh I know he has taught us one word and that word will project us throughout the Kennels and that is means that on this day we are permitted to have a different response to suffering and catastrophe on this day we can allow the word Echo from our lips to ask the question how is it possible how could this happen how God could you remain silent in the face of Jewish suffering and we have a special license that's unique to this day of tishomav and only to this day that we can express our frustration our absolute confusion by asking the question ultimately the answer to the question is our classic response to Jewish suffering to accept it see like I did there is no other way out we cannot leave with acha and just allow for confusion because that would mean that would mean maintaining our distance from Hashem and we want to come closer to Hashem and we could only do so through so ultimately to accept Divine judgment as righteous is the only way but till we get to that point we have a right to ask the question I am going to change my style from what I did in past years and I'll tell you why in past years I would splice comments into the reading of the kids and this year I'd like to try a different experiment with your permission and even without your permission and that is I find that you know everybody's reading kinis at a slightly different pace and all of a sudden I stop and I you know I integrate a comment tier and a comment there and nobody knows where I'm it's it's what the Israelis call a balagon so I've decided to change the approach the style and what I'm going to do is we're going to read approximately as I said before 10 10 killers and I strongly recommend that you find the time during the rest of the day to read the other kinos but we're going to focus on 10. and what I'm going to do is I'm going to try to introduce each kinner with a number of what I call highlights points that I think have to be emphasized in the kinner that follows so before each kennel I'm going to try to enumerate or list different what I call fundamental principles or breakthroughs or you saw those that are contained in that particular kennel now I noticed that there are a few people who are writing notes and I highly uh um I give you accolades for that and in the case of the kinos if you want to write notes then you're certainly invited to do so based on my introductions and then we get to the kid itself and we'll read each of those kills so here we are and we already announced the page we'll announce it again if you have the Quran it's 195. and if you have the art scroll it's page and it's called shavas now what are the main redution if I would call it that the insights of khalir of khalir in this first Canada will recite the word shavas is actually taken from in the fifth chapter of echo a Novi says and the word shavas which is the Segway for the first kinner that will recite means that everything came to a halt everything came to a stop abruptly what's abrupt about human abias one could ask after all the Naveen a hundred years before the qurban yes and how often did you mean right before the qurban predict the hormone but the first is that the Jewish people were caught by surprise despite it all it was sudden they believed that I could ask it's impossible the enemies could not destroy the Migos the mignus is invincible and so the the mcconane tells us it was sudden as we indicated earlier before when the Victor stood the goyam had a certain sense of respect for the Jewish people a certain sense of almost fear because the screener presided over cloudy so it protected us shamas this all ended our status in the eyes of the Nations changed radically immediately shove us and it's interesting that the word shavas in addition to Echo appears much much earlier before the seventh day of the week created ten things but immediately shove us all of the Divine creativity stopped in effect in a fraction of a fraction of a second shove us and that's what happens with the basement it was sudden it was immediate the city of yushalayan was destroyed there's another important theme here as we'll see it on the second line in this Kingdom Israel stands alone Bill Omarosa already said it impartial we stand alone in the community of Nations we are absolutely isolated and as much as we like to rely on our allies and I hate to say it but in this particular year and this particular historical context I think we all know what we mean when we say we cannot rely on our allies another very important Point here Cesar khalir that we're not only Mourning the persecution of the Jewish people the genocide of the Jewish people but also the disgrace and War over the blasphemy and we asked who throughout the history of the Jewish Nation there were great leaders great sadikan they would protect God's honor but qurban means that in the context of the philasphemy of these individuals there was no one there to protect Hashem Hashem is so to speak exposed without any protection to blasphemy and another very important point who are the people who are playing a role in the destruction of the mignon who are they are they great says the maconee know these are worthless people and they're playing such a major role in history and yet they're worthless they're low people the answer says I call here is because they're not destroying the base on mikdosh bar who is destroying the base God is he who is bringing about the qurban and that's the truth of it it's not the guardian who destroyed the base on big gosh it was the will of God and a khalir then takes this further and he says that Hashem himself not him he regretted and then he goes a step further and he says that Hashem is crying over the qurban of ice when apost says we believe that Ani the word I am crying is referring to you and Navi the author of echo is crying and weeping over the destruction no says Khalid that's not the platin apostle in first person is so how do we reconcile this on the one end we're saying that God himself brought about the destruction and the bigness was not destroyed by these low lives but rather by God and the qurban is an expression of the will of God and on the other hand we're saying that God not only regretted it but he cries over it and perhaps the only answer to that paradox is what hazal say that there are two different Meadows two different attributes of the Almighty this meet us had them and meet us we as human beings Flesh and Blood are incapable of reconciling two mutually exclusive attributes of din of judgment and but somehow these can be reconciled in the Divine being is somehow an integration of stocku mishpat of din and rahamim and sometimes rahamim defeats then but unfortunately tragically that's not always the case wills and brings about the destruction of the beginners but then he regrets it how could he regret it how could he cry over it but the answer is and compassion for his people and he cries and regrets over the qurban abayas in this quinoa makes reference he alludes to hate Shilo we know that in Shiloh which was the base of big Dutch was called the mishkan that stood for 360 years and the beneath they were guilty of a crime the simple meaning of the Tanakh accuses him of a very very severe crime of an adulterous relationship but gazal tell us that that's not what happened at all they were guilty of a different crime what were they guilty of when the oledis would bring her carbon after giving birth she came to Shiloh they would be Masha the carbonos they let them stay overnight and so the oledis would have to spend another night away from her husband away from her family and what hakalir is teaching us here is an amazing principle and that is that sin hate is relative to the level and the greatness of a person what is sin for you and me would would be a low sin but if it's for a great person for you and me that would not be a sin at all it would be a minor infraction but on the level of the Binet Ailee this so to speak minor infraction was considered a major sin so that it means that we as human beings have no way we don't have the barometers to measure and evaluate sin and that's a central concept in urban advice but I think there's something more profound here in this Kingdom as we said at the outset the kinner is a paradox because on the one end confusion frustration a description of atrocities and genocide the incredibly profound suffering of the Jew but on the other hand there is an attempt to bring us back close the gap between us the distance between us and the rebonish law and here hakalia makes reference this is the great prophecy of Hope and optimism of zacharya Navi oh the Asus we could read this line in the kennel with extra feeling today because we are witnessing this fulfillment of this prophecy of Zachariah it's a message of Hope and of course in this killer we'll see that the mcconane allows himself to ask questions to raise accusations and that's the difference between our values of a person experiences are values his own personal grief and Mourning there's no license for asking but when it comes to National catastrophe to Corbin abayas we have the license to ask for acha for an answer but at the end again it's the Lord is righteous and my review would see in this kinner an illusion to the ploy of the Catholics throughout Jewish history and this is so intrinsically related to teachable the Catholics cried out to the Jews how long can you continue to claim that you are the chosen people join us give up your acclaim and you could be part of the hospital the new chosen people and this was a very powerful argument when the Jews were low low down suffering so much and the Catholics would say your closeness and that relationship to God has terminated it's a thing of the past drop it your situation is so desperate join our ranks become part of a new bahira and this is all based as khalir Basin on a magician that the reach out to us with the claim embrace our religion our capitalism Catholicism because your situation is so desperate don't you admit that you're no longer The Chosen chosen people this is the depths of Tish above however it's fascinating that Revelations are khalir when he describes one moment of Destruction at the Euphrates he says that many Pious ones perished but yet they recited as they did at Shira sayam who can imagine when a Jew is being destroyed and he could sing the praise of Hashem and then there's a very profound message here in this first kinner about the enemies of the Jewish people they are the enemies of God there is no difference between those who are enemies of the Jewish people they are your enemies Hashem that's that declaration and a warning to the Jewish people over and over again throughout the kidneys and especially in this first kid and don't put your trust in their in your allies so to speak they're not your allies only Hashem could be relied on and a message of Hope that could bridge that distance between us and the Republic here in this kinner is you have taken the image of yaakovina and you have engraved it on your throne the throne the holy Throne of Hashem itself has on it cloudy Israel knesses Israel as represented by Jacob ravino and then a cry that repeats itself throughout the kinus a cry for vengeance and we say to Revolution you know what just give them a massive of what they gave us let's see how they could tolerate even a small drop in the bucket a measure of what they did to us we'll see again and again this cry for vengeance and the concept of the come of Kel Nokomis Hashem is a Jewish concept so these my friends are some of the tremendous fundamental points the breakthroughs of khalir and now I call upon all of us to read the kid Ney of Christ is [Music] don't I some Serbian of lemons [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] so let's see if we can find this in the art school it's on page 182 and in the Quran it's on page 289. yeah I'll tell you in a second one what do we say 182 it's Yoda aleph I believe let's see if I'm right number 11. this Kino which is called yoshio [Music] is a eulogy for yoshioa who is murdered now the first comment that we should make here is that this is a kinna for the death of an individual one person who died however we have a principle called foreign was a great Sadiq and we'll see this in the lament and in the hespe the eulogy of yumio over and over again and we're going to understand yoshio in historical context if we want to appreciate how great of a Sadiq was he was now why is this has paid for yoshiowa malach on the part of yimio so critical that we have to in a sense relearn it every year it's like almost an obligation on every Jew to relearn the hespade of yuriofioshio and by the way I don't know that we have too many aspedim in Tanakh but here we have a hespade again we're reading it in the keynote of khalir but in truth this has paid is the subject of an entire chapter in Echo so if you open up to the fourth chapter of you'll see that the tragedy the death of Yosh which is called sadikim that's his greatest his tragic death is eulogized here in the fourth chapter of Novi and rebelsa khalir is telling us that the very fact that in Tanakh an entire chapter of Tanakh written by the great yamila Navi is dedicated to a eulogy for yoshio and Hamill if it's incorporated into the Eternal book of the Tanakh then this eulogy is apparently very very important and therefore khalir incorporates elements of this eulogy into this Kino that we are required and expected to read annually so now we have to ask ourselves the question why the death of yoshioa Navi is of such of such proportions that it warns that we read as eulogy every year in this kennel and I believe the answer is the central concept when we finish Echo we're going to read hashivenu Hashem is the concept of chuva and although we're going to discuss later on believe when we get to arzel one on the difference and the contrast between Tish above and Yom Kippur but there's one great underlying common denominator between the two days in the Hebrew calendar year and that is true because as we said at the outset the kinos are meant to recreate the closeness and that relationship that once existed between Kinesis Israel and akareshwar and the precondition for that is true sin by definition means rehook it means creating a distance between ourselves and the rebonishable and in order to repair that distance we need truth and perhaps more than anyone in Jewish history represents a massive all-out national campaign for children and in order to appreciate yoshio's campaign for chuva we have to describe the historical context who was yoshio his great-grandfather foreign was on such a high level that they wanted his Kyo to be the Mela hamashiach that generation of his Kio was Worthy of the ultimate Redemption the Gula Slama and khazal describe how you could ask even a child in the generation of his Kiowa about the difference between one category of tumor and another category of two the children themselves were absolute experts the Torah was studied by everyone in that generation it was a generation that was in a sense above nature and worthy of mashiach and the gemara discusses why that was postponed now once we leave his Kiowa millik going down the generations we are really moving in a downward movement towards avodizora and now we have Minas you may recall that the governor tells us that his Kiowa who is afraid to pursue marriage and procreation because he saw that he would have a son named menashe and that's a famous Gomorrah about Allah we won't go into it here but suffice it to say that Menasha was perhaps the most influential King in the negative sense in all of Jewish history he basically uprooted everything that his Kio his father had built up and now our voted Zorro was the call of the day again you and I wonder what is alluring and tempting about idol worship idolatry seems passe it seems like a joke Ken stones be gods and deities that we today because we live in the postness and we don't have the it's a horrified so we don't even appreciate what the powerful allurement and influence about Azar was so if you will the evil inclination of the atar of that time was about and when I said to Russia Menasha took this to it's an extreme to the point in which I voted Zara I doubt she was so widespread that the entire period of time of Torah observance had been forgotten we'll soon see that when as the python says when yoshio came to the malhus it took him 11 years to find a safer Torah inherits Israel now you and I know that's expensive to write a say for Torah the prices seem to be going up now's a good time to invest but be it as it may what could it be then in the entire state of Israel he couldn't find the safer Torah there was only idolatry and following the death of Menasha his son took over his name was Amon very strange name for a Jewish King but in a sense it typifies that he followed in the footsteps of his father Menasha and once again idolatry was the name of the game it was the call of the hour it was so widespread that they couldn't even find a safe router hard for us to imagine how a generation of Jews could have gone to that low level and now we get to the son of abnormal yoshio imagine being raised in that atmosphere of idolatry no one knows anything but I acknowledge any Vestige of the Torah was completely uprooted by the very Kings of Israel reminds us of another figure in Tanakh in Jewish history that dates back to the beginning of Jewish history and who's that of ramadino there's actually a controversy at what age of Rome of you who came to believe in one God and there are many different opinions some say that he was all three years old when he started questioning the idolatry of his time others say he was eight some say it was 48 different Cheetos but you'll see oh meleth being raised in a an idolatrous atmosphere at the age of eight years old began to question idolatry and believe in the one God the tragedy of his death is going to permeate our entire day of Tish above and the qurban of bias region which is the subject of this kid that we're about to read was perhaps brought about by the death the untimely tragic assassination of Yeshua yawanna many of our greats have said that had ishael and Novi survived the qurba never would have taken place yes I meant to say yes sorry took upon himself a campaign of chuva to undermine and uproot I voted Zara throughout the land and he believed he convinced himself that he had absolutely succeeded in destroying of Odessa and now comes the ultimate test here is this individual this Society self-motivated to fight against the other deserve his time and this killer for one individual for one Sadiq because it says if the vasavigas was destroyed and maybe it wouldn't have been destroyed if not for the murder of yoshiowa he is called by the python the greatest king in Israel and apparently all the other kings who tried to protect the Torah and there were many of them they are described as ligdar ligdar means to create measures to protect the Torah but Yoshi in his very essence is not just creating measures he is the real thing through and through he is the belief in one God his greatness is inherent and no one has ever risen like him since the time of a Victor who is a Victor Mosher I mean it was called that Victor moshebani was the first to destroy a bodizora when he destroyed the ego and since there was no one who fought against the vote of Zara like yoshiowa wait a minute what about Yoshua Yoshua destroyed of odessor but Yeshua destroyed about Azure that was created by the non-jews the Avatar that was found at the time in the conquest of Heritage Israel but yoshioa is going to fight a battle against the evolution Israel against Jewish idols to destroy them and tragically Yosh is murdered by Pharaoh Niko of mitzrayim the Python describes on the one in the complexion of yoshio as he as he died turned dark but yet in a note of optimism the python describes the beauty of yoshioma kismo he radiated Beauty and perhaps this is added to the eulogy as a message of Hope but then the python says his meaning yes great Deeds did not help them against mitzrai and the head of God the license of the urban to the midsream to kill yoshio that license that hand of God was not moved back was not removed despite all the greatness of yoshio and Navi there was Hester upon him and God allowed this decree to go through and Hashem decided not to intervene and so yeshio was killed by 300 archers 300 arrows that pierce through his body and this event is part of tishaba because it's a turning point he was a generation of chuva he was a king who brought the people closer to Hashem but nevertheless tragically was murdered and the qurban was unavoidable what happened that brought about the murder of yoshio Hamill came to tell yoshio a message from Hashem Neko para wanted to go through the land of Israel claiming that he would just pass through bishalom with peace and the nivim told yoshioa Mill to allow them to go through the land and yoshio defied both of these Prophets both the prophecy of yumio and the prophecy why because you know she always convinced that the Jewish people had done chuva and they had successfully eradicated uprooted any Vestige of odessara in the land of Israel and I could have sparkle in parashat because I promises us a sword will not threaten you in the land even and therefore Osceola Malek believing in the people of Israel had total faith in the Divine promise despite what the nepheum warned him not to object and that's when mitzrayim decided to attack the Jewish people and as we see in this quinoa as Yosh is dying Novi comes close he notices that yoshio is his last breath is mumbling something suspected maybe he's mumbling something in defiance of God and instead as the python says what did you know hear the last breath of yose Hashem kibirisi sparisi [Music] KU Hashem and therefore as we said is the eulogy and this kinner is a huge was delayed by 22 years in the Merit of yoshioma so now we read alif here it's on page 182 and in the Quran where do we say 285. fights hello who's Carlos [Music] I won't apologize I forgot to tell you that yoshio made a big mistake because there still was a photosho going on albeit in the minority of the Jewish people and they hid it behind they hid their Idols behind the doors and yoshio and his people who came to check they didn't know that there was about azzarah and that's why the Naveen one yoshio that the Divine promise of would not be fulfilled hold is [Music] came foreign foreign [Music] foreign taxi so I do this is my survey for you we'll ask myself [Music] foreign foreign that will read is number 16 Tsar [Music] a share also which is in the Quran it's on page 300 and 61. in the art school it's on page 200 and 26. let's turn to that now I just before we introduce this kinner I just want to mention that there's another kinner that was skipping but if we have time I'd love to fill it in later because it's a very profound kinner if you just want to make a mental note of it so to speak it's kinner number 13 which we're skipping now a CO here in in my edition of the art school editions on page 192. so make a note of it because it's a brilliant brilliant kinner I mean what what does and that kid he takes the word and he splits it into two and he reads it as if it said a CO where is co now the word Co is a code word throughout for the destiny and the future of the Jewish people like for example at the Brisbane versus and the it's a brilliant kinner and every paragraph quotes another passage in which the word co-appears and as we said before on the day of tissue we have license to ask the question Khalid is giving us an insight into what the question is that about the question is where is the Fulfillment of all the Divine promises that were given with the word Co throughout because those promises of Co always indicate the greatness of the Jewish people and the love of who for the Jewish people and we're going to see it in the arcade though we're going to see it over and over again in one episode and one chapter after the other so a code just keep that in mind Now The Kino we're about to read now as we called it is about the destruction of the second base Summit so we're really now moving on to the second Magnus and the second migdush was destroyed by Titus and the mcconane is going to describe how Titus enters into the Kurdish Kardashian and he takes his sword and he cuts the parochas and what comes out of the parojas blood and he this and he determined Titus that that was the blood of the almighty yeah you see how a guy looked and um he believed that he had destroyed God himself this is the blasphemy of Titus who is going to destroy the mignwash and this is what's called in the language of hazal and certainly of hakaliers what's blasphemy it means where is God and Titus is the one who's going to ask that question where is God and he takes a prostitute and he opens up a safer Torah that means in the holy of holies and he does what he does with his prostitute on top of an open safe for Torah this is the commission of tirus of the Russia who asked the question where is God and his purpose and his goal is to defile everything that the Jews believe is Holy and what's fascinating about this macconane khalir is that he contrasts the situation of Titus to that of not of our view the sons of Aaron they brought an extra carbon and it was not within their shall we say license and a fire comes down from heaven and burns them up so on this day of Tish above we're going to ask the following question tattoos who does so much worse than another okay not about you they maybe they shouldn't have brought that car when they wanted to reach God in their own way but they suffer because the fire comes down from the Heavens to burn the karmanas on the miss path and in this case it burns the carbonos of beneiron ment is silent and what happens to tirus look what he does in the big boss this desecration of the Russia marusa where's the fire from heaven to burn Titus and my friends there's a halachic answer to this question on a logic level once the urban takes place the kadush of the mignus is gone there is no conducive to the base of Magnus well we're talking about the age that comes down from because desecration of big dogs I don't know in Jewish history that if you you know the desecration of a safe Hotel all of a sudden the fire is going to come down and burn you up I mean I'm not justifying that's a crazy thing of a safer Torah but here we're talking about the most profound fuel that you could imagine I mean if I would ask you what action could you do to be Macau that could use the base of because I don't know if you could do a better job than Titus if you come up with a better idea and yet there's no fire coming down from Somalia like in the case of Northern View but the answer holaically is because the caduceus mignos was removed with hormon again we'll talk about the producer of shrina that's something else but the migdos as a building Made of Stone loses its sanctity of with they desecrate them so with the destruction of the migdush there was no there was no age anymore there was no conducive but my friends that's only on a halachic level the mcconane is asking a question on a much more profound level and that is the Divine silence how could God remain silent seeing what's going on here and on this day of Tish above as we said over and over again we ask the question God how can you be silent and the mcconane based on a gemara in masek to get them describes foreign that there were 93 holy vessels clay Charis 93 in number again describes how on the day of the qurban or shall we say the morning after the Quran the coin goes into that particular chamber where they hid the clay Charis every night after they finish the day of avoda and guess what there were no Caleb where were the 93 vessels probably they were in Rome in the Vatican yeah and this is described here in the period of a khalir the suddenness imagine a Cohen the Acura took place so suddenly that he he naively anticipated finding the 93 clay Charis and they were gone they would take it out of the Liska because the not only did they appreciate the clay sores because they're valuable but moreover they are fascinated again they'll never admit it but on a deeper level there are non-jeujitos who are have a certain sensitivity and they recognize that these vessels have a certain Holiness to them so that if they're somewhere down in the Vatican that's not just because they could be sold on eBay but it's because there's something that fascinates the guy about the Jewish people perhaps on a subconscious level say it again unbelievable the odds of Titus look how they're taking out the menorah it's Mommy in kitten and Titus is taking out Jesus is taking out the clay amigdas and he's proud of it and it still stands in Rome today so the coin goes into the azzaro in the big doors where they kept the daily clay Charis for the daily carbon Tom in and they know Caleb he doesn't find them I have here and in the past I've mentioned this book many many times the Lord is righteous in all his ways by um Rabbi JJ shakter schlitter I just want to read to you a few just a few lines from this from this book which is based on you know the world used to say Kenneth with us what was so attractive about the vessels that they brought them from Jerusalem to Persia to shushan to Rome to any other City why did the vessels capture the fancy of akashvaros belshazzar and the vuchadnezzar by the way is I am to be a big lover of Art and my favorite artist is Rembrandt so Rembrandt depicts the night before belshazzar's death and if next time you're in London if you go to the National Gallery you could see a painting did many things to say about that painting not for now called belcher's House Feast but one of the things you'll see is that belshazzar is drinking from the clay charace from a goblet that was stolen for the base on vigorous at the time so I was fascinated when he mentions belches are here why were they interested in having vessels these vessels in their possession something in the Jew intrigues the Gentile in and of itself that's not a bad quality it may be the Torah maybe Shabbat the Romans and the Greeks cannot understand what Shabbat was all about why do you let the animals rest on Shabbat why not work them seven days a week they could not understand they cannot comprehend the idea of the Kurdish Kardashian the holy of holies is anyone there no one's there but only the screen is there they didn't understand anything about this they simply rejected Torah but yet nevertheless paradoxly they're intrigued by the Torah he says it always captured my fancy the Gentiles do not understand the commitment of the Jew to the land of Israel to air it's Israel what's wrong with the United States you're rich you have prominence you have all the education opportunities you want your children have a great future here why do you have to go there apparently and all the Pagan Kings who destroy the verse some English kept asking their Jewish servants what attracts you why do you want to rebuild the base Amigos something attracts you to the base of but why they simply could not understand and this fascinates me personally because as I told you before this legend about Plato and Yuri oh I know he's response was there's no way I could explain to you why we're crying today two thousand years later boy after the base I think it was destroyed I can't explain it to a god thereby is foreign over the laws why do we want to be building a of a structure of a building they don't know what seal extrina is they don't know what screen is all about there's another idea here in this kinda that we're about to read that should be emphasized and it's based on a possumio and Novi who is a reference to the Almighty awesome means he is Shackled In Chains and could you imagine saying this caviarco about to be bonus on that he's Shackled and changed it's almost as if as we said before to meet us had been of judgment without compassion had Shackled the remote very hard to say it but it's in this kinner is tied himself up and then he says that what's going on over here gazal tell us that when Titus took over you shallian he called together four generals and he situated each one of the General in a different side Northeast Western South in order to take over the arabias and destroy the basant why did he need four generals four generals to take over the big Village not only that because I'll say that three out of the four generals succeeded and the one on the west did not succeed and hence we have the kotila maravi the Western Wall what is this Western walled out why is it so significant that the python has to tell us that Titus of Russia could destroy every one of the walls on three sides with three generals but one General failed we don't know why he failed was he unable to destroy the fourth wall say that the screener resides over the coastal Nairobi it's a majority and the meaning of this message I believe reflects what the Raman paskins in the sixth chapter of his face that the caducea of the makama migdash even after destruction still stands today because the Kiddush the sanctification of the Kurdish Kardashian was the Leola this cleaner is never voided and the screen of resides over the fourth wall on the western side that was not destroyed and is going to make a big deal about this including it in this quinoa and then he alludes to a most tragic event as the Gomorrah describes it in kitten when Titus or vispassian we don't know exactly who made the decision they sent 400 Jewish children to be used in an immoral way and the gemarian kitten tells us foreign [Music] that they were deciding what to do these young never children pure children and the idea was suggested that maybe they would jump into the ocean into the river into the sea and give up their lives rather than be violated and there was a whole discussion ptosis mentions it there whether or not halachically it was the right thing to do and they turned to one child who apparently was the scholar amongst them at a young age and he darshaned a possum into him it says and he Dash in the dead Posse indicates that God will Resurrect The Dead even from the ocean the depths of the ocean and they understood that that was a meaningful answer to that question and first the 200 girls jumped in and then the 200 boys followed suits they had a cavachoma if the women were violated in a then how much more if the men would be violated which is unnatural and they jumped in so we have here in this kinna the story of kirish Hashem that is told in this Kingdom so let's read The Kino now I have it here on page 226 what page is it in yours in the Quran 361.p name is foreign [Music] foreign Karma [Music] everybody [Music] of those words foreign [Music] the very next kinner you Zion into here it's on page 232. and this is Akin about the intense suffering of the khurman which crazed the Jewish people they were crazy the the intense suffering just stripped them of of the most basic Elementary normal human feelings and emotions how could we even imagine a woman who could cook her own child and eat it now notice that each line in this kinna ends with alele let's emphasize the word Lee woe unto me and just like in super you see Smith's trium we say of others as if he himself left me so I'm so too on the flip side with regard to qurban we are called upon to feel as if we left yerushalayim that does not Merit the rebuilding of the base of Magnus is and one could argue what did I do why am I to play and yet it's like an act of Destruction and it's very hard for us to feel that we are guilty but yet as we said earlier today in our introduction look at the clothes that we see in front of our eyes every day when our enemies are destroying us and we don't know what tomorrow is going to bring we only have the kinos and the Avalos of what we said was a mispaid to cry over the new calamities and a python describes how mothers used to weigh their babies before the qurban they would give their weight in gold to the base of vignage but now at the time of the Seas when everything intensified and they were crazy and the python describes the Widow of doeig who ate her own precious son and every line ends with alili the word alili is in the present tense grammatically it's as if it happened right now in front of our eyes it's Apothic and eelie Lee woe to me I don't know what to make in the calamities I'm in a state of confusion am I guilty and here the Makonnen describes the suffering of mothers and children and sometimes he becomes so graphic that I I'm bewildered you know he makes us go through the pain and the suffering perhaps and I think I heard from our Salvation once that the McCone wants to invoke meet us harraham as we say there are two sides to the coin he wants to invoke Divine compassion look at what's happening to us look at the carbonos that was suffering remember them see them in front of your eyes Hashem have compassion look at the suffering there are descriptions in this particular Keynote that convince us kavioko that this was written as a cater for the Holocaust empty goes now the makone describes how they took the hair of a woman that was attached to our body tied it to a horse well salvation used to tell us that he had a first cousin by the name of yeshiah reverse glixen was married to abrahim's daughter and the glixens had a son by the name of yeshiah who have salvation's first cousin just a little bit younger than Raph Salvage salvation says he knew him well in the week of his marriage the Nazis in varsha got a hold of they tied each of one down to an automobile and they rode through the streets of varsha at a speed of 70 miles per hour so this story that's described here in the Kenner could have been written in the year 1942 to describe those things and then the python says the following [Music] he translates it is could it happen that heaped on one stone were nine carve him measures of children's brains and once again we know this about the Nazis the first thing they did when they liquidated the Jewish people was to take the children I don't know how to describe it uh it's Psychopathic they had special pleasure for killing and murdering Jewish babies by throwing them against walls until the blood would come down so here's the python describing events that took place two thousand years ago and he could have written it today and then he says the Holy Spirit of Hashem raged that against the Jewish people Hashem responds with hearts judgment with medasadev into Imperium [Music] into ourselves it is [Laughter] [Music] foreign [Music] good afternoon [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] who martyred themselves and this you'll find number 21 RC alvanon which appears here in the art school on page 249 or 248 on the Hebrew side and in the Quran on page 400 and 15. the gomorrah's sauna tells us the python compares to Clay kodesh the holy vessels Nasir vitoro the word Atara literally translates as a crown is no doubt an allusion to the villain shall Rush and I try to understand why chares has the halachic power to sanctify anything you put inside the cliche race anything put into the vessel automatically becomes coded the same thing applies to him as bad and his back also sanctifies that which you place on top of them is bear and you could say perhaps that the villain shall Rush represent the karachatura the intellectual Torah and the Asura rugemal who's represented the kohatur the power and the authority and the transmission of Torah from one generation to the other the python calls them Bali treason which means they do battle they do battle in defending the fine points of Jewish law they represent intellectual greatness the crown of Torah which corresponds to this film shall rush and they are going to transmit Torah to the Next Generation in a motif of Yom Kippur in the khazursa shots we have another put which is called Ayla eskara about the 10 great martyrs however that's an entirely different Makai there's a whole different reason why we read the Asurion tells us that the death of itsadiq is the source of kappuram here on Tish above on for a different reason a difference and that's why is it that the loss of these 10 great Scholars and for that matter of any Sadiq is compared to the qurbana bias and the answer is because there's something called the Miss Sora of Torah the Torah the scholars of the generation are in charge of transmitting the Torah and without the Israel there's no transmission there's no sorry and basically what we're looking here is at a loss that's Irreplaceable and it would have an a terrible effect for all of posterity this could this period called that is the elephant and this Kino was authored by rabbit we're not sure who he was but he was definitely one of the baliatosis and in contrast to the period that we read on yomaki Purim we make a big deal about the sale of Yosef and the ten great Martyrs who replaced so to speak because para the atonement for those ten Schwartz Josef here it's omitted is relevant when the subject is and if the question is why did these 10 Martyrs die we're going to mention the source of sin the root of all division in cloudysville to this very day and I don't have to tell you I didn't see the newspaper of today but I'm sure it's there without even looking it's all because the makira Joseph that's the root that's the source and if we want kampara then we have to work in order to be makhapra for that sin put on Tish above our subject is a different one it's not kapora it's not that each one of the ten Martyrs was like a carbon and we have a din we have a locker that a carbon is we say no when we recite the carbonos that itself engendes kappara so when we recite the carbonos of the assure of those carmanos but today we're not focused on kaparu we're not focused there's no emphasis on sin we are just simply mourning the death and the destruction the disasters the calamities of hormone and in truth it may sound big dust was destroyed that's just stones but now we're talking about living people we're talking about Kiva Rivia Kiva was destroyed by our enemies because they wanted to cut off the root that connects Claudia's thrill to the Ramones aloha and that's Ruby Akiva he's the Torah of the father of toshibald bear he dies about his death which is gruesomely described here in this period of of Isaiah lavanaugh and why because of xera shmad because they want to destroy and uproot the Jewish people this is the subject of tishabov Isaiah Alvord traces foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign because your service foreign I'm so full of full episodes [Music] sovereign let's get the numbers half gimmel and you'll find it in the art school on page 260 and in the current on page 439 foreign my sin caused the destruction of the Temple now we said before when we discussed the kinna for the death the murder of Yosh that in the kinos we have occasionally a shift to the yacht to the individual and the kinda that we're about to read is a perfect example of that fundamental principle and it's all based on a Gomorrah that tells the story of two masters to captors that met in a certain place and each one was boasting one was posting that I'd I captured a beautiful Jewish boy he's very good very good looking and etc etc and the other was boasting about a daughter a girl and as it turns out this boy and this girl were actually brother and sister and they were the Son and the daughter of Ravi shmuel the coming God they didn't know neither one knew that the other one was captured and these two masters got together and they decided you know what let's marry them off one to the other and we'll produce beautiful children and then we'll sell them on the market as slaves and so forth and so on and igamara tells us to get in that the two children not knowing one from the other but knowing that they were about to be mated he thought he was being mated with a shiv khashi with an avid and they cried throughout the entire night the gemara's languages as follows they cried incessantly until they passed on so the python says let's not lose sight of the individuals these are two children we don't even know their names we're not talking about National catastrophe and yet there's a keynote for these two about which about these two children yeah at the beginning of acha cries out any any yard of mine and the gomoran getting that we mentioned asks why the double language any any one iron for the boy and one iron for the girl Allah people are apt to forget the individual you know we get absorbed in the calamities the national disasters imagine you tell somebody young or old that six million Jews perished in the Holocaust can anyone comprehend six million I mean the number is maybe we can't even fathom it so very often when we hear about these National catastrophes we lose our ability to in a sensitive way connect to the tragedy but yadus has never forgotten about the individual and even at a time when the entire Community is on the brink of Annihilation like at the time of these children of the going God all nevertheless we don't lose sight of the individual and once again I want to just read to you something that I think is very important on tishimov to read here in the name of salivation thank you he says in yadus the suffering of an individual even an unknown individual matters we mourn for two individuals a young boy and a young girl in the same manner as we mourn for the ten Martyrs or for the thousands upon thousands that were killed during the Crusades we have a special kinner just for these two individuals a young boy and a young girl it's as if not two people were involved but a hundred thousand people who is supposed to remember an individual boy and a girl taken captive by some slave Traders we are we did not forget the individual even in the midst of a national disaster and upheaval even when we are telling and retelling the story of the greatest of all catastrophes in our history the qurban abides we mourn not only for the Jews of worms for the tombs of mayenza for the Jews of spire not only for urban you shallian not only for the base of making those we mourn for two young individuals whose lives and deaths did not change Jewish Destiny they didn't play a major public role they were not leaders of Scholars but simply speaking a young boy and a young girl are as important to us as the greatest of our leaders some peoples on the face of the Earth are so engrossed in National tragedy they forget the individual but yadus is different it's very important for us to remember the individual even during a Time of national distress and before we read the kin I just want to say I'm reminded of what we said in our opening comment in the name of the year that in Kenner number 24 says and as we said and we describe this in great detail we remember all the tragedies and they're all caused by and connected to the human abais and so it makes sense that will emphasize these two individuals and mourn for their loss so here we are number half gimmel that's right [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] and by the way if you turn the next page you'll see what I quoted at the beginning but now we're going to skip the next key and go to the one after that hey so we are very basically going from hey roshi Mayim and this is the kinner for the Crusades in in the art school again it's number 25 in the art school it's on page 270. and in the uh forager 55 in the current I should have circled this page before okay roshi Maya as we said is an all-inclusive concept it's not just limited to the terrible tragedies that took place the first group of the second Quran and perhaps at the end of the Inquisition the expulsion those events took place on tishma but now we are including in urban based hamidus a broader concept of tragedies that took place on other calendar days not on tischief and this beginning of a series of Kenneth about the Crusades is the main kinna for the Crusades now as we said the main theme of the kinos is the loss of Jewish Pride is the sense of Jewish insecurity with throughout the goals and all Jewish tragedy eventually can be traced back to the hormone and again we mourn the qurban but we also mourn the aggregate malhus we mourn for grams we mourn Crusades we mourn all the people that are killed in terrorist attacks any Jew who's killed because he's a Jew that's part of the morning of Tish above no matter where in the world he was killed Tish above is relevant today just as it was after the one day a year we set aside in order to think about the Horrors and the catastrophes and the suffering and all of this basically leads up to the question that we're asking on this day how could it how could it be how could we maintain a close relationship with who in the light of all this suffering we're going to read here this kinner something that defies you can't even say it and let it off off your or if your lips in which people killed each other rather than submitting themselves to the Crusaders to the cross we're going to read about fathers who killed their own wives and children and in Allah terms this is a big issue whether or not you're allowed to actively kill someone you know suicide you know it's to passively give yourself up to die al-qirish Hashem that's one thing but what we're seeing here in this Canon apparently the mcconane approves of it is actual murder for the sake of Hashem and as I said the halachic justification of propriety for such a thing is very very questionable we're going to read here about the loneliness of the Torah the Torah takes upon itself a personality here in this kinom right easy the python describes how he saw the Torah ripped up to shreds and the Torah is lonely as Torah is in a state of mourning and loss why is that statement so relevant to the Crusades H Israel believed that as a result of the Crusades Taurus valped the Massaro would be totally lost because the thousands upon thousands of Israel that were killed by the Crusaders represented the transmission of Torah to Future Generations we're going to see a statement here in this kennel that answers a question that always bothered my mind there are two receptors in Shahs which are very very difficult and what's coming to these two masectors we don't have Rashi and all of the events that surround the Crusades really destroyed to some extent we don't have the Missouri that we should have had there's one line in this kinner that should be called to our attention hello and welcome you get the impression that the mcconane may have gone back to these three cities and visit them after the destruction and the pogrom and after the Crusades he was very familiar with these three cities the cities of worms of spire of mcgansa these were the centers of Torah learning in that time and he was familiar with them and he asked the question I'm used to seeing and hearing all the Ruckus all the thousands of Jews that are arguing about the Torah and its interpretation where are they me and Yosef am I ready to described that in the year 1931 he spent a year in vilna before the war obviously Maybe he was preparing for his Doctorate at the University of Berlin in any event after a year in vilna he returns to Berlin and he completes his Doctorate but he was very familiar with the city of vilna because he lived in vilna for a year in 1945 he visits the city of villa after the war and what did he see he saw a cat he inquired about the cat because one Jew who had survived the war made it to Villa on Yom Kippur and he went back to visit his house where he was brought up and he tells her of Salvation that his mother was a very Elohim you know as most women in those days were you know it's a very Pious woman and she raised the cat and she's the feed the cat on Yom Kippur she went to school like all the Jews did and she would come back in the afternoon when they were up to master Yona in order to feed her cats a cat doesn't have to fast on Yom Kippur and the rough says that when this man visited his house at four in the afternoon there was no one alive anymore except for him he hears a knock on the door who is it it's the cat and he broke down completely broke down you know hazal talked about after the human the foxes were there where was all the excitement to the avode and the carbonos and the pirate Kahuna all that was left with foxes the place is so desperate and if you saw a villna it is hey there in 1931 with tens of thousands of Jews and then you saw it in 1945 and all you could see is a cat you felt the herb and this mcconane goes back to these cities where the Jews thrived and the baliatosis were passing on them is sorrow it's so fascinating there was a serious kashash that the entire Messiah would go down with the death during the Crusades of these three citadels of Torah and to this day we don't appreciate it we don't understand the miracle of God that the Missouri continued even after the Crusades foreign let's read the killer together is [Music] okay [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign come on I don't know [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] I highly recommend if anyone's interested in the story of these three Jewish communities and how the Crusaders on the way to Jerusalem decided to Implement these pogroms I highly recommend the art school commentaries on the bottom on the footnotes I mean he's got pages and Pages you know going through you know quite tragically the one single person who's probably most responsible for for the Crusades to taking a path on the way to Jerusalem and Destroy Jewish communities was actually a mushumud he was actually someone who was born Jewish anyway if you want you know I highly recommend it on Tish above you read the story of the Crusades now we're going to take a look at lamid Alice which is number 31 H2 card and we're going to read it on page 304 but first a little bit of a background and then we'll sing this together some people have the meaning of standing for this once again I'll just read one or two lines from the art scroll here he has a very very fine introduction here he says that the midrish cites numerous examples of the startling contrast between our triumphant Exodus from Egypt and a tragic exit from concrete neutral line when Israel left Egypt their hearts were a flame with a fire of love for God and an unquenchable desire to receive the torahed harsinai but as the defeated Jews trudged out of you shalimes runes into captivity hence the Arch of Titus right their hearts were crowd were shrouded in Gloom and Lamentations were on their lips another tragedy which occurred on Tish above was the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492. now just to take a break from what I have here in front of me a photocopy of a page from the safer of relio aquito of which artscow makes reference to and he says the following that on Tish above when they marched out of Spain after the or during the Inquisition he says of course on Tish above we don't listen to music but it was a special unique exceptional ruling at that time on that Tish above in 1492 shekola yotsimani give there would be a band playing shirei would actually lead you know lead the entire March and what was the purpose of this special to allow it was um to inspire the people with a sense of gladness again this goes back to our concept that we discussed at Great length of but here is even though they were leaving their families and their you know their uh Spanish country where they had all their and their houses their belongings and they were going out with just the shirt on their back nevertheless Hashem would not forsake them they realize you know the Christians were the Catholics would um you know ask them before you know they forced baptism and they said look just bow down to the cross and you're fine and instead they decide not to bow down to the cross and instead they they marched out of the land and they were Omi benisayan all this is attributed to the almighty God who gave them the ability to be Omi binisayam and we have to thank Hashem with this music and dancing I know for me personally I would have had it you know find it very challenging to dance at that time but anyway he says there was another message here in this in this whole beautiful procedure with the van she ain't out of a vacuum we should never be crying if we leave a country of golus you know an FH benefis we should not be crying ain't Lana who live cult we should never be bulkhead the only time we cry is alive only when we leave when we leave you shall I now why is it so important that the mcconnain creates this contrast between vitsimi with Triumph if it says and this comes back to our original point about the paradoxical almost confusing nature of Kenneth on the one hand but say see Mutual lion we are confused we are suffering we don't understand how God could allow this to happen but we have a ray of Hope that we suffered him with Triumph for almost two centuries and yet we left with an Ava he has a love for the Jewish people and he loves us even when we are an emerging Nation like but says and if it means that as we said before a loving father has to discipline his children but it's all within the context of love this is as we mentioned in the neighborhood this is and that's the Paradox of shift and this is the greatest challenge that we face as Jews to be able to experience terrible tragedy kurman and yet have faith that this is part of a divine plan of shift it's all for our benefit and to achieve us and feel like a loving father is disciplining his children I saw in the writings of the salon of Arabi the nasiva Shalom a muscle he says that a love of a father for a son can express itself in in different ways let me just um he says Israel as bonim because the possible he says that we are born in there are three categories of Love of a father for a son he says the simple basic foundational level of Ava is o How great is the love for a father when a father and a son are together and the son is bringing nagas to his father however then there's a case of abenham the sun is on the other side of the world is he very rarely sees his son says the son of a revi on this level the hours even more intense because of what we discussed before the god grew in the longings for his son the ace oath is a third category of Ava ola al-kulana listen to the third most profound level of Ava that a father could have for his son the Sun is dangerously ill and he says there's no one else to save the life of his son there's no other surgeon available except for the father himself he's the surgeon no one else can save his son at this particular point foreign I will be penis I'll leave I don't know the psychologists who could either confirm or deny she says that the greatest armor is the average that the father feels when he is actually implementing a surgery slicing into the bus or to the human flesh of his own son he's so perplexed how can he do such a thing but he knows that he's saving his son and he does it out of his sense of Ava and in the nivsal he says that the greatest Ava that Hashem has for us is daftka when he has to do this so to speak this surgery and so when we integrate yet together with and we understand that all the things that the python is going to describe here and the suffering that we endure during itsya Smith's Triumph despite it all he ends this spirit with the words how can we see the simcha that's inherent in the avalis of Tish above that is our greatest challenge to realize that this is the shift that the availance itself is and to appreciate that just like God's Ava was beginning at the time it sees me try him so too even at the time of the surgery even at the time of the fall and the destruction you shall live hashems Ava foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] sweet s my Lord lets me so this is [Music] please foreign [Music] give us a story please number 36 here in the art school it is on page 328. and in a current it's on five five now this is the first of a series of ten now I'm not going to use the word kinos here I'll tell you why because I wouldn't classify these next 10 pieces as kinos they're not Lamentations I would almost classify them as as songs of praise as Shira with and of course at the head of the 10 is going to be about Levi on a lot and this is the first of ten and he was also the author and that's what he's famous for of a book called the kuzari review the lady the author of The kuzari he was probably the greatest poet in Jewish history although I'll talk a little bit about his father-in-law may have been greater than I don't know we'll see but this is reviewed our lady he was an individual who is in love with erits Israel madly in love as we would say there was nothing that he wanted more in his life than coming to erits Israel exactly what happened when he finally arrived is a matter of controversy according to one Legend he was actually trampled to death by an Arab Bedouin immediately when he stepped ground in the land we don't know if that happened or not but be that as it may this opens up a group of ten pyutam I'll call them not es but rather pyutu all dealing with the word seal that's why he opens up with the word seal all dealing with the land of Israel and basically to understand that the land of Israel was selected by the Almighty it is the chosen land now what does the word seon mean animology it's very difficult to know what the word seon means conquered a place called seon in Tanakh which was under the nation of yavusi and apparently Vanquish this land with a great difficulty it was almost it was at the end of the Conqueror of erz Israel because left this battle to the end so Xeon really means a place that is protected and it is very difficult to conquer however I would suggest perhaps an alternative translation of the word seal and this I base myself on the balitalia the altar rib when you bury a Jewish body then you put up what's called a seon Kevin which is a marker so that the car and it will know that there's a Jewish body that's buried there but when we use the word a marker or a pointer what we mean is we're telling you something essential about a certain person or a place so basically Xeon really captures the essence of a Jew the essence of a Jewish Nation the essence of the land of Israel which is called Zion and of course of you shall I mean when he writes this authors this period is still in Spain and he says in the spirit foreign who could give me wings that will enable me to soar far away to cover the distance between Spain and xion because from you thou lady adored everything about Earth's Israel in his perspective Eric Israel was not just the land that was beautiful on a physical level as we say but more importantly on a spiritual level the land of Israel has a different kind of atmosphere a different kind of air and in his perspective the air that one breathes and airs Israel is not the same air that he breathes outside of the land even though biologically in chemical terms it's the same bonds and the same you know the same oxygen but on a spiritual level it's something totally different and he describes waking up in the morning opening a window in Arizona letting the air come in and what comes in it is the breath of ruach of the Holy Spirit you know I'm thinking out loud here that moshrabenu in this week's power show according to gazelle praised 515 prayers just to allow him to enter into the land because most remainder realizes and appreciates that the heir of the land of Israel in a natural sense is unique it's different because I'll say Avira the erits Israel Machu something about the land the breath of air in the land of Israel will change us will impact us will uplift us trouble that we have is we take it for granted you know I'm not going to ask you how many people have been in the to the coattail you know I mean I'm not talking on tissue but I'm saying the rest of the year we take it for granted you know we live with the kotho so who goes to visit the culture anymore and I'm including myself in that Guild so we we tend to miss the point about the land of Earth Israel pleaded to at least be buried in Eric's Israel and I could have sparkle refused and most Romania will argued but wait a second Jose if they brought his remains to aretz Kanan why can't they bring my remains even if I can't enter into the land at least to be buried in the land and most raped who is buried in the sand dunes of MOA why and who said that when the benoists love Khan I'm sorry when the Benoist Israel said to Israel who saved you they answered it was a mystery and you said nothing but when Joseph was taken down to him it's right and he said he identified with the land that's me abrah nor the land of Israel and he who identifies with the land will be buried in the land so this is not a punishment for most Revenue but the reality is as of claimed it's the great rashiv Amir describes it that if you don't identify with the land then the natural result is he won't be buried into Lynn and we are challenged here through the next 10 piutim of Zion to identify with the land to appreciate what's unique about the land and we take it for granted to realize that the air that we breathe here is suffused with sanctity and with ruach that all of the prophets and the Naveen prophesied only inheritance Israel or at least about eres Israel in the case of your physical and this is what rabuda Levy wants to explain to us but why are we going through this a major chunk of Tish above perhaps the last shall we say a quarter or at least a fifth of of the Guinness are these ten seons why and the review of Salvation taught us over and over again that there are two distinct obligations that we should not miss out on both of them they're equally important what is to appreciate image to remember your saliva the destruction of your salon but there's another flip side of the obligation and that's to remember you shall lie and bitty in its beauty and the purpose of these pyutim of Zion is to appreciate the beauty the wonders of herits Israel foreign in order to appreciate as we said before the extent of the catastrophe in the story I told you about vilna we have to emphasize the great beauty of your shalim if you don't appreciate the beauty of your saliva as we will Through The Eyes Of You the lady then we won't appreciate the catastrophe and the destruction but here I want to point out something that I find amazing in this particular pewd now again I can't tell you in your addition but if you happen to have the art scroll and you turn to page 330 we're going to start reading on page 328 but just to jump the gun a minute on page 330 line three and I'll translate into English he says I intensely cherish your stones and favor Your Dust I will fall on my face upon the ground this is based on a gumar at the end of his Eccles that describes the love of the various Israel the land of Israel and the gabbar tells us about Ganda that when he arrives in the land of Israel he got off his camel or his donkey I think America doesn't tell you what and he prostrated himself on the land his gal Gil Biafra he rolled himself in the dust of Earth's Israel said never because the person says it to him your servants oh God love the stones and they cherish the offer of erits Israel I don't know if you've ever seen anyone who arrives in the land of Israel for the first time gets off the LL plane and he bows down and kisses the ground it's all based on this and review thou lazy beautifully in his liturgical poem poetically describes how he cherishes and Longs for the stones of Eric's Israel and his offer rough cook the first Chief Rabbi of Palestine cook asks the following question on the Posse formulates why the double emphasis on a pharah and on Avenel on the stones and the Dust censor of Cook if you take a look at ptosis at the end of suvis he quotes one of the most unknown baliatosis we've never heard of him who says that we don't have a misfit to settle inert Israel there's no command why because we cannot fulfill the Mythos Israel we don't have the possibility in our time due to various factors including tumavatara to fulfill those agricultural laws that depend upon the limb better not to go Cesar of Cook this is the reason why it's a funny he ate stones if he would have always said that I cherish the offer of heresy so we plant seeds in the offer and we produce this rhyme upon which we have mitzvos Atlas barons but I says your servants cherish the Arvada Israel the stones what can you plant in a stone nothing we love Eric Israel as an end unto itself and not just as a means to an end and hence the baliatosis rejected Israel again as I said before we don't know who he was but he really got it hard especially from the Avenue the Guerra Dynasty and the sake of a dynasty and we know to this day how many garage settle in Earth Israel it's all part of that Miss sorrow foreign when I open up the window in the morning and breathe the air I find that Hashem and his shrina come into my it's my very being there's a Divine flow and prophecy and as Israel he says it's like rain that comes down from shamayam it comes down into the land and this is the difference this is the beauty of Zion of Hertz Israel see Roy is [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] I said [Music] um [Music] of course [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] version have anything for the shower oh it does 6 21 or 6 26. so here in the art scroll it's on page 384. now okay we there there's actually I'm just going to for the time being again it all depends if we have more time but we're running a little bit late on time Olive which is called Charlize it's about the burning of the talmud and this took place in 1242. there are extensive notes Here in the article that I highly recommend that you read but basically 24 cot loads of manuscripts this is way before the printing press and they were burnt at the stake a whole story here about how the the those who persecute us this on page 360 was authored by the marombi Rutenberg who was the Revy of the rush and he died in prison but he did get a chance to write this uh first hand eyewitness description of the description destruction and the burning of all these manuscripts now keep in mind I mentioned before earlier that we have trouble with the Durham and Nazi because the Rashi on these two masectas went up in flames in the year 1492 in Paris under the papal order and manuscripts were not you know easy to come why it was it was very expensive to have a manuscript copied over so they didn't have copies and we lost the manuscripts of Rashi on these two masectors but basically the marami Rutenberg writes this kinner out of a sense of Despair Because he believes we'll never be able to get back on the track we've lost so much of the Missouri in these thousands upon thousands of manuscripts that went up in smoke will never be able to replace them and again this is one of the great miracles of Hashem that we still have the Missouri and that the Missouri moved from France and then later to Germany and then uh then during the Crusades it was lost in Germany but anyway the the history is that the Missouri always moved from one place to another now as far as the show is concerned there are two opinions and two approaches and this will be debated Until the End of Time one approach says that we can't write Kines for the no one is authorized you would have to have ruach hakodes you'd have to be one of the Sora in order to write an author a lamentation for the show on don't even bother starting it's impossible we're going to read according to the other opinion that yes we do have the ability to create a kinoff for the showa and in this first case we have two cases here this killer was written by RAB halberstam Who is the survivor of the above Dynasty now I don't know if anyone here today is from borrow Park originally but if you know Boro Park you know that his bottle and they built a palace and now they split into two so instead of having you know two 500s to make up with a thousand now they have three thousand so Bubba keeps growing and growing and anyone who you know is brought up in borrow Park is probably at some point could become above because in any event above already lost everything in the war his children his possessions his family his his I see them they all were destroyed he came a broken person with a shirt on his back and he arrives in the shores of the United States of America after the shower it's amazing that he survived but it's even more amazing that he was inspired to pick it up and recreate what is today one of the most thriving Hasidic movements on the face of the globe from nothing he created but he always hesitated when his khasid and would ask him after all that we went through and you went through ready in the shower could you not give us akinon and Tish him up to recite inshallah and the rebbe avoided them he felt he's not up to par who could write a Kino for the Salah I want to read to you a short paragraph here in the footnote in art scroll which you'll find on page 386 maybe next year we should photocopy these pages he says one day this is above Arabi writing I was studying the laws of Tish above in a book called seder hey young Sader ayom was written about five centuries ago by one of the close colleagues of the arizal in svath his name is Ramos and he writes the following whoever can wail on this day of Tish above should well whoever can recite kinos should recite kinos either recite kinos of those that already have been recorded or kinos that he himself composed with his own intellect that God has granted him it's a mitzvah for each and every individual to compose kinos for weeping and Mourning and to recite them on this bitter day and the rebbe responds when I read these words I saw it as a clear sign from Heaven that the time had come to compose a killer over the Herman burropa over the Shoah now before we read this kinner I just want to say the following that I think there are basically two themes of the bavaribi that are expressed in this kid one is the loss of Torah as a result of the showa and number two the cry for vengeance the Arts grow kinos has published another kennel this one on page 386 that was authored by RAB shiman Schwab the leader of the German community after the shawa in Washington Heights in Upper Manhattan and it amazes me that on his own I mean on their own he's coming from two perspective points the emphasis is the same on all the greats and all the Torah that were lost during the shower and on the cry for vengeance God remember what happened however I see one fundamental difference and that is Schwab in his Kina describes the atrocities of the Holocaust in great detail he's not just impressed by the numbers of Jews that were annihilated during the Holocaust but is also interested in God remembering in a very specific nuanced and gruesome way all of the terrible terrible Horrors that are indescribable during the shower the atrocities of the shore so we're going to do is we're going to read the Bubba rebbies you know and then we're going to go on to elizion which is the final kinner of today is your name is foreign [Music] just a very short introduction to elizion which you'll find in the art scroll on page and I think in the Karen on page 611. you have it on 6 28. yeah hey here it's it says I don't have the Quran but it says here 6 11. so I don't know if that's correct or not basically there is one theme of elizion and sometimes we sing it and we miss the point so that's why I want to emphasize elizion means that no matter how much we mourn and how much we well over all the destruction and the tragedies and the qurbanos It's never enough we could really never stop here and the word Ali means continue and without stop we always have to appreciate the Willing he gives a a muscle of the pain and the suffering of the Jew during the the many many years since the hormone of a woman in childbirth and She's suffering during labor the travail of Labor you can't tell her hush up don't make noise I mean it's the most natural human response to make that noise and so too we should not be quiet and we should not be shushing up we should be shouting and screaming and crying like a woman in labor because of the availus here which is although avelus she is Shana as we said over and over again today we should make it into avalosa so she'd ever say that we've cried too much in the case of avalus khadosha over the loss of one of his close relatives the ramen says if you over exaggerate the availus then you're ashota you're a fool but we don't find anything parallel with regard to veins it's going to be Alicia so let's now read and sing in the very sad tone Elite [Music] this is [Music] foreign [Applause] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] thank you very much hope you got something on