WATCH NOW: "From Grief to Geula"

us out of the many many kindest that we have i allow myself during the reading of the kinis to splice in some commentaries so that we focus on certain phrases in those kindest that we'll read without further ado rav salvajic taught us that crying is central to our velocity we have two categories of mourning we have mourning in grief khadasha rahmatul islam over the loss of a close relative and we have a veilus ishana over the loss of the khurban abbas the destruction of the mig dash that took place well beyond nineteen centuries ago he claims that with regard to vegeta for one of the close relatives crying the emotional element is secondary what's primary in our veils khadasha are the observances of 11 different historium the raman categorizes them and he'll just avail para k 11 different prohibitions that an oval is enjoying from en engaging in whether it be uh taj mahal etc and of course there's kriya reading rendering one's garment and these are objective actions with regard to veilus yeshana on the other hand over hurban abayas crying becomes very critical now what i'd like to show you is a pasuk that we just read in the halftorah of a sofasy fame from yamiyawa navi how many people here just by show of hands have the art scroll or not enough okay you know it's very complicated to announce pages unless we all have the same text but at least for those who have the art scroll if you'll open up to page 146 or if you have your miyawa navi or any other reproduction of the haftarah you'll see this in your mio perictesse prosecute zion and the navi declares me ten roshi mayan the anime card lilo ace khalil if someone would turn my head into water and my eye into a spring of tears then i would cry all day and all night for the slain of my daughter's people again the emphasis here is on tears on crying on behavior fast forwarding towards the end of the torah and here the navi specifically focus in focuses in on tish above vikiru la makoninos usmoena he says summon the durge women mcconaughey those who are professionals let them come let them quickly start a whaling us and what's the ultimate goal of calling in these durge these durge women the pasik says vesey radna a new that our eyes will run with tears our pupils flow with water this is a special emphasis on the tears on the crying as a fulfillment of a veilus of the mourning and the grief of tish above we're going to speak about stories of what happened on the day of tish above the pythonium the poets in the guinness will tell in great detail the story of the khurman and many other stories of the slaughters of godol israel the destruction of many communities and the ultimate goal is to create this inner feeling of grief and mourning expressed in crying in tears excessively rav salvajic pointed out something very interesting he says that with regard to availus for one of the seven crow of him the ramam gives you a limit perhaps i'll read the rambam to you i think i have it here excuse me for just one second will i no i'll get this okay anyway let's see if i can do this whoops sorry maybe not the rama writes in a person should not be excessive in his grief on the loss of one of his relatives and the rama gives an explanation for this this is based on a gemara in mesothelioid cotton the raman says that the reason for this is because shizel minhago shalolum that this is part of the natural order of the universe wonder is it really true that every single death is part of the natural order of the universe but in any event that which is natural herresa tipay she's foolish and the rama goes on to tell you about how much are the bounds yet the rambo when he speaks about available for the khurban he doesn't mention this he doesn't tell us that if a person is excessive if he goes beyond the requirement that he's a teapeish the rama would seem to indicate that there's no limit the availas for khurban is limitless and the reason for that is apparently because it's shallow kim in hago shalollo the destruction of the base on big dash is not natural it wasn't meant to be in the natural sense that migna shall should still stand even today and if it's not mine hug or shalom then there's no limit to how much we should grieve and mourn so meni roshi mayam the idea of inviting the mekonenos to teach us to guide us how to cry how to mourn and grieve over the kurman there's no limit to that in fact the gemara tells us in receptive of a comma on daphne hey about a certain person by the name nuntessamidbay sorry eliza zaira who is allah's zero he never heard of him he's not you know quoted extensively in shas he showed up in a certain town and he was wearing black from head to toe the jews wore dark clothes but they had white shoelaces he was totally black and the gemara says that he did this because of a veilus because since the khurban since the destruction of the big dash there was no room for any joy in his life any any light any white it was all dark all black so the gemara says they checked them out for uro what's ura you are a means when a person does something halachic but he goes beyond the requirement he's super pious as we would say but again within the framework of the torah and aloha and he's not sincere he's not genuine so they checked out this zero to find out if his element of availability his inner moment of grief was really true and genuine and they found that he was true and genuine he was not guilty of europe i want to quote to you a rambam with regard to erev tishebov the rama writes the following there's a certain limitation and a requirement of what we're allowed to eat what we're not allowed to eat on arab tish above but afterwards the ramen says so he does he says that's for the regular rank-and-file members of the community the early pious ones this is how they experienced heir of tisha buff hoyme lowly adam levado he sat alone pascha revo a dry piece of bread the melach he would dip it in salt show him a mayam and then he would soak it in water the yoshi bantanu likey ryan he would sit himself down between two hot places the oven and the burners viojello and that's where you'd eat it they shall sell of kitan on air of tish above he would drink water bidaga with a sense of overwhelming fear ube he felt desolate uber and crying kim misha meso mutto fun of as if one of his close relatives lies dead in front of him and you might say the rama is just telling me history that's the way that hasidim rashonim hit that ultimate level of aveilus but he writes kozero he says that we should follow suit and reach this level again we see once again that availas yeshuana over the corvette bias is open-ended it's not disciplined it's not limited it goes beyond and beyond different levels as long as it's genuine as long it's a reflex as a it's a reflection of the inner feeling that inner moment of grief then it's a fulfillment of of the available velus the gemara tells us a person who feels that grief and mourning over you shall lie in the destruction of the holy city he will eventually merit the simcha the joy of building yerushalayim there's no limit there's no limit to the morning the insomnia tells us in the sect of tightness in the fourth chapter that two armor roy and you have you should have been leaving would fast not only the ninth of heart but also the tenth of because the straight for the bigness began on the ninth and continued throughout the tenth so the fashion will ask the question what about baltoseph we don't add an extra day we have to change algolios but this is not yanto shaney they establish for themselves two days of tisha but the answer is there is no baltoseph there's no adding and excessively going beyond with regard to available yeshuana and therefore it's natural for people to forget forget anything but certainly over the course of time nineteen and a half centuries that went by since the hormone we forget we get used to the reality that we used to we need somehow to mourn these events to feel a sense of grief to achieve the goal of kim shabalev of our veilus inside one's heart to be able to cry to be able to be more in dimmer and therefore we need the mcconaughs we need these professional women union says to teach us to guide us and what about our children you know that there's an issue about abdullah during the nine days and the question is what do you do with the wine of av dollar and it says in a lock that you give it to a child but the child should not be old enough to appreciate and be taught what we call egyl as far as the availas is concerned so at what age do we cease giving that wine to a child at the age of nine years old so you have a child between the age of six and nine and you're allowed to give them from the wine of avdola during the nine days but not if the child reaches the age of nine imagine a nine-year-old has to be already taught and educated about tish above about the availas we got to start with the young children i don't know if any of you might remember from your younger years if you went to a summer camp and if it was a religious summer camp and of course tish above would overlap during that period of time when the children were in camp the challenge of the camp was to take the children at least for a certain period of time added the mentality of joy of fun of all the games that you play and gradually sort of educate them to feel a sense of a veilus imagine even a nine-year-old i remember in some of the camps for those who were from new york and the catskills they used to take the kids out to the lake and they had a uh you know a make-believe makeshift uh based on big dash and they would burn the base amigos you know this is the idea of educating we have to be educated we have to be trained we have to be brought up to feel the aveilus to recognize those experiences that happened as a result of quran we'll speak about that at great length my rebbe used to always point out that tish above has two dimensions to it in number one it's called the yom tinus it's a fast day a public fast day and number two it's a yo my veil so it's an overlap of two different dimensions tightness and availas from the perspective of tightness we have a number of halakhas that apply to tishiba number one mafsika mibo we begin tish above when it's still daylight before sunset that is reflection of tinus tsibur and the paradigm in our luck of a tiny sibor is what yomaki purim on yomaki purim we begin the fast before nightfall number two five e-nu there are five categories of pleasurable acts that have to be left out on tish above just as they are left out on yom kippur number three ubros ume nicos misanos a pregnant woman and a woman after birth whose nursing does fast on tissue of under normal circumstances and that's like yom kippur digimore quotes a statement of shmuel the only rabbinic tinus sebur is tish above all the other fast days are not really full-fledged tinus sibor and therefore with more make hill we start to fast in the day and we allow for uber nicos to eat on those days but tish above is a full-blown genuine tiniest sebur similar to yomaki purim but on the other hand tishbo has another dimension to it it's a day of availus the gemarantinus tells us call mitzvos hanogos be of el nagos petition above the bryce at the end of this epitinus postulates an equation between a veilus and tishaba however you may know that the ramban authored a work called torasa adam which is dedicated to the laws of avelus after he completes his discussion about avelus he goes on to speak about tisch above and he points out that when the bryson says call out mitzvos no it goes beyond noah goes petition it's not an absolute equation he says that avelus over the loss of one of the close relatives is made up of two dimensions one one he calls chevy al-tasa which otherwise is known as a lav or an issuer and as we said before the oval is enjoined from 11 different categories of activities but he says there's also an element of vase of active availas and that expresses itself primarily in two denim number one artifact the avalen back in the day used to wear a special a unique kind of head covering that distinguished them from other people and fiesta mita to sleep on an upturned inside out bed the ramban points out that with regard to velocina over hurban we only have chevy alta we only have the negative do not do not do this do not do that and from that perspective it's equal to aveils however atifa sarosh and kriya sabito the two conversates the positive dimensions of elus only apply to avelus khadosha not avail and ramban goes on to quote a gemura at the end of massachusetts the gemara quotes a contention between rabbi yehuda and mubarak advocates in favor of it so he has an absolute equation between us khadosha even with regard to kumbha saying but we passing like disagree and they're of the opinion that there's no atifah sarah shakhtar on tish above those two will only apply as positive kuvasai's in the case of available khadosha so the ramban standing on the shoulders of the chromium and that's how eposkine eliminates kubwa say in those two activities on tisha however here's where absolute was makhari's tuthi doshim that i want to share with you number one he points out that ramban in his shita that is no kuva say with regard to tish above rampan is based on the fact that he holds that tishb has what's called an ninus a ninus is that state of availus that begins with the death of a relative rahman al-islam until the moment of quran until after the dead is buried that period of time is called an ninus and the ramban is of the opinion that tish above is a day of anninos it's a it's as if we're seeing in front of our eyes the destruction the burning of the basa amigdas and that's called in the language of the mission in brachos misha mesa mutter fun of he sees the dead in front of his eyes what's unique about our ninus as opposed to our veilus is that an onan is exempt from all mitzvos his focus is totally on the deceased on the burial and there's no room for mitzvots with regard to anone anyone who's experienced this i don't wish it on anyone i went through it three times in my life it's a very strange kind of experience where you're an owning and you can't do mixed this you're not even allowed to make broncos you don't put on filling you don't put on citrus nothing so the ramban applies that to tish above but rav sullivan points out that in our tradition we've accepted the rampant but yet we reject the ramban how so the day of tish above in our tradition is a combination an integration of both aninus and availas and the level of aneenus is identified with the first half of the day of tishomov and therefore in the morning of tish above we don't put on fill in we sit on the ground this is all a reflection of a ninus so that tisha bavarpan points out has within it that element of a ninus and in a ninus there's no say however the the situation becomes much more complicated when we get to the afternoon of tisha mitsushime after katsos today after midday the day changes its very complexion and it's transformed from a day of haninus to a day of availas and that would perhaps explain why many of the laws we said before that tish above is the day of tinust siber but many of the laws of tinustibur are not fulfilled on tishabov for example the most fundamental khiv perhaps of of athanastibur in yomaki purim is what we call slichos we recite slihos yomakipur in its very essence is the day of slichos but at least in the morning of tishma we'll see about the afternoon later there is no sleehos there's no aveeno malcanu all this is omitted on tishamov in fact even the kriya satora that is regular for a tiny sibo which is called vaechal is omitted instead we read ki solid bonum from parshas vashkhan and what happened to the classic reading of vaikal for a tinus tibor and the answer is because the tiniest zebra of tishma has another dimension to it which is the dimension of advailus and the availus at least in the first half of the day when it's meso muttol of fun of precludes slidos we're not in the state of thelos of prayers as we'll soon see later on the bala kinos will always quote the apostle in echa which says sausage philosophy so that the day of tish above will exclude all these dimensions of either sibor however despite the fact that ramban identifies tishiba as a day which means it only reaches the level of shavial of prohibitions and it doesn't go beyond that to the level of say of the activities like for example we mentioned before artifact and fierce nevertheless of salvation was makhadesh that even the ramban has to agree that there is a cube there is a ki say on tishimov and what is that kinos duramban will not deny that we recite kinos on tishav and the kinos based on the puzzling that we saw before kiru la mekonenos makonos are those who teach us how to recite kinos and we call upon these women these professionals to teach us how to cry unfortunately today we don't have the mc the makona notes maybe we'd be doing a lot more crying if we had them and that element of bahria of crying is another expression of the unique nature and complexion of tish above tish above is not just the day of tinus tsibur above is not just the day of avelus it's a day of kinos we don't find in avelus a recitation of kinos the concept of kinos is uniquely limited and restricted to tishomov there is no amira's kinos with regard to veilus in fact as we said earlier the whole concept of crying and crying excessively and incessantly is completely lost and ignored with regard to our veils khadasha with regard to the avails for a lost relative there's no there's no concept of of crying more and more roshi roshi my my my entire being is covered with tears with crying the idea of bahia if it exists at all in a veil it's secondary there are more primary elements in available but with regard to availas yeshuana the day of tish above is a day of kinos it's a yom kinos and i would identify the yom kinos with the first half of the day while we were citing kinos for example there's an eastern melaka we don't involve ourselves in and preoccupy ourselves and work now you might argue maybe the eastern molecular tish above is borrowed from a veilus on avail is also enjoying from getting involved in in work during the seven days of avenues but rav salvation had two proofs that it's not possible to say that they have that the eastern lock on tish above is generated by availas number one the eastern melaka of an ovil applies the entire day there's no difference between the first half of the day and the second half of the day number two the gemara establishes mountain that not every melaka is also on tishima it's only what's called the malacca she's it's a malacca that requires an extensive preoccupation over the course of time and it's only a melaka which is complex a simple melaka which you can do within a short period of time is permissible on tish above in the case of alveos khadasha that's not so the gemara derives an equation between regal between yontif and avails a very strange paradoxical kind of equation but based on axera sakosu we derive that just like a rego is enjoined from aloha so too an avil is enjoined from aloha what kind of melaka every kind of aloha there's no distinction between a complex and a short-term molecular or a long-term or a simple moloka all moloch is prohibited in a novel and why is that because we derive these from a locker from rego and that's the xero sarco that an orville is enjoying from getting involved in melaka period without any exception and not only that these are melaka in the case of an avail extends throughout the entire day there's no difference between night day morning afternoon it's all one but the answer is that the eastern melaka that's derived from xero sakosu that compares our veils to regulate no application to our veils yeshana because in our veils yeshana which is a rabbinic creation it's a dramaan there's no xero sarcos that compares available to regal so what is the isa melaka on tish above the isa on tishaba my friends is a reflection of that king of sheba believe that in her experience we have to be totally focused on the tragedies and the catastrophes and the destructions and that is what kinis is all about guinness as we said before is may so mutual of fun of you're dead is right in front of you we don't experience khurba tobias as if it took place yesteryear corbin abayas is taking place right now in front of our eyes the kumar tells us that koldar any generation shalom niv now mikdash is we are experiencing the khurban abayas it's made somewhat of fun of but we need the help of the mekonenos of the dir durj women as we call them kiru lama konanos they will teach us through the kinos how to achieve that king of shaba lei that crying that behe that experience of mesa mutual of fun of and therefore the eastern of tish above only applies in the morning hours what are we what are we preoccupied with in the morning with kinos with becky with lahore dumas with the king of shaba labe with the grief the emotional overwhelming morning that we experience as we understand and appreciate what this day of tishb is all about what its impact is on jewish history and that's what the mourning of tisha b'av is all about the kinos after katsos we shift our entire paradigm to something else we're going to read khal it becomes the tiniest sebuw even some slicos we're going to recite we'll be able to recite nachem in philas minha in the afternoon we're going to be able to put on fill in we can get involved in melaka that preoccupation with our veilus that doesn't allow us even for a moment to distract ourselves and think about malacha certainly not complex moloch that takes time that is the queue of availabnos of bahr of the morning of tishbov of mesa mutual of fun of and here as we said before even the ramban would have to agree and concede that there is a positive element in the aveilus of tish above not vitara's yom avel but bedin yom kin of the khazal established that this morning of tish above is a morning of kinis and if you would omit guinness on tisha above you'd be lacking in an essential critical part of the nature of the day i would almost be tempted to call it the kedusha sayyom of course don't quote me on that i'll get in deep trouble there is no kadusa saiyom to tish above kidusayo means the day that's sanctified with all the denim of testimonials that we don't have on tishiba but we do have a day that's designated by ghazal it has a khalosham it has a status and the status of that day in addition to being a day of tightness in addition to being a day of our veilus it's a day of kenneth's and if we omit the guinness then we are lacking in the queue in the element of establishing this day as a yom kino and if we achieve our goal then the kidneys are made to bring us to a state of berry of crying of feeling that sense of catastrophe of the disaster of untold untold destruction throughout jewish history we're going to see in the guinness the guinness are going to take us almost through the entire history from the period of biased rishon that was destroyed by ishaini we're going to talk about the destruction of a tower we're going to talk about destruction of communities during the crusades we're going to talk about the asara ruge the great giants of torah the scholarship that was destroyed and what it means throughout jewish history all this is meant to bring us to that state of yom kino of crying of murid mose of the king shabaliv of feeling that the mignash is being destroyed in front of our eyes and as we said before this is something that we have to transmit to our children and we have to raise them and train them to bring them towards the king of shabby lave that experience about bayless in fact not only do we train the young children we train ourselves and that training period begins with shavasana vitamins with bain ahmed sarim called fair he see guru benamitsarim and we begin gradually diminishing our simcha our joy we have the light lenient kind of availas at the beginning of the three weeks and then it becomes more and more intense as we get to rosh ave with the nine days as we get to until finally we reach air of yom kippur which is the epitome of mesa mutual fund we as we saw in the rama before and this is the training period that we each and every one of us has to undergo we could not jump into tish above without the preparation of the bain amitsaram the three weeks it would be impossible but we're ready for tish above hopefully we're ready for the most intense severe halachic availas of yom kina in order to achieve the goal of the kim shabaliv of meso muttolifanov of of appreciating what it means and at this point i would like to shift our introduction away from rav salvatrik we're going to put rav salvation for the time being on the side and as i mentioned at the outset we want to take a look in rabbi nassar by way of introduction to rabbi nassan i'd like to read to you the rambam in his opening line in hilkistanios so we've been emphasizing the available dimension of tish above appreciating the destruction and all its repercussions over jewish history we've emphasized the kinah aspect of this khalasyom as a yom kino let's go back for a moment to the fact that yom tishabov is a young tinus the rama writes mitzvah torah lisa the raman quotes a biblical source in parshas balosha for the mitzvos assay of liso ok means to cry out the word zakka is sort of a reflection of what an animal lahav dil is capable of even in the animal kingdom we find that an animal lets out a scream a yelp when it's faced with a critical situation a dangerous situation but then the rama says what is the point of this zaoka is it an end unto itself to cry out says the rambam in the very next video this is a means to an end what is the ultimate goal of za'aka which is a biblical command on on a tightness it's chuva shabbis manchester votes sora the isaku allah the rama says that if it's sarah calamity befalls the people of israel then we cry out and what is that crying out meant to be it's a springboard to chuva ye do our call says rama we should all take to heart shall beglau masayam heroium because of our evil deeds who elohim kakosuv as it says in yemen what is the cause what is the root cross of old sarah he says him low izakuvallo ya real yoma zemi minhago shalom again that phrase maybe a person will say well we're facing a calamity there's a drought there's a war situation one of islam maybe it's been hago shalolam maybe this is the way nature unfolds necro nick race it's it's accidental that it happened right now says the rambam that attitude is a rezu derek zaryus that's being cruel unfeeling not connecting the intellect with the emotion they go remiss lahem and as a result of that exorus lee dub aquamarcia moroyam we continue in our evil ways and what's going to happen at the at the result around promises of means coincidence like you know everything is coincident sorrow god is going to say i'm going to bring you more tsar and finally you'll do chuva and if we fast forward five chapters to tilka's tiniest pair k yesham yami shakali israel miss anambrahim there are days that the entire community of israel fasts for the terrible tragedies that took place on those days and the ram again defines the purpose of the tightness the goal is que de la o'reir hala vavos to awaken the heart lift talk with dark yeshua once again the phrase of dark yet means it means azir leaving the sin behind not just remorse but ceasing and desisting from sin to terminate sin with a commitment that's believed shalom and kabbalah and then the ramen means another phrase the iazzy coron these days of fasts should remind us of hussein look at this the ram has two categories he's got the maisavo senu the evil that was perpetrated by our ancestors and then he has ma him and he makes an equation between the two he points out that the massey of hosseinu when they went off the right path him we are imitating those mice him and as a result actually also not sorrows and that evil that digression from the good right path is what brings about the tsaros ubis when we become aware of these things nashuf we'll do chuval a haiti if we should improve that my sin and then he goes through the various days of taneos until he gets to tish above this is parakeem aruba five different calamities took place on tishaba he starts with zara al-israel by mid-bashali consular aretz to examine that all the yotse mitzrayim during the 40 years in the desert will perish they will not enter the land kharav shona and bishniya nilkada eer agadolu baytashma vahayuba la femur revolvos me israel hundreds of thousands of jews were destroyed and then the ramadan says on that day of tishbov tunis rufus sarah that this fasting is not just an external act it's okay fast wonderful you abstain from the five categories of inuit but the rambam is saying it's much more than that it's a zikarlumasenu it reminds us that we are guilty and if we're not guilty why isn't the base i'm ignorance restored apparently we are continuing and those are veros and if we study these days and we feel that intense experience of a tiny sibor then it's meant to bring us to chuva and if it doesn't then we're missing the point and at this point i want to shift to a moral discussion about what i call soul searching that's just my phrase here in this context so again the rama holds that tinus is a mitzvah mirabanon la javies a person has to undergo all the different parts of chuva on this day of a tightness and the rambam says as we saw before that with regard to tishebov there's no limit to our feelings about the day soul-searching and now we want to ask the question what does the bassam mignos have to do with this process of soul-searching so i want to share with you some of the ideas here are verbinosa and i just mentioned where they could be found in case anyone wants to uh look them up this is in hilha's birkhasa parakeet let me introduce when you study rabbi nassan which we've been doing here in this room every sunday for the last i don't know how long six months or a year i don't know exactly how long rather sure how long is it about about six months or so there's always an emphasis on concepts on terminology there's also an emphasis on what i would call metaphors to try to find a deeper meaning in a metaphoric sense so let's start with a few terms one term that becomes very central throughout the writings of rabinasan is the term z kharon which literally translates as memory but i would give it a broader translation i think the word zikaron the way i understand it in rabinasan means awareness what are we aware of the opposite of zikaron is shikha which means forgetfulness so these are the two polar extremes and we will waver between zikaron and shikha what does that mean zikaron means to remember what he calls again a terminology hatakless hamiti the ultimate purpose the ultimate goal and that is what he calls alma diosi another important phrase the world to come this world is a world that is called the oam hamid madame means what we look at and what we see with our eyes fools us it allures us into believing if i can quote this phrase from the ancient greeks what you see is what you get you're here today and gone tomorrow that attitude is entrenched in this world in the world that's restricted that's limited that finite that's material in the world of allah azza in the world of shikha the shikha the forgetfulness is a power of evil that tries to undermine our zika as we said before shikha is antithetical to zikara the zikara means constant perpetual awareness of the almighty of the ultimate truth of that which goes beyond the limit of time to break out of the limit of time into the world of infinity and man was created to be constantly connected to that world of infinity but the problem is that because man was created as a physical being restricted material there is the anti-force of what's called the tov iron tovian means having the ability to see beyond what the physical reality is to see something that belongs to a higher infinite world but on the flip side we have something called ra iron and the iron are those forces in the world that try to bring us down to try to sort of cloud our vision our vision of something that's infinite to bring us down to this physical world and to captiva to have us captive and and imprisoned almost incarcerated in this physical world without the ability to rise above this world to a world of infinity to world of ultimate truth to the world of emis lamito to the world of almighty god to the alma diosi that we mentioned earlier so this worldly i is trying to drag us down trying to say look and see what you can get from this world another terminology that he introduces here is the concept of neta and he points out that in los angeles in the hebrew holy tongue the word neta has two meanings like most words in washington kodesh and it means davor v fucha one thing and the exact opposite netac on the one hand means infinity but at the other end netac is also the shoresh the root of the word hansah lahansiak what is would be imagine if you were in a race trying to climb mount everest and the first one to get on top will put his flag down right that's called a ness meaning a flag of nitsakun i defeated all my competitors the concept of competition in which one person takes from the other and in which one person is trying to beat out the other that's another and the opposite of netac that's neat sakhon and all of nitsakon comes from the world of shecker the opposite of ms because really when a person tries to defeat someone else not only is he doing evil to someone else very often like the gemara talks about you know unfortunately two calling him that we're rushing up the ramp to get to the miss bath to do the avodah after the pious and one gave a jab to the other one and he pushed him off the ledge could you imagine two people climbing a mountain who's gonna get to the top first and one gives a little bit of a nudge a push to the other one so the other one falls down i mean this is what nitsuak is all about you've got to defeat your enemy but it's even more profound because ultimately through nitsuak you're defeating yourself because you're bringing yourself down to the lower echelons and the goal of zikaron is to bring you to the level of netac the real meta the ultimate netac of the alma diosi to realize that this world that we see is just a fleeting world that goes by in front of our eyes as milk said it so often in all his writings especially in kohel as heva la voloma marco helles and lahav de la fabtol shakespeare had also similar things in mind about his world just passes by us it's a fleeting moment that has no real meaning of course the iron rod tells you to succeed the iron rod tells you to get involved in this world to dedicate yourself to the pleasures of this world the the lust of this world the enjoyment of money why is nitsuak in this sense defeating yourself because i'll say hi if you yeah messiah wrote yeshua wrote to messiah he has a hundred he wants 200 and if he wants 200 then he wants a lot more than 200 does he need all that does he need to live in the most sophisticated furnished apartments but this is the idea of nitsuaj we call it in america again i'm dating myself keep up with the joneses by the young people never heard that phrase but that's what it means you know i gotta i gotta make a kitchen that's so beautiful because i spent you know fifty thousand dollars making a kitchen that my neighbor will come in and and uh and die of jealousy i mean it's all about jealousy it's all about putting down the next one and defeating the next one our goal is neta our goal is the coron and all taraya mitzvos all the 613 are meant to elevate us to the level of zikaron but here we have to introduce a fundamental concept and this is called hashgraph what do i mean by divine providence in this particular context he says the following this concept of zikaron should be broken down into two two branches one branch is general close it applies every day in the very same way that it applied yesterday the day before and that is i wake up in the morning right and the first thing i have to think about even before i'm ready for modani is the world to come god gave me another day another day of my life another opportunity to reach neta every day is a separate obligation a separate unique day with its own character and its own challenges and that's called the clothes that applies every day but then there's a zikaron on awareness that is prati prati means it's very individual it's very subjective and no two days even for the same person are identical and that's where ashgaraka pratis plays the role hakurich baku puts us in every situation that we find ourselves wherever we are whoever we are wherever we are we are faced with the challenges and the potential to reach netac so it's not coincidental nothing in our lives is coincidental our obligation in the context of zikaron is to find and here we introduce another terminology from another muslim where muslim means hints illusions secrets you know something happened it just didn't happen why did i see this why did my car not start this morning right why is it that my wife smiled at me this morning did i do something good and then i find the nakutova this is the proteus our connection to practice to find in every experience in every encounter 24 7 every day of the week a remis which bach was sending me to uplift me to bring me closer to him so that we could reach that ultimate goal of netzach hashem is reaching out to us are we willing to open our eyes are we only willing to see beyond the physical reality of material finiteness finitude to see something that belongs to the world of the almighty of the alba diassi can we tune in and connect ourselves to that zikaron on a daily basis la shiva hashem and the ultimate goal of the ayantova is to come close to tashem that's what chuva means chuva means coming closer to hashem the zebeke culminating in tishma what's it all about sorry abel me odd the live coast harvey this is another dimension of bahria we're not talking about the bahria of the rekonanos of kinos of the destruction of the murder of communities of israel of the shedding of blood of the horrors we're talking about something entirely different now liverpool's harvey al-khurban basa amigos why is the destruction of the big dash something that should lead us to bahria to crying what's so terrible okay it was a building it was a structure tell us about him all right we don't have the physical structure of the base amigos so what but it's much more profound than that because hakurasu god is the source in heaven for all zika on he reminds us and sends us messages if we're only willing to open our eyes and see those messages but he operates through something in this physical world and that physical entity is going to be the source for the powerful experience of zikaron and that's going to be the base of mignoge that's going to be the kaddish kardashian the evanescencia and ultimately it spills over to you shaliam and from you shallam to the entire globe and it's going to give us the ability of yi davik our minds and our hearts can connect tummy to the world to come to the world of emes of infinity to the world of divinity if only we utilize our eyes properly because the power and the battle here is the iron tova versus the iron raw and where is the hizgalos where does god reveal himself in this world with the eye in tova so that we can have a good eye and see and get closer to hashem it's in the base of mignosh and it's in eretz israel and you shall i am that's the icarus galosselukus and therefore hazikaron the zikaran experience is made up of three different elements number one adam it's personal to you and to me to every single individual number two it's the mockum it's the place the message of that place and that experience that challenge is unique and finally is mind that element of time says rabinasan tish above is really it's really in essence an introduction to yomaki purim why is tishema connected to yomaki purim and he says the following what happens on yomaki purim what is the apex the climax of yomaki purim when migna stood it was the calling godot who enters on yomaki purim the holiest of all days of the year to the holy of holies to the kurdish qadosh if you have the holiest man the adam the holiest day which is yamaki purim to the holiest place on earth which is the kardashian where the evan ashasia is located and he tells us that we'll see this in apostol let's see if anyone could help me if you if anyone here has the art scroll to echo bays kegan can anybody find that where is it what page just tell me what page it's on 28 okay 28. let's open up for those who happen to have it 28 possible okay so again if you have if you have a miguel secret then you'll open up to perhaps cheney the second chapter of echo and you'll look at possible i'll read it in english he says the following he stripped his booth booth as a sukkah by akhmos kigansuko like a garden a gun he destroyed his place right he translates as a place we're going to have a different translation of moadou as a time period we'll see that in a second says if you take apart this into its three parts you'll see the following he says the following just one second he says kegan what is gansuko this beautiful garden that has a schach on top of it who based on mignosh that is the basamignas which is called gansuko who behind us that's the sanctity of a place shikha hashem the next part of the pulsar that's kedusha sasman and during a kedusha sasman we have an inspiration where where uh in a sense we have an upgrade on a spiritual level that during a shabbos or a mode we could feel hashem close to us and this is an allusion to yomaki purim the ikar zikaron as far as time is concerned to remember all of my boys yamaki purim because yamaki purim is considered like all of my bots 24 hours in which we're in a different world and then at the end of the apostle it says and that's a reference to kedusha adam the kedusha of kohingodal now how many chapters do we have in eja five how many chapters begin with the word echa three so if you'll open up to echa he says that the three times of echa three chapters of echo that begin with echa refer and correspond to these three elements he starts with achaya badad et cetera that's kedusa right the ear the city of you shall i'm yes has lost its glamour it's alien it's it's it's a strange lowly city and then we move on to evapo yeah even a thick cloud the clouds cover up this bright sunshine of him with every day has its own sanctity and at the end it says that's why echo and that's a eulogy for the loss of yoshi and that's kidusas so we have the three caduceus that are mentioned here in one in one possum now before we start the kinos what i'd like to try to do is give an introduction to the first kinna and i'll tell you my friends if i were to tell you first ken is on page 152 in the art school if i were to tell you that you could probably spend your entire tish above without exaggeration just on the first kino now when we talk about kinis the central figure is rebellious now exactly who he was and when he lives we don't know what we do know is that he was an unbelievable scholar and when i say unbelievable scholar learning the kindness of rav khalil is like learning a mishna and as you and i know every mission every word in a mishnah has deeper and deeper meanings the syntax i mean the obvious question is why revelation had to make it so difficult so confusing and compounding for us some claim that it was during the period of the romans it all depends on where you put rebellion historically but during the period of the romans prayer especially public prayer was outlawed was prohibited and the romans actually put up centuries you know different watchmen and guards you know to make sure that the jews weren't praying so they had to find different ways of avoiding that zero and one of the ways was to write poetry and the poetry first of all nobody understood it and secondly even he did understand it it was symbolic it was metaphoric so it didn't seem like it was tefila and the greatest of all the python was no doubt revlon so the entire first section of kinis was authored by a khalir and as i said before it's a matter of contention a great great historical contention as to when he lived the valiatosphis put him at the time of the tanoin could you imagine the roshone mostly put him at a later period of time around the sixth or seventh seventh century but rav salvation claims that that's not true that he has proofs from the kinis themselves that rebel ezra khalil was alive at the time of the crusades which means he probably lived in about the 10th or even late of the 11th century but there are many proofs that he induces but in any event whoever or whatever he lived it's just amazing what he accomplished and probably you know i hope that there won't be a tissue of next year but probably if there will be more tisha buffs we're going to be writing books and books endlessly trying to analyze and understand the kines of rabalaza kalir it's just endless so as i said we're going to focus now on page 152 the first of of the guinness of rebels yeah it's the first kin it's called shove us it's again there are different numbers but it's usually classically numbered as number six the reason for that is because last night we read five kines so although this is the first kinder for the daytime but it's the sixth kenner all told but again you may have different uh you know different versions and let me just see i have the adler kindest let's see where he puts this well he has this as number eight for example but again it starts with the word shavas oh the corn oh i didn't even know you have a corn i should have taken that before okay fine and let me ask you a question by the way is the car in a new translation of the guinness it's a new translation from robert winery wow okay i should get myself a copy of it all right how much does it okay forget it anyway all right now the word shavas has a lot of deep meaning and blinded will come back to the word shavas but i would rather start with what i consider the perhaps the quintessential essence of this kinah which is okay well i don't have rabbi warren but i'll give you the translation from art school he says they made me a filth and refuse amidst the flocks of my fellow nations okay sriumos right and this is all based on a possuk in echa and i think he tells you where the possibility is just one second so i don't have to look for the puzzle here um chapter five okay great thank you so much here and for some reason [Music] it does have chapter five i don't know if for some reason here it says where where's three mouse seconds four what is this number four here tell you echo chapter three is that what you have here it says chapter three classic 45. where is that three four okay but where is it in the page numbers again i apologize just that i happen to have uh i have to have art school in front of me so where's 345 what page is it on anybody 38 page 38 okay 36 sorry i thought i heard 38 36. there it is okay so the first kin again as for the third time's on page 152 and sriumar says is based on paragumo posigmam which is on page 36 again in the art school and by the way i i don't have to tell you this kinis is to echo what torah shabbat pays to tolerate so the torah that's why it's called megillas echo like you know mcgill's esther and the commentary on megillas on megillas echo is the kinus okay so that's why you'll see over and over again especially in revelation almost every verse or at least every chapter will begin with a possibility try to interpret okay what is the theme of sri umi and basically you can summarize it in the following statement israel stands alone in the community of nations and not only do they persecute us not only do we suffer from genocide but also from zillzel they dehumanize us they say that we are sub-humans and they blaspheme against our people they turn us into refuse now i don't want to generalize here about all because i know that you have to be politically correct but i could tell you the following i was once backing into a parking lot on the famous grand street in manhattan and a lady drives by she didn't like the way i was moving back into the parking spot she stops her car rolls down her window and yells out dirty jew now you know if i would have told you that this happened you know you heard some curse in arabic in france or someplace today i don't know i could go on and on and on and talk about anti-semitism in europe but you know i was brought up in the free and brave united states of america you know and here you know dirty jew uh i know is rabbi fooled here today rabbi yonah full raviona full told me once that he had an experience in which somebody stopped to tell him go back to the showers so you know anti-semitism is still very real and i would say about many that even if they're friendly to jews they feel a little bit uncomfortable in the presence of jews i'm not talking about you know the time period in which jews couldn't enter into certain places we all know about that this is not ancient history they weren't allowed into certain clubs and places of entertainment i'm talking about just in a social milieu we feel uncomfortable in the presence of a jew we almost feel that a jew is like contagious he has some sort of a disease and this is the blasphemy degrading the jew and maybe the feel that the jews are guilty of whatever and sometimes there is truth to that we don't always reach the highest level sometimes they feel that the jew is on a higher level and that makes them feel uncomfortable they realize deep down inside maybe subconsciously that the jews are the chosen people i don't know but the bottom line is they are very uncomfortable about the jews you talk about the establishment of the state of israel before the state as you know there was a famous vote in the united nations and the secretary of state at that time was a man by the name of dulles in the united states does anybody know who he was he was very big in the episcopalian church he was also the secretary of state which is one of the most powerful positions in the united states and in a certain we have the recordings of a session in this in in the state department right before the vote in the united nations and the man gets up and he says i can understand why the arabs hate the jews because the jews killed their messiah whoa he mistakenly said arabs what he really meant was i myself have no great feelings for the jews he was a christian and he was in the church and he understood that the jews were guilty of murdering the messiah in any event whatever it is there is a profound hatred for the jew anti-semitism is as old as the world is and sri but i would like to point out the next phrase here and he calls it the adrei have a roy let's see how he translates this into english he calls it see where it is i don't know oh here it is amidst the flocks you see that word phlox i think agle's translation is lambs edre javeroi what i find fascinating is that hakalir chose to identify the jewish people as flocks as lamb as sheep this reminds me by sheer association of shira shirim the song of songs which is a metaphor as you know for the love between barcu and knesses israel in shira shirum khali sroyle are compared to flocks of sheep in a very shall i say khibak river meaning in a way in which they're beloved to a kardash like a good shepherd will take very close care of his sheep however in shira shirum at some point the rohit turns aside back to the sheep his back is to the sheep and there are different interpretations of what this metaphor is all about according to some the rower otherwise known in shrimp terms as the raya or the dode right in the relationship between akashboku and the kinesthesis the dog turns his back and this may be an allusion to the khurba basamignas but according to the other interpretation in the midrash the roa in that particular context are the nations of the world and they turn their back to the flocks of sheep to the people of israel and the message goes on to tell us what is the message that these members representatives and leaders of the nations of the world what is their message to the jewish people and they say the following your rower your shepherd has turned his back to you and the proof is that he allowed for your holy temple to be destroyed if he really loved you he wouldn't have turned his back he would have prevented the destruction of the basamignas and those who know even a little bit just kikitsayama's leg of of christian theology will understand what this measure is telling us the christians claim that yes maybe you once were the chosen people but you are no longer the chosen people god has turned his back to you he's no longer belov you are no longer his beloved sheep except come with us don't you realize that god has now rejected you as a people and we are the chosen people this is their theological argument over and over again and therefore when al khalir tells what he's telling is that the league of nations the united nations is opposed to us they don't want to see us succeed they believe that if we succeed that's going to undermine their whole theology their whole belief that we killed whatever and we were rejected and abandoned and our migdasharaya was destroyed and god has now accepted us the christians as his chosen people and the jews throughout the christian countries over the course of millennia have had to convince themselves that this is false now you and i may say well it doesn't create you know it doesn't require a great jewish scholar to realize that the christians are absolutely wrong in a check of khazov but the greatest proof that the christians are wrong i'm talking historically before the establishment of the state which we'll get to mr hashem is tish above why does god want us to cry over the basal mignosh if god was satisfied with the destruction of the big dash why do we have a day of tish why does mcgill's mandate avail that we cry and cry and cry incessantly over the loss of the mignons why is it that we pray for the rebuilding of the vasanas why is it that echa terminates with the pasakashi venue hashem a lech of god says return to me and i will return to you all the promises for the third bias throughout tanakh are proofs that we are still the chosen people do we know the answer to the question why god allowed for the destruction of the basa amigos once and twice do we have an answer to the question that we'll see in the isaiah van on that even the malachi hashari's up above didn't understand how could it be that the 10 greatest leaders the holiest of the holy the scholars who were responsible for the transmission of torah would be murdered brutally and akersbachu tells them sony you don't have the right to answer these questions we don't have the answers to the questions and on this day of tish above we have one word four letters in latin kodesh that reveal the secret of tish above and that's echa echa means how why to hold you around we're enjoying from raising that word echana lips but on this day of tish above we have license we're allowed we're permitted to ask echa will we find the answers to the echa can we justify not only the destruction of tubate mignoge but of all the communities we're going to learn about the crusades and the horrors and the catastrophes can we answer the question of echo no no no as we'll see in revelation the answer is always going to be the answer of yoshio melech and that is to understand that god is the god of compassion but there's another element there's an element of din of justice there's something called hesterpunan which the bali kabbalah speak about but this is the day of echa this is the day on which we raise on our lips the question of echa and the most profound experience perhaps even above and beyond the destruction the death the murder the bloodshed men women children is the hashem the fact that the name of god is desecrated navi dedicates an entire chapter to shmi the greatest hashem is when the guardians say look at you look at the jews they're so despondent they're so defeated they're experiencing such tragedies and catastrophes this is this this is the chosen people and that blasphemy that hashem a desecration of god's name is what we're crying about here on tish above what is the essence of kinis what is the purpose of guinness it's to realize that we are far from hashem and that we have to get closer and closer to hashem we said before that on tish above in the afternoon we're going to recite nakam nache means means consolation and the consolation begins on tishbo with the recitation and the inserting of into minha and it's going to continue for seven weeks with the shavadin to all after us of what is our consolation our consolation is that yes we are in a state of rehook we are far from hashem but hashem wants to bring us closer and there's a ki roof and we are his beloved flock of sheep there is a shira shirim hashem give us that consolation and rebels are clear here in the very beginning of his guinness in the second paragraph writes amy grixel lachazone benbrecher who read it in the english he says my eye longs for the vision of zachariah there's no doubt that this is an allusion to the gemara at the end of the sector marcus the kumar tells us that there were five tanoim after the khurban that were walking past the kurdish kardashian and they saw the foxes the foxes coming out of the kurdish kardashian this is a the holy of holies about which the torah says no one was allowed into the kurdish conduction even the cohen goddard wasn't allowed in the kurdish kardashian except for one day during the year on yom kippur and now the foxes are going they broke out they broke out in tears and mourning and grief and rabie akiva was laughing so keep asking them they asked robbie keeper why are you laughing he asked them why are you crying a good jew answers the question with the question and the the ta name says what are you talking about the this is the holiest of holies and the foxes are prowling around here i shouldn't be crying why are you laughing and rabbi akiva quotes the the famous nivua the prophecy of zacharias khari is all about the prophecy of of nakama and zakaria declares oh diesel zucchini who is the kingdom of the army but who tells you shalom there'll be a time in which the the streets of yusha lion will be overflowing with young people with old people and rabbi akiva said i was afraid that maybe that naval wouldn't come to pass but that navoor depends on another navoor of the destruction of the base ambition now that i see the destruction i know that the navoo of zakaria is going to come about and rebeloza khalil already in the first kin up injects the element of nakama into the entire story about tish above ghazal kirilai muay there are many interpretations as to why tishman is called the moed in our locker we pass in that we omit isn't that paradoxical on the day which is the saddest day of grief and despair wouldn't it be most appropriate to recite but no kira lai moi inside inherent in the availus there's nerhama there's any hicks we are waiting for the fulfillment of the prophecy of nachama the gemara tells us a principle that goes as follows we are required we are mandated by al-aqsa on every special day of the year to recite abraham that bracha reflects the barakah of that day so for example on the antiv etc we talk about the bracha of the moed on shabbos retsay and our rosh we have yalaviyavo and al-qaeda nisim every day that's special in the calendar the hebrew calder has its own bracha what is the bracha fetish above tisha buff is also a special day and the answer is that tisha b'av has its bracha and that's the rock of nachem inherent in this very day of mourning and grief and destruction is the nakham of the constellation mashiach according to the tsar will be born on and maybe is born hopefully on tishev the gerula the seeds to the gula are right here on tisha it's interesting that torah for chavez that we read just yesterday in this case see do we have it here i don't think it's here but who remembers the last line in nafta that we read yesterday we're talking already about pidyon see and the chauver bit stucco with zedek now it's interesting the passage opens with mishpot and ends with stalker tucker is always a manifestation of cassette of being magnanimous and compassionate but mishpot is strict justice but the answer i believe is that the mishpot that the navi has in mind is not the harsh justice it's not the meters hadin which is so prominent in our guinness but it's a different kind of mishpot it's a mishpot in which we protect the rama says that the essence of zedek said pterodov and mishpot is to protect the nashak miyoshko there are those who are weak who are poor who are in the lower essence of society and the dayan is there to protect them that's mishra god is the great balmishband to protect the downtrodden but it's so fascinating that on the day of shabbos khazon immediately before tishbo we end with words of solace of consolation of necroma of tsiyon be mispatipude if you fast forward to the end of this keynote we still have a lot to say here about this kin of a page 156 and the art scroll and whichever guinness you have it's the next to the last paragraph again it's so complicated such a language you are engraved you have engraved the likeness of the perfect one on the throne of your angel angelic ophanim so the article adds a word here which is very good the perfect one who is the tom the time is yaakov venue about which the torah says yaakov ish tom and khazal tell us that yaakov is not only the last of the ovos and not only is yaakov tom in the sense that he completes the entire structure of attributes that began with avraham and went on to yitzhak and guvura and finally culminates with yaakov which is teferes the integration of both the midos of avram yaakov is the father of the twelve tribes he is mitasso schlemmer but not only that because i'll say that must the yuknow the likeness of his image kakuka takas kisakovo is forever engraved under the holy throne of the almighty and the pipe on here is bemoaning the fact that look what a relationship we have to the almighty how could god you allow this to go on how could it be that god you are silent in the face of all this destruction of the jewish people when tom becase my rebbe added the following the gemara tells us the message chavez which means that we no longer can come in front of the bonus loan with the merits of the others we've gone too far we're far removed from the others so whatever's of us we had over the course of jewish history it has petered out so to speak so benutam asks the following question how could you tell me that ostama every single amid evicmon estrella opens with el cavram el okay yitzchak fellow what does it mean to invoke the ovos if avos tamo and rabbinu tom quotes sources to prove that there are two concepts there's something called and there's something called bris avos and even if it's low tama the covenant that god sealed with the of us is still active it's still makayev when we start out filos with el cabram yaakov what we're invoking is not crucibles because that's terminated but rather what brisavos and the british avos begins with avraham avinu establishes what's called the brisbane abbasaram and in the brisbane of asari marcos who promises that he will take the people out of ghosts and if you turn just a little bit further gives avraham avinu the bris mila about which ghazal say that the word bris in parikh you zion of safer braces et cetera et cetera his helicopter thomas the bris appears no less than 13 times which means that the bris mila which is given to avraham brisi being veneka and that's when our from's name is changed out for hum is equal to 13 breezes mostly as bruce olam so the bris without brahma if you know it's going to be repeated with yitzhak and yaakov is a bris olam and once again this not only sheds a light on this particular kidnap but also on the next kinder if you take a look for a second to the next kinder which is on page 158 in the art scroll and revler again is is crying about the fact that god has given us to the hands of the adomites to edom and he says god have you forgotten the breasts says what's the difference between crossovers and bristols schools almost depends upon us are we continuing in the in the ways of our forefathers and if we're not then thomas crusados it ends it terminates but what's the bristols is when two people enter into a contractual agreement a covenant in which each side is committed you've committed yourself to the bris way back in the time of avraham avinu and 13 bristols how could you violate that briss echo we're allowed to ask that question echo again i want to shift to rabinosan hilchus bris mila the fifth chapter he asks a very uh strange question strange meaning it's very hard to answer this question but again it's all metaphoric he says why is it that soraka tino glisboltzar is there a message on a deeper level in terms of bris mueller the child is suffering and he shifts over to answer two questions number one what is the significance of the behe the crying of the tenoch some say that's a special schooler to pray at that moment and then he goes on to ask why the eighth day of the child's birth and he says the following he talks about the pain of the child if we had more time we don't have but he extrapolates from there any sort of pain and suffering of any human being he says what happens at as a natural biological response to a sharp pain he says that as a result of a sharp pain the person in this case will talk about the baby oh this enough he closes his eyes like really tight what does that mean metaphorically what is the symbol of the baby closing its eyes at the time of the milo and he says in order to appreciate that you have to appreciate what the arla represents but then anyway just to simplify it the arla represents the pleasures of this world what is the atsima sainayan and he says when a person closes his eyes tight we'll see this on kriechma as well who nichol battaclis he moves away so to speak he closes his eyes from the physical limitations and pleasures of this world so that he can connect himself to the tactless hanitrus the world of infinity and he says that's what the bris is all about he speaks about ben ahmed sarim bokrim what is it about khurban that requires berry as we began today with the kiru amakonenos the berry he says is a manifestation of closing one's eyes tightly in a state of tsar what is it about bay named sarah and tish above that leads us to berry why are we crying on this day why are we closing our eyes he says sharon what we can see from the inner eye the inside of godel richo kenu how far we've moved away me attackless he says that we've gone to such an extent that there are clouds over our eyes that don't allow us to see and perceive divinity in this world to come closer to hashem we're involved in what he calls pagamahara us means the spiritual negative dimension of sight which is we're only looking at this world so why are we crying why are we closing our eyes because ikar begiusenu he says we're crying on the fact that we have this in us a nayim which led to the khurban abbayas the destruction of a salvignos and aposic says in echo al anibohria any who is the ultimate consoler is so far we have come rock oak we have become distanced we're far from hashem this is what kinis and this is what bahria is all about according to of no sun it's that sense of rehook that we feel so far and distant that we have a pagan we're seeing with the eyes of this world of the worlds of pleasure the arla that has to be destroyed i'm crying rochak menu and this bachhia he connects with the bahria of srifa-satora the burning of this torah which we'll get to a little bit later on now we said that the python rublazar khalir cries about the fact that lo zajarta brisbane abbasaram you have not remembered all the bristols the covenants that so to speak kavyakol obligator [Music] to live up to that covenant and you have so to speak forgotten about that covenant and i'm wondering is there a connection [Music] between this concept of god remember the covenant because bris avos lo tama the bris is still very much active is that connected to yaakov avinu so we're going back now on page 156 for a moment retracing our steps to the concept that revolution makes such a big deal about and that is that the image the like the likeliness of likeness of yaakov avidu is inscribed in the case of neca which is absolutely eternal rav salvajic tells us that yaakov avinu the ish was granted a seat on the celestial throne and this is based on the gemaran khulen and aft that the image of yaakovinu's engraved on the kiseakov what is the link between this fact of yaakov kakuka and the catastrophe of the corbin of ice why is it relevant he says the following we are the children of avraham as well but yet avraham's image is not it's only yaakov avinu that represents the entire people of israel right we were called vinayakov or banay israel he is so to speak of all the fathers the father the name of our people is the name of yaakov we are the eternal people just like yaakov represents eternity so if salvation says how do we see in yaakov avinu that he was chosen to represent eternity claudius who are the eternal people why did akrishbach who engrave the likeness of yaakov on the celestial's throne why not the image of yitzhak or avram they would find jews he says the following that the image of yaakov is the image of the entire people of israel harakurispacho engraved the images of avraham and yitzhak who would have been very nice very wonderful but it would be limited to one individual he wanted to have the image of the entire people as an entity as a collective group engraved on his throne of glory and what does that show that's proof that the bris the covenant between kinesis and solomon and coach permanent it's eternal it's not temporary because the passage says in tehillim saudi gimmel your throne stands firm from of old you exist eternally the kisa covered is eternal he says that we are the eternal people and the engraved image of yahweh venue teaches us that on that throne of god which is eternal we have the people of israel as the eternal people and the perpetu perpetual bond between you and yahweh venue is the perpetual bond between hashem and khloe israel forever and ever so the covenant is not temporary if our enemies will say no the covenant is is temporary no the bris is low tama and that's why yaakov representing claudius rule his image is engraved on the throne of glory the throne of eternity he speaks about the gemara that tells us that the three of us respectively established the three philos from established chakras and yitzhak established what's the difference between the three he says the following the takanawa vramavinu of chakras represents his gallus oro the light of day the bright shining sun [Music] is really a metaphor for the r for the supernal light of the ribonus alola and when we experience that light when we wake up in the morning and we dive in chakras he says we have mokin we have das we get close to hashem and we can pray to hashem then we get to yitzhak yitzhak is the tacon of trilas minha what happens minha time minha time is ready the sun is moving towards its setting right before the sun dips below the horizon it's dark out there's still light what is that light that's left he says introducing a mystical comet context it's called rishimo rashimo means some sort of [Music] some sort of a what do you call it a vestige i guess you'd call it a vestige of the light and the r of day and we still have something of mokhim of das of an awareness of god but it's gradually dissipating and yet gives us the ability to come close to hashem with phila and with shiva even at that stage but then we get to yaakov yaakov josef litake philas arvis casa there's no sun there's no light it's pure total darkness so what what what do we have now what is yaakov avinu's fila what is it going to accomplish how is it possible for the jew to pray in the thick darkness the absolute darkness of night of tifilas arvis how could yaakov achieve that goal and he says either of it's just the opposite us at that moment of darkness yaakov yaakov is teaching us that we could dedicate ourselves leticum his gallups to reveal the mouth of hashem us even in total darkness and yaakov who represents all of claudia's royal again this is a hundred years before of salvation foreign listen to this yakov already foresaw with his divine spirit shasi dem latto that we're going to go into gullus we'll enter into the darkest exile a person could enter into the lowest and thickest darkness and on a national level hubercrinas ricas hagolos the long golos which is already indicated in the pausing at the beginning of creation of kalpane to home the darkness that's indicated at the creation and here in hoshivani that god sends us into total darkness even here even in total darkness there's room for chuva we can't reveal hashem there's less a sarponimine there's no place that's without divinity shalom and this is what the passage means when it says rashi tells us that that makom is the muckham of the mishkan the makkum of the mignos what happens with yaakov avinu yaakov avinu reveals to us an amazing secret which again the terminology comes from the world of of mysticism called isa russo man can arouse can awaken himself from down here from himself his own initiative and he even in that state of recruit that we discussed earlier when man seems to be so far removed and in darkness nevertheless koltanua any move no matter how light it is how slight it is he removes himself separates himself from evil and he does good i call each one of these what we consider small nukudos of mabakak yahoo harim could uplift man but yaakov avinu threw his takana of thilas arvis narim umakabets listen how many adjectives every nuts and uses all these the kudos he gathers together litok base hakadusha into the base of migdash which is the base i could do show the base how mig dash is the totality of all the sarusa tattoo of all our nekudos no matter what they seem like the komasha darganov he says something paradoxical here that the lower the level a person reaches could you imagine you know i i think when i was a youngster we spoke about the soviet union right the soviet union as you know was an atheistic country and it prohibited all forms of worship could you imagine a jew under the soviets who had some sort of his orus he's in a place a location that's so far removed it's khrushchev it's a phelan it's the ultimate ghost the exile it's the furthest and furthest from hashem and there in that place some jew has his orus he he is aware of god and whatever he does it's yakar vekashu vyosiviyose it's that much more beloved in the eyes of the almighty because he's down so low and rabbi nassen quotes an ovo's uh an uh a comment in the magician officer i mean it says and it's also the introduction to echo it says welcome base goddale what does that mean base god all so hazal tell us that this base goddell was the basal medraish of rabbi yochanan ben zakai that he established after and as a result of that base madrish he says there were 481 bhakti midrashaus in all of ushalayan and yeshaya navi in the first chapter speaks about mill ac malaysia is the same gematria as 481 this is the biased goddess of rabiogram and zakai so when is the basal mig-dash when it's destroyed what's what's going to replace the bass on migration it's going to be the bass on madrid for coal battery amigos all the bodhi midrashes is going to come he's going to gather together all these horrors this arusa de la tato and make it into one bassamedrish one great edifice of sanctity and this is the replacement of the basal mignos the torah that's studied in the bhatte midrash's and here's the part that i wanted to share with you because this just uh how do they say blows my mind he says the following based on ignore after we referred to a different part of that suggest earlier it says that yaakov avinu on his way to kharan actually passed the makama mignash he passed it by he didn't realize it and then the gemara says that who slowed him down and all of a sudden yaakov realized what happened over here i forgot to visit the makama mikdash and the gemara in khulan asks okay my duologue why didn't i shrina sort of inhibit him and and slow him down when he passed the makama mignos and the gemara answers yaakov's goal his agenda was to reach kharan khadmati lasham when he finally got to kharan and he passed the bakama mignoge omar he said to himself daite let me head there wait a minute i passed about convinced i better i better go back there and at that point after yaakov had issa russo tata he himself woke up with an inspiration cough to lower and god sends him back to the makkah mignoge so there's an amazing integration of both the human element and the divine element the human element is when yaakovinu has the cesarosa de la tatan hashem in a corresponding way gives him in cerusa de liela and he sends him back to the place where he he had missed it that the base hamikdash came closer to yaakov avinu so the major asks which may somebody's it's the third mesa vignesh that's the way if the us and at that point what did yakov become aware of he said he comprehended otsem marirus arija sagolus the bitter and long ghosts of claudius royal valencia ki bashamesh what's lena lina is when a person is is just overwhelmed and confused he doesn't know what time is passing him by he's disconnected from this world he's in a world of of one-sixtieth of death and all of that vlena in which yaakovina went to rest kibashemich because the sun said it was darkness this is a metaphoric symbol of the exile of both the body and the soul so what does yaakovino do when he wakes up after in that sleep that's that slumber experience he realizes what's going to happen in the future down the line the bitter darkness of gullus the marirus so together the stones which are the nitsotos and the facials and the foolin all those who fell far away psychologically and spiritually and he gathers them together their on he raises them he inspires them he integrates them into one entity [Music] with his holy thoughts what is the torah emphasizing about makamahu the makama who represents the mokomos and the mukhrim those low points where the fascials hanafulos reach those low points but yakima venus goes down to those lower points who you'd see me dargo dargo and yakovino goes down to the lowest points why what's his purpose kadela o'rare to tell them yes there is a fearless iris again it's only going to be a reshurius because we can't obligate you in that darkness that you'll definitely come back to hashem but we tell you and we inspire you the possibilities that no matter how low you got you still could raise yourself up with just a little a slight jesurus of his arusa de la tata yaakov is going to go there and what happens when he goes to sleep in that place and he goes down to their level vayaclomi has a dream very name sula musa of artsa viroshi i'm sorry what does the positive say he named wants to know why do you start with olim and then yard them olim means they come up that represents metaphorically this arusa de la tata when we awaken ourselves we want to get close to tashem we were aware of the fact that we're so far from hashem and then it's yardimbo and then the come down from shamayim to meet us to greet us it's going to be that great meeting of visarusa de li ela coming down to meet the isarusa de la tator the integration of both man and the divine being and yaakov at that point realizes the otsem kiddusha samakom the intense sanctity of that place shabo in that place there could be a tikkun combining you shalom shall mallow with you shalom shall of all the the souls of claudius royal hanafulim who are down there in the in the lowest realm and with this takana of arvis the hackness believe calling a fascial sludoro sarayamaza so it penetrates into the hearts and the souls of all generations to this very day ana fashion fulham that there's no room for despair yey do via mino even in that low dark place yeshashem you spoke my local arts clothes god may be concealed but there is the divinity originally you caramed that's the sarusa de la tata and with that is cerusal tattoo with that initiative of man taking that first step god takes the initiative now of his arusa deliella to bring man to a higher level to bring man closer to hashem to chuva to tefila and this is the ultimate bias identify the third base amigos as yakov avinu the ultimate integration of our efforts here down on earth with the olympus going to be the bias hashlishi the third bias so if we come back to our our kino the case of takes on a whole new meaning that the image of yaakov is engraved in the kisa covered for all times and yaakov is the bakrino this is also part of rebelosa kaleer's necoma words of solace words of hope for the rebuilding of the mignus the third mignogen so let's take a few minutes just to read through the first kinna i know it's getting late so we have to read one can at least right hopefully we'll read more than one kin right i pointed out that shavas means a sudden stop it's it's mind-boggling if you go through the sukim you'll see that even your miyo anovi who foretelled who foretold the destruction of the mignoge even he was surprised he left the spot and he came back and he found the big dish in flames [Music] now notice the word sakosa that appears not once but twice and has it translated you have enveloped your heavenly tabernacle you have enveloped yourself this idea of envelopment if you turn back to eicher for a moment again i'm going to give it to you here in the art school it's on page 32. it's peric gimmel of echo possible kigam ki ezak vashavya though i cry out and plead sasam tv lossy which literally translates as god you have closed out my prayer and this is no doubt what revlir is alluding to here in sakosa it's interesting that the word sakosa as clouds can have two extremely different opposite meanings we know that akushboku granted us in the midbrain covered and those clouds would protect us but there's another type of ananim and those are the anonym that that close and envelope god god is not no longer accessible when we talk about god being accessible first and foremost it means fila the rama says that philip means oh made with hashem we are standing in the presence of the almighty but on tish above as as the navi says in philosophy there's a barrier a cloud we cannot pierce through that cloud that's why during the morning of tish above we leave out slikhos we live out there's no room for those filos because it's sausage lossy and that's the meaning that we have of opening the paroches because the perohs covers the shrino torah today all we have is the safety torah that's where the shrine is but on tish above it's the dimension of sasantvilosi and therefore there's no shriner that we have to protect that we have to cover and conceal and this is the tragedy of khurban abayas this is the tragedy the khurban bahia idea about which we are crying today that we cannot even come close to hashem through tefila this day represents the veils and the impediments and the separations between us and the shrina where are you hashem we want to come close to you but sausage you put a steamer there you put a cloud there sakosa mishkan the mishkan at the place of the shrino that's where we come close to hashem and you've closed it you've covered it the screener departs as a result of course the nations of the world are very happy they're celebrating this is the greatest holiday for them soph they're clapping their hands i can't protect i can't uh inhibit myself from telling you that when my firstborn was was was born so we were living in in malaya today to malay remember those times and we lived in a you know in a prefab and so forth so on the on the moshav of malay to mim there was a an ambulance and i still remember i don't miss rakhi i hope he's well i don't know anyway he he offered to drive my wife to give birth when it was time to give birth that morning there was unfortunately a terrorist attack in a place called ainfashra and it was actually on the route on the road that led eventually from aladdin to shalom and adon mizrachi was driving my wife to give birth in heart so film am i right it was hard to film and the arabs were lined up on two sides of the road it was mamish this passage here safku-kaf they thought that this ambulance is taking another patsua from that terrorist attack so they lined up i don't know if you know abudhis and all those places there yamakura they were lined up clapping literally clapping i mean it's a personal story i'm not telling you something from from uh from the show i'm telling you what i saw in my own eyes soft kukafuma do i my limbs were were shattered were shuttered kasila means they they they push down all my mighty ones it's interesting the word beer usually refers to my lucky ashores but the governor yuma always identifies the greats of israel with them because they achieve a level that supersedes that of naflow they know the jerusalem has fallen it remains sunk in the watery depths okay for this we have to we have to see what what rav salvatrix says about this this sentence which is so enigmatic well salvation writes the following jerusalem has been destroyed that's called nafla odainu now odainu means the power and the life force of of of the jewish people which is the basa mignoge nafla has fallen it's been destroyed he says at this point with the destruction of the migdash we've reached the bottom of the depths sinking and going down into a deep bottomless abyss but all this sensor absolutely check is hakalir's introduction to the very next statement which we discussed earlier amy hrixel even though we've reached the bottom of this bottomless pit which we'll never reach but nevertheless we didn't give up hope we are waiting for the words of salas of zakayanaphi to be fulfilled as we said earlier than akiva [Music] now what is gilgal doing here this is very strange it doesn't seem to be relevant here and not only that but later on he's going to talk about give on and rav salvation claims that we had trouble in these places from that fooled us i think art school also makes a similar comment if i'm not mistaken let me see no i don't know it's not it's not apparent to me here but it's it's it's somewhere in the footnotes i saw it last night anyway these are places in which the yeah you found it on the left-hand side yeah these are game that fooled us like for example to give onim were really from the seven local uh palestinians you know that occupied israel one of the seven nations but they they made believe that they were coming from afar right they dressed up in a different outfit and they believed that they were coming from a different nation and they duped claudius to this extent to which yoshua actually signed the covenant of peace with them later on david america is going to make them into sha of a mayhem and so forth and so on they're going to be prohibited from entering into the people of israel but the reason why kalir mentions this at this point is because we fool ourselves when we believe that the nations of the world are willing to sign an absolute commitment a contract agreement with the people of israel we fool ourselves we like to believe so but they don't live up to those contracts they fool us and unfortunately throughout jewish history this phenomenon repeats itself in which we feel that we are duped into believing those nations and that fits in with what he said before at the beginning when he says that um you know we think we have khavarim you know other nations of the world but in truth we are totally alienated from the other nations and ahmed yashkon where that we don't really uh have any true friends in the world alpine for us always point out that the tragedy at pine pross at the euphrates when the vucanetsa destroyed many jewish lives and the levium especially he says nuftu it doesn't say shibru in latin kodesh these are two different words vira is always used when you break a vessel in a way that you have the shards and you can put them together and meld them together but nuftu which is called nafitsar niputs means to completely shatter them into small my pieces in which you can't even pick a pic put it together pal gesu again another uh reference to some terrible tragedy in jewish history pachad shiloh talk of sodell who remembers hate shiloh shiloh if i'm not mistaken was as great as any other base amigno so the other two it lasted for 360 years until it was destroyed and ghazal said what brought about what sin was responsible for the destruction of shiloh it was the hate of the binet ellie of hofny and pinchas who are masha they delayed bringing the carbonos of the old notes right to you lettuce after birth has to bring a carbon so the yoldos would bring their carbonos to the base omnidash of that time it was shiloh and the benay ellie who were in charge of bringing these carbonus were taking their time they dilly dallied and they would tell these women to stay overnight again the possum if you take it literally seems to accuse them of the most severe immorality but the ghazal say that's a toast that's not what they were guilty of but what they were guilty of is that these women could not go back to their husbands because they had to tarry another day in shiloh before they could return home but khazal seemed to indicate that that was the sin that was responsible for the destruction of shiloh that lasted for close to four centuries how could it be just okay it's not a nice thing so you you took your time instead of rushing on behalf of these ladies and bringing their corbanos you kept them overnight but okay therefore the the the mishkan of sheila has to be destroyed but this is indicative of what the gemara sin is relative what's a sin for you is not necessarily sin for him and so forth and so on sin depends upon what level you're at at the level of the banay ailee this was considered azil they were not respectful of the jewish women the mothers who had just given birth and on that level it was such a harsh sin god judges us based on what level we're at so you could see someone who didn't get an upgrade upbringing he didn't get training he wasn't taught and you'll think how is he doing such a terrible thing he violates the shabbos but little do you know how to evaluate sin like the mishnah says in all those that you describe it's two parts of the same hole we cannot evaluate a sin only the almighty could evaluate a sin and it seems that rav khalil wants to emphasize this because very often we don't understand exactly the nature of the sins that brought about the bias but it's relative when claudius were on that level they shouldn't have sinned and those sins as kehuta saira are very very harsh now i mentioned to you at the onset that i got a hold of a safer called khazon la moid from rav shapiro he quotes a villenegon the film that goein [Music] relates to the gemaran human the famous kumar and yuma what brought about the destruction of the first temple the violation of the three cardinal sin salvador sargila what brought about the the destruction of the second temple sinashino so the mufarshaya talam would want to know which of these sins is more severe and the gomorrah says that the very fact that brought about the destruction of the second mignash indicates that gedola sinashinum that sin is like the violation of the three cardinal sins but the god quotes you shall me and it's how would you show me the question is which is more severe the gemara and the in the bhavli seems to put them on the same level and the gemara says in the name of rabbi yochanon that i have a proof that the second was more severe than the first because the first base amigos after its destruction was replaced how many years later seventy years later the second base amigos has not yet been replaced and the fact that the destruction of the second bigness continues to this very day indicates that the second is more hover than the first so the vilnigan tries to understand what is this all about how could the you shall me possibly entertain the notion that the second base amigos which was destroyed because of sin is a worse violation than the first of the three cardinal sins now i would add a comment to my own here no matter what answer you give to this question it's nega it's never going to be satisfactory but let's just hear the gods the goans answer the villenegon says it's all based on many statements of ghazal in the tsar the midrash etc that there are four goleos there are four major exiles and he goes through each one of them and he points out that these four goleos it's not just coincidental you know the number four because these four golios correspond to four non-kosher animals or i should say species of animals there are many non-kosher species of animals but what's unique about four is that these four have one semen of simoni kashus and not both simonides so we have two simoni kashus one is my friend says pyro split hooves and the other is malaguera they rechew their cut they have many stomachs all the kosher species 10 in number only the aversion knows this all share both simone we do not find and i think in australia they're still still finding new species of animals we have yet to discover this is in you know in h i totally have a discovery program and it's one of the big arguments for the uh belief in the you know the uh eternity of the turrets such as the divinity of torah we have not yet found an 11 species okay i have to know about the buffalo and the bison and all that stuff that's but in any event those ten species have the two simon now all the other species of nine coastals with the exception of four are lacking both c mono there are four seem on him i'm sorry four animals that have one of the two simon that's the gamal the shafan the arneves and the khazir okay now the first three gamal shafan and arnavez have what's called malaguera but they don't have my freshest parse so they have one hoof right that's not split meaning it comes to like a sharp sharp point however the khazir is just the opposite the hazir has mafreses parsa right its hooves are split but it's not malaguera it only has one one stomach and i'll say that these four species of animals parallel each one respectively one or the other of the four goliaths the kingships that subjugated the jewish people there's bavel paras javon and romy and again not for us now but to see the connection between each one of those three species of animals and the three malchios of bhavalparas and yovan that's a discussion but says the gone let's focus on the fourth animal the khazir which parallels which golus and what does the khazir do the khazir boasts and displays its hooves and says i'm a kosher animal because my hooves are not are split however inside there's only one stomach so it doesn't have the second simon which is what malaguera what does this have to do with rome and the god wants to explain why is it that the sins that brought about the second khurban exceed those of the first quarterback and he develops the following idea he says that we have two cultures amongst the one culture which we'll see in three out of the four goleos manifests the following behavior on the outside they are absolutely right rotten to the core their behavior pattern indicates that the worst has gotten the best of them if you follow what i mean however they still have some sort of relationship to the intellectual knowledge that's that there is a god even the greeks as much as they were steeped in greek philosophy they did have some sort of concept of a divine being unfortunately their concept of divine being is radically different than ours the divine being is not in any way has some connected to this world fine but there's a different kind of culture and manifestation of evil amongst one particular goalless one kingship in the amongst the guy the romy kimchi and they represent an entirely different or shall we say an opposite kind of behavior pattern on the outside they profess to be cultured to be great students of wisdom and intellectual endeavors and art and music and all of the culture of the world and they show you their hooves their hooves are solid i'm sorry their hooves are split i meant to say my friend says paris says the god what's the difference between these two simone he says the following malaguera is indicative of animals that basically live off vegetation they're not carnivorous what's the opposite of carnivorous herbivorous now when you eat herbs when you eat smokhum the process of digestion is a very long drawn-out process that requires that you the food go into one stomach from one stomach to the other goes back and forth and so forth and so on it's it's it's a long-term kind of thing however the animals that are carnivorous which are called the chaos hat tarfos the animals of prey these animals are meat-eaters and they have this point which they dig into their victims and they eat the meat very very quickly it doesn't take long to digest the other hand the kosher animals are very satisfied you know they're in the process of digestion it's a long process they're not dying for more and more food they eat slowly so now it turns out according to the gun that we get to rome rome represents a culture that on the outside they show you their split hoof split hooves indicate how low what we call locution how an animal gets from place to place and the split hooves again you can check this out at google they will facilitate slow movement because the animals that eat smachim vegetables are not in any rush they don't have to pounce upon their prey but those animals that don't have the split hooves move at a very fast pace and that's because they have uncontrolled desire he says the following the khazir represents the inner single stomach that constantly wants to be fed that never relies on the almighty that never has the sense of security that god provides possession for every high their inner evil is the denial of god on the outside well they have split hooves they seem like they're moving at a slow pace and they're building up cultures and the trouble is that when the jewish people go into these various goliaths tragically they are influenced even though the torah says they are influenced slowly but surely by the culture around them and the most evil and the most challenging of all the kingships is that of rome because romey represents the lack of belief in god and when there's no belief in god then man sees himself as the center the epicenter of the universe all that counts is me myself and i all that's important is how much i can fulfill my desires and i have to act on my own because i don't have any faith in the almighty and when i heard this and i thought to myself that according to the gone the longest goalless is the goalless romy that we are influenced by this kind of culture in which we are so impressed by the you know the music and the art and the politics and the architecture and somehow we lose by contagion with our rubbing shoulders and breathing the air of end and we lose our total faith that there's something above beyond myself that there's something called the divine being that i could rely on and i want to share with you an insight of rav soloveitzuk that's quoted in a cipher called hare kedam i don't know how many of you may have come across the hare kedam put together by rav michael shurkin schlitter and he speaks about the ghost mitzrayim the gemara broncos says that the passage that we read yesterday vediza have is an allusion to ghosts the goddess of gold what does that mean my father would have called it the golden of medina right what was the temptation of vidahav and why is moshe benu emphasizing this at the beginning of seyfridvaran martial hello ben he has a son he bathes him he anoints him with you know good smelling things have to shave and he gives him all the food and what does he do vittolo kiss al zavoro that kiss represents a higher being but anyway what does he do with his son after feeding him and making him so beautiful and handsome it smells so good hoshivo al pesach zonos how could a person be expected to overcome the temptation he's on a pesach of zonos so if salvation asks the obvious question i don't understand vedic have this beautiful gold the luster that attracts us why would i who bring us into mitzrayim he's the avarakaman he's the father of compassion and he puts us into this golus that's so attractive that's so alluring it's these ahav i understand that moshe better wanted to say san igoria to defend the jewish people if they fell prey to the influences of mitzrayim then it's only because of that powerful influence of hoshiva and el pesacazonos but why would i a compassionate father do this iraq salvation comes up with an unbelievable kiddush that i think has to be studied on tish above when we talk about golus and exile he says the following what was egypt at that time the cradle of civilization the most powerful society on earth malchus schoolhouse called medinos it was it was nemus who were the egyptians they were impressive right there there are still things today that we don't know how to figure out you know the the embalming and stuff like that he says every single golis that we experience shahid khan spoken israel bavel yavam romi ich golus haim the shaitan those kingships in their time malika makipa they were the leading most powerful nations on earth at that time followed let's ask the question why does god bring us into the these ahav those civilizations the greatest of their time cesar of salvation unbelievable that when we live amongst those nations and god chooses us to give us the torah as we read and we read earlier this morning we'll read the shabbas miguel gadol we are the chosen nation god gave us the torah the who came but uli heaven forbid might think the following thoughts he's living amongst the most sophisticated the most advanced the most civilized nations why are we the chosen nation what makes us special and a thought like that could cross our minds therefore god does eat stock at us shay he glass israel hates allah which got you they say about the germans that they're advancing lenses you know for the eyes i mean it's unsurpassed and many other areas today what's the ultimate goal why does god bring us into these nations let them experience on their own flesh what is the culture of the bikora barsala zeshul mitzrayim we go through the mitzrayim and we look at the tarbut of the mitzrim what are the mitsubishi they take away a baby from its mother's womb from its mother's chest i can't even describe it this is what you consider culture this is what you're jealous of this is what you put on a pedestal who are they what are the germans what are their culture moshe is raised in the insulated palace of mitzrayim of paro and he goes out to see his brothers vayara and you see he's an egyptian faith says that moshe when he grow up when he matured he goes out and he sees an ish misery and in the very next possum what do you mean you just told me it was an ishmitri but the answer is that when moshe sees the ish he sees the mitri ish the word the torah always means a very significant person who is this misery you can imagine what that mystery looked like he's probably six foot five and he had all the armor on him and the swords right he looks like anish khashov he's full of culture moshe bitbo mikharov he looks at it this way he looks at it that way he checks him out and vayaki nish until he realized he's not in east that defeats and crushes anyone who'll stand in their way powerful this is the lesson that i think we have to learn over and over again throughout our goals the bitter golus our friends so to speak be andre khaveerai who say that they pledge allegiance to us and who do they vote for in the united nations and who are these reliable friends and who are these cultures we get so impressed by culture look at american culture today where are we today in america i used to be a proud american i don't know if i'm ready to turn in my citizenship i don't know i'm contemplating it then i won't be able to visit my mother-in-law anyway okay let's let's move on in the guinness okay did we finish the first one no you're not joking with me are you all right see on saturday show name it tonight it's interesting all the sins of cloud israel become one here he mentions noah what happened at nov shola milk destroyed the the the city of khan and i think he destroyed if i'm not mistaken 80 coined him and all their wives and children it was horrible and it doesn't say that because of noah we we we had the destruction of english but the destruction of vegas is cumulative so not sorry tonight [Music] denies a whole discussion this uh eliezer bending i was also a an evil person [Music] this is this is the message of guinness that we have to take to heart as challenging as it is who i don't know we don't know why we don't know how we can't explain it but it's all part of the part again these are the people who who pledge allegiance to us but they really want to destroy us this is also referring to it to an incident where the arabs came and they they tried to uh bring you know claudio needed water and they gave them empty empty flasks and the the air caused many people to die marie mooney our lovers have friends they're allegiance and they just completely deceived me this is what our enemies say let's destroy them [Music] in this last paragraph he prays for the vengeance against our enemies [Music] and these last words are the on the sedgway into the next kino which is kinder number two which is kinder number seven if you count the five that we read last night and this kenner constantly contrasts the love hashem for claudius royal with the terrible tragedies that we experience throughout the bitter gulus and we'll just point out a few things we won't have time to go through this kind of because we have a number of kidneys we want to read in the fourth paragraph he calls claudius trails vulca correct let's see how we translate the words vulca um how did you abandon your temples to suffer dignity at the hands of aliens i don't know anyway the words vulca comes from the shoresh vul and zvul is a reference to the basal mignosh and rebel azar khalil is decrying the fact that these low low people came to be mesol in the holiest of all holies of this vul and they boasted the fact that they were able to desecrate god's holy holy temple but in truth hakash baahu was telling them no no no you you didn't desecrate holiness by the time by the time you got to destroy the big dash god had already removed his shrine i mean the big dash is not just four walls and stone and and a structure the migration is the shrine but the shrine was already had already departed by the time you got there to destroy the physical structure of the mignash and therefore it doesn't matter how low of a person he is who actually sets fire to the mygus because by that time the mygnus has lost its sanctity but interesting the words vol in kabbalah represents the various various levels uh in the heavens you know there are higher levels and lower levels and the words vol refers to the place of privacy of intimacy is it okay no okay okay now what is the base amigos i mean there are many different parts of the base san migus and it's sanctity but ultimately there's this full zvul is the holy of holies where no one could go in except for the congol who represents claudius that is this full now i'm having trouble with this thing here now legal level so that's the complete marriage in fact the luchos according to the madrid was the khesaf kedusan the marriage of kedushin however there's a difference between the first set of leukos and the second set of lujos in the case of the first set of luchos moshe albanu was called the shliyakh which means that he was bringing the luchos to claude israel and klauser would have received them and then the marriage relationship would be effectuated when moshe baden came down from the mountain and he saw the people worshiping the ego he realized that if he would effectuate this marriage then the jewish people would be guilty of the worst sin of immorality so what he did was he broke the luchos in the case of the second set of lucos moshe bennett was appointed as the cabal it means as soon as he received the luchos from from from hashem arsenal the marriage relationship was sealed however the ultimate in the third level of marriage is and that's called zvul and the reason why rabalazar khalil here is talking about zvulecha it means because claudius royal in their relationship with with ribonus of the dode and the raya of shiroshima they reach the ultimate level of yihud of intimacy which is represented by the zvul that's the private place in the kurdish kardashian where claudius trill are allowed in and only cloudy soil in and that's when they solidify that marriage now on my list of kinus what i wanted to mention is the 11th kinna which is 182 [Music] and that's why you conan year meow on page 182 in the art scroll and again as i said at the outset i encourage everyone to read the kidness inside but this is a discussion about yoshio yoshio was perhaps the greatest king in israel other than david miller and the python speaks about yoshio who already you'll see in the second line ben shmona how how old has it been shimon shan he's an eight-year-old child hey hello he already began to search for his god yeah on page 182 in the art school if you don't have the art scroll what is that the car end it's 289 okay 289. now what did i want to point out to you about yoshio just a second see if i could find it i better not get up because who knows what's going to happen if i get off okay according to hazal yoshio melech faced the greatest challenge of almost all of history and as strange as it sounds to our ears that was the rampant worship of idolatry and ghazal give us a clue we today we have no idea what you know what's attractive alluring about idol worship but because i'll say that when they came to menasha who worshipped idols and they said how could you do this he said to one of the umar he said to him if you would have been there at the time again this is way way future in history at the time that i was there you would have lifted up your skirt so to speak and run to worship the idols it was a tremendous yate sahara for idol worship and the gemara says that such etc they had to pray for the termination of that yet zohar of idolatry yoshioah melech took it upon himself to fight and battle and destroy avodahzara to eradicate our votes or from claudius throw now you have to keep in mind not only is this young man so great that at the age of eight he already finds god and although i have to admit that avraham avinu according to kazaal was a different opinion for was three years old when he found god but yoshio finds god at the age of eight and he takes it upon himself to destroy and eradicate our voter zone however the gemara says that for the first long period of his of his life i'm not sure exactly i think it was the first maybe two years of his mahus he dedicated himself to to righteousness and true mishpot it means to defeat the sheker the fa the false uh judgment against the weaker echelons in society and if anybody happens to have in front of them the after that we read yesterday maybe i have it here for shabbas khazan [Music] just see if i have it here [Music] i will return your judges as they once were this is a reference to isha to yoshia hamillah to this benchmonashanam as we called him yoshiowa melech who was able to restore justice in the land now you and i know that we divide up the torah traditionally into two there's been adam le marco maybe and many commentaries try to wonder which is more important which is greater in significance and yoshioa miller felt that first and foremost on our agenda is to rectify ben adam le chavero and that's why he went out on a battle to restore justice in the land and to defeat those who are trying to push down the poor people and the lower echelons and i want to share with you an insight of ramirez vinsk the great or samaya author of the meshach where mayor simcha points out that you could divide up sin in another way the yakid and the tsibur and he says the following he brings proofs for all these conclusions with regard to the individual the most severe punishments are brought for being adam lamocco for example he says if a person steals something which is being autonomous it's what's called the lav anita and he doesn't even get markers for it and generally speaking in all of mitsubishi vero with rare exceptions there are no punishments so the main thrust and brunt of punishments in the yachin is being adam lamocco however the opposite he claims is true with regard to the seymour of clistro when the community of israel is guilty and meant to be punished for their sins then it's daphne autumn vero that brings about the worst destruction and the most severe of all punishments and when the sibor are guilty of sins that have been automobile declares i will find tara and purity in the people of israel i will postpone punishment but when it comes to its sibor of clal israel that's unfortunately is full of sins and made animal makkom proves that the punishment is severe and immediate and he often quotes the gemara yuma that we mentioned about to buy shiny and if we can add to it simcha this statement in ghazal that yoshio melech that first and foremost before he would take on the challenge of quelching idolatry he would start with main automobile and it really speaks to me personally when we think about being more careful about being adolescent somehow we have the tendency of not giving the same meticulous care and concern about the details of when it comes to being honorable marco and the one who fought against this in our time so to speak was the prophet scheinsen pointed out that even though he himself lived in a in a very modest kind of way he didn't have much furniture to talk about but he pointed out that the vilna gohan if he would visit someone who had a brand new kitchen he would compliment them on the kitchen i'm using that as a contemporary example but what i mean to say is that in banana lacavero you appreciate someone you tell them you make them feel good the gemara tells us in subusing build up a person make them feel good be sensitive and that's lack of sensitivity is what we spoke about when we compared edom to the khazir you know that self-centeredness that comes from a lack of hamuna if i have a muna and i'm a malaguera in which case i rely on hashem to provide for me whatever i need and all my needs then i'm no longer trying to defeat someone else i can be laid back about it and be calm and be sensitive to the needs of another person all that has to come from a powerful sense of haboonah and a faith in the almighty now the kingdoms are divided into three sections the first of which we pretty much covered not inside as i said in reading and that's the tragedies of the khurban by srishan by shaini and the death of yoshio and then we go on to the middle section and that is the crusades so this this begins on page 264. just one second actually let me point out 270 which is meeting roshi mayam here it's numbered as 25. can anyone tell me what page it's on in uh in the current it's number 25 it's called meeting roshi mayan do we have that now this is the beginning of an entire series of kinos about the destruction of the communities in germany during the time of the crusades and you know the tragedies are indescribable indescribable i did want to point out a verse towards the end of this kinah meeting roshi mayan on page 270 for those who have the art school there's a very very fine historical background to this kinah the itaeroshi mayam and to the calamities of the crusades the first crusade took place in november of 1095 and the three cities that are that are mentioned here explicitly in this kinder of the destruction of these three communities during the first crusades are worms spire and mains or mayans in fact if you know anyone with the name shapiro he probably comes from spire probably in any event this kinah describes the khurban of these three cities and the truth is that there's so much here at stake because it almost got to the point where the entire transmission of torah what we call tereshval pair would be completely terminated because almost all of the baleatospus with the exception of a few a handful that lived in germany during those years were all completely murdered destroyed wiped out and the balakino is the marami rootenberg who really in a sense saved the torres shivalpe because he took whatever was left of of german jewry and he guided them and he taught them but towards the end of this kino there's a very interesting statement here and i'll read it to you he says he speaks about tishbo and he says that we cannot add another moment another time period that's designated as the day of mourning and grief of severe vitavera we cannot add a new day now you know that i'm a student of rap salvation can rap salvation was not happy with what we call today yom hashoah and when ben gurion met with rav salvatrik i have at home a very not the original but a a picture of salvation with ben gurion so at that meeting then gurion actually asked her of salvation about adding another day to commemorate the showa and rav salvajic actually again how much ben gurion appreciated this i don't know but apparently he did understand it but salvation quoted this kin on the itin-roshi mayam that in a sense it joins us from adding another day to tish above and the reason for that is because tish above is the day in which we commemorate all jewish calamity the second the first and the second destruction of the bash was the beginning of all of jewish calamity over all of history all of the destruction the calamities and the murders and the pogroms and the holocaust it all comes from the hurban-based aminos and during tish above rav salvation would point out over and over again if you read the kinos that describe the torture and the murder and the destruction of jewish life in jewish communities especially amongst the scholars of israel who are slaughtered you will see over and over again that the baal hakina is describing events that took place during the shoah during the holocaust over and over again throughout the guinness you will see descriptions of the horrors as if the volatile in front of him the holocaust and so there will be descriptions about the murder of children we know that the nazis would take children first some calculate that as many as one point million children were murdered by the nazis and in one of the kindest he describes how our enemies take the children again it's hard to describe this in verbally but throw them smash them against against the wall to to destroy them and salvation describes what he heard from others and it's already been catalogued how the nazis had a particular pleasure of taking jewish children and just destroying them and then there are references in the guinness about the enemies of the jewish people deriding the jew by taking him publicly and cutting off half his beard we know this is exactly what happened during the holocaust and of course the nazis would first humiliate a jew in every single way that they possibly could and then pull out the revolver and kill them but first they had to humiliate the jew and throughout the guinness we see [Music] many many illusions and therefore this is reflective of the fact that tish above is the day in which we mourn and grieve over all tragedies over all calamities and recently i mean again i i shouldn't be mentioning individual names but i can't stop myself harry fold was murdered and all the terrorist attacks and all the jews that lost their lives in the wars and in the terrorist attacks it's all part of tish above this is the day that we mourn in grief or grieve over all these losses the third part of kinis is what we call seon and this begins with rabbi yehuda levy sean sion hello tisha lee which you'll find on in the art school on page 328 it's number 36. see on hello tisha lee can you find it 555. now one kinna that we're skipping but it has to be read is number mem alef which is on page 360. it's called chalice rufa beach which commemorates the event that took place during the reign of king louis ix a french king and on that day which is described by ramirez who is the author of this kinasha lisu fabish that was the day on which they destroyed jewish manuscripts 24 large large cart loads again this is two centuries before the printing press so all of torah was at stake the entire masira satora the the tradition the transmission of torah was at stake because we had no printed books it was all manuscripts it's just a miracle that torah was able to survive this so i have a few friends who come from a city in america called saint louis i would add saint louis ymca because how did he get how was he appointed as the saint he was appointed to saint because of this very event that that we commemorate on tish above in our in our in our kinos when he destroyed all the jewish manuscripts the balakini says that we almost lost two masectos completely that's nadarim and naziris and nausea because to this day we have no pirish rashi on these two massacres very difficult to understand okay the ron wrote a pirate on the dharam thank god but uh nazir is murder i mean we don't have rashi neither on the durham or naziris they were all lost on that very day when we lost 24 cartloads of of of manuscripts chalice roof so that's something that we [Music] that we want to uh keep in mind if we don't if we don't actually get to it just one second here i'm looking for something and i hoping i'll find it oh i'm looking in the wrong book that's probably why i'm not finding it okay [Applause] so you da levy leaves the comfort of spain in order to go to eretz's royal and i would i would paraphrase the phrase the phrase in ghazal yaufe for you foreign was not just pontificating the beauty and the greatness of eretz israel he lived it no one knows exactly what happened there are various subversions according to the most famous one he was killed as soon as he arrived in eretz yisroel and all of these kinos which i think in number 10 in number they all are sort of influenced by and try to duplicate the first xeon i would like to take this opportunity to read to you something from rav salvajic many years ago on tishaba he says the following now i'm going to take a try at standing up because i possibly can't sit okay good so if it's after katsos you do what you want okay he says the following rabbudal levy adored everything about eretz israel he was madly in love with eretz israel i have never encountered any person meaning amongst the greats the scholars the rishonim who was so in love with eretz israel like rabihu dalev there were many others who went there at israel but they did not confess their love for the land in the terms in which he did the ramban also loved eretz israel he was more sophisticated perhaps more of a scholar than review del levy and he explains his love in halachic terms review though levy on the other hand expresses his love heritage trail in a day in a way that's different than the ramban he says the following if we are meant to fulfill our obligation of describing the hashem of tish above throughout the generations we need first to describe the beauty of the cities the beauty of the land of israel if we don't appreciate the beauty then we cannot appreciate the kurman so now as we're about to read this kinah we're going to fulfill our duty to describe and portray the beauty of the land of israel of sion and you shall aim as it were before the horrible in echo parikh aleph pasek zion jerusalem remembered the days of her affliction and of misery and all the treasures that she had had in the days of old apparently have to remember the treasures of the days of old so we should remember the beauty of you shalom and we're going to have a whole kino describing yetis mitraim and you'd see a yerushalayim again that contrast to appreciate the extent of the catastrophe and the disaster we have to emphasize and appreciate the great beauty of you shall lion i'm just skipping to highlight what i think he says rabbi you thou lady presents in this kinah an idea which he elaborated upon in his kusari for him prophecy is a natural phenomenon in eretz israel prophecies descend descend from on high and here's israel just as rain and dew descend in eretz israel when you breathe you breathe not only oxygen but also something spiritually important something with spiritual potency and vigor the air in eretz israel the plain physical air is different the condition or quality of the atmosphere in eretz israel is saturated with prophecy with ruacha kodesh with divine inspiration the uniqueness of xeon is not only in the transcendental or metaphysical significance but also in its natural climactic and geographic significance the rain is different the dew is different the soil is different the stones are different they are physically different the light in eretz israel is different it's brighter in earth's israel there is not only the light that flows from the sun and from natural sources but a divine light intermingled with the natural light the air is cleaner and thinner and it's charged with ruacha kodesh nature is by far more magnificent more beautiful in seo than outside of tseon the torus says eretz zavas khalavudvash it means that there's something unique in the nature of the land in the soil the dew the climate the wind and the air amazing the gemara at the end of masecto xuvis which we hope to get to in a few months the gemara describes the love for israel of the various amaryam and the gemara describes and it says that wherever gamda reached the land of israel is go el biafra he literally rolled in the soil of eretz israel shennamar as it says in the possum possibly avodah esavonero versafora because your servants oh god love and they crave the stones of eretz israel and the land the ground of eretz israel if you look in rashi on the last one in the celtic subs he writes the following rashi simply copies the pus again tilling no additional commentary rashi is a commentary on the shots we can't learn shots without rashi why does sometimes rashi repeats what it says in the gemara if there's a gear sub problem you know we're not sure if the right text but here it's a possibility so what is rashi telling me over here so i heard once from my father's akron he said the following on occasion rare occasion rashi wants to subtract something from the gemara he wants to omit something from the gemara because he's afraid we might misunderstand what it says in the text in the gemara it says there are ganda when he got off his uh his donkey and he arrived in the land of erz israel he wallowed in the dust maybe that's the source for i don't know if you've ever seen someone who came there to show for the first time he gets off an ll plane he kisses the ground and the gemara goes on to say shannar because it says an apostles but rashi omits one word shannema i have many students over the years who ask me about whether they should go on aliyah to eretz israel some of them live in the five towns some in teaneck some live in good old manhattan and i say to them look you need a hetero you need a leniency you feel guilty about living in khutsar it's come to me i'll open up the shokunori and i'll prove to you that there are many many nuances and many conditions and many reasons to allow you to stay in hudson where it's paranosa whether it's shidduchim etc etc but the question is what do you feel what moves you what is your genuine feeling i once heard in the name of goldschlitzer of shalom gold that he said why does rabosha feinstein possibly in that living in eduardo's admits for kihumus it's an optional myth he says if it wasn't optional he says then you'd always find an excuse why not to go but optional means it's got to come from your death the depths of your heart so rashi tells us that when gamda got down from his donkey he didn't do it because shanna he didn't just call state and passing he opened up shulkin and he saw that the shogun said he has to get down and and kiss the ground leave out the shenanima ki rasul yes there are challenges but you have to come with the rats on you have to come with a will you have to come with a realization as we said earlier that eric's israel which gets its kedushi sanctity from the mokkama mignoge is a place that brings us the zikaron that gives us that uplifting inspiring feeling of closeness to hashem he who lives in khutsallar it's the gemara says is doming here is with his divinity here is where of you that levy describes the very rains the atmosphere the air that we breathe the dew that falls it's different it's saturated with spirituality with divinity this is the kedusha the sanctity of eretz israel and it's fascinating the inside of the kaft of a ferrari of farcry one of the greatest sephardic post game who lived about nine years ago 900 years ago and he writes that the sanctity of eretz israel is inherent it doesn't depend upon which lands were conquered by aliyah rishonali etc and if i gave it a modern twist i would say that if someone went down to a lot he has not gone to hud's law it's because a lot is within the biblical boundaries of eretz israel those biblical boundaries touch on the inherent essence of eretz israel and this is why my friends tishav came about on that horrible night when the miraglen returned with that negative report of eretz israel and we misused and abused the bahria the crying that we've spoken about all of today and we cried because we cried because we realized that there's no way that we could conquer eretz israel and except for khalif and yoshua who had that firm belief alone now we can go up here it's israel we can overcome the challenges if not for that then atem you have cried in vain without faith without believing in the almighty is there'll be a crying throughout the generations on this very night of tish above drama asks why is it that at the beginning of seifer devarim when moshe rabedu gives tohoku to klali israel he singles out the caitanya there is literally a whole chapter more than a chapter of sukim about the caitanya raglan in which moshe rabbenu reviews it blow by blow why and says the ramban based on apostle can tell him ki masubi eretz the sin of the miraculum is not like any other sin in the case of the ego the ramban leaves that out because the faith is a sin against moshe benu they didn't believe that moshe made it would come down they needed an in-between an intermediary to replace moshe vedu but they had a faith in the almighty but cesar amban when they questioned the eretz israel they were battling they were rebelling against the almighty himself this is not like any other sin this is a sin against god because the ramban has the opinion that all the misses of the torah all 6 13 depend upon eretz israel and if the people of israel got up and they said to moshe benu let's go back to mitzrayim they were turning the clock back before mountain torah they were asking to go back to mitzrayim they were giving up on eretz's throw which means they were giving up on all the mitzvos they were undermining the very essence of the jewish people and the briss between akris baraku and khloe israel and therefore on this day the day of bahria we cry without without an end and there's no gull there's no baltoseph and that's the last kind of which we'll we'll sing today 390 in the art scroll it's mem hey 45 what page is it on in yours elitsy on vre [Music] they [Music] a [Music] lazy is [Music] oh [Music] foreign is [Music] is you