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Tisha B'av 2021 | Rebuilding The Bais Hamikdash ft. Master Storyteller Rabbi Mayer Erps
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a new campaign is launched
the campaign to build the base ham
english yes
all that's missing is a few million
dollars and then we could start building
the base hamikdash
how long do you think it would take to
raise the funds
if indeed all i was missing was money it
would take only a few hours to raise it
all
we had a beautiful base in english built
by
muhammad it was a place where the eden
would go
they would love going to the base
hamidos it was a place where they felt
the closest hashem
like no other place in the entire world
[Music]
and then less than 400 years later
the base time english was destroyed on
tish above by the babylonian king
71 years later after a bitter goddess
a bitter exile once again the eden the
jews were able to rebuild
their base yes they said
we are back home we could serve hashem
once again
in the basement once again they felt
that closeness
how happy they were and then again 656
years later on tishmo the second base
amigos
was parked to the ground the eden
the jews were sent into exile the very
exile that we find ourselves in today
and more than 2 000 years later
we await the final redemption
from hashem i want
every single one of you boys
to close your eyes and think about the
following
questions how is it
that netzer the king of bubble
was able to destroy the base
how is it that the evil titus herasha
the roman emperor was able to win over
the heligeaden the holy jews
hashem's chosen people who he watches
and takes care of and cares for so
carefully
well hazal our sages of blessed memory
have given us the answers to these
questions
and they said during the time of the
first space
the eden the jews were involved in the
gimel availas
the three cardinal sins of gilearay's
immorality murder
and avoided zara idol worship as well as
they were not mahshev the heiligator
as they should have they didn't
appreciate
how great the torah is
we sit here on this day of tisha buff
tough champay aleph 5781
you're probably thinking to yourselves
if only there would be a campaign
that would allow us somehow some way
to rebuild the third base of english i'm
sure
we would all volunteer to get involved
and do whatever we can
right away well i have
good news for you there is a campaign
an ongoing campaign a campaign that's
been going for many years
that you can contribute towards and so
many in
so many jews around the world have been
contributing to
oh no no no it's not a campaign well you
have to give money to
as a matter of fact you don't have to
pay anything
not a cent the time used to say
that since we know the reason for why
the base of english was destroyed
we can learn from there how we can bring
the base of english
back once again and i'd like to share
with you
a few stories that will offer us an idea
a suggestion of indeed how we can get
involved
in the campaign and what we can do to
bring
soon our first story takes us
deep into russia to the town of the
atlanta
now in this town in this village in
russia it was like most villages in
russia
where they have no plumbing so i know
what you're thinking so how in the world
do they have water
well they had what most towns in russia
had
and that is called a vassar trigger
a water carrier in this town the vassar
triggers name
the water carrier's name was yonko
let's go visit yonko right now let's
observe
let's see what he did on a daily basis
oh my i can't believe this i'm doing
this for
many years carrying these pails and
buckets of water that's what i do
every day i go back and forth and back
and forth and sometimes
even fourth and back from the river
filling up the pails and ah
i'm at a customer's house right now let
me put down these pails
and let me knock on the door
[Applause]
you got the water yes i have the water
here where's your
where's your tub let me pour the water
in
okay we'll see you tomorrow i
should call you uncle here's a few
copics and have a good day
and that is what yonko did every single
day
one day some of the children in town
decided to have what they called
a good time tully
yeah what is it yet i think it's time
for us to have a good time
what kind of good time you want to have
you want to play some ball or something
no i won't have a better time than that
well what do you want to do
how about hey it's a brilliant idea hey
you know yonko yanko the vasatruggar
the water carrier yeah what about him
how about you know you know what he does
every night
he puts his pails down in front of his
house
and the next day he wakes up he goes and
he dives chakras he comes back after
chakras to take his pills to go down to
the river to fill them up
to go deliver the water to his customers
okay so what do you want to do
what kind of fun is that ah i'm gonna
tell you
tonight come with me
when it's close to evening when yonkel
puts his pills down for the day
we're gonna go we're gonna take his
palestine river fill them up
and then we're going to leave them in
front of this house
and overnight with the frigid
temperatures here in russia
the pales will freeze anyway he wakes up
tomorrow
and he goes to diamond and he comes
after dominic to start his day's work
he's going to have pails full of ice
can you picture him chopping on ice
gonna be funny he's gonna wake up i can
see it now he's gonna say oh my
i can't believe it all the isis and the
pales what i'm gonna do he's gonna chop
the ice
that's a good one and sure enough it
came that night
and yanko came home i give out
oh my finally i can put down his pills
and try to straighten up
oh yeah yeah you have to all these years
cameron just pales on my back
it could really do you win all right
pals
i'll see you tomorrow morning have a
good night
and he went into his house meanwhile
those boys who were watching from a
distance they came out
and they took the pelvis and they went
down to the river they filled up the
pants
and they put them down right in front of
yonko's house and they scurried off and
they ran home
there was one boy who was standing there
earlier in the day
his name was eustrol mayor
he thought right away to himself you
know something
this is not good this is not nice
i mean imagine how yonko's gonna feel in
the morning
how humiliating he's going to feel that
these kids played these tricks on him
i should tell him to stop him but
they're not going to listen to me
what can i do i must come up with
something
and by the time the night time came
around unfortunately israel mayor
had no plan he went to bed and he was
tossing and turning
until finally he came up with an idea
you know something i cannot stay here
in my warm cozy bed knowing what's going
to happen
to yonko tomorrow morning how humiliated
he's going to feel
that these boys play that prank on him
and with that strong mary got out of his
bed
he went to the front door of his house
and he opened it
and he stepped outside no one was around
it was pitch black it was so quiet that
if you listen carefully
you might even be able to hear the
heartbeat of your stroll mirror
listen carefully
that's how quiet it was and sure enough
troll mayor tiptoed down the streets
until he got
to yankel the water carrier's house and
he saw the pelts
beginning to freeze over i that's a good
thing i came when i did
let me empty out these pails right now
tomorrow morning yonko will be able to
wake up
go to chakras and start his day without
anyone
humiliating him without anyone making
any fun of him
at a wall and do you know
who this little boy is omer was
he grew up later to be the hafez
the great goddamn and we learn his torah
every day all over the world
[Music]
that is how we bring back the basa
amignus
by holding ourselves back or doing
whatever we can
from preventing someone from being
humiliated
or embarrassed that creates a thunder in
shamayim in heaven
hashem looks down and he says ah
look my children are trying to rectify
they're trying to fix
up the sin that was done so long ago
our next story brings us many many many
years back
when there was a very wealthy individual
who was sitting in his mansion one day
and he was saying to himself
i can't wait i just can't wait to host
this
banquet that i'm so carefully preparing
down to the last detail
of all the food and drink that's going
to be served children order upon him
all the rabbis of the community and all
my friends
that i've invited um butler
come in please
yes master what is it what can i do for
you
well as i'm sure you're well aware from
all the hustle and bustle
and preparation that's going on here you
know i'm hosting a big banquet
soon do you not oh yes of course i've
noticed
well it's time for you to go around
and invite all the people that i need to
be invited to this banquet
here's a list can you go and personally
invite
every single one of the people on this
list of course
master absolutely i'll get to it
immediately great let me know when
you're done
sure enough the butler went to the first
name on the list
uh ruvain yes that's he lives right here
ah how do you do today oh
you are the butler of my good friend
what brings you here today
well i am here to personally invite you
yes to personally invite you to a
special banquet
that my master is hosting in just a few
days
will you be there well of course your
master
is one of my very good friends of course
i will be there
okay great very good we've got that
fellow let's see what's my next name ah
kamsa okay now let me knock on this door
over here little did the butler know
that he was actually not at the door
of kansa the host's very good friends
but he was at the door of an individual
whose name
was barakamsa similar but
different and this fellow bar comes and
was actually the host's
enemy and was not supposed to be invited
to the party
but the butler did not realize his
mistake and he knocked on the door
oh hi hey
i know you you're the butler of
my enemy what are you doing here
i don't know what you're talking about
right
well i have yes yes i have on this list
here that my master gave me that uh
you're supposed to be invited to a
banquet that uh he's throwing in a few
days
will you be there um why in the world
would he want to invite me we haven't
spoken to each other
and i don't know how long oh
maybe he wants to make up for all the
years that we've been in this
locus for this disagreement
you know what if he wants to make up
i'll make up with him
yes mr butler you tell your master
i'll be there great great great let me
mark off another name
and i shall be on my way
sure enough it came the day of the
banquet
and the host was walking around ah very
nice very nice so roofing so how are you
enjoying
oh this is delicious i don't know
how you made this delicious it's great
and the drinks
schmidt it's great very enjoyable
it's perfect i appreciate you inviting
me i'm enjoying myself
thoroughly great very good very let's
see let's see who else oh older abundant
in my here all the rappers in the town
very night that
hold on a second is that how i think it
is
is my eyes playing tricks
how could it be is that
my sworn enemy baron cancer
oh he doesn't belong here
excuse me fire cancer and what are you
doing here
oh oh hi what am i doing it well
i was inviting your butler he knocked on
my door and i i was actually surprised
myself but i figured
you probably wanted to make up right and
are you kidding
i would never invite you to any of my
parties and in my banquets in a million
years
get out of here oh oh please please
please please no i i
i'll pay i'll pay for my food i'll pay
for my food
please please just don't throw me out
don't embarrass me in front of everyone
are you kidding i don't want to see you
here for another second
i said leave and leave now please please
please i'll pay for half the party
i'll pay for the whole party just don't
embarrass me
if you don't leave now i'm going to pick
you up and throw you out
as a matter of fact i'm going to do that
right now that is exactly what the host
did
he picked up barracumsa by the collar
and he threw him straight out of the
party
in front of everyone
himself off the floor and he said
what how could he have
done that to me i feel like nothing a
nobody
i'm so humiliated how could they have
done that to me
and in front of all their abundant and
they didn't say anything to me
they didn't defend they didn't stick up
for me nothing
ah you haven't heard
the last of me
[Music]
and with that i come to got onto a horse
and he galloped to the caesar of rome
yes what can we do for you to have an
appointment
with his majesty this easier i don't
so what do you think you're doing here
exactly you know
you can't just walk in and see the
caesar
oh but i have something extremely
important
that i'll speak to him about oh
and what is that i have some important
information that i'm telling you
i'm guaranteeing you he wants to hear
ew give me a moment hold on a second
and with that the guard went to the
caesar um your
majesty oh what is it
well there's a gentleman outside who
says he's got some
extremely important information that he
guarantees you want to hear
how is that so well then send him in
i will okay the caesar
is ready to have an audience with you oh
thank you thank you
yes sir what is it that you have to tell
me that's so important
your majesty i don't know how to tell
you this
but the jews want to rebel against you
what what are you babbling about
why do you say that again i am telling
you
i am a jew and i live amongst the jews
i am telling you they are staging a
rebellion against you
do you have proof of such a statement
ah you want me to prove it to you i'll
tell you what you should do
give me an animal that can be brought on
to the mizbeh
and you'll see when i present it to them
they will refuse
to take it from you is that so
well let's give it a try let's see what
happens
and sure enough this caesar gave
barkhanzo
a three-year-old calf and on the way
as barakamsa was leading the calf back
to where he lived to
life he took out a little knife and he
sinned
little calf if you don't mind i just
have to make a little little cut
in your lip and according to some the
gemara says
it was near the calf's eye you see like
this
will not allow this animal to be brought
on the masaya because
now it will have a mum this animal will
no longer be permitted to be brought on
his back you see in roman law you can
bring and animalize this
this is not considered a blemish for
their sacrifices for their offerings
but in the basement gosh it is
and short of bar comes about this calf
and indeed did not allow this calf to be
brought as a carbon on his back
in the base and word got back to the
caesar
and that was what led eventually
to the destruction of the base
of course who attended the party must
have had a reason for why they didn't
say anything
when barkampson was thrown out but
hashem was unhappy hashem is our father
he loves us and he cannot bear to see
when we cause pain from one to another
you know great things happen when we go
out of our way
to save someone from embarrassment from
humiliation
and that leads us to our next story
several years ago in nairo destroy in
israel
there was a boy by the name of david
david
was 17 years old and unfortunately
his mother was very very sick he was
preparing himself
to go spend shabbos with his mother
before he went
he figured he'll pay a visit to the
grocery store to buy a few
things for shabbos okay let me see over
here
uh yeah this will be good and this would
be okay let me go pay now
uh hi hi how are you sean
rip zumba how are you oh
david and how are you please tell me
how is your mother doing ah
hey rebzondo i wish i had good news for
you
but unfortunately the doctors they
just they just cannot figure out what's
wrong with my mother
she has some sort of illness they've
examined her
they've given her many tests but they
still cannot figure out
what is the source of her illness
oh my dub it i cannot tell you
how it hurts me to hear that but you
know that myself
and the rest of the community we are
darvening for your mother's
refusal name a speedy recovery hopefully
soon the doctors will figure it out of
course with hashem's help
and she'll get the proper medication and
treatment that's necessary for
her yes i hope so as well but thank you
we appreciate your feelings and
have a good travis you too david
have a great job okay
i got my stuff i got my things now and
with that
dove went to the hospital it was getting
closer
to davening time friday night and david
turned to his mother
um ima is it okay if i go down to the
shul
that's here in the hospital to darwin
minha and cabal shabbos and marv
i'll be back soon
of course david of course go on daven
i'll be okay don't worry about it you go
in daven
and sure enough dove went down to diving
with everyone else
who for whatever reason was staying in
the hospital for shabbos
after daveny was over someone gave a
clap on the bema
someone gave a bang
um actually excuse me have you
before we leave and go to wherever we
have to go
uh uh um i have an important request
shhh
this kid has a request oh boy sir boys
sh this year has a request
thank you i appreciate that
this week here in the hospital we have a
very
rush of a person that's here
unfortunately
a few days ago the great
and heilig sadiq the holy rabbi
yashev the great yash of the poison door
is here in the hospital for shots
we are trying to put together a minion
to dive in with him shark with tomorrow
morning shabbos morning
and i think we pretty much have a minion
but
we need a balcony does anyone here
have the ability to lane parachute spot
them does anyone know
how to lane passes mishpot him
and david thought for a second yes i i
know how to lane personally spot them
um excuse me i reviewed yeah yeah i
could lane power some spot him
oh gabaldic so tomorrow morning please
come to this in this room and you'll be
the valkyrie and you'll be part of the
minion
horseshoe minion that will allow reba
yashev to dive in
but sieber sure enough the next day
david woke up bright and early to make
sure
that he was being time to attend rabel
yashev's minion
and he came up to kris at tiger and he
did a wonderful job
he leaned flawlessly clearly
with the correct pronunciation without
even one mistake
davening was over and went over to david
and he said to him
young
would man to speak to you he'd like to
speak with you
um of course of course and sure enough
i bought dove it over to the asheville
and it will yashev turn to david
and he said
you learned very well i
appreciate your being the balcaire
for our minion but
please tell me what are you doing in the
hospital here
why are you here for shabbos
um hello
my mother is is very sick
and uh unfortunately the doctors have
examined her
uh and have done many tests and
they cannot figure out what is the
source of her
illness why she is so sick
um um and
schuldix said rabbi yashev
to his gabay excuse me i would like
you to please call in the doctor that
was flown in from america
to tend to me to take care of me can you
please go call him now
rather if that's true of course of
course
[Applause]
[Music]
what is that please
go with this teenage boy over here
his mother is here sick in the hospital
and the doctors are having a difficult
time
figuring out what it is
that is the source of her illness can
you please check her out
of course if that's what the rabbi is
asking me to do of course i'm going to
do that
right away and sure enough the doctor
from america that was flown in to take
care of the ashev
examined all the records and made the
appropriate examinations and checked the
test results
and he said yes i think i've detected
the issue here
and indeed he was able to help out
david's mother she was able to get the
proper medication and treatment that was
necessary
for her to have a refusal
now if i would just stop this story
right here
you would say to yourself wow what an
amazing story of ashkar
pratas divine orchestration how it just
worked out
that david should get the care that his
mother needed
through abilities but there's one more
part of the story that i need to share
with you
you may be wondering how was it indeed
that david knew how to lane parishes
mishpotem
so well for that we need to rewind
a few years doug was about 12 years old
and his father called him over oh
david yes abba what is it
well you know i'm sure
it's uh it's probably coming up
in your mind that your your bar mitzvah
is coming up soon in about a year's time
well uh yes ab i can't say i haven't
thought about it at all uh
yes i i have been thinking about it well
i think it's time that we start getting
you the proper preparation
and uh begin learning how to laying your
person
let me look at the calendar over here
[Music]
yes parties yesterday will be your bar
mitzvah so
we better hire someone quickly to get
you uh started and learning how to lane
passes yesterday and i also need to call
the guy
of the show in order to make sure that
he books and reserves that shabbos for
your bar mitzvah
and with that david's father called up
the shamish the gabby
who am i speaking to hi
hi shalom alaikum
it's me mandy cohen how are you ah
mandy cohen shalom alaikum what can i do
for you
well i'm sure you probably took note you
probably noticed
that my son david is getting closer and
closer to becoming bar mitzvah
ah yes yes of course ah so you're
calling me to reserve a shabbos rim
yes indeed ah okay so which patch is it
well according to my calendar over here
it says pasha's user
ah posh is this right you've got it let
me write a note over here
and it's good as well as done okay
gevaldic okay
and sure enough dovey began preparing
with his bar mitzvah teacher
how to read how to lane posh's history
it was about maybe a week or so
before dove environments was to be
celebrated before pasha's yesterday
and dublin's father received a phone
call
[Applause]
preparations everything is everything is
going well everything's well underway
what is that like a new view
well is everything okay
well that's actually why i'm calling
that's what i'm calling about
what do you mean i'm starting to detect
some worry in your voice
yes very good you did um
well it's like this you see um i was
cleaning up my desk recently
and and and i found the paper
and what does that have to do with me
well written on the paper
was uh a a note that said that
uh you reserved pastor's sister in
auschwitz for your son david's bar
mitzvah
yes yes that's right i made sure to call
you well in advance
it must have been maybe a year in
advance yeah that's right
but what do you mean bart
um uh i don't know how to tell you this
but i i sort of
misplaced this paper and i just found it
now
and in the meanwhile and i mean what
in the meanwhile i already told someone
else that the shoe was available this
week and someone else's son prepared
parishes yesterday
for his son's bar mitzvah
could you tell that to me once again i'm
not sure if i'm hearing correctly
did you say that someone else was told
that
they can have their bar mitzvah and
their son claiming pastors this or this
weekend i was sure
uh yes that is what i said
i developed so so so what are we gonna
do
that's exactly what i'm calling you uh
about it to see if uh we could try to
figure something out maybe uh you could
make your son david permanent next week
i'm partially about him
yeah but he worked the whole year
preparing patches yesterday
uh uh you know what
let me speak to david let me see what we
could do oh yeah okay
good please call me back as soon as you
have something some information for me
of course um david
uh yes abba what is it uh i just
received a phone call from
rebzonville you know the uh the gabba in
the show
okay and he said that there's
there seems to be a little
misunderstanding and
someone else was given uh the okay the
go-ahead
to be bar mitzvahed and how sure this
week uh you mean
in other words another boy prepared uh
parsons yesterday uh-uh yes
or you give out so the shamish the
goblin was calling me
to see if we could uh figure something
out hmm
ah but let me think about this for a
moment
hmm i mean i can't imagine
if that boy is told i'm sorry you cannot
have your bar mitzvah here maybe go to a
smaller shoe
or maybe cancel it he would feel so
embarrassed from his friends
and relatives and anyone that knows him
you know what abba please call back the
shamash
and tell them that it's okay
i'll prepare pastor smith button i'll
spend as many hours as
i need to over the next week or two and
i'll lane
next week in celebration of my bar
mitzvah
are you sure about that i am positive
and indeed david's father called
the gaba and told him that david said
it's okay
that boy can lay postures destroy hill
lane parties mishpotem
the following week and that my friends
is how david came to know how to lane
parshas mishpoten so well
and here david thought all he was doing
was saving another boy from being
embarrassed for having to cancel his bar
mitzvah or to make other arrangements
and then ended up actually several years
later
saving his mother's life but in addition
to saving his mother's life
he brought meshiach all that closer
from allowing the other boy to lane and
to think about the other boy's feelings
and how he would feel under the
circumstances
when we go out of our comfort zone
in order not to cause someone else
embarrassment
it brings that day that we so hope for
all the more closer and that brings us
to our next story
this story happened in eritsel
several decades ago where two brothers
were walking down the street
talking to each other
um okay uh so matus do you have your
shtickle toe
ready for my rabbit do you have your
divi torah
your thoughts of torah that you want to
share with me arabic do you have it
ready
to say uh uh yes yes matalan i'm all
ready i'm ready
uh are you nervous or excited ah
a little of both i mean we're talking
about the casinos i mean they call that
dirt
huh here we are let me knock on my
rubbish door
oh the rabbit said to come in
[Music]
the two brothers matas and mata walked
in and they saw the hazard sitting
at his table oh
my retired town with my close student
motto and your brother matas please
please come and sit down and the boy sat
down
and mottled turned to his rebbe
my brother mattis has prepared a
stickled tire some thoughts of toad that
he would like to share with the rebbie
can he can he share them with you can i
tell you this tickle torah
okay please begin
and with that matas began with a gemara
and then with the castle et cetera he
went on and on with his beautiful
sticker
and afterwards he finished and has
turned to mattis and he said beautiful
beautiful very nice
well said i i enjoyed it
tremendously
and with that motto turned to matas okay
matas
you could go on ahead i just want to
speak to the rebbe a little bit i'll be
out soon
i also have a stickle turret can i share
with you
oh you mottled muttel please
understand i would love to listen to
your shtickle torah your thoughts of
terror that you'd like to share with me
and i'm sure you spent a lot of time
preparing it but hey
i don't have any kayak today i woke up
this come on
almost no strength in me
please maybe another time oh you ran me
i'm sorry i'm sure
excuse me i didn't know but but
but why did you tell that to me
beforehand when i came in with my
brother
matas
listen imagine how matus would have felt
if i would have told him right away
that i wasn't up to listening to
hishtakaltara his thoughts of tyra
he would have gotten so insulted perhaps
he would have thought that i'm just
trying to make up
some sort of excuse not to hear him and
not to listen to him
but you are a talmud of mine
if i tell you that i'm not up to it you
will not take it personal
you will not get insulted you will
understand
we've heard stories that involve
some of the greatest sadiquem like the
prophet
and there are many stories of how our
great great sadhikim
the goddaum of claudius the greatest
rabbis of the jewish people
have done have gone out of the way to
save someone from being embarrassed
but let me tell you something and listen
very carefully
you don't have to be a big sadiq you
don't have to be a big goddamn
you don't have to be someone great and
do a great thing
like pushing off your bar mitzvah or
something like that or going out in the
cold
night to empty out buckets of water you
don't have to do that
in order to save someone from
embarrassment but sometimes
opportunities may come your way small
opportunities which doesn't require too
much
that allows you to step up and protect
someone from being embarrassed from
being
humiliated in our next story we're going
to meet someone
who's just like you an ordinary boy
and let's see what he did to save
someone from embarrassment
our last story took place several years
ago
in the zone boys division of ura
it was towards the beginning of the
summer and the teen division
which was led by the legendary mechanic
the legendary rebbe
rabbi yasi moses was heading out to the
baseball field
to watch one of the first games of the
summer
the boys had divided themselves up into
two teams
and on one of the teams the captain's
name was
paul freed and paul looked around
at the individuals that were on his team
at the boys that were on his team
some of them he may have known from
before some of them he just met
and he asked um can anyone
pitch can anyone pitch for us and one
boy raise his hand
oh yeah i i could pitch yeah i could be
the pitcher for you
i i could do a good job okay fine
okay everyone in the field and your
pitch yeah i got it no problem
i'm good and sure enough paul's team got
out into the field
and the boy who volunteered to be the
pitcher he stepped up to the mound
and he got ready
and the umpire called out
ball won it was way
way out to the right pitcher wound up
again
wall two way over to the left
pull three ball four take your base
that happened to the first batter but
not only did it happen to the first
batter it happened to the second batter
and it happened to the third batter this
pitcher kept walking
every single person every single boy
that came up to back
bases have loaded once again the pitcher
pitched
pull one
hole two pull three ball four
that's one scored for the other team
rabbi moses said he was looking around
what will be the reaction of paul the
captain
and what will be the reaction of the
other campers the other boys
on the team they all looked up paul
and he said nothing and they followed
his lead they didn't say anything
and robbie moses said the game continued
and paul's team
was losing by a major margin
but paul didn't say anything he didn't
say anything
and neither did the other teammates say
anything they took the cue
from paul don't sing anything
after several innings the pitcher
finally turns to paul and he says uh
i must not be having a good day today
and my arm must not be in shape uh
maybe you want to get someone else to
pitch oh okay we'll get something else
no
problem don't worry about it it's okay
and sure enough
someone else replaced this picture
and rabbi you see moses says how amazed
he was
that paul did not say anything to
embarrassed
this boy's feelings and neither
did any of the teammates now what's
amazing about this story
is that paul was an ordinary kid
but somehow he found the strength within
himself
not to say anything and not to embarrass
this boy who thought
he could be the pitcher paul had
every right to go over and ask this boy
to step aside
in a nice way and everyone would have
understood that he wasn't trying to
embarrass him
but paul chose to take into account the
boy's feelings
over winning the game and not only that
but because of paul's positive attitude
the rest of the team took their cue and
acted the same as paul did when you
project positivity
others will follow
and can you imagine if what happened in
chemayne when they looked down when they
saw
what happened to barakamsa and all the
people
and the time of var comes in the time of
the basement
and how hashem said look at my children
how far apart they are going
can you imagine what hashem says when he
sees how close we are becoming
when we stop and think before we say
something before we may
say something that might cause someone
else to be hurt
embarrassed or humiliated you cannot
imagine
how hashem looks at that up in shaman
up in heaven now i need every single one
of you
to join the campaign we need you
to help us out and to reach our goal of
bringing
once and for all remember every time you
do a mitzvah
you're bringing meshiach closer remember
every time you learn torah you're
bringing kadusa
holiness into the world you're bringing
meshiach closer
and remember the next time you have an
opportunity
to save someone from being embarrassed
grab it because it is those moments that
hashem looks at and says
ah look my children want to come back to
me
they want to rectify they want to fix
the very same alvero that caused me to
destroy the base amigos
perhaps now it's time to bring back the
basal medus
and made indeed happen speedily
soon in our time so here we are
and mashiach has not come yet but
was not built yet
and is it up to us to bring him and
build a base on mikdus
one could ask how is that possible
all the great previous generations
with all the great kadaila israel rashi
and the only going
and hashem expects us to bring mashiach
we don't come to the greatness in any
way
any stretch of the imagination what can
we do
a mushroom is given of a big
fat tree that had to be cut down they
called in
all the strong people to chop it down
they lined up
gave them a very good access and each
one
gave a bang with his ex number one
number two
ten of them came and the tree was still
standing
but it had just a little bit left a
little bit more
and the person came along a weakling
with a very
dull axe and you get the final chapters
we came down
so who really knocked the tree down all
the 10 people from before they knocked
it down the last one he just did the
final
the final touches that make it happen
the shia is a process sent out to one
individual hashem has a whole process in
mind
that has to be gone through in order to
bring mashiach
and all the great people from before
they prepared
the way for meshiach in the great way
and we in the last generation
we're not as great as they are but
we have the power to make that last chap
that last clap that last important step
in that process to bring meshiach so
it's not
we that's bringing him in the full sense
of the word
but it's the great people before us
we're just finishing up by god giving
everybody a chance to be part of that
process to have the skills to be part of
that process
we also have another very important
thought that's involved over here
that we are living now in the time
relatively
one of the best times in jewish history
for the jewish people
because we're very affluent relatively
speaking especially in this country
and most countries jews are having it
relatively very good as far as their
prognosis is concerned their livelihood
nobody's starving i was really going
hungry and things are going very well
a person to want meshiach is
something out of the ordinary why would
a person want everything to go so nicely
even as far as a yiddish guy is
concerned the judaism
we have a lot of shules we have
terrorists thriving in
all the cities in america and all around
the world would cuddle them with the
shivas
why would we want if we do want
that shows we realize something's
missing even though we're so affluent
and so satisfied so to speak with our
life
but we realize we're missing is
something that we
bring close to hashem is what we're
missing yeah we have a
affluence and and a financially uh
stability financial stability but we're
missing
that closeness to hashem we're missing
that
abba and the uh the the
the real purpose of creation for eden to
be close
to is to be close to hashem to have that
great feeling of of abu sabha and
kim kirbush hashem closest
when it's built it's like almost like
the world to come
the world to becomes the jews will be
close to hashem they say
jews are close to hashem and it's a
different feeling it's like
feeling them kipper like khalid like
naila all year around
who doesn't get a great feeling of of uh
of of satisfaction of of of delight
when it comes to the great times in our
life that we feel hashem close to him
well there's a great simcha
or something which we enjoy
as a spiritual uh uh
happening in our lives that we have as a
special
uh warmth and that that we're feeling
and that's what the basement is all
about
close to hashem being so happy to be
near him like hashem wants us to be so
if we feel that now
and we say of course we are we're
affluent we have everything we need more
or less
but we're missing this closest hashem
the spiritual
uplifting spiritual pleasure that we're
that we're missing
hashem is very very touched so to speak
with us that we feel that way and
uh this is something which is could go a
long way
during this that we'll have in our
generation even though we're so uh
small compared to the generations before
us
and one thing we have to keep in mind no
matter what happens
like massive jeremy says if we pray for
mashiach
we do what we can for mashiach whether
it comes or not
in hashem's eyes he has great pleasure
to see his children
that they're longing to be together with
him it's a great
if he has a great feeling of joy that we
realize that we're in goals we realize
we're missing something this is
something that
it is the most important thing of all to
realize that
we wanted hashem to be close and if we
do that hashem
has a great feeling to the jewish people
and this is what we have to realize
we're able to bring meshiach
and whether it comes or not hashem has a
great
feeling of of of joy of his children
and the and the and what you're trying
to to do and trying to accomplish with
all the prayers
and all of that which is necessary
let's hope that will be in our time
it should be very soon this year we'll
do our best
to pray and the last time we'll sit on
the floor to cry but by saying
we should make tisha move a day of joy
and the great
holiday of the great young dumpster