Tisha B'av 5782: A Distant Mirror - Rabbi Steven Weil

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as well in the experience of tish above as we all grow together this morning the idea is that we change the order of the kinos each year to make sure that we can cover certain keynotes that maybe we didn't cover in years past we're going to start with the 19th kingdom that is in terms of the rabbis elevate your kingdoms it's page 393 the 19th kenneth if someone can call out in terms of the art scroll which page that is does anyone have the page in the art scroll to do a little bit of background to this kinda you know as jews how many philosophical works do we have there are four great philosophical works and they came out of one world that was the confrontation with a sophisticated islamic world as you know and i know that prior to the eighth ninth centuries 90 percent of world jewry lived in bovel they lived in these jewish communities along the euphrates rivers they lived there from the time and the po after the genocide of bark wiped out hundreds of thousands of jews in israel you had a small jewish community in northern israel but over about a 75-year period from 145 to 225 you had a migration of the survivors very much like the migration of the survivors from europe to the united states to israel to canada where they left the european continent you had a similar migration of the jews from israel to the euphrates and tigers river so we're familiar with the communities nardar surah which is today known as balad kumpadisa which is today's fallujah and we had great great institutions along these communities masa makasia and that's where the large majority of of the world lived i mean the world's jewish population in fact if we could do let's assume for a second that you and i do not descend from righteous converts if we descend from righteous converts it's a different story but if our genealogy goes all the way back every one of us is probably our ancestors spent five six seven eight hundred years in bava whether we're sephardic or ashkenazic we all came from bavo and that's where we lived and slowly but surely there was a migration it wasn't because of pogroms it wasn't because of anti-semitism i'm not saying it was perfect living under islam in baghdad but the is the muslim government there gave us self-autonomy very much like the persian government before they were conquered by the muslims very much like the zoroastrians and the the babylonian government before they were covered by the persians so we lived in baval from the beginning of the third century well into the 10th century the majority of world jewry where we had a rayshkalooza a jewish governor we had our own court systems we did our own tax collection and part of that tax collection took care of the cemeteries took care to make sure that poor brides could have a wedding that every child would get an education but slowly but surely it was an opportunity for us for business purposes for economic growth to move into different areas and you see a migration into north africa and then from north africa the jews crossed the iberian peninsula into andalusia into southern spain and then from southern spain they start moving up the iberian peninsula into areas like castile eventually make it to the north of spain and catalonia we call that the sephardic jewelry the path is from iraq from bavel through north africa into southern spain moving forward and then there's a second path of migration into ashkenaz the jews started moving into some of these famous italian port cities barrie or toronto where because we had connections with our friends and relatives in iraq so there's a whole trade route we had connections with jews in israel which is the via marist that connects the three continents of africa europe and asia we had connections with jews in north africa so these italian cities barrio toronto we were involved in in import export onto the european continent and we started migrating not so much through the adriatic on the eastern side of italy but on the western side of italy the mediterranean side into tuscany from tuscany we cross the piedmont mountains into france into the german rhineland and what we call ashkenaz a much smaller community than sarad but we develop ashkenazic jewelry at most there were 15 000 jews in the german rhineland as well as communities like regensburg and bonn at most there were 15 000 jews in northern primarily northeastern france and that's ashkenaz so we have ashkenaz now in ashkenaz it's a different world it's a totally different world than in sarad what do i mean by that other than the jews the only ones who are literate were the monks it was a world of superstition it was a world where there was primitive medicine so the average life expectancy in ashkenaz is 32 years old if the average life expectancy is 32 years old in ashkenaz then heaven and hell mean a lot to the christian world because you're not very long on this world you couldn't drink the water so what did people drink in southern ashkenaz they drink wine in northern ashkenaz they drink beer what happens when you've got a pregnant woman not because she's a sheker you got a pregnant woman drinking beer or drinking wine you know consistently i'm not talking about a glass here and there what do you think that's going to do to the development of the fetus again it's a world that the jews were not necessarily enamored with did not want to embrace it was a world that we functioned in but it was very different in sarat particularly in islamic spain islamic spain had what had a community that at certain stages was very similar to what we're dealing with today we're past palestinian islamic jihad in the last three days has sent 540 rockets into israel has tried to murder and destroy innocent jewish men women and children in our villages towns and cities you had groups like that the amalda hoods were the most famous and in fact there's a kinah that we as ashkenazim don't say but the spartans say that was authored by the even ezra akina of the atrocities that the amaldahoods tried to perpetrate on jews and christians so there were amaldahs but most muslims were much more moderate much more sophisticated and they themselves were grappling with challenges how does islam address a rational logical world a scientific world particularly in the islamic world you had neoplatonus and you had neo aristotelians and how does islam deal with the fact that if allah if god controls the world okay but no the world works off of physics chemistry and biology how do miracles fit into a world of general providence of physics chemistry and biology how does a god if we have free will how does a god know what we're going to do what is the interaction between god after he's created this world and the world running on its own all of these kind of questions aristotle said that the world always existed well is there a boray olam as our creator in islam wrestled with these issues and they had great philosophy philosophers al-farabi depending on how you pronounce it the jews living in the islamic world had to address these issues you know there's a phrase we have in yiddish versus what's happening in the christian world around us via osmosis it gets absorbed into our world well that's true for jews living in the islamic world what they're addressing what they have to confront what they have to deal with we end up confronting and it was out of that islamic world that the great jewish philosophical works were created the first of them was by saad yagong sanja gong you know was imported to bubble he was originally from north africa and he was had a great impact on the small jewish community in northern israel they bring him to baghdad to be the gown and he not only has to confront a growing carrot movement amongst the jews he also has to confront a sophisticated islamic world how does judaism deal with these issues in his work video and munoz videos is written in judeo-arabic because that's the language that was spoken that was the first great philosophical work the second is the khovas al-abados also written in judeo-arabic and that has to address these issues written by bahrii bin pikuta that was really the the prelude the forerunner to the third great work the mara navul and again written in judea arabic all addressing jews living in an islamic world grappling with neo-aristotelian and neo-platonic thought how does judaism answer these questions how does judaism deal with these issues the fourth you're familiar with is a kuzari it's sort of a different approach than the other three but again yehuda levy lived and where he lived in spain now in the vavos he deals with something that if you and i were to answer that question i'm not sure we would have picked his answer which is why it's quite fascinating what is the condition what is the underlying philosophical principle that defines judaism there are many principles in judaism but if i asked you what is the foundational underlying principle of our theology i mean what kind of answers would we give we might say the following talmud torah kenegala judaism is a religion of the mind it's a religion of wisdom of rationality and you come to know what god wants from you in this world through investigating the torah that might be one answer another answer might be judaism gave that principle to the world that we have a responsibility to look after others it's not just being kind it's civic it might be ethical monotheism that it's the first religion in history that you are defined not only what your relationship is with god but how you treat god's greatest creation humanity how you treat your fellow tsalam elokim that was the great revolution of avraham the concept of the ethical monotheism that there's you might answer shabbos the whole notion that god is a creator of the universe unlike aristotle the universe did not exist forever there's a creator of this universe and by definition he owns all that is in this universe you could give any of these answers and they would be legitimate bona fide answers but that's not what the vasa vavos answers and this kinah that we're about to start is rooted in the same principle as the author of the vasavados you know what he says a profound sense of gratitude is the hallmark of judaism it's the foundational underpinning of our theology is a karasutov vis-a-vis our parents vis-a-vis our teachers vis-a-vis god almighty these are the those who give us a job an opportunity vis-a-vis those who help us and there's a sense of there's a term that we use in there's a real profound sense of gratitude i have a responsibility to those who are good to me and that's very different than saying thank you and that's very different than the american notion we have of gratitude in tragically this kinah authored by the khalir deals with the fact of our ingratitude the various gifts that god gave us that would allow for our perfection as a people allow for our perfection as a nation those various gifts we perverted we corrupted we bastardized and we we destroyed and that led to our corruption and it led to our perversion and the problem is it's like everything else in life you know the famous phrase ah kedosha memoir let's say there was someone in your life that was meaningful when do you appreciate them after they're gone after they're dead then you realize how how special how unique how kadosha work that's the problem think about those of us you know hitting middle age we took our health for granted until you don't have it anymore then you appreciate abraha like usher yatsa or the berka then you appreciate what the almighty has given us and that's the theme of this so let's start the various signs and wonders that the word appella is a wonder that the almighty did for us throughout our history villanue boshes upon him how humiliated are we what happened each of these gifts we've taken and we've turned it and corrupted it and rejected it that we're reading this coming week it describes me trying as a core habarzel you know what a corabarzo is that's something that's used to refine gold but here the idea of the quran barzilla was no slave ever escaped mitzrayim whether they were trying to go north through israel into the into the mesopotamia or whether they were trying to go south into black africa into kush no one ever escaped it's right and here what does the almighty do goes in broad daylight he takes out a nation through the system of the ten makos through the experience in the mitzra the mitzram the greatest military at that time on earth can do absolutely nothing what do we do instead of us creating a society that's an ethical monotheistic society that's enlightened to the nations we end up aping and mocking the various abominations that we saw them perpetrate when we were in mitzrayim elohim it didn't take us long it took us one week to already start complaining against god already in all of these works there's the famous torah messina discussion never ever in the history of humanity has anyone ever claimed that that god appeared god presented himself through the nibua at sinai through logic through through ideas that deep roast to men women and children there was a river of there there were mesopotamians there were egyptians there were black africans they were policed him most of the people there were jews we're not the hero of rav and everyone testifies this is what we perceived this was not david copperfield no one made through smoke and mirrors no one made the empire state building disappear it was a communication of knowledge by the almighty never ever before and ever since has that ever happened how blessed we were god made a covenant with us a unique contract the british of sinai that we call the torah that for the first time a nation would be under the system of protests a nation would not be controlled by the principles of physics chemistry and biology but would be controlled by specific providence in order to facilitate our perfection and what happens 40 days later we engage in this primitive primitive act of idolatry called the golden calf now not every jew worshipped the golden calf and you get the sense it was maybe three thousand if that but what was the problem the people singing and dancing around it the people couldn't relate to a god that was a god of wisdom a god that is ethereal that is not tangible that a god that demands a refinement of the mind a commitment of discipline of the heart no they wanted to go back to the primitive simple pagan ways of relating to god 40 days later so the experience of senai we turned sinai instead of it being a place of of monotheism we turned it into a makkah of a vodazora what was the gift of the man besides the notion that it could taste like what you wanted it to taste like you didn't have to through the act of defecation denigrate yourself go out of the community with a shovel have to dig in the sand you know obviously in the mid bar they didn't have like these soft tissues that we use what they call you know kleenex brand or whatever the the type of toilet paper the kind of experience that they would have had to do in the mid bar just to the bodily functions the part of the the miracle of the man is they didn't have to do that it became absorbed into your system the process of defecation wasn't necessary it the mind became totally absorbed into your bloodstream with the nutrition that it gave that was a blessing and the other blessing is this think about somebody on a sharpest meal you have a big lunch you have fleisch you eat you know the eastern european schmaltzy food you have a potato kaguya the noodle kogo you have the challenge you know what happens you end up taking a nap shop this afternoon because your parasympathetic nervous system has to take all the energy in just to break down that heavy food instead of shabbos being an afternoon of stimulating learning stimulating talmud torah where you grow whether you want to experience the kitsosa hosha and the ramban and the hummish it ends up being an afternoon of fishleft okay they didn't have that in the in the mid bar in the mid bar because of the man they were you know they were on akiva like you they were on top of their game all the time you know what i'm saying they were sharp and what happens they took that gift that blessing and they they they cursed god why does it give us a sick food it doesn't function like normal food it's it's the kind of thing that you know it it's gonna make us sick and they attacked it the very blessing they were given they attacked leslie we did not lack anything we didn't suffer from heat stroke because the anunna covered we had nutrition because of the air the well and because of the man villanu this quote is from parshas devarum that we read yesterday moshe to all the places that we we rebelled and we complained and we attacked god for the blessings that he gave us that we didn't appreciate think about it where were we promised we're going to get from the jordan river on the east onto the mediterranean on the west we're going to get the land of israel what did the almighty give us in the last few months in the mid bar not in the mid bar we're now on the east bank of the jordan river first of all the emma wright king he conquers huge swaths of moab moab today is southern jordan of ammon which is central jordan just you understand amman the capital of jordan comes from the word amon okay so lands that we were not allowed to touch he conquers it so we've got the whole most of today's jordan the golan heights what's the bashan you know og melech bashan bashan is the golan heights in hebrew ramata golang and southern syria it doubles the land that the almighty had promised us so we're given this incredible gift think about the wealth leaving aside that we have all this land think about the wealth that's there that we conquer so now that we're going to cross the jordan river into the holy land into the promised land what's the very first town that we're going to conquer in israel eureka right jericho eureko and you see this in ghazal that's the racist you know how like the racist goes to the calling the truman goes to the kawai and the vikuram go to the cohen so the first thing in the holy land that we're going to leave that's off limits we were not poor we were exceedingly wealthy after all of the spoils from mid yen the war in mid yen that took place a couple partials ago when the northern saudi arabians being part of the uh the the conspiracy of bilaam to seduce the jewish men and to cause the jews to sin so we had the wealth of midian we have the wealth of sichuan melaka which is most of today's jordan we have the wealth from oak melech on which is today's golan heights in southern syria we didn't need it one town in israel jericho we didn't have to take from the spoils but what happens that is that's ingratitude look we don't justify stealing xzela under any conditions but if somebody is starving and they steal to feed themselves we treat that a little bit differently than somebody who has exceeding wealth and doesn't need this and they steal anyways it's two different acts of stealing next year how many of you recently have been to shiloh just anyone recently you've got to go there when you go to israel incredible besides it they have great wine there but incredible archaeological site they've set up in fact the family a very fine family from miami the phallic family have set up you know that was ghana's prayer there's a beautiful outlook there the archaeological area you can see what was the area that people would have kachin kalin how do we know that based on the mission in megillah because it says well you can see there's this imaginary line of where they find shards going back to the to the to the time of tanakh where they find different pieces of clay chard because as you know clay or so to speak cliches it can't be poland it can absorb the meat let's say from the carbon you roasted the meat you cook the meat it can absorb it but you can't capture it it's not like metal that can be cautious so they would break it because it had no sar in it in the areas where the shards are that's where the no cell was that's because it's fascinating and thanks to the renard family ira renard we have a shul there that looks like mishkan shiloh in shiloh what shiloh now think about this as americans in the united states we've been here for what about 250 years the capital the first capital of the jewish people first major capital i guess gilgal was 14 years but after gilgal 369 years 369 years this was the capital of the jewish world and throughout the majority of that period it was a period of the shofting the period of the softimage and in one term that keeps coming up again and again throughout the shoftine israel there was no central everyone did whatever the heck they felt was the right thing now let me use an analogy let's use a modern analogy one of the great modern tragedies of the last 20 years is was the summer of 2006 when the hezbollah broke through the border and they took three young men udi goldwasser left he left uh a widow carnet aldad regev and i think the other name was benny avraham that abduction led to a war the second lebanon war and unfortunately it didn't go well for israel not because they didn't take out a lot of the infrastructure of the hezbollah in southern lebanon but what we ended up doing was a huge mistake we created u.n resolution 1701 that would have this group called unifil observe and monitor in under the last 16 years of unifil in resolution 1701 hezbollah today that you and i could take out a safer torah and make a schwa de rice and swear by god almighty's name has 150 000 rockets probably we wouldn't take an oath swear by god almighty's name but they probably have closer to 180 000 rockets in that we know of at least 500 of them are pgms are precision guided missiles that means within 18 inches of accuracy they can take out the airport they can take out the leviathan the gas rig they can take out the israeli towers they can take out any building or university in israel that has been the gift of 1701 of unifil things are much worse than they were in in terms of hezbollah's capabilities but go back to the summer of 2006. dan khaled he was an air force commander he was not the typical person that you would put as the head of the idf as the chief of staff the ramatka usually it's somebody who comes from infantry and he thought like an air force man you know we're just going to bomb the hezbollah you can't win anything from the air that's how you start a war all war has to eventually you have to have foot soldiers and controlled from the ground and israel wasn't prepared and yet ahu dalmer at the time was the uh was the prime minister and it was a huge israel was not prepared it was a terrible mistake and it was it was it was embarrassment but more than the embarrassment and you know the lives that were lost in the summer of 2006 we all know the story of roe e klein from ali but it's what it led to the mess that we're dealing with now with hezbollah but what happened in the summer of 2006 the tel aviv stock exchange was the highest it had ever been it was a time of great tourism birthright which had been started in 90 the late 90s early 2000s was was flying high the jews of yerushalayim didn't say hey what are you doing why are you starting with hezbollah why did you choose to live in kiryat shimona why did you choose to live you know on a border town with the lebanese and have to deal with this because those who were getting the rockets today hezbollah rockets can hit anywhere in israel they can hit anywhere in those days in 2006 the best of their rockets made it close to haifa most of their rockets were in the northern israeli towns and we evacuated all the children all the children were evacuated from from northern israel they use art therapy to deal with the ptsd of these kids what they went through during the first days of the war but the jews of israel had one government they had one idf and the jews across the world we all had emergency campaigns every one of us every one of our federations had an emergency campaign remember our shul beth jacob and beverly hills we raised a quarter of a million dollars in a couple of weeks we funded all these farms whose crops had been destroyed because they were burnt up by the the katusha rockets from the hezbollah so we gave these farmers the funds that they would have had from their crops that were destroyed no one was going to go to those universities up there and that would have destroyed all of the ancillary economy the pizza shops the laundromats everybody who who's the economy that's this that's the ecosystem around the university we funded free scholarships so that way people would go to those colleges so those colleges could stay in business and the people in business and then we adopted a couple communities who had been devastated economically by the war that's what everybody did in 2006 and if you were a soldier that lived in rehovot or you're a soldier that lived in stay wrote or you're a soldier that lived in o fakim or in yerushalayim you didn't say it's your problem methula it's your problem kiryat shamona it's your problem nahariya no the boys who died in 2006 came from recovered in the tivot and of and they came from from yerushalayim and they came from from because it was one nation one people even under the worst of times we were one nation one people we bonded together the tragedy of the period of shoshtim is you didn't have that ish everyone you know beat to their own drum israel there was no central government there was no one idf and these are mostly that the khalil is referring to so think let's think about our understanding of shoster when it came to the palestinian shimshon had to act on his own he didn't have a whole army supporting him when it came to the ammonites they had to get yet because they didn't have a central government now yiftak was a pretty tough guy but essentially you know he was a private citizen who had to take on a role and not everybody joined him in that fight what about the story of dvara and barack that we study as the haftar of bashar the middle of the country the lower galilee so yes the people of naftali they defended it yeah some of the people of usher did but the jews living on on the east bank of the jordan river rue vanguard they didn't show up the people down south in yehuda they didn't show up what about the international traders the jews who were doing doing business with everybody who were imported and exporting to the canaanites as well as to the jews they had to keep their neutrality it's not good for business if i take one side or the other they didn't show up so you read the fifth paragraph which is the shiraz devorah it's an indictment it's not your typical she-ra you know hallelujah right thank the rabona shalom hoda shem ki tov kilo she's got an indictment like this these ones didn't show up for this reason these ones didn't show up and they left this poor group in the middle to be terrorized and the canaanites from from the northern galilee and she says oru may rose may rose who had something to gain in this fight didn't show up but despite our dysfunction god sent us our ba asar motion fourteen different choston to extricate us from the tyranny of the palestinian the tyranny of amon the tyranny of the canaanites from khatsur the tyranny of of midyan the story of guidon right the tyranny of the moabites and assassinated him something out of a james bond movie and saved the jews for megalomoth and what did we do in response take a look [Music] throughout that whole duration what did we have an avodah zarah the avodah zara of the pesa miha that was our gratitude to god is that we kept this going in his in his midst that we discussed was destroyed then we had it at nov and we had it at given they were destroyed and when i say destroyed they weren't destroyed in the sense of that the enemy attacked it it would eventually stop functioning god gave us all of this upon him what does it mean that he gave us what does it mean that he gave us the vasa mikdash there was this intense providential relationship i'm going to quote from from the rev i want to just use his words all we ask of a kurdish baruch is the unity between god him and canesis israel this is our cry to heaven we are on one side of the clouds and the kurdish borough who is on the other side let the cloud disappear we pray and let the sun shine let there be a bright day let us see the beauty of akaris baruch meaning perceive his presence the purpose of the basa mikdash was tonight does not need sacrifices but there is one thing and that is the union between hashem and kinesis israel the purpose of the base of mikdash is to bring a kurdish baraku back into our midst so that he will be close to us rather than transcendent so that he will be imminent in this world you can perceive you can feel and perceive the intense providential relationship with god god's imminence if god is present here everyone will be able to recognize him and identify him everyone will feel close to him and there will be no alienation and no estrangement from him this is the ideal for yahadas for the jewish people ribono shaolin please come back the basa mikdash a space that reflects the intimacy between a kurdish baruch and claude israel it is more than just a home a bias when a jew enters the base of mikdash the jew feels intimate with the kurdish borough as if akersborohu were his father or his mother that's what sheila was that's what bae solomon was and we corrupted those institutions many of you familiar with the tsukim from yakuza what would the jews do in the base amicus proper instead of facing west which was where the heihal was in the kurdish kardashian we would face east the turkish would face the west the kurdish kardashian and the face would face the east because we would prostrate to the sun sun worshipers what about the basa mikdash it was a place of incredible education if you and i lived in a small village on the galilee a fishing village or you and i lived down south you know in kiryat ghat or further south in uh o fakim or nitivot so we didn't necessarily have you know great yeshivas there you come up to the base of niktas and you sit in and you listen to world class tamir in the three national sanhedrins one was at pesach the other was pasara the the great sanhedrin was in the leash and you and i could listen and understand and hear them and interact with them the kohanim who had trained would take us i'll use an analogy let's say that i live in some small town in backwoods mississippi my education is not going to be the same education as if i go to the public school in alpine or demarest it's not going to be the same as i go to the public school in the marinette but what do i do i didn't get a great education where i was but i tr i come to boston and i go to one of the great universities in boston and the greatest professors in the world educate me and transform me so the have deal it's the same thing in the base of mikdash maybe because of business i live somewhere in the diaspora or because of my family's ancestral plot we lived down south where we didn't have great education but i could come to the base of mikdush i could be educated i could be transformed i could be inspired that's what the base admittance was supposed to be a place where i could perceive the knowledge of god but we corrupted those institutions we perverted those institutions think about the torah that we've just said from your miyahu that during the gimbal instead of playing the role they were supposed to play they did just the opposite how we've destroyed those institutions how we've been so ungrateful the ingratitude that we've had has totally rejected these institutions and now we turn humbly in an embarrassment and we turn to god to bring back these institutions now this last line there's two ways you can read it what were the 900 years so some want to say the 900 years were the duration of the period of the first base of mikdash and the second baseman's 4 10 and 480 that god gave us the chance erecha hashem was so tolerant so patient he gave us the chance to correct our ways and finally after 410 years after 480 years that's the 900 years hurban happened knows but but you and i would never have that kind of patience the almighty have incredible patience there's a second way to read that line and that's the way reverse elevation read this line it's not talking about the period of the base of mikdash it's a mystery to you and i when did the khalir live when did rabbi elizabeth live so if you look at the toasters in haga one opinion says that's rabia leia has been working us it's the great tana the mentor of rebbi akiva from the bay shaman others want to say it was a later tana rabia lazar others want to say this no you know ready allah was he wasn't tatana when the majority of the world as we discussed was learning and living in bavel there was always a small community in northern israel in some of the greatest paitana yanai rabbi allah zahakalir they lived in that they were great tamim who lived in northern israel they knew these mid-russian the way you and i know the back of our hand you know when we were little kids right you know you had the kids playing with the baseball cards and the basketball cards you knew the statistics of every player that's how they knew the mid-russian they knew that even better than that and in the career throughout rosh hashanah yom kippur tish above throughout the uh shabbos of god his his putin they weave together the mid the torso the torso the midrash so the clear according to this is living close to nine hundred years after corbin bayashi he's living in the late 9th early 10th century he's living in the 10th century in northern israel that's how the rev learned this and to a certain degree that makes you know makes a lot of sense to us think just take a step back besides the fact that you get home a lot earlier on rosh hashanah yom kippur than you do now but on a more serious level think about what would our rosh hashanah be without the putim of the khalia what would our young kipper be without the piyutin of the khaleer i can tell you this tish above would have no meaning without the clear he picked up where your miyahua navi left off and he took us by the hand he holds us by the right hand and by the left hand and we experienced tisha b'av as the most powerful meaningful day of the year very often because of the kalia so the 900 years is the 900 years since corbin byushani the llano bosh is upon him at this point we're not going to be learning the 20th kin and we'll say that to later but but he alludes to the famous tefillah of daniel begging hashem to bring us back to your shalom but like everyone we have not said we've not actually studied this kind of probably for 20 years was the last time we that i did this kena youth zion it's also a kin of the caldera if you could turn to you design i have it on page 374.75 what page do you have it on in the in the art scroll okay you look at this it's just it's shocking it's gruesome now by the way most of the language of this kind of comes straight out of last night out of either out of your navi but we can't even fathom these things let me give you one example okay that mothers would consume the flesh of their children whether it was that the fetuses had died and their starv they're starving so badly that they have no choice but to consume the flesh of their dead children or is it that they actually killed their own children to survive themselves we can't fathom this i remember having a conversation with one of the most powerful men i've ever met in my life manny middlemen the story of manny middlemen is he was born into a slovakian family you know and they were these were from the the mesorah of the hasam so far and the sofas his gear said the yankasa he knew from you know what he learned as a kid from the second shabbos what he learned as a kid if he learned it as a kid before he was sent first to madonna then to auschwitz he knew it cold he knew it backwards and forwards and 1941 came and they deported a lot of slovakian jews he was sent to my donek and he said it was a gehenom like you couldn't imagine he says when the germans asked they said we're looking for construction workers he thought he would do anything to get out of this cannon in my don and he volunteered what was a construction project they were taken to auschwitz he is one of those who built beer canal you know the difference auschwitz one was a was a military barracks that the austro-hungarian empire had then after world war one when that galicia became poland it was polish barracks but auschwitz too was birkenau more jews were killed in birkenau than any other place in the history of the jewish people he built those bunks those barracks in fact manny's tattoo was on his chest you know the later the later survivors of auschwitz their tattoos were on their arms he was there so early was tattooed on his chest he survived on 10 12 miracles someone got him into canada i don't mean canada the country the canada bunk in auschwitz is where they took all the suitcases and they took all of the the wealth of those who were sent to to be gassed to death and they they set up warehouses you know this wealth was sent back to germany some of the canada bunk you've seen yourselves because those of you who have been to auschwitz and auschwitz one they've made a museum they have the shoes the hair brushes the pots the pans the twill and the menorahs that's what canada was and in canada you could survive you know the average life expectancy in auschwitz was ten weeks i'm talking about those who were not killed immediately not some but those who were killed within the first downtime those who were sent to work but in canada people put food in what would you put if you were being removed from your home and being sent to god knows where so some of the things you put in there besides pictures of your family and your most precious you know life there are things like that you put some food in there and you know the germans were not standing on top of them in canada they would take food they would bring it back to the barrack for others and that's really to a certain degree how he survived before the death march the last that's how he survived 1944 in late 43. but he said something he says you've got to understand when you take kids or you take groups we used to take march of the living to auschwitz didn't look like that i said what do you mean he says if a blade of grass had had grown up and come out of the ground we kill each other just to eat the blade of grass he says you don't understand what starvation does to a person starvation drives a human being mad it drives a person crazy and the things that you will do when you suffer from starvation is nothing you could imagine doing is nothing you could imagine doing when you function as a normal human being and i think many of you have read ellie wiesel's night his father is dying and he's thinking about you know getting the father's ration to eat i'd met with ellie rozelle a number of times he was a kind man he was not a cruel man not a cold man but when elie wiesel describes himself in 1944 in those barracks and auschwitz you're talking about a person whose starvation has taken them over and again you and i can't relate to the descriptions of your me or to what the khaleer is teaching us here we can't relate to these descriptions the very children that they nurtured and raised these were these were jewish women compassionate women allah that's referring to a medrash every time the child would grow a certain amount she would donate to the base of mikdash kidusha's dum him she would donate to better kabaya's funds and that very child now she's turning and she's eating and consuming this is referring to a madrid martha basis you know what the romans did they took her and they they they buy the hair they attached her to a horse and they didn't they you beat the horse who would run through the streets and she died this terrible brutal death and she was at sanua you know for the dignity of her family for the dignity of those watching she the last thing she did was she took some pins she put you know threw the garment into her skin so that the the female area the genitalia would not be exposed as she was being killed in this brutal death you know and the romans sit there and this is what they they laugh and they get their kicks about what they do to jewish women when the rev taught this kind of whenever salvation taught this kinna he said there's nothing in this kinder that didn't happen to our family to our loved ones between 1939 and 1945 and he described a cousin of his you know rakhine brisker was his grandfather and reprimand he had three sons one went to switzerland the two most famous ones were belleville salvation the brisker ralph who eventually settled in yerushalayim in gula you have the brisket shivas and rav moshe salvation who's rabbi celebi's father who had gone to the first tataktamoni in warsaw before that it was white russian and he came to america he was the russia shiva venu of moshe who produced rabiot shiber cell of aj rivera and salvation but had a daughter that daughter had children her name was glickson herschleb glickson that was her husband and they had a child childhood got married in warsaw in 1939 it was the week of cheva brachus and they took the hassan and the kaaba the germans that came in they tied him to one car and they tied her we're talking about a custom and kala in the week of shovel brothers to another car and they had a race and that's how they brutally murdered this jewish hassan and kala since there's not one description here that didn't take place during the think about you ever have that where you you're so parched tongue cleaves to its palate i had that my oldest daughter malkie she was being you know she's she's in great shape so we went to yosemite and we did this hike you know i figured what do i figure i did i didn't do my research i didn't know the duration of the hike but she said come on dad we can do this was it called half moon you know where you hike up to that halfway in yosemite i'm telling you ran out of water i thought it was gonna i mean i'm not joking i thought i was going to die that experience described here when you're parched you have no saliva you have no liquid left in your mouth that's how they lived during the siege of yerushalayim that's how jews lived in the ghetto zulu they're arguing you know whose child should we cook first and eat the flesh so we can that's the worst you've seen the the footage from the warsaw ghetto the car the carcasses of these children just lying in the street the parents had already died the parents whether they'd been deported or died of disease and the children are just left there to die in the street in the bloating of the carcasses you know think about today today is right so the question is are there any leniencies you're dealing with with nursing mothers so there's always a concern that what they won't have enough liquid to nurse their children we're talking about one day you know we live in air-conditioned homes we ate a lot on chabas we drink a lot to prepare for the fast and in we're making a heisman can the nursing mother continue to fast because it might affect the child we're talking about during a duration of 12 hours they give this description of there was no there was no liquid left to nurse the children these children died because because the parents caloric and liquid intake was was close to nothing and unlike at least a little child that can try to sneak through a fence out of the ghetto and get food on the other side but by a nursing infant you don't have that and these mothers have to watch their child die because they have no milk left to give them the smaller about how we went to our cousins this is before islam islam doesn't start till the seventh century but the binay ismail who welcomed us and then they gave us this what turned out to be extremely salty food and we've been traveling and fleeing from from the babylonians and then when we said you have something to drink instead of giving us water just quench the thirst it was just air into the heart now in the salte foods and then the no-dos these flasks of nephrogen that only had air in it and we died here jacob's shoulders sitting here your family which came from white russia belarus the great lakefisher jews of lithuania of what of russia in the beginning in 1941 june 22 1941 when hitler broke the pack there was a von riben trough molotov represented stalin and the communists and von ribentrop he was the foreign minister of of national socialism of hitler so they cut a deal they they realized both of them realize we can't have war against each other because as soon as we invade poland the germans said we know that the french and british are going to attack and soon after we're afraid the americans will join the french of the british we can't have a two a two front war so they said to the the soviets you know stalin from the time that russia got out of world war one and to get out of world war one they had to give up access to the black sea they gave up the ukraine and they gave up their access to the baltic sea they gave up estonia latvia and lithuania russia wanted to get that back it was just a matter of time until they would get that back what do you think the war that's going on as we speak right now with with putin over 90 percent of the russians support putin on this war because for russia to be the great mother russia to be the great russian bear they need access to the to the black sea and they need access to the baltics which is why the the leadership in lithuania what do they do at night we met with the lithuanian prime minister and they you know in their mind they think the jews have have the influence in washington that's how they perceive it you've got to beg your government you've got to make sure that they're going to stand by us that they're going to have the nato equipment because in their mind what's happening in the ukraine right now is going to happen next to them and by the way they're not paranoid that's what peter the great did that's what katarina did that's what the communists did and if putin has his way that's what he's going to do so russia goes back into lithuania into estonia to latvia to white russia and into the ukraine and they conquer it and hitler in no time conquers poland now just keep in mind it took the germans longer to defeat a small band of a couple hundred jews in the warsaw ghetto uprising of 19 of april of 1943 it took hitler longer the germans longer to defeat them than it did to conquer all of poland in september first the first week of september 1939. so hitler breaks the pack see it was just a matter of time the the communists hated that the nazis and the nazis nazis hated the communists but they needed each other so it's just a matter of time who would break the pack first stalin's one mistake in world war ii was his people said to him the germans are amassing two million troops two million of the vermont are amassing on the what is now our border and styling like pushed it off he didn't take it seriously because in his mind you know in six months he was going to go in and take poland from the germans well they did the germans broke through january 22nd 1941 it's known as operation barbarossa and in no time they conquer lithuania they conquer latvia and estonia and white russia and the ukraine in no time and then they start moving into mother russia itself and of course you know that's where they they bogged down the winter of 1941 the winter of 1942 you know the same mistake napoleon made the same mistake hitler made you just you can't go too far into russia between the weather and between the population no one has ever been able to conquer the great russian bear but as soon as they conquer the baltic states in white russia and ukraine who follows the einsatz group now you know the ss those were not members of the german vermont of the army that was a group that anyone in the ss first and foremost you took a personal oath of loyalty to the fuhrer a personal oath of loyalty to hitler himself number two is every ss member had tattooed on their body their blood type to be in the ss they had to go through your church records you had to be pure aryan to be a member of the ss and the reason they tattooed onto your chest your blood type is because if you would get wounded they would only take pure aryan blood for transfusions into your body and these einsteins group in these special units a b c and d a was estonia latvia northern lithuania b was lithuania she was c was white russia and northern ukraine and d was the ukraine and we used to think they murdered a million and a q 1.25 million jews that's what we used to think but uh the french catholic priest father patrick dubois who today is doing work in iraq on the genocide of the yezidis at the hand of isis before that he spent 18 years town by town village by village in the ukraine [Music] in lithuania in belarus and you see what they did with the help of their neighbors i would just ask each of you to read a book called in broad daylight he wrote two he wrote two books holocaust by bullets and in broad daylight you don't need to read the first the because the second one is really much more all-encompassing and it's a fast read and he goes and the interviews these people today were in their eighties almost today meaning 15 years ago were in their 80s they were kids at the time who who dug the grays the mass graves who rounded up the jews there were no ghettos then so who rounded up the jews who took the jews wealth who shot the jews who cooked for the murderers he asked basic questions where what was happening you know was school going on or did they give the kids off from school basic questions what was happening in that town so jacob your grandparents they went into the forest they joined the bielski brothers and they were partisans in belarus and that's why jacob's grandparents bobby ray kushner and joseph kushner that they survived they had a chance not much of a chance of surviving very little but they had a chance of survival being partisans in the forest most of those jews read a book by the name it's called our people oh you are our people written by ephraim zeroth and a famous lithuanian journalist who after she wrote this book was forced was driven out of her own country she went from being a hero one of the top writers in lithuania to being hated by her own people town by town village by village they annihilated the jewish communities of lithuania many of you have heard of the famous jaffa ali dr yafa eliyah just wasn't her a few years ago terrace a few years ago her husband her husband a year ago rabbi david elliach she grew up in a town by the name of asia town in lithuania jews lived there for 800 years she wrote a book she did she spent a good part of her life studying the history of the jews in this lithuanian town in fact it's a permanent exhibit in the holocaust museum in washington the united states holocaust memorial museum but what happened to asia shook in the course of a day is what happened to all these lithuanian communities there were only three places where the lithuanian jews were actually put into ghettos vilna and then from the vilna ghetto they were taken out to panari forest and they were murdered there they were shocked by the germans the einsteins d today it's known as kavna in the jewish suburb of kavanaugh known as slobatka where the great yeshivas were that's where uh rabbar bara labovich the talmud of the great town of rakhine had yeshiva kinesis yitzhak named after rabbi it's on inspector and then the famous muslim shiva canessa spacey srell named after rabbi israel solanter that's where the outdoor slobodka that's what produced aaron cutler of yaakov kaminetsky rav ruderman of hutner many of the great gadolin that established torah in america came from there so in kavanaugh they they were put into a ghetto and they were taken out to the seventh fort in the ninth fort what happened was when the communism when russia controlled lithuania they set up as a protection a series of forts around the city of kavanaugh and spectre was murdered with his tamidim at the very beginning in the seventh fort and most of the jews about thirty thousand jews were taken out to the ninth fort and were murdered there and then chavel chavel also had together but all of the small towns which were the majority of lithuanian jews they were wiped out in the fall of 1941. and the same thing happened in the ukraine the two days rosh hashanah in 1941 there's something known as bobby yar you ever heard of bobby yar it's a ravine outside of kiev and they took 33 400 jews in the two days of rosh hashanah and gunned them down and shot them down in babiyah so jacob's grandparents were the exception now at least in white russia jews could function as partisans in lithuania they would have been killed by something called the lfa the lithuanian free army see that the problem we have today it's the same problem we have in the ukraine the lithuanians today the latvians today the ukrainians today they all look up to israel why not because they're jew lovers don't don't fool ourselves not because they're jew lovers why do they look up to israel because if the jews after 2 000 years of being refugees and being downtrodden and being oppressed if they could create a country where they can defend themselves surrounded by by muslims who hate them who want to annihilate destroy and obliterate them every chance they have they can stand up and defend themselves if jews can do it and we know what jews were then we ukrainians can do it we the lithuanians can do it we the latvians can do it in the nationalist fervor that they have they look at israel as a model for them what's the issue that we have we appreciate their votes in the united nations or in the eu their voice we appreciate it we do but we say you can't pervert history you've got to do what the germans did you've got to confront your history you've got schools town plazas parks museums named after what you call freedom fighters because they were fighting the communists these were murders of innocent jewish children these were murderers of our grandparents of elderly jews don't call them heroes these are cowards these are thieves these are criminals in the lithuanians ukrainians are saying you you can't tell us to do that you can't say that speak that way about our grandparents these are our grandparents these are role models and we're saying you can pervert history you can't whitewash and you can't pervert history because remember what did hitler say in all these countries hitler said to all of them i am here to liberate you from the was the term he used the jewish bolshevik oppression the germans are coming to liberate you from the jewish bolshevik oppression and all i can say is this shame on the logicians shame on the lithuanians shame on the estonians and shame on the ukrainians because they were fools they lied to themselves to believe hitler because hitler never liberated them from anything the same thing the communists did to them is what hitler did and they all became slaves of the state and if hitler had been had the chance to continue another 10 years after annihilating the jews he would have annihilated them and this would have been his great expansion poland would have been what kansas was for the united states in latvia lithuania and ukraine would have been what arizona and montana and california are for the united states the expansion of the great german empire over europe so they were fools and they they were duped by hitler in something else because what do they teach till the to this day the jews were the communists who did what they you know they did this to they had a coming because they did this to all of us let's let's put the facts on the table most jews were not communists and most communists were not jews yes there were some very significant jews in the communist party in all of these countries but most jews were not communists in fact they were they were think about all the yeshivas from white russia all the yeshivas they had to flee right how did rabbi khan and wasserman end up in kavanaugh because he was fleeing his yeshiva baranovich was fleeing the communists and that was true of all these schools all these issues and the further in you got the worst was the oppression against judaism the deeper into to these areas in these countries closer to russia now why did jews become communists and again most were not communists that's just so we understand a jew why did how did new york city become the largest population of jews on the globe because of the the oppression in the tyranny that we suffered under czarist russia they would go and announce in a town in the ukraine or what today is moldovia or today is a bess arabia they would announce all police mandatory 10-day vacation there to take their families paid vacation mandatory you know what that was that means it's open season on the jews when all the police leave it's anarchy they rape the jewish women they go in and they steal from the jewish businesses they go into the jewish homes they ransack they beat jewish men you know how many jews were killed through these pogroms that's what led to all these people coming and settling in new york new york did not have a large jewish population and it exploded from the late 1870s to into the 19 teens it exploded to being the largest population of jews on the globe because these were all people fleeing the tyranny of czarist russia which at that time was the ukraine and the baltics and in white russia so a lot of these jews why do they become communists because it's the first time in the history of the jews living in that part of the world that a jew could become a male man i don't mean a male man literally meaning a civil servant before that a jew couldn't become a male man he couldn't be a civil servant so the great mashiach socialism and communism said that everyone is equal so it turned out to be a terrible false mashiach you and i know the end of the story you and i have 20 20 high in sight but the reason there was such a yate sahara and such a desire for these people to become socialists is because at least the jew would be treated like a human being you wouldn't judge someone by their religion you wouldn't judge someone by their skin color you wouldn't judge someone by their nationality now that's not what happened in the end joseph stalin changed all of that but that's what they thought that's what they hoped for that's what they yearned for and that's how you got all these jews becoming socialists but again let's let the put put the record straight most jews were not socialists and most socialists were not jews but it worked for hitler i'm going to liberate you from the jewish bolshevik oppression now what does it say look at the language from a thousand there were a hundred from a hundred there were ten ad let's be honest it was worse during the showa how many of us have been to yad vashem the valley of the communities how many of us have been to the valley of the communities you look at parts of hungary slovakia germany western galicia eastern galicia the ukraine today what we call bohemia moravia so in the big big bowl that's where the large communities were those who were inscribed in the lesser that's mid-sized communities those who are smaller inscriptions those with the dwarfs the little villages thousands of communities of jews and tragically many of these communities had zero survivors particularly in poland no one survived a community that had been there for 700 or 600 years no one you have some of these communities in greece because you understand what happened with the greek jews they couldn't understand the orders so they didn't have a value to the germans many of them were killed immediately some of the greek jews were put into sangha command because the fact that they couldn't communicate with the others others didn't understand them they didn't understand the others meant that they couldn't talk about what they were doing and what was happening in the gas chambers and in the crematoria but there were greek jewish communities that probably existed for close to 2000 years wiped out there were polish jewish communities that existed it's not that one survived no one survived and how often do we have let's take lithuania which suffered the worst the baltic suffered the worst for very simple reason because as bad as the polish catholics were to the jews and let me underscore what that meant you should read a book called a beautiful sunny day a beautiful sunny day is a translation into english of a polish work by a polish catholic historian by the name of barbara engel king yad vashem only publishes books that they are confident of the facts of those books they published this and they had it translated into english into hebrew and in her book she explains that she can prove there are much more two hundred thousand jews were killed by their fellow polish countrymen by their polish catholic neighbors these are people who jumped off the train these are people who escaped the ghetto these are people who never went into the ghetto and most of the time what happened was the polish catholic neighbors took all their wealth you know saying that they would protect them then when they ran out of goods that's when they murdered them sometimes they murdered them themselves sometimes they handed over them they handed them over to the germans for reward two hundred thousand that she documents documents of polish jews who were killed by the polish catholic neighbors you know who was worse than lithuanians and the ukrainians much worse than the polish catholics and you understand that's a high bar to attain no one survived lithuania you have a handful that survived the vilma ghetto abba kovner became a partisan you have a handful a handful survived the kavanagh but all these other towns were wiped out do you understand each of these communities had a messora each of these communities had special tunes that they sang shaloshudus or miros they had special men hug him they'd had history they had special men hug him they'd had history of godoli israel of great great rebuning they had ways in which they took care of the poor they had gamak systems how they educated the children what they taught the children all gone thousands of missouris wiped out forget millions of jews thousands of communities wiped out and if someone survived one in a family two in a town again hungary is a different story the holocaust doesn't start in hungary until the spring of 1944. but i'm talking about lithuania i'm talking about poland no one survived these places white russia belarus ukraine and that's what's being described here it's the story of the kohanim what happened during hurban bias [Music] they were literally burned to death went into the fire of the while the base invictus was being destroyed these were the future these were the young tamil these these him 300 children i want to make a comment on this an incredible jew died this year i mean every jew is incredible but the name is gavriel bach you ever hear that name if you haven't you should know that name you can google it later gabriel bach i mean just incredible even in his 90s i had the blessing of spending five hours interviewing two different times about two and a half hours each in his apartment in his apartment he lived you shall i am not far from the baitanosi he is the former attorney general of the state of israel he's a former supreme court justice of the state of israel but he always said he says you know he did many many significant things as the supreme court justice as the attorney general he says but he says he was talk referring to me and others he said but you know there's only one thing people want to know about me he was the assistant prosecutor of ss oberstrom fjor adolf heichmann eichmann who was the mastermind of the annihilation of six million jews he was the pro he was assistant prosecutor he and the prosecutor was gideon hausner so i interviewed gideon hauser's son almost hasn't a very fine man he's an attorney in israel about young 70s and i spent five hours in the apartment of uh of gabriel bach before covet he just was nifter this year so gabriel bach was a german jewish family they got out literally on the last ship last ship from germany they make it to palestine and they settle there he's an incredible mind you know just outstanding of a good look even in his 90s a handsome good-looking man you know during the trial you see pictures of him this reminds you if you remember there was a famous movie the judgment at nuremberg so so montgomery cliff played the german defense attorney you know with the robes montgomery cliff was an extremely handsome man hats and actor that's what gavriel bach looked like you know but a fine man a decent man a real sense of morality a fine jew so he says you know there were all these people who wanted to try to explain away aichman you know get back to the kenan this is what the kidney reminds you of there was a just a terrible woman a woman by the name of hannah aarons she was a jew she was the prutzer who was the lover of professor martin heidegger heidegger originally was it was a hitler admirer was a non-incentivizer until things went the other way then he flipped but she was his girlfriend eventually married him heidegger just to give you a sense was the only at the university of berlin he's the only professor who didn't give rabbi sullivan a it was an anti-semite so despite that river cell of a chick was who he was he gave him you know a b because he couldn't give a g so this hannah aaron she covered the trial of eichmann in 1961 and she wrote a book it was based upon her she was writing for the new yorker magazine was called the banality of evil don't waste your time reading it you can google it don't waste your time she had she come up with a whole theory about how you know good decent people they they they they get caught up and they do bad things which was nonsense in fact gabriel bach told me says because she was a jew we said would you like to see the evidence well and she wouldn't even sit and meet with them a piece of garbage i'm sorry shouldn't talk that way about a jew on on on tish above but all i can tell you is her and others you know because she was famous so she she was on the talk shows and she was interviewed and just her whole read was so corrupt it was that it was so dead wrong you know that they just like today who gets a voice not that the truth doesn't get a voice the facts don't get a voice but it's politics that give people certain voices so just to show you who eichmann was one of the pieces of evidence that they brought was the autobiography of rudolph harris now you know it looks like horse but there's an umlau over the he was the commandant of auschwitz he was the man who ran auschwitz after the war that caught hers and he was put on trial and he was condemned to be hung they hung him in auschwitz the the the communist tribunal but while he's waiting for his death he writes memoirs now you can understand that his autobiography his memoir is going to be tainted he's going to try to spin things the way he wants to spin it but it offers us some very very important insights and i want to share with you one story that gavriel bach told me ahmed a couple of times came to visit auschwitz you know particularly birkenau where all the jews were murdered so he comes to visit birkenau and in birka now hers tells him the following there was a transport where the the french you know great the french equality liberty and fraternity you know except for when it came to the jews so under marshall patent hello the um i guess it's the okay is it back okay under marshall patel you know what they did to a smaller extent they did it to french-born jews but they did this to jews i just lost it hello can everyone here okay so so jews who had fled to france who had been born either in poland born in germany born in belgium and other countries who had fled to france all of those jews were rounded up and put into a place called drone sea don't sea was outside of paris and what do they do they ship the adults then afterwards you've got these little children all by themselves they ship in cattle cars you know thousands of french jewish children okay they get shipped thank you okay so his describes to eichmann and and i apologize those who know a an articulate german please share it with me there's a term in german called you know if i i'll describe show it to you shakes you know it's called you where the knees bend and you shake at the knees you know it's the horse describes you know these jewish children here we are and keep in mind unlike sobibor unlike belgians unlike treblinka which were run by the ss but most of the people working in those death camps were ukrainians some lithuanians but mainly ukrainians in auschwitz they didn't have the ukrainians doing the work it was all ss in auschwitz birkenau so so what happens they're cramming these jewish kids into the gas chamber and the jewish kids know what's happening and they're breathing for their life and they're pleading and they're they're they're crying please have compassion have mercy please let us out so harris describes this to aychem that we were shaking at the knees you know you know we are also human beings eichmann interrupts him shut up are you crazy [Music] what do you think we're going to annihilate this whole people so these little brats these little jew children that you the shekinder they should grow up and take vengeance on us that they should grow up and continue the jewish people the jewish religion knock it off with your shaking at the knees this is your job this is the most important job of all is to annihilate the you the kinder so the ichamen as he presented himself in the trial of you know justice uh he had a lo he had a responsibility to do his job and he had taken an oath to his government to perform his job it was nonsense something that was not allowed is evidence in the trial just is being published now as we speak there was a a nazi was a dutch nazi his name assassin [Music] he interviewed eichmann in argentina before the mossad caught him and the tapes you know were meant to be kept until after eitherman died okay after i had been died then he would tell the world we really don't know who and what got the sas in interviews of eichmann and where they've been for the last 60 years since the trial because they couldn't get the tapes you know gideon hausner and gavriel bach wanted the tapes they wanted to use it as evidence in the trial they couldn't get it but there's an israeli journalist just it's just starting to show now in israel and i think he'll be under contract either with netflix or one of the countries one of the companies here in the states where they'll translate it into english or they'll use english subtitles you'll be able to see it it's a documentary series and they use the actual voice of eichmann they use the tapes for those parts of the series that describes it and he says you know his regret is that he couldn't have murdered 10.3 million jews that was his racist assassin and there are many other lines like this it's very clear this man you know relished because of his hate for jews he relished in annihilating the jews how many of you have been to berlin if those of you who are willing to go to germany and i would respect those who don't but you must go to two places when you go to berlin one is called vanci on january 20th 1942 that was quote unquote conference that was the famous where hitler had it was run by two men by adolf eichmann and reinhard heydrich representing the ss and gestapo and they had every branch of german government there advancing and the purpose of von c was twofold number one that what's happened throughout the baltics white russian ukraine our best nazis the most loyal nazis the ss those who took the the oath of the the vow to hitler personal pledge of allegiance to hitler they're becoming alcoholics they're going crazy from from doing all the killings we're going to lose our best people we've got to change it up instead of bringing the murderers to the victims we're going to do just the opposite we have a system where we're going to bring the victims to their death and that's where they introduced the whole system of the carbon monoxide at this point they didn't have zykron b this is 1942 january 20th 1942 they didn't have cyclone b carbon monoxide and what we're going to do is we're going to annihilate european jewelry iceman put up the maps and by the way the the documentation we have was typed by iceman the notes of the von see were all iceman's notes so he put up the map of 11 and a half million jews on the continent of europe he's got they've got the number of jews in britain the jews in ireland the jew all throughout the continent of what their goal is if you go to vancity it's all there no one can ever deny the holocaust when germany has published for the world to see the whole plan of the annihilation of european jewelry and the other place i would recommend going is on the bombed out remains of the gestapo headquarters in berlin they built a museum called topography of terror which also shares the whole methodology of the gestapo and of the ss of how to deal with the jews and other minorities it's all there you can't deny the holocaust when the very perpetrators show you the documentation of what their plans were so another story of ayaman just to finish up with von c the second goal of onsi was every branch of the german government defers to the ss the ultimate war is not the war on the eastern front the ultimate war is not the war on the western front the ultimate war is the war against the uden and that means if it means we need rail service and it means that the vermont which is what happened in 1944 that the german army starved to death and the german army died because they didn't have provisions of of bullets and provisions of food why because the whole rail system and all rail cars were being diverted to remove the jews from hungary the carpathian mountains to annihilate them before the russians would liberate hungary okay so the german army suffered and died so that the hungarian jews could be annihilated in may june july of 1944 that's an example of what von zee did that means the finance ministry the resources go to the annihilation of the jews that means every branch of government the judiciary you name it they were all there and you can see who participated in von c and that they were told this was not a conference means we have discussions we have dialogue that's what the conference is no this was a directorate this is orders from the furore himself that all branches of government are subordinate are subordinate and secondary to the ss that's eichmann so gabriel brock tells me the story also he said that he put together you know with the team that was working with him they were able to get footage some of the footage was used at the nuremberg trial some of the footage you know they've gotten you know because the nuremberg trials were the late 40s this is already 1961. and they get footage and they put it together they're going to show that to the tribunal in the tribe but he reached out to the defense attorney that the state of israel paid for robert cervetius robert savathius was a german a famous german a lawyer a jurist who israel paid for to defend eichmann and eichmann comes and they're watching the footage and he says i want to see he said the whole time i wasn't looking at the film i was looking at eichmann's face for over an hour let him see the atrocities that were perpetrated against the jewish people no one he said he was stone-faced showed no emotion he says afterwards he was all agitated and he was yelling at savanthius i was wondering why so i asked you know he had they had a pretty decent relationship with with the cervetius and by the way after the trial robert cervatis the famous you know he was the one who defended the nazis at nuremberg he said the eifman trial was a very fair trial what they had done what israel had done was it was a fair trial that's coming from the defense attorney so he asked surveillance why was he agitated what was he yelling about he was upset with the israelis because they had said that when he comes to it was done in a jerusalem theater that's where the trial was when he comes he will only either be in the gray suit or in a blue suit he will have a white shirt a suit and a tie and they have not fulfilled their word now remember this is not in front of anybody this is not in front of the jury this is this was him being able to see the evidence a day or two before it was going to be shown in the trial and eiffelman was upset because he had to come in the gray sweatsuit that he was wearing in the prison himself and he felt that the israelis had not fulfilled their word he should have been able to get dressed up in his nothing bothered him about the horrific gruesome footage of jews being killed but what bothered him was that he didn't he wasn't able to come in a suit and a tie in one of the suits that he was guaranteed would he would be able to wear in the jerusalem theater that's what bothered him and just one last story that he told me there are others i just but we have to move on i want to share one last story that that gavriel bach told me is you're all familiar with what happened in denmark the shabbos before rosh hashanah i believe and i have to i have to go and ask michael birnbaum the famous holocaust historian you can give me the specifics so if i'm wrong on some details i apologize because i haven't checked my facts but they announced in shul in copenhagen in the big synagogue uh and they knew they were germans they were in the germans sitting there so they said next week there will not be services we're going to have off uh next week people will be able to you know spend time by the shore by the sea what the heck was the rabbi talking about next week is rosh hashanah yeah what's he talking about one of the great acts of salvation of the jews during the holocaust one of the only acts of salvation and the jews had to pay for it they made money on it but all of these fishermen danish fishermen took the jews and you can if you you go to copenhagen you actually can stand there and you can see melmo you can see sweden across the baltic it's a very narrow part of the baltic and they took the jews to safety eichmann went crazy he was furious because the head of the ss in copenhagen in denmark you know they were these jews are supposed to be deported and he let these jews get away because you know sweden was a neutral country and he let these jews get away and eichmann was furious you're not talking about a lot of jews i think you're talking about seven thousand jews but it was one of the great great acts of salvation that's why until modern times the israelis always rooted for in the world cup of the soccer world cup they always rooted for the danish because the danish and the bulgarians were the only ones who are willing to save their jews so this is the reason i'm sharing with you what gavriel bach shared with me that there's a hatred there's an animus you know you listen to to what the heads of the pij are saying right so we israel over the weekend has taken out the military heads of palestinian islamic jihad but but you listen to the heads that are now in iran they're spokespersons that are in syria that are in other places that that hatred the venom you know like we're not human beings we're not animals they would have they would have more rahmanis like the germans did on their german shepherds than they would on a jew we're less than an animal and that's how he treated us the children how eichmann had this sick desire his mission in life was to kill all the jewish children one last story the ruff told and then we'll continue with the kinah about the children the commandant of the vilna ghetto and again most people never survived the vilmagetto they were taken out to pinari force and shot to death by the ansat scoop this guy he loved he was ambidextrous he loved bach and he loved mozart and he played on a piano he could play mozart and bach very well and at the same time he loved to murder jewish children and they described he would have them bring jewish infants and as he's playing with one hand or mozart with the other hand he would take his pistol and shoot the bait jewish baby and then with the other hand he'd play bach or mozart and with the right hand he'd take he'd shoot the jewish baby while he's playing classical music he loved to shoot jewish children because you have to understand there's this obsession if we kill off the next generation if we kill off the future there will be no jewish people and that's what's being described here look of the six million one and a half million were children that's been described in the kena varna on one stone nine kavakava is a large measure of the brains of crushed jewish children there's a man is anyone here from los angeles i don't know if you've ever heard the name max webb chappelle and webb these were survivors of auschwitz clothes jews they built large sections of california the family literally tracked housing throughout the state of california in fact nathan chappelle was appointed by ronald reagan when ronald reagan was the governor to be the head of the the california highway commission and they expanded networks of of highways that linked californians that allowed them to commute to the major centers to work so max webb describes a polish jew he's maybe 16 17 years old max just passed away two three years ago lived to be almost 100 years old and the germans after they'd entered poland go into a hospital into a maternity ward and they ask for the jewish mothers they take these jewish mothers who have just given birth they rounded them up they put them into trucks they take away the mothers and then they take the infants these are newborn infants out of the maternity war and they're clubbing them against killing them crushing the skulls of these jewish infants against the the the brick of the of the building he's shocked by this and he runs home and he tells his parents he says i'm not making this up this is what i saw i saw this with my own eyes at the hospital today and his mother says to him max was his englishman look he says i've got young children at home i can't run or flee with young children i've got to take care of these babies you go you go and you survive you know he kisses his mother and his father and they give him whatever resources that if he needs food or to bribe someone they give him resources they give him warm clothes he says that's the last time he ever saw his parents but watching the germans do this to these newborn jewish infants i mean he said that he could never get that he says i wake up with you know a man in his not i remember meeting with him a number of times when he was in his 90s he says you could never ever get that out of your mind this is you know you wake up in the middle of the night to that that image and that's the description 300 nursing children in tehran they weren't used to this and when they get put through you know to take for instance westerbork is where the dutch jews and understand that many german jews had fled to the netherlands to holland so they were taken to a camp called westerborg and from westerburg i think i have to check my my records but i think it's tuesdays they were sent to sobibor where they were killed gas to death with carbon monoxide and fridays was a shipment to auschwitz now those those trains from western port were not the cattle cars that you you ship the hungarian jews in 1944 that some of the remaining jews of the lodge ghetto were shipped in august of 44. they weren't the cattle cars that you and i have the image of from westerburg those were regular train cars these people thought they were being res excuse me resettled in the east but they learned very quickly the dutch jews you know they were not used to some of the more rugged life that a polish jew was they you know they were raised in homes you know with a kind of heating and the kind of you know running water etc that you didn't necessarily have in other parts of europe that didn't make for very good slave laborers and most of those dutch jews were killed immediately that when they came to auschwitz they were immediately annihilated and that of course was the case when they came to sober so you have these anu ghosts those rakusvanugos what we thought were our neighbors that was true in the netherlands think about what happened to on the front and frank you know think about how many jews were handed over you know then the netherlands was historically the best country for jews in the history of europe from the time of 1571 when the netherlands broke off from spain and they allowed these portuguese jews to come and settle there they eventually became international traders and they literally changed all of europe through the trade with places like brazil central america what became the united states north america you know jews both sparred him and ashkenazim did very well in the netherlands when you couldn't publish something you published it in a publishing house in holland you know it was the only country in europe that saw a christian was allowed to convert to a judaism it was a capital offense in any other country so we thought the netherlands would be a place of safety and respite of the 140 000 jews and many of them were german jews who had fled there but of 140 000 jews in the netherlands when the germans came in in 1940 think something like a hundred fourteen thousand were killed almost all of them were annihilated what happened to quote unquote our liberal our respectful neighbors it's all done all gone that's how could it be that it came to such a point that starvation was so bad that we consumed our own young so we plead to god all of the pleas that we make but what's the one plea to god we didn't say how could it be that we murdered our own navi our own coin guddell in the basement that we didn't say to god so after this whole kinna of crying out allah lightly we actually come back and have to look ourselves in the mirror and what's the story that we're talking about it's the story of the 34th kinna i'd like you to turn in in the rebex elevator kinesis page in the art scroll someone can tell me this is a kinder written by rabbi uda levy but it goes back to the gemara and the medrash this kinna it's it's actually discussed in it's discussed in sephiroth bay's paragraph what page one thing you should know the zechariah navi that we're talking about here is not zachariah from the bayashini it's not the famous zakaria who was one of the architects together with malachi and hagai of the second base amiktus it's not the zakaria that we know who has the famous eschatological visions right the the the story of the haftarah of the second is it the first or second day of sukkos i think it's the first day of circus of the eschatological wars of goku magog right the the sunday morning preachers gag and magog you know they're the famous armageddon wars goku magog that's the famous zakaria of the bayashini one of the mentors of the jewish people who not only helped us build the baha'i shami but also gave us the the strength and vision of the marv one day god will not just be the god of the jews but melaka is opposed to moshe the villain says what is a melech someone who everyone adopts not someone who rules by force god vis-a-vis the nations right right now um the world sees god is emotional because they can't defy physics but but they don't adopt his ethical system they don't adopt this moral system they don't adopt the theology of true ethical monotheism but one day hashem will be melech al kalhares what are we talking about we're not talking about that zucharia this is the story of zachariah who does not have a safe hair in the navy it's the zachariah of bias richa just to contextualize before we start the kin are written by rabbi hudalev how many of you remember the torah from parshas we read it every year parshas what's that haftara so you had a woman that i think when shakespeare was looking for a model of who he would create lady macbeth after this was her her name was atalia italia italia was the daughter of of ahab in izevo jezebel's daughter right so the apple did not far very far from the far from the tree on this one she ends up marrying a melech he dies god knows if if she had poisoned him or she drove him to death who knows but he does she takes over the reigns so she's running the southern kingdom and she with her kgb she goes and she purges and she tries to kill annihilate every last living survivor of the davidic line of the messianic line of david and the kohanim see this young boy yahuwash and they save him they take him and they save him and they protect him eventually the people italia is such a shrew such a wicked person i'll just give you example one of the things she did she knew she couldn't destroy the base of mythos that wasn't going to work so she did a passive aggressive after the winter rains she defunded the department of transportation like these people want to defund the police she wanted to defund the department of transportation so they couldn't fix the roads so people couldn't make aliyah sarego they couldn't travel to yerushalayim because the roads were not functional you know those are big mountains that have you need roads to traverse that was one thing she did she didn't repair the base amid this the base of mythos has been in existence over 100 years any building that it gets to use especially the kind of use of the base of micktisch it's going to fall apart if you don't repair it so she defunded that eventually they overthrew her and they killed natalya so the last remaining survivor of the messianic line of the davidic line is yahuwash and he is under the influence of yeho yada yahuyah does the coin god a great sadiq a great mentor and a great calling god and until yahash will be old enough to function as an autonomous leader of the jewish people he's got the regents the coin goddale who's mentoring and guiding him and making the decisions for the government and yahwash then takes over and the story of the torah of parsha shkalim is really it's a fundraising story it's a story of how they were able to be able to get the funds to rebuild to repair and re-establish the base of mikdash that it could be used the highways that people could make alias a regal the three especially after the winter reigns for passage when there's a here to bring the corbin pesach there's a key of curry's if you don't bring a corbin piss off so it's that story the story we're going to tell is after yahuyata dies the koenig dies and he is replaced by a son who not only did the apple not fall far from this tree it actually exceeded the tree his son zakaria is not just a sadiq like the father not just a great educator like the father his son zakarya if i could borrow a term from the the second helicopter he refines himself perfects himself to such a degree that he becomes a navi his father was a calling guddell was a talmud the son is a navi and unfortunately yahuwah as long as the old man was there the man that he knew was a kid yahoya koingodo he would follow in the right path but after the death of yahuyada success went to his head power went to his head and unfortunately he wasn't nor were his administration the kind of administration that the jewish people need as its leadership and they do things that are wrong inappropriate and the judicial system is not working the way it should work so people who are oppressed or persecuted can't find a court that will stand up for them and many things go wrong and the navi who is the kohingol zaharya he engages the government he challenges the power he goes to the halls of power and says this is not what the jewish people are supposed to be this is not what yahweh my father raised you to be and this is not our responsibility this is not the way we're supposed to treat our people this is not the way we service our god our father in heaven and he challenged them and if i could use the analogy of what yahoya kim and what other jewish governments did with year miyahu with jeremiah right if you don't like the message you know you killed the messenger so they were afraid to kill your meow because the people would have not tolerated that so what did they do they incarcerated your miajo was zakarya they did worse they murdered him when anyone kipper i mean this is the kohain guddle who is your navi they murder him on yom kippur that falls out on chavez okay so it's a double whammy and where do they murder him in the base of mikdash you murder the kohen guttel in the base of mikdash and yom kippur that falls out on shabbos and that coin guddell happens to be your navi you know in baseball they say hitting for the cycle you know that is we get a single a double a triple a home run all in the same game well this is even greater than hitting this is this this is called sinning for the cycle i mean horrific and this should have shocked the jewish world not just the perpetrators the governmental officials who perpetrated this heinous murder but how could the people tolerate this and unfortunately they did tolerate it they didn't want it to happen they didn't think it was right but olam came in hugo no egg and they allowed it and they kept moving forward and they kept going on like nothing ever happened okay yes it's not nice it wasn't right it was a shonda okay what could we do see that's the problem with you and i watching the news or reading the news i mean just take a step back for a thing you know what's horrific about us we live such a a sick life because what happens we read something horrific happening you know they bomb a school in the ukraine or or this atrocity is being perpetrated by the iranians or by the chinese or by the venezuelans you know and then we you know the mets have a big series with the braves right now it's going to determine first place so we want to see what's happening with them and the yankees how many home runs there and judge you know and then we get to the sales you know there's going to be a good sale at bergdorf goodman or bloomingdale's you know and and then we want to check out the weather because we want to go to the beach so you know like it's horrific atrocities you know and then there's the sports and then there's you know rihanna's gonna have a concert she's gonna be playing at the meadowland and then there's the the the sales and then there's the weather at the beach and then she's like oh one thing it doesn't work that way you don't just say olam kim and hago no egg and that unfortunately is what the the people did in the gemara and parakanizak in the fifth paragraph of gittin and the madras rabba and ethan and and here you are levy they talk about this so the description i'm going to give you could take it literally or you could say that the midrash is figuratively either way it says the spot where he was murdered they couldn't clean it up damim the blood was boiling on that spot where the murder took place so if you want to say that they couldn't they weren't able to clean up the stain or literally that it was boiling blood that could never would never assuage or could be assuaged so that's the backdrop let's read the kim yom it's interesting it doesn't say that the government officials or the bad guys no bishop meaning we the jewish people we are responsible for this claus israel we murdered the prophet where in the courtyard of the miktash his blood was never covered up until probably 120 years later when the babylonian forces the swords of the babylonians come into the mikdash velo shakata they who come it was not silent this this was a wander valeri quoting base and as a function of this there was an increase of pain and sorrow and moaning and groaning amongst the jewish people the boss yehudah what was the story of the sower the blood was we kept deceiving him was a chief general the babylonian forces navu khanezer is back in iraq he's back on the euphrates river he sends his chief general to destroy jerusalem he comes into the mecca dumb and roasted and sees the blood boiling and yes hey what's what is this so they made up a story he asked the quran they answered him now this is really the the blood of corbanos you know i guess you know it's fresh blood was hot blood from a corbin restricted this morning he says this doesn't look like animal blood to me animal blood doesn't seem to do that what kind of animals do you sacrifice here well there's three animals bovine species you know a heifer or a bull lamb you know ram or a lamb and there's goat he go to her she go so you start shifting you know they get from the place where the animals are stored it's not bovine blood it's not lamb blood it's not goat blood you you check two birds right uh torim and banayona well this is not let's get get some birds this is not dove there's not pigeon blood it's not dove blood what's the story you're lying to me come on i want to know the story what is this you don't tell me i'm going to slaughter you so they tell them it's been discovered now the fruit of our sin has been discovered for odo the blood would not be assuaged and it was like a stem a storming sea a tempest sea vayavuka mufuras and finally they explained to him they tell them what it is elohim this is the blood of the man of god who was uprooted meaning who was killed for allah he didn't do anything wrong he was innocent we murdered an innocent man and the general says his blood is going to be sought out so who does he take the kohanim the educators of the jewish people basia the lo eshkota so first he starts killing the leadership of the jewish people of the kohana takar yeshi shimla mayo subahu religious then he starts killing the elderly the role models then he starts killing the young knights the tino again he goes after the children the school children the kinder and the yeshiva the enemy of those rose and the parents have to watch their kids being killed vain check at the dominar by the face of those and that spot on the ground could not be cleaned off if you take it literally the the blood kept boiling and the sword of the oppressor was taking vengeance and the city was in a state of perplexity the khalsa's it's a question is this line referring to new zealand or is it referring to the almighty lo the wrath did not cease he didn't withhold the wrath and his hand was extended meaning that the sword was extended mothers with their nursing children were killed or misread see if you grew up in upstate new york you think of the niagara river and niagara falls if you grow up in the middle east what do you think of the nile river the greatest body of water is not the jordan it's the nile so it says the blood flowed like the the the river of egypt until then turns to heaven have i not killed have we not slaughtered enough of the jews should we totally annihilate should there be no remnant of this people the oz only then shakat damnaki the boiling blood from the spot where the zakariya had been murdered only then did it subside the hair of nakamura the vengeful sword at that point had been satiated so this is describing what happened the last paragraph is us turning to the almighty premeditated evil premeditated corruption that we've done before you god the haragnon of the echo we murdered your prophet very shane only now do we know only now do we appreciate the evil that we perpetrated please god extend your hazard comfort us console us we're crying out to you from the depths um now the question is what does sha all mean does that mean you know from hell meaning we we've we're in a state of purgatory of hell so to speak for the corruption of what we did or does this mean from the grave meaning from all these jews who were slaughtered now we're crying out to you um the fruit of our of our actions we've been satiated by it this is now referring to the phrase refers to the jews a people that has not had compassion because we we just feel that we have been unable to to have there's no rahmanis on us the tempest the storm tossed afflicted one we turn to you as rascal and we yearn and we long and we're waiting for the day when your help will be there for us now by the way when it describes new zealand we have a tradition new so shocked by his actions he actually you know he he ended up you know he realized what he perpetrated yeah and ends up doing chuva one tradition is is that he he actually converts to judaism one thing we know new zealand's descendants were jews the question is did they convert or was it that he converted but whatever the case it actually traumatized him but the point here is in the previous kinah yud zion we're crying out to god and say how can you allow this to take place how can you you humans allow humans to be so afflicted that the starvation what it does to people in in we're crying to god and we're woeing and pleading with him and that it ends off quoting the quote from icha yeah you you're mash me and you're you're pleading you're causing me to hear all of your complaints and your cries from the tragedies but what you haven't said is where's where's the chuva been from the fact that you murdered anyone kipper in the base of mikdash the coin goddale who was the navy what about that huh that i haven't heard i haven't heard any any any remorse for that and that's why we skip to the n to the story of that in in the aftermath of the consequence of that you know if if we could take a step back one of the great great atrocities in ashkenaz was what we call the ukrainian kosak revolt where they hired tartar mercenaries it was really a revolt against the polish control of the ukraine but the object of their wrath was really two-fold those eastern orthodox meaning ukrainian orthodox priests and parishes that had switched over to catholicism where they went in and butchered the the the priests and the nuns but the primary object of their wrath were the jews because the jews administered the ukraine for the polish polish catholics hate it they despise the ukrainian orthodox eastern orthodox and they had the jews as the tax collectors the jews controlling the alcohol license you know they would have ins and in the end you know they would that's where they would go you could it was very limited where you could partake of alcohol because the government wanted to control it and the jews managed the ends and one of the survivors of takhvit of 1648 1649 was actually 1648 to 1653 but one of the survivors is the author of the bear hagola the bear goal is a commentary on hoshan and he writes in his introduction to his commentary on jewish financial law and the khoshan mishpot that he writes the following he says you know i saw with my own eyes many jews who were dishonest to these ukrainians and don't get me wrong no one here was championing the ukrainian cause this was a society of terrible anti-semitism terrible anti-catholicism terrible alcoholism you know child abuse spousal abuse these were not nice people that they were living amidst but there's no justification for a jew you know the guy is drunk right he's spending all his money in the bar and he gives you know i'll use american currency he gives you a 20 bill you know for a drink so you give him the change he says i gave you 20 and then you show him since he's half drunk you say no you only gave a 10 bill and i'm giving you change for a 10 bill there were a lot of jews who because the ukrainians did not have a sophisticated math education there were a lot of jews who became quite wealthy off of manipulating and cheating the local population he writes this and he says i saw after takhtat how essentially they were all all their wealth was destroyed all their wealth was devoured once if you live long enough what goes around comes around you see that and you know we the the kind of atrocities that were perpetrated by the ukrainians are unspeakable and i would just ask you can you can order it probably on amazon the translation of the chronicler the the one of the survivors his name is rabbi nassan not a hanover like like i live on hanover street nasa not to hanover he wrote a book called evan mitsula got translated into english as the abyss of despair just like there were chroniclers after the first crusade what happened in spires what happened in worms and mines the same is true he wanted to record what happened to these jewish communities throughout the ukraine you know polish occupied ukraine and you know the kind of things they did we were all fearful that the barbarians would be these tartar mercenaries it turned out that tartar mercenaries were actually less cruel than the ukrainians themselves the tartar mercenaries when they go into a town they would they would kill the elderly the old jews they would kill them but the young jews they actually would you know tie them up and they would they would sell them they would sell them to slaves they should put them on ships on the black sea and they were sold throughout the ottoman empire on the slave market by the tartars we think as many as 20 000 jews were actually um abducted and sold to slaves you have to understand that the sephardic jews who fled 1492 you know in the one the best place of all in terms of respite was not north africa was not naples it wasn't venice it wasn't you know provincial france southern france i mean those were all places that jews fled and some people found respite there and some people suffered terribly in these places portugal turned out to be terrible you know what happened with the audit of a in 1496 and 1497 but the place where really jews had a chance to make it and survive was the ottoman empire and more and more sephardic jews started moving into the ottoman empire places like salonika salonika had already had a refugee community the jews from from catalonia from cities like barcelona and girona had settled there in in in more jews refugees came izmir izmir is the city where the infamous shattered sea was istanbul all these cities jews settled so now they're rebuilding themselves they're rebuilding a new world a new sephardic world in the ottoman empire you know what they ended up doing for probably a 20-year period in the 1650s and the 1660s the mitch of pidgeon you know when we think of the myths of pidya and shuliam redeeming captives what do we think of you know we think of the story of god you know i'm sorry you know the trade you know do you trade should you trade terrorists who are going to now perpetrate murders so we think of that with pity and shrug they actually first and foremost they redeemed the women the jewish female captives because they're the most vulnerable and then the jewish male catholics these spartans were doing this for these ashkenazi jews who had been living in ukraine who had been sold by the tartars the ukrainians were not that nice the ukrainians were vicious they would rape jewish women in front of the husbands then decapitate the wife and then only then kill the man they took jewish women who were pregnant and with knives you know they would cut into their you know into the womb and take rip out the small little fetus they would take cats and then in a crew you know like a crude way they would sew up these cats into the to the wombs of jewish women they were they were the atrocities that we could never fathom and our worst nightmare we could never fathom the kind of things that the ukrainians did to the jews and just take for example rabbi baum spoke about the ptosis tells us yamtha was maybe the greatest of all the maharal students he was chosen to be the rabbi of prague i understand at that time prague was a very very significant jewish center maybe after krakow the greatest jewish center at that time for sure in terms of the hapsburg dynasty the austro-hungarian empire and the habsburgs said to rabioto liebmann heller they said to him you've got to set up the taxation system you know we don't want the job of we we you're this is what you're going to bring in but you're going to administer it you're the rabbi so you know what he did he set up a system it's a system that we use today in all western western countries it's a sliding scale system where those who make a larger income pay a higher percentage of their income to taxes then the poor the poor pay a much lower percentage of their income and the middle class pay something in between it's like a sliding scale system so he instituted that the rich became enraged the rich were the rich jews they were very upset with him so they trumped up charges against him to the habsburg government you know habsburgs historically were very anti-semitic you know franz josef is the exception to the rule but but before franzio said they're all pretty anti-semitic maria theresa who was a very capable leader she expelled the jews from prague i mean that's the kind of government you're dealing with and what do they do the hapsburgs okay this is gonna be this is good this is really juicy they put them on trial these these jews lied because they didn't want this kind of a tax system it was going to impact their lifestyle is going to impact their income and he gets condemned to be executed the tosus yamtha from philippine heller jews all over the european continent pleaded with the government do you know who this is do you know this is a sham you can't do this so the government realizes that these were false witnesses and the government realizes that you know there was a group of wealthy jews are doing this to their own rabbi which you know gives them even less respect for the jewish people but you know the government can't look bad so they may have followed okay we are going to give him out of our grace a pardon we're not going to execute him but if he doesn't want to be executed he is now banned for life from the empire and they expel him from the austro-hungarian empire the jews of krakow now krakow is the greatest jewish community in europe at this time okay we're talking in the early 17th century they bring him to be their rabbi and he becomes the rov of krakow which is the most significant stellar in all of the world of the jewish world and he becomes the rabbi there a good part of his rabbinate i apologize i think he became the rabbi there and i think in the early 1640s if i'm correct i have to look up the dates but you know what a good part of his stellar was refugees coming from the ukraine which is eastern galicia coming from the ukraine to western galicia to krakow literally giving these people clothing finding them a job getting them housing the jewish communities in the 1650s and the 1660s whether it was the sardine in turkey in the ottoman empire doing pig and shuiyan whether it was the jews in western galicia and krakow and other places just providing parnassa providing you know food clothing a job a chance for these people to rebuild their lives who are all suffering from ptsd they all have terrible because because what the closex did was horrific and they all saw this it's pronounced uh in it's d-n-i-e-p-e-r the nipper you know the nipper river they describe you know when the when the ukrainian cossacks in june of 1648 when they came into the city of nemarov they said this big river the nipper river it was red from the blood of all the jews that were thrown into it that were shot or stabbed and thrown into the river it's horrific and that's you know what we observe here on tisha buff but the point is that the bear hagola was making when he spoke about the aftermath of of the ukrainian massacres in the point that rabbi yehuda halevi is making which is a follow-up on what your miyahu said in echa the point is is that we can plead with god and we can say god how can this how could you allow this to happen how could you allow this to happen to this and choose but at the same time we have to look in the mirror and we have to say how can we allow the the murder of zakaria how can we allow our own people you know to be cheating in business and look the other way you know you can't you can't put somebody's name up on the shule or somebody's name up on the yeshiva just because they wrote a large check okay look most of these people's money is not it's not corrupt money it's not fake money it's not you know ill-gotten gain but you have to be very careful because we can teach our kids above them at sea we can teach our kids musser but when we put a certain name up on a building of a yeshiva or a shul that is known to have unscrupulous practices pays people off the books you know not straight in negotiation you have to always have to sue them to get paid because you know they never pay based upon a deal when you have people like that or people that go to prison and again we all make mistakes you know it happens people make mistakes but you don't go put those names up on the building because what kind of a statement is that about us in terms of living up to an extremely high standard ethically and morally what kind of an education are we giving our children because because actions always speak louder than words you can give them all the muscle you want bottom line is when we're makabe people were unscrupulous in business that tells them that money talks and everything else walks and that's a problem that's a big problem and that's what he was talking about the bear hagola and that's what you see throughout the kinos you see this theme throughout the kingdoms where you can't judaism does not tolerate religious schizophrenia and religious hypocrisy a jew has to be means you know perfected consistent sincere and that's a very very high standard to live by it's not an easy standard to live by so let's go to the sixteenth kina and we'll talk about corbin by his shame [Applause] in rabbis elevate chicken of the mesora sarovkin that's page 361. what is it in the art school thanks again we want to thank richard and deborah parkhoff for their sponsorship we want to thank the bartels for their sponsorship the fine tux for their sponsorship and this should be the learning that we do should be for a rafu shalema for our good friends steve newworth shalom ben bracha who is he natalie the kids i have a real we have a challenge he's fighting he's fighting a very serious cancer pancreatic cancer and please god hakurasu the rotheholy israel should give steve shalom so this is based upon this 16th kin of the khalir is the author of it's based upon the gemaran parakanizaki zakhori is ashore beef remember what the oppressor did in the holy of holies you're all familiar with the gemara let me just ask you something to contextualize this kinah who's been within the last few years last five six years who's been to yerushalayim most people here right so from the time you walk into yerushalayim let's say most of us will come through the jaffa gate how long does it take you to get to the kotel 20 minutes right some of you say 12 or 15 minutes some 20 some 30 minutes how did it take the babylonians three weeks from the 17th to thomas or according to one version of of the of the nivea from it would have been even more from the ninth of tamworth i guess that's 28 days how did it take them 17 days or 28 days to get to the uh sorry 26 days how how did it take them that long to get to the koto yerushalayim is not that big a place even if you get lost and it took you forty five minutes or an hour it's not taking you three weeks by the way in the bay is shaming so after vespasian is called back the roman senate votes after the death of nero on the new who's going to be the next caesar of rome and they uh take vespasian back to rome this patient says i didn't lose thousands of roman soldiers i didn't spend two and a half years of my life to give up this battle i want to make sure this thing gets finished and he appoints his son because he trusts his own son titus in the hebrew titus but titus to finish the job okay and titus does finish the job he breaks through the siege i believe in siva and then there's battles in the city and the romans are in what's called the antonian fortress herod when he built the walls around the harabayas we're familiar with the kosovo maoravi the north west corner and i think that existed before herod i just think he built it up he built something called the antonian fortress in the northwest corner of the harabayas and on the 17th of tamus they break through the antonian fortress and they get to the hiera bias now you're all familiar with the hare bias today was a very very tense day in israel because itamar bengavir others you know they're not going to be told what to do i'm not here to take a position neither halachically nor am i here to take a position politically because that is way above my pay grade but they're saying you know who are the arabs to tell us that on tish above we can't even be on our own temple mount it's our land we control it and they went up to the temple mount you know all hamas everybody jordan they're all claiming you know these jews you know they're they're they're defiling al-aqsa and we've got to stand up and defend al-aqsa that was the last war we had last may you know was that was that poison that they were taking over alexa so i haven't seen the news since eight o'clock this morning since minion began but there was a you know there was a huge huge police force there trying to separate the jews from the muslims and um it doesn't take three weeks from the 17th of tammuz to get from the har bias to the heihel it takes about eight to ten minutes at most if you're a little bit closer it takes about two to four minutes how come it took the roman soldiers under titus and these were pretty tough guys these are pretty strong capable guys how did it take them three weeks to get from the heihal to the base of mikdash and the answer is obvious hand-to-hand combat the jews of yerushalayim were fighting for every inch in the bias region against the babylonians are done in his troops they were fighting throughout the old city and there were rivers of blood jewish blood and babylonian blood on the harebias the jews were fighting the roman legions and there were rivers of blood on the harebias it took three weeks till the afternoon of tish above for titus to make it in to the heihal what does titus do he cuts the parochias right he takes a woman of ill repute and goes into the kodesh kardashian into the holy of holies and he engages in impropriety with a woman of ill repute in the holy of holies how can that be the very holy of holies that if the cohen guddell was a sadducee and he corrupted the incense of oda anyam kippur wouldn't make it through the year what about nadav and avihu they didn't go into the holy of holies they only went into the hecal and they were kohanim and they were allowed to be in but they brought strange incense strange incense by the way are you if you want to take with the camera uh let's just say you see that you see that you see what's right outside of baby you see what's outside the window baby deer so what happens they do what they only brought incense which was zara and they bring it into the heihal in right away they die how can it be that titus goes into the kodish kardashian does this inappropriate act with the woman of ill repute and nothing happens to tatus and the jews are shocked by this so we discussed this here in romer a few weeks ago and that was the point that we read from the roof you and i on tish above are not mourning the destruction of a piece of real estate look as jews real estate is very important to us okay it is but that's not why we're mourning on tisha buff what we're mourning is and i'm quoting the phrase from khazal the rev said see luke hashafina there's two terms they're opposite terms that's the perceived presence of god where you perceive god's presence in the world to quote is where what is where god's intense providential relationship is removed the covenant still exists the covenant between god and the jewish people is an eternal covenant a covenant is not something that can ever be broken that still exists but the point is what allowed the ukrainian cossacks what allowed the lithuanians in 1941. what allowed vincent foray in 1391 the pogroms that started in sevilla and went throughout spain what allowed the nazis throughout 1939 to to do the kind of things that they perpetrated the fact that god removed that intentional that intense i'm sorry that intense providential perception of him there was a removal of that once god does that once you see the kasrina then this is an empty building and then titus can do things that no jew could ever imagine being done and what we mourn is not the destruction the destruction for the most part started on the afternoon of the ninth but it took place on the 10th ave it took place on the 10th of what are we mourning we're mourning that intense providential relationship the single that's what we're mourning we want god where we can feel where we can perceive where we feel god's presence where the world feels god's presence because when you can't feel it then the shia imams in tehran then the iranian republican guard corps then pij hamas hezbollah the houthis the shia militia in western iraq with their cruise missiles aimed at us with their literally hundreds of thousands of missiles in totality of these groups trying to annihilate us to traumatize our people trying to come up with weapons of mass destruction to annihilate tel aviv all this can happen when there's silva kasrina and titus can do his dastardly deed when there's that's what we're mourning in the caleer describes it what the oppressor did in the the sanctum sanctorum in the code of kardashian shalom he took out his sword parochus the orphan nation right god he disgraced with the blood-stained shield from the word adom the yamada think about how many people were killed over the the three weeks leading up to tish above on the temple mount the bias which is supposed to bring peace to the world right corbin brings shalom between us and the kurdish barakul now it was this very institution was filled with blood he shared itself is what's that saying you know until now all these other nations that attempted to destroy and defeat the jewish people they were ultimately defeated egypt is nothing more than a figment in a history book and that's true babylonia and that's true of the greece and the greco-syrians it's true of all many others but i will make a difference rome will be different you know the the abode of god our roots they love bitsava with you know that haughty arrogant neck you know arrogant people have their neck popped out like that i will say this is what we mentioned our forefathers zarakis what happened to nadav and avihu they didn't even go into the holy of holies when they went into the kodesh with with strange fire they were they they lost their lives the which has the incense on it how can it be that this this place of fire is now being consumed by the fire the place of god's fire is being consumed by the fire of our enemies our spirits literally drowned or sank they took out all the caleb of the basa miktas the summon isha race they went out the jaffa gate why is it called the jaffa gate because it follow you know highway one follows a natural crevice along israel to the jaffa port and they had a parade in rome and then they put them on display all the clay charis of the base of mikdash right it's now the spoils of rome 93 different types of ministering vessels in the basement was called the clay characters so when the the kohanim came you know the next day to the mikdash and they weren't there because the romans had taken it out nasheem kishore kivaris the the women stared at the origins like the tyrant the oppressor the karaka rabbis now love what's the halacha in the basa what's the halacha you can't be wearing a sandal you have to take off the shoes you know when your feet don't have shoes protecting them they become very sensitive not so much the heel but like the sole of the foot you know every pebble it's sensitive to basically make this a place of sensitivity not just physical sensitivity but moral emotional sensitivity just got to be sensitive in the makdash what happens the place where jews take off their shoes because of the sensitivity these guys the storm troopers the roman legions came in with their boots you know what's the image we have the image we have is right that the german storm troopers the ss with their boots trampling in our synagogues trampling in our homes sareem lupassa bevo paris the sarin the leaders of the jewish people they they panicked the vase coded when he did his filthy act in the holy of holies you know you have that that that that image where the germans it wasn't just the germans it was their their supporters as well they would go into the houses of worship i've got a book at home it's called we should use the world that was that was a euphemistic term the nazis used for november 9th 1938 cristal knocked you know like the jews there their crystal broke no no no it was pogrom they went in in something between germany austria and the sudetenland in czechoslovakia in bohemia and morambia i have to get the exact number i have it in this two volume set somewhere close to thirteen hundred shules were destroyed most of them were burnt to the ground if it was a shul a building that because it was right next door to other gentile buildings and they didn't want to destroy the you know they didn't want to have a fire going through a neighborhood where there were gentile buildings so then they just they would ransack it they didn't destroy the building they would just they would destroy the torahs burn the torahs they would ransack the the place take all the the adornments of the torah they would rip the perogas but those buildings actually survived as a building but you understand thirteen hundred jewels like twelve hundred seventy eight something like that number throughout germany austria and bohemia moravia were destroyed and by the way one thing about the german jewels you know the germans they're very very strict on behavior a lot of times you know people don't trade take a shul seriously they treat it like a poor man's country club right we hang out and discuss the the playoffs we talk about the politics and you know talk about everything that we shouldn't in the shoe and the german shule that was very extreme decorum was demanded it's not like they didn't have decorum for the shul they did it was destroyed you know that's the description here so there's this description here the young people the bahunam they stood outside and they just assumed they were they assumed that what that we'll be able to ward off defend off the the romans but the zucchini were terrified because they realized there's no going back we're going to lose this we're going to lose the base of mikdash and then this phrase here the who asurbaziki almighty was bound in chains it's a description how did the almighty allow these these extremely evil these vicious monsters how did the almighty allow them to do this it's as if the almighty's been incarcerated been been put into chains himself of course that's our question that's our pain that's our crying out well it's we're not saying that the jews were perfect between world war one and world war ii yiddish kite because all of the these communities that had been built with with foundations of institutions cressid institutions educational institutions they all became uprooted after world war one and once you uproot the jewish people it's very hard it takes 60 70 years to rebuild the the kind of infrastructure you need for community to run well and it affected the front kite i mean the the the observance of shabbos of mikvah of everything was way down i mean you know the the i don't want to call the assimilation rate because these jews were for the most part it was only the german and austrian and french jews that were intermarrying but i'm talking about in eastern europe the front kite was way down and you know like that was not right and it was a terrible situation but what would you rather have the jews who were not observing the way they needed to observe in the way they should observe or would you rather have the nazis would you rather have the lithuanian free army would you rather have the communists would you rather have the romanians would you rather have the aerocross in in hungary i mean who do you want the neologs are the aerocross so we we we just throw up our hands and we plead with the almighty how can you how did this happen it says you're allowing this to happen it's as if you're god who could could who controls the whole universe and how is it as if you're in chains now we don't talk this way as jews but one day a year we actually we we we we're in such pain and such hurt we we do talk this way one day here's tisha but who gives us the right to talk the almighty that way to describe the almighty that way it's as if he's bound in chains you're miawa navi according to the rav is why not everyone agrees with that shaped is it the talmud of the rav and of motion of aaron cutler he says it's a rhetorical question how could it be it's not why you never have a right to ask god why who are you there who is with a limited intellect you know who we to question god so it's a rhetorical question we're asking ourselves but the way the rav learned the phrase ethers were questionable questioning god why how do you allow this to happen how can you do this is this really better for the world that we should you know we should we should have the supreme ayatollah we should have the iranians you know with the headway they've made through hezbollah and south america there's not a continent they don't have influence the blasphemy they say against the jewish people the jewish religion that that's better we should prefer them to us so we we asked that question once again and that's reflected here it's as if the almighty was bound in chains you know the babylonians had been defeated the jews had come back and rebuilt the sacred second base of mikdash but now what now the red one meaning asaph rome has come home of the aves they surrounded the city nafla evra the the descendants of yaakov who the hashikaka was working on his behalf despite that he was in the diaspora the site despite that he was under the control of of love on nevertheless god has protected you hashem how come we're not being protected where is the to protect us in the sense that god has abandoned his palace it's like there's no hashgraph he's remove that intense providential relationship already from the 17th of thomas they when they broke through the antonio fortress that came to the pesacharabais and he had four generals titus had four generals each one was supposed to destroy one side the west the east the north the south outside the general who was supposed to destroy the western wall was not successful southern wall eastern wall northern wall that's all destroyed but the western wall was not taken down it's as if so to speak god stood behind it so that it would not fall there should always be a there should be a remnant despite that it was destroyed you god it was not titus who destroyed us it was you who allowed him to do it because of your meeting you became enraged with us those who were not killed right those who are not killed unlike for instance gamla unlike for instance yudfat where what i said is wrong let me start again i want to contrast two kinds of cities in the roman defeat of judea those who fought and those who didn't take separate see pory you have to go there when you go to israel it's a joint project between the university of michigan and some of the israeli universities like barilone you get a real sense of what a city was like in the period of the bay of shame beautiful amphitheaters and big structures and you've got these gorgeous mosaic floors of the aristocracy and shulls you know butte canesette or butte canessio depending on how you say the phrase you really have a sense you know rishu sarabham a public thoroughfare or what is a mother you know you got the walls it's really fascinating you get a sense of what a city was like a mixed city that had serious jews and had not so serious jews had romans had jews you know why because see paul reed never put up a fight see i'm using my terminology you know put up the white flag they let him come in romans didn't destroy c polari jews lived there in fact after the 100 years after the khurban the jews will actually return to see paulie and this that'll be the seat of the sanhedrin under of yehuda nasi that's where the mishna was edited gamla different story how many have you been to gamla up on the golan heights you know like in arizona you got camelback mountain the same reason that's called camelback that's why the we call gambla it's like a double hill you know two heaps and what happened those jews fought to to death it was a walled city and every time the romans would try to climb it the jews would boil up hot oil and pour it you know these romans would be scalded with the hot oil they'd fall off the ladders to their death deromans finally used cannonballs in the gemara called ballista riot these cannonballs boom boom boom they finally pierced the walls of gambla and once the once they came in they just annihilated it take no prisoners those of you you know you watch the the football games what happens at the end of the game they're killing each other you know for four quarters then at the end they go out to the midfield and then this guy takes off his jersey right sam darnold takes off the jets jersey and then josh allen takes off the bills jersey and they trade and they they will trade jerseys it was good you know it was a good fight it was a good game romans didn't do that the romans didn't say to the jews hey guys you know you killed a bunch of us you guys put up a good fight oh no no once gamma they annihilated everyone there were no there was no prisoners by the way yutfat knew this yut is the middle of the galilee and that's why when the romans finally broke through the siege they had mass suicide they killed they just they killed each other because they knew what the romans were going to do to them so what happens in yerushalayim something similar in yerushalayim you have a similar situation where those who'd not died in the battle for jerusalem and there were there were massive massive casualties the survivors they were taken in these sphenos to eritsuits they've taken out the jaffa gate to the jaffa port put in the ships and they're going to be sold on the roman slave market let's just read it the last two paragraphs what happened whether they were told this by the romans or whether they found this out i don't know the real story because how they found out they clearly found out but by who i'm not sure that the girls are being sold as basically sex toys you know into prostitution and the boy is no different you know homosexuality was pretty significant and pretty rampant to that society and they were being sold to be sex toys and the young women in these ships said look if we jump into the mediterranean rather than being violated and being abused by the romans is that considered suicide or is that an acceptable reason that we don't want to leave a life of what they want to do with us and that's the women did based upon capital psalm 44. and they jumped into the sea and drowned and the men made a calva homer if that's a natural sexual activity and they had the right to commit suicide rather than to be violated and abused by the romans all the more so us as men and they jumped and committed suicide as well and this is a description please god hashim bring us back meaning we should be as they came into the depths of the scene the last thing they had on their voice was they said the shema they they decided that they were going to commit suicide leading paul bayern [Music] it's for your name because we're committed to your lifestyle and your torah that we're giving up our lives in the depths of the sea kita almost on they came into the depth called zos baasnu velos you say meaning that can be taken as a statement a question to god god please save us it can also be taken as a statement to them that god is saying to them you will arouse aroused virtues this is not considered a sin of self-murder or suicide but this was an acceptable reason not to have to lead a life under these conditions you know it's one thing you have to understand it's one thing not to give into pressure but to lead a life of torture in this case you know do you humiliation denigration sexual torture they don't have to live a life like this they're not obligated to have to undergo that and then to suffer like that and they were allowed to commit suicide we don't know did it happen did it not happen but there was a famous letter which someone sent to rabbi leo young who is the rabbi of the jewish center of the west side about the basayakov girls in krakow it says in the le it says in the new york times because it was published it was discussed in the new york times at this time warsaw but it's probably the basiaco than krakow where these girls were given negligee were told to prepare themselves what they did was they procured cyanide and they committed suicide rather than be violated now again did that story happen did it actually happen but there was a tradition that happened during the war and one of the survivors whether he survived or not but he did get a letter out that ultimately made it into the hands of rabbi leo young and he shared the letter with the new york times and there was an article about that about the the girls of the basiacov in graco turn to 23 [Applause] in the rabbit salvation it's page 438-39 every year this is one of the most most powerful and i think to a certain degree relevant keynotes that we say you know rebe shmall calling which we'll study in the 21st kinah he is executed in the siege of jerusalem we all know the story they take the two religious leaders of the jewish world the khalin ghadal rabbi yoshmael ben alicia kohingado and the nasi the davidic descendant the head of the sanhedrin robin shimon and they decapitate they execute by decapitation and the daughter of the roman pro council she is enamored you know it's like she you know if he was such apparently such a handsome man they would have put him on the cover of cosmopolitan magazine so she wants a bust of his face to look at and they literally they peel with a razor strip by strip the skin off of his face and put it on a bust for the daughter of the roman pro council i mean it's shocking it's even to even say the words so he dies in the midst of this terrible siege and then destruction of jerusalem it turns out that two of his children survive you know you had that like rabbit sv hirsch mises he had a family of a wife and 10 children his wife and seven of the children are killed in auschwitz but three of the children survived and the son and daughter have no idea they've lost touch with each other but like everybody else what have they done they're taken out the jaffa gate they're sent to the jaffa port and they're shipped across the mediterranean sold on the roman slave market now just keep in mind how many by show of hands have been to rome so you those have been to rome you've been to the coliseum and you see the sign there the coliseum was inaugurated in the year 76. the roman coliseum was built by jewish slave laborers the yerusha lion the captives from jerusalem those jewish slave laborers they're the ones who built the coliseum see it's if i could just say this it's basic microeconomics you know the first two lessons you learn in microeconomics if you want to know what is the price of an object you put the demand curve against the supply curve what's the supply what's a demand and where they intersect that's the price what's the second lesson if you increase supply and keep demand the same i'll use an analogy let's say that apple makes a mistake and they they create 10 million or 15 million new phones above and beyond what they had planned so you've got the same demand for the iphone but you've got another 15 million phones out there on the market because supply goes up demand stays the same price is going to go down you get a deal it's going to be a lot cheaper to get a phone that's exactly what happened with the cost of a slave after the war after rome finally defeated yerushalayim yes there would be still some remnants there was masada in 72 but for the most part with the defeat of yerushalayim was the defeat of judea of the jewish people so you have a situation where there's a rush of slaves a huge supply increase in the supply chain of slaves in rome and everyone's getting a mezza everyone for dirt cheap is getting slaves so these two roman aristocrats they're bragging to each other on the deal they got let's read inside the my abode it's it's it's our sins my sins meaning my the jewish people that's caused its annihilation its destruction video and my tear a lefty as reema i can't stop crying the tears are rolling streaming down the the cheek on this day each and every year we go back and we relive the tragedies on tish above it's not like you know we're looking back at thousands of years ago we are re-experiencing just like seder knight once we get to the call dorvador leros or lajaros osmo when you get to that stage in the seder we're not talking about our ancestors who left mitzrayim the birth of the jewish nation we're talking about us we're re-experiencing and reliving our freedom our emancipation our birth as a nation it's happening to us the same thing is happening on teshabath this is not a history lesson we are reliving the tragedies we're in nemarov in june of 1648. we're on the rhine river in mines and worms in may and june of 1096. we are in yerushalayim in late july august of the year 70. we are in majdanek belgium sobibor in 41 in the case of sobeborn belgians and 42 and 43 were reliving re-experiencing the tragedies and that's why even though the when the rambam says that for what's called available if you lose a loved one we have a terrible terrible time of loss it's called aninus and we go through a shiva and we experience sloshing and we experience your base hodash for our parents but you know what the rambam says it's minha shalom we were all born to die some of us will live 20 years some 40 years some 80 some 100 and we have to realize and appreciate that part of life is that our loved ones are going to die and yes there's a time to be in paralysis yes there's a time to be suffering and in crisis but we move forward and rebuild our lives in someone who is miss abell yoser midai the rambam says in hell someone who is obsessive in in exceeding in their mourning raise a teapet emotionally it's wrong it's a foolish thing it's wrong emotion but when it comes to available yeshuana when it comes to the availables of corbin bass and mikdash in everything that is a consequence as we said all the tragedies of jewish history are a consequence of the silu kashrina the removal of that intense perceived presence of god then going back each and every year the ahima miyamim yamima going back each and every year and morning is not expensive it's not excessive it's not horizontipash it's not miss abell yosemite no it's the right thing because that's not monogamous that ben and gabriel should be decapitated that daniel turjaman is a young kid going out playing in one of these communities just north of the gaza strip and a mortar comes and murders a six-year-old daniel turned german who's a little jewish boy playing that's not minha goshola what we're about to read about now what happened to the man who should have been the next calling guddell the son of rabbi ishmael the woman who should have been the matriarch the sarah schneider of her generation the daughter of rabbi shmuel cohen this is not minha goshala and because of that we can't get over it in each and every year each and every year we go back and we mourn and that's why today every one of us is a novelist every one of us is in shiva if we who are ashkenazim you'd base kodesh started on shivasupatamas we went into a modality of sloshin tish above we're all in shiva right now but it's not just shiva these kidnose quoting the words of the khalir the words of the rabbi levy of later we'll quote the words of the bhabhavarabhira of schwab so those are the those are the spades where where are we living we're right now we're in a funeral the fun of the dead is lying before us the dead of the tragedies throughout our history are lying before us and the king of the has paid we're reliving and re-experiencing the loss that's what he's saying that's how the rudd explained this kinah and just just by the for the side it's just a side point this is not just this king this is a gabaran parakanizakin and in the fifth paragraph this is a madrishan this story is something that we the jewish people obsess on we focus on this story the question is when you read the story and this is a question we're gonna have to answer after we we learn the kinna why this is a tragic story and you're gonna see the tragedy but you want to know something this does not come within the top thousand tragedies of the jewish people it's not within the top thousand so why is this so important why is it akina that we say every year why is it a gemara why is it in madrid that's that's a question we're going to have to answer but let's do the story first let's read the kinder first evil lathe a broken heart a heart that is in mourning refuses to be comforted and sold um this pain is a pain that is so different is so so different and unique than any other albanu for the son and daughter of ishmael the coin goddamn the memory you code bill of aviation it burns in my heart it rages in my heart they were abducted like many were captives of jerusalem the nephilim these two masters who got a great deal on them they happened to be that they lived in the same neighborhood in rome you know what i got from the captives of zion for the captives of jerusalem oh i got a jewish slave girl gorgeous radiant kalavana basil would cluster upon him her face is like the moon it radiates like the moon and you ought to see by the way how to see their structures how beautiful she is were the daughters of i believe of the eels you know gorgeous gorgeous you know when you describe someone who's beautiful he's like he's describing you know he's describing the bargain he i got a jewish male slave if you think<03:33:37.5