Tisha B'Av: Spiritual vs. Material - Choosing your World - Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair

[Music] at this point in the afternoon most of us are look at our watches and thinking how much longer I have to be firstly how much longer do I have to be hungry how much longer they have to be scratching my head than my beard I once caught took the way the goof the body feels on Tisha bug is the way when the summer feels the whole of the year round and I was looking today in the article that's through introduction and he brings a morale the morale in Nets of Israel is based on the pasta kinya mia yamir says the mister in teeth care now see if they gave up in the hidden places his care my soul will weep in the secrecy of your pride so Mayer albums of my flow kisses the de Morgan's about life is actually what is the pride is the tribal the Jewish people is it the proud of Hashem he goes on to say niculae burbot a gargoyle of a body bar I hope the hover I'm sorry and some water as it there's a spirit the steerer says that Hashem has a concealed place called mr. end where he weeps over the pride of Israel and that pride was surprised that we're mourning today that was stripped from us and given over to the nations of the world how can we say that I send weeps and we not told raise the heads I think only strength and rejoicing in his presence the choir says no it's not a contradiction on the inside hashem weeps on the outside he appears to rejoice more offers a multi-layer robotic avoid in the inside of baki Basra held the head for the fennel lizard heads up in Como Posada the firm of Isaac had them in Carmel Valley a kobata Kaveri hain Tropicana summer sea he said this Baja Dre had a ring that the tinkling in the little spark overs Eliquis which resides in every Jew in Minnesota weeps every day weeps every day commercial only capella camera the brothels marketers both Helios a behavioural barium after Michele that you said at the pad rebellion on the summer needler verba fear it's revealed this bethere pianist Emma she heals your service Mahad raha Darrin Bovada caferatte cassia hi Ralph Nathan Lucas the justices sin and our sensitivity to that is manifested in an open way on the outside today that's really what it's all about but most of us and know we human beings after all the story I heard from my review of an Ulta you shall knee says one of the three things the person's going to be asking he goes upstairs it's PC you sure did you wrong to the yoshua for the redemption mushiya a fact fix the fact that the pair of ear did you involve yourself in building the world having children and were you faithful in your business dealings I was thinking to myself how many of us are really looking forward to the issuer CP no I ready told me a story the first thing you came together to so many many years ago he went up here to the vestibular and basis row now surely and there was a group of your shall MIT was one Altiris L me there who went in in the first thing he did was to get the Ganesha box and put it next to him and he went went through every scenic single kena as he led the kena he toid very castex in the book and put it into the Ganesa next day I'm not gonna read this next year I'm not gonna need this next with my grandson I got manage of my grandson was explaining to the kids that the going would come and they'd broken down that they sell English so my grandson said well come let's go we're going to let's let's build it yes see fatty Sh I've gotta Hana my daddy will rebuild it I was thinking when you're young you have disputes you have ambitions one of the infirmities of age is that they get smoothed over and you deal more with pragmatism when idealism and there's a big loss in some ways it's inevitable but the teepee saw of a young child my daddy will fix it I was thinking to myself if you look at those three three questions that the jurors asked when he comes upstairs did you involve yourself honestly in business dealings did you involve yourself in building a family and the third one did you hope did you aspire to the issuer two of them are concrete these he'll do something the third one is a hope and aspiration how can a spiration ever reach the level of judgment for the person will be examined on and called on so the level of an action did you do it didn't you do it and so obviously there's something fundamental about to peacefully assure city so a person has to be very careful about what he wants there's a myth certain the Torah called Pesach Shanee pesos a knee is amid so those people who do not know fault of their own were not able to bring the pass a physical act appointed time and the Torah gives them an entire Mitzvah a new mister which allows them on the 15th of ER to replicate in some way the bringing the bringing of the carbon pesos the way the Torah relates uses as follows well here are Mishima share how you Romanian marriage of them there were those people who were impure from having dead party well no you're clueless or surpasses the mo they weren't able to bring the peso from that day you could Willis name OSHA they came from two motion they are own hybridoma when they came in from two that day the Yeomen they said how much in my home of these people they lost emotion enough moods main the nefesh problem we are tell me we're spiritually impure because the soul because of the being in contact with the dead body lama Negara Laville ki had creep as probin agenda Marco the saucepan is red llama nagura why should we be diminished what gurrah what's bad about us that we should be excluded from able to bring this coffin at its pointed time and something very strange about this verse simply just answer the question llama Niigata why should we be excluded the answer is because you just said because you're Tamil and never Sheldon doesn't make sense the answer to this question is there's a mirror thoughts hold hold we know that the college ball was interfaced with his Bria is through things called me don't goddess volatile belts mu so in his essence nothing we can say about him in any way whatsoever the way we perceive our shell in this world is called the me--don't sometimes we perceive a shell in one way or not and sometimes another way for example the neither oppressive sometimes we see a Shen treats the world with kindness sometimes it's dim if you look at the beginning if you look at the counting of the OMA the counts and paste after service you'll know you'll see LP Kabbalah that each day is connected to a certain meter starts off with the meter has said readers had said kindness kindness means to go out dispatch this that's the meter of other movie me the desire to connect the meter of being a symptom of strict justice that's the meter of utopia took never left out Israel that's the fear to go out that's the part idea talk and the meter of Yahoo arena is the meter of Ferris which is covered covered is really a synthesis of has said of the desire to go out and the fear to go out let me give you an example what is covered nowadays covered is a very difficult thing for us to grasp true covered is almost vanished from the world if you go into a fancy restaurant now you'll see that the guys wearing the suits and the ties of the waiters and the ones who are all derived up the big steak dinners have got torn jeans we live in the world which is upside down true covered is something almost impossible and that's another casualty of the fact we don't have a place of meekness because there the truth about this review and that Chabad is still revealed and I sense come into the comment let me give you an example let's say the mush back the equity of wrought iron lead stay Malini told you that he was going to pop in a visit to your net seller service how would you feel how would you feel he rearranged the table 50 different ways you'd work out what he was going to say but you would say to that if you say that I'd say that and when he came in there would be this tremendous desire to be close on the one hand and the fear to be close on the other that's covered the synthesis of the hiss pastors of head and the distinction of ding I want to be close and I'm frightened because there's a seeming problem with the resilient we know many people ask the question how is it that good people seem to suffer and the answer is that of course their suffering is the cleansing in this world which allows a cell to give them an Olam haba of a much greater statute statute the reverse however is a problem why is it that we see a resort driving around in expensive cars living it up and we say that a comas volatile is paying these for Sonia for the minimal good that they did in this world and in the Olam haba they're going to get absolutely nothing now that's the problem because as we know that cos Allah says Gomorrah in brothels designed Allah all of our aim below a high level of fear of Allah pure via law of mathematical Okemah below SEMA below Tuffle elessedil kimi o slim bats or say him Dora saying banana MS in Ziva schema and the world to come there's no akela there's no eating list we're drinking there's no pure beer there's nothing there except ruthless how can you pay a Russia with the currency of all Emma's air for something which is the net submits of him truly this Russia may have done a myth so he may have done a Muslim assertive something good smart intuitive maybe has a few of them and what we're saying is he's going to get paid in the currency of this world and get no on a humble how is that possible how can you paint a Russia for something which he earned which is eternal which is Anna currency which is totally beyond this world and the answer is the meter of hope it's also the answers the question we asked before about the a machine Lama Megara how can we see so bad what with us that we can't bring the korban Pesach you just say you told Nathan officialdom there's a leader called cold and which cyclists powerful will be no debt to the deepest sincerest desire of a person I'll give you an example a person goes into a watch shop and he wants to buy a watch and the guy behind the counter brings out this 200 settle Timex Seiko and he says that's a great one and he says okay think he looks up and he sees behind the counter he's got this fake Rolex he said well let me have a look at that and I and then I really wanna let let me have a look at it and he looks at it and he goes wow this is like I said dude I'm telling you don't take this in six months time you're going to be asking you know it's going to be asking you the time it's going to be a paperweight take the Saito he says no I really want the Rolex you really want the Rolex you can have the room like a college brothel says to a Russia you really want all of us there you really want to feel it with fear that your version of all on our bar you can have it because through a russia nothing can be morgan and analyze our bar people talking about tomorrow sitting in russia sheer no I wanna be a healer I want the steak dinner that's what you want you can really have the Cobras Brussels we'd be movin through the meter of hold that is why a chorus girl who was prepared to put a new mixer in the Tony Lamanna garden now Linda Guerra wasn't the question Lama negara was a rhetorical question with it's not possible it is not possible we're not going to be ringing the corn professor deliver the clone pheasant was not just an or a pest rock oh no they Corbin that was it that was the initiation in fact ally Israel it can't be we're not on the trial Israel our money garaad whenever a review Kiva who do start learning to was forty years old he went and you know the famous cuz although he saw the rock being carved by this soft piece of water years and years and years and he made a color photo he said to himself if this rock which is a soft if this rock which is so hard and yet something as soft as water can make an impression on it then surely the Torah which is of hard as steel can make an impression on my heart which is only flesh and blood that's a low minigun it cannot be that I'm an heiress it cannot be when a person really wants something will s is superior a shame gives it to and that's why we have to be very very careful what we want because general give it to why is it we find it so difficult to connect with Rasmus we have everything we want we have all the ghastliest of routine-use that we need go down to Silicon errors circus and you'll be able to pick up a thrown away ester odd that the hobbits kind would have been delighted to use we have everything we have glove flat flat flat so black I hope it's kosher it's so easy for us and yet it's it's also anybody remembers what it was in Europe the ghastliest of the route Aeneas was very difficult which the royal talked about how they would be Moorish there we loved him it would be quie fellow loved him and yet the roughness of the looseness why we still here today why are we still here today why aren't we taking our chemos and carry them very carefully and put him into that box into the amazing the run long in the 5th parrot of the hills Ascanius brings the five tragedies that happened on dish about the spies returned and they spoke loshon Hara about Israel the truth but a myth mikdash was destroyed there was a great town near the Dolokhov beta where hundreds and thousands of Jewish people were slaughtered and they fertilize the fields with for seven years of the blood of those Jews miraculously their bodies didn't rocks and they were eventually the runs eventually allowed the berry when we commemorate that every day when we eat a meal the fourth grocer of beauty Somoza in that city was a king while Cosmo Marcos Marcos Eva who the Dolan of that generation rebbi akiva included the lead was machine from when we say Ravi akela believed that Bar Kokhba was a mushy if it didn't read he made a mistake every Akiva doesn't make mistakes it means he was machine but the generation was not really the generation was not fit for Machias to appear that was destroyed in beta the coming of a ship was destroyed the dominance of the potential for a Jewish Kingdom in this land was destroyed and then the Rambam brings and on that day he says which is look under promise turn this ruthless and at this point the new random the Rambam the frightful random puts another word in there and only say and look on the parameterless ruthless new Malka Romy Koresh he plowed the hay shall thus evolve and its surroundings to be McCain what it says in the posit theone Sade hey Harish Seon would be plowed over like a field night interesting because chronologically this happened before daytime so what is this order that the Rambam is bringing us why is this the last one it's not chronological and host also happen how can you compare the plowing over of a field the bay something this was long in ruins what difference did it makes that palace roof is clouded over and from the fact that it appears fifth in the list one might assume that this is also the nadir this is the pits this is the worst moment a ruin is a tragic thing but the ruin is also a ground plan you can walk around the ruling and you can see this is where their mikvahs were this is where they govern this is where the hateful was this is where they brought the carbonyl it's not here now but we could rebuild it my daddy has a hammer when we take a ruling and you plow it over and you make it into a beautiful feel beautiful what are you two sitting down there on the floor get up come on let's go down to the beach tell me when we finished on the beach we can go to Disneyland we're even working on a Disneyland of your holy temple you'll be at a walk right round it they turn the world into a theme park the success of roaming is that they've been managed to conduct a holocaust unparalleled not just physically but the Holocaust where Jews doesn't even feel the discounts that within the genre all he feels the discomfort of the body that is the real Corbett the Hogan boomers it's Alison we have to cry today because we can't drive with Muslims it's all said there are two kinds of orphans as a Yaakov bin Yitzhak and the Seattle Ben Yaakov the Ashkenazi tradition is not the name children after their fathers unless the father is no longer here vehicle Ben Yaakov never knew his father we never knew what it was to gain a base immigrants we never saw it but Romans and their cultural heirs are so successfully plowed over that field and we bought into their world so totally so many of us think of Tisha barbers last day before the holidays that's the biggest dish enough it's like Ternes rufus plowed the hazel over one more time but inside the mr. ace this is the way I sent eels every day as a member of staff here one of the miracles that I see on our pretty constant basis is the ability to pitch to teach people who've spent most of their lives looking at a Samsung or an iPhone how to learn the kosis this I'm sure isn't of the miracle we live in a generation where we've been taught where inattention D focus has become an art if you look at television ptosis is very difficult the Gemara is very difficult it's a miracle that people can come into awesome air of being fed a diet to them TV an undiluted diet of many years of MTV can learn ptosis this is a miracle because if you think about it learning Gemara is like juggling in your head you know put up a gum are you say o morado um we're over on my router on the router you got that idea I'm a rather okay let it clear remember it good on my router abaya on my oq dropped on the road okay on the Raza a Maratha you got an Oliver okay a BIOS drop down below okay Omer Omer Omer alpha Avaya Omar Omar over abaya all this is and then of course we can start bringing the flaming torches we can get the ax thrown in the reso Lea man oh but you know how did you do that by watching MTV it's a miracle this gentleman I'm not exaggerating this is a miracle it doesn't make sense although the early history of the cinema is far from clear around the year 1900 film evolved from a penny arcade amusement into a sophisticated language capable of narrative and emotion little more than a century later that language is so you critters that books are in danger of becoming a niche market according to this is in 2004 National Endowment endow Endowment for the Arts survey a dramatic and increasing decline in literary reading in the United States leaves this is 2004 remember had leaves fewer than half of America's adults reading literature I'm sure things have not exactly got better films great attraction the media's great attraction the visual meters great attacks attraction is it strengthen ability to harness the immediacy of sight see is believing aimed on a real earnest near something visual grassley immediate immediately it's very powerful and seeing is believing although of course we know that may not exactly believe what our eyes tell us but the immediacy of film makes it more powerful than any other medium but its immediacy is also its great weakness george bluestone in i think you're in 1957 wrote a book called turning novels into film and he pointed out that film only has a present tense there's not a future in film there's no past in film if you want to express something that they've had in the past happened in the past then you have to employ this very elegant technique called the flashback and we've all seen this will be for example classically the screen will start to go all kind of wishy-washy and be heaven with the voices will start to go kind of yes I remember I can't believe it's Justine years ago as I said them and now it'd be a strike back in the present the film has one tenth and one tenth only now now I want to suggest that apart from anything else that has had a tremendous influence on the way that people look at their lives people look at now it's now it's now this it's now we're living in the now generation and that now gets shorter and shorter and shorter there's a thing called ADHD nowadays I never heard of that when I was a kid I could well be that it existed nobody knew of it the mere fact that has become so preponderance that it is worthy of scientific study shows that it's something which is increasing I believe and I think I could back this up the part of the reason is because the way information is communicated is now this now this now this I'm not required to juggle on my rather on rabbi in my head and this creates a world which is very different to the world of the Jew between the 1930s and the 1950s the average length of a shot in the typical American a picture was between 8 and 11 seconds long after 96 to the pulse of editing quickened until MTV and TV advertising of accelerated cutting rates to the near subliminal not much more than a century ago an American night out consisted of listening to four hours of political debate without a break and no ice cream lady prowling the aisles I think about this this required an audience attention span that beggars the imagination flash-forward to the reporting of the Nixon Kennedy presidential elections in 1960 60% of the sound bites or sound bite is an uninterrupted monologue by reporter or speaker to camera 60% of sambaiah shows it in one minute and by the time George Bush Cena took on Michael Dukakis in 1988 a sound bite is shrunk to nine point eight seconds I don't have statistics but I'm sure one could find them fairly easily exactly where we are today the syntax of film the cutting rates of film all points in the same direction now-now-now that's all that exists the present but this syntax the film the language of film encourage the perception the future paths are not really realities all that exists is a constant stream of now from the Jewish point of view however success in life is measured by how much of the present we can turn into the future before it becomes the past a jewel is fallen harder there was a young tourist student who arrived at the inn heard the story after a long and tiring journey he was standing at the front desk and he had this strange feeling did you recognize something something was out of place he finished checking into the hotel and then he suddenly became aware of the sound of the clock tick tock tick tock that was it the clock the innkeeper's clock that clock he said seeing Hubert that's my readies clock how do you know sir being key because my rebel's clock is different to any other clock in the world and gibbous said you know you're right a couple of years ago your every was here and even couldn't pay the bill so he gave me this clock to pay his bill but how do you know mrs. Claude Thomas said because every clock in the world goes like this tick on moment closer to the grave top one more moment less in your life tick live in the present top live in the present ticked go for it talk the present think my rabies clock goes like this tick one more moment closer than sheer dot one more moment closer to the sheer kick one more moment closer to Allah Muhammad that's my lady's clock I've secured our desires our aspirations I covered over secret part of the heart and the Shama this polluted not the most innermost part of course because the solution could ever reach them but it's covered over covered over by a world which is only interested in now how does the person reverse this it's very difficult to do firstly I think there's something if you look at benching we say on Shabbos Shira Mallos but the most benches you also see you'll see there's something called alma Horace Baba some reason or other it's not something most people don't say this rose Avram time foyer many years ago he suggested that you met one of the ways a person could sensitize himself before he benches and thanks ash Evan for the food that he's just had that he should think about a little bit the coulomb think about what that means think about the fact that my Michela in that place inside my soul feeling like we feel today on Tisha by another thing it's remarkable if you look through the Siddle and of course we'd oven every day three times a day and that's why we you don't think two seconds about what we're saying but if you look through you'll be amazed how much of it talks about the Corvina bias in the godless were a volcano very vervain the car - avocado for Shiva shows Daniel well I'm not seen him a lot a deacon to me or shall I marathon it's Emma's got it smart or Lena were saying we want to be faithful to a share a shader servo deliver big settlements that's what one essence is about all about we are living in the state of tomorrow any you know talk about the voltage when Kippur the kept a cappella coders in tumors benign Israel be shaken me cliche hem the house of the Sun the same yeah I said the oil Marie talked about the Vatican god--all are certainly time the cells to Muslim the sudden dwells with the Jewish people me talk to Muslim and a cell phones of the ground humberto from Osama feel of the shafts same to name the scene of the mayhem a Malay Havel Mina says this Christian the bathrooms down that the sensor changed it to a cushy I think Oh something else today we have one censored version a meaning a Christian said to the sort order to really look at whether can do know her bowing to Megan up to now the whole world can see that you're coming you're in exile everybody can see it this is to Massa the shoe layer to 7/8 of this morning's the Tomas over the dam of the needless is even on the hem of your clothes our safari my doctor says Russia's loves Mary Martin they machinable am sure the Tumen the schema doesn't dwell with you during when you're in the state of open tumor on Millay he said talk has he come and see marks it ball are shaken in it baton basalt to my son the college was the dwells with is even in Ottoman a FEMA goods man shame to main machinery of the nation even when we're in such a status disconnect from spirituality even when I had Spirit or the spirit of a foreign nation we were there smells we think their thoughts were so alienated from who we really are even then the coldest vocal dwells with us in our tumor Marshall says at the back of beautiful idea chorus Rosewood dwells with a sort of need to alter distance as a husband and the wife there are times and they have to be separate but they carry on living together the goddess Moloch who dwells witness he's with us we can just maybe a little bit it's very difficult this because you know we're all trapped in this world to one extent or another we all have to live in this world we all have to fight those fires but if I'm a genuine level we can do like something say Omaha rose bauble say it to the point where you start to say it as though you're not saying anymore then change to something else our hours bother to remind ourselves to remind ourselves of the feeling that the neshamah has said has dwells in the cadre Fedora in the mysteries hidden places in the heart of insulated the jus which is all for a cottage volatile which is are shelling where shun makes his dwelling he dwells with us even in our tumor even when we're largely when I use that word advisedly loud it over by all the ships although fakery will the fake Rolexes even if we can turn our CPR a little bit and think when we say on all of them maybe during links are just 1 min so things will look at those words and think about what realize that we're the Yaakov and Yakko we never knew attaches the field to no polish bro who is with me he wants me to succeed he knows I'm weak but if I try just a little bit a little bit it's a shame next year we won't have to tear the pages out of the canaries art scroll we'll have to print print something else you