Tisha B'Av: Tears of Optimism - Rabbi Nota Schiller

[Music] after the 1/3 describes the pain all of the erroneous retribution that came to class I saw the suffering on a communal level individual level Pergamum there's a faucet so for disco sure Oh lighten up she remembered that was there was some kind of a appeasement of relaxation so sociable leave me I'll Kano so I'll return this to my heart and I will yet be hopeful as the aschen what will return to my heart ha station kilo Sandow can lay hold of akumal Venetians Cassidy doesn't end nor his raffling adoshem not a bomb unicef for renewal the world is in flux things change adoshem lop : the renewal as I'll say it's Balkan shown mouth feels the flashing the appearing of a new kingdom a new dynasty one nation conquers the other the form a nation that enslaved the Jews persecuted the Jews suddenly they disappear in the new nation appears so sometimes that is sometimes that's a respite for clad yourself it's a chance to breathe so beau concho mouth was the fact that it changes there's the and transitions is in itself a kind of a kernel of hope because the present situation won't necessarily last healthier shim on one option my Porsche is with the replenish leather that's eternal I can also load therefore I will be hopeful I will be optimistic Toba sham lock evolved the nefesh to the channel they're very solemn will give good treat with good those who are hopeful those who connect the net first addition to that nefesh that soul that seeks him out question is over the years many motion I have spoken money darshan and I've spoken about what happened here where was the transition from the suffering the pain the anguish the lamenting to a sudden switch of of optimism it's a subdued optimism but it's an optimism we readily clear today that try yourself very quickly intelligence on the success the early years double slow-mo but then already there are breaches slow most I Mary's bas Poirot the hints clues of the impending disaster split of the mouthfuls cloudy self-serving evading Zola one version another version the kingdoms competing with each other some faulted with actual delicious others with naivete but when the Vedas Allah the idolatry becomes rampant the remedy is godless they sent out into godless winner in godless posix says that we read to be cashed only sharp as a Shimano careful Matassa he said there shall have a column over her there's no description here in the sukham possible that I just read of what happened that they should seek the revenge level just like here in in a thought it's hard to to pinpoint where's the where's the turning point was the pivot what happened and how did it happen that certainly optimism surfaces over there the sukham we read in the clear it's hard to understand they were serving idolatry now too so they continued to serve idolatry in input slots and then unclear what happened this again a turning point will be constantly shown you will seek from there did he vanish a little so later do say but sorrow that situation became tough in codes loud the goal is turned on them even that goalless which is initially hospitable at some point turns when Claudia so betrays the the gift of a breathing space but still it's hard to understand to be customly shown as a similar careful and the reason that's given room at salsa you will find why would you find because you're going to search for it she said to Shanna bahala Volvo Paulo which evolved cited the sukham that they it was to the mashita that the Claddagh saw begins to search their searching and they don't find Novi testifies to the fact that they don't find you shot it above its below user that is listed as one of the famines in the meddlers prime famines that attacked Claudius all in history it's evolved lyla lesson with some a Lola Mayan Alou schmoes Varsha does say be sure to valhalla him to they're not going to find but the father should have asked the Edson fact that they were searching and looking isn't that a positive thing how can that be lumped together categorized with the other famines that were exclusively purely negative yeah at least there's some feature that is positive it's for spirituality answered the phone aperture of anybody it's ever been exposed to a famine Lowell a know as witnessed that people rummage through the trash pick up Brian's peels chew on it as if it's providing nourishment they're so hungry that will be said the pond aperture of the state of affairs in spirituality iniquity the Machine and the Messianic era people will rummage through the clip as the peels and rinds of spirituality and showing it as if it's providing nourishment like junk food spiritual junk food fool the body but you can't fool the body indefinitely it fools the hunger syndrome but it doesn't provide the nutrition the nourishment and so that will be my sister in the do yok because this lotion over there in the Navi but me for is were you shot to borrow it the parsha bread not long ago but Lisa talks about them going in the mid bar do you show to my mid bow Rashi says that the LOI or mo without any effort they were drifting there was the mile of the ball was provided that landed very close by there was a yardstick depending on the level of Sitka's but close bond didn't have to shop plant cultivate who is there somebody that is looking for Lumias if it's a bachina that category comparable to be a show to drifting spiritual window-shopping casually collecting positions ideas without any real commitment to buy to purchase without a commitment to make a Kinyon to acquire it to internalize it so then it's velarium so it won't find but we read today in the pouch so come by teaching us a reason why we Matassa why do they find he said Oh shun of the whole of overhaul we will search with your entire heart that's a preparedness to take the idea that it take me by the hand and heart where it is going I told some of you used to purchase automobiles from the Aberdeen maysville base they were Chevrolet's stick shift no air conditioning no radio 300,000 miles on them but they had an interesting feature that had governors on the accelerator which meant you couldn't go over 35 miles an hour because there would be initially food to put a sailor in that car if it could go over 35 miles an hour he'd be tempted have v8 so to take it off the base but if you can only go 35 miles an hour it's not gonna go on the highway with it but when new burgers that self purchase those cars if you got it for $50 from the naval base you're not going to spend $15 to take off the governor so the Shiva had a fleet of 300 350 thousand mile Chevrolet's with governor's on the accelerators there are people that enter into a program there are people of studying learning searching an odyssey but they have governor's on the accelerators they don't want to go over 35 miles an hour we're shocked about the show to be midburn casually drifting they're not searching searching means with a an openness a passion to find that truth okay so how does that happen because I'll give us the clues we read today in the haftorah that before the destruction question was put to a common Vivian then some subsequently as it's happening while it's happening after it happening um although it's what had they lose this land Clara soul was in such a position of strength politically culturally initially spiritually and then that began to decline the word spiritual by us in gematria means hello' fatigue consistency in taking an idea and translating into the performance but there's one idea that's a very unique idea it's not just behavioral it encompasses the total man the total human being and the question is put to performing divine in reveal nobody answers they bury some answers that Oswald they left they abandoned my tailor but I hope who bought it didn't go in its way that would seem to be a repetition also my stay bossy so then it follows my whole football been going its way given the Darwin says something bit hard to understand what is referring to is they did not make a boron Bilkis a tale of because a tailor on learning to a fortune as could be anticipated in a fortune try and understand what's this talking about is that such an extraordinary meaningful every hello sir what seems to be minutiae can be world-shattering but cried yourself at this point according to castle had transgressed the three primary of areas of idolatry adultery and murder the three of errors that one is required to give one's life for so how can the the Navi how can you me all say that commuter cars out that the game on the dorm that it's because they didn't make a prior blessing on Taylor it's a beautiful out show the al-shibh says the mild of attainment what is it'll be compared it was a king and he had an extraordinary violinist that was in his court who played most beautiful level one by one over a period of time people come to tell the king to inform on this violinist however otherworldly his performances are but he's a criminal he's a vicious person he killed people he stoled he murdered all kinds of crimes and the King listens but continues to pamper the violinist then one day the violinist loses an arm he can no longer play and now the King takes him to task for all of the prior crimes that he committed and when asked to explain the king explains that surely he was guilty but I could not do without that beautiful melody I could not do without his performance Clara so were guilty of those crimes the three cardinal sins but as long as they were learning tailor that was the melody and that created a kind of a shield to protect them as soon as they stopped winning tailor but what does that mean they stop learning tailor how common were asked wise men people who were supposedly purportedly apparently learned it were asked they were fulfilling other mixes so we have the the bath of some safer tour similar theme there are two ways to relate to the meditator you can relate to limited tailor as data information I have that information I will know how to put on the toilet I have that information I will know how to keep a kosher kitchen its information which will affect my life that's true but limited tailor the acts of learning tailor is more than just data information to instruct me it is a prerequisite enumerator it has to be our manaslu sighs you must translate it into action but there's another dimension too limited era lamella tara has to be an end in itself it's not information in order to facilitate something else it is that but it's not just that the act of learning Taylor is a moment of spiritual connection with rebellious columns thoughts words as we can access them on our level of existence that was the point that was the message of the messages of my pet house a night and the moment of somebody's learning that is a moment of spiritual connection to the sheena it has been said I've seen various attributions for the source of it but it has been said that filler prayer is when we speak to the Venezuelan limited Taylor is when the ribosome speaks to us all the nitty-gritty or the cataloging of criteria for pots and pans and pits and plows yeah the scheana is in those details is in that categorizing and it's a moment of ascendancy it's a moment of transportation somebody is lifted and elevated to a different space in a different place in his own existence and so if you relate to Taylor as we are trying now to describe so then it's an end Jamal mine office says you don't make a bore on something unless you're completing the experience right now to talk it's a total experience even I see us and it's it's happening now and it's complete it's not wanting so if Taylor is merely a hefty Mitzvah it's a preparation for gaining information then not yet finished but if doesn't require a brother doesn't deserve a brother but if the act of learning Taylor whoever I am wherever I am on the continuum on that ladder some beginning level some middle level some advanced level because there's no sheer we're dealing with the infinite so if I relate to it as an experience that is the ultimate entering into the dialogue to listen to the banished levels words to have them become internalized I become a different person the act of learning has catapulted me one way of describing that is does it deserve a Bravo doesn't it deserve a Bravo if the end the act of learning in and of itself per se is that kind of an experience that deserves a profit and so we can understand in the light of that why cuz I'll require an expect of this Mitzvah something that we don't expect of any other Mitzvah because it is unique tomorrow teaches impossible manobo says somebody's accosted by the eighth Sahara mashallah base matters dragged him to the basement bossy a jihad the Venetian creates a hole they eat the evil inclination bossy toddlin and he created the antidote tomatillo so this Mitzvah is being asked required to be the sublimation the displacement replacement of the AIDS aha it's not a mitzvah like all other mitzvahs there's something unique perhaps that's why we make a broth in the morning behave not that this mitzvah before bilko cetera to be sweet that the act of learning Torah should be sweet because we want to facilitate this dimension of liberate era that it should be the sublimation for the a jihad again we always worked from the premise that any facet aspect of human personality it can't be erased it can be channeled it can find a new conduit of expression mahathma goes through that so meticulously in Misco who pull that same set that same ship that was used for a Vedas honor but in its limb and now use it for what for a common person same specie why because there's a certain urgency in the makeup of the human personality a need to translate idea into tangibility it's because we're a Mukul we're a blend of soul and body we have to translate from one language to the other and wherefore we need experience things have to be concretize elsewhere the measure hokhmah quotes of Sajha garner says just like to replenish solemn is the only one who can create eh may I inquire ex nihilo something from nothing similarly only the repetition can create nothing from something we can make anything away we can manipulate redirected find a path that's one mission cool perhaps the the only way that can happen is when you have that perfect merging of mind and heart body and soul and that can only happen through the military to reconnecting to the sauce the replenish London's plan to reconnect and see where my place and my pieces in in that tailor and how am I going to find my way of expressing that which is unique to - show me the same cut cannabis service circle and so even if there seemed to be so much that is negative in behavior in a situation the more deeply I penetrate me militaria the more I'm going to have the pillar to be able to rearrange that kaleidoscope to spin it and to give it a new a new picture there's the potential that is misused and abused and then it can be captured recaptured and focused and that's going to happen when we don't relate to lemur at IRA as merely information and so we make up water well right not there should be Macias sweetness in this act of learning terrible as a facilitator for being able to give us the discipline because it's an informed discipline so let's go back now we said that perhaps the difference between the part of each Rob's case for me for that young boy no Michelle days are coming will be a hunger and a thirst for spirituality bonnet robe said that anybody's ever seen a famine sees people picking on the rinds and the peels that's why it's negative it can be a thirst for spirituality what a wonderful slogan Tekin Harlem but as long as it remains an amorphous undefined slogan then it's like by coca-cola yeah but how and what do I do about it what about Tickle Me me isn't that where it begins so as long as it's vague undefined unspecified as long as it doesn't get into the nitty-gritty of the pots and pans like the pits and the plows the slogan ear is safe because there's nothing he has to do tomorrow morning when he wakes up in the morning but there's nothing he shouldn't do that he wants to do because we're living in a world that's been psychologize it's all a community of language this is how you say it this is how I said some of us agree has nothing to do with inherent reality of truth of meaning so flavors you like vanilla I like chocolate find a modus operandi not to interfere with each other too much but for 3,000 years we've been claiming arguing demonstrating that there is an objective reality do we escape the subject of not I would think that that's one of the ways to understand the lotion until him but he know him a similar care for Elaine them to be pleasant to us might say they Nakano Elaine them to us to be she work fit suitable and then only afterwards Khun Danai who to replenish love them surely we encounter the world subjectively through our senses through our filtering machines called brains and hearts how to sift and sort and organize the information and how to relate to it but then a step further a step further what's the object of true that lurks behind it all that hovers over it all and it ultimately makes it matter with a capital M either the matter with a small M matters with the capital M or it doesn't if it's merely subjective material more complex so that matter with the small end doesn't matter with an L you're here for the right and so but there's reality there's a reality of who we are what we are and it doesn't go away that is our initial encounter with the world takes time till the infant to francese between that which is Hindman isn't him and that there are others possibly read this morning said that because Stanley Shan neshama no care for my saucy will find he see - under bahala Vova ha you'll seek with your entire heart we contrasted that very sheltered drifting that's little o or mo without effort without toil without your gear without awareness when that becomes internalized in the person be wholly vah vah vah to basel not the holy bear for behold it vulva her also with the eight Sahaba capture harness that energy and use it the turret otherwise it's not going to work that exhilaration of the imagination it adds that dimension face a lady says something fascinating he says that shall a whole cool boy they didn't go in the way that's why they didn't make booked us a table since the base of lazy they certainly didn't base matters they had a seder and then they went out to do business they had their day of activity it wasn't a continuity of the basement she'll a whole hobo their activity outside the base murder she wasn't informed wasn't suffuse with their sensitivities of the base method that's a shallow hole who that's not table then you were studying a subject I would make the case perhaps that that's possibly what dominant Maris is alluding to the shaft is draw her so calculating thinking about his ways he's on his way to the restaurant and he says well she was hardly a laborer self and then he turns around and goes to the base mother that's where most people learn it I think there's another dimension to what Governor Miller was saying he's saying that the base of lady is saying I thought that perhaps when I was going out to get that pizza it was a half sick and then I said no no no there's a way that I been taken by the pizza there's a way of interior eats a pizza there's a way of been Taylor goes shopping there's a way he indulges in recreation because it's healthy it's healthy but there's a way still remember the first week I came to Baltimore from New York went out to play basketball and the why with the colors from the Shiva mostly those years from the Midwest the south they say less than a third when New Yorkers we're playing basketball choose up game and the Y and I'm under the board's and I'm elbowing for position and pushing one of these Midwesterners look Sam you see what are you doing I looked at him I was shocked I said to him what do you think this is a game from New York it's war everything is war driving is war basketball is war baseball is war it's one conflict it's one confrontation takes time till you come to the realization that when you internalize the ideas of data yes Kenneth so from table saw there is a competitiveness can be harnessed we know that we know that has Allen that teaches the process but we know where it has to get to kinship bonding and if there is a way of applying a remedy to sin sinners finem then it's learning because the more we learn the more we understand that were part of clad yourself that we need each other that we're part of history we're connecting to a past to the office to the Moi's and amazingly enough that's also implied in the tisha birth mother says his beyond Burma oven the became sated removal is a reference tomorrow and Ilana to the tea Shabbat we know that the day in which that we fix the same night of the week is that's the Lael seder is the night of tisha both according to some min Hagen there are more brings it coming to summon Hagen that's why we have the bait sir the egg dipped in the salt water is to make that connection anything that cylindrical is reminiscent of the cycle of human existence the egg that's teachable seems to be out of joint but we touched on this in the past that elaborated more we'll just glimpse now dominant number in the Haggadah is for there's a Faunus about the agora the bond and the cash is the Shen is a cooler the crisis for for is the Moyes the matriarchs the August would three my mother says Matheny Mousavi if I listen to the Musa the ethic of your father LT toch don't abandon the tail of your mother it would seem that if you just passive you're not doing anything to extricate the tail of your mother from yourself it's there as long as you don't take the initiative to extricate it will serve vehicle you have to pay attention it's outside you it has to come in choose emits higher were in fact in a similar state they are Jewish identity still honored the sensitivity to Jewish family but they were serving idolatry in Mitzvah oh yeah but they that remained the moist occur the minimal mode of the matriarchal syndrome I'm Jewish because my mother was a Jews how logic care is another discussion some would even make the case those are neshama sand we have McCurry's for that they've got lost and coalesce along the way of course it needs the halawet process of Garris but essentially i'm a jew because my mother was jewish fast forward we read today you me or nobody said in Asia very nokia same inane of we were like orphans without a father didn't have more cell visa but one could be those a mother was there was minimal Jewishness in the worst Matt's oven but it seemed it's Ryan we're being told they're going to be peaks and valleys in the graph of the spiritual bull markets and bear markets of Jewish history but at the worst times there will be a core thriving sense of Jewish identity that will be enough of a bridge to keep us connected to the next stuff otherwise we're gonna make it through the bear market and so when the person we read today that's a kind of a nahama and we're being told that pace up at night yes it's festive it's great but part of the festivity is to know that I'm going to survive the most challenging of times there's part of the festivity that my progeny will continue to the finish line in history perhaps we can that's eluded to also interesting range of opinions POSIX says because Stanley Sean as a shamrock careful what's also be customs lotion Robin you will search you will seek loss and Robin plural with saucers lotion your food so the deceiver says like the Bonaventure love seems to say many will search to be cashed them but saucer but only individuals will find why because they took the governor off the accelerator they went into by didn't just go window-shopping it wasn't just via shortly others say that because them everybody starts from his own personal biography and impetus in his life different starting points from all over the globe and all over the the span of possible ideological interests and sative ities from what salsa but when you find the MS we come together we are united we come together that'll be the ultimate equal togetherness doesn't mean imagine Isaiah it means pasteurization we want to eliminate the negative elements but not to not to smooth it out such that there's no individuality that always has to remain the same for cannabis or a surfer Venetian should give us the clay off I'll end with this famous Schuyler as I'll say they call him isabella we shall I am elevated that mourns for you shall I am Sofa his merits the ROI and seize this impostor it's it's simple shouldn't it be easy every era in the future tense right now good morning few minutes ago he was still sitting on the floor and was still not eating we still not celebrating said O'Brien below Gina that we punished some fixed in creation that something somebody laura-leigh no kin died messes nish Carmela who gets forgotten eventually otherwise you couldn't go on living success it from the read management fact it also says that we take that asset and we use it to forget the giver of the hazard unfortunately but if we're still mourning that means it's still alive it hasn't ceased it hasn't stopped to exist perhaps that's in fact where we began that those oceans leb alkane ok the very fat that I am mourning is testimony that it's alive and that there are bottom erosion which uses sitting on the floor depending on their clock some have gotten up already in some didn't yet get up but all over the world wherever Jews have been dispersed in goddess Kadosh in lop : dispersed diaspora but they continue to mourn and that is the bittersweet message that that very morning is in and of itself the requirement the possibility the responsibility to have a certain sense of joy of simcha that we can and do continue to be in a state of availeth benneesham should translate our our keenest our tillis thoughts and attempts to try and share sensitivities of TAVR to listen to the Ravana's longsword to experience that elevation and to that moment of connecting to the sublime and supreme simcha [Music] [Applause]