Tisha B'Av: The Jewish People are Awesome - Rabbi Benzion Klatzko

[Music] oh yeah result asks the following question he says why in the middle of today are we allowed to start sitting on chairs and first half of the day we're morning we're sitting on the floor later on the day we begin to speak words of nahama words of consolation why we know historically and the Gemara says that the base of Mukesh was was put on fire was set on fire beginning in the middle of the day as a matter of that things got worse from the middle of the day on not better so if anything we should sit even lower on the ground we should warn even more and yet it seems that we more and less it seems like there's something going on that tells us that from the middle of the day and on things are gonna beg get better and that result asks why why I want to ask another question when i shem burnt the base lamech - because I'll tell us that it was an acid because it was motive it was better than a sham let his anger out on it sambhavana on wooden stones rather than letters and ground on the Jewish people what what does that mean does Hashem have anger there's a shame after vent what does it mean a shame has to let his anger out somehow so it's better that he burnt a bit thymic - then burning the Jewish people what is that how do we understand that it he had to let his anger out so mama how do we understand those words and I want to mention the third point then we're gonna tie it in and I'll come to my message we originally when we dive in the shmouna s trailer when we pray - and we said Oh quel Haggard ol high G bar Varner oh god oh big keyboard strong Nora awesome you're me Oh Sean the Roman do you the Babylonian singing in the hate hell you saw them singing and you're me oh says Wow if non-jews could come to our holy place and sing and dance and mock the Jewish people then I guess Nora doesn't exist anymore Nora doesn't apply I'm gonna drop the word Nora there's no awesomeness going on if the base I make - was truly awesome then non-jews would not be a lot of singing base I make - and Mock the Jews and your mio dropped the word at Nora no more using the word awesome when it comes to God Wow gondol yes G bar strong Nora know along comes to unshaken SSR Dola and I'm shaking that's like the dollars say no we're still gonna put we're still gonna use the word Nora you know why because the Jewish people survive and thrive so what's going on what's the dialogue okay those are my three questions question number one why do we get up in the middle of the day things got worse than the middle of the day not better question number two what does it mean I shall have to take his anger out so it's better he took it out on eight seminar bunun why does I should have to take anger out I shall call Leo doesn't have anger issues that he has to vent what are we saying and question number three how do we understand hear me Oh dropping the word Nora and the answer is as follows the Jewish people accepted the title Nora when the best mixes was destroyed you see when the base our Midrash stood the base on Mukesh was called Nora like Yaakov said Manorama commas air how awesome is this place it's awesome it's frightening it's huge it's so powerful when the base emitters got destroyed you know where the awesomeness went to you know who inherited the awesomeness you did we did I did we became awesome hashem says when the base of mikdash is destroyed my awesomeness has to be somewhere my awesomeness can't disappear so I'm gonna take the awesomeness from a building of a team and I've on him from wood and bricks and I'm gonna put it on a people and when they comment understood that the hum said you know what we're not losing awesomeness it's just gonna be transferred from bricks and wood to us and that's why we're allowed to sit on a chair that's why the morning did that's why the morning dissipates and the morning decreases because not only did we not lose awesomeness in the world but we ourselves inherent to that awesomeness hashem when he said i have to take out my awesomeness he could have taken it out on the jewish people instead he took it out on ate some and ivana my shem said if awesomeness has to leave it will leave bricks and wood but it won't leave you my people there's something that comes out of this concept of us being awesome that we need to learn into the one idea i want to present to you here today if you look in history right at the time of the Corben by SHANY the time of the second base on mikdash is destruction you have to know that things were awful things were terrible for the Jewish people think about it there were that Sidhu come the Sadducees these were the precursors for today's reform and conservative movement they wanted the Jewish people to leave Judaism they were the inheritors of the Mushaf gnam from 200 years before just like the musci abdomen and wanted everyone to become Greek they wanted to make everyone Roman so they were this ado Kim and the Dukan were so powerful they infiltrated the kuda they became the Kohanim burger Dolan they infiltrated the Sun Hedren could you imagine that Sun Hedren that decides Jewish law has people who don't believe in Jewish law and they were appointed on the other hand at that same time there was another group of people they were called the Briona there were the zealots they were also known as the sakaki's they had short daddy's retirements are short dagger they'd go around killing people they said we have to fight against Rome and the rabbi's are weak and they they allow Rome to rule us so we are not gonna listen for them and they went from house to house pillaging robbing looting you know if you walked into yerushalaim a decade or two before the bench summons was destroyed it was like walking in Harlem it was that bad there was so much murder has I'll say that the Sun hadn't stopped judging cases of murder there were too many murders can you imagine so you had to be on him the sakaki's with their blood thirst their blood loss you have it see Duke him trying to pull everyone away from you tonight and then you had a third group called the essence who had these messianic ideas that we have to pull all the Jewish people towards a machete fans coming right now and they had this messianic fervor and they said these come from and they're stopping the Messianics from coming so they went they went running away some man to the Quran those are the Dead Sea Scrolls some spun off a religion that ended up becoming Christianity so you've got that'sa Dukan you've got the burry onin the zealots you've got the essence and then on top of all that you have the Romans that just wanted to grab every every dollar every cent every Zeus every shekel every brush they just wanted to impoverish the Jewish people and enrich their own coffers and in between all that were some pushing you and I what's known today as the traditional Orthodox Jewish people who are trying their best to learn Torah do mixes and survive in this man in this chaos but something happened to us also you know what happened we became suspicious because of what was going on out there we didn't know are you absolutely are you or Brioni are you messianic we didn't know and we became so suspicious that we began to hate each other says the a Makarova than it's eve in the abdomen to the Torah to beret shoes he says that that is what caused her burn it wasn't it Sudoku Sudoku Moby Sidhu Kim people always have left the derrick they're brilliant they're zealots they're crazies and unfortunately they'd always exist it was us being suspicious like in the beginning of my softest you mom when they took the coin Gothel and they said are you gonna do that Boulder properly are you going to do and they cried and they come cry because they cry because they said I suspect that you're at Suzuki and therefore anyone who looked different than them and you want to dress different than them anyone who had any kind of mean heart that was different right away on Suzuki you're a Briony I see right through you you're an Sen you're a spy and we began to destroy each other from within here's the point you want to bring the gula you want to make sure that this fish above things change I'll tell you the secret there's a secret it's simple the secret is stop telling lush and Hara about Jewish people and I don't mean individual people that's another important shoes stop telling lush and hara about groups of Jews that's the message I want to give you you see we're living in a day in an age where it's okay to disparage groups of Jewish people well call them carry them will call them inspire them we'll call them Bukharian will call them help Oscars we'll call them whatever flashers record a my name will cause I'm gonna see them or call them Sabra whatever we call them we've got a bad mouth them guess what's gonna happen when you bear mouth the entire Jewish people when you put down Jewish people as a whole as a group in its entirety I sham says that's what's going to stop my Shia yes individual lost Iran individuals awful it needs its own week of show muslem I'm talking about disparaging the cloud we live in a time when disparaging the cloud is in the air tell you something in a certain way it's a thought I had you could agree or disagree but liberal America bashes America I could live in America I could benefit from America but because I have this liberal sensitive sense of sensitivity and Sensibility I have to put down America in that same spirit we as Jews feel that it's okay to put down Jews yeah I see them yeah bara Park yeah Lakewood and we think it's okay for some reason we think we're fixing things by putting down entire groups of people guess what Bart ramza went to Rome and put down all the Jewish people he said it's not enough to put down the hosts that didn't let me stay I've got to put them all down throughout history when you put down entire groups of Jewish people you cause urban it's a fact you put down entire groups my schrab a new said Hashem I'm like I can't go to me try and take the Jewish people out the hey Gloria neener be there will not believe me since I said you speaking Russian to her about the Jewish people no way and right away he got sore ass you don't speak loshon Hara about our shams people I got a secret for your lush najara is that much C shame lush star means it could be true it is true if it's not sure it's called mic Tsushima means that even if what you want to say about smart I'm about to see them about whoever is true you still not allowed to say it you're not allowed you know when I see them try to take off when they try to launch their campaign you know it ended up happening the Mossad have didn't like it and they mistimed him like I see them fought and you know what they did they talk washing her about each other to the Russian government and the rush persecute both of them yeah the mostarda persecute and then they can see the bridge and everyone lost and I'll tell you something else if you in your homes disparage groups of Jewish people you may say well we're right everyone else is wrong but you know your kids are gonna hear they're not gonna hear a difference between this group and that group and these guys see them and then with those litvaks and those achievers they're gonna hear Jews are not great and my experience has been that when you disparage Jewish people the kids go after Derek that's how it works if in your house you put down Jewish people your kids castle some are gonna leave the derek scary on the other hand we have people in our history who are enthusiastically joyous about all Jewish people there was a big Sadiq neighbor lady it's cooked by ditcher ladies have been Sara Sasha who is called the defender of the Jewish people no matter what anyone's gonna say I'll find a limo discuss for the Jewish people because the Jewish people are awesome we rock and even with all of our flaws and our pimples and our warts we are still they are mine if for nobody does it better than us nobody cares about that Kendall I nobody is careful about lost Nara nobody is careful about schmear se9 nobody has the awareness of the internet and its damages we are the people we have the light to the nation's stop putting us down you know the very first thing unfortunately it's a phenomenon on our date when a person goes off the derrick and they end up in places in Manhattan and they leave Judaism you know what they do they go and they make videos and they go to the news and they go on talk shows and you know what they do they put down their whole people entire in its entirety oh I grew up with those people they're weird they're strange they're closed let's put them all down let's just try them all and then you know what happens me that can I give me that Hashem says I will have you clumped in a group and the news and the media will put you all and when somebody is caught in a house for Shaun but fevery or a Ponzi scheme no it's all the Jews you all have done ponzi schemes you all have messed up you're all thieves you know why me the kinetic is you speak against Jews and in its entirety Oh sir I'm very passionate about this because I am NOT saying that people don't make mistakes and I'm not saying that Jewish people don't need fixing and growing and tweaking we always had and we always will but to go and speak loshon Hara about us you know what's the difference between what's the opposite of Washington Hara the opposite is called don'll accomplice instead of looking at a people and disparaging them begin to judge them favorably they are the nura people they're the awesome people we are next to a place called Hamas pick it's where people are taken care of who have who are mentally deficient disabled they are not able to live lives on their own and we have a young man in Yana kala I'm not using his real name Janka who lives next door to us he is mentally he's maybe a five or six year old and he's about 40 and yonk Allah was a very big Ksyusha fella with penas flying and everything all danger fee and dirty and so on and he comes in my house all the time he just walks in a walks out he walks in hey uncle I do I need to goes to the kitchen takes food and when I have my guests when I have my ballet chuva and in walks in walks yonk allah in walks in this this fellow yong-chol oh who is look look all disheveled sometimes they'll make a comment they'll say oh that's these people they're all messy they're all dirty and then afterwards I'll say oh I I want you to be Onkel he's he lives next door they take great care of him he had his he you know he he has certain challenges and we take care of them and then they feel bad oh sorry I just thought he was like everyone else like let's clump everyone is dirty and disheveled it's said but that's how it is we looked and we assumed we wouldn't be okay with any other ethnicity to clump them we wouldn't say oh if this persons are deep then they're all thieves but world Kate doing it to ourselves right I invited a group of students over to my house I'm sorry I'm gonna buy them to New York they weren't on my house they're going to different houses we put them by hosts and this one group they came and they said they had the most interesting story they ended up by a hosts house and they had a great time and they're eating and the drink is about eight students in the middle of the meal the host earns them the host says thank you so much for coming how did you find our house so they said what I mean you're on the list Rob I Collatz gave us or the host that we're supposed to be eaten by and you're you're the you know the green bombs they said no actually were the green birds the green bombs are across the street eight college students walked in the hosts did not blink they just welcomed them put out seeds dad than the entire meals they wouldn't they would have never even know they were in the wrong house and this was a group of students who it was so easy for them to put down the Orthodox the from the Binet Torah I want to tell you I ran a trip a year ago and I had a young man and a young lady who were very enthusiastic they were very inspired and they had decided to go to yeshiva and seminary and two days before the end of the trip someone who was trying to be cute poked fun of the Jewish people the Orthodox liquor ad and both this boy and this girl decided they're not going to yeshiva not going to seminary from words of lush and Hara we may have lost two neshama Locke except that this morning when I woke up I received a surprise message from Hannah she writes hi rabbi it's been a long time since we spoke I'm considering continuing my Jewish education and going back to Israel I feel like I've heard a message from Hashem I think I'm done with China she went to China for a year and said his seminary after the Jewish people were badmouth she said I feel after this message I'm done with China I feel ready for it about my Judaism I'm applying for such-and-such a seminary can I use it as a reference i apprec-- I hope all is well and I appreciate your patience with me on my Jewish journey and I wrote I'm overjoyed of course I'll be a reference I'll help you but in my heart of hearts I was crying because of this person hadn't been cute and made a comment about our people today shabih some caches maybe even a should've who knows instead of wandering for a year in China we have to be so careful in our homes we have to be so careful when we're on the streets don't put down Jewish people don't put down groups and I'll finish by saying that I am here and Torah anytime is recording and Torah anytime is a conglomeration of smart American awesome the colleano's are Spartan Yosef Davis is an Ashkenazi and then I look at Emmet Emmet this organization run by Ashkenazim for the Bukharian community force Martin and I look at how Zack that partners with my organization Shabbat calm and we promote them and they promote us you know something amazing is happening this understanding that we could look different than our skin could be lighter or darker and our hat could be furrier or less furry when I was young I didn't understand this it was my way or the highway I was like that and it all changed when I was on a bus I was sort of tired I was on a bus in Israel and at that point in my life I was looking down on everyone who didn't look like me and I looked behind me and there was young young student maybe 17 18 years old with a capacitor ooga small little knit yarmulke and I'm thinking I missed the boat it could have been a bent IRA and then I look a little bit further look over my seat and there he is pouring over machine eyes and there I was just sort of like drifting off and I realize it's time to start judging its to stop judging it's time to stop speaking negatively about Jewish people be that person of positivity and you will have Brava in your life and Bazaar Shem to bear something this will we be rebuilt very quickly 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