Tisha B'Av: The Whole World Cries (Ep. 337)

It is once again tishabove. It is once again tishabove where we are sitting on the ground and mourning the destruction of two bat mikdash. It is once again tishabove where we are sitting on the ground saying kinus for all of the pain and suffering of the Jewish people. Sometimes that pain and suffering is death and destruction. Sometimes that pain and suffering is exile and economic hardship. Sometimes that pain and suffering are Jews who have been kidnapped and put into slavery. As the in Kisavo ends, you'll be taken away in ships and sold as slaves and no one will even want to buy you because there are so many of you being sold. It could be that our lives are just totally offkilter and that we mourn on Tishab. It could be for the broken relationships, parents and children, husbands and wives, friends, neighbors, family in the piet that we say yam kipper where we say we're like clay in the hands of the potter who can form us uh press us back together into clay. We're like glass and the hand of the glazier. There's one part that always made an impression on me where he can either make the embroidery straight or not. Some interpret it as hanging. He can either hang the curtain straight or not. And I used to think about that. Some people worry about their lives being destroyed and made back into the mush that they came from. And sometimes we weren't put up straight. We weren't embroidered straight. There's just our life is offkilter. And that should be enough for most of us to turn around and say, "How come the world is the way it is?" Even of not being killed on Schmina or dragged into captivity. Even if we're not suffering all the horrors and destructions, why can't our lives be filled with happiness and satisfaction? Why do people have to worry whether they're going to make a living or illnesses? How many illnesses do we encounter of people? Terrible, terrible makas. And even if people aren't suffering terrible makas, what about the people suffering from chronic pain? They wake up every morning and something else is hurting them and this is difficult. What about all the people with arthritis? They just have trouble walking. Their knees hurt them. They They can't hold things with their fingers. The people have to carry around inhalers just to be able to breathe. And on tishab we say look at all of the suffering that's going on in the world. And all of that's for one reason because there's no bas mikdash. Because when there's a bas mikdash then the world is the way it's supposed to be and when it's not then the world is completely offkilter and that is the kina that I want to speak about this year because we almost always take our kinus from the day of tishav and I want to take a kina from the night of tishab that has always made an impression on me it's kina Because of our sins, the Bish was destroyed and our home was burnt. The eritra the land was destroyed. And the heavenly hosts are also saying to the constellations are crying. The gay roam the flags of the tribes are hanging down. Theil kuru panem. These are stars. Their faces are covered. Ad honor to. And then it goes on and it goes through all of the mazas. These are the zodiac signs. And of course, every month has its mazle. And those maz have meaning. You can look at the benkar and see the mazel of the month and what it means. You can find it in a lot of other different places where it talks about this the power of each mazle and how that power is expressed in that month. And every mazle of every month is mourning the destruction of the basin mikdash reon what they call in the zodiac Aries what we call the the sheep that's the month of Nissan it cries bitterly because of the sheep, the Jewish people who were taken out and slaughtered for nothing. Up in the heights, the shore, what they call Taurus, the bowl, we call it the ox. Yala is is um is weeping because of all of our sorus that are pursuing usim which is the month of and is referred to in the zodiac as Gemini. We call it the tumim the twins. They are divided. If you ever see the way we write, they do the twin. So they do Gemini. It's like Siamese twins. They're like attached. They've been separated. Why? Because the blood of brothers have been spilled like water. Because the brought all this destruction. Now, Josephus writes that when the Romans were fighting in the lower city, the Jews were fighting each other in the lower city. Well, he ended up destroying it ourselves as the Gmoran Giten describes that the wealthy people said, "We have enough uh food and oil and wood to survive a 7-year uh siege." And Jews who wanted to force the Jews to fight destroyed all the food and the city succumbed to starvation and disease. Alafnu mipnet sartan. Um it's the crab which is the mazle of Tamuz looks like it wants to fall because of all of the Torah of Ben Israel that is falling on it from thirst till when a which is they call it Leo the month of love. So, nivas is uh is uh roar and everyone is afraid of the sound of the lion because our lion doesn't have the ability to go up. It's means our have not been accepted. Sulice basula the uh young men and young women what they call Virgo is the month of El theos and thearim the young men and the young women are killed and that's why the masle of basula has darkened its face mazim the scales. Um, Libra, which is Tish, the month of Tish, uh, it wants and requests that He tries to cancel out the decree of death upon us. The scales of judgment crave Scorpio that is the um masle of it. um is draped in fear and trembling because he sees that we have been go with war and famine. Our eyes are dropping like rivers. Tears like rivers because we did not get the sign of the rainbow. The kesh is the archer which is the month of Kislave. And when God is angry at us, he makes the rainbow to show that he would have destroyed us. But he's turning his bow away, his bow and arrow. And we don't have that. So what they call Aquarius, we call the dele the bucket toanu. It's like we're drowning from all of the source and the dele which represents the month of when it's filled with rain. We're dry. We're thirsty. We bring corbonos and they are not accepted. And the giddi that's Capricorn the goat the little goat which is brought as a katas on ro kodesh has been stopped that corbin isn't there to get us forgiveness ramonio's bish yhem even the merciful women from starvation cooked their own children out of starvation hel and the fish which is Pisces the fish in hid their eyes not to see our suffering shabimu In all of our sins, God has forgotten all the good deeds we've done that should protect us. All of our all the good things we've done. Let your shall be lit up. So when we sing to this lamentation, destroy our enemies and light up your from your great light. Have mercy on like you said and established it like you spoke. Quickly bring the Yeshua and have mercy on you. Once again have mercy and build I will comfort you from all of your destruction. I will make the desert like Hashem and the like like a garden of the Lord. Happiness and rejoicing. Once again, there'll be the sound of song. This always made an impression on me when I would say it at night because you know on sukus we used to bring kono for all the nations of the world. And it said if the nations of the world knew what those corbonos did for them, they would rush to rebuild the base of mikdash. If they understood what they lost, we are in gull 2,000 years. We live in a world that's a of a it just gets worse and worse. We don't even know what normal is. We don't know what a world is supposed to look like. Ganen bread grew on the trees fully made. The bodies that had was so pure, the physicality was so pure that it was compared the compared to a glass filled with light. It was a world imperfection. There was no death. There was no disease. And then ate from the sadas and they got kicked out of Ghana. But still people lived for a thousand years. A baby would come out from his mother and walk across the room and get the knife to cut the umbilical cord. There was no disease. It rained once in 40 years and that was enough. And then there was the mobble and lifespans got shorter and illness came to the world. And difficulties increase and increase as it says in Kisavo. In the morning you'll say, "I wish it was last night." And at night you'll say, "I wish it was yesterday." Because it just gets worse and worse and worse. But what this kina is telling us is this is not just our tragedy. The whole world is mourning. The whole universe is mourning. I went to the Kaiso once with one of my kids and you see all these birds flying in and out of the little holes in the kaiso especially tok time you see a lot of them flying in and out nesting in the wall and one of my kids said to me what are all these birds doing here and I said they're waiting to be brought as carbonos they understand an opportunity to be able to be used to get close to Barak to bring the Jewish people close. When Elio Carmel has to go up against the priests of Bal, they take two identical cows and the priest of Bal choose one and Elio chooses one and Elio leads his away and the other one won't move. The priest of Bal do everything they can and it won't move. until Ali goes over and says, "Don't worry, you'll also be used to be madame shayim to sanctify God's name." And then it goes with the priest of Bal because in the end, it's the fire that's going to come down for Eli Yahoo that will burn both of the ca calves. Both of them are going to be offered up. But it didn't know it. But in order to be able to be a carbon when the Malik tells Abraham not to offer up his son. So this ram goes running running to be the corbin in its place. The sultan had to make a thorn bush for it to get stuck in. But the Corbin, the animal wanted more than anything to have a ba mikdash, to have a mishkan, to have a misbeh. to be offered up as a carbon. What could be greater than that? And all of the maz and the sun and the moon and the stars and everything in the world knows this isn't the way the world is supposed to be. my very first year in yeshiva 1975. So at the end of Davening, you know, there were people who were saying Kadesh, but there was a fellow in the community who had just died and he had a son, a young son. At the end of Davin he went to say kadesh and everybody was really nervous that people were going to join in also to say kadesh because the ikar kadesh is for a child saying it for his father a young child and the whole hol yeshiva was quiet and just hear this little voice is kadash So one of the people in Shaw was very happy that nobody interrupted the kid and he said to Rab Caneric the mashia he says h beautiful that's the way it's supposed to be kic looks at him and says no that's not the way it's supposed to be. My brother passed away, his wife passed away. They were young. I mean, young means different things today, obviously. And my mother made it to 89, you know. And there's nobody there, no parents. I remember my mother died. My mother was 89. I said to someone, I'm a Ysum. I have nobody to call on Yantiff to wish a good Yantiff too. I have a mother. I don't have a father. When you don't have a B mikdash, everybody is mourning cuz the world is not the way it's supposed to be. No, that's not the way it's supposed to be. When my brother died, my mother was still alive. To lose a child. What a terrible thing. [sighs] The whole world looks at the Jewish people because the Jewish people are the reason the world was created. And if there is no Jewish people, then there's no purpose to the world. And that's why a malik has to be eliminated because a malik wants to destroy the Jewish people. But if they do, there's no world. We're the reason of creation. We bring into the world. All of the holiness comes about because of us. Which means it's the world itself that's crying on tub. It's the mazes. It's the sun. It's the moon and the stars. Everything in the world looks at this world and says it's a the whole world is a I said to somebody that co was basically being on a plane for a year with the seat belt light on just sit in your seat, read something, play on your phone, watch a video. That was it. Everyone was just stuck there. So, we find ways to keep ourselves busy, to distract us, to forget. The Rambam brings down on a tiny. You're not supposed to go into your limb. you're not supposed to do all kinds of things because it'll take you away from the reason of why you have a tinus in the first place. We're fasting because there's a tragedy and almost all of the tanim that we have are related to the sadalia tisha of course different stages in the destruction but tisha is the source of everything where we sense that we're living in a destroyed world that that the stars say this is not the way the world is supposed to be. The mazalas have a power. Each one of them have a power in that particular month that's when it's strongest. The cleer says that the reason we brought the kurban pes in Nissan is because the nations of the world knew that was the time the power of the sheep and they worshiped the sheep. And the fact that we sh it on the 14th and eat it on the 15th because the middle of the month is when the masle is the strongest and that's when we do it. We understand there's the power of the we understand is all that's why it's an ox because an ox works an ox plows. an ox pulls a cart. We have to work and then if we do we can come to midi where we can be to umim with and join together with him and every one of these maz have power. The fact that the moim is the mazle for tish is obvious because the and the scales of justice and all of these things are there. The Gumar McGill says that when the lot that Hmon drew came out on uh on Adas is dug him Pisces fish and just like a big fish swallows a small fish I will swallow the Jewish people. They understood there was power to them. Nature has certain effects that play upon the world. Some of them are physical and some of them are spiritual. There are physical forces and there are spiritual forces and they all join together to make the world and all of them are crying today because there's a the bas mikdash makes the world the way it's supposed to be. It's an it was gayen when we had ganen. It was as beautiful as it was supposed to be and then it was destroyed. And then we went massi and we were going to get the lis the first tablets and those were going to change the world back to [snorts] freedom. freedom from death, freedom from the freedom for uh from all the bad things. That's it. We would have gone into Moses Mashia and then we built the Ael and we destroyed the world again. So, Hashem said, "I will give you a new world to create and that's the Mishkan." And in the Mishkan, there's no it's a pure world. That's where you can go into the Mishkan and get forgiveness because it's the a world that we made. That's why we learn out all the things you're not allowed to do on Shabas from the Mishkan. Why? Because God rested from creating the world on Shabas. And then he gave us a new world to create called the Mishkan. And we rest from creating that on Shabas. But that's the world and it's a world without sin and the mishkan turned into the basa mikdash and you could get forgiveness there because there's no there everything there is pure and we bring on the yumim in case someone by mistake came into the B mikdash but tuma because there's no tuma there. Tuma is related to death. We don't have death in the mishka. You can't cut the rocks for the misb with a knife because a knife shortens life and the msbak lengthens life. It gives life and the kabonitis give us life. And then in when that exists and the world is back the way it's supposed to be and comes tish when there's a destruction and the sun and the moon and the stars and the maz and the lands and the sea and the heavens and the animals and the fish and the birds and everything that exists in the world cries. Everything is covered in ash. Everyone is mourning that we're living in a world that is a and we've been living in a so long we don't even know what it means. I I want to tell you a medish and I don't know if the medish is meant to be taken literally or not. It says at the all of the plants and the grass turned into rocks. When you drive around in certain places the ver and you see everything covered in rock. Could you imagine if that was all grass, all flowers, all bushes? I will be honest. When I'm in America in the summertime and I go up to the Catskill Mountains to speak and you just see all the trees and all of the grass and all the Yeah, it's breathtaking. But that's not a shadow of what is when there is around. Joseph is writing as a historian says that Eritra was so fertile that anyone who had a p piece of land planted it because it was silly not to. Things would just grow. It was so fertile. Everything was a garden. It was so beautiful. Drive along in there and look at all the abandoned mountains and you see they're all terraced. Everything was being grown. It was flowers and and grain and and and fruits and it was it was so beautiful. And Josephus writes, "Everyone knew in the ancient world that the Jewish people were the most beautiful people on the face of the earth. And the only reason that we're not as beautiful today is because of the pain of the pain of the gullis. And there'll come a time the korov big people say it not me. Mashiah will come and the B will be the rebuilt and will be what is supposed to be and the Jewish people will be what the Jewish people are supposed to be. As Bum said, there are people who dwell alone. says Rashi, when the nations of the world celebrate, the Jews aren't invited. Just read the news. All these politicians who are running on one principle, get the Jews, destroy Israel, let's support Kamas and Hezbollah. They want to shoot uh rockets and murder Jews. We dwell alone. God is alone and we're alone and we are together with we just don't have a place to live. When there was a B mikdash, we had a bias. We had a home. And when it gets rebuilt, we'll live there together with the Keshu. And nobody else. Nobody else wants us. You know why? Because nobody else wants God. As Adolf Hitler says, it is true. We are barbarians. It was an honorable title. The Jews have inflicted two wounds on mankind. Circumcision on their body and morality on their soul. These are Jewish inventions. Yes, they are. We bring God into the world. And when there was a B mikdash, so Zulen would do business, travel around in boats, and people would come to buy things. And they said, "As long as we came here, let's go check out their temple." And they would see the base in Mikdesh. And they would become Jews. They were overwhelmed. They know what temples look like. They know what idols look like. But there was a truth here. I [sighs] and that's where we are. Come this tishov. The maz are crying. The sun and moon is crying. All of creation is crying. Halvai. We would cry along with them. Halvai. We could open up our hearts and sense what the whole world is feeling. which is the destruction of the ba mikdash the destruction of the world. It's a of the whole world because when the world was destroyed by the ael the mishkan became the ba mikdash was the new world that was in perfection and that's been destroyed and when we rebuild it it will go back to it was Why do we call the B mikdash? Because there's a view in the gar that says you can't build a suka on sukus. You have to build it beforehand because it says yim for seven days you have to have a suka. So you can't put it up in the middle of but even he agrees that if you have a suka and it falls down you can put it back up. If a house falls down and you rebuild it, it's a new house. That's Kamar Baba Basu. But if a suka falls down, he says, and you put it back up, it's the same suka. The base of mikdash we want is sukasid. We want the same bas mikdash. The one that Mosher Rabenu built, that Schlommo melik built, that had the kaduca, that had theina, that had the power, that made the world right again. And if we can shed a tear for what we've lost, then maybe maybe we'll be z to once again Maybe we will once again be za in the streets of to hear the song to see happiness to be able to have true kapur to sense in the b mikdash and mitem this should be the last tish of that we have to sit on the floor and mourn