When The World Comes Against Us | Tisha b'Av Night in Israel 2024

as we know we started again the and how do we always start every M starts with the the of the whole entire it speaks about loneliness it speaks about the fact that we were so great and suddenly we find ourselves all alone that's he you go through all theim and you find a common thing that happens all the time you go to the problem is that there's no there's no one around to give us to take care of us all our friends all our friends suddenly are rebelling against us the people we thought we were closest to the countries that we thought we could rely in they all went against us and then we move on to another we remember the great days of what happens They're laughing at us no one's helping us everyone's against us this is the theme of the M always could have started it with anything and he started with the fact that we're all alone we continue in another we went to the sink we went to the bottom again it speaks about the fact that there's no there's no one there to be behind us now if you think about it we're talking about M was written about the mikdash does anyone know what happened by the mdash do have any idea what happened if you open the garas in G we're talking about one of the most biggest calistic occur occur occurrences that happen in the history of the Jewish Nation if you go according to the literal idea behind the Gars over there it was worse than the Holocaust there were there was rivers and rivers of blood that was spilled at the time of what happened it was incredibly gruesome it was specifically uh specifically a point of Destruction we lost the house of our connection to we lost all the they went out with there was a tremendous amount of damage that happened at that time if I was writing I could have thought of many many things especially the deaths the of the the whole entire spiritual backing behind CL Isel that went back so like I said it was no less than a Shah no less than a holocaust it was a horrific thing that happened and here we are the focus of the is we by the uh by the sud when you're making the sud you sit alone don't sit with people there's no Z we don't have any connection with anyone else the theme of the day is alone is to be secluded is to be in solitary confinement to be independent to have nothing to do with anything else that seems to be what the focus of everything is about and the question is why what is it have to do and it's something that bothered me for many years what is the connection what's the reason to put such a focus on being alone it's one thing that it's important but to make it the theme after T Shin which I'm sure many people will be speaking about but at least this point I'm not sure if everyone's going to focus on as much I think we all understand that we just read after the year we just went through we've gotten a very clear picture of everything that these exactly meant when he was when he was speaking we've been surrounded for the past 80 years in a country where we've known we have our cousins the isim the Arabs who have been against us three billion of them that are surrounding the world and they want us blood they want us they want us dead they don't want us they want us destroyed they want us annihilated we're familiar with it very we're very we're very familiar with the impetus that lies behind them their whole Drive their whole desire their all interests what compels them to live is only to destroy another Jew they're bloodthirsty for us they want us and it's been like that for many years for many decades we're very familiar with it it's been for centuries the rambam already writes about it but not as bad as it's been now but it's something we're kind of uh familiar with it mil billions not millions billions and billions of dollars have gone into just trying to destroy us how much B how many billions of dollars have they've invested into one plan just to be able to get us out of here and to get us out of here good under under the water to get rid of us billions and billions of dollars have been invested in defense and trying to protect ourselves from them this is incredible crazy amounts of money tens of billions of dollars numbers that we can't even fathom just in order to destroy and defend the Jewish people that's what it's been all about this cute little country that's a a few a few miles long to go from one stretch to the other you can walk it in a few days and here it is all of that has to do with just one interest one peaking interest to get rid of us but you know what it's been a long time we've been here 80 years we're used to it we've been around it's already become a fact of life it's something that's been accepted M as they say in Hebrew it's something that we've already been willing to accept and it's not something that we that's that's so bad it's bad but it's not something that drives us crazy what we've been introduced to in this year something we've known but never seen it to such an extreme and if I could say specifically people who are non-religious that speak about it to me when I when they speak about it they're they're in shock they're Mish in shock the fact that okay the people on the right are against us but also the people on the left also the people on the other side of the ocean all the Europeans All America our big brother the one who's supposed to be the one who's taking care of us there's a big bully in the class he's B pushing us around he's he's lying about us he's doing everything wrong about us at least can you protect us can you be behind us no no everybody has found a different way to turn it's incredible it's this incredible thing and I know maybe some of us have thought about it if not then it's the time to think about it this is the day at all 10 months ago we were mutil mutilated we were decimated we were completely in the most Indescribable of whities that mankind has Keat ever seen of course obviously since the Holocaust and even before just the Holocaust was a break before that you still hasn't been for that much of a for that much that much time and when that happened there's one thing that we expected and maybe it was quiet for two or three days maybe a week but suddenly we find that what we call the nearu became the rode the one who's the chase the one being chased ended up being the Chaser the one that's playing the defense is suddenly becoming the offensive person suddenly there are protests there are people dressing up in Kamas outfits it was something that like I said I think somewhat of us amongst the religious can somewhat understand it people who have been so far off were in shock they were flored decimated them I know people that lost what they say they weren't able to to to work for a good number of weeks because of the the the uh incredible like uh surprise what goes behind them to have people that are screaming protesting everything against us from the river to the Sea have we ever heard such an expression you realize the extreme extremity of the of the expression I know it's an expression but to hear it and really think wow they really really hate us they not only do they hate us they really want us all dead it's an incredible thing when that happens to be able to see this we have obviously the biggest rashim who run Who Run The Who Run the World over here the UN who made official they made a from the that there is a unilateral truce that we have to stop give up on all your uh captured on your captured people it's not going to happen just give it up and quit committing genocide quit killing a nation after what they did to us and how many people that we've already lost were the ones who are who are considered the genocide who are the ones killing unconditionally we have to stop and here we have it we read about many countries England is already considering stopping giving arms we know that America is also on there and I'm not here to give politics CU probably you guys know news even better than me but the is one that we end up seeing that you know what we're starting to realize it looks like we really really we're all alone there is no one on our side there is no one behind us it's unbelievable to think how we're in such a place of survival we have six fronts that are on the verge that want to just absolutely destroy us if a who is not protecting us right now if I could say we're finished how could you keep up with countries that have as much money as as they have Iran Iraq Syria you're talking about places that have crazy amounts of money and Lebanon and they have an endless amount of arms to be able to do everything and we have our hands tied behind our bus because nobody letes us do anything we're not even allowed to do it we have no one behind us and all these fronts and still not one person have you heard that we're in two weeks on probation here nobody everyone's scared to walk where you have to stay next to a m have you heard one country say hey Iran stop give it up it's not nice it's not come on you're putting them in fear you have kids who are are scared have you ever heard one and one person there's not one country who said a word it's very humorous almost and they're sitting here saying we're going to Rampage them we're going to get rid of them we're going to kill them everything they're going to say and not one person gives them half a word of it's an incredible it's an incredible thing but it's there to remind us of this phenomenon and this phenomenon is a scary one but you know what and this is the point that I really wanted to uh bring out and this is the most important point that I think we see from here that when we are chased physically when a person is or a country is chased physically once the people are interested in killing you getting rid of you trying to make sure that you're finished so you put up a defense system it's annoying it's frustrating it's uncomfortable it's something that you don't want it's evil these people are evil they're bad and they're focused on on weapons but we also have weapons and you know what when people are chasing after you you could try your best to do to protect yourself and to do what you can try to raise as much money try to see as much as you can even though nobody really wants to give us any it's only as they say B if you can but when you come to a war that's emotional when you come to a war about being alone it's emotionally taxing it's incredibly there's nothing to do you just push it on your own it's depressing it's nothing more than depressing it's almost you're in a place where wow this is just what do I do now where do I go where do I turn right and left you would expect a little bit from all that we were doing to get a little bit of a pat on the back and say you guys are really putting up a good fight you guys are really putting up protection fence you're dealing with one of the craziest people that ever walked on the planet Earth in history if I call them people and here you are trying to put up a good fight and doing the best that you can to be able to for survival you expect someone to give a little bit of a boost but no there's nothing there's no one who wants to say a word there's no one who's interested and I compare this to an interesting mush if I can compare to a a mush which I can say is let's say you have a person a husband who's going through a difficult time could be any type of one of a let's go with a of a noway n that let's say he's falling himself into the internet to the wrong places or things like that he's having tremendous amount of difficulty but he's a good guy he tries his best he's already putting on himself he puts on himself fines he goes to therapies he speaks to the rim and he has failures and he has successes he has his ups and he has his Downs he's trying his best to do and he fights tooth and nail every day to try to be able to conquer this Yater this thing that's getting him in a that's getting him and he can't seem to and he can't seem to conquer Vanquish but he succeeds sometimes and he fails also sometimes how does this guy keep going what keeps him going what keeps him boosting what fuels him to be able to continue what gives him the energy to be able to continue to be able to push himself to be able to keep fighting you know how he's able to keep fighting if his wife is behind him and says I see how much you're trying I'm behind you I love you I care about you I know that it's not easy and I'm here I'm here for you as much as you can let's try this a let's try this and he he accepts and he acknowledges and he Co he's very cohesive to everything that his wife says so they're working as a team and as a team they're able to work together and that'll get him out of the rubbish he'll be able to get himself out of the mess any type of issue if he has the anger issue Etc if he's willing to listen and she's willing to be there behind him then you have an un pet as opposed to a you have the you have the you have the wife who's be able to push him back but what happens if the wife takes a different turn you're ridiculous I don't know why I married you it's such a mistake I I didn't realize you're just a liar I can't I can't believe what kind of what kind of what kind of human being you are you're just a fake you're a phony and that's what he has to hear every time that he wakes up so what happens to such a person he's never going to make it he's never going to succeed he needs to have someone behind him to give him that boost to give him a little bit of backing to believe in him to give him a little bit of comfort much more than physical Comfort which we're always looking for physical Comfort here we are sitting on the floor but more than physical Comfort everybody needs Like Oxygen you need emotional comfort you need a little bit of emotional breath you need someone to be backing behind you you need someone to believe in you people who are on their own the the hardest thing about being homeless person is that you have no one in your life there's just no one around it's much harder than not owning anything it's just a very depressing and indifferent in type of way of of living it's a very difficult way of living a person can't continue like that and it's exactly what we are living through right now if until now for the past 80 or however extra amount of years we thought that we were somewhat okay we always had some plush place to back up on at least we have some emotional support from somewhere else we were able to hold on for dear life we were able to live and live an existential life over here in this in this in this country we're able to do our best to be able to survive we're always hoping and backing up for that keep it up we know you can do it we're behind you try to get a and there there if we have that then we could survive we'll be able to be behind there but you know what we've realized now it doesn't exist it's not going to be there it's not around and it's all very very painful it's very discouraging it very much hurts and like I said when I speak to other it's incredible when you speak to people who are let's say not religious who are strong leftists or people who are you know have no lack of no connection to how depressed they are from this whole situation how wow I feel like I'm living through the Holocaust over here I feel like we're living in a situation which is on our own bad and solitary we have nothing else it's completely it's completely un misunderstood and it's completely depressing that's exactly what we are experienced right now it reminds me of a story if I could say from one of the families in Barry one of the families in Barry there was a family that had two kids a seven-year-old boy and a 5-year-old girl the two of them saw their father and their mother mother shot in front of their face and shot in front of their face now apparently these Arabs did not see these two children who were peeking through the door at the time when they saw this occur and they went and they hid inside of a closet for close to 10 hours they were there to till they were retrieved till they were released from the from there by the uh by the soldiers they were there for a tremendous amount of time a 5-year-old girl and a seven-year-old boy sitting there quietly listening to bullets flying everywhere screams happening from left and right soldiers and people dying and just being sitting there quietly on their own how did they survive they were how were they able to survive they had each other at least they had each other they had one to give each other a little bit of a boost seven and 5-year-old but in some situations you become an adult you suddenly are able to have at least someone by your side to be able to give you a little bit of P of boost and that's what a person needs and in case of a situation like the one we're in it's very hard to survive when you're completely on your own when things are there so that's how we started this fight we were all for one and one for all we all pulled in it together it was there and here we are it's splitting apart and solely but surely the seams are letting loose and therefore we're really feel feeling now the pain of the feeling much stronger right now so what's the lesson and what can we do with this and this is what uh this is an important idea which I I feel that's my own concept but I think it's a very important idea which we have to take from this situation from the place that we are in right now this is what we have to learn from this from this situation is being alone good is it beneficial or is it detrimental it could it seems to be very negative it seems to be something not good I just want to take a quick overview of three or four of our greatest sikim and just see what they did in a case of loneliness not necessarily chronological by the way okay I'll start with D the great d a big fan of D the man who was born into one of the most aristocratic families of the time yesai was a Flawless person he never had a sin that was the father of and he had many children who were incredible very and here he is comes in the redhead and was born and he was thought to be a mamzer for whatever reason The Story Goes they understood that he was a legitimate child he was illegitimate child so what did they do they threw him out into the Boondocks they can't kill him so what did they do they threw him out into the woods they put him as a Shepherd into a place where hopefully a lion will take care of him will devour him at least we won't have to deal with him he was always sunned from the family he was never permitted to be nearby and for 26 years think about how long 26 years is it's a long time it's a number in a sheer but it's a long time think of how where you were holding 26 years ago 26 years he was all by himself growing up as a child to an adult with a bunch of sheep that's what he did and you know what he did during that time period he composed he composed healing he became the basis of all our all our come from the great and one and only David he's the one who was able to be one of the biggest procreators of song of connection of affiliation to he was the fourth leg in the I always figured mosenu always made sense to be number four you have the three of and who's number four obviously moshu and here it is D filled the spot he was the fourth leg in in the how could it be that D got it he took a situation and he transformed a situation which any one of us would have to go to trauma therapy for years to be able to get out of that type of situation and he made the most of it to build his relationship with The KES he built his connection with hem he was never alone he was 26 years secluded with his creator with K he built a deep and intimate connection with we can't create T him we can only copy and paste from T and put it in our sedor that's what we do and that connection came only because of this seclusion because the power of this of this that he had with another person it says the mid says like this it says when y saw the brothers it says he gave his voice and cry when he bumped into when he saw his his brothers obviously so the mid says so will give Redemption to that's what the M says over there in parash at the time when he saw them he cried and so too we will have a g or the galut will be they will have cry and the asked ask what exactly is the connection gold one time said a beautiful he said y had for 22 years what he was all by himself he was on his own no brothers no father he had nothing to do he was on his own he was in a Goa country on his own with nowhere to turn right and left he was completely sold up the river and the whole time he was living as we say with Bei until he finally saw his brothers a reunion that is unprecedented something that we can't even kind of connect to and therefore the PK as we know says he couldn't stop from the the be came from a lonely less an individuality a place of being on his own but he created a ysf that went and eventually cried when he saw his brothers so too the galut will be a galut of the be of ysf it will be a galute where we will realize and this is the and when we realize how alone we really are as long as we realize how B we are that and you have to be on your own and we're secluded and solitary the more we realize how individualized we are how much there's no one else around us the more we're spending time with our creator the more you can turn into a y turned into a metamorphosis the man of turned into a Ys turned into a Yik who's number three on the list of again not chronological a also was a person who we can't even imagine that type of D that type of Separation The Whole World against you you know some people are religious some people not religious some people are this type or that type everybody but at least you're part of a group he had no groups he had him and his wife him and sorry Z nobody else and he went ahead and started a certain movement which was completely out of whack it was completely against everything that the whole world stood for and he was willing to do it and take another and take another and take another Direction that's why he was called evid are you went ahead and do and did everything the opposite 180° from the whole entire world where did that K come from that came from his 37 years from 3 to 40 on his own figuring out who's going to be a and he took that individuality that secluded this with from there was created a person who was a to aru everybody created got a metamorphosis a new name a person who was cre was a complete graduation because of a situation of being on his own instead of bickering complaining and being depressed and being you take the seclusion you take that individuality you take the you go ahead and you build on it being able to go ahead and build myself build my relationship with K I'm in a different world I've graduated to another level I can give one more example which I think is another great example of a similar of a similar idea is the great rim rim we all know canonized the man of the zor he was the man who is always known when we speak about cabalistic writings the idea of Torah of course we have the Torah that came from M and this but was known as the man ofal the man who canonized the whole seph who put cabal on paper for us and was able to keep the H of all T that we got from Rim an incredible man who was able to reach incredible Heights now let's just get straight here RAB Shimon was surrounded by incredible greats all the time rosi was weas like rosi over Rim all the time also gets Pim shim underneath RAB leazar is known as rabar a he is known as one of the biggest T that that existed Raba I don't have to describe to you about who who he was he was dealing Rome R Bales as we know r was able to do incredible shim was surrounded by incredible people what made shim how many people go to any Kev the whole entire year but one Kev everybody goes to once a year he's the man who received all this all this stature he's known as one of the biggest sikim that we're familiar with and uh as we all know you know if you have at least one picture of any sadik from 2,000 years ago it's always a picture of shim how do you look like I have no idea but anyways that was that shim was given this incredible position of where did it come from the T so I don't have to tell you it's obvious everybody knows the story in Shabbat everybody knows the gar and L giml over there that over there he hid in a cave he was he was wanted Dead her alive he was chased for no no nothing that he did wrong but there was a non-collateral punishment to chase after him and they wanted him to be they wanted to chase after him and get him the best that they could and he had to run away and not even tell his wife he had to not even tell any relatives of his and he had to hide in a cave for over a decade as we all know 12 13 years he had to be there with his wonderful son as we all know shim sonar he was there for a tremendous amount of time he was there secluded now just remember it's not just that he was there secluded in a cave on his own but what happened there was no food does a nest and he grows a carab tree you always wonder when you see this you know if you're already growing a tree why carobs get apricots PE peaches like you know give a little bit of flavor carobs for 12 have you ever had a carab before it's not exactly the best thing I would want to eat in 12 years I think it'd be after a while just you know rather not eat for a certain amount how is he able to that's a b we know the gamar tells us that he didn't want his clothes to wither so he was buried in the ground for all those years for that whole entire time he was buried in the ground and as a result of that later when he came back from the cave when he came back from the cave he was full of bruises and cuts and and and on his whole entire body and he was in incredible pain even by taking a when he took a when he took a bath when he had to take a shower that his father-in-law said his father and said I can't see you anymore you're in so much pain your screams are so loud I can't see you with all these Cuts why a man who g a man who was living in the man was living in a in a in a cave for such a long period of time and he had to go through this what was the reason that he had to go through this so you know what the gamar already answers that question it says over there when shim his son-in-law would ask him a question he would Al always answer 12 answers he would always know how to answer 12 answers but it says after came out of the cave whenas asked a question he would shim would give him 24 answers he would give him 24 answers he he was able there was a metamorphosis that happened in this cave this solid this this place of solitude ended up changing him to a different D and says it himself when his father-in-law says to him responds you know what he responds to his father it's good him in pain I love it I'm eating it up it's good cuz if you didn't see me like this then I wouldn't be I would not be on the dark that I am I would have never been able to reach these levels the greatest of men and still he would not have been able to reach if he didn't have that of solitude of being on his own a little bit of being no outside interference making in my own my own place and to go ahead and make a change he built his relationship with his creator he made himself a different person and that's why he was able to be the greatest of of one of the greatest of all the T to be able to do that and of course we know lastly last example this most straightforward is moshu moshu had to go 40 days where with no one else there was a on the on the har and nobody else was allowed to progress onto the mountain because the only way the could happen we were changed into a nation we would change into a nation how with M's Oneness with the is is is that he had only between him and his creator from here we see a tremendous an important and we're living through right now that's why it didn't need to be spoken about until this year that the idea of taking individuality of being on your own being in complete Solitude being without anyone to your left and to your right it could be depressing but it could be one of the greatest gifts that all of us have it's something that we're able to do and take it and put ourselves on a different level we can move our nation to a different level because when you go and you make that connection with it's on a different it's on a different wavelength we always cry about the mdash and nobody can relate to it and I understand because we never saw it and we never were there and we could try to explain and experience what happened with the but the real way of understanding it is the betes was not just a Sho it was a house it was a house where we lived with with on the front door set our names we ate dinner with at a with with with with some bread and we had meat we had a we had a candle laber that was lighting that was lighting and we had a candle dinner together with KES there were flowers on the table the that had a tremendous sale there was singing around us from the leim there was an experience here of us of our connection with it's not just an idea of bringing it back you know what it says when we did the gimal when it speaks about the idea of the gimal it says this in the three times a year we have to go to and year to see year and to be seen both you need to see and to be seen it's a date we're going out on a it's a time of was the place that we were in the room that we in the room excuse me we were in the room where we had the individuality between us and and nobody around in room even if someone's in the corner doing sponger that messes up the whole thing it could be that he's minding his own business but it don't work the only way to have a proper to make a Kyon with the with is one way nobody is around you are absolutely alone the room is closed it's locked and it's just me and the other person that's it that's what is about and that's where we're holding right now we are living in a mat of with because there's no one else to rely on and we you know we could throw out metap fors and between like this but to finally realize that we really are just us and him to be feeling so comfortable in the hands of our creator because we know we are 100% in his hands it's just us and him divorced us for 2,000 years he threw us out of his house he threw the house out he burned the whole place down he threw us out of his house we're not there a musk a funny musk is sitting there with a bunch of idiots who are there there bowing down and pretending that they have some religious that was created a thousand years ago I'll be careful what I say on the camera okay but that's that's that's that's that's where it's holding and when we are finally getting ourselves back into the room that seems to be heralding in that it could be the house is being rebuilt the house the BET mes which we meant to always have is there to R de view to come back to that old meeting place to come there when you go to the cotel you're not going to a wall you're going back to your old house when I go to Los Angeles I grew up in a house for 17 years which uh we're not there my parents don't live there anymore but I always try to take a sneak peek and pass by there a while cuz I just have a certain like uh CER to that place I grew up there when I was little the place look so big and I don't look so small but anyway yeah you were there and you had a certain CER to the to the place and you want to just be there when you go go to the cot that's the feeling when you go to the cot you put your hand on the wall and think what's on the other side of the wall That's where home was that's where we used to have a certain relationship with and it's all gone it's all not there but that's exactly what we're beckoning for we're looking to return to that place and this can happen with a metamorphosis like we said the is what re changes anybody our greatest people were made the greats only because of that so you should realize that when a person go into his own place he's not running away from something and when he feels the pain he's craving for something that he misses when he goes in into his own place it's not running away from the M running away from the from from the existence from the reality it's running to the reality CU when you're on your own sometimes you're in touch with yourself you're in touch with your creator you're in touch with your relationship that Y is able to make an absolute change it's able to turn things Topsy Turvy it's able to make a person into a great person and a nation into an unbelievable into an unbelievable nation and that's the power that we've been created and we are living through that and I say yes we're living through a situation where it's so good that yes everybody can't stand us everybody's riding off against us as every time we do something they're upset at us it's time for us to realize it's okay we don't need you anyways it's time for us to realize that it's just us in him as the says with this I'm going to finish B basically it says in you made me one in this world with so too I am going to make you a Oneness in this world I'm going to make you individualize no go around nothing around it's only going to be between me and you no more limbo maybe a little bit this maybe a little bit of that there's no more of that it's only going to be between between us and him and with this we end and uh we'll maybe sing a thing but I just want to say we say on Shabbat when we sing and there's a n which you might not be familiar with but when we speak about going back to the we speak we say going back to the we yearn and we want to come back to the we're begging to go back to the bash the the place that what where there that that's what you would think what does it say of the the of the being able to finally feel complete finally be satisfied with our relationship with and over there is the place that we're going to be able to uh sing together with so a lot more than just singing about the mdash are focusing not just about the and the but it goes a Step Beyond that and that is the idea of of the connection the satisfaction that we have between between the two is see is man see call