WHAT? Because the Lord hates us, He took us out of the land of Egypt? with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] okay shalom alaikum everybody welcome back to the ebony bait midrash welcome home to torah a warm welcome home to torah uh we're in deuteronomy now devarim parashat divarim always falls out on the shabbat before tisha b'av it's so sad right it's so sad well guess what i'm going to sum up what the cleo car says up until the point where we're going to begin we're going to begin on really page three of the notebook but for those that got it in advance it's really page two but it doesn't matter okay so basically i want to tell you some background to deuteronomy in the beginning with the clique the cleo car has to share it's unbelievable if you look on my english note number one right very i would say fundamental foundational points about rebuke about what this parsha is about just keep in mind that it begins by telling us seemingly a geographical location that moses is speaking to them the whole of deuteronomy is the last five weeks of moses's life and that's when he feels and i'm using the word feels right intellectually knows that this is the best time to give rebuke to the people he will not be bringing them into the land of israel he wants to give them strength he wants to guide them in the correct manner in his last breaths so to speak so one of the things we find we look in rashi but let's read the first verses these are the words that moses spoke to all of israel on the other side of the jordan concerning the wilderness concerning the arabah opposite the sea of breeds between paran and tophel and lavon and khatse wrote and zahav goes on the eleven days from khara by way of mount sir to kardash beneath and then it says it was in the 40th year on the first of the month when moses spoke to the children of israel so one thing to have in mind verse 1 and 2 moses is speaking to israel verse 3 and onward he's speaking to the binay israel notice that because that's going to be important number one the first thing that rashi mentions is that some of these places never existed geographically and what they are are hints ramazim the way a leader needs to give over rebuke to certain types of people are through hints hints and so israel is like a nickname for yaakov meaning the leaders the righteous ones the most righteous ones of them they don't need to know it was in the 40th year the day before his the the the month before he died that's important to know and it was through hints so some of these places either they actually sinned that or they allude to sins okay the other thing just keep in mind when he speaks to binet israel you can notice in chapter one when you get to verse let's say 19 he speaks very much about the the spies right and then of course later on it's also very explicit about the uh the sin of the golden calf so basically it's like this when he speaks the first two verses it's a hinted way speaking to israel the leaders the righteous ones without the need to mention that i'm about to die because you know why because righteous people are interested in rebuke at all times right when you start a story the question the clear car asks is why is it only told to us in verse 3 that it was in the 40th year right wouldn't that be how you start a story when i was young all stories began with once upon a time right or on a letterhead the very first thing you put is a date right even documents everything seems to be dated so you begin a story it's very nice the geographical geographical locations are very nice that's where he spoke between here and there which is also very odd what do you have like you have to triangulate where it was like giving all these different kind of locations then you know exactly where it was well look at rashi right there in the very beginning since these are the words of rebuke that moses enumerates here all the places they angered the omnipresent therefore it makes no explicit mention of the incidences in which they transgress but rather merely alludes to them by mentioning the names of places out of respect for israel i want to keep going because rashi says like this he's telling us between parana and tophel and levan rabbi yochanan mentions they looked through the entire torah of course paranas mentioned but where is tofil and lavan they don't even exist however the explanation is according to raj he brings it down through the oral torah that this was foolish things that they said about the man okay we know that they complained about the man if you go to numbers chapter 21 verse 5 it says right our souls were disgusted by this ruinous bread so you see that these places didn't really necessarily exist yet this was all part of what we call rebuke so now i just want to keep summing up some of the important lessons that we're going to skip we're not going to focus mainly on a lot of these things although we will mention them in passing okay so i think we talked about point one and point number two number uh well part of number two is the first two verses they address israel and whereas the remaining verses are addressed to bene israel so another important lesson that moses is giving before he dies is to the leadership of how to give rebuke i'm rebuking you and simultaneously the way i'm doing it is you should learn from me and do the same when you give rebuke do it in a hinted fashion number one also do you realize that if you don't rebuke them actually let me continue uh how and when so another thing is when should rebuke be given before you die why why is that most accepted because the problem when giving rebuke is many times and i'm guilty i'm sure that you guys may feel you have also transgressed this someone gives you rebuke and you turn around and look at them like what happened you fell out of the sky who were you to give me rebuke you're not perfect yourself in fact i saw you do the exact same thing the other day or you're worse than me as the gamora describes a certain example where someone says you know excuse me sir you have the toothpick sticking out of your head and the guy turns around and says i have a toothpick you have a beam you have a pole sticking out of your head right isn't that a very um common response unfortunately well guess what this is something that if you're on your deathbed and you give rebuke the person hearing the rebuke because likely not to come back first of all made it out maybe out of respect that you're on your way out but also they don't feel you're going to keep attacking them they don't feel attacked in the same way if you're young and you're giving rebuke and also it's important to know that even if you think the person is not going to listen to you that's not a reason not to give rebuke you have an obligation it's one of the 613 commandments in fact it actually follows the command you should love your neighbor as yourself right in the same paragraph right there right look it up you should love your neighbors yourself and then it says rebuke your your fellow and not carry his sin so if you say well they're not going to listen to me anyway well that's not an excuse you must fulfill your obligation uh number three there are ramifications for not giving rebuke the most important ramification is that if you're in a position where you could give re rebuke and you don't you carry the sin of the people on your shoulders okay number four know that righteous people people who are trying to work on their character they're working to refine their character because they know what the whole purpose of life is about as the villenegon says what is the tahlit what's the purpose of our life is tikkun hamidos is to work on our character to refine our character therefore if someone gives rebuke to you you should actually be thanking them another idea is that before you give rebuke you should have worked a little bit maybe a lot on it yourself in other words if you have that issue if you don't have that issue i get it you don't have to work on it yourself but basically or ornament yourself before you ornament others in other words beautify yourself first before you try to beautify others remember the purpose of rebuke is to improve the other person right not out of anger it has to be done out of love as we i mentioned earlier right after it says love your neighbor as yourself then you have the mitzvah of rebuke obviously there's a lesson here it shouldn't be done out of anger resentment grudge or whatever any negative uh feelings the there's two more points i want to mention now one more and that's what we're going to focus on tonight this thing called projection there's a few important statements in khazal that where you find something agitating it really rubs you the wrong way in the other person it's usually something you need to work on yourself it's a certain character trait that you may not be aware of but subconsciously you know that it's wrong and it really bothers you and that could be why you're actually focusing in on the other person again there are obviously cases where the person is wrong and you're not at all guilty of even a dust particle of that particular character trait but in most cases or in many cases and this is going to help us make our own hanefesh which we're obligated to do we're supposed to make an accounting of our souls so before we go to sleep at night when we think about or during the day when it comes up when it comes up that somebody some something that somebody did that really bothered us the best thing is to focus on yourself and wonder why hashem put this situation in your path right as perhaps a wake-up call for you as perhaps like putting your own self under a microscope examine yourself because if you realize that it really bothers you perhaps this is a reason why you think it's it's the other person's problem but really in a lot of cases it's your own problem and that's going to be the main lesson we're going to discuss through this um class so what i want to do i think i pretty much covered the first page and a half so we're going to go to uh which we're going to go to pay everyone knows everyone knows here it's the third page on on the skype it's the second page so it's a tough race pay and we're like eight lines down it's a new paragraph interestingly enough you have to hear the language in hebrew when hashems when when moses says these are the words ayla devari meshuddi bear moshe alcohol israel why do you have to say all the way through this place that place this place and all of a sudden bainu bain bain ubain means between and between but if you say baby baini it means between okay so bainu bain somehow means between here and between there okay so he's focusing on that because remember we said the whole thing was a hint now he does take umbrage he takes some um i'm not going to say he comes to a fight with rashi he says you know what rashid claimed that it was something to do with the mon tophel right we saw that first rashi it's somehow a hint to the complaints the jewish people made against the mana it tasted like cardboard right if you had to eat cardboard every day i think you would complain too right styrofoam okay but the truth is it really was it really tasted like whatever you wanted it to taste like but nevertheless it's it probably had the texture of of cardboard or styrofoam he begins this paragraph by telling us this idea of being uben is what he wants to add his own thoughts to the idea and he's going to say if rashi would have used a certain concept it's a certain verse a certain proof to talk about the man i would have i would have fell in line with rashi but i feel and i'm using the word that loosely i shouldn't say feel i know intellectually that it's talking about idol worship and we're going to plug in the 9th ave and the 17th of tamus as bookmarks or bookends or borders for what it means bainu bain meaning between paran and that's the place where the spies were sent from and toffel is a representative of idol worship meaning the 17th of tammuz is the very day that we worshiped let's just say that the the the golden calf was worshiped made and worshipped and therefore these two concepts are really alluded to so we'll first go through how he establishes that it's relating to idol worship and then we're going to get deep into these two i shouldn't say holidays they will be holidays uh these two bookmarks of time and how they relate to sins and obviously we can overcome those sins and they will turn into great mitzvahs that we can accomplish to overturn all the evil decrees that befall the jewish people now isn't that an interesting idea so i i'm asking you to stay on board right and hopefully we'll learn what we need to do to make a tikkun to fix that which we so easily fall into idle worship and let's say sinatrina the idea of sending the spies we're going to find out what how this relates to tisha b'av and sina srinam which is causeless or baseless hatred okay so there's going to be a lot of psychological concepts we're going to talk about tonight today and let's begin with the clio car bain we see the words bane double twice so he says i'm adding a whole nother dimension in order to explain what it means in the meanwhile and not physically as a geographically but in terms of time in terms of in between these two places as in between the time period between the 17th of tammuz and the 9th ave which we're in right now the actual physical place paron is relating to what the spies the sin of the spies now obviously there's a good morning tightness on 29a speaks about it in depth okay let me find it on the uh sur she and i think it is number 12 on the sour sheet so we see here when it says inverse numbers 14 1 and the congregation lifted up their voice and cried and the people wept that night right said that raviocanon said that very night was the ninth of ab the holy blessed be he said to them you wept needlessly that night and i will therefore establish for you a true tragedy over which there will be weeping in future generations we're going to talk about the 17th of tammuz as well there is a how did we say it uh myself and the bunny what we did caused a um a time warp i don't know if that's the word but basically cause through time every year on that date a similar expression a similar occurrence a reason to cry which we all know unfortunately so many horrible bad things have happened to the jewish people both on the 17th of tamus and especially on the 9th of of through history because of this original crying that was seemingly is the verse says for nothing okay and the word tophel is a hint to ego ashirasu to the golden cath which they made and according to rashi now you'll see where he has umbridge he has some uh hesitation let's say to go with rashi's shot that tough lo is regarding the mana from heaven and you know why because he says we don't really find any example in the torah of tophel having to do with man he does and rather according to the cleo card the word love on love on the place lovan that would be a great place because the man itself was white so lavon meaning a place by that name would make more sense but he says you know what if rashi would have used a verse in job i'm sorry in in that's lamentation 6 6 i would have understood it better in fact that's would have been a better verse to use it says over there in job 6 6 can bland food be eaten without salt so what's bland bland the word is tathail hayes can bland food so in other words not that the man was necessary necessarily bland but that was their complaint right it really tasted like whatever you wanted if you didn't have an imagination it was certainly bland and like i said it probably had the same texture i don't know if that's a big enough complaint because they didn't complain about that per se but in other words what did they complain about the mind that would have been a better usage of the term tophel to plug it into the place called tophel called up or shamed botan because any food that doesn't have taste is called tafel even today right we have in the laws of brachot when we make blessings over food so there's iccar there's the main prime food that you're making the blessing and then there's the secondary that in a lot of cases in most cases a a second blessing wouldn't be said because it's called secondary taphel means it's bland it's not really doesn't have taste it's not the main point of why you're eating it and based on that if he would have used that verse in job 6 6 i would have certainly agreed with rashi but he didn't so now he begins by telling you his own thoughts a vow but let's the darkhanokuro of lushmoa according to everything i said it's easier to understand the mysaegorem is batoyfell that the whole idea of the sin of the golden calf is certainly hinted at and all right the remez is in the word tophel why he says we actually find this phraseology this this word used in terms of let's say what is idol worship it's false isn't it it's fake news it's false so listen to jeremiah chapter 23 verse 13. it says over there regarding these false prophets and the prophets in samaria i saw unseemliness in other words they were false prophets falsity i saw unseemliness things that are not proper right they prophesized in the name of this idol the bow also in echa that would be lamentations 2 verse 14. so it says your prophets have seen have seen false and senseless visions again fake news the idea here is false it's not real tough fail also in ezekiel 1311 and this is regarding it's called like whitewashing what's whitewashing it's fake right you want to sell your house and you have some issues of plumbing or leaks and you know you do you you put some plaster on it and then you paint over it and then you sell the house at a high price well you could be sued for that right that's crime it's called whitewashing it's sticking it under you know under the you're basically we're going to say it means you're missing the essence both by right you're missing the relationship you can have with god and then instead you're following these false prophets it's not true you're missing the essence and how do i know because then he brings this idea what was the sin of the golden calf what did they say who's they obviously it was the heir of rav the mixed multitudes right the jewish people in mass did not serve the idol but they said in exodus chapter 32 verse 4 ela elohecha israel these are your gods o israel who took you up out of egypt right these are your gods if it was the jewish people they wouldn't say these are your gods they would have said this is our gods right so anyway what is that that is totally missing the that's whitewashing that's false that's fake news elohim they gave a fake god they that's what the idol was that's what idols are fake and when did all that take place we said that was on the seventeenth of tamus zayaba shiva and what happened on that day that's the day that moses threw down the luchot he broke the tablets they were broken and what does it say gamora tightness in page 26 being avani melo doris based on that right based on the idea moses broke the tablets which are made of stone hashem said your stones will also be crushed and broken and that was the day that the enemy broke through the walls the siege they broke through the the walls of jerusalem as he mentions here in hebrew okay now now that we establish we're talking corinto cleocar parran and tophel are talking about 17 tatamus and the 9th ave so guess what what what do we call this time period it's called bain hamid sareem and where did those where does that phraseology come from look in echa that's lamentations chapter 1 verse 3. it says over there ko wrote which means like this all of her pursuers all the pursuers the enemies of the jewish people hissy gujarat means they overcome they overtake they're going to be victorious over you between the straights this period that we're in the three weeks between the 17th the tamus and tisha mahav is called bain hamidzarim between the straits as we know mates are it like from its ryan is a tight constricted place a very narrow place that you have a hard time maneuvering left or right okay so right before that line he says ubain schneiderlin between these two borders israel rotates israel scratches bane hamish hamish pattayam between these edges it really means like lips but edges we're we're crouching we're being ambushed so to speak and we're crouching down between these two dates even though we were talking originally about geographical locations are hints to specific dates in which these two sins took place and he says the zed lush and now we understand bainu bain bainu bain is not talking about geographical locations it's talking about in the straits bain hamitzarim that's what it's talking about and he brings that verse and he says what is that verse referring to being between these two sins that's the sin of the golden calf and the sin of the spies kora rovitz we are crouched and we're bent over and crouched we're so pushed we're so pressured uh that we're not able to stand up right that that's the idea we're we're in this tight place that it's very difficult for us to stand up but we not we must israel will stand up okay there's a promise the question is how we're gonna do it so the rest of we're gonna talk about it we're gonna we're gonna talk about it right now how we're gonna how we're gonna overcome this so he begins this next paragraph by telling us that there's a thing called supernatural salvation now the really the word hasa means rescue but i know that we're you know i'm going to use the word salvation but you understand we're talking about in a rescue situation there's a supernatural way and then there's a natural way it's unbelievable what he's about to tell us the way nature works there's no way that you could be saved right rescued from an oppressive enemy except in one of two ways he's going to give us two ways or both of them together o bishnayam ka khan so keep in mind if you can't do them both at least do one okay and what are these ways to be saved who doesn't want to be saved and okay we're not talking about like the way the christians talk about it so here we go one way for salvation to be rescued is the direct intervention of the creator of the universe the almighty hashem may he be blessed hamas called the vakimbo you know what he will save those who cling to him those who are intimate in terms of their relationship and open to this relationship with him even if they're not physically strong even if they don't have the physical stamina mccomma nevertheless when one fulfills the mitzvah you'll find this mitzvah in deuteronomy chapter 6 verse 5 you shall love the lord your god if you know how to do that love the lord your god it means you're open to this relationship and you are clinging to him and he will cling to you and then he will save you listen to this hagorim if you fulfill this mitzvah of loving the lord your god it would cause vagus it actually causes you to cling to hashem as whom martial are called to the king bow and he will in return save all those who are clinging and i don't know if the word clinging is not it sounds weird um cleaving having this intimate relationship with kurdish border who we called vegas so if those are more familiar with the word vegas you don't need to translate it you know what it means it's that intimate relationship with kurdish barack obama and then what about from a natural let's say you did not fulfill the aha the ahaftes you didn't have such a strong relationship with god but what did you work on you worked on another mitzvah in leviticus chapter 19 18 where it says you shall love your neighbor as yourself the ahaf so he begins by telling us from a natural standpoint when one fulfills that mitzvah then what's the result what are the consequences they're very positive as ish esri that each person will help his friend right if you're a nice guy you work on your character you're not a j-e-r-k i don't know who's listening right you know how to spell right if you're not like nasty you really are doing your best to be a nice person and helping others that what goes around comes around as we say right and if god forbid you need it alone and you needed someone to either lend you the money or co-sign for you in the bank so if you were out for other people and you were selfless it could very well be that people will come to your rescue to your help as well and guess what he says is unbelievable even if they're sinners remember he's removed himself from the devacus of hashem for some reason i don't know why or how but he's really worked on his being he's worked on his interpersonal relationships to the point that he's a really nice or she's a really nice person guess what even if they're away from hashem they have removed the hashem from upon themselves there's a little bit of hope there is a glimmer of hope but derek in just a natural fashion but he does make a caveat and i'm not sure how to best translate this remember every translation is an interpretation my interpretation of the next few words are imlo provided the person did not really upset the apple cart that he the person did not go against the system that's the literal translation so what i think it means there's certain communal norms that you didn't go you weren't ostracized you weren't excommunicated you didn't do anything that horrible you were basically still decent so in other words even if you were a sinner and you had you didn't have that close relationship with hashem but you were doing and fulfilling the myths of loving your neighbor as yourself so there was a little bit of hope there is some hope on a natural level now i hope i explained that well enough bishney zamani melu back to these two ideas these two time periods the 17th of tamus in the ninth of august we lost i mean i feel like crying when i say it we lost both aspects of of any kind of salvation of any kind of rescue and he's going to relate how we did that with both the golden calf and the sin of the spies and if that's the case if we lost both aspects of any hope of salvation from either hashem directly or from other people cain el mi yanusu lazra who would you turn to who could you possibly turn to i know people they sell their self to the devil right they sell the salt to the devil okay so we're talking about salvation here you only have a choice hashem other people or both right now what happened on the 17th of ta'amu's beshivas or batamus we made the ego or the ego was made that means that we turned away we turned backwards from hashem that was the point remember we talked about the direct intervention if we turn ourselves away he'll also allow us to be turned away right like god says later on that if you treat me like happenstance then i'll treat you like happenstance okay but you treat everything that happens as intervention of hashem i'll be in your life so here we did by you by making the eggo we turned away upon hashem alopanim he says we turned on the back of our necks the oath that's what we did now wait till you hear this right there are constellations in the sky in judaism we don't believe in them we transcend them they exist we don't have to believe in them god created the stars and the non-jews sorry to say are mainly under the stars mainly of course you can get out of it too like us cling to the jewish people cling to chemistry go beyond but basically that month of tammuz is what is the crab and we were acting like the crab because what does the crab do i don't know it's he or she the crab walks backwards the crab walks sideways i've never seen a crab run a straight line that's not how they do it okay so that's what we were doing we were acting like the crab should darko leila it's ways to walk backwards and therefore we lost that possibility of rescue by of hashem's personal intervention because we turned away from god now what about tisha b'av this is a little bit more complicated because we all know that it was the sin of the spies they spoke lush and hard about the land and what in the world does that have to do with with what with sinashreenam you ever ask yourself i'm sure you lost many hours of sleep right come on you won't be able to sleep tonight either if you turn this off right what does cena's kingdom have to do with being disgusted with the land of israel well i would ask you for a drum roll arrow and you want to give us a drum roll there you go you can do better than that okay everyone together all at the same time come on there you go all right okay here we go on tisha b'av on tish above we had what the situation the sin of the spies and what happened wait to hear this he says israel how we're gonna we're gonna hear how hatred for another jew was born came into the world on this day ready for this psychology i said in the beginning we're going to talk about projecting okay there's two concepts one is projecting and one is called transference projecting is when i feel a certain way about you and i'm projecting that this is how you feel about me transference is when there is you have a feeling about me and i transfer it into my feelings okay so we're talking about projection it starts with me my feelings about you i imagine you feel about me we're going to start with a verse in our chapter chapter 1 of deuteronomy verse 27 what does it say this is moses speaking to them he says you slandered in your tents and said i mean i can't even believe we said this because of hashem's hatred for us did he take us out of the land of egypt to deliver us into the hand of the enemy the amorites destroy us now previous we kind of skipped over some of these verses but there were quite a few verses where we said hashem we didn't say god hates us but we said why did you bring us up to die in the wilderness i mean we had it better off in egypt let's go back i mean what could be going through a people's mind to say such a thing that we were better off in egypt why did you bring us up here to die and here you have it they said the jewish people said moses is quoting us that god hates us that's why he took us out of egypt are you guys have ever seen this verse you've let you've read the bible this is what we said what was going through our minds how could we have said that god hates us when you know what the truth is he doesn't hate us he says over and over again with an eternal love i have such love for you you're my firstborn you the jewish people my firstborn right i love all my creatures creations right and yet there's a special love that i have for you how could we after experiencing the ten plagues the splitting of the sea gathering all that gold and having it wash ashore on the on the sea on the the edge of the sea and having the the cloud of glory protect us and having the water the rock that poured forth water follow us around i can go on and on right the man from heaven the quail the meat whatever it was whatever it was we didn't even we were healed with every jew that stood in mount sinai was physically healed if we were lame if we were blind if we were death if we had any illness we were healed nobody died we didn't even need to go to the bathroom we'd have to change our clothes right imagine what it's like to do laundry let alone in the desert it's a tough job give the people who do the laundry a lot of credit right and to cook the meals you didn't have to cook what has it what kindness god had for us how could we have said god hates us yet we said it so rashi says something absolutely amazing over there in that verse he says and i'll say it it sounds it's aramaic because he's quoting from something else which again translates as what is in your heart about your friend is really what you imagine is in his heart about you okay so if you have hate in your heart then you imagine that your friend hates you this is key in terms of doing kajabot right to take an accounting of your soul as soon as you accuse someone else of anything immediately ask yourself is it possible that this is something that i have within me that really bothers me it may be objectively true the other person has that character trait but what about me how come i'm the one that it bothers so much everyone i speak to they don't notice it or it doesn't bother them so much but it bothers the heck out of me it's because i have that issue and i need to work on it but whatever it is that i imagine a bit whatever i actually have in my heart i imagine that that's what is in his heart about me so here he goes this is this is what they were thinking this is what the jewish people were thinking this is like a given it must be that each one actually hated his own friend meaning within my heart i already had the hate therefore what did i think about god remember god is my friend when it says love your neighbor is yourself it's not only your physical neighbor and your friend it's your greatest friend of all which is hashem as well but if you think about your friend hates you and hashem is your friend so what are you going to think of you're going to think that god must hate you why else would you say and they said it god hates us and they said why did he bring us up here to die why did he why didn't we had it better in egypt we had cantaloupes and watermelon and cucumbers right and garlic and free fish so that's the that's the that's the basis for what he's saying and not only that once you make this grave mistake after you've come to this in correct conclusion that god hates you what happens as a natural result the consequences the hate just continues to spread and based on that the tire tsara zoo i just want to mention one of my caruses mentioned that remember we're supposed to follow and imitate the um the nature of god right the character traits of god so he wanted to say and i i didn't want to really go with this but i'll tell it anyway he says basically then that why would the natural consequence that you would hate your friend is because if god hates you and you're supposed to imitate god the natural obligation you would feel in imitating god but also to be hate i find that too hard to believe but okay that let's just say that's a legitimate understanding i think it's just a natural consequence the hate is and we're going to see it a little bit later about mitzvah and a mitzvah guerrero mitzvah a sin is also gore it's sin a vera guerrero alvera it's like the way you want to go hashem will help and lead you in that direction and therefore if you already hate it within your heart and then you like misery loves company you think everyone else hates each other so then that then hate will just fester and continue to grow but anyway he makes third line down a very important point he says this this was conceived vittahar is like conception in terms of birth and but he also means like conception in terms of like an idea so he says the thoughts are a zoo the taylor admitted razu that this it was conceived in pain this or this concept which is painful enough was tailored gave birth to this horrible trait this evil trait and now he says this is the reason for the destruction of both temples the temple number one and temple number two now we all know temple number one by its rishon was destroyed because of the three great sins the three cardinal sins murder adultery and idolatry but he's saying no it's sinas khinam so now we have to another pill we need to swallow right you want the red pill or the the blue pill which you're going to take you want the truth wait to hear this by its rich israel that in the first temple you cannot deny this i mean there's plenty of verses to prove it and the gomorrah yuma chapter 9 page 9b but basically it started out with a hatred between the princes between the leaders as we know yes melech was over taxing the people perhaps but nevertheless the leadership decided we're going to make a king we're going to separate they even made their own temples they made idols and they prevented the jews from going to yehuda to the the temple in jerusalem and it really started with the hatred or jealousy or honor of the leadership and based on that as he will say as time progressed it only got worse and it spread out like cancer by the time the second temple so it began with the leadership don't think there was any census kingdom the cena's kingdom was not amongst the people per se but it was reason for the destruction itself as he says ki babai had rishon there was the cena among israel by a cheney pasa hanega the the disease spread being called israel amongst the rest of the jewish people now zayab when did this all take place the month of what is the astrological sign for the month of of the lion the arya what does an rea do besides sleeping he tears apart his enemies that's what he does the constellation is the constellation of the lion ki that each person imagined himself like a rea like a lion yiks of lichtrof eschatero who tears apart and destroys his friend and then what happens when you do that that falls in line the opposite of a hafta reika love your neighbors yourself right even then you lose that salvation or that possibility of rescue in the natural way kim ain't when you don't have love between each other each person is not helping his friend and there's a verse in in amos prophet almost 7 verse 2 describes yaakov as being very small and has no merits so miyakum yakov how is yaakov supposed to get up when he's so poor meaning he has no mitzvahs he's poor in mitzvahs he's not doing that's one of the things that i'm just going to take a short little break here and mention about what yebonnet does we organize kessler projects right so you know listen we only have two things before mashiach comes toran so who wouldn't want to get involved in supporting you're gonna come to israel learn with us sit in this very room right you have an opportunity and you can do hesed projects and learn torah because really that's all there is that's all there is anyway back to the the last paragraph we're going to talk about today it comes out nymphs shebang gulen between these two time periods between these two book ends whatever package we had whatever help we had whatever hope we had of salvation totally came apart right you have a bow on top of a box it's a package you unravel the package and it was unraveled kisaro neher minashem we ran away from god we quickly turned away the sorrow gum is during these two time periods we also ran away not only from hashem but from each other from each person we turned our backs against our fellow human being nimsa comes out that on the 17th of tammuz and on tisha b'av that's called a gayder mize the goddamn it's like a fence on both sides of us we're squished made of sari between these two straights between the straights ain't derek lintoys small and there's no way we can move neither nor neither right or left and going back to that verse in i think it was in lamentations chapter one verse three right ko ko wrote listen to this that's when all of your enemies it says cole we're going to see what the word cole means all of her pursuers overtook her during this time period what does the word ko mean ko means all what does all mean oh every one of your enemies even the weakest of your enemies why because you run or ran away from hashem and you ran away from being adam cavero you ran away from the possibility of doing a hafiz hashem love the lord your god you had the opportunity to love your neighbors yourself but you ran away and there's what's left it's mashima feel it it comes out based on that verse the word all means means what you know who's going to run after you even the weakest because it says coal all of your enemies any of them even the weakest of them can overcome you as kadosh israel the word not right nazi means to provoke hashem interesting right so at that time bismarck at that one moment we provoked or angered either it means kadosh israel the sanctity of the jewish people that is hashem himself for everything that we stand for all the possibility of these mitzvahs and israel we de-sanctified we actually desecrated this holiness of the jewish people that is totally dependent hanging on the unity the unity of the nation the unity israel everything depends on that so everything we talked about up until now for the last few minutes was about the 9th ave guess what what about the other time period called the 17th of tamus that's when we turned away from the shrine we turned away from hashem then who would help us alkane armor motion this is why moses spoke out this type of rebuke he's telling you you are standing here between these two pillars between these two between these two bookmarks called the 17th of tammuz remember between paron and tophel tostel is the 17th of tammuz is the is the um is the spies meaning the sin which caused what listen to this he's telling us you're standing here being snaked he's telling us you're standing in this time period right now between these two sins and he wanted to encourage them to get them to be fervourous and passionate about doing chuba ammar kane that's why he said everything he said in verse one and two yeshua because if you don't do true verb as ma shaparan then the sin of the spies is going to come and haunt you in the future it's going to come and cause you to have what to cry about in the future generations dosha because you were disgusted by the land of israel that's really what happened we spoke about that dinam legolas mimena and that's why the result of wanting being disgusted by the land of israel would the result is exile might measure for measure you would be exiled from that land [Music] and because of the sin of the golden calf that's what caused the walls of jerusalem to be broken through on the seven tetanus and by the way in today's news or maybe it was yesterday they found wolf in the first temple and they found ash they found a lot of things you have to go to the new sites to hear what they found no coincidence danny bainey benny benny in the meanwhile in that time period yerba tsubaynamus hamis hamish patayam that the jewish people are crouched in this uh between these two borders ayev kodu yard defame and the enemy is able to overcome us and any of our enemies we need to think seriously how every day of the year not just during the three weeks right every day of the year do we want this salvation of hashem and do we of course we require the salvation of the jewish people as well right we are part of the jewish people now i'm going to do a hopefully i don't know when maybe in two weeks maybe before then we're talking about the shema soon so i just want to mention about the shema it's a beautiful piece i might have mentioned it last week the week before but when we say shmei israel great questions asked why do we have to say israel why don't we just say hashem what what prompts us to have to because the verse says so very nice so we want to unify hashem and we say listen o israel who am i talking to when i say it i'm talking to all of you we're all reminding each other because what are we doing when we say the shema we're accepting upon ourselves the yoke of the kingdom of heaven correct the yoke the responsibility of bringing the the world the world of god down into this world well guess what it can only be done by cold israel coleus or clya israel right because a king without a people is not a king i can accept upon myself a master great but we're talking about the kingdom of heaven we're talking about accepting so i need every jew if i want to be religious and i want to be so holy and i want to have ecstasy and i want to go up to a mountain and be my myself that's not going to work if i want that ecstasy and i want to have that religious experience i need every one of you and you need every one of us because that is my israel hashem eloquenu he is our god but anyway this is like a tease a taste to here in a few weeks when we talk about the shema itself i hopefully i'll go deeper into the safer that i'm reading there's two shorter paragraphs but we're not going to go into that and i want to just wish everybody i hope will be fast at feasting and not fasting on tishbov it's still a possibility meshiac can come and um mizrat hashem but i think that i hope i mean i'm talking for myself that the lessons we learned tonight we'd really take two to heart one of the things i mentioned in the beginning i wish the people could learn hebrew right i i had a hard time right so i know how hard it is so i put on the website there's a link down below for these sheets without the colors just plain sheets but without the english if you want to join us right you can send me an email there's also a link to there and we'll send you the english sheets as well right so hopefully you'll join us actually like these brave people on skype anyway so what we say at the end is always have a great life so have a good shabbos and bazrat hashem have a meaningful fast if we have to fast and if we have to feast have an extremely meaningful feast bazrat hashem koltuf now questions on there [Music] is [Music]