END THE MADNESS and Let This Be The Last Tisha B'Av as We Know It! with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] Shalom welcome to the m welcome home to Torah a very warm welcome and we're very happy to hear see in the bate madash people who have traveled far and near umab um we're going to be dealing with pasim which always always always comes right before Tish and within the par is now before I begin I just want to mention that the Y uh organization hands out and distributes a lot of charity uh to the needy families in Jerusalem so we've started a campaign uh fundraising campaign and there's a link below that you could click on and uh donate it's in the description box in YouTube it's also on the website the Y website now in addition to that I wanted to mention that we always encourage people to learn Hebrew so also Down Below in the description box are the original Hebrew sheets yes you don't get the color coord ated uh copies that I have that I'm using but nevertheless black and white should do just fine so we're not in the beginning beginning beginning of the clear but we're beginning of the par so as I mentioned that there's TOA rebuke that mosha is giving and it's clear at least through Rashi many others that in the beginning the first few verses the places that are mentioned are places where the Jewish people had sinned and therefore it's a hint giving a remes a raas a remes to um the Jewish people that they need to do Chua they need to straighten themselves out and not do such a thing again because that's part of to it's to strengthen somebody not to sin so we discussed in previous classes why Moses felt the need to hint and you can go back to some of those classes but in short because this is the best way to get somebody to receive your rebuke is not to shame them or put them in a certain position where they're embarrassed but that each person should hopefully understand on his own that he sinned or she sinned and come around to fix their behavior and uh all the all that goes with chuva what we're doing we're on page three of the clear and it begins just with the words B toel which is still the first verse so if you look at the first verse Deuteronomy 1:1 these are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel on that side of the Jordan in the desert in the plain opposite the Red Sea between pan and toel now you wouldn't get it in the English but in the Hebrew like you would say between pan and between toel and lean cuz in the Hebrew it says B to so the word Bane means between we're talking about a triangulation you're talking about trying to figure out an exact geographical uh location so you say it's between this point that point and over there and you would figure out where it is the problem is well Rashi says that rokan said that they they look through the entire Kish and they never they never found the place called toel or leavon so what could the message be from Hashem which is really Moses's own words that's a whole another discussion why these are moses' own words that Hashem decided these are going to be lasting forever but nevertheless these places don't exist or seemingly are not recorded however the explanation is that he rebuked them because of the foolish things so the word toel or tfu seems to be will say negative foolish things they said about the man they complained about the man and the man was white and um just as example where they complained if you go to numbers 215 so it says at the end well we read the whole verse the people spoke against God and against Moses why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the desert for there is no bread and no water we are disgusted with this rotten bread in other words when they say there's no bread it means there's no physical bread but they've been eating the Mana and the Mana I have to tell you I mean who who am I to speak against the Mana but the Mana was tasteless what does it mean tasteless we were told that whatever your imagination allowed it to taste like it would taste like that so I guess if you had no imagination it would be tasteless but also the texture you kind of get bored from the same texture so that could been part of the problem but r actually says I I don't want to get so far ahead but basically let's go back to the previous Rashi before we got we went off on numbers 215 so basically what we do know about pan right because it's triangulation between pan and toel that toel Lan don't seem to appear in the Kish but pan we know for sure that is where the the spies were sent from and if you go to numbers 133 you'll see clearly that's number four in the sore sheet so Moses sent them from the desert of pan midbar pan there's no question about that but we're still stuck trying to understand according to Rashi anyway the word toel and leavon is definitely talking about the complaints that um that the Jewish people spoke out in the desert against the man so going back to numbers 215 I just want to read the Hebrew because I don't really think the English is so Justified it says we are disgusted with this rotten bread perhaps meaning our souls were disgusted that this bread is is just ruinous it's not good but look at Rashi over there Rashi over there says now try to imagine right we're eating this bread or this Mana sorry we're eating the Mana and we're no longer excreting anything we're no longer have any need to go to the bathroom apparently this was so holy it entered our bloodstreams it's really hard to imagine but there was no it was not necessary to go to the bathroom and so I guess your imagination could run wild and think I mean thank God you know we say a Yar I'm sure more than once a day and we think how wonderful it is that we're able to uh our body's able to heal and get rid of the PES whatever is extracting the uh the toxins and whatnot imagine if you thought that since you're not going to the bathroom anymore the toxins are remaining in your body and that is like a curse so let's look at Rashi he says this two denotes this idea of NAU that our souls are disgusted this two denotes intolerance and Loathing with this rotten bread since the Mana was absorbed into their limbs and not extracted through the V from their bowels they called it rotten they said this Mana will eventually swell up in our stomachs is there any mortal who ingests but does not excrete first of all we have to understand we were really elevated to a very high level even though we we know that this the generation of the midbar sinned nevertheless they're called Dura I mean they experienced prophecy on no other level even greater than Ezekiel um they were really on a very high spiritual level that is really very hard for us to understand they were almost like angels I mean they ate this bread that did not or this food the Mana that did not digest in normal fashion and perhaps that freaked them out a little bit right perhaps that freaked them out a little bit okay so let's go back now into the CLE car what I want to explain is based on the word Banu ban even though that was not discussed by Rashi in other words the place pan and toan is but ban just sounds like it's between this place that we mentioned and between that place that we mentioned however what the clear k wants to say is the word Banu ban is a hint to the sins themselves okay I don't want to get too ahead of myself let's begin it's like six lines down on the page that I gave you banan toel it's in bold l b the very fact that it says between here and between there those words in Hebrew I'm going to explain a second let me translate the Clear Car feels this is the place to bring another opinion a another level an additional level to this explanation which he had just given we're not going to into right now but the one he's about to give we will don't think as the word between here and between there as only physical locations it's true that pan and toel are these locations in which we sinned right they hint to the idea of the sin of the spies that's where the spies were sent from piran and and toel perhaps wherever it was that we sinned with complaining about the Mana but the clear car is like overlapping it with this idea of time so not only is it a geographical location but those sins did take place on a specific day and therefore a specific time and that's the time that we are presently in called the three weeks the Bim which we will discuss what that term even means between the Straits so bany bany this these sins that Moses is hinting to is in time remember this is the end of the 40 years we're about to go into the land of Israel so he's referring to them they should do chuva I'm giving you rebuke you could save yourselves from further sin if you take heat of the lesson that I'm teaching you something occurred on the 17th of t as well as the 9th of a and as well as the time period that's between them when we think about the word pan hu of course that is the sin of the spies that took place on that day we cried a cry for nothing so basically that Hashem established decreed and maintain mained that we would have a crying for nothing a well it's not really for nothing he doesn't say for nothing but a crying for all future generation since we cried for nothing you'll have a reason to cry in future Generations on the night of Tish so gorus 29a and it says regarding that that the congregation lifted up their voice and cried and the people wept at night right that's in numbers 14:1 so the ra ra said that rokan said that night was the night of Tish and the Holy One blessed said to us you wept needlessly that night and I will therefore establish for you a true tragedy one true tragedy I don't know many true tragedies over which there will be weeping in future generations and we're going to get into what happened on the ninth of in case people didn't know and I'm not referring to the the sin of the spies I'm talking about through history okay we will we will talk about it but just to you should know the first temple the second temple was destroyed on the ninth of a um and many other calamities unfortunately okay so back into the clear that was pan now what about the word toel now he will explain Rashi first and I will warn you he actually disagrees with Rashi what part does he disagree with Rashi obviously not the Lavon part that's talking about the the complaint of the man but the word toell he has he says Rashi could have given better sources and then perhaps I would have agreed but there's so many sources that back me up I can't keep my mouth shut and I have to tell you what toil really means that's how I'm viewing what the car is saying he says regarding the word this is definitely according to him referring to the sin of the golden calf now if you go and look what Rashi says Al we already saw that Rashi on deu Deuteronomy 1:1 that they complained about the manra for some reason the clear car says I don't find that in anywhere in the Torah or at least Rashi doesn't bring any good proofs and then he says it would have been better had rashash see he it's kind of like it's a beautiful idea that you can have a debate with somebody and say listen you could be right you know here's some really good evidence for your side so there's a verse in job 66 basically the the pz says can bland food or tasteless food be eaten without salt that's literally what it says okay so Rashi there on that verse in job 66 says regarding bland food or tasteless food it's a it's a it's a rhetorical question can this tasteless food be eaten without salt a thing that has no salt and must be salted but was not salted is called Teel so the cleart says if you would have use that I mean that's a really strong proof but you didn't so the cleart explains like this anything that doesn't have taste now we all know the word Tom doesn't only mean taste it also has like sound reason is called Tel Rashi then everything would have been perfect according to the words of Rashi but according to the cleard he wants to say like this according to our way of learning it because he already said it's the ego it's the calf the golden calf the sin of the golden calf according to the way we learn it it's really easy to understand that there's no question that this place the location that Moses is using to hint to a certain sin is referring to the sin of the golden calf because we do find this word toel or a derivative of toel regarding the language whenever we speak about a when a is mentioned now he gives three very I would say very strong proofs um the third one is not weak but it doesn't seem to really reflecting directly to idol worship but let's not get ahead of ourselves the first proof he wants to give us is in Jeremiah 23:13 regarding the prophets of the north and in the prophets of Samaria I saw unseemliness when we say unseemliness we mean draw we mean things that are secondary and that they actually prophesy ized regarding Idols what you understand what's going on here that these prophets were worthless these prophets were worse than worthless they prophesized regarding the Bal and the rest of the verse says they misled my people they LED them astray so that is worse than tasteless it is not even tasteless it's something very negative and bad and it does have to do with with idol worship the next verse he brings in is in a that's Lamentations 2:14 and maybe this A Little Bit Stronger that your prophets have seen false and senseless Visions for you and they have not exposed your iniquity in other words again the role of the Prophet is to give rebuke so they were I don't know they were totally carrying around a sign I'm a prophet and doing nothing they weren't doing any rebuke they have not exposed your iniquity to straighten out your backsliding but have prophesized for you false and misleading oracles so the other translation is delusion and Folly these words the idea of sh Vel again the word Tel is folly delusion and I would say that is called whitewashing and gaslighting right false flags and um there's a few other words that are used being used today passed around red herring red flags okay red herring and whatnot and then he brings in a verse from this is the third verse which I think is a little bit weak in terms of uh Li worship but the word Teel means false so if it means false let's see what the verse says I mentioned this in Ezekiel 13:1 it says say to the plasterers with da behold it will fall in other words the the house needed repair and instead of repairing it they just used whitewash they just you know painted over the cracks in the wall and what's going to happen it's going to fall apart it's going to fall if there will be driving rain then you gigantic Cal St will fall and a storm wind will crack it in other words all they're doing is is whitewashing over it so you see the word Tel means fake it's fake news okay and then he says this is even the people who made the agel the AR and the 3,000 Jews but the AR says is these are your gods of Israel we see that in Exodus chapter 34 verse 4 number nine on the sori and Rashi says there obviously this was the mixed multitude it's a really a side point but the point is here that why would they say these are your Gods oh Israel they obviously are not Jews they're not Israel if they were they would have said these are our Gods oh Israel okay so the point here is what he wants to say is that this is fake this is not a god this is not a power this is not the power obviously it is a power a false power and it says that so the CLE clar says they falsified their God the whole thing is fake news all that took place on the 17th of tus and it was that very day that Moses broke the tablets the tablets were broken and as a result what happens in the future hos by breaking those stone tablets then Hashem established it they would be broken stones in the future the same idea that in the future the walls surrounding the city of Jerusalem would be breached uh the stone walls so we talked about both dates the 17th of tamuz uh which was the toel and the pan Which is the Morag so now we set up these two time periods and now between these two means like a border but we're talking about like a time frame the word is referring to like an animal Coral that's a very tight space some kind of a uh a Sheepfold so basically rates means crouching crouching like you're pressed so dur between these two you know pillars of time the Jewish people are extremely pressed we're crouching H waiting for an ambush to happen so to speak and now we understand the language Banu ban between here and between there like a very tight spot that said that said over here now now we go to now Lamentations 53 and I don't want to go too far off but there's such depth here we have to focus on this verse the whole verse speaks about Judah went into Exile because of Affliction and great servitude it says she settled among the Nations and found no rest I want to discuss that a little bit but the main point here is all her pursuers overtook her between the boundaries Co B this is a very unfortunate deep concept when I say unfortunate we'll see why sorry so between these two sins we were crouching we were bent over crouching and we were so pressed that we could not stand that we cannot stand up so at this point I just want to point out it's a beautiful medish this is in the Arts girl medes Raba um I want to I you guys don't have this okay so I want to just go through a little quickly because it's very important when it mentions that Israel found no rest among the Nations so this is like almost a positive thing I mean we're talking about Tri tribulations theim horrible horrible things that were already prophesized in the in the curses and yet if we would have found rest that would have been the end of us why obviously we would have found rest we never would have been praying we never would have been we would have given up all hope of ever being redeemed so there's this concept that we didn't find um a resting place similar to the dove that that um that Noah sent it also says a very similar language it didn't find the resting place it would have found a resting place it wouldn't have returned back to the ark so too by us the Jewish people if we would have found the resting place among the Nations we would have been comfortable that would have been the end regarding um all her pursuers right it says so the actual measur says this is talking about the 17th of tamuz and and the ninth of I'll just read it clearly these are the words by Banas by its landmarks and boundaries what does that mean alternatively the verses expression all her pursuers overtook her between the Straits mean they overtook her in in the days of distress extending from the 17th of tamuz until the 9th of a okay there's actually quite a lot of commentary and I think I summed up one major idea that if we would have found rest in the Exile that would have been the end of us um between the Straits there's so many people that comment everyone seems to agree there's nothing to disagree with the measure says it's the time period so let's move on I'm going to close that for now um we probably will refer back to it so the clear continues here and says now the word could be used in many different ways it means nature or just natural the natural way so what he's going to discuss with us is what we're going to call the Natural Way in meta in in uh transcendental in um in spirituality there's a certain natural function things that happen a certain way and then in the physical world which we're all living in in our bodies in our bodily form there's also a natural way he's going to discuss both so what he just said was according to the Natural or nature that one will not find to be able to be rescued hatah there's no salvation or possibility of being rescued from an oppressive enemy except by one of two ways he's going to give both ways or both of them together we have to drill into our Consciousness this is it this is we always deal with very important Concepts in this class but hopefully will especially during the 3 weeks but we can carry this through and we must carry it through the entire year salvation comes in one of two ways we're both together the first one we'll call Meta it's not the it's not the physical part but it's purely spiritual from the the love and Providence that hasem provides call the vacing bow that he will save anyone who really loves him and clings to him obviously that means there's also obedience but let's say at least on the spiritual side there's a clinging to Hashem a willingness to be intimate with him and Hashem will respond in kind and save you because you're close to him even if you're not physically strong you don't have the physical strength but you have obviously a lot of amuna a lot of spiritual strength nevertheless as long as you're fulfilling as the verse says in Deuteronomy 6 verse 5 actually we call the second line in this in the krishma we say several times a day and hopefully we make it real because it's one thing to read it and it's another thing to internalize these ideas that one should that we have a commandment to love how does one come to love hem by looking at the virtues looking at all the goodness that he's bestowed upon us how can we not love him in return and that should cause that would cause let's just say a natural flow that you would end up being intimately close to Hashem you have a relationship then as a result he will save you he'll save all those who are close to him now that would be the meta part what about the physical part the word here is used in more natural physical sense when one fulfills the other aspect of Love Now that you'll find in number 13 on the sore sheet Leviticus 1918 one of the greatest or perhaps according to re the greatest principle of the entire Torah you shall love your neighbor as yourself the Rashi says there at the end uh Raba says this is the fundamental all-inclusive principle of the Torah okay so that's true everything we said is true that if you do number one love Hashem there'll be a Salvation from Heaven if you love other people humans if you really try to go out and just be a kind person not so stingy just with your time and your money or whatever it is with your MOS so you're a kind person other people will act and respond in kind they will be there to help you now this is amazing even if you're totally lacking the amuna in Hashem you're totally a sinner right nevertheless you've S hasem as a sinner and you've removed God from you me nevertheless at least there's a little bit of Hope in the physical world that you could have some kind of obviously we're not talking about the same kind of Salvation in heaven but be saved in from a difficult situation provided he does say provided that you didn't the communication didn't break down totally see the mara means like Matrix the network so provided that you didn't really go against I think societ societal Norms right you're you're not ex you're not um you're not standing out as like some great sadik but at least you're not you're not known to be an evil person you're just a regular guy a regular woman now based on that he says remember we're now talking about these two time periods we the Jewish people we violated both we we um we lost both possibilities of being saved or right or salvation during these two time periods again we weren't loving God and we weren't loving each other the loving right let's let me plug them in the loving the god part we weren't doing because we're worshiping a calf obviously that that's idol worship and therefore it's not loving God and on Tish of which I want you to understand this is a good question what I'm about to ask how is it not wanting to go into the land of Israel somehow reflects uh hatred for your brother if you do not ask this question good luck in life right how can you not ask this question I hope everyone has asked this question so and we will find out and a very interesting answer so basically that if we lost both aspects of salvation of being saved then who could we run to for any kind of help or assistence obviously no one not God and not our neighbors now we're going to get into the Astron astrological uh signs or constellations of these two particular months the month of tamuz and the month of a so on the 17th of tamuz in which we made the golden calf we were going backwards we were retreating from our deas Hashem we were removing ourselves from Hashem we removing him from upon us and we were walking backwards I'm going to say so to speak but he's going to describe it like this is we actually turned our back of our necks towards God not our face we weren't moving forward specifically in the month of T which the astrological sign right I called the zodiac sign is the crab the way of the crab is to walk backwards or let's say sidewards it shows its neck the back of its neck to where it's uh in the direction it's going in or maybe it walks backwards altogether so too that's what we did we turned our backs towards hem and then as a result we lost the possibility of Salvation that would come through Hashem directly period that would be the 17th of tamuz that's the crab now on the month of on the nth of that's where we sinned with the spies this is what it's telling us that on that very day was born a very bad character trait amongst Jews and that's called causeless hatred baseless hatred irrational hatred however you want to translate it now what he's about to do is teach us what we should probably already know in in Psychology modern psychology what they call uh projecting or transference but hear the verse because it's so hard to even hear this verse that this is what we said in our portion Deuteronomy chap uh R chapter 1 verse 27 you'll see it number 14 this is what Moses says that we did he's not a liar you murmured in your tents he heard us he's a prophet he's telling us what God told you murmured in your tents and said maybe it means we all said it in our hearts because the Lord hates us he took us out of Egypt out of land of Egypt to deliver us into the hand of the amorites and to exterminate us vu hasu can you believe we thought after being totally taken care of 10 plagues in Egypt miraculous salvation through the sea being fed being fed um man water our clothes didn't sh our clothes didn't wear out we didn't have to go to the bathroom apparently that wasn't always a a good thought right we saw that already but nevertheless but the truth is he really loved us look at Rashi really however he loves you but you hate him Rashi says and then Rashi says something that modern psych psychologist should they probably do take this seriously it's uh it's written in Aramaic which translates like this what is in your own heart about your friend that is what you imagine is in his heart about you now can we understand how they said God hates us they said those words we know as a fact God did not hate us he says over and over again how he loves us we're chosen right there's all these promises of goodness whether in this world or the next World something good and yet we said so it must be that we hated him in our hearts and the question is why so we just we're on the last line of page one where we just read that Aramaic statement when they said this statement that God hates us that he took us out of Egypt it must be that this is what they were thinking May we're now on the top of the next page and this is how I'm reading it it must be that was born that they actually hated their own friends they hated their own fellow and therefore as we already said it must be that you think that your fellow hates you because you really hate him so then as a logical conclusion because hasem also loves us and doesn't do anything wrong to us nevertheless The Logical if your own if you hate your friend and you think he hates you so too it would make sense that this you would be projecting or transferring the same hatred you would have for Hashem who's also doing you good God only helped us all the way so let me just rephrase that because it does say that as a result what they were thinking was that God also hates their neighbor so in other words like I think Aon just mentioned like when I when we have good feelings towards people what do you mean I bless you or we ask God bless you we think that God thinks similar to us and just like we would hate our neighbors we would logically think God hates our neighbors too or we would wish uh ill among among them in a spiritual sense okay so let's go on furthermore may this is an absolute mistake they came to the a wrong conclusion that Hashem hates them as well for nothing so then then it's like kind of like a vicious circle here so then certainly by Nature then this would obligate each one to actually hate his neighbor because he already thinks the neighbor hates him and as a result the Zoo there's this the word conceive there's like a you know implantation so to speak of this pain and is bornu so it was on Tish itself now let's just go back let's try to work this out Hashem is being really good to us and he's going to bring us into the land and the spies are basically saying let's not go right it's not going to be so good for us Hashem doesn't have our good in mind right see it's a hatred towards God that's unfounded and therefore even that prize the most cherished piece of real estate in the entire world we would not want because we would think that Hashem has bad intention that's what you think when you think somebody hates you you only think that they don't have the your good in mind so now we're made that jump why would they not want to go into land cuz they had no no gratitude they didn't think that Hashem really loved them that this is not the promised land or it's not as we as we imagined it would be now what he's about to say I kind of cut off in the middle of this paragraph I mean this sentence so Not only was this causeless hatred Born Into the world on this day a when we think about the destruction of the first and second temples we don't really put the same blame as cim on B Rishon we know very well that the three major cardinal sins were violated right murder adultery and idolatry and we put sin squarely on by a Cheney the second temple why it was destroyed but if we're consistent here and the clear wants to be that b Reon was also caused because of and when you hear what he's to say you're going to say of course why didn't I see it coming ready for this the first temple fell It ultimately was destroyed because of the causeless or seemingly you know uh uh irrational hatred between the princes between the leaders of the the Jewish people now you can find this in Yuma 9B it very clearly says this but we'll base it on a verse in Ezekiel 21:17 let's just become familiar with that first cry and whail oh son of man for it will be upon my people it will be upon all the princes of Israel who gathered to the sword they were with my people therefore clap upon your thigh this I idea is prophetic in that as we know very clearly that the first temple towards the very beginning we're talking about the first generation after Solomon that there was a split a major split between the North and the South there was jealousy and hatred and it started with them and the clear says it took maybe hundreds of years I don't think it took that long but it it was like a plague I don't even want to use the the latest one that uh seems to be very catch and infectious but when you have the leaders that have a an infection a plague then it will eventually if it's not cut out or treated uh it will uh eventually make its way down to the rest of the people and that's what the gamor and Yuma basically says so let's continue he says like this sh so in other words during the bite reown there was this hatred only amongst the leaders but by the second temple it's this disease spread or the plague spread amongst all the Jewish people as it says in Yuma 9B now all this took place right what's this hatred happened during the month of a and what is the constellation the constellation the zodiac icon it's the ar ar is a lion each one modeled themselves imagine themselves model themselves like a lion who tears apart and destroys his friend and as a result we then we lose that natural tendency for people to help each other there is no love amongst them nobody is there there's nobody to rely on to help somebody else and he ends with a little bit of poetic fashion as it says in the prophet Amos 7:2 see the name yov is opposed to Israel somehow always represents not the highest level right Israel is the higher level yakob is when we're not yet reaching the highest level and therefore how can Yakov get up when he is so small he has no merits um so that means we have nobody to rely on when we're Yakov but when we're Israel then we are SAR we are actually truly ambassadors of God as the name uh repres okay now it comes out that during this time period between these pillars of time between these we're going to even call it fences right there's these borders between these borders mik the package became entirely unraveled the P the package of what of salvation through hasem through fellow human beings because we quickly turned away from God and so too turned away one person from his fellow his brother or sister n so it comes out that on the 17th of tamuz and onsh the it's like a fence it's like a border it's like we're going to be talking about being in this tight spot what do we call this time period I want to go back to the mid and explain it again something we didn't talk about but that's what it means so the aeric linos Y small there was no space it was so tight there's no place to move to lean whether to the right or to the left therefore going back to that verse it says over there the word Co all of her pursuers will overtake her what does the word Co infer all that word call infers and should teach you that even the enemy who's chasing you whoever is chasing you even if they're weaker than you they could be the weakest enemy in the whole world you have lists who are the strongest armies I think I think Israel's like number eight which is unbelievable but if you had let's say down on the list 173rd strongest army in the world could overtake Israel when we would have lost that salvation from Hashem and whatnot that at one period of time meaning this time period B we're not talking about those two pillars on the Eds we're talking about the entire period of time this is when there's this concept of notu provoking this is where now refer to the Jewish people could refer to Hashem but I'll just translate as the sanctity of Israel whether it's right at this one period time that's where the sanctity of Israel is provoked whether it's Hashem or whether it's the Jewish people I like the idea of calling it Hashem that the desecration of this sanctity of Israel which is actually dependent on the unity of the people people this is an amazing thing when it comes to our relationship with Hashem each one of us can actually try our best to have a Unity I can meditate I can go on the mountain I can do whatever I want and work on my own character and study my Torah but what am I without the rest of the Jewish people honestly am okay Shen now regarding the other time what did we do the other time referring to the 17th of T specifically we turned away from the divine presence who are we going to re who can we rely on who can we run to for any assistance this is why Moses said during this particular uh rebuke see he in other words it wasn't during the 10 day the the 3 weeks that he was actually saying these words to us we all know when Deuteronomy takes placees the last six weeks uh five weeks of his life month and a week um but he's referring to you're about to go into the land of Israel these time periods will every year I want you to do chuva I want you to really know what the core problem is and what you need to do to fix it that's what it means reproof rebuke means Repro I want to prove to you what you need to do again in regard to those two serious sins of the spies and of the of the golden calf which took place in these places called pan and toel in order to encourage them and cause them to be encouraged towards the doing chuva Mar he said all these words and if you don't do chuva you will have troubles through history on these particular days in this case the ninth of you'll cry for generations and it was on that day that they were disgusted um by the land of Israel therefore what is Mea measure for measure what is the punishment so to speak what is the result the consequences of not Desiring the land that we would be exiled from it like the truth is we were exiled on Tish meaning the first temple the second temple I'm going to find out I'm going to open the book you're going to find out all kinds of unbelievable horrible tragedies that were all predicted in the Torah that happened to us on TSH toel and regarding toel always represents at this point in the clear the gold the golden CF that ultimately caused the breaking of the walls of the city on the shiv on the 17th of Tas and now he says b b referring to the time period between the 17th of and the nth of to fame and that's when we are crouched we're pressed between these tight um fences and even the weakest of our enemies are able to chase us now I just want to finish with these last two paragraphs now according to this explanation we're still required to say the following that the word lvan is referring to their argument or their dispute regarding the man itself which was white like Rashi says now if you go to the words see we never finished verse one um it ends with another place [Applause] called DAV DAV it's like saying die which is enough go so the wants to say is that hints to the sin of the two and a half tribes the two tribes that wanted to stay on the other side of the Jordan that they remember the the rebuke we gave a few weeks ago Moses gave a few weeks ago that they were they they had their priorities mixed up that their money was more important than their family so here it says that their money their wealth was more important to them more dear to them than their own bodies AEM die even though they had enough they really had enough but they wanted more okay so that is a rebuke regarding that and then he ends by saying he has another book called and in that book we explained an aspect of a hint when it says in verse two which we don't have in front of us but it says we were only 11 days journey from so why 11 days what is the significance of that so he sums it up by saying that there are 11 days of mourning that we do throughout the year there are 11 fast days I shouldn't even say fast is 11 days in which we do um actively mourn and those are the nine days of the month of a that's what we're in right now from until itself obviously there's always at least one chabas should be two um no there's always at least one chabas anyway so there's nine days add the 10th day which would be the nth of the 17th of T and which is um in the middle of the winter the 10th of Tas which also reflects the the um the the beginning of The Siege on Jerusalem so there are these 11 days in which we're mourning Yan now he does admit since this is so far from the simple explanation the we're not even going to go into it but he's so clear that which really is meaningless it's because it's referring to pan and toel but still it means between here and there it's there's no question this still relates very much to the simple because you don't need to say banan what did you need to triangulate places that don't even exist they are hints as Rashi clearly says to sins that we did and we all know that Moses was attempting to give us rebuke in a hinted fashion in order to save us face and shame and whatnot so listen there's a lot of work to do we have to work we have to strengthen ourselves in our love for Hashem and our love for our fellow human beings I think if you really love Hashem if you really love Hashem you will know that every human being is created in the image of God and how could you how could you right but unfortunately because of our own insecurities a lot of cases our own self-esteem issues in most cases as we saw if what you feel about someone else I'm sorry how does it work what you feel in your heart about someone else you think that's what they are working against you so we will also learn a lot of judging other people favorably putting on some pink right rose-colored glasses we have to we have to clean our eyes we have to take the veil off our eyes and see the beautiful creation that hasem made including ourselves including ourselves and batem will all grow and this will be it's like arsh already this will be the last morning period but bem I didn't want to mention that in the future these three weeks will be like a holiday just to go through some quick things um many people are not aware of this but um the Jews were thrown out of England in the year 1290 on Tish that was a edict signed by the Monarch uh the Jews were expelled from expelled from Spain on tisho in 1492 uh World War I was actually started 1914 it began on Tish when these bad things are happening it's actually it's a sign it's so obvious that this is from Hashem when these horrible things happen on like you know markers dates it becomes clear to us and and there's no reason to give up hope there's actually more reason to know that hasem it's his hand that's enacting it that the relationship is ongoing you say what am I talking about God says I want you to keep my Torah I love you I only want to do good for you but when you stray these curses will take place so don't be don't think there's no relationship the relationship is there when a parent a loving parent has to punish their children it's for the good of the child and only when we grow up and mature do we realize that while we're children we want our lollipop we want our ice pop we want the newest game and when we're being punished we can't get it I mean we we we're not seeing clearly we're we're we're in a fit right but the older we get we realize wow they were trying to get me to be a mench to be a a good person right only as we grow up that there was no other way for them to get this message across unless they were Stern about it and so hashem's loving sternness is what's happening here now there's also other advantages of the Exile besides that we're not going to find a place to rest our feet but also to pick up Sparks that the Gentiles who never converted fully but at Mount Si said Nas isma under their breath the the the uh administering angels of their Nations said no we're not going to do the Torah we're not going to accept the Torah doesn't interest us our whole mende our our national existence is based on these nevertheless there were individual Souls that said I want to be a part of this I believe in it and so unfortunately through the Exile right as we know there's a negative a lot of negativity but there's also a lot of positivity and that positivity is the ability to pick up the Sparks now now we have the land of Israel so many tourists so many people that we run into are coming here because they're attracted to the land of Israel to the Torah of Israel to the people of Israel and want to learn more about it and there's uh maybe we don't have to go maybe the exile's over maybe the egg there's no reason for the Exile anymore so basically come home right I'm telling you Jewish people come home and to the Sparks are out there join up because ain't a whole lot of time left theem this will be the last fish above that we sell celebrate or I shouldn't say celebrate that we observe in this fashion but rather we'll be celebrating in a much more different fashion so with that shabbat shalom have a meaningful fast if we have to fast and of course have 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