Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz: The Chronicles of Jesus, 10th of Tevet and Three days of Sorrow

[Music] is anyone I hope everyone had a as they say a meaningful fast and CR to talk about actually I'm going to give you a post fast talk about the fast and what's interesting is that if you look at the show Canora there's actually supposed to be a three day fast you eat them the in in the middle of the nights in between there is the eighth of today's the ninth of today's and the tenth of today's now of those three days only the righteous fast for three days most of us only fast one day the tenth of terreis so the tenth of Tabas is the only one that's obligatory and this was the date that Nabokov Nets our began the siege against Jerusalem at the time of the destruction of the first temple which three years later culminated in the destruction of the temple on the ninth of above now the events that happened on the eighth and the ninth have absolutely nothing to do with that particular event on the 8th of Tabak the Gemara reports that the 70 elders completed a translation of the Torah into Greek and this is the story that is recorded this is the story of the Septuagint or the targa mahashiv in and that is one of the Kings that succeeded Alexander was told me establish the Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt and wonder if Tommy's objectives was to create like a national library or a Library of Congress in which every book in the world was in this library is actually one of the wonders of the ancient world and as a result he commissioned a translation of the Torah into Greek and seventy elders or suddenly two elders according to one version were placed in separate rooms and through divine inspiration they came up with an identical and somebody once asked for a footer are we supposed to believe in that miracle that so many new people in separate rooms came up with the same translation so her foot nurse response was if they would have been in the same room it would have been a bigger miracle so the miracle is not so great if they're in separate in separate rooms and this is called the Septuagint and the Talmud indicates that the day that the Septuagint was completed darkness came into the world but the Talmud does not tell us what was the problem with it now most people say well by translating the Torah you make it available to non Jews and non-jews can introduce distortions perversions they could now interpret the Torah in different ways and therefore it would have been better not to have that translation but that's a difficult position really to take because in point of fact Moshe Rabbeinu himself was commanded to translate the Torah in two different languages and there actually is a point that we want the wisdom of the Torah to be available to the world so they can learn from to simply condemn something because it made the Torah accessible to non-jews would seem not to be a valid point because that's part of the rest own Hashem now a second possibility might be that the Gemara tells us that the translators introduced certain distortions uniformed was into the translation for example they inverted the word order the beginning of the Torah is Bray shish barak in the beginning Gunn created but in Hebrew that could be translated the beginning created God which means God was created at the beginning of time so to avoid that misunderstanding they inverted the word order to clearly indicate God created the beginning another example is said that in the list of non kosher animals it lists the rabbit as a non-kosher animal our nebat and apparently whatever the Greek name for rabbit is missus told me had that name so if they would simply say in a Greek verse missus told me is a repulsive non kosher animal that wouldn't have looked good so they used the euphemism for rabbit but I want to mention a third example of interesting distortion which is not even mentioned in the Gemara but it's very very fascinating and that is the Septuagint which is the targa massive in reinterprets a certain verse in safer schmoes to take a whole lot a position that is much stricter than the rabbinic position in the gomorrah itself we know that abortion is generally a sin but the jewish position on abortion is not the same as the Catholic Church the Catholic Church treats abortion as equivalent to murder and the Catholic Church says that life begins upon conception and there is no distinction between terminating a newly fertilized egg and killing a 25 year old amen now halakhah doesn't quite say that a lotta actually says that something is not does not have the status of an autonomous human life until it's born abortion is not a capital offense abortion is a sin because you are preventing a potential from being actualized but not because it is an actualization in and of itself and the proof for that position is in Exodus and then purchase misrata the Torah discusses two men that are fighting and if a pregnant woman steps between them to stop the fight and she gets hit in the belly and as a result there's a miscarriage so the Torah says the following if there is a calamity the word is also then they do not have a financial penalty if there's no calamity then they must pay for the financial loss now what does that mean so the Talmud explains calamity refers to the woman herself and there actually is a rule in Halawa that if you commits a crime for which there is a death penalty that absolves you of financial liability for something peripheral to that so if I kill somebody I don't have to pay the cleaning bill for getting his suit sullied with blood and life so therefore the Talmud makes the point that if the mother is killed so that is an act of murder albeit unintentional there will be no financial liability for the loss of fetal life based on the principle that capital offenses cancel out financial liability if on the other hand the mother was not killed so all you have is the destruction of fetal life for that there's compensation and this is the basis of the Talmudic ruling that abortion is not a capital crime because if abortion were to be a capital crime there would be no financial penalty because that would also be a capital crime now the Septuagint has a radically different translation of the word of song and they connect the word the Hebrew was sown in a very questionable linguistic link jump they connect to the Hebrew word are sown with the Greek works word soma which means body and they translate the verse this way if there is an us some if the fetus already has arms and legs and they forms body then the abortion is a topical offense and there's no compensation and if the fetus does not have a forms body then it becomes a monetary offense which means that the Septuagint actually translates the foolish and to take a much more stricter position on abortion then halakhah actually does now what's fascinating is that although the Septuagint was completed by rabbinic by rabbis it did not become part of the Messara of the terrible passage not consulted by Jewish scholars and did not become part of the halacha tradition fascinatingly however the Septuagint had an enormous influence on Christianity many of the church fathers who knew he most of the Louisville but their primary language was Greek and they learned the teachings of the so-called Old Testament were primarily mediated through the Septuagint the Septuagint was much more influential in Christianity then it wasn't Judaism and some historians have posited that the position of the Catholic Church equating abortion with murder was ultimately derived from the Septuagint now granted the Catholic Church took it further because the separate arrogance only made it murder when arms and legs are formed and not at that earlier point the Catholic Church went further but some have suggested that the Jewish Septuagint actually influenced now if indeed that is a distortion of Jewish law one could understand going back to the basic point why the sermon looked at it in a very negative way so so again the standard explanation we don't like to translate the Torah for that seems to be a flawed explanation because God wants to tore it to be known the second explanation is the distortions were a matter of concern that would be a potential problem but there's a third explanation that maybe is the most compelling and that is the problem with the translation was not that it made the Torah available for the non-jewish population that could be positive but rather this was a sad reflection that so many Jews were so illiterate in leshawna kodesh that they needed the translation the Jewish community of Alexandria was huge was wealthy was politically well-connected and was very very assimilated and Jewishly illiterate much like let's say the Jewish community of the United States of and as a result for them the Septuagint was a huge huge tool in fact Philo of Alexandria who was a very renowned Greek Jewish philosopher who was somewhat traditional again would he be no person x2 as we call it today we're not really sure but he certainly was a lover of tradition he writes that in Alexandria every year the community would celebrate the anniversary of the completion of the Septuagint so what what rabbinic Judaism regarded as a tragedy they considered that to be a symptom you know the Kabbalah discusses are you allowed to write a Torah scroll in Greek now when you learn a gumar like that you wonder who would ever think of writing a Torah scroll Greek but this was a very practical question in a huge community like Alexandria you might not be able to find a bulk all right who could read it in Hebrew and they talked about that remember there's a huge description in the Gemara of the beautiful magnificent synagogue of Alexandria which was so used there were gold chairs and silver chairs and it was so big that nobody can hear the khazin they didn't have microphones in those days or on Shabbos or whatever so there was a God by with a flag when the hasn't finished abraca the god I would wave the flag and people would answer our name when sometimes escapes people's notice is there's a certain sarcastic parity nature in that description a lot of the description is pretty obviously hyperbolic it's describing something much huger than it was and it really reflects kind of the rabbinic disrespect for communities that were based on money and influence and ostentatious nough Sunda mentally Jewishly illiterate so in a sense there for the the discomfort kazow habit had with the Septuagint was the fact that it may have been absolutely necessary but it was said that it became necessary just like crutches the person's legs are not functioning it's a great brother to have crutches but it's a very sad thing that you need the crutches and you can't walk on your own you know we have a profession when we now live in a world where so much of the Tauri is available in translation arts growth and the like and that is a wonderful thing it makes the tour available to people and that's a great great thing but there's a certain undercurrent of sadness that we need those translations because people cannot go back to the original sources at least initially and of course keep in mind by definition a translation can only capture one nuance at a time you know in an original text especially a divine text there are going to be infinite nuances every translation is just a snapshot of one particular meaning and so much is going to be lost so that was the tragedy of the eighth of tapings we had a little bit of an ambivalent tragedy because in my hands translating the Torah was a good thing on the other hand the fact that an assimilated community relied on that translation is something for which we mourn a little bit let me mention that Philo of Alexandria and probably gathered during the same period of time they someone had to that's correct it was translated in Aramaic well that is an interesting point IRA meant so although IRA make is not an indigenous Jewish language and America was something like Yiddish in the sense that because this was the language of the sages so it acquired a certain quasi sanctity which elevated it above things like Greek and and the like you know so it's it again he would be very good analogy that you know we regard Yiddish as somewhat of a holy language simply because of its usage by the sages over so many hundreds if not millennia may have been the original language of Upper Avraham Avinu it is spoken to this very day it is spoken by the Kurds and by a number of Christian communities in Syria so there are no Jewish communities except some juice from Kurdistan but there are no Jewish communities that speak Aramaic as a language but there are Christian communities that do so if you have a hard word in Gemara contact your Christian friend in Syria and they may be able to to help you out in terms of Aramaic and and he ever like also Aramaic is much closer to Hebrew than than Greek ancient Greek is okay if there was problems that it was a forced translation and it it could be maybe used against you but then said you know it yeah the question is though many say that it was the first translation I mean the problem basic is what happened to the translations of that's a bit of a problem did they just disappear mantra Pedro translated the Tauri to 70 languages now maybe that wasn't the whole Torah maybe that was only the MIS fuss of the Torah because it's hard to imagine how Moshe could do 70 whole translations that would have been a miracle certainly but it's hard to know because they seem to have disappeared from history and then we look at the Septuagint as D as the new translation okay well that those are to opinion something they were plastered over but Sabbath but then another opinion says what sense does that make if people aren't gonna see it so it has to be at that just like Haskell in Rome I believe you have the twelve tablets meaning Rome had a thing that when you entered the city of Rome the main laws were all put on columns so every person entering would be aware of what the laws were and Mosher of a news translations of the Torah were supposed to be the same thing you come to Israel erage Israel these are the laws of the of the land but as learner to Jewish Philo of Alexandria historians still debate some historians take the position that Philo did not know Hebrew man silo's all knowledge of the Torah was via the Greek the Greek translation it's not clear again yeah we don't have a particularly proof one way or the other but this is a position that a number of historians have taken okay we now come to the ninth of tables which has a fast for a totally different reason so I opened up the shoulder Nora why do some tsadikim fast on the ninth of today's the show Canora says they didn't want to give you the reason very very strange there is a fast but we're not telling you why well one thing that happens for sure when somebody tells you they're not giving you the reason people certainly want to look for the reason right that it's your curiosity so the standard reason that's given it really makes no sense because why would this be concealed and he said that the ninth of today's was the yard site was the anniversary of the death of Ezra not so fair now Ezra Mike was the great great prophet and calling who was the religious leader of the Jewish people at the beginning of the Second Temple after the 70 years of the Babylonian exile and it was Ezra that reconstituted the religious community and the observance of the Torah he organized the men of the great assembly in the unshaken ascetic doula and cuz I'll consider Ezra to be so great and his leadership was so essential that he is compared to Moshe Rabbeinu and it is said that had the tour had not been given to Moshe Ezra would have been worthy to receive the Torah from God and as a result on the day of his death we mourn and we grieve to this very day now that's in the sleeveless the sleepers this morning mentions that the ninth of today's was the yard site of Ezra sofa but the problem is very obvious that's not a reason you got to keep secret I mean the chef when I write says we fast and we're not telling you why if it's the right side of us res so fair so that's the reason that's not a it's not a secret so let me essentially were talking about the debate with Christian missionary there are two Christian reasons why the ninth of tables became a fast that we didn't want to publicize but in our small group I will level publicizing one speculation is that the ninth of today's was the actual birthday of Jesus of Nazareth in the year that he was born now as you know the separate 25th is a is the date of Jesus's birth has but found that not an accurate date but Jesus was born towards the end of the end of the solar year November December and of course the Russian Orthodox Church has a different date for for Christmas so according to this tradition the ninth of Av with Yeshua's birthday and since the birth of yushkin heralded so many devastating sorrows that the Jewish people have suffered for centuries and centuries so we make fast there some righteous people would make a fast on the day of yoga's birth and the Hebrew date was said to be the ninth of today's and they've actually seen some astronomical calculations that try to prove that based on the actual year of his birth and and the light and you can well understand why we would not want to publicize that reason because of the Christian see that were fasting because we're grieving the death of yashka that looks very bad because that's not like Good Friday where you're fasting and because of the crucifixion this is factly because of his birth and that that would look very bad but there's a second Christological reference that is even more intriguing and fascinating and it may be a Bubba mice that may be totally untrue or it may be true we don't have definitive evidence but this is it's not from castle it's not in the metric but it comes from sources in rish on him like the master of entry which was written by disciples of Rashi and in a famous book of anonymous authorship called told oh she Asian told oh CHEO is kind of the Jewish history of yushkin and this was a widely circulated work in the Middle Ages anonymous authorship and act he had multiple versions as well but here is the story the story is that the ninth of teh base is a yard site it is the day of the death of a righteous person but the righteous person we are commemorating is not ever enough so fair but it's a man called Shimon Kiba Shima keep a keep on Aramaic his rock Shimon Kiba is none other than the man that is known in the Christian Bible as Simon Peter the Apostle Peter yes his closest disciple and the one who succeeded him as the leader of the church Peter became the first pope the first bishop of rome and his name was Simon Simon and Peter beats Rock Petra and yashka gave me the name Peter because he says upon this rock I will found my church and in Aramaic that's keeper keeper means rock and shimokita is the Apostle Peter so the ninth of today's we fast because we're grieving over the death not the birth the death of a great sadiq the Apostle Peter what on earth does that mean the Apostle Peter is a sadiq in the Jewish tradition so listen to the story that is recorded in total dossier she told Oates history yay she makes you as Jesus told us yeah if you look up there's a Wikipedia article on that you should look up this is a very well-known book but it's like there are 10 different versions of it each one version is little is a little different total Jason gives us the following story about Shimon Kiba the early Christians were of course all Jews as you see himself as a Jew and as a result similar to Messianic Jews today they infiltrated Jewish congregations they dabbled in sin they participated in Shabbat and injunctive and this was a very dangerous thing this was like a cancer within Judaism because as a result your Jewish friends and neighbors might be espousing Christian heretical ideas and the him the hated Pharisees of the New Testament so to speak the Pharisees thought this was a very very dangerous thing because this was introducing a cancerous influence that could take Jews away from Judaism so shipment keeper volunteered to do the equivalent of a suicide mission a spiritual suicide mission he basically said I will create a church I will create a new religion I will as it were take Christians out of Judaism and make them a sect and make them a group that is totally distinct and in that way they will be seen to be a different religion in other words they will no longer be part of Judaism so to speak they will be separate and although once they're separate they could oppress us they could hurt us in various ways but at least black and white will be clearly demarcated we will no Christian Jewish so Peter said in order for me to do this I have to give up my affiliation with the Jewish community I have to go to Yoshi and say I embrace him wholeheartedly and I know I will never be part of the Jewish community again I will live my life as one who EPA 'td Judaism but I will continue to keep the commandments privately so the first pope was in fact the religious Jew not only a Jew but a religious Jew according to this legend or this story and Shimon Kiba just asked one he says I am leaving the Jewish people forever in order that other Jews should not be dragged into apostasy but he asked the sages please remember me remember the anniversary of my death and then told och you it is recorded that the fast of the ninth of Tibet's is in memory of Peter who when our tradition actually is a saint st. Peter so to speak because he sacrificed his own Judaism in order that Claudius Rama should not be hurt by Christian influence now to add something even more while to this he also composed a prayer and he asked the sages to include this prayer in the liturgy and this prayer is none other than the prayer knishmas knishmas this month is a very beautiful prayer that we recite every Shabbos morning and we recite at the Pesach Seder and according to at least one miss Olga the author of knishmas is none other than Shimon Kiba and in memory of his great great sacrifice for the Jewish people we recite his beautiful prayer as well now this is quite a wild story and there are summary shown and we say this is heretical and they actually say anyone that says that knishmas was written by the Apostle Peter is going to have to give an accounting to God after 120 years so some authorities were absolutely aghast at that type of reconstruction but some opinions say it did happen now I'll mention another thing there was a similar theory in the 19th century among historians that that was the role of Paul the Apostle Paul now Paul Christian history and too much length Paul was not one of the yuccas apostles he I shouldn't have called me it was not the Apostle Paul that's he didn't know yes get me need you know Jesus was crucified before Paul went on the scene but Paul declares himself that he was a student of robbing Camille and Paul says he was a proud Pharisee and Paul says he was going to persecute those Christians and that was his road to Damascus to kind of find some Christians and beat him up whatever thought was going to do to them and then of course he had his famous Epiphany the road to Damascus right a very famous expression they censored the language so in the 19th century there was a theory among academic historians and I think probably got consolidation that it was Paul that really broke Christianity off from Judaism and that actually makes a lot of sense it makes a lot of sense is that it makes much more sense to locate it and Paul rather than Peter because Paul created ministry to the Gentiles and it was Paul that actually taught that Tory doesn't have to be kept anymore because all you need is faith so it could very well be that in rabbinic literature generally the Apostles are all mixed up meaning to say they say Peter were they mean Paul on them the curcumin will not always be dying in who that we're talking about so it could very well be that they told us yes you reference the Shimon Kiba should be understood as a reference to Paul and then that would validate the academic theory of the 19th century that Paul was a secret agent designed the Shan Shan Mian and the Shamy on us to break Christianity away from Judaism to make it a separate religion so it was no longer infiltrate with them and of course the infiltration is a major major danger that we face because now you do have that infiltration you have the Messianic Jews people who have stitches out and they think they may even look for a D on some level and you know they infiltrate and that can be a very very dangerous thing it's good that you know armies should have their own uniforms and you know who's on each side okay so that's the nun so we did the 8th of tapings we did the 9th of Tibet's then of course we come to the one faster this obligatory and that is the 10th of today's and this is the beginning of the book that's our siege against Jerusalem when the first temple was destroyed in the year 586 before the Common Era that's the common date think that is given now there's an interesting conceptual problem with the tenth of tables that I want to bring up we have a total of four fast days in the year that are connected to events concerning the destruction of the base but they mikdash tsch above of course is to both the day of the destruction of the first base of McNutt and the destruction of the second base of mcduck 490 years apart to the day tsch above Tish above the 17th of Thomas is primarily connected to the second base of make sense because that was the day the Romans broke through the walls of Jerusalem so Gedaliah however in a sort of at a base are only connected to the first temple some Gedaliah I'm sorry sir but a base was the day when the boot cut nets are began a siege against Jerusalem that was not the day of the Romans beginning the siege in fact we don't commemorate the day that the Romans began to siege so today I'm sorry but a base is only Mukesh Rishi oh it is not mikdash Amy and similarly some vitally which is after the Corbin so we tell you is the latest event that was the assassination of the Jewish governor Natalia who was the governor of the remnant of the Jewish community that remains in Eretz Israel after the floor bug and he was assassinated by a fellow Jew and that was treated as the final nail in the coffin the final destruction of the Jewish presence inherit is round but it's the first myth that's not the second message now why is that important like why is it important whether you're commemorating a first Mick dodge tragedy or a second to make this tragedy so the problem is the following all of us know the famous passage in the Gemara my centrist humor that the first temple was destroyed because the Jews were guilty of the most serious of Amos avodah Zarah idolatry gilja Raya sexual immorality Shatila stomach murder now granted as Rebecca Miller points out we're never making the claim that most of the Jewish people did all of these events but there it was prevalent enough that this was a stigma and a blemish on Kali throughout and these three events are so harm or that you have to be willing to die before you transgress for them and God destroyed the temple and exile now the second based on these does because I'll say most of the Jews were observant most of the Jews were doing mitzvahs most of the Jews were learning Torah so why was the second base of mikdash destroyed so the famous passages it was destroyed because of Sinatra phenom polarization hatred dissension for no reason not locusts and then the kymaro goes on it says look how deadly and pernicious Sinatra not was the first base on Mick dodge which had the worst conceivable sense about Azaria and Gilley arrival some him the galoot was only 70 years and then Cyrus allowed us to come back but the second base of victory which was destroyed because of Sinatra phenom we are still suffering that goes after thousands of almost 2000 years right Sosa nasty Nam is a big big thing Josephus was an extremely interesting person you can love him or hate him Josephus Yosef big mata Co right there's a street than usual I am yo se for him at the show named after dr. Seif is Josephus was a Jewish general who was a Cohen and he surrendered his army and he surrendered himself to the Romans like a Benedict Donald feeling that there was no possibility of victory and as a result he lived the remaining years of the Jewish revolt in Rome under the protection of the Emperor but he tried to salvage his reputation by writing histories of the Jewish people in which he tries to paint the Jewish people in a favorable light but at the same time he could not condemn Rome that much because he's writing it in the shadow of the Roman Emperor so he becomes a story that the inciting among Jewish sects for control of your schleimann Judy Chu was so strong and so vicious that in the base on McNish itself there were warming sects there was one group that was shooting arrows from one side and another group that was shooting arrows from the other side and the Kohanim were ducking the arrows to bring the carboneau stuff they have to bring this is Josephus his own description and he actually quotes Titus as saying that maybe I don't have to destroy this city after all if I just bide my time the Jews will do it to themselves now did Titus say it obviously anything Josephus reports has to be taken with an enormous grain of salt on the other hand it rings true because it does fit what result was talked about when they talked about the awful Sinatra none that existed within the Jewish people now let's go back to this when we mourned the destruction of the temple what we think about is not just to cry over spilt milk but we try to rectify in our own personalities the sins which caused the Corbin Beit HaMikdash and we try to resolve in our own lives that we try to rebuild the mikdash by removing the reasons for its destruction and even if we're just a single person Helen Keller used to say I am only one person but I am one person we need to say I can work on myself and if everybody had that agenda the world would be transformed so here's the problem I want to raise with you when it comes to Second Temple which focuses on sanity none I can certainly identify those of Eros in my own personality no I don't have enough love indifference towards other Jews coldness meaning I can think about why was the second base that makes us destroyed and then resolve to improve myself these are V that particular of a a sort of a take base is not about to sin Athena Asura but a base is about the first temple now the first temple the sins which would be on my mind would be avoided Zahra Delia Reyes should be the stomach so here's the question how do I relate to that am i that bad right sin us phenom which includes lesser Nara to that I have but I vote is Aurra I don't worship idols Delia rice most of us at least they're not Mitchell in actual sexual sin and murder meaning the question that knows this is the conceptual problem that I have here meaning to say given the fact that I survive but a race is me you cut only with respect to the McDuffie shown the first temple and not to mikdash Amy and that's the second temple and given the fact that the Ave Rose of the first base of Nick Dutch IRA both Azara Delia Raya should be forced on them how am I supposed to do chuhwa for those sins if they are not the sins which are really infecting my personality unlike sand not sanam which unfortunately all of us are tainted with in one way or the other so let me share with you the thought of another kablooie beautiful thoughts and but first of all let me make a preliminary thought first of all even if we're not guilty of these are various literally let's remember that's cazali equated many other things as equivalence for example because I'll say I call echo X anyone that is angry is tantamount to idol worship hmm so I'm not guilty of abode Ozora but do I have anger that's about is alright or because I'll say anyone that if you humiliate somebody publicly how Malbin Peniche of a robo rabbit is treated as murder so maybe I didn't stick a knife into somebody's heart but if I humiliated them publicly I'm a murderer gilja right well President Carter Carter so I figured recently at the at the George HW Bush's funeral once famously remarked that he has committed adultery in his heart many times now the press made fun of it and the like but that is a worthy statement Nucky that there is a serious statement that a sexual temptation can be transgressed in many many different ways and it doesn't have to be an actual physical act and certainly in the culture that we live in which is suffused with unbridled sexuality of very very improper types it's very easy for a person to be Mitchell at least in his mind and heart with gilja riga so on one level therefore about his honor can exist in the form of anger Severus Thummim can exist in the form of embarrassing people and guilty areas could be can exist in the form of exposure to the hedonistic culture that we're surrounded with questioning well that's that's a fascinating question and and once again I think the mokoros the sources are quite ambivalent on one hand we profess great admiration for the person who conquers yo-yo right powerful urges that is a great thing on the other hand there's a certain condemnation for having those urges that a truly righteous person would have transcended them so it kind of goes both ways a little bit now but let me share with you episode equip sort of takes it a little bit in a different direction although it's connected he says that the three cardinal of arrows of abode Azara Gilly raya should be with some him are really symptoms of deeper flaws of character and therefore even if you're asymptomatic even if your behavior has not carried out to those extremities the underlying root causes are still there now what are the underlying root so we know in Pirkei avos Pirkei avos tells us all solution devar in Cola moment the world stands on three pillars of holiness Torah learning of Torah abode of divine service can be Lascaux sudden acts of loving-kindness we know that these are the three uh posts on forum is the pillar of loving-kindness of Crescent the instruct is the pillar of divine service he was a Corbin Yaakov who spent 14 years in the Achieva of shame and Ava represents Torah so these are the three pillars of holiness without which God is not in the world and God is not in your life but the same way there are three pillars that bring sanctity and holiness into the world there are three factors that destroy your holiness and this is Ravi Eleuthera Kapoor's statements also in Pirkei avos ha Tina Tina is jealousy tava is unrestrained lust for sensual pleasure and carve out a desire and an arrogant desire force ego gratification self-advertisement glory-seeking these three factors Coquina for hot I got vodka bite mode Seon saw Adam Minato them they take a person out of this world they destroy this spiritual world success rhapsodic kena which is really a denial what is envy i am i begrudge that person whatever blessing he has I don't want him to have it it should belong to me Kidman is essentially taking away the legitimacy of that person's existence and in an extreme way it could actually lead to murder an effect if you look at the typical violent murder factoring out terrorism which unfortunately we are all too familiar with here but if you simply look at street crime you will commonly find there quite a lot of homicides that's say the majority depending on the community I really crimes coming from petty jealousy among family members I wanted your sneakers I want your coats you were looking at my wife the wrong way right so indeed jealousy in an extreme way can lead to murder conceptually philosophically it's connected to the idea that when you deny the legitimacy of a person the totality of a person's existence you may eventually deny his legitimacy to life itself that's kidnap Vico stomach Tyva and Gilly arias is pretty self-evident a lust for hedonistic pleasure could lead to gilja trials now the third one is the most subtle commode commode is ego gratification arrogance how is that connected to idolatry say here at Southwick says in a more conceptual symbolic way avodah Zarah literally means foreign worship strange worship it doesn't have to mean you're bowing down to a statue but any type of ideal or ideology or idea or concept that becomes central to your life over and above abode as I said becomes of our desire so the person that is suffused with covered has made his own ego his own garden that every decision he makes is motivated by what will feed into his narcissism what will feed into his glory and you could even be a very religious Jew he could be a very observant Jew but kavod could be the dominating thoughts and aspect of your life and that is a form of avodah Zarah so what is rhapsodic saying that yes an asura beat a base we think about the other they wrote of avodah Zarah Delia Reyes vehicle stomach because a surrogate a base is a mix - rishon fast not a Mick - Shana fast and yet it doesn't mean our boat is already in the literal sense of bowing down to an idle but a voter's Ora as a manifestation in my worshipping my ego and gilja rious is connected to Tiber and she who sometimes cannot get to Kim now you know why she wears a mask we're presently doing a building campaign some of you know that so she'll go by the Ashima you'll see a huge huge hole in the ground very very deep foundation that has been done now the very first thing you have to do when you build a new building is clean the site remove the garbage and the debris off the site you can't build without removing the garbage from the area and that's exactly the way the base of mikdash works as well you can't build a base on maybe Dutch until you get rid of the garbage the garbage is all of the static that is preventing us from connecting to the omen the Cygnus cleaner the Kiner the jealousy the type of the troubles all of that is garbage and therefore what is our job on these fast days to clear out our systems to try to work on getting rid of the meadows rows that prevent our hearts and our souls from becoming a missionary dwelling place of time remember when Hashem gave the commandment to build the tabernacle which was the first base of mikdash utterly make - make for me a temple this shall haunt EB TOCOM so I will dwell not in the temple I will dwell in their hearts the temple of pleasure has to be in our heart in our soul and when we have the garbage in there the temple can't be there and until the temple is in here it's not gonna be out there right the temple that's gonna be Haram Maria the Ezra session václav cannot come down maybe not show Maya until our hearts and our souls are ready for God to dwell there and that's why these meet us who else is so significant now let me mention one final interesting point generally speaking the fast stays connected to the temple are rooted in earlier of a rose in our historical experience so for example the night of of was rooted in the sin of the spice because the spice came back on the 8th of us and they gave their report and that night all of the nation cried bitterly and complained and didn't have faith and Hashem said you have cried for not this night for no reason I will make this day eternal crying so tisha Bob is connected to the faith of a rattler the 17th of Thomas which is the day of the Second Temple when the Romans broke through the wall connected to the day that Moshe Rabbeinu came down with the tablets after 40 days and he saw the golden calf and he smashed the lips so T Shabaab is connected to the morale in 17th of Thomas is connected to the state to Hegel those were the two major sins our forefathers committed in the desert there were other invaders but the major ones are the saints or a gal late-summer ravelin so the question is is our syrup at a base connected to anything like is there any antecedent of era that our circuit areas is connected so in the Kazaa we actually don't find something but in later Swarna they seem to have no source I don't know how they know this are they just guessing but in later sparring it is asserted that a syrup at a base was the date that Joseph was sold into slavery by his brothers so as a result we now have a surrogate a base mishima Co safe Shiva sorbets ominous hater a girl Tish above states of Morocco now what's fascinating about this although I wish there would be some definitive source what's fascinating about this is that this in effect brings the Second Temple into the tenth of tables as well because although the historical event of the 10th of teh base only connects to the McNish region and the Mukesh Rishi on were the sins of avodah Zarah Delia right in the stomach but if I start up at a base was the day of mercy osteocytes what sin is involved in mercy ratio Satan obviously hatred jealousy synastry no so in a sense it's already rooted in a sort of at a base not only the Corbin of the first Mick - but also the korban of the second magician there is a teaching of the foursome so fair maybe I should have said this last week in preparation for the fest that ass Arabic a base is the young identity day of judgment where God decides will the temple be rebuilt this year or not meaning a seraph at a base is when our shadow postions will there be a vineyard they saw mcdhh us this year or will it have to wait so all we can say it's already after that that fact we can just hope and pray that our fast and our prayers and our Trueba and our attempt to work it on me those elbows to make them better should give quali swell a favorable in Menasha maíam that we should be so sad to the pinyon base of make such good neighbor of you may know but again in order to have that base of make - there has to be vishal from deepest Ohana when hashem is living in our hearts and in our soul then and only then can we merit the mikdash which will come down min tonight [Music]