Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz: The Consolation and Encouragement Must be Greater than the Chastisement

my baby [Music] again thank you for coming um tonight's cheers are dedicated for a refuge Lima Israel in addition a special dedication for The Refuge Lima of our own Ben Leia and his whole family and they also request a general of and everything else again in the success of your support of Torah that should be a source of all Brothers in addition again we're very grateful for your support and may it be easy for the Elliott uh we're kind of in the unusual just the calendar is a little unusually configured this year vis-a-vis this year because on one hand it is not yet Tish above Tish above is tomorrow night we hope and we pray that it'll be in based on mikdash Bill built even tomorrow but if not we're going to fast and yet this year we're supposed to be covering the Parsha after tissue Prophet is already Shabbos nakama so I'm agonizing even right now right this very minute I'm agonizing should I talk about Tish above or should I talk about after Tish above uh and I'm going to talk about both as a result also with a little bit of the parcha sachivua that is that is coming up uh first of all I do want to mention a general Aura we are we have begun last week the book of devorem and the Book of devorem is called by arkhazal mishna Torah the double Torah because so much of it is a review of what was already in the other so in the other partios the other form of the term in fact the English or the Greek name Deuteronomy is exactly that it's Greek for the second law so in many ways Deuteronomy is closer to ghazal's name of the Hamish than his safer Devore him they didn't call this safer divarim they called it now the style of safer tovarium is different than the rest of the Torah in the rest of the Torah you have what is called the anonymous narrator everything is in third person and God spoke to Moshe and Pyro said in the book of davarium Moshe is the direct narrator he doesn't say Hashem spoke to Moshe rather he says Hashem spoke to me in other words say for devarem Moshe rabeno is the first person narrative voice as opposed to the rest of the Torah even even in literature this is described as the omniscient narrator of course in this case it's quite literally the omniscient narrator none other than Martin mcgilla points this out and the gamarin Magilla makes a very very amazing assertion the admiring mcgilla says the rest of the Torah are the words of God book of javarium are Moshe rabenu's own words the rest of the Torah God speaks and Moshe simply tells us what Hashem says in the book of javaram it's moshe's own words if you take the camera literally you run into a real problem the rambam says that one of the 13 principles of faith is that every single letter in the Torah is directly written down through dictating it says to write voracious Moshe writes voracious and even a detail that we think is we think is insignificant like as one of asa's wives you know had a sister Etc we think it's not important if you say that Moshe put it in himself or it was not from hashem's dictation that is heresy that is epic horses that is kefira that is a denial in the Divinity of the Tyra sashem now if that is truly the case how can one take the position that the book of the Warren is Moshe rabino's own words meaning what God did not tell them what to write down so it's a very very difficult question because after all the gemara does say in Magilla that safer devaram our Moshe rabena's own words but the key to this and this is really just a general observation is pointed out by theobarbanel uh by the way the Barbarella is actually a very very relevant to Tish above the barbinal where he's called Don it's like a barbinelli was a member of the Spanish nobility was the finance minister of Spain during the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella he was the one who financed Columbus's voyages to India but eventually that discovered the so-called new world he lived at the time when the Jews were expelled from Spain unless they converted and his financial Acumen was so necessary that they were willing to give him a waiver he was given permission to stay in Spain and he could even be a religious Jew as long as he see money how important money is as long as he kept his position refused and tradition has it that on the ninth of us 1492 which was the last the expulsion of the Jews occurred in several stages but this was said to be the last stage Thea barbanell was at the head of the procession as the leader of the Jewish community and it is recorded we don't know if it's 100 true that at the end of the procession there was a woman with her four-year-old son who grew up to be review Joseph Cairo the author of the silkenara The barbanell is the head of the procession little of Joseph Cairo is at the end of the procession and it is recorded in medieval records late medieval records that theobarbanel actually instructed that the people leaving Spain play musical instruments on the ninth of of itself he mockered them to play music play music how could that be so there are two different virus that are given two opposite safaris one swara is that the Jews were so broken they were so to Brooklyn they were so depressed 800 Years of Living in Spain and Jews had reached the Pinnacle of political influence of science philosophy in addition to being great Torah Scholars as well and all of this collapsed all of this was destroyed so the environmental felt that psychological well-being can be a matter of it could be a matter of danger to life so he mastered the extraordinary remedy of playing music on tishopov again you have to ask your local Orthodox Rabbi but the EMS is even today if somebody is severely depressed they could talk to her of about music and other things that helps them out of their depression reason number two though I like even more reason number two the Jews were moaning and groaning and crying on the ninth of us but they weren't crying over the Caribbean base I make dust they were crying because they're leaving Spain the Abra now wanted them to understand hey Spain is just another goddess leaving Lawless to Godless there's nothing to cry over he wanted them to realize don't put your faith so to speak in the Exile under any circumstances you think you were there 800 years you think you were wealthy you think you were successful it doesn't matter golos is golos leaving Spain is no different than leaving any other country and therefore fakerity actually wanted them to focus on tissue about and not think about leaving Spain as such a great great tragedy you know it reminds me a little bit of something Barrel wine and you should be well said you know Barrel line before he met Aliyah Rabbi wine was a rosh hashiva maybe officially he may still be I don't know but the receiver in Muncie that he found it and when the Yeshiva was built you know everybody wine is very good at making contacts and connections with all sorts of people so there was a builder who said he would get him special Timber from Finland that has that doesn't dwarp for 300 years I guess most wood warps after 50 years or except 50 to 70 years I will get you timber that's warp free for 300 years which would be a great saving in terms of maintenance repair Rabbi weinstead I am not going to build a building in the diaspora that is supposed to last for 300 years if I do such a thing I'm essentially denying the coming of mashiach I'm not going to do it the shalakadish also writes he criticized back in the 1500s Jews who built stone buildings in the diaspora now I have a caution rubber wine my cautionary wine is the gamarie mcgilla says that all of the yeshivas and the Shoals and hutzleras are going to relocate to Heritage Israel they'll be a miraculous uprooting so my position is take the wood build your 300 year structure and it's going to come together to spell anyway so you're not affirming that it belongs to the goddess okay but the apartment now therefore is actually connected to the tissue above story but but the reason I'm bringing him in is to answer this question remember the question that we started off with is how can we say the book of devarim our Moshe Urbane whose own words don't we have to believe that every letter in the Torah was inscribed gives an answer that really is so elegant that once at least for me once I heard this answer I I can't even hear any other answer because this is the answer the Obama differentiates between the spoken word and the written word for example there are many instances in the Torah where words are recorded Pyro's words are recorded loved one's words are recorded did God tell love on what to say before love and said it did God tell Paro what to say no when we say the Torah comes from God we mean after the fact God told Moshe how to write it down and maybe it's an exact quote maybe it's not meaning the claim that every word of the Torah is from God means after the event happens the verbal formulation was determined by akadeshwara and again we have no idea first of all pyro doesn't speak Hebrew so we have no idea if Pyro's words are God's translation into Hebrew or God paraphrasing what pyro said the way Hashem wanted to do it so says the apartment if you understand that it is only the after the fact recording of the lushon that is from God but not the speeches as they were given we can Now understand the difference between the book of devarim and the rest of the Torah with respect to the rest of the Torah where it says for example for a commandment God spoke to Moshe saying God told Moshe the exact words that Moshe should use Moshe you are to tell Bene Israel this in this way in the book of Devore him God did not tell him how to say it Moshe expressed it indeed in his own words but it was God that then decided which of moshe's words Moshe may have said many more things than the book of Devon records which of moshe's words are written down so every single letter of devorim was not inscribed in the Torah till Hashem said inscribe it but the point was on the level of speech it was moshe's words rather than iCarly Sparkles honored Moshe so to speak by basically saying I'm giving you one month the last month of moshe's life to say over the Torah in your language and I will honor it by incorporating it into the Torah that's a very very good answer because it's that there are many many things in the Torah that God did not tell the person what to say before the person said it only because God determined what would be written down and how it be written that much that's one General aspect of the book of devarim that's very important it is Moshe urbana's own words although Hashem determines which of those words would be inscribed in the Torah now here's the situation we are in the 40th year of wandering in the desert the book of devarium takes place starting rosh Hodes Moshe dies the seventh of utter so this is five weeks before his death continuing to the day of his death and Moshe is speaking to a new generation because the old generation had died out in the desert except for shape with label and except for many women who did not die because they had a Muna shaved Levy also actually entered at an old age but other than Yeshua and cut life the new generation the old generation rather is totally gone anyone that was 20 years old at the time of each Triumph is no longer here so everybody that's here was either born in the desert or was under 20 at the time of The Exodus and Moshe Robin was giving them muscle is giving them he's giving is reminding them of the sins of their forefathers such as the golden calf and the spies and he's reminding them of their own sins that didn't happen that long ago with Paul poror and the daughters of Victor that happened just a short time to the new generation already in the 40th year interestingly in all of moshe's Musser it's an interesting question he does not mention korak again he mentions agal and he mentions merogolam and he mentions know the sin of the daughters of Moab the fornication he does not as far as I remember he does not mention the sin of Quran again other than General statements that you rebelled against God and the like it's interesting why he does not bring up but via this it may he's giving them Musa and Musser and Musser and and he warns them of all sorts of dangers when you go to Eric Israel and you will be successful you will become arrogant and you will attribute your success to yourself your heart will be haughty and you will forget Hashem you'll get fat and lazy and you will kick it God and say forget about you right the book of divine is a book of Muslim and there's Rashi although there are new Mitzvahs there too yibim and get are not earlier in the Torah but savior is primarily and as Rashi points out the best time to give Moser is shortly before you die because you don't do it now when are you going to do it and also psychologically people are more receptive when they're going to lose their parent their teacher Mosher Amino they'll be more attentive to those words okay so in the middle of this muscle Moshe starts off saying and you know I too begged God when God decreed that you will not enter the land or your forefathers would not enter the land I I too was told I could not enter the land and I prayed I prayed and I pleaded to God to let me go and Hashem said Roblox it's enough for you altosphere as that don't say another word says Hashem and God was angry at me Lamontagne because of you and God said I can't come so it's worthwhile to ponder what does Moshe mean and God was angry at me because of you when you first read the pasok you get the impression that Moshe is saying you guys are so bad that not only did you sin but you made me sin because you rebelled against God you complained about the water you complained about the mind so I lost my temper whatever the sin was moshe's sin has many different opinions I lost my temper I hit the rock when I should have spoken to the Rock I called your rebellious ones I hit the rock twice when I should have hit the rock once whatever it is there are 50 different cheetahs what Moshe rabino's sin was but he seems to be blaming benay Israel you guys made me do it by yes God was angry at me because of you so first of all you know these are the types of excuses that I think all of us recognize are not really legitimate I mean the husband that abuses his wife God forbid hits his wife so the common the common excuse if there's no excuse but the common justification that a person tries to offer is she made me do it well you know that doesn't that doesn't fly that doesn't justify God forbid abuse and certainly exotic if exotic sins a Chadwick certainly doesn't say I sinned because you guys made me lose it that's not how any righteous person should talk any good person and certainly not how Moshe Rabino the greatest of all the VM so what's the shot God was angry at me because of you so the Emma says hazal understands that grammatically the word la manchem does not mean you were the reason I sent rather God was angry at me for your sake for your benefit see different not that God was angry at me because you made me sin rather it means God was angry at me for your sake for your benefit in what way could that be true though in which way would the gazera and Maisha rabeno be for the benefit of binay Israel so once we accept this translation there are three shut them that explain how the gazera on Moshe is for the benefit of Israel the first is the medrish itself Demetrius on this project says that the reason why God decreed that Moshe would die in and be buried in is this will enable the people who die in hutzlarets to be included in the resurrection of the Dead meaning there is a concept we don't fully understand it that God is not going to bother to go to resurrect the dead it's too much but once he has to go because of mosharabena so he'll go for everybody else as well Demetris gives a muscle let's say a person had coins in his pocket and some of the coins were valuable let's imagine you have like I said 10 shekel coin and then you have a lot of 10 aggregates and the tinaguroch fell out of your pocket and you know you don't like to lose any money but you're embarrassed to ask people to help you look for the 10 iberost they're going to think you're cheap so what might you do the Metro says I mean obviously I'm using different currency you might drop a 10 shekel piece and say hey I dropped the 10 shekel piece can you help me find it and once they're looking for the 10 Sheffield piece they'll find the Tena Guru route also you see so tapioca we don't really understand the concept of a tear confession but the concept is that God is not going to go to the trouble of resurrecting the dead in hutzlarets unless he has to make the trip anyway for motion rabbana and once he goes for mosharabino he'll go for everybody else who is deserving of Resurrection so that's one explanation of Le mansem that Hashem decreed that Moshe would be punished for his sin there still needed to be a sin had there not been a sin Hashem couldn't do this but Hashem could have forgiven the sin but he didn't because he wanted Moshe to be buried shot number two is from the Melbourne and the mountain again is a little complicated but he has a very very interesting approach he points out there's a capitol to heal him there's a chapter of to heal him foresees the destruction of the base of miktas and it says Ms Marla David a joyous song of David Hashem have invaded your inheritance they have contaminated your base I make their summer they have made Jerusalem a pile of rubble now obviously this was not in David's lifetime David benavua is foreseeing the base of English and by the way for those of you that have a good memory for kinos or will be saying the kinos Thursday there are Keynotes that are based on this Capital used the sukim of this Capitol in one of his elaborate compositions now the gamaran bracos asked the following question mismo always means a joyous song so Ms Marla David Elohim it shouldn't be Ms marlita but it should be called the keynote a lamentation of time why is it called mismar so like Lauren Bronco says there actually is a certain simcha that God destroyed the miktash and the reason is that Hashem had tremendous wrath on the Jewish people because of all of their averas and because of the Riveras we deserve to be destroyed we deserve to be wiped out but by displacing some of the Divine Wrath on stones and what that took away some of the Divine wrath on us this is called shafak amasa Allah that part of God's Wrath was poured out on the stones and on the woods and that made it easier for us and that's why David amalek says it's a mismar it's a mismo that some of the anger was diverted to the building because had it not been diverted to the building it would have been on us as it is a lot of the cost was on us it would have been much worse okay based on that foundational idea here's what the Malvern says the Melbourne actually brings me direction that has Moshe rabenu not sinned and had we entered Eric as well with Moshe Rabino the base on mikdash would have been built immediately and any base on mikdus that Moshe builds could never be destroyed would have been indestructible so now let's figure that out if most European news base and make this as indestructible but we still have free will to sin what's going to be when we sin and we're deserving of Destruction we're not going to have the base on mikdash to divert hashem's anger we're not going to have the shafach so what's going to happen all of God's Wrath is going to be spent on us so now Moshe Urbana was saying it is for your benefit Jewish people that God did not let me enter the land of Israel because it's because I did not enter the land of Israel that the base I make this will be transient and because it's transient hashem's anger can be poured out on the AIDS and Beyond him and that will spare you because if I were to go my base I make this would have been permanent and if my base English would have been permanent there wouldn't have been the diversion of shafaq hamaso of God pouring his wrath on Nation be about him so that's the second explanation God was angry at me for your sake for your sake it was for your benefit but the third explanation I think is the most important and the most meaningful and it's also going with Lamont for your sake for your benefit and this is from the dresser Saran the famous Iran rebenu Nissan who lived in the 14th century one of the great great to be shown in one of the great commentators on Gamora but in addition he was a great philosopher as well and to the same Ron who wrote many hidusham on the Riff and on also wrote a philosophical book of essays that is called the drushos of the run it's now available in two different English translations so it's a very kadai book to look at it's safer to look at and the judge of Saran says the following as I said before the book of devorem is a book of musar a book of is chastisement Moshe rabenu is probing and reminding the Jewish people of their flaws of their sins of their errors of their rebelliousness of their arrogance and he says to them again and again and again don't commit the sins of the Canaanites and everything else so here's what Iran says when you give Musser to someone whether it's your child whether it's your students whether it's too close there are two things you got to do you have to point out the flaws you have to point out the mistakes you have to tell them what they have to correct you can't just be I'm okay you're okay because then there's no mustard nobody grows nobody will change but says the Run Zello must pick that's not enough if all you do is point out a person's failures if all you do is point out a person's flaws if all you do is show them how broken they are that does not Inspire them to change the other way around they either get bitter and angry and shut you off or the other way around if they take you seriously the effect might be they will be so despondent that they feel there's no help so you can't break somebody you can't break them coupled with your mother has to be showing them how great they are how good they are how beloved they are from it's been well said no person can ever change for the better unless they have a belief they're already fundamentally good because if the message you internalize is you're broken then how do you get fixed If the message is you're good you have potential we just have to repair something that's a very different message so it says the Run if a lot of the book of devarim are words of foreign because here's what's going on bainu is telling the Jewish people that you have sinned against God again and again and again and again and even though God punished the prior generation But ultimately you're going to enter Eric Israel so you sin against God and God always forgives you but the one time that I sinned against you because again the sin of Moshe Rabino according to the Run was a sin he committed against the Jewish people he called them rebellious ones he lost patience with them he thought they were not worthy Hashem said for you to lose faith in your people one strike in your right so look at what Moshe Urbana was saying on one hand you sinned against God again and again and again and again and God forgives the slight to his honor but for your sake for your sake for your honor when I sinned against you God said sorry you're not going in so what is Moshe Urbana trying to tell them look at how beloved you are in the eyes of God look at how much Hashem cares about the covert of binay Israel see you have to understand from an emotional standpoint how frightened b'nai Israel are of what's going to be happening in a relatively short time for 40 years they were led by a motorbane and of course this new generation didn't know anything else they were under 20. the older of them were under 20 when they left with time and many were born in the desert and in the desert was a spiritual cocoon they had the mun coming down from heaven they had the traveling well they had the Clouds Of Glory and they had Moshe Ravena who led them and taught them and whenever there was a question he went straight to God and got the answer now there is a consequence being so close to God you're doing a Vera you know thousands of people die you know it's not an easy thing necessarily but they were so close to Hashem in such an open way coming to where it's Israel in Eric Israel there's not going to be mud they're going to have to plant there's not going to be a traveling well of water they're going to have to look for Wells and rely on rainfall they don't even have the Nile that Egypt has that Egypt has the study water supply of the Nile in there to sell you're looking at Hashem in the sky all the time and they're not going to have motion and they're scared and they're frightened and many might think we're unworthy without Moshe fight the awesome challenges of the Canaanite enemies this was the sin of the spies that lack of confidence but that's being replicated in the new generation so Moshe or a Bay News job at this point is to reassure them beloved you are God's love for you does not depend on me the other way around God's relationship to me depends on you when I did not have the proper relationship with you I got replaced so says to run this is the second part of Moshe urbana's Musa if the first part is awareness of my failures and my mistakes the second part is awareness of my greatness and how much Hashem loves us much Hashem cares about us how much Hashem will defend the honor of Amy Israel no matter how unworthy we might be and that gives us courage that gives us Faith as rev southerick says just as a person must have a moon and Hashem a person must have a moon in themselves that Hashem will give them the color to meet the challenges angry at me for your honor for your sake because of you this is what the judges around says is the meaning of so he's not blaming them for his sin he's praising them building them up this of course is the great lesson the great lesson of how to raise a child how to teach the students how to build up a marriage on both sides of the equation on one hand you don't cover things up you don't sweep things under the rug otherwise the rug gets pretty raised you got to discuss problems if things aren't going right you try to work them out no one is saying anything goes in life anything doesn't go no children need discipline students need guidance and boundaries show them bias issues shouldn't be denied but it has to be on a foundation of building each other up building our students up building our children up building our spouses up on both sides and only then do you get the strength do you get the courage to be able to address the problems that need to be addressed the greater of your rookem ER legendaries one said that the person who is not aware of his failures is false is a very foolish person I think I'm perfect that's pretty delusional but the person who is not aware of his goodness and his greatness is a tragic person because he'll never be aware of the tools that Hashem gave him to be able to fix up what needs to be fixed up right you think you're nothing then you're nothing you're not gonna you know I mean you have nothing you can do about yourself you have to know you're not in nothing you're something he is what's better than being here there's nothing better than being a kid the person says I'm just the pressure to hit that's the best possible thing a person could be okay so this is a beautiful you say of the run that we have to remember in really all of our relationships all of these sheikhas all of the connections that we have with people build up build up build up and then you get beautiful results in whatever you're trying to accomplish so this I think connects to another aspect of tissue above that I want to mention if you look at the pattern of the haftarus so how does it work the three weeks before Tish above we have have terrorists of tragedy and peroneus that's called Tulsa that means Aramaic three de paranusa of catastrophe of tragedy and two of them are from yermio and they have terror we read last week is from yesha yob and I'm out it's called that's why last Chavez was called Shabbos hazan three have terrorists of comfort of tragedy we have seven weeks where instead of the haftarah being connected to the parshaft which normally it is leftover is not connected directly to the party but it's all about a theme of comfort seven have terrorists of comfort all taken from the end of the Navy that's why he is called the great prophet of comfort the first of them is go and comfort my people he's speaking to the prophets and that's why this coming Shabbos is called Shabbos like because and the Seven of terrorists of comfort take you all the way to Rosh Hashanah so note first of all the ratio is very interesting three have terrorists of tragedy seven have terrorists of comfort that's more than double as if to say God is saying as bad as things were I will comfort you more than double all that you suffered you know when someone is hurt very very badly I say emotionally it's sometimes not enough to just try to undo the hurt it's kind of not enough you need to right you need to double the effort right if somebody got hurt because you yelled at them for five minutes it's not enough to speak nicely to them for five minutes you may have to do it a half an hour or an hour or a week or a month right the nakama has to be greater than the hurt because the hurt can be very very deep so Hashem gives us seven weeks of nechama now that takes us to Rosh Hashanah yeah and the Terrace of the yamam Narayan are have terrorists dealing with the theme of chuva repentance turning back to God let's look at this so what what are the three factors perennios tragedy comfort and the third component is chuva repentance now there's something wrong with that sequence because if you look in the Torah the way the Torah describes what's supposed to happen to the Jewish people is we have tragedies we have gullahs we have horban and from the golus and the qurban we do chuva and turn back to God and after we do children turn back to God we then have Redemption the Jewish people are not going to be redeemed unless there's tuba that the Jewish people will do true how can Hashem promise if Chu is a matter of free will I'll leave that as a question but nevertheless the rambam says you need sugar so how can you talk about now how can you say from tragedy there will be comfort which is redemption and then there'll be true it should be the other way around tragedy gives rise to chuva and Shiva gives rise to comfort now the same pattern you see in the Amita nazri what do we say we say no Aveeno uh bring us to chuva Inspire us to do chuva and then when we do chuva you will forgive us and after you forgive us go El Israel you will redeem us so the pattern always is first there's chuva then there's Redemption and yet with the have Terrace we have the pattern that says from Sorrows that will be nah are more or less synonymous and from the gaullah they'll be true but that's not the pattern in the amida and that's not the pattern in the Torah itself but here is the explanation based on the dresser Saran although he does not say this I think there's a beautiful explanation that you can offer and that is it is true that chronologically the Jewish people are not going to be redeemed until they do true but from where will they get the psychic energy to believe that shuva is possible God rejected us God destroyed the temple God exiled us and then we could add in the course of the centuries the expulsion of the Crusades the explosion of the Jews from Spain the programs the Holocaust the terrorism a person feels subroach and a person feels rejected by God how can I do Shiva if I feel rejected how can I do children if I feel that God has abandoned me so even though I'm not going to experience actual Redemption until I do chuva in my mind's eye I must psychologically internalize the idea that God will Redeem Me because that will give me the energy and the confidence and the faith to try to repair my life so the order of the half Tyrus from tragedy comes Redemption and from Redemption comes true is not the actual sequence as it will unfold the actual sequence as it will unfold is that from that sorrows we will do children and from the chuva we will have Redemption but what will get me to do chuva is the vision in my mind's eye that God is waiting for us that God loves us that we are redeemable we are redeemable right and and and and and the like and that so based on Iran that is why we can't enter young in the rhyme the month of eloh the time of introspection the time of but we can't enter that without internalizing Redemption and Golia in our hearts because that gives us the strength to do chuva otherwise I think it's hopeless otherwise I think God has rejected me otherwise what's the point is God's reminder to us Comfort Redemption that there's something good that is salvageable there's something good within the Jew that even the biggest I've heirus never destroyed I see them call it the Pennsylvania the little Point little flag within the Jew that comes from the Divine the Divine Soul yes that explains the the have Torah sequence that from uh from the karma you then move the chuba because you psychologically understands how beloved you are in God's eyes now you know it's very very interesting when you look at these seven have terrorists of comfort uh they seem to say the same thing over and over and over again it's very very fascinating like if you have to summarize The Poetry of these have terrorists in like a sentence or two so somebody asks you what is the first tough Terror of comfort about did you say well God loves the Jewish people and will redeem them okay that's good then you have the second taftarav comfort and you ask what's the after about uh God loves the Jewish people and he's going to redeem them and then you have the third half tariff comfort and you're going to get the same answer different poetic metaphors are used different images but in terms of central message it's the same message that's repeated again and again and again and again that's why it's very difficult it's very very difficult to learn what are called the later in the VM right the navient Yeshua these are narratives these are stories these are historical events so we're learning the history of the Jewish people the sacred history so that's a storyline in the book of shmuel in particular is full of dramatic scenes and the like I learned a book like yes there's a little bit of history but not that much most of it are speeches either some of the speeches are how bad you are and some of the speeches are how good you are he goes both ways he has the Comfort speeches and he has the gulless and the Corbin speeches okay but still you show you always what 66 productive and there are two things there are two things uh sometimes the theme is how bad the Jewish people are and sometimes the theme is how good the Jewish people are okay you take 66 chapters to say that uh why is there so much repetition so one of the approaches which I think most of us would instinctively gravitate to is kind of an approach like the malvin right the Malibu was a 19th century person had a very very fixed cheetah that in Biblical Hebrew in kodesh there is no such thing as synonyms every single word has a distinct meaning so if it says joy happiness mirth jubilation so we look at it in English as oh these are different ways of saying happiness the malbim will give you a very specific definition this word means this and this word means this and this word means this so in other words the way the malibim deals with repetition is by endeavoring to show that there is no repetition each word is a different nuance and a different shade of meaning and therefore he says there's no such thing as God through the navi saying the same thing in different words and I think you know most of us because of our academic Ben so to speak attend to learn not in that way we're looking I mean if we learned but if you're learning that you say What's the difference between Gila and Rina what's the difference in simcha and Gila right because in English it'll all say the same thing right so this is the sheet of them album and to some degree the the the the the the predecessor of the Malibu and this was the Vilma gown himself who often tries to differentiate uh synonyms right a synonym in English are two different words that have the same meaning is there is no such thing as synonyms in Russian hakodesh there will never be two different words that have the same meaning there will always be a different meaning and then you have to try to penetrate to what that is well that's a very Noble ideal but sometimes the model paints himself into a corner sometimes it is so difficult to really give differences at the moment at some point conjectures guesses and the like now I want to point out that although the album was very very great many of the resonim didn't have a problem with repetition redundancy and synonyms the radak the ebenezera roll bug um which is later inocrine they will often say something like kefal or Indian the milim shonos that means the thought is being repeated in different words in other words they didn't feel a lachas they did not feel a push that they got to make every sentence different Let It Be The Same God loves you God loves you God loves you God loves you and God says it in five different ways as opposed to making every sentence a different meaning so the question you'll then have under radak is well gee why should God repeat himself over and over again saying every sentence is different so that's fine but if if it's the same thing why repeat it the answer is that what the heart needs is not always the same as what the head needs you know many people remember they say children remember the first time that they were separated from their parents the first time they got lost from their parents I mean I I I I remember this myself um I think I was around four and uh we were going to a department store downtown Hartford it's no longer there and they had a great great toy department so I'm walking with my mom and while she's going ahead I kind of took a little detour to check out the toys and then it was only like two seconds or five seconds I didn't know where my mother was and I panicked I panicked it was literally like five seconds maybe very very short time I panicked I thought I am an orphan I'm an orphan I'm all going to be all alone in the world I didn't imagine it all alone in the world what am I going to do where am I going to sleep am I going to sleep here and how will I eat you know I really was was terrified and my mother found me like you know 10 seconds later and I was crying and she was hugging me and reassuring me and saying I love you I'm okay you're okay you're okay you're okay now now if I would have been a little brisker analytical person I would have said why do you have to say you love me five times you said it once mamela I know it what why does the mother have to say it five times yeah right from a purely intellectual standpoint you said it already the answer is that a heart needs reassurance it's not enough to hear the message when my heart is broken when I'm scared when I'm frightened I need a reassurance that repeats itself over and over and over and over again so in many many ways the repetition of the Naveen instead of looking at it as a Kasha like the malibim is looking at like Akasha why does the Navy have to say over and over again the same thing so says the mountain we got to somehow make it different everyone is different but it didn't bother to reshine him that God was repeating a message over and over again because the nature of love and the nature of reassurance these things need to be repeated especially if you remember that these Novus were originally given orally meaning if they weren't just a book they were speeches they were muster schmussen they were talks that anovi was giving in fact that's actually the difference between Nivea and kasuvin to communicate hourly as opposed to the kasuvian where the Revelation was only to write it down Daniel was not told to talk to anybody about what he saw he was told to write it down was told to talk so you can imagine now just like when you're speaking you got to say over and over and I love you I love you I care about you I care about you right so in a sense I think we become too Analytical in not learning when we have to make every a totally different idea there is something very powerful in repetition itself and to be sure of God's love that God has to reassure us and the like so as I say uh in some ways it is a little odd before Tisha Puff that's the nature of the calendar this year to talk about the power of comfort but remember that Tish above itself contains elements of comfort I've mentioned last week in other weeks Tish above is called by the Navajo moate moate means a holiday a yomptif we do not saying on the 9th of because you don't say on festive days we don't say albino volcano for the same reason there is a simcha there is a certain festivity it's muted it's not in the open but it's an undercurrent and the undercurrent is based on the idea that teacher above is the day that much here will be born my route is Mars but I think I said this last week forgive me for repeating my round is mozbert this does not mean mashiach's birthday has to be tishop but she I could have a birthday any day of the year but it means the thing that brings mashiach into the world the yearning and the mourning and the crying every tear we shed every thought we have we are bringing mashiach closer and closer and closer and the laws of Tish above recognize that I mentioned last week that the old yushalaya minak is to clean the house sweep the floor Tish above after Hudson in honor of the coming of mashiach so in our tears there is joy as shiramalo says the famous Psalm that we say in the book before benching foreign those who planted those who sowed the seed in tears Varina will harvest enjoy call him the mission says in kindness all who mourn over you shall mine is and see the joy of you shall I am so if as it looks right now it looks like this year although you don't know I don't want to rule anything up it looks like this year tomorrow night will be a fast day we will still be missabel over yerushalayim but may the words of the mishnah Comfort us May through our tears and our morning of yerushalayim foreign [Music] is here