Sfas Emes - The Essence of Tisha B'av
R' Mayer Simcha Stromer - Sfas Emes series
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Speaker A:Okay, let's learn.
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Speaker A:Two brothers learning together.
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Speaker A:Avi and Jacob learning over there.
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Speaker A:As Spika said.
Speaker A:Josh said, it's a little loud, but it's awesome because base manager is back.
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Speaker A:Baruch hashem occult horseshoe go throughout the year.
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Speaker A:Okay, tonight's learning should be for a continuous and for Yaakov Mordechai, new teratza.
Speaker A:And for Chamatov Bas Hamutov, Basso sher chol Yisroel.
Speaker A:And we continue to dive and learn for the chayalim.
Speaker A:They should be safe and successful.
Speaker A:The Chatufim should be returned the cholem shed of Rubushleima.
Speaker A:We should hear be surebos from Eretz Yisroel and Yiddin all over the world.
Speaker A:And we should be zocha to the Ge'.
Speaker A:Ula.
Speaker A:And no more Tisha B'Av on Sunday.
Speaker A:Okay?
Speaker A:But let's learn a little Yin Yani Tisha B'Av and in SKUS of our learning.
Speaker A:We're not going to have to sell.
Speaker A:We will celebrate Tisha.
Speaker A:We won't have to have available on Tisha.
Speaker A:I want to start not on the page, on the svasimus.
Speaker A:I want to share haara that I've been thinking of.
Speaker A:I shared with Rabbi Oren last night and again today.
Speaker A:We were marach on this.
Speaker A:Josh knows a little bit of this Torah.
Speaker A:But let's start with this.
Speaker A:There.
Speaker A:There's lots of halachos that we need a chaza for Tisha B'Av in camp, one of the more challenging ones, or if you're in Eretz Yisrael.
Speaker A:Jeremy just got back from Eretz Yisrael.
Speaker A:But if you're in, if you're at the Kotel with like a summer program on Tisha B'Av, one of the most important or one of the most spoken about halachos is you're not allowed to be.
Speaker A:You can't say shamaleichem to another Jew on Tisha B'Av.
Speaker A:So when you're on the bus and you're parking at Shariach or whatever it is, they all tell everybody on the bus, just remember, you're not allowed to say shamalichem to your other friends.
Speaker A:You can throw a head nod, you can pound whatever it is, you don't say shamalechem.
Speaker A:Fine.
Speaker A:Now, Ravmara Tversky Slita asked The following question One year in NCSVIkul And I think about this question every single year as we head towards Tisha B'.
Speaker A:Ava.
Speaker A:He said, if Tisha B' av is a day where we mourn chorbon beis hamikdash, and the reason for chorbon beis hamikdash was what?
Speaker A:Sin hashinom.
Speaker A:So then what?
Speaker A:Wouldn't you think Tisha B' ava should be a day where you're saying shom aleichem to every single Jew?
Speaker A:It's a pretty awesome question.
Speaker A:Here's the question.
Speaker A:Not on the sheets.
Speaker A:Not on the sheets.
Speaker A:Again, Tisha bav.
Speaker A:More in the base.
Speaker A:Hamikdash.
Speaker A:The reason for the Korban was sin as chinom.
Speaker A:So if the whole idea, everything we're thinking of is this, we should say shamaleichem to every single Jew you see on Tisha Ba.
Speaker A:But there's an iser of Sheila shalom on Tisha B'Av.
Speaker A:Okay, everybody with me on that.
Speaker A:Good.
Speaker A:All day.
Speaker A:Not allowed to say shamalechem to another Jew.
Speaker A:I think.
Speaker A:I think.
Speaker A:I think this one goes the whole day.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Sorsi said something amazing.
Speaker A:He said, and we may have said this idea earlier in the year, but Ravtorinsky said that the three most superficial words in the English language are not I love you, but they're how are you?
Speaker A:How often you start a conversation with, hey, how are you?
Speaker A:And you don't actually care how that person's doing.
Speaker A:You're just saying that as, like, a way to start off your conversation or ask them whatever it is that you want to ask them.
Speaker A:So he says on, they were supposed to be thinking about our relationships.
Speaker A:You actually don't say shom aleichem.
Speaker A:You stop yourself.
Speaker A:And you're actually being mindful and conscious and aware of how you speak to other people.
Speaker A:And if you take a day off from.
Speaker A:From saying shamalachem, that actually might help you have more effective relationships, having more meaningful conversation.
Speaker A:You're asking questions that you've actually thought about.
Speaker A:You're being more mindful and, again, more conscious about how you're speaking to other people, what you're saying to other people, that should hopefully help our relationships have more real and genuine authentic relationships with other Jews.
Speaker A:Okay, everybody with me so far?
Speaker A:Ezra Tursky.
Speaker A:Fine.
Speaker A:There's another isra, and this is what I was thinking.
Speaker A:There's another iser on tishva, and there's an iser of Talma Torah.
Speaker A:Now, there's a big deal in what are you allowed to learn?
Speaker A:Maybe you're allowed to learn things that are sad.
Speaker A:There's the famous gemara in mesechosgidim that people learn on Tisha B'Av.
Speaker A:Sad parts of Tanakh.
Speaker A:There's a big DN, though.
Speaker A:I think Rabbi Oren just gave Shira the other night in the colel about the brach of Birch has hatorah on Tisha B'.
Speaker A:Av.
Speaker A:There's a machloke asks in the post whether or not you even say Birch has Torah.
Speaker A:There's an opinion that you don't say Birch has Hatorah.
Speaker A:I think, if I'm not mistaken, it's the Shabbo leka.
Speaker A:It says you're not supposed to say.
Speaker A:Or maybe he quotes his brother, I forget who.
Speaker A:But he says there's no.
Speaker A:There's no.
Speaker A:You don't say Birch's Torah because there's no Kiev.
Speaker A:There's no.
Speaker A:There's no idea.
Speaker A:There's no inion of Tama Torah on Tisha B.
Speaker A:Others say no, you do make a Birk's Torah, but we still don't have a khiv to learn.
Speaker A:But we say it because it's in the sitter.
Speaker A:Okay, there's.
Speaker A:It's, like a lot to say.
Speaker A:Rabbi Orange gave share on this, but I need to tell you a maesta first, and then we're going to unpack this halach and maybe relate it to what Ruft Worsky said.
Speaker A:On Friday night, I was walking home from shul.
Speaker A:I davened, we made early Shabbos.
Speaker A:A guy was walking through, making middle Shabbos.
Speaker A:And he said to me, he said, you have a guard for me?
Speaker A:You have something to say?
Speaker A:You know, what do you have for me?
Speaker A:Now?
Speaker A:It happens to be.
Speaker A:I don't want to, like, label, whatever, but the guy is like a little bit of yeshivish guy.
Speaker A:And I mean, I know the guy.
Speaker A:He's like, he hasn't been in the base medrash in a while, we'll say.
Speaker A:And maybe that relates to how he feels about himself vis a vis his own Avodat hashem.
Speaker A:There's a lot to unpack, but I don't want to give any details.
Speaker A:Fine.
Speaker A:So I was trying to give him some chizik.
Speaker A:He asked me for a word.
Speaker A:I didn't want to just tell him a word on the parsha.
Speaker A:I wanted to, like, just give him some chizik.
Speaker A:I know he's going through a difficult time, and I wanted to like, you know, so it happens to be that Rabbi Menachem Rozim and I were learning Arab Shabbos.
Speaker A:We were learning together earlier in the day, and the Magina Avraham says something awesome.
Speaker A:La halacha.
Speaker A:Rabbi Rosenham is going through Shulchan Arach with the Maginav Ram right now, and he saw this idea.
Speaker A:Basically, the gemara in Mesek Hashab is in Parakira tells a story.
Speaker A:I think it's about Rabbi Akiva, who was in the bathhouse on it was before the gezerus had baloney.
Speaker A:And people would go to the shvitz, whatever it was.
Speaker A:And some guy came in to basically, I think he's going to put oil in the water, if I remember correctly, to heat up his oil.
Speaker A:And he had a reason why he thought it was gehr.
Speaker A:But Akiva basically taught them the halachas of Kleesheni Kleeshlishi.
Speaker A:To explain to this guy that you're not allowed to do that on Shabbos.
Speaker A:Aye.
Speaker A:They asked him, you can't teach Torah in the bath house.
Speaker A:What do you.
Speaker A:You know, we're not dressed appropriately.
Speaker A:How can you teach Torah right now?
Speaker A:And he said to prevent a guy from doing an istar would be okay.
Speaker A:Everybody with me on that.
Speaker A:That's the gemara.
Speaker A:The Magin Avraham makes an awesome sushtel.
Speaker A:He says, if a person is thinking thoughts of Torah in the bathroom, this is a yetzer hara that we all have, obviously, right?
Speaker A:So he actually says like this.
Speaker A:He says differently.
Speaker A:He talks about a normal yetzhara that many of us have.
Speaker A:He's a person's thinking about inappropriate thoughts while he's in the bathroom.
Speaker A:So you should think about Torah in the bathroom.
Speaker A:So Bhagav says, aye, you can't think in learning in the bathroom.
Speaker A:So no, no lahafrish minisura.
Speaker A:It's okay.
Speaker A:If you're going to think about inappropriate things, better that you think about Torah in the bathroom.
Speaker A:Everybody with me on that so far?
Speaker A:Okay?
Speaker A:So I was like, oh, my gosh.
Speaker A:So first, Rabbi Rosamond was very excited about the tushta that Mogan Avaram makes from that gemara.
Speaker A:I said, rabbi Rosamot, we have to take it a step further because Rabbi Rozum and I have been working on this mahalach over the course of the year, we've been sharing it Ionic crown with the guys.
Speaker A:Based on the gemara, the Rabbam says if a person is struggling with, like, inappropriate thoughts, you have to learn Torah.
Speaker A:And if you don't fill your brain with Torah, you're going to fill it with shmutz.
Speaker A:So based on other makoros, you got to learn Torah.
Speaker A:That's the way to.
Speaker A:So look at what I'm saying.
Speaker A:If you're thinking about inappropriate things in the bathroom, why doesn't he say, just go on espn.com on your phone, do the wordle.
Speaker A:Like, why is he telling you dafka, learn Torah in the bathroom?
Speaker A:Because the greatest what, the greatest way to overcome inappropriate thoughts and those kinds of yisrahs is learning Torah.
Speaker A:And if you start to fill your cup, pun intended, I guess you get to.
Speaker A:You begin to fill your cup with Torah.
Speaker A:So then you're not going to think about inappropriate things.
Speaker A:Everybody with me on that.
Speaker A:So I said this var to this guy, and I was like, you just got to learn.
Speaker A:Like, you know, and I'm telling you, things will.
Speaker A:You'll feel better about yourself if you begin to learn a little bit.
Speaker A:Fine.
Speaker A:That's what I told him.
Speaker A:And the guy's getting all he likes the var.
Speaker A:He nods.
Speaker A:And then he says, like.
Speaker A:He says like this.
Speaker A:He's like, oh, it's like the gemara Torah tavlin, meaning hakadosh Baruch hu gave you a yetzer hara.
Speaker A:And he gave you the remedy for the yetzer hara is Torah.
Speaker A:So he said, yeah, exactly, but.
Speaker A:And I'm about to walk away.
Speaker A:I said, your Shabbat is beautiful.
Speaker A:He's like, but you know what the Chazanish says about that?
Speaker A:I said, no.
Speaker A:What does the Chazanish say about Torah Tava?
Speaker A:And he says, it only counts if it's Torah b'.
Speaker A:In.
Speaker A:It only counts if it's Torah b', in meaning real, like learning in depth Torah.
Speaker A:If you learn, like a sfasima, if you learn some kit' r Shulchan arach, like, that doesn't count.
Speaker A:It's cute stuff.
Speaker A:It's fluffy, whatever.
Speaker A:It only kilu matters.
Speaker A:It's only real Torah if your mom is rolling up her sleeves and gemara Roshi toslas and other rishon, hamah, lakhronim and everything like that.
Speaker A:So I smiled and I said, shkayakh.
Speaker A:And I walked away.
Speaker A:And I said, it's so ironic to some degree.
Speaker A:Why is it ironic?
Speaker A:Because this guy who hasn't been in yeshiva for, you know, a number of years now, again, maybe this is me psychoanalyzing.
Speaker A:Maybe it's not so nice, but I think there is some Ms.
Speaker A:In this.
Speaker A:He probably feels bad because, like, the learning that he's doing isn't the same learning that he does in yeshiva.
Speaker A:And now it's funny, on a therapeutic way, some people say I'm not doing things a person doesn't want to do certain things, and they say I'm lazy.
Speaker A:Where in reality, they're a perfectionist.
Speaker A:They have such high standards, and if they can't live up to those standards, they say, what then?
Speaker A:It's not worth it and forget the whole thing.
Speaker A:It's silly.
Speaker A:And.
Speaker A:And this guy is saying, oh, it can't be Torah bi.
Speaker A:And then it's.
Speaker A:It's.
Speaker A:It's.
Speaker A:It's like fake and it's cute.
Speaker A:So how does this connect to Tisha B?
Speaker A:Like, what does this have to do with anything?
Speaker A:So there's an isser of talma Torah on Tisha B'Av.
Speaker A:We said before from Rutorski, explaining the idea there's an isser of shom Aleichem on Tisha.
Speaker A:Why?
Speaker A:Because we have a fake.
Speaker A:We have so many fake relationships, and we're so disingenuous.
Speaker A:Like, be real, be sincere, be authentic, and therefore actually don't say shom Aleichem so you can think about your relationships with other people instead of the content Shabo.
Speaker A:So when it comes to tama Torah, there's an issue of tamatora on Tisha B'.
Speaker A:Av.
Speaker A:Why?
Speaker A:Because sometimes we get so lost in the Torah itself that we forget about the no sein ha Torah.
Speaker A:We forget about Akadosh Baruch.
Speaker A:Huh?
Speaker A:It has to be Torah bean.
Speaker A:It has to be Torah bean.
Speaker A:Like, what's the purpose that you get a geshmak from your learning?
Speaker A:That you feel like you're learning in depth?
Speaker A:Or are you learning it because it's Hashem's Torah and you're trying to figure out what he wants from you in this world.
Speaker A:So Daf Gantesha bav.
Speaker A:What happened?
Speaker A:We have to stop.
Speaker A:We have to stop the leem at ha Torah, because you have to remember the no say na Torah.
Speaker A:And it's very similar.
Speaker A:We'll quote two Gemaras, the Gemara on Yuma, which I think we've already quoted a couple weeks ago.
Speaker A:That says what?
Speaker A:That the Beis Hamikdash was destroyed because of Sinachinam.
Speaker A:But the Gemara says that we were osik ba Torah ubigamil chasadim.
Speaker A:So we were learning Torah and we were doing chesed, which you would presumably assume we have good Beynon le Chavero, because we're doing chesed and we were learning Torah el amay.
Speaker A:What?
Speaker A:There was sin astina, meaning we lacked Avast Yisroel.
Speaker A:So we were doing things.
Speaker A:And maybe to check the box, I could Do I can do it.
Speaker A:Like we said before already, a bunch of times a person wants to feel good about themselves.
Speaker A:I do.
Speaker A:I volunteer at Libenu.
Speaker A:I can check off my chesed hours for school or whatever it is.
Speaker A:But to be nice to the person who's a little bit different, to be nice to the person dominance had a different shul, who wears a different type of kippah, who comes from a different background, I can't be nice to him.
Speaker A:But oh, but if it's for chesed hours, I can help out anybody for sure.
Speaker A:I'm like, yeah.
Speaker A:So there's lacking something on a fundamental level.
Speaker A:And maybe it was true by Tama Torah we were osik b' Torah, b' Shas chorban, but maybe our Torah was lacking.
Speaker A:And I think this is what really the Maral is getting at.
Speaker A:The Gemara meseches in the Doram tells us a relatively well known Gemara that's discussing the Korban, the Gemara Mesech Nedarim, Amrehud, Amarav Posseg and Yirmiyah.
Speaker A:It says amah of the Haaretz.
Speaker A:Why was the land lost?
Speaker A:They asked and the angels and they couldn't explain.
Speaker A:It says, I'll tell you why.
Speaker A:He quotes Apostle and Amarav Shiloh Baruch hu, ba Torah Tchila that they didn't make a birchasaturah.
Speaker A:So they learned Torah but they didn't make a birchasaturah.
Speaker A:What's going on?
Speaker A:The mafarishim explained like they made a birch as a Torah.
Speaker A:It wasn't that.
Speaker A:They just learned that.
Speaker A:So what does it mean?
Speaker A:The morale goes on to explain that they disconnected the Torah from the no senator.
Speaker A:They disconnected hakadosh Baruch hu, promised Torah and they were only interested in the Torah itself.
Speaker A:And they almost like forgot about that relationship with the kadish Baruch hu.
Speaker A:They put hashem to the side and said, I just want to learn the Torah.
Speaker A:So what happens on Tishba?
Speaker A:We're supposed to be thinking about our relationship with other Jews and with the kadish Baruch hu.
Speaker A:So you don't say sholem aleichem.
Speaker A:Why?
Speaker A:To make sure that you have real relationships with other people.
Speaker A:Be careful about how we speak to other Jews.
Speaker A:We speak about the words we use.
Speaker A:When we do that, our bin al Machavir will be stronger.
Speaker A:And when we don't learn Torah for a day, then you realize what a Torah actually means and why it's important to have in my life and how it elevates me and how ultimately the goal of Tama Torah is that what it's supposed to connect me to Akadosh Baruch hu.
Speaker A:That's the goal of all the Torah.
Speaker A:That's what we're trying to accomplish here.
Speaker A:So Daf Kant Tisha, we don't say Shom Aleichem and.
Speaker A:And we don't learn Torah.
Speaker A:I think it's a very powerful Yesod.
Speaker A:I think there's a.
Speaker A:It's kadai to think about.
Speaker A:Fine.
Speaker A:That's yesod number one.
Speaker A:Let's.
Speaker A:Let's jump into this Fastemas.
Speaker A:I'm not sure if we're gonna get to the ones on Devarim, but we'll see how we do.
Speaker A:We'll see how we do.
Speaker A:It's also me stalling, so I don't know how honestly, if I'm being serious here.
Speaker A:I had some difficulty understanding some of the pieces in Dvar.
Speaker A:So we'll see.
Speaker A:But only.
Speaker A:Yeah, only one page this week.
Speaker A:Five Shtickloch.
Speaker A:It's not like small, but.
Speaker A:Okay, fine, we'll see.
Speaker A:Tougher.
Speaker A:Ishlam Adal Zok.
Speaker A:The svasams.
Speaker A:The following.
Speaker A:Where is my svasams?
Speaker A:I'll use them.
Speaker A:I should use the Marima Komoshi Kodorbador Sheinov.
Speaker A:The Svas Emes says well known idea that any generation that doesn't build the Beis Hamiktosh it doesn't have the Beis Hamikdash rebuilt in its days.
Speaker A:It's as if we have destroyed the Beis Hamiktosh to Yushami and Mesechas Yuma.
Speaker A:It's kind of difficult to understand that there are many generations that have come before us.
Speaker A:Ramosha Feinstein or Saloveitchik Lubavitcher Rebbe.
Speaker A:Pick your favorite Acheron.
Speaker A:The Chavez Chaim and the building they didn't build the base of mix as you expect.
Speaker A:A couple chevron right here.
Speaker A:The five of us sitting around a table, we're going to build a bit like.
Speaker A:Come on, it's a joke.
Speaker A:We're going to build a base of Mikdosh.
Speaker A:If they couldn't Vinir Lefaresh Kikol Yemei Hadoros mitzstarfen Umis kansin kol haha aroshal avodus B' Nai Yisrael says the Svasemnes.
Speaker A:We have to reorient how we think about our Avodat Hashem.
Speaker A:Not just in the context of ourselves, but in the context of the Jewish people.
Speaker A:Kichol Yemei Hadoros.
Speaker A:Every generation, all of the Generations combined together, they join together.
Speaker A:So we add our mitzos and maisim tovim, our vorishim to the collective mitzvahs and maisim tovim of the Jewish people for all the generations.
Speaker A:Because it's almost wild to think that there's going to be one generation that's going to be so great and they don't have any flaws and any other shortcomings.
Speaker A:They don't have any other slip ups and they're going to be the ones that bring the gula chavizchayim and everybody else.
Speaker A:No, that's not how it works.
Speaker A:We have to think about the Jewish people as a unit and to say we're salvation.
Speaker A:Katara parsha vayechi.
Speaker A:It says that Yaakov Avinu gives yosef at shechem echad bacharabi ubakashti.
Speaker A:I'm going to give you one extra that I conquered bacharbi bakashti.
Speaker A:So becharbi is my sword, bakashti is my bow.
Speaker A:There's a beautiful meshechachma there.
Speaker A:We won't talk about that now, but Rav Soloveitchik says like this, that when we daven, when a Jew davens, there are two types of tefilos.
Speaker A:That he says, what are those two types of tefilos?
Speaker A:There is an immediate tefilah.
Speaker A:There's something going on in my life right now, so maybe I'm not feeling well, maybe I have a test, maybe I have an interview, maybe something's coming up.
Speaker A:So I need a daven.
Speaker A:That's the khairab, that's the sword.
Speaker A:Because when you hit someone with a sword, you see the immediate impact.
Speaker A:But by a bow, a keshe is an arrow that you shoot.
Speaker A:So what happens?
Speaker A:You don't necessarily see the impact.
Speaker A:It can go for, you know, tens of feet, hundreds of feet, I don't know.
Speaker A:However strong your bow and arrow is, and it can travel and you don't necessarily see that impact.
Speaker A:He says, when a Jew davens bone yerushalayim, when a Jew davenants.
Speaker A:So I think a lot of us have, when we have kavanah, I should say when we have kavanah, if we ever have kavanah, I'm not so good at it, but every once in a while, so the kavana is usually like, I want to see binyan yerushalayim.
Speaker A:I want to see it.
Speaker A:I want to see dobr melech.
Speaker A:I want to see it.
Speaker A:But sincere Soloveitchik, that's Not necessarily the only way we should be daven.
Speaker A:We're saying bone Yerushalayim for the Jewish people.
Speaker A:And whether or not I'm going to be here, build Yerushalayim, recognize that I'm part of the Jewish people.
Speaker A:And even after I die, the Jewish people are still going to carry on.
Speaker A:So we daven, and we daven it down for the Jewish people, for Klal Yisroel, not for Reb Yisroel to say that I want it to work out, and it doesn't matter to me if I'm going to be there.
Speaker A:Rakshas back in this fasem is rakshas chus koldor vador ozeru mevi ma' ar binyomikosh.
Speaker A:Recognize that we're moving, we're getting it closer.
Speaker A:We're getting closer and closer to the end zone.
Speaker A:A couple yards, a couple yards, a couple yards.
Speaker A:The habinya nimsha koyeme hagalus, meaning every single day, every single year throughout gullus, we've been saying boneh Yerushalayim.
Speaker A:But bone Yerushalayim is a what?
Speaker A:It's a lashon of choveh.
Speaker A:So we recognize that we're building Yerushalayim.
Speaker A:I don't see the walls.
Speaker A:I don't see the stones.
Speaker A:I don't see them as bayach.
Speaker A:I don't see anything there.
Speaker A:But we have a muna that what my mitzvah and my maisim tovim and the Torah that I'm doing and the Tefillah that I'm domining, everything that's going on in my life, if I'm doing it right, I'm doing it properly.
Speaker A:So then what?
Speaker A:It's contributing.
Speaker A:So, like David Miller pointed out before we started Shir, that when.
Speaker A:When the Beis hamikdash is going to be rebuilt.
Speaker A:So the dedications, you know, you walk into a shul and you see that, you know, the prochas was dedicated and that this was dedicated, and the bookshelves are dedicated.
Speaker A:So what's going to be the Beis hamiktosh?
Speaker A:It's going to say that in.
Speaker A: In the year: Speaker A:And maybe like a khvais, like one wall or one little spot of the basement who's, like, dedicated to the chevre learn tvasanis dedicated to the chevron who gave tzedakah and, you know, dedicated people who contributed to this.
Speaker A:We don't know how it's gonna work out.
Speaker A:But the point is we have to recognize that it's not necessarily immediate.
Speaker A:We don't see the fruits of our labors.
Speaker A:Today, tomorrow, whenever.
Speaker A:Hopefully, hopefully we see it.
Speaker A:Hopefully we see it.
Speaker A:But it's totally plausible that we won't.
Speaker A:And that's okay because we're not playing for ourselves.
Speaker A:We're playing for Claudio, so we're playing for Kados, Baruch Hu.
Speaker A:And therefore we realize we're contributing to the.
Speaker A:To the whole.
Speaker A:And the whole is what's going to bring the base, not one specific door.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Oh, very good.
Speaker A:So flesh it out.
Speaker A:No one ever described.
Speaker A:So, okay, so how do we understand it?
Speaker A:So let's, let's finish it and see if he answers.
Speaker A:Otherwise we're going to flesh it out.
Speaker A:Beautiful.
Speaker A:What does it mean?
Speaker A:It's not built in his days.
Speaker A:Meaning it's not that the grub built the base of Mikdash.
Speaker A:The Chobitz chaim I promised you built the base of Mikdash.
Speaker A:Ah, he didn't see the physical building.
Speaker A:No, no, there's going to be a giant wall dedicated by the Avodah of the Chabad's time.
Speaker A:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker A:The Vilnagon contributed to the north wall.
Speaker A:I don't know, whatever it is, you know for sure they did, they contributed Lebanon.
Speaker A:Beis Hamikdash.
Speaker A:It's like we tell kids in school that, oh, you're tfilah, you're a mitzvah, you're tzedakah, it's a brick to the Beis Hamikdash.
Speaker A:So on one hand, you get a little bit older, you get a little bit more cynical, and you're like, okay, it's a cute idea, but we don't actually like, where's the Bais Hamikdash at?
Speaker A:You know, but this fasim is saying, no, that thing we tell children is a thousand percent true.
Speaker A:We just don't believe it ourselves because we want to see the results.
Speaker A:We're so used to Amazon prime.
Speaker A:So you click it and it'll be, you know, forget two day delivery.
Speaker A:It can be delivered between, you know, 5 and 8 o', clock, 5am and 10am, whatever it is, it'll get dropped off by your door.
Speaker A:So when I do a mitzvah, I want to see.
Speaker A:I want to see results right now.
Speaker A:I want to see the brick.
Speaker A:I want to see a physical brick.
Speaker A:And of course we want to see the physical base of Mikdah.
Speaker A:But the is reminding us that Hashem is boning Yerushalayim.
Speaker A:He's building yerushalayim, and it's up to us to contribute to that Binya.
Speaker A:Are we going to contribute with our mitzos and meisin tovim to that building process?
Speaker A:And the SP is saying that every single generation can contribute to the extent that.
Speaker A:What?
Speaker A:Meaning the number one important thing that we have to do is to be mekaba omachemayim, to recognize that Khash Baruch Hu runs the show.
Speaker A:And I am going to be meshavim myself to him and his ratson and his.
Speaker A:And his Torah.
Speaker A:And when you have that as the, you know, the header for everything else, you do.
Speaker A:So everything else is gonna be Nimsha Chachrov.
Speaker A:Everything else is gonna kind of follow suit.
Speaker A:But that's the goal we have to have as we go through golis.
Speaker A:Fine, That's Yisod number one.
Speaker A:You saw number two from this fast.
Speaker A:Ms. Tough resh mem and tough race memach mem.
Speaker A:It's an interesting Torah.
Speaker A:He says here.
Speaker A:He quotes from.
Speaker A:From Echa.
Speaker A:He quotes actually the Medrish in Eicha esalivadi posse in this week's Parasha Moshe, meaning saying, how can I carry you guys, the Jewish people, by myself from Megillah says this f Isa, I think so you pronounce that meaning?
Speaker A:There were three different stages where we saw the.
Speaker A:The princess.
Speaker A:Basically, we saw her in her tranquil state.
Speaker A:Maybe she was beautiful.
Speaker A:Maybe she was now in a state of nivoli.
Speaker A:She was.
Speaker A:She was disgraced or disgusting.
Speaker A:All the things that we do wrong, all things that we do inappropriately, the averos that the Jewish people succumb to, so they actually have their roots in earlier generations.
Speaker A:It doesn't mean that we shirk responsibility for them, but it means that there was a seed planted many, many years ago.
Speaker A:Just like all of our zechuyos stem from the avos Cain im Hayatik and Gamma Beshoresh.
Speaker A:Oh, I dotted that on the page.
Speaker A:Okay, I'm gonna read the page here.
Speaker A:Sorry.
Speaker A:So just like says Fasemus, I skipped the drop on the.
Speaker A:On the photocopy here.
Speaker A:But just like our come from the above, so so too the flip side, the negative things that we're involved in and the things that we maybe experience are also rooted in the maisa of the abus.
Speaker A:Look on the fourth line, the kimo avira gorea savira, meaning the average starts in a very small, slim little way, and over time, it snowballs into this giant thing.
Speaker A:So it could be.
Speaker A:It started off, it was accidental, it was small, it wasn't such a big deal.
Speaker A:Eventually it snowballed into something crazy.
Speaker A:So he says, that's p' shot in these three Eichels.
Speaker A:First it says they weren't doing things necessarily wrong.
Speaker A:They weren't doing black on white averos, but rather they just were installing Pseudomosh Rabbeinu.
Speaker A:So Moshe Rabbeinu was reflecting.
Speaker A:This is really difficult for me because they're just not.
Speaker A:It's not working out right now.
Speaker A:It's really challenging.
Speaker A:That was level one, level two, how can I go astray from the path?
Speaker A:And then.
Speaker A:And then eventually he came to like rampant abode.
Speaker A:And that was, how can I. Hashem is saying, how can I be by myself?
Speaker A:That my people have deserted me, they've left me, they've gone off to serve Abu Dhazara.
Speaker A:Now that's a pretty intense Torah from the Sevase emes, I would say.
Speaker A:It's not necessarily the style that we've seen, but I think what the Svasimus wants us to internalize and appreciate is that you do one thing, and this thing can happen years and years and years ago, and it can impact people way after generations later.
Speaker A:And if it's true in the gnae, if it's true for the negative, so we know that Mita, Tova and Meruba, it's true for the good.
Speaker A:You can put yourself on a particular trajectory.
Speaker A:And it's not just putting yourself on a trajectory, but it's putting your future generations on that trajectory also.
Speaker A:And they're going to end up in a much better place.
Speaker A:So one mitzvah, one decision you make can change your family's trajectory, it can change your grandchildren's trajectory.
Speaker A:It can change everything about your life and your generation's generation's lives.
Speaker A:Just one action, I think, can change up everything.
Speaker A:And again, we've spoken about this also that the Yetzhara wants us to think that to bring the Beis Hamikdash to change it up in Avod Hashem, we have to do wholesale changes.
Speaker A:It's not about wholesale changes.
Speaker A:It's about small, gradual, incremental growth.
Speaker A:And when you do that again, you change the trajectory, you take off from.
Speaker A:From o' Hare Airport thinking you're traveling, I don't know, Toronto to England.
Speaker A:If the trajectory is off a little bit on the flight pattern, you end up somewhere totally different.
Speaker A:One little degree sends you in a completely different place.
Speaker A:And that's what we're trying to do you do a little bit differently?
Speaker A:I'm going to up my game a little bit at Kamish Borato, the nine days, a few more days till Tisha buff here.
Speaker A:I'm going to up my game a little bit that can put your generations, future generations, on a completely different path.
Speaker A:And I think that's a very important yesod to think about.
Speaker A:Let's.
Speaker A:Let's close out with this Yisod.
Speaker A:So he says the following.
Speaker A:It says, towards the end of Sefer Devarim, Hashem Badad Yanchanu.
Speaker A:So Kadosh Baruch Hu dwells alone now, the Mufarshim, not just the Mufarishim, but really the chazal.
Speaker A:The Sifri points out that Hashem is gonna dwell alone with us, meaning he's gonna rest with us and he's gonna basically tell all the Ummah, solemn, you're out of here.
Speaker A:I have no interest in you.
Speaker A:It's just me.
Speaker A:And it's just meaning me, not me.
Speaker A:Hashem.
Speaker A:Hashem is saying that it's me and the Jewish people Afilu Begalus.
Speaker A:And even if it's in Gallus, Hashem is going to be with us.
Speaker A:I'm here alone.
Speaker A:That your hand is going to guide me.
Speaker A:That even when Hashem sends us out and Hashem is by himself, so to speak, in Yerushalayim and the Beis Hamikdash is in Korba, and the streets of Yerushalayim are empty and we're not there anymore.
Speaker A:So still directing us.
Speaker A:We've gone astray, we've run away.
Speaker A:And Hashem is still sending the text.
Speaker A:He's still putting in the GPS for us, telling us what our next move should be and where we need to go and what we need to be thinking, because we have no Hanhago, I think, imo El Neychar, that's the Hemshach of that posse that we started with later.
Speaker A:I think it's in Parshas.
Speaker A:I know it's in Hazinu.
Speaker A:But Hashem is saying that I'm alone with them and there's not going to be anybody else.
Speaker A:There are no strangers.
Speaker A:It's just the Jewish people on a Kaddish, Baruch Hu says, this fast is for Josh.
Speaker A:We saw this last night is Bechoder.
Speaker A:Even when Hashem is by himself in Gala.
Speaker A:So we seem to be sorry.
Speaker A:Hashem is in Yerushalayim, in the ruins of Yerushalayim, in the ruins of the base of Mikdash.
Speaker A:And he's saying, I'm sitting here by myself and we've gone astray.
Speaker A:We're running all over the place.
Speaker A:So badar is what you think you might be alone in gullus, you think you might be far away from.
Speaker A:No, you can connect to Akados Baruch Hu wherever you are, no matter what you're doing, no matter what you're involved in.
Speaker A:We're crooked, we're off the path, whatever.
Speaker A:No, Hashem is still with us.
Speaker A:Im kol za ish Yisroel tsurkli the Kih kol ha nagaso.
Speaker A:Everything we experience, all the negativity, all the suffering, the tragedy, the difficulties that we've all experienced and encountered in our lives, personally and nationally, collectively, it's all from Akadosh Baruch Hui, Yashir or Chosecha.
Speaker A:It's the hemshach of the posse and Mishlei.
Speaker A:If you know that Akadosh Baruch Hu is running the show, if he's commanding the ship, so to speak, he's driving the car.
Speaker A:So then your path will be straight.
Speaker A:Things are going to be okay.
Speaker A:You trust in Hakadish Baruch Hu.
Speaker A:Think about a Kadish Baruch Hu and everything that you're doing.
Speaker A:So it's a guarantee that you're going to do the right thing again.
Speaker A:Bechot de rachecha dehu.
Speaker A:If you think about g d in every single interaction you have, in every single encounter and every single thing that you're doing, and you're thinking about Hakadosh Baruch Hur God conscious, so then what's going to happen?
Speaker A:So say the Mafor Shema Mishlei on that posseq who Yasha or Khosaka, he's going to straighten your path.
Speaker A:What does that mean?
Speaker A:Well, if you're thinking about God and what does Hashem want me to do in this given situation, if a Jew is going to ask himself that question, so 99% of the time he's going to end up making the right decision.
Speaker A:It's only when we don't think about a Kadish rukl that we do stupid things.
Speaker A:But if we think about God, then what?
Speaker A:You're usually gonna make the right call.
Speaker A:You're usually gonna make the right call.
Speaker A:So we have to think about a Kadish Baruch and everything.
Speaker A:And this is what the original says, as we pointed out, it happens to be Geshmak kvar.
Speaker A:I don't know if we said this earlier in the year in a different sevas emash here, but bechot derechecha dehu so da is to know.
Speaker A:And you take the hey and the vav at the end of dehu.
Speaker A:And that meaning in all your ways, you want to know him.
Speaker A:You plug in the hey involved that shem hashem ay, what's the kasha?
Speaker A:It's not the only letters in shem hashem.
Speaker A:What are we making?
Speaker A:What are we missing?
Speaker A:The yud and the hey.
Speaker A:So where do they.
Speaker A:Where do they show up?
Speaker A:So it says in the R that if you look at all the verbs in Hebrew, sleeping, everything we do, all the physical activities involved in life have a yud, meaning in every single physical thing you do in this world.
Speaker A:What can you do?
Speaker A:You can plug hashem into it.
Speaker A:You can plug hashem into your life.
Speaker A:And that's how you bring you infuse avodat hashem with hakadosh baruch hu.
Speaker A:And that's a maisa of gula.
Speaker A:The Babatur pointed out that on a shoresh level, the words gallus and gula are basically the same.
Speaker A:Gula has an aleph.
Speaker A:Gullus is lacking that aleph.
Speaker A:What's the aleph represent?
Speaker A:Aleph is.
Speaker A:Who knows?
Speaker A:One.
Speaker A:One is one's hashem.
Speaker A:So what do you have to do?
Speaker A:You have to think about hashem.
Speaker A:You have to think about every single thing you do.
Speaker A:And then when you're running, when you're eating, when you're sleeping, all those things that you're doing, all the physical.
Speaker A:If you plug that yud hey, if you plug that aleph into all those actions, you're thinking about aleph, you're thinking about hashem SEM.
Speaker A:Those actions are what?
Speaker A:They're guladika actions.
Speaker A:Because gula is living with a kadosh baruch hu.
Speaker A:It's experiencing elokos.
Speaker A:We want hashoros hashem, we want the beis hamikdash.
Speaker A:But it has to start with what?
Speaker A:Us bringing hakadosh baruch hu into our lives and thinking about bechoder achech adehu.
Speaker A:That's what the svasamis is saying here.
Speaker A:When we do that, we're on such a windy, twisted, crazy path and we don't even know how golf is going to go.
Speaker A:We look at our history and it's crazy.
Speaker A:How is it going to end?
Speaker A:I don't know.
Speaker A:But we know where it's going to end.
Speaker A:We know where we're going to end up.
Speaker A:We're going to end up in Yerushalayim with a beis hamikdash.
Speaker A:It's going to end up.
Speaker A:So from the hit Yashir, you kind of just have to trust Akadosh Baruch Hu and do what we need to do.
Speaker A:It's okay.
Speaker A:I don't know how this war is going to end.
Speaker A:I don't know how we're going to get out of this.
Speaker A:I don't know how this family is going to have the Yeshua that they're looking for.
Speaker A:But we continue to think about Hakodesh Baruch Hu and make him proud and do the things that he wants us to do.
Speaker A:So then he's going to straight.
Speaker A:We're going to get to Yerushalayim, we're going to get to the base Hamikdash.
Speaker A:It's going to happen.
Speaker A:Says the Svasem classic.
Speaker A:Shabbos is the sign.
Speaker A:We have six days a week where we're trying the best we can and we're holding on to the, to the lifeboat, so to speak, where we're, you know, we're trying not to drown, trying not to drown.
Speaker A:In gullus comes along Shabbos and it's a proof.
Speaker A:It's a riot.
Speaker A:It's Eidos.
Speaker A:It's testifying to the Jewish people that we're holding on to a kadish Baruch Hu for dear life.
Speaker A:That's why Shabbos can push off Tisha.
Speaker A:A day of such darkness and destruction and sadness, Shabbos overrides that Kishab is today we're holding on to Kados rope dear life.
Speaker A:So this is the IDUs that we have on a weekly basis.
Speaker A:We have to recognize that our avodah is to plug that olive into everything we're doing to find the Kadosh Baruch Hu to seek a Kadish Baruch Hu.
Speaker A:When we do that, we make him proud.
Speaker A:And that'll be hopefully Yashar or Chosecha.
Speaker A:We should be zocha to see the ultimate yashras of this.
Speaker A:Derek, when we see the Beis Hamikdash Bishleimusa in Yerushalayim Iraq Kodesh, I wish everyone a fantastic rest of your week and thank you for learning with Mezorah.
