July 20, 2023

FEEL THE BURN: Tisha B'av, The Nine Days, Closeness & Coziness with Hashem

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Season 4

Ever wonder why even the youngest Jewish child can tell you the exact date of the destruction of Hashem's house? How is this incident, and the observance of Tisha B'av, deeply ingrained in the Jewish psyche? Prepare to unlock the answers and gain a profound understanding of the Jewish faith as we navigate this critical topic.

This episode explores the significance of closeness in Judaism and investigates the Jewish community's spiritual connection with Hashem. We discuss the concept of accidental murder in the Jewish faith and the importance of maintaining the sanctity of religious leaders. This enlightening episode is bound to offer you a deeper understanding of the Jewish faith and its inherent longing for closeness with Hashem.

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Ask even the wisest of all American historians for the exact date that the British burned down the US Capitol in the war of 1812, and I don't imagine they'd be able to tell you the exact date.

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Ask them, ask anyone.

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Ask the most wise and enlightened scholars for the day that Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, and I don't know if they'd be able to tell you the answer.

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But ask when you walk into any first grade or preschool classroom at Chloros, the Globe.

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Ask any preschool Jewish child when was Hashem's house destroyed?

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And he will tell you.

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Well, the base Hamikdushes both of them were destroyed on Tisha, the of the ninth of Av.

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It is so baked into our Jewish society, it is so critical that we get a feeling for what we had, how great it was, and now how bereft, how empty we are.

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And perhaps in that spot is where we will feel a bit of connection to what we have lost, how different things are to really be.

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Misabil al-Khurbun, biased this year, maybe Ruchem tells us that if you read Rashi critically by the story of the accidental murderer, the unpremeditated manslaughter, the man who must flee to the Aramaiclut, what is the reason that he's sent away to hide in the Aramaiclut?

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It's very interesting.

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We spoke about this.

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Listen to what Rashi says Leave, go to the Aramaiclut until the Kohen Goudal dies.

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Why?

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Because you try to shorten the lives of people and the Kohen Goudal tries to lengthen the lives of people.

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Therefore, ain't no kid die.

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It is not f fitting.

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It is not proper, sheehe Liffne Kohingoodle.

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It's not proper that you should be in front of the Kohingoodle, not even in the same proximity.

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The Kohingoodle can't even see you, so you're banished.

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Unbelievable.

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It's not to save this accidental murderer from the Goel Hadam.

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No, he can't even be in the proximity of Kedusha.

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There's something called Kiruv and Rihok, closeness and distance, and Rabiruchim told us that we know.

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We say in Eichah that the Korah alaih, mo'ilishbor bachoroi, that the Abishter.

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He calls this a meeting, a gathering, a vaad.

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Tisha be'av is a holiday.

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It's a coming together of lishbor bachoroi.

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It's a holiday of distancing, a longing for Hashem, hashem longing for his people and wanting the house to be there so we could come together again.

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This guy, this individual, must be banned, as she can't have proximity.

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What the Be'azamigda stood for was a house of Kiruv, of intimacy, of connection, of divakus.

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It was all there for us to be in such closeness with Hashem.

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It's really a deep concept If you think about where the Gamara tells us that you'll find Hashem's Shechina very, very tangibly.

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The Gamara says, not when you're learning or doing Amitzvah, but if you're in the Dalit, amo Shalhalacha, in the eight square cubic feet around of Halacha, study there, in that proximity, in that Kiruv, that closeness, shem, there's where you're gonna find the Shechina.

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It's unbelievable.

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The Lvivian weren't even given a portion in the land.

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They got to be these certain cities that would just be the Ha'ulei Ha'Liviam, very, very close to the Be'azamigdas, because the Lvivites were always to be living with the Almighty in the super sacred, sacrosanct style of life.

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And the Medjers tells us the Ha'ulei Ha'Liviam means just be close.

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I want you near.

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It's a deep concept.

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Get a very, very subtly simple concept.

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In Yiddish Kite it's about coming closer.

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The word Tshuva come near, get close, get cozy.

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And the Be'azamigdas was the utmost and paramount example of coziness with Hashem.

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The same way one is in Zochha, because of some other happenings or sins that one must be sent to a or a Miklut so to, gullis so to.

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We were sent away because of the sins.

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A bit of self centeredness.

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Therefore, we lost the close intimacy with Hashem.

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Kirov is what we need be dovek.

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Come close to the Tyra Be'a'ilo regal, to your Nitesedrchavrusa, move closer to towns of Torah, move closer in with your Rebbe, move closer in with all of the people in the Kedushah.

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That is basic and simple Kirov, because that is what we are so badly missing.