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Jews always mikabelyom tov orshabbos with anticipation. How do we mikabel tisha bav?

We know a shtikel from the tzadikim. R Yissacher Dov from Belz right before Maariv on

Tisha Bav cried out "what's the Tachlis (purpose)?" Nachamul." We accept it but again?So if it exists must be Hashem wants us to have it. It doesn't help to have new ideas on this

night but we must mikabeland get hisorririus forTisha bav and nucha Tisha bav

There was an adam gadol from thesheeris of the Holocaust in shanghai. He said he met s

secular Jew who was reminiscing memories from the home (europe). The secular Jew said

the poverty of the villages was so unbearable that a piece of hard bread and water was theway we lived. We were far removed from pleasures and luxuries. But.... The shtetl had one

pleasure that we occasionally indulged in riva/jelly. They would go to the forest and gather

berries. Would only do it for a simcha or a child wasn't well. But, one time there was no

special occasion and his bubby had a cheshek to indulge in this pleasure she had a jar thatwas locked in a closet with a little left. She took out the container and put in the spoon and

tasted a shtikel. Closed her eyes and smacked her lips. Then bubby started to cry. Nobody

knew what was wrong. She started banging her head saying theBeis Hamakdash is

destroyed how can I have so much pleasure. This was the hasaga of simple grandma.

What's the Tachlis? Can we possibly masig tzadikim? The Ohr Sameach (probably talkingabout rav kook) said that he was nispoelfrom the kohen. Once Rav kook came to him and

something was agitating him. Ohr Sameach asked Rav Kook what's bothering you? Rav

Kook said hes been on the road and its been a lot of time since he saw parents and now hehas opportunity but itsshavua shechal bo. Rav kook said I am mesupakhow can I fell

intense pleasure during 9 days.

What's our tachlis? We are not bubby and of course we arent Rav kook. What is avoda?Our jar of jelly has grown large. Our stomachs are filled but Hashem is asking us one day

of the year to take out the Jar of tears from the cabinet. Even with our full cabinets shouldbe able to taste a shtik bitterness which bubby felt in the jelly.

How? There are many video presentations. We have people speaking for us and somebody

crying for us etc. What's the tachlis.

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R yose was walking and entered the churba to daven. There was Eliyahu and said my

child why did u enter? R Yosei said to daven. Eliyahu said what voice do you hear in the

churba? R Yose said I hear a that was crying like a dove and saying woo that I


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The Aish Kodesh onparshas mishpatim asks why did R Yose need to daven by a chorva?

Why only when he entered the ruins was he able to hear the crying like a dove?Answers Hahsem speaks this way 3 times each day. A Jew tortured in suffering thinks he is

the only one in pain and nobody else has suffering. Eicha yashva badad. The gretaest pain

is when the master of the world is oblivious to their personal pain. Everybody has had adrink a jug of tears but the worst thing is when we think we are alone. That Hashem doesn't

our pain. In says < > . Theshchina is crying that this Jewshome is destroyed. ( I missed a gemara in chagiga)

Hashem suffers the pain more than the person. Aish Kodesh says that if one tear enters this

world the world would cease. Its impossible to understand Gods pain. Hashem made the

world in such a way.

In order for r yose to hear that he's not alone had to enter the devastation of the ruins in

Yerushalyim. Let go of his self centeredness. That is ouravoda on tisha bav. We must let

go of our personal suffering and jam and hear the voice of god. We can only do that of welet go of our own life. Let the heart be filled of the of .

R Yose only heard a murmur of the voice. In says

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Hshen roarsyishag. Even RYose who let go of his life and enters the ruins by letting go ofhis self centeredness was only able to hear the cooing of a dove but he could have listened

and heard the lion roar. A'k couldnt tbelive the roar of the lion of the Shchina couldn't

destroy rhe nazis. The world is not obliterated by gods pain because we don't openourselves up to allow gods tear to enter the world. This is ouravoda ofTish bav. Go lifneo


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lifnim to the churva ofyerushalayim. Everybody knows more than one family of a churva.

Rebbe spoke aboth the Menora family of chicago. Grandfather burnt to a crisp. Saref es

hechali. Homes destroyed by children who don't want to go in the path of their parents. Wedon't need to be a tourist to see destruction. In Gush katif the peole are still vagabonds.

Think and feel.

. What does it mean when the gates of the concentration camps openedand nothing was there. That's what rachel imanu wants us to feel. Says in pasuk

:The meforshim say not just that she's crying.It could have said bacha Why does it say

?She wants us to cry. She wants the meleachim to cry. One drop of Hashem tears themashiach will come. She can't be consoled.

Story of the Minchas elazar. End of his life was suffering. Needed to take him to budapest.

He died right before the war in 1937. On Thursday in the hospital he was worried about aminyan on shabbos. The hospital was anti_semites and he couldn't make a request. The

rebbes dr was a non religios jew with a warm Jewish heart. Minchas elazar asked the

Doctor to try to arrange a minyan. Dr agreed the responsibily witht two conditions. 1.Exactly 10 2. Must be in silence because danger and its a hospital with sick patients. The

minchas elazar gave the dr a bracha forarichas yamim. Friday Night they brought 9 Jews

and it was silent. Within 6 seconds the rebbe starts to yell, screamin and crying. Dr comesrunning into the room. Rebbe quiets himself down and they didn't get caught. After

shabbos the DR. asked the rebbe "I risked my life, people are sick in this hospital, how can

you screan like that" the Minchas Elazar said thatwhen I made the promise I thought therewas a rule nobody can scream in the hospital but Thursday night I heard horrible screams

down the hall. So loud I couldn't sleep. Dr said I don't understand the connection. There theperson yelling was in terrible car accident and both his legs were crushed but otherwisethere is silence in the hospital. The rebbe responded dear doctor, you learned in university,

and there u learned many pains and sicknesses, headaches, stomach aches etc, but tell me

did you learn about the pain of a Jew? Do u understand about the pain of a heart of a Jew

who is waiting 2000 years for mashiach and the redemption? Did you learn that each yearonPesach we sayzu hahshama that this will be the year and we are going to be saved and

it still hasn't happened. Dr have you ever felt the pain of the Jew that is seeking for a peace

of Jerusalem and waiting with great longing for thegeula. Believe me honored Dr. that thispain is great. I couldn't hold it in. No promise in the world could quiet the pain of the

scream of the pained heart of the yid"

What's the Tachlis? Its the yortzeit of the chozeh mlublin. He was called the choze because

of his eyes. How far in the future he could see? He said I see the way the Jews sitting on

tisha bav having a seder saying hallel and praise to Hashem. Vatiten lanu es yom tiash abvhazeh. That it will become ayomtov. The divrei chaim was dancing atseudas mafskes adir

hu yivne beiso. We should merit through our tears to feel Hashems tear entering the world.


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It should be a Chag where we are thinking bigger thoughts than the jar of jelly.

tisha bav night 5770 rabbi weinberger

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