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Rabbi YY Jacobson discusses the pain and meaning behind the destruction of the Temples on Tisha B'Av.
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bliss and nachos. Thank you to everybody behind this event. And of course thank you to the beloved community. The South African Jewish community, a community like none other. For being here, for gracing us here with your presence and for this very special invitation to be able to address you during such an evening. It's been 1,954 years. That's a long time. 1,954 years since the year 70. The night of the 9th of Av. That period, that moment, that day when God's home on earth our Bet Hamikdash, our holy temple was consumed first by the flames of Babylonia and then a few hundred years later on the very same day the very same day by the flames of Rome. And here we stand 1,954 years later telling the story but also sadly experiencing the story. How many homes of God went up in flames this year? How many temples, holy temples were destroyed. Every soul, we are told, every body every human soul, every human body is a Bet Hamikdash. Bet Hamikdash. Is a dwelling home for the divine. Is a place of meeting between heaven and earth. The soul and the body itself is the great miracle of fusion between heaven and earth. Between infinity and finiteness. Between the eternal and the very physical world that we inhabit. How many such holy temples were destroyed this year? How many of our most precious brothers and sisters children young and old young and old whose lives have come to a brutal end on Simchat Torah 84 October 7th, 2023. How many of our brothers and sisters in captivity including babies how many of our most precious and holiest soldiers the sweetest of the sweetest the kindest of the kind have lost their lives battling a fierce enemy, a fearsome enemy
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- 0:32bliss and nachos. Thank you to everybody behind this event. And of course thank you to…
- 4:41short generations after the destruction of the Second Temple. He was the editor of the Jerusalem…
- 8:46today already merits and sees its joy. The very grief is a symptom of connection. We're…
- 12:50not all Jews are perfect. Of course, we have our share of crooks. But when you…
- 16:57Shabbos candles? It's ex- exactly what Sarah and Rebecca and Rachel and Leah did. So, the…
- 21:04and he was the hope of the nation. He was the beloved prince of his majesty.…
- 25:08the chains and who cares how much it weighs? If the If the prince can escape,…
- 30:16I need power. Now I need control. I just don't know who I am. I don't…
- 34:21Yetzer hara is petty inclinations, toxic inclinations. Sin'ah habriyot is hating people. He says, "This is…
- 38:30stupidity, for the lies, for the deception, for hatred, for evil that still reigns in God's…
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