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0:00 When the Beis HaMikdash, the Holy Temple, was destroyed, the Kohanim went up to the roof and threw the keys before the Holy One, blessed be He, and said: "Master of the world, we were not faithful treasurers to guard the keys for You." "Take the keys, Master of the world." They threw Him the keys, and a hand came out and took them from here. It's frightening that this was here, in this sky — here it was. It's a shocking thing, not something one can understand at all.
0:31 This story is also brought in Avos DeRabbi Nasan, chapter 4, mishnah 5, it is also brought in Tractate Taanis, page 29, and it also appears in the Zohar, Mikeitz, page 202b. There too the same story appears, with the hand that came out of Heaven and took the keys. "We were not faithful treasurers." See how much this story repeats itself.
0:55 Why does it come? To shake us — how the Holy One, blessed be He, did such a thing, that a hand came down from Heaven. It's not something the mind can bear at all; it's not something one can bear, to understand that we are looking at a sky like this and to see like this that the Holy One, blessed be He, brought down a hand from Heaven here that took the keys. This — a person must... "The wise man has his eyes in his head." Whoever truly fears Hashem, whoever truly cares about the way of Hashem, whoever truly understands what the Beis HaMikdash is, whoever feels pain for the tzaddikim, for the holy Kohanim who were killed for the sanctification of Hashem's Name — for we had the priestly garments; the garments of the Kohen Gadol atoned for all the sins,
1:30 just the garments of the Kohen — just the garments alone atone for all the sins. What are the garments of the Kohen... everything he puts on the body — every part on the body atones for the Jewish people. What are the garments of the Kohen Gadol... What garments do we have today? Where to — where are they going? They go with "my strength and the might of my hand," and they don't know that the way of Hashem is only humility, it's only lowliness, it's only being down below.
1:55 The more you are down, be happy. If nothing is going right for you and you are down — dance, because you are beloved before Hashem. If you were up high and everything was going well and everything was... then maybe Hashem doesn't desire you. So be happy, because "To this one I will look: to the poor and broken in spirit." The Holy One, blessed be He, rejoices in you — that you are like this, that you are humble, that you are lowly and you are despised. Maybe your life isn't exactly the way you want it — it's all fine, just be happy.
2:20 And we, with Hashem's help, will pray together that the Holy One, blessed be He, build us this House, build us the Beis HaMikdash and not leave us in exile, with Hashem's help. That it should come, with Hashem's help — whenever it comes: it may come in another year, it may come in another two years, it may come in another two days, in another half a year, in another ten years. Whenever it comes, we will wait for it every day, that it come.
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2:46 This is the emunah that we must believe. It's no great wisdom to learn about the destruction; we have to learn how we learn from this message how to build it: to change — to look kindly at the other, to help the other, to be a simple man, not to think of walking in "the heights of heaven," not to think too high, to be simple people, to be sane people, to have sense, to have a settled head.
3:16 If we knew what can be achieved on this day... After all, we are forbidden to learn Torah, and it is a great fear, that one does not learn Torah on this day. But on this day, in fact, a light is revealed that Hashem, blessed be He, is here with us, here with us, really. And all the worlds and all the angels — all of them are with us! And in fact, on this day it is possible... If people knew what one can accomplish on Tishah B'Av! On Tishah B'Av one can accomplish more than in the whole entire year, on Tishah B'Av, more than in the whole entire year.
3:45 The whole entire year a person accomplishes through fasts, through self-afflictions, through fasting, on Tishah B'Av one can accomplish more than the whole entire year, on this day. Why? Because you are with the King, and you are asking for the ultimate purpose. That is the lack in everything that we go through. All the salvations of the unmarried are found on Tishah B'Av, all the children — where there are no children — on Tishah B'Av, every lack of livelihood, the lack of apartments, the situation in the world — everything is found on Tishah B'Av, everything is found on this day.
4:17 And when one accepts this day, and weeps over the Beis HaMikdash, and when a person says the kinos and stirs up weeping, there is nothing as important as Tishah B'Av; there is nothing as important as this. And in the morning (of Tishah B'Av), on Tuesday morning, until ten o'clock, until ten, eleven o'clock in the morning, there is a very great time of favor, and it is recommended for every person to sit on the floor and ask for all the requests. Really cry before Hashem, ask — every private request that you need is a kind of the sorrow of the Shechinah.
4:45 Ask for all the requests, everything that you need. Sit on the floor and ask for all the requests, everything that is needed. Sitting on the floor — of course, to be exact about it — there is a very great matter in this. It is very important to be careful about this: not to sit on a chair until midday. It's good if a person can sit on a mat. That's the best — to sit on a kind of rug, on something really, really low, as low as possible, and that's the best way to sit.
5:10 And this repairs a person's mind for him — a mind that was damaged and spoiled. The moment a person casts himself down, down low on Tishah B'Av, and he is together with the sorrow of the Shechinah, and he really feels this pain of the Shechinah, and he sees this sorrow and he feels this pain, then this is what can raise him and lift him up. The more a person exerts himself to pray, to ask before Hashem about the destruction of the Beis HaMikdash, and to tear open the heavens, and to cry out to Heaven that the Holy One, blessed be He, answer him, that the Holy One, blessed be He, hear his prayer, that the Holy One, blessed be He, help him — to use every moment, every moment, every moment, not to stop for even one moment,
5:47 to use it as much as possible. And if a person does this, he will see miracles and wonders above nature! If he sits and prays and has intention — but again, he should not ask about private troubles; he should have private troubles in mind, but say that this sorrow he has is the sorrow of the Shechinah, and he doesn't want the Shechinah to have sorrow anymore. He knows that the pain he has and the lack he has is the sorrow of the exile, it's the sorrow of the Shechinah, and he asks before the Master of heaven and earth that there be no more sorrow for the Shechinah.
6:17 Over this he laments, over this he weeps, and this is what he asks of the Holy One, blessed be He. So this is a very great thing; so whoever asks like this should know that it is certainly, certainly a time of favor. I ask everyone to direct all your deeds for the sake of Heaven, to do every movement for the sake of Heaven, to rejoice in the Torah, to love the Torah, to do every prayer for the sake of Heaven, every action for the sake of Heaven, to pray to the Holy One, blessed be He, for the sake of Heaven. Direct everything you do for the sake of Heaven, everything you pray, everything you do.
6:47 (Before) everything, say: "For the sake of the unification of the Holy One, blessed be He, and His Shechinah" — a blessing, spices, everything that you do. And know that one of the important things, that you should never give up on: every day read it — the "Declaration and Disclosure of Intent" of Rabbeinu Yosef Chaim. Baruch Hashem, it has already been printed in all the siddurim, both here for the Ashkenazim and for the Sephardim who are here. Baruch Hashem, also Ashkenazim who don't happen to pray from this siddur — but I have already told you, the students who pray from a siddur in Nusach Sefard, to fold the "Declaration and Disclosure of Intent" of Rabbeinu Yosef Chaim for themselves and put it there for themselves, and to pray the "Declaration and Disclosure of Intent," to read this prayer, the "Declaration and Disclosure of Intent,"
7:29 which reveals in a person that he protests against all the thoughts that are not good, against everything that is not for the sake of Heaven, and he stipulates about it that it should be null and void, like the law of nullifying the chametz before the festival of Pesach.
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מתי שנחרב בית המקדש הכהנים עלו לגג וזרקו את המפתחות לפני הקדוש ברוך הוא ואמרו: “רבונו של עולם לא היינו גזברים נאמנים לשמור לך על המפתחות” "קח את המפתחות רבונו של עולם" זרקו לו את המפתחות ויצאה יד שלקחה אותם מפה זה מפחיד שזה היה פה בשמים האלה, פה זה היה זה דבר מזעזע לא דבר שאפשר בכלל להבין המעשה הזה מובא גם באבות דרבי נתן בפרק ד' משנה ה’ גם הובא במסכת תענית בדף כ"ט וגם מופיע בזהר מקץ בדף ר"ב עמוד ב’ גם שם מופיע אותו מעשה עם היד שיצאה מהשמים ולקחה את המפתחות “לא היינו גזברים נאמנים” תראו כמה שהמעשה הזה חוזר על עצמו למה הוא בא? לזעזע אותנו איך הקדוש ברוך הוא עשה דבר כזה שירדה יד מהשמים זה לא דבר שאפשר לסבול אותו בשכל בכלל, זה לא דבר שאפשר לסבול אותו להבין שמסתכלים על שמים כאלה ולראות ככה שהקדוש ברוך הוא הוריד כאן יד מהשמים שלקחה את המפתחות זה בן אדם צריך.. "החכם עיניו בראשו" מי שבאמת ירא ה', מי שבאמת אכפת לו מדרך ה' מי שבאמת מבין מה זה בית המקדש מי שכואב לו על הצדיקים, על הכהנים הקדושים שנהרגו על קידוש ה' שהיה לנו בגדי כהונה, בגדי כהן גדול היו מכפרים על כל העוונות רק הבגדים של הכהן, רק הבגדים לבד מכפר על כל העוונות מה זה הבגדים של הכהן.. כל מה שהוא שם על הגוף, כל חלק בגוף מכפר על עם ישראל מה זה בגדי כהן גדול.. איזה בגדים יש לנו היום? לאיפה, לאן הם הולכים? הם הולכים ב-"כוחי ועוצם ידי" והם לא יודעים שדרך ה' זה רק ענוה זה רק שפלות, זה רק להיות למטה כמה שאתה למטה תשמח אם הכל לא הולך לך ואתה למטה - תרקוד כי אתה אהוב לפני ה' אם היית למעלה והכל הולך והכל זה.. אז אולי ה' לא חפץ בך אז תשמח כי "אל זה אביט אל עני ונכה רוח" הקדוש ברוך הוא שמח בך, שאתה ככה שאתה ענו, שאתה שפל ואתה נבזה
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- 0:00מתי שנחרב בית המקדש הכהנים עלו לגג וזרקו את המפתחות לפני הקדוש ברוך הוא ואמרו: “רבונו…
- 0:31המעשה הזה מובא גם באבות דרבי נתן בפרק ד' משנה ה’ גם הובא במסכת תענית בדף…
- 1:40מה זה בגדי כהן גדול.. איזה בגדים יש לנו היום? לאיפה, לאן הם הולכים? הם הולכים…
- 2:15אולי החיים שלך לא בדיוק כמו שאתה רוצה הכל בסדר, רק תהיה שמח ואנחנו בעזרת השם…
- 3:16אם היינו יודעים ביום הזה מה אפשר להשיג.. הרי אסורים בלימוד התורה וזה פחד גדול שלא…
- 3:52בתשעה באב אפשר לפעול יותר מכל השנה כולה ביום הזה למה? כי אתה נמצא עם המלך…
- 4:53לשבת על הרצפה כמובן לדקדק בזה יש בזה ענין גדול מאוד חשוב מאוד להיזהר בזה לא…
- 5:25אז זה מה שיכול להעלות אותו ולהרים אותו כמה שבן אדם יתאמץ יותר להתפלל לבקש מלפני…
- 6:31לעשות כל תנועה לשם שמים לשמוח בתורה, לאהוב את התורה לעשות כל תפילה לשם שמים, כל…
- 7:04זה כבר ברוך השם הודפס בכל הסידורים הן פה לאשכנזים ולספרדים שיש כאן ברוך ה' גם…
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