Tisha B'av: The Danger of Fear - Rabbi Benzion Klatzko

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

[Music] I was looking at my post this morning and one person wrote, "I'm crying bitter tears that I don't know why I'm crying bitter tears." I think that echoes the feeling of many of us. If you are older and you've been through one tisha after the next, it just seems like it comes around like Purum and Pes and Kaneka and here's tishab and nothing has changed or has it? I want to point something out. It's an obvious point, but it occurred to me this year. And the point is the following. While it's amazing to be inspired and a one-time shot, a one-time event, Judaism does not believe in that. We don't believe in instant bursts of inspiration that have the ability to last. Rather, Judaism says that for every pe for every moment of inspiration, you need preparation, there has to be longevity. Look at every yumtove that exists on the Jewish calendar. There is no sudden burst of inspiration that exists. Shivus while it's only two days is preceded by 49 days of inspiration. Rashana is preceded by an L where we blow chauffear and we recite. Even Khan is your eight days of growing in that connection. Purim is Pesar goes out of its way to say that 30 days before Pes you're supposed to get into the mode of Pesak. There is no such thing as a sudden burst of inspiration in Judaism. It doesn't work like that. Great change doesn't work like that. Great change happens when we prepare for it and when we try to think and we play proper mind games. or as my son-in-law calls it mind chess where we think okay how do I want to feel today what deep well of inspiration and

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1. 0:02[Music] I was looking at my post this morning and one person wrote, "I'm crying bitter…
2. 2:47sorrow am I dipping into I will tell you personally that this year was the first…
3. 5:57than day and night. Maybe that premise is misguided. Maybe it's a mistake. Maybe that's not…
4. 8:32slaves for hundreds of years. Amuna, amuna, amuna, amuna. It's all about amuna. So I'm thinking,…
5. 11:13the great challenge. What I realized was that the reason that people don't invite for shabas,…
6. 13:51first speaker that the organizations that are involved in in this program had a great reason…
7. 16:38it to Rabbi Herman's chest. And Rabbi Herman stared him in the eye, opened up his…
8. 19:20difference is that the one who is involved in sinam, he is so afraid that he…
9. 22:11with the white knit and they're sitting and they're learning and they're all sitting and learning…
10. 24:55each other. We can't be with each other because we're so different. But you know what?…

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