Rabbi Mordechai Kraft - Tisha BAv

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Thank you everybody for staying for my speech. I know it's hard to keep sitting on a fast day and there's a need to walk around. And the reality is it's a difficult day. It's a tough day. And it's supposed to be a difficult day. And probably the hardest part of it is not be able to greet each other. Allah says we can't greet. A mourner can't greet. So, if I look at you and just sort of give you like a nod of the head, I'm not you like a nod of the head, I'm not trying to be rude. I'm really just trying to restrain myself from from greeting. Hopefully we'll greet each other tonight with Messiah and Moshiach and Amen. Today's topic that I chose is feeling Hashem's love at the darkest and deepest moments of our lives. And I think we know from experience that we can't make it long in this world without either witnessing other people without either witnessing other people who experience painful situations or having gone through some pain ourselves. And in fact, the Talmud tells us that we're supposed to stand up for somebody who is old. And it doesn't just mean a non-Jew, it doesn't just mean a Jew, it means a non-Jew as well. And the Talmud says the reason we're supposed to stand up is because just by the fact that a person has lived a certain amount of years in this world, it means they've gone through something. They've gone through difficulties. And those difficulties and suffering and

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1. 0:02Thank you everybody for staying for my speech. I know it's hard to keep sitting on…
2. 4:40Instead of realizing that my money is a means to do mitzvahs, a person can oftentimes…
3. 9:45severe pain in their lives. Let's begin with Moshe Rabbeinu. Moshe Rabbeinu, we know, our teacher,…
4. 14:19you're not supposed to say anything. You're supposed to wait for the person to speak first.…
5. 19:26And I want to see justice. I don't want to see something so painful that needs…
6. 24:31"God, I know it's you." You know what God says? "We're done. That was it. That…
7. 29:02Yosef, they worked on themselves. They fixed themselves up. They undid the problem. And 10 Romans…
8. 34:12sage we had since Moshe Rabbeinu. In fact, his greatness was that God took Moshe Rabbeinu…
9. 38:51course tragedy Rabbi Akiva. That you enter the next world. As I make a few comments…
10. 43:56And she says "It wasn't such a bad place." And the writer of the book says,…

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