Know someone who would love this shiur?
The shiur in English
The Yanuka’s own words in this shiur, translated into English by Lehallel · 2,052 words · 9:52. Press a time to hear it said.
0:00 In the Zohar, Shemos, page 8, side a, there it is told that Mashiach cried and he began to cry, and he saw the holy forefathers crying, and our mother Rachel is crying, and the Holy One, blessed be He, tries to comfort her, to appease her, she refuses to be comforted. And then Mashiach began to cry with a great weeping, and all the tzaddikim in Gan Eden were shaken, and they all cried together with him too. They all cry together with him, and cry, and cry. How much did they cry on this day? What is it to understand at all? It is not...
0:28 to understand what this pain was, that was cut off from us, the wholeness of life, all the disasters in the world, all the sorrow in the world, In the Zohar Tazria, page 51, side b, side b, Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai says, our Temple and our glory was destroyed, the Temple was destroyed, there is no cure, there is no more deliverance for healing. Only a person must guard himself. The Beis HaMikdash, the Holy Temple, drew down for us all the cures in the world.
0:55 If we knew what this House is, what this holy House is, what we would do. All the nations of the world would come to build it. As much as possible to arouse the heart, as much as possible to cry, to imagine all that happened once, to try to hear the voices, the fires, the screams, the outcries, all that was here, to understand what was here, to understand how much the Holy One, blessed be He, cried, how much the holy Shechinah cried, all the tzaddikim cried, all cried.
1:25 We said the Yerushalmi in Tractate Yoma, chapter 1, halachah 1 there, that as long as the Beis HaMikdash was not built in his days, in his days, then everyone says as if it was destroyed in his days, and that is not the language of the Yerushalmi. The Yerushalmi says, as if they destroyed it. This is a difference of heaven and earth between as if it was destroyed in his days and as if they destroyed it. One who looks at this and says, I destroyed the Beis HaMikdash, this is how we need to feel, that we destroyed this House. We, who do not change and do not try hard enough, who do not pray enough, we do not try to learn more and pray more and give up more and advance more, we do not grasp ourselves in our purpose.
2:02 That is how it looks. Everyone thinks he will sleep and everything will be fine. Everything will be fine. Do you see how the world is run? Do you see how much judgment there is in the world. We must do all that we can, to turn the heavens over, to turn the earth over, to ask at least for the geulah. The Holy One, blessed be He, is also happy that we ask for the geulah, that we ask for the Beis HaMikdash, that we ask for this, that a person cares about it, that a person cries over this, that a person wants this, that this matters to a person.
2:29 There is nothing more important than this. From the day our Temple and our glory was destroyed, In Tractate Berachos, page 32, side b, the Gemara says that an iron wall was made between us and our Father in heaven. In Tractate Bava Metzia, page 59, the Gemara says the gates of tears were not locked. But we need to reach a state of "do not be silent to my tear." One who wants to feel the taste of prayer should arouse himself to weeping. Let him pray with weeping, try to arouse weeping over himself, try to arouse weeping over others, try to arouse tears, so much we have distanced ourselves from Hashem, blessed be He, so much exile, so much pain, that it is impossible to explain at all where we are, There is no light, there is nothing, there is no Beis HaMikdash, there is nothing.
Read the whole shiur in English (13 more parts)
3:09 Nothing in the world is worth anything. If there is no Beis HaMikdash, there is nothing. There is no greater shame than this. Not to understand at all what we are crying about, what we are fasting about. Try to go back now 1949 years. What will you see here now? Smoke. Smoke, fire, screams, voices, weeping, Romans walking here, strolling here in every corner, a great noise, great pain, and terror, and immense sorrow.
3:34 Do you know what horrors the Romans did? I do not want to tell you what they did. This was omitted from the Shas, omitted from many books, from midrashim, what the Romans did here. They omitted it. They omitted it. It is found only in all kinds of all kinds of places, in all kinds of hidden books, what did the Romans do at all? What strange deaths, what horrors they did here. What they did here cannot be conceived by the human mind, that you could not believe that such deaths exist.
4:03 What passed over the Jewish people on this day? What desecration of the holy they did to us. What desecration of the holy? How did they desecrate the holy? Titus the wicked came, took his sword, entered, He entered, cast into the curtain, and blood spurted out of it. Blood spurted out. This is in Tractate Gittin, page 56. The Tosafos say, this teaches that it was hard before the Omnipresent, the destruction of the Beis HaMikdash.
4:28 It was hard for the Holy One, blessed be He, the destruction of the Beis HaMikdash, it was hard for Him. What words. Where, where, how can one understand this? This is what we see from here, that in the place of His greatness, there you find His humility. This will show us that we are in general standing before G-d, who is so merciful and gracious. So much, a G-d of forgiveness, but there is one thing that the Holy One, blessed be He, at some point does not forgo. When did He not forgo Nebuchadnezzar? When did He not forgo Nebuchadnezzar? In the Introduction to the Zohar, page 13.
4:57 It is written about Nebuchadnezzar the wicked, that at the hour when he did not have mercy on the poor, the Holy One, blessed be He, came upon him in judgment, This was Nebuchadnezzar, who destroyed for us the Beis HaMikdash. But all this, that the Holy One, blessed be He, sent them to us, It is because we, our heart was not enough to ask for the geulah. That we should not think, Heaven forbid, even once that they truly destroyed something.
5:22 They did not destroy anything. No non-Jew destroyed anything. No one touched the Beis HaMikdash in truth, it is only the Holy One, blessed be He. The Holy One, blessed be He, decided to take the Beis HaMikdash from us, and to this day He has not returned it to us. How will He return it to us? When will He return it to us? Also, it is impossible to know. When the Holy One, blessed be He, decides, He will return the Beis HaMikdash to us. Of course, if the Beis HaMikdash is built, and there is unity and baseless love, then we will all merit all the promises, we will merit all that was promised to us, we will merit all the blessings, we will merit all the salvations, to all the things that are written in the Torah.
5:56 If only we ask for this, if we want this, we want this, we will truly understand that this is the source of all our salvation, this is the source of all our hope. If we do not internalize this, internalize what we are fasting for, internalize where we are... what an exile this is, what pain. what pain. From the day our Temple and our glory was destroyed, there is no day in which its curse is not greater than its fellow's. But what does the world stand on? on Kedushah D'Sidra, Amen, yehei shmei rabba.
6:22 In Tractate Sotah, page 49. It is written in the Zohar Vayigash, page 210, from the day our Temple and our glory was destroyed, the whole world darkened. The heavens do not shine, the stars do not shine, the heavens are not pure, not bright, everything, everything is dark. In Tractate Berachos, page 59, the Gemara says, From the day the Beis HaMikdash was destroyed, "I will clothe the heavens in darkness." Not to see this in the geulah, everything sparkles.
6:47 Every star is meant to be like a diamond to us. That is how everything sparkles. The heavens shine, everything is beautiful, everything is like this in the geulah. The heavens of David HaMelech, that David HaMelech said, "When I see Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and stars that You established." "Hashem, our Lord, how mighty is Your name in all the earth." We need to open our eyes wide to the heavens, to appreciate these things, and the Holy One, blessed be He, will hear us. The meaning, the difference between the whole world and the heavens here, is to understand that we are looking here at the opening of all the heavens and of all of creation, so it is here, in this place.
7:23 This is this place, everything is from here. And when the Beis HaMikdash was destroyed, the kohanim went up to the roof and threw the keys before the Holy One, blessed be He, 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 is frightening that it was here, in these heavens. This is a shocking thing. If we pray and understand that all our life, until the Beis HaMikdash is built, a person must know that our life is this House, that one must not give up on the Beis HaMikdash, there is nothing more important than the Beis HaMikdash.
8:06 And what is this point of the geulah? Why was Mashiach born on Tishah B'Av? Because Mashiach is the point of hope of all the souls of the Jewish people. The moment the whole Jewish people are in hope, and the whole Jewish people are in victory and in geulah and in joy and a good atmosphere, then there will be a revelation of Mashiach for them. And we say in practice that Mashiach was born on Tishah B'Av. Mashiach came to tell us that he was born at the breaking point of the whole Jewish people, and of the Shechinah and of all of them together, and there is great pain and great sorrow, so Mashiach was born.
8:44 We will pray together, all of us, pray from the depth of the heart, do all that you can, do what you can, each one, in prayer, in a look to the heavens. Believe that the Holy One, blessed be He, hears you, and He is with us and He does not forsake us and He does not leave us and He will not leave us, never will He leave us. We only need to understand that if we want this with all our strength, we will want it the way we want, it will be the greatest thing.
9:13 And the moment that it happens, there will be no more sorrow. Do you not want to see the freedom? Can you understand what it is to see the Beis HaMikdash? To see the Beis HaMikdash like this, to see the holy Shechinah, to see the Holy One, blessed be He, and all the tzaddikim, and the holy forefathers, and everyone is happy and everyone is in joy and everyone is in love, and with the help of Hashem you will see what a Gan Eden. Everyone, with the help of Hashem, will take upon themselves to pray that the Holy One, blessed be He, redeem us and may He build for us our Temple and our glory speedily in our days, Amen, eternally, selah, forever.
Get the week’s best, by email
One email a week — a handful of shiurim and music. No account needed.
Know a family who would use this? Give a Lehallel membership.