Chazaq Tisha B'Av Event 5786

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

life. There's a philosophical question that the kinus itself raises, which in a certain sense is the central question that we grapple with every single day of our life. In kinot tisha b'av, the following scenario is portrayed. Remember Titus? Remember Titus? Titus is the son of of Vespasian, and he begins his assault on Yerushalayim and the Beit Hamikdash with this audacious claim. audacious claim. He says to God, "A Eloheinu, where are you?" And according to the Yerushalmi, Titus actually challenged God. He says, "I'm a king, you're a king. Let's battle each other." Titus then takes his sword, and he pierces the paroches. The paroches is the curtain that separates the heichal from the kodesh hakodashim. It's practically in the holiest spot on Earth. He then enters the Holy of Holies, and without enters the Holy of Holies, and without getting too graphic for a general audience, he spreads out a sefer Torah, he takes a zona, he takes a harlot, and he commits the unspeakable act in the Holy of Holies on the sefer Torah. Can you imagine? There is no greater desecration of the Temple than for this wicked man, this rasha, to enter the Holy of Holies. You know, if a Kohen Gadol entered the Holy of Holies on a random Tuesday, he would die immediately. would die immediately. If an unworthy Kohen Gadol entered the Holy of Holies on Yom Kippur, he would die immediately. There were literally hundreds of Kohanim Gedolim during the era of the Second Temple because they couldn't survive entering the Holy of Holies. And here this rasha enters the Holy of Holies. He spreads out a sefer Torah with the zona. He commits the unspeakable. You would expect that lightning should come down and zap him and fry his brain.

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1. 0:30life. There's a philosophical question that the kinus itself raises, which in a certain sense is…
2. 2:33come down and zap him and fry his brain. He should have died on the spot.…
3. 4:35of all the atrocities that happened to them. And yet the nations of the world who…
4. 7:41world? It does nothing. It has no ramification at all. You know why? Cuz Titus is…
5. 9:42It's coming crashing down. Why didn't the Pharaoh pull back on his horse and tell the…
6. 12:16them into the system. If there's success in the world, it's your avodas Hashem. If there's…
7. 14:17Hashem doesn't make miracles for resha'im to trick them to think that they killed No, no,…
8. 16:23doing well. That's how pathetic we are. Cuz we don't have a base on migdash. Imagine…
9. 18:57disastrous event in history. He didn't have to see the destruction of the base hamikdash." You…
10. 21:01But without a heart, efshar l'hiskaiem v'lamed l'fanav afilu sha'ah achas. You couldn't survive even for…

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