Divrei Chizuk for The Three Weeks @ Young Israel of Hillcrest in Queens |by Harav Asher Weiss | 5786

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and all the other raon of this beautiful wonderful community. It's an honor and a privilege to be with you tonight and [clears throat] The name we should say some words to inspire. The days are days of mourning days of sadness. Yesterday was we are within the nine days and this coming Shabas is shabasin. One of the most painful chapters in [clears throat] we are all familiar withd all the people say but it's not what say many many swarm hundreds of swarm quote but the is far more troubling much harsher and it's Because when we say every generation that wasn't to have the B mikdash, it is as if the B mikdash was destroyed in our time. So what many things transpire during the lifetime of an individual and not all of them he is liable for what Kazal actually say is every generation that doesn't have the baso So, mother leaves the house for 10 minutes and she tells the kids she knows she has a mischievous bunch and she tells them, "I'm going to be back in a few minutes and I want to find the house exactly as I leave it." She's back 10 minutes later. The flower pot is on the floor broke into pieces. Flowers and water all over the house. The curtains are torn to shreds. And mother asks, "Who did it?" And the children all together say, "No one happened." And mother says, "It didn't happen. Flop pads don't go jumping off tables and curtains don't turn the tear themselves. Someone did it and I want to know who. So when we say it happened, it didn't just happen. Someone bears responsibility. Who bears responsibility? you and I and all of us. So why do we bear responsibility? So these are days of mourning, tragic days

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1. 0:06and all the other raon of this beautiful wonderful community. It's an honor and a privilege…
2. 4:22in which we remember the the destruction of andi. But the Rambam clearly writes in her…
3. 8:41[clears throat] wasn't important enough. They didn't appreciate. They didn't love. They didn't understand what to…
4. 13:14which we lament and mourn the is and that what gives us strength in the most…
5. 17:26is gone that was his end teaching to so doubtless it was a moving moment tragically…
6. 22:07and it is what kept us going in the most difficult of times and Rika I…
7. 26:14How we cope with pain and suffering. Why do bad things happen to good people and…
8. 30:22So the bay shini was destroyed by and many sadik said it will be rebuilt by…
9. 34:44And when we cry and we will remember and remembrance is so central in Yiddish. Our…
10. 38:57That is what says when we weep and cry over you. This is a testament. We…

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