From Destruction to Redemption – Lessons of the 17th of Tammuz

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

Today is the 17th of Tamuz and 17 is gamatria to 9 + 6 + 2. And today is one of the worst days in Jewish history. That's why it's tough because Judaism believes that through breaking we can rebuild. So why is it tove? Why is the 17th of Tamas really the greatest day ever that Tamas really the greatest day ever that got messed up? What was meant to happen on the 17th of Tamas? >> That was coming up to that. What was meant to happen? >> Masha came down with the tablets. We're about to receive the tablets of stern. What an amazing day. We heard everyone heard God speak at Mount Si. Moshe goes up the mountain. He's up there for 40 days. He's coming down now with the tablets of stone which are meant to be tablets of stone which are meant to be the kuba. Do you know what a kuba is? You're going to have one one day. The right woman at the right time. I'll be there in Israel. And you have this document of commitment. I'm committed to you. I love you. And that that was it. There's an amazing thing was about to happen. And then we cheated. We cheated on the lover. Crazy. 40 days after the on the lover. Crazy. 40 days after the wedding. Cheated on the lover. So what happened was Misha smashed it. Bam. And there many different midrashim. Some say that he didn't smash it. It it was so heavy. But because it had these divine power in it, they kind of carried him. He wasn't really carrying him. And then the spiritual power left him so he dropped it. But really the general understanding is he smashed it. Some people say cuz he was so disgusted by what he saw. Some people say because he wanted to say that we weren't actually

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2. 2:34actually smash the there many reasons but our deepest teach is not just because he saw…
3. 5:10Everything's great. Get engaged now before something, you know, you face an issue." And I'm the…
4. 7:43did in the temple was the avoda. And the avod was corbanat. And as we saided…
5. 10:18a terrible thing? It's a terrible thing. It's the 17th of Tamas. It's a terrible thing.…
6. 13:21morning I was like that is amazing. We're screaming. We're like do not leave Hashem alone…
7. 15:56remember the Taurus story? Burnt a Torah scroll. What does that mean? It's the fire of…
8. 18:31But if your eye is on the prize, if you know what you're living for, why…
9. 21:03great great great grandfather Abraham? So it means you have his power. You have his immense…
10. 23:38yourself. I'll feed the kids. I'll take You wanted to walk into a perfectly clean house…

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