What We're Really Missing (Ep. 140)

What’s said in this shiur

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

It's another Tisha B'Av. Another year sitting on the floor, fasting, mourning destruction of the Beit Hamikdash, the exile of the Jewish people. And the fact is that most of us have difficulty understanding the significance of the day. Why this is so important to everybody. Almost 2,000 years. I understand when we read about the pogroms, I understand when we read about the Holocaust, I understand when we read about the Inquisition. Okay, it's we're going through a rough time now. There's been tragedy. But nothing like what the Jews have suffered throughout history. For centuries, Jews were kicked out of towns, thrown out. Leave. Clothes on your back. Leave behind your homes, your businesses, your possessions. Abandoned everything with the clothes on your back. In Spain, the Jews were an aristocratic class of people living on a on a very high level. They left with nothing. Boats attacked by pirates sold to slaves wandering from place to place with we have nothing to compare this to. My brother Gedaliah for his bar mitzvah present asked to go on a teen tour to Jerusalem 1966. Jerusalem was still divided. If you wanted to see the old city, you got up on the roof of Heichal looked off into the distance. Now, Jerusalem building roads, tunnels, trains Israel is viewed as a world power on the world stage. It's a a whole different world. On one Tisha B'Av this rav gets up and he says, "I don't know what all the mourning is about. I don't see destroyed temples. I see buildings. I see yeshivas. I see everything rebuilt. I see Jews with an army. I see security.

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1. 0:02It's another Tisha B'Av. Another year sitting on the floor, fasting, mourning destruction of the Beit…
2. 2:38the old city, you got up on the roof of Heichal looked off into the distance.…
3. 5:57The light of the menorah. Everything is gone. It's not a building. We're not mourning the…
4. 9:09Love the ain lechaim lay. You wear clothing and it doesn't keep you warm. Says Rashi.…
5. 12:17Hamikdash. You can't imagine what we're missing. You can't imagine. If Hamas doesn't shoot rockets at…
6. 15:27Hamikdash, the Shechinah was there. You couldn't deny God exists. Okay, so you could be led…
7. 18:00We never drank a glass of wine. We've never worn clothing. We've never had a sense…
8. 21:06The Telz rosh yeshiva once said We think Messiah will come and life will go on…
9. 24:18by comparison. But we're okay. We're okay. It's good enough. No one's shooting missiles at us…
10. 27:31it was an Aron. Hakadosh Baruch Hu spoke in between the two Keruvim. It was a…

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