Tisha B'Av: Perfect your Heart - Rabbi Mordechai Kraft

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I'd like just to speak in the short time that I have a little bit of a topic that I've been addressing every Tisha B'Av and it's a topic that we're going to need much more time in to really figure out if not a lifetime. And that's to try to get some handle on the Holocaust. Obviously, when we talk about the Holocaust, to say we're going to get any handle on it isn't realistic. But I'd like just to perhaps ask a question and maybe offer a little bit of insight that helps us grasp that helps us grasp a very difficult part of what took place. First of all, it's appropriate that we speak about the Holocaust on Tisha B'Av in that we understand that everything that happens to us nationally is really just an extension of the destruction of the Second Temple. That that which caused us to be exiled, the sin that existed in Klal Yisrael apparently still exists apparently still exists and therefore we have not yet returned to our land in 2,000 years, have not yet really rebuilt. And when we have national tragedy, and of course the Holocaust being an extraordinarily significant one is a continuation and an extension. And that's why this morning when we said Kinos, the first Kinah which we said which wasn't about the Churban had to do with the Crusades and the massacres that took place in Germany, Mainz, Speyer in the 1000s as a result of the Crusades. And the reason they were included is because the Rishonim at the time

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1. 0:08I'd like just to speak in the short time that I have a little bit of…
2. 3:13the story that seems to depict the tragedy of the Jewish nation people at a party…
3. 6:47he stopped and he turned to the Nazi officer and he said, "Can I address the…
4. 10:21If only they had been asking us to declare our amuna, to stand up and say…
5. 14:05moment to complain? This last moment to denounce one's faith in the Almighty? Or is this…
6. 17:39went there with. I couldn't remember therefore I couldn't reconnect to find out who these people…
7. 21:11It's a test ultimately of who are you? Where is your heart? Can you find room…
8. 24:48order to immerse himself in Torah, to come back with 24,000 students, to have them die…
9. 28:21Or the change of angels said with matikos, sweetly. Ah, zuta u'vzuta. This is the Torah…
10. 31:56It was a family that was told to convert to Judaism or die. Good convert to…

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