HaRav Zev Leff on Leil Tisha B'Av 5773 [HD]

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

since we still haven't been redeemed and there's still no B mikdash and we're still sitting here again uh another year mourning on tisha the essence of The aoda for tonight as it says in the kina the leai this is a night that is designated set aside for crying as it says in a bokeala cry in the night specifically this night and this is what Schlommo in Cohelles referred to as an ace lifos the time to lifos the time to cry and the source of all the corbanos all the sorrowos and all the crying is the crying that we did way back when the Moraglin came back and cla cried a worthless senseless meaningless cried a worthless senseless meaningless crying a crying where they felt abandoned hopeless where they felt that the Rabonam hated them abandoned them they rejected Erit Israel rejected what the Bikas represented described that as they put their mouths before their as they put their mouths before their eyes they created a distorted false reality with their mouths and then saw that reality as if it was real and if we had corrected all of those sins we wouldn't be sitting here but as it says in a as the explains the our tears are still on our cheeks meaning that the same crying and the same problems that they had are still around today what is the tick so kazal tell us that the chicken is or as other midrashimians say who ordained that we should cry say who ordained that we should cry generations on this same night to correct the crying that happened then and the bey that we cry every year on tishab is a shame is a worthwhile substantive crying and we cry at night also where even if we can't see and tears blind our eyes from

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1. 0:09since we still haven't been redeemed and there's still no B mikdash and we're still sitting…
2. 3:54see and tears blind our eyes from seeing we can still imagine they imagined distortion they…
3. 7:39tino where we know that only our father in heaven can hear us and only he…
4. 11:16began to cry bitterly and immediately after that gives him a slew of brahas that we're…
5. 15:23says and they're not crying but she's crying for them and that crying also helps Even…
6. 19:08following which is uh reflective of the reality unfortunately that we experience tears aren't something that…
7. 22:50is not but just the sound of crying itself even a person who can cry should…
8. 27:01hashem we're allowed to cry and we can cry our only problem is that we find…
9. 30:42homes and we don't know what to do they don't know what to do we have…
10. 34:18they talked and made small talk and he still couldn't open up and finally at the…

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