Our Father's Home

We're ready. So just to speak out one, it's a very very simple. I don't think there's any in this other than the herish and obviously very very much that is to mourn the destruction of the Bikdash. Now it goes without saying that if one is going to mourn the destruction of the B mikdash, he has to feel, appreciate and at the very least on some level understand what exactly was lost when we lost the B mikdash. Which means that one has to appreciate what the Bikdash was in order to even get onto first base as it relates to being able to have some and come to some major of Baash. So what exactly was the B mikdash? and nothing fancy. the Rambam in the very very beginning of his of we've learned this Rambam together many many times says last there's a mitzvah say to build it should be prepared by our for us to be able to bring carbon additionally it should be a place that three times a year we will convene will celebrate in that place. [clears throat] What's the mitzvah it says? That's of course the in the beginning of parish and says the ra this is the source that there's a mitzvah what's the tas of it says the ram twofold number one it's a mkham that will be able to bring carbonus number two it's a place that three times a year we'll be able to be mim the mitzvah of ali and then the ram in a way that only the ram was able to in such a systematic methodical way goes on and he describes the history of how the yidden were mai in this mitzvah with built a mishk when the yidden were in the midbar and then for 14 years when the yidden entered in the times of and that mishkum was in Gilgal and then it spent close to 400 years in and then it was in and then it was in g and then built a base it was destroyed either were in bubble for 70 years and then the times Ezra because of the permission of the Persian Empire. They rebuilt the stood for 420 years. It was destroyed by the Romans and now to come to the Ram says was described in such great detail in some of the prophet. That's what's going on over here in the beginning of here. But the rabb introduces the by saying what's the purpose of the mdash? It has a dual purpose number one. Number two, so what is the mikdash? What don't we have? We don't have that place that we would be able to bring carbon. Additionally, we don't have a place to come three times a year and spend time with. But the truth is when you ask this question, what exactly was the Bikdash? The answer is even simpler than that. Now, this is the first it's literally chapter 1 verse one in the world of but it is even simpler than that. And this is an idea that we talked about last winter in the of Truma got stuck somewhere in the middle of titis and this is also but that is that there are five parishes in the that are dedicated to right and they immediately follow pares is let's just cause her over a little bit. He didn't left and then the said we became the we became the said because of the fact that you accepted the I'm going to have a very special relationship with you. Then the parish right that's where it says that's where there's a special brisk that's made but the theme of Israim are that we became the nation of what immediately follows it's right in the beginning of para says that it's not a coincidence that the first real part of the immediately after cla Israel became a nation is the parish of the Mishka and says the reason is because as soon as became the nation of Bar and Bar became our mel it was necessary it was necessary for to have a place [snorts] amongst us to be able to live a place that he would be able to call home says the first thing THAT COMMANDED US HAVE A HOUSE IN OUR MIDST. So says Raman that if we're going to have this relationship with Akadesh Baru where Akadesh Baru is going to be Malcanu he's going to be our melik archaic welladeshu NEEDS A PALACE JUST LIKE EVERY king has a palace he needs a place that he's going to be able to live and that's why right after which is went through this when we went to it's the story of says now's the time I need a palace and therefore you have to make a place where I'm going to be able to live in your midst says Raman when you understand that you understand why the first thing that's mentioned in the of the was the why is the mentioned first says because what was the mishkun at its court it was the place where was going to reside that's a fancy way of saying living it's the place where was going to live in our midst where was It was the so says that theor of the whole is the is the main point of [laughter] where is the it's by All right. And it's for that reason what's the first thing that's mentioned? The first thing that's mentioned is darn and the truth is if we go through the rambum and it's a theme just to read one more from the idea is said make a mdash for me every king has a palace. So I want a palace as well. And really if you go through all the starting with like we did but you work through the and they explain the of the says I want a palace and I want my palace to look like palaces are supposed to look. Okay. So what do you think a palace has inside? There's a table where you can uh have food. There's a you need light, right? You need light. So there's going to be a going to have light. How's the bar going to eat? They're gonna have to feed. How do you feed? There's gonna be a misbeh. Oh, by the way, where does live within the palace? Where does anybody live in his house? Right. There's a there's a and of is like any right what did I can't go to the king it's not something you're allowed to do on the holiest day of the year he's allowed to go in BECAUSE THAT'S THE THAT'S where lives that is literally where the king is that's where is but if you go through the all say it in the you want to know what the You want to know what's going on over here? This is a palace. It's a place for to go ahead and to be matched with because wants to live together with he wants I want to BE TOGETHER WITH YOU. I WANT TO HAVE A PLACE TO LIVE. I WANT A PLACE TO CALL HOME. And that place is going to be the mishk. It's going to be the mikdash. And I want you to set it up with the surah of what a house is of what a house is supposed to look like. Right. Reading the are you making some sort of SAYS that we know the says you know why it HAS TO BE THERE BECAUSE HOW YOU GOING TO see the I'm supposed to eat on the if I don't have a light shining on the you light on the you eat on the shine didn't know you ate on the I thought the was all about the we you have the [laughter] and you have to make sure you don't have and there's and there's yeah that's true that's true but there's a that's going on over here and a lives here that's what it means that's what it means and being that lives here needs a he needs a he needs That's what the is and that's why no one's allowed to go there because you imagine walking into the the the king. Yeah. How you of course can't do that and that's set up 100% in in that surah and again you go through the they explain all the nuances in the world of which means that when you think about what the mikdash was it's true it was a place that was it's true it was a place of but even before that you know what it was it was a palace thatu had was living in our midst and what was the place that he called home? It was the bas and the ra. Let's go back to the raom say lastly right just stop there. It starts getting very fancy on the next line. build a house for that's what you're supposed to do. You're supposed to build a house for and when the Bik was destroyed, what happened was house was destroyed. And if's house was destroyed, what that means is what that means is is that we no longer have living amongst us. That's what that means. So what does it mean that we lost the bdash? Yeah, it means that we don't have a place to bring carbonas. It means we don't have a place to be ego. But even before that, on its simplest, right, the most obvious things are the things we overlook. In its simplest and most obvious level, what it means is is that no longer has a house amongst us. There was a time that we were a nation that had a king who had a house amongst us that we can look towards and feel protected and see him, know that he's with us. That house no longer exists. It was destroyed. And because of the fact that it was destroyed, we now mourn that. And that's really on its simplest level, simplest simplest level. What we're mourning when we think about but I think there's a little bit of an over here. It's so posh. It's so posh, but it's an you know the they all talk about that if a person wants his to be in a scab. So when he dins, he shouldn't just think about himself. He should think about that a person's feel is not supposed to be that because I need a and I know how much pain you have over the right. It's supposed to be with a focus focus towards and this is a madrega. It's a very big madrega. It's a very big major for a person and to think about it's a very high m it's the way it's supposed to be we're supposed to come to to it a little bit but it's a very hard thing to do but I think as it relates to the if you think about it for a second you frame it in the right way it's actually pa I don't think it's so hard I really don't think it's so hard when we realized that the mikdash was a keshbar's home and akesh wanted to have a home amongst us. This was something that the Kim was very much to have. The idea of wants to have a place amongst us and right now is homeless. How is that not something that we can't feel at least a [snorts] little bit right? I'm just about imagine you knew a person. He's he has a house here and a house there and a shine of this and a shine of that and you found out that his father's homeless. His father literally sleeps on the park bench and he eats out of the garbage can. What would you think about that guy? That guy's a mukit. He's a murf. He's a manuf. I don't want to be in this guy's dalis. He's the sickest person in the world. You wouldn't go near this guy. THIS PERSON WOULD not be able to show his face in public. he wouldn't be able to. I mean, what kind of person is this? This guy is mish. He has everything that he wants and everything that he needs and his father's homeless. That's what we are right now in Gus. That's what we are in gashm. And we have a father in heaven that's literally homeless. He's homeless. I mean, go to the We've all been there. It's on steroids. LITERALLY. I MEAN, IMAGINE that's what your dining room looked like. You wouldn't walk in and make kish in your house, right? You would call I'm moving in for the weekend. YOU WOULD GO ANYWHERE NEAR THAT PLACE AND THIS IS A BORU'S HOUSE is homeless right now. That's what means. So, we could look at it from a selfish perspective. OH, I WISH I HAD A KYNIC that lived in my midst. I wish I had a place to be a to get. I WISH I can go beer three times a year. We all want to go stroll three times a year, right? It's on everyone's bucket list. I wish I could DO THAT. IT'S VERY NICE. It's true. It's a rainish. That's what you're supposed to feel. WE SHOULD FEEL THAT. BUT THE EM is it's selfish. It's very very selfish. If we're vinu on the most elementary basic level should be able to be a mub for this. He should be able to give a that my father is homeless. And you know what? I'm embarrassed that my father's homeless. And at the very least, let me make a listadas. Let me do a little bit of a something. A little something. A little something. So that maybe my father won't be so homeless. At least I could show my face and show I could walk into this and not feel that fine. But the fact that my father's sleeping on a park bench is it's it's it's bas of the golas and that's a little bit of that herish that the is supposed to feel we can't bring we can't be of [snorts] we don't even have a a mel that's living in our midst which is the of what the is all about but it's even deeper than that. And it's even simpler than that. We have a father who's homeless and he's begging us to build him a house. And it's in our power. We can build him a house. It's something we can do. We actually have the power. We have the control. Now, we can't control maybe what the other guy does, but we can control what we do. And as a result, that's the avoid the avoid is to feel a little bit the it's to feel and recognize and on some level internalize that our father is homeless right now and he's living in a house that's destroyed that's dilapitated where it's I mean we can't look to the top left corner of the has to live there. They was just homeless right now. It's something that is very very painful for him and this is something that on some level you know we're obligated to go ahead and and to try to be I just want to end and we mentioned this but I think it's now to mention it again and that is in the forout he brings that every single year used to say the following he used to say that the says after the shows the the rainbow and he says The rainbow is going to be a symbol that I'm never going to bring a marble again. And then he said when he was fearing every year he would say that the word kashi is what it stands for. And the although he would say this every year but said he never explained what it was he meant and the tried getting out of the made like what's over here what exactly is it that you're trying to say was never he never explained what it was that he was trying to say but who was the said he said I thought about it I he on whatif must have meant and I was I believe in what he meant. And that is he said if you take a look at the so the Torah says as follows there are people that after they finish so they add words and they say this is something that we say says the Torah that he found in a that says that any person that's he says that he's going to this person will be and the question is what's the if somebody finishes and he says those words that's somehow a guarantee that he's going to said is as follows there's aim it's it's the med says says that after the basikt was destroyed took an on he took a vulcan he took a cloud and he put it underneath so to speak and you know what that cloud does it doesn't allow the to pass once upon a time a person he had a direct line made this to stop to be mafik now the felas can't get through anymore that there's no way to go through that when a person's in a where he can't get his feel to go through. You know what you can do? You can have in mind the don't have mind yourself have and when A PERSON HAS THAT ALLOWS HIS to go back said you know what I took the and I put the onion as a block. IT'S THE can't go through. BUT IF YOU take and you put it in the that's how you get through the you want to get through the you want to block through all those makas. You don't make it about yourself. You make it about and if you can make it about that's how we got through a of not only oh we wish we had a mikdash not only we wish we could do the not only we wish we could be but a we realize is our father and is homeless he doesn't have a house he lives amongst us and by the way even though say that is in the base in the medish and we spoke about this in already this means something else. This means that comes and he visits. Yeah. The sp will spend some time as a guest doesn't want to be a guest in our house. The wants to have his own house. That's what the mikdash was and that's what the doesn't have. And that's this. If a person's able to come to that a little bit, it'll be you'll be able to get through that of which by the way might be the most of all the everything you don't even have. He can't even break through because there's that was every and if we're able to tap again this is a grace and we can't do this on the level that the was able to do it [laughter] that we can't do this on the level that the was able to do this on but at the same time on some level to be able to tap into the fact very simple nothing fancy we have a father that father had a house right now he's homeless and he's begging us to build that house for him and we have to do it [snorts] to do it and it's incumbent upon us to do it because if not how does this make us look how can we even walk out not and really that's the of that we feel it this one day a year we dedicate that we are and we appreciate the fact I'm embarrassed to show my face because of the fact that I have a father I have a father that right now is homeless that which by the way you ever noticed you don't say one word about what's nothing fancy he wanted a house and you lived amongst us don't say a word about It's not a it's a very simple simple and we could have in mind this like says we're supposed to where we have in mind forget about the fact that we feel bad I know how you are on some level and maybe in that we'll be this year finally to the