WHEN TITUS SLASHED THE PAROCHES.......

This Torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com. >> Asks the Russia Shiva of Slabodka, Reb Isaac Sher, "God doesn't make a miracle for nothing. Is God only going to make a miracle for Titus?" To that Titus should think "Keviyakhol Harag Hashem that he he Has Veshalom killed Hashem." Why did Hashem make this miracle? Says Reb Isaac Sher, "Hashem was declaring a great principle." What is the Beit Hamikdash to us? What is Zion to us? Ki Hi Beit Chayeinu. It is the source of our life. It is the source of our vitality. Yerushalayim and Zion is the heart of the Jew. And if the Beit Hamikdash is being destroyed, the Jewish people are suffering cardiac arrest. Says Reb Isaac Sher, "The Ribono Shel Olam made the miracle for us." Perhaps there's another meaning as well. We know that the Second Beit Hamikdash was destroyed because of Sinat Chinam. The Chofetz Chaim asks, "Sinat Chinam? It's a minor infraction. It's a Lav She'ein There's no Malkus even for Sinat Chinam. What is so horrendous about Sinat Chinam?" Says the Chofetz Chaim from Reb Chaim Vital, "Each Mitzvah in the Torah, each Lav corresponds to another part of the body and the spiritual edifice. There's certain Aveirot that correspond to the eyes, some to the hands, and some to the feet. And if they're violated, then you're sullying and handicapping and maiming that part of the spiritual entity. But still it's it's possible for a person to be spiritually viable if they violate certain things. Not so if we could identify the prohibition that corresponds to the heart. If we could identify the the prohibition that corresponds to the heart, if that prohibition would be violated, it would maim a person lethally. A person would be spiritually dead. Says the Hafetz Chaim. What prohibition corresponds to the lave? Lo sisna es achicha bilvavecha. Someone who harbors hatred to other Jews is not spiritually viable and is spiritually dead. There's no possibility for any connection to Hakadosh Baruchu. There cannot be a Beit Hamikdash. Perhaps the slashing of the Paroches and the gushing of blood reflected another type of stab in the heart for the Jewish people that we had succumbed to the sin that made us no longer spiritually viable. Sinat chinam. Kinah tazein zachar asah. >> Tzar u definaim. You've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com.