The Kosel: Everyone is Welcome

The previous rate by we discussed the end of safer shmuel where God reveals himself to David and he tells David I want you to buy the field of aravnah aravnah the jebusite and it's on that field that I want you to build a misbehave and I want you to bring carbonois to a college baruch and as we went through based on rambams and so came that event of God telling David to buy that field wasn't just a one-off event but really it was a coming full circle for something that is expressed over 20 times in the Torah where it says that when the year then are going to enter there's going to be a time there's going to be a place where I am going to identify one in the land that should be the that's going to be as we discussed my house and it's there that I want you to bring carbonous moving forward it's there that I'm going to want you to come visit me three times a year safer malachim picks up exactly where safer shmuel ends off and that is with David son going and not just bringing carbonois on the of aravnah but he actually builds a base takes some years to build and the time finally arrives for all the year then to come from all over the world and to celebrate in the inauguration this very very monumental event the of the base mikdash and in the passage says that is in the base he's standing in front of the naked Israel in the presence of literally all the Jews that you first cup of and then he lifts his hands up to the heavens and he says a feeler he turns to and he says that I want this place to be a place it's a feeler that if a year would ever come and would you would listen to his feelers that your eyes are going to be open to this place by night and by day this is the place that you told David you want to rest your shino and then he goes on and starts describing different feelers that you didn't made oven and he asks please answer those feelers says for example if there's going to be a year that's going to sin and he's going to want promise me that if he comes to this place he comes to the market that you are going to answer his feeler he says if there's going to be a time in history where he is going to be a famine and people are going to be starving the crops aren't going to be growing if you didn't come and they dive in here please I'm asking you I'm begging of you tell me that if they dive in here you're going to answer their feeler he said there what if there's a there's going to be a time where people are dying and they're not going to know where to turn they're not going to know what to do I'm begging from you if they are going to come and they're going to dive in here promise me that you're going to answer their feeler if someone's going to have someone in their family that's not well and machla and they're going to go to the doctor and the doctor's going to say I can't help you promise me that if they come to this place right here the that you're going to answer their feeler and he goes on and on and on there's going to be a war and there's going to be that are going out into battle and they're going at the arms way and they're going to be scared and they're going to be nervous and maybe the odds are going to be stacked against them promise me that if they're going to come to this place and they're going to dive in you're going to answer their feeler he goes on and on it's 50 plus of thinking of any feeler that a year may ever dive in in his lifetime that would come to and he would dive in for in this place and he says I'm asking you one thing that if the feeler happens here please listen it was a big ask it was a big ask was never told that this is what the base was going to be base was a place where the year then would bring carbonous base was a place where they would come three times a year raised the ante goes out on a limb and he says I'm asking you make this place a feeler make this a place that if a year comes and dive in I'll call shiloy toy 50 shukim of description of what that sort of might look like that you are going to answer and finishes his feeler and he waits and then are standing around him and they're waiting and there's a deafening silence in the room and then all of a sudden the passage says because he revealed himself for the second time to years earlier had revealed himself to that was the first time this is the second time and then tells that's I heard your feelers he asked about this house I was asked about this house I said that you built lost you asked and I answered you asked that if at any time in the future a year is going to come and a year is going to dive in and he's going to ask for something I should listen to his feeler that this should be a place that will have a special feeler that no other place in the world has granted by you you go to this I can't go through all these right now they're very very moving but there's one idea that I think is worth mentioning and that is I call this baruch who's response was by you believe me call a young man the same so far in one of his about it's in your idea simon race the was written to salmon margolis it's a that is a we're going to go through more during the course of this trip discuss what exactly does it mean by you believe me call a young man specifically the margolis asked the same so far that the passage says regarding it's it's a a in a may the whole land the whole country is a place that has his eyes on but it seems like the is not just a place where a name are affixed to but it's by you believe me call a young man and salmon margolis asked the same so far what's the difference between and believe me it sounds like the whole country is it's but the is by you believe me and the writes back in this to salmon margolis I'll tell you the truth he says years ago I heard a it was kabbalah and I don't really understand it imagine the saying the is above his pay grade I'll tell you the words and you can make of it whatever you want to make of it but the feno I think it's still too a measure that's not just a classic measure but it's a classic classic measure of law we're a simple of the vince literally addressed this point we know that a year every day puts on feelers feelers race the is made up of four portions right what's inside the there's four portions of the Torah shama volume shama ya kadesh boya four portions in the Torah that's what makes up the feeling stating that there's a difference between the shorish and the shoya the shorish has the four portions in four button they're in four different compartments the shoya all four portions are in one bias and portions boy on the midst of he says why is it that the shorish is made up of four button and the shoya is made up of only one bias says I'll tell you I'll tell you says the in the first paragraph of broches that just like the put on feeling every day I call this baruch also puts on feeling every day we put on feeling and feeling race I call this baruch also puts on feeling and feeling and the says how to feel in the max in there what does it say in the feeling our feeling the shama volume shama ya kadesh kiyacha what does it say in the feeling of so the says you want to know what it says in the feeling of I call this baruch me I show you what I show you I know the feeling of baruch have portions that talk about how amazing it is it's portions that bring out how special we are and how baruch views us differently than he views all the other nations of the world says I call this baruch told by you believe me call a young man what's the difference between believe me this is the question that salmon margolis asked the same so far with the same so far said the I heard is a above my pay grade says I'm going to tell you means baruch who says I'm looking at you it's a practice means I have my eyes on you I'm watching you I call this baruch says that in the mikdash I I am going to see you I'm going to be watching you believe me means that I'm going to care for you I'm I'm to want you I'm going to love you. Eretz Yisrael is a place that Anei Hashem Elokecha Me Reishis Hashanah V'Ad Achris Hashanah. The Makom Hamikdash Hakadosh Baruch Hu says was a place where you Einei V'Libi Sham Kol Hayom. Says Reb Meir Simcha. A person puts on Tefillin Shel Rosh, it should be on the Moach, like we say in the Leshem Yichud, if you say the Leshem Yichud. A person puts on Tefillin Shel Yad, it should be K'Neged Halev, as we say in the Leshem Yichud, if you say the Leshem Yichud. Says Reb Meir Simcha something incredible. He says that as it relates to the Tefillin Shel Rosh of Hakadosh Baruch Hu, as it relates to the fact that Hakadosh Baruch Hu says Einei, I'm watching the Yidden. Over there Klal Yisrael is divided into four groups. Why four groups? Everybody knows that we take Daled Minim on Sukkos to represent the four types of Yidden. You have the Min that has a Taam V'Reiach, that represents the Tzaddik. You have the Min that has no Taam V'Lo Reiach, that represents the Rasha. And then there's Taam V'Reiach and there's Reiach B'Lo Taam. Says Reb Meir Simcha, the Yidden are divided into four groups. When it comes to the Hashgacha of Hakadosh Baruch Hu, when it comes to the fact that Hakadosh Baruch Hu watches us, doesn't see all the Yidden the same way. How could he? If there's a Yid that's a Shomer Torah U'Mitzvos and then there's a Yid that's not a Shomer Torah U'Mitzvos, it's impossible for them to be viewed as the same way. And that's why the Tefillin Shel Rosh of the Eibishter, which is K'Neged V'Hiyu Einei, that's divided into four groups because really Hashem looks at the four types of Yidden in four different ways. But the Tefillin Shel Yad, which is K'Neged Halev, that represents the Ahava that Hakadosh Baruch Hu has for Klal Yisrael. Says Reb Meir Simcha, when it comes to the love that Hashem has for Klal Yisrael, it makes no difference if you're the Tzaddik that has a Taam V'Reiach, if you're the Rasha that has no Taam V'Lo Reiach, or if you have a Reiach B'Lo Taam and a Taam B'Lo Reiach, because we're all Bonim Lashem Elokeichem and Bankach U'Bankach K'ruyim Bonim. And being that Bankach U'Bankach K'ruyim Bonim, there's no four compartments. Every Yid is a Yid because he's a Yid and they're all the same. And that's why we don't divide the Yidden. When it comes to Hashgacha, says Reb Meir Simcha, we have no choice. We have to divide the Yidden. But when it comes to the Lev of Hakadosh Baruch Hu, when it comes to the Ahava, the love that Hakadosh Baruch Hu has for Klal Yisrael, we're all the children of Hakadosh Baruch Hu. And being that we're all the children of Hakadosh Baruch Hu, it doesn't matter if we're we're doing this right or if what we're doing is wrong. Sometimes the Ahava a parent could have for a child is greater if he's doing what's wrong than if he's doing what's right, because absence sometimes makes the heart grow fonder. But the reality is there's no four button when it comes to the Tefillin Shel Yad, because the Tefillin Shel Yad is K'Neged Halev. That represents the Ahava, the love that Hakadosh Baruch Hu has. And when it comes to the Ahava, Bankach U'Bankach K'ruyim Bonim, a Yid is a Yid is a Yid and as a result, we're all the same. Eretz Yisrael is a land that Einei Hashem Elokecha Me Reishis Hashanah V'Ad Achris Hashanah. A Yid that lives in Eretz Yisrael there's a special Hashgacha. The Rabbeinu Bachya talks about it throughout his Pirush Al HaTorah. We have several read by some on this topic. In Chutz L'Aretz, we're underneath the Memshala of different intermediaries. The Hashgacha Protis that a Yid has when he lives in Eretz Yisrael is different. That's what the Gemara says in the end of Kesubos, Kol Hadar B'Chutz L'Aretz Domeh K'Mishain Lo Elokav, because he doesn't have the same level of Hashgacha Protis. And that's the idea of Eretz Asher Einei Hashem Elokecha Me Reishis Hashanah V'Ad Achris Hashanah. But Hamelech Davened to Hakadosh Baruch Hu. His Tefillah was that when a Yid comes to this place, when a Yid comes to the Makom Hamikdash and he Davens, Eibishter, don't judge him. Don't look at if he's a Yid that has a Taam V'Reiach, he's Reiach B'Lo Taam, Taam B'Lo Reiach, or Lo Taam B'Lo Reiach. You should look at a Yid because he's a Yid and answer his Tefillah. Whether his Tefillah is because he did Aveiros and he's asking for Selicha. Whether his Tefillah is because he doesn't have Parnassah, there's a Rav Ba'Aretz. Whether his his Tefillah is that there's a Koneg and there's a Kol Machlah and he's asking for a Refuah. Whether his Tefillah [snorts] is he's about to go out to war and he's hoping that he's going to come back alive and that he's going to be successful. Regardless of what his Tefillah is, don't judge him. And the Eibishter turned to Hamelech and the Eibishter said, "Your wish has been granted. Eretz Canaan, Eretz Yisrael as a whole, is Eretz Asher Einei Hashem Elokecha Bah. But Eretz Yisrael Bifrat, when it comes to the Makom Hamikdash, when it comes to the Beis Hamikdash, over there it's going to be Einei V'Libi Sham Kol Hayom. Over there, I promise you," Hashem tells Hamelech, "I'm not just going to look, but I'm going to feel. I'm going to open up my heart and over there no one's going to be judged. Over there it doesn't matter who you are. Ki Veisi Beis Tefillah Yikarei L'Chol Ha'Amim. For everybody, even for the Umos HaOlam, it's going to be a place where Hakadosh Baruch Hu says, 'I'll answer your Tefillah regardless regardless of your background and regardless of how you live your life and exactly who it is you are.' But if you look at the Middayek Leshonei Hazeh of the Pasuk, what did the Eibishter say? V'Hiyu Einei V'Libi Sham Kol Hayom. We're not going to digress into Lomdus now, but it's Mevuar in the Rambam in Perek Zayin Hilchos Beis Hamikdash and it's Mevuar in the Raavad over there and in the Nosei Keilim that when Hashem said Kol Hayom, what he meant to say was Kol Hayomim Ad Hayom Hazeh. Regardless of whether the Makom Hamikdash has Kedusha today, doesn't have Kedusha today, you could go on the Har Habayis, you can't go on the Har Habayis, has nothing to do with this conversation. Here the Eibishter could not have been more clear. V'Hiyu Einei V'Libi Sham Kol Hayom. I think it's Pashet. Every Yid comes to the Kodesh Kodashim. Every Yid comes to the Makom Hamikdash and he feels he feels different. There's there's just something a little bit different. And if I may, I think he feels like he belongs here. He feels like he just feels like he belongs. People come, they put on their pop-up Yarmulkes and they start crying and they start Davening like they've never Davened in their lives. It's a real feeling. It's a real feeling because this is a place where Hakadosh Baruch Hu's heart is open. And because Hakadosh Baruch Hu's heart is open, it's a place where the Eibishter promised Hamelech, V'Hiyu Einei V'Libi Sham Kol Hayom. Ki Shamati Es Tefiloscha V'Es Techinoscha Asher Hanati Lifonai. Hikdashti Es Habayis Hazeh Asher Banisi L'Sim Shmi Sham Ad Olam. V'Hiyu Einei V'Libi Sham Kol Hayom. This has nothing to do with what was. This has nothing to do with what will be. This is the way it is right now, today, in Golus, today, even Golus, in a world of Anoichi Aster Aster Panim Bayom Hahu. In a world where maybe we're all judging each other too much, but this is a place where the Eibishter is not judging anybody. This is a place where we're all in one Bayis. It's a place where you Einei V'Libi Sham Kol Hayom. We should be Zocheh that all our Tefillos here in the Makom Hamikdash should [snorts] be answered and we should be Zocheh to have the Shechinah come down where it's going to be Begolah in Hereveinu Amen.