BJX Presents: The Secret to Bringing Moshiach

you I'd like to encourage everybody to take a reflective pause and to give very strong consideration to the fact that this dish above is 70 years the 70th Tisch above since the Holocaust 70 is a very seminal and pivotal number and Yiddish kite in Judaism according to her Solomon safer tehillim 70 is the lifespan of the human being and the first major catastrophe cataclysmic event of the expulsion of the Jewish people from Eretz Israel and the emerging crisis unfolded 70 years the Gullah sub oval until the Google low until the redemption how uncanny is it that this year in the three weeks a treaty was signed between America and urged Israel sworn enemy AI rien most virulent enemy of the Jewish people 70 years after the Holocaust and of course let us not forget the landmark but horrible and atrocious ruling of the Supreme Court which gave credence and justification to one of the most heinous sins recounted in the Torah just this year when the Soviet Union liberated ashwoods birkenau on january 27th 1945 the most indelible memory in the memory bank and collective conscience of the liberators of those russians was not cadavers or corpses or dead skeletons yes living skeletons the emaciated survivors but there were no human remains but there were thousands upon thousands 43 thousand pairs of shoes in the permanent exhibition in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum there are 4,000 shoes the sight and smell of these shoes leave a searing emotion to all those who go to view this the question is why shoes what is this about shoes what is the significance what is the meaning behind the shoes robert ballard was the oceanographer the underwater archeologist who discovered the wreck Titanic deep in the Atlantic in 1985 Robert Ballard writes and speaks about the trauma how his emotions were charred and awakened by the site of the wreck because as he says the bodies were all disintegrated the skeletons were all decalcified the only vestige the only remnant of the human beings that once were very prestigious human beings very affluent human beings but the only remnant were the shoes that he saw the shoes were preserved and it seems that the tannin in the leather resisted the bacteria and allowed the shoes to be extant and to be salvaged and to remain intact and it was wanting because he envisioned the people that possessed the shoes but there were no vaya bodies why the shoes what is this about shoes one of the greatest Giants of the previous generation from the greatest co-owner manga dilam was Ravi Shirelles a gusto satsang sacred side of cultural draw from his memory be for a blessing ref Koosman at 10 years old he knew the entire shisha sidra Mishnah at 12 years old he was accepted into the great luminary rough shimon coupe de cheveux the pride of the yeshiva world at 16 years old he was proficient in both Talmud bobbly and nourish ami the Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmud and at years old he was appointed to the most preeminent prestigious court of law in the Jewish people the best in her goggles so to speak of Vilna under the auspices of the greater of high a miser gurjen skeezits our roof high moisture actually predicted and forecasted regarding reverse roles a dustman that he would survive both the Russians and the Nazis which came to fruition but when reverse roles are exits Allah was hiding he was a partisan in the forest battling trying to rescue himself from the Nazis eventually the Nazis found him and in his arms was his precious to his greatest novice his only son was in his arms may rule and the Nazis accosted him and they assaulted him and they beat him and his four-year-old mayoral mercilessly blood was spurting out eventually they fell into a pile of manure his beloved precious mayoral was dead rat Guzman saw his mayoral shoes and those shoes were blood-stained trenched soaked and blood of course Minh had to clean off the blood because the rest of his family his wife and daughter and the others with him were starving famished desperate for food he took those shoes and he borrowed it for money and bought food but he couldn't eat from that food but he gave it to the others and he said it was a chemo was a fulfillment of the pasuk and a her and the taste haha inhibition shatara which speaks about children eating the flesh of their children do you know that rove guzman eventually when he made it to urge the throne we made it to the Land of Israel he was affiliated with an organization you see he was the paragon of a harvester all of unadulterated unconditional love for the Jewish people especially after all that he experienced but there were these zealots his car knowing they felt that it wasn't becoming of him to affiliate with this organization and they basically blackmailed him they said you have to strip yourself you have to leave this organization this affiliation otherwise we will denigrate and humiliate you and if you do leave that organization then we will put you in our organization and you will have tremendous prestige and honorable picking on the stationary you'll be elevated and accorded and heaped great pomp and fanfare from the entire Jewish world and of course man replied he looked them in the eye and he said denigration humiliation he said no one could experience it integration humiliation of having their mail room be into death to a pulp thrown into manure and his father's arms and sitting and telling you that hunter went at 21 years old godoy lemn my crime was another time stand up for you there's no honor after that peace is most important love of the fellow June and this was a man who when he moved to Eretz Israel was offered to be in the my exes jude l8r oh he was offered to be the of besten of the ADA her a dose it was offered through Russia Shiva upon a ownership in the marigny turned them all down because of his humility when his students asked him though what is your memory what do you remember most about the Holocaust he wouldn't budge he wouldn't speak but there's one thing he said he said I remember the shoes and he said it is not one night that passes when I don't go to sleep and before I retire to bed be or my eyes shut I have that haunting image of mayoral shoes that never leaves me why the shoes what is the significance of shoes what is it all about every single morning we make a blessing of Bravo the bra is a solely called Sarki you God you've provided me with every amenity every provision that I need you fulfill my every desire shall I solely cold Sark you've done everything that I need says abuja Hama this specifically affairs refers to wearing shoes because it is shoes that allow us to interact with our environment it is shoes that protect us from the pebbles the stones the impediments and as the shoes allow us to be mobile and that's why the Gamorrean shabbos cook-off test says that if a man does not have shoes he must go to great lengths to get those shoes even if it means selling the shirt off his back even if it means removing the support beams from the roof over his head from his only shelter to procure those shoes the Ariz all explains that shoes are so essential and critical he says that shoes is the only artifact that we have that really connects us in the greatest way to the mundane to earth it ties us and binds us to the mundane to earth shoes and perhaps that is why Tommy home and hug him and tough shin them all of Simmons 741 says something astounding he explains that when Adam harish on Adam sinned what happened the earth used to be resplendent and imbued in doubt and sanctified the entire universe even the earth was wholly when Adam sinned the earth was cursed and it was transformed from Braha from blessing to order to curse and that is why we wear shoes because in the previous world Adam priests in there was no need for shoes but now the earth is cursed there must be a barrier interception to the mundane cursed earth and that is why we wear shoes but the base i'll make there's the holy temple which he mourned over today was heaven on earth and that's why it is such a profound loss we don't realize what we're morning we had shin myeon we had heaven on earth again in heaven there's no cursing there's no Aurore it's all Bartlett's all blessing and that's why the Kohanim in the base on Mick dodge to not have to wear shoes are young hockey pooram Yom Kippur we are transformed from mundane individuals from physical bodies to angelic spirits we become angels we don't need shoes and when it comes to tisha both we think we don't wear shoes because we're in mourning yes that may be one of the reasons but he says there's an additional reason perhaps even more powerful and overarching and the reason he says that we don't wear shoes on Tish above this goes tisha pup is the spirit of meshia it's when ma shock is born and there's a day that we will revert to holiness and purity and the pristine primordial state of Adam priests in and if that's the case we don't wear shoes the word shoe now all now I am comes in the word etymologically the surest the root is minol lock because the shoe is the lock it represents and symbolizes the fact that we are confined to the physical to the mundane and we don't realize that we could transcend the base instinct we can transcend the lust we can transcend the yates RR and rise above levitate Eclipse transcend it you know POSIX says and shanice Kimmel hey oh sure of a new approaches a burning bush and curiosity and intrigue he's bewildered and confounded and baffled what is this represent and God caused him the pasuk says former God says Moshe Moshe former he Nadine he says Peter behold I am here fire burn God says off to grapple I'm don't come too close don't come here shalna Aloha me arregle remove your shoes from your feet chiamo commissure until I made because the place where you were standing alone buy it at moscone shoe is sanctified it is wholly earth marsh raveena was charged to remove his shoes because he was no longer in the domain or the terrain of curse but he was now in her ce9 a place of blessing remove your shoes but says my alltel Delta Zeta the greater metal from swatch of the helices la chamarra Tom Inuvik of the Baal Shem Tov something utterly mind-boggling and fascinating he says you know there are people that say about themselves I can never ever achieve greatness I can ever be spiritual I can never fight the atara I will never amount to a cousin ish I will never become a cup of time or a rough plan he says that's not the case when the plastic says all to grab how long home don't approach the place what the puck means a quarter mccombs lordship is if you want to become great if you want to become a giant I'll to Gruffalo me you don't have to come here you know why because you're already great don't think you have to achieve perfection don't think you have to be a level of God I'll to grapple on you don't have to come to this point all you gotta do he says is Xiao nettle Etta Mae I'll rug lava all you gotta do is shake or frog la regla he says means Harry goal it means the habits that you have become accustomed to it means the things that you're ingrained with all those times that there's an inner voice telling you can't don't you can't grow you can't achieve you can't accomplish that's rug level Charlie uh-huh remove the lock open the lock break yourself free from the inhibition break yourself free from the obstacle from the impediment that tells you you can't do it of course you could cuz I'll tickle how long means that you're already there you're great you're born and greatness you're born in holiness you're born in spirituality and purity all you gotta do is Shawn elaha to move the lock the shoe is the lock I'll rock lava from the habit you know why because I'm not gonna share 20 made the place where you're standing where you are now I'm my scar tissue you're already holy you're great you know the Kimura nadaram Duff known tells an astounding story about rebecca von rebeck cuba of course started off as a boris and agron ramos very unlettered but this woman Raquel who was the daughter of a real estate mogul a real estate magnate it's true wealthy man she sees in him certain characteristics and character traits that she feels he will develop into the greatest greatest person and she forfeits everything she marries him unconditionally because she feels he will develop him to drink and what happens when she marries him she is disinherited her father abandons her and sheehan Akiva to become the great rabbi akiva they live in destitute poverty-stricken impoverished indigent like anything and all they had their meager possession was straw and they were depressed they're very sad they felt like they are nothing to contribute their nothing to give to anybody else all they had was a straw and their cries pierce the heavens their bar Sean the master universe sent to them none other than Allah yo wanna be in disguise incognito elijah the prophet comes to visit them and he is disguised as a new father of an baby and he's crying he knocks on the door he says I need help and they're thinking what could we do to help this man we have nothing he says listen my wife just gave birth we have a new baby he's but we have no straw to for the babies fascinate to make the baby comfortable would you happen any chance you have straw and they were ecstatic the euphoric they will overjoyed of course we have straw and they gave him the straw and they felt like a million bucks because they felt that they were contributing they were giving I'll take Rob Hollande says atara according to little Ruth you don't have to approach the holiness of God or the house initiative a cup of time or a pound what you have in your personality will you have within you all your talents or Your Strengths use it your passion that you have use it to serve God all you gotta do is unlock the habits that part of you that says you can't of course you could you could achieve you could aspire you could grow incredibly astronomically exponentially shall haha remove the locks but the halo go caduceus lady the British ever takes it as one step further I know what he says he says before moisture Boehner had this encounter with God much rubino was living in the sublime ethereal celestial divine existence where he he didn't have much engagement with people or the world and their motion was telling him shalna allaha male ragatha your hair ago your habit is to be in the divine the celestial shall I allaha unlock yourself get to be with people because that's what kedusha and holiness is found holiness is found when we remove our locks sometimes we're a little too austere sometimes were a little too serious sometimes were a little too inhibited and we fail to realize that there's a person walking around all he needs is some human contact all he needs is some outreach all he needs is some love hello a good shabbos a text message saying you're the best just to feel a little uplifted and elevated take the lock off of you you have a persona you got a personality you're too Richard you're too strict people need you we need each other we are so interdependent we're so interconnected we're so interrelated when one Falls we all fall we need each other desperately and that's the message of shawnee allaha remove your locks remove the inhibitions get to know each other get to relate to one another have a hot busty stroll practice on a dull traitor undiluted unconditional love one Jew to another because you remember the shoe the shoe of the Holocaust the shoe of the Titanic the shoe of mayoral the shoe is about us having destruction or a curse and the way we transcend that the way we move beyond the lock the curse is by unleashing undoing the lock that binds us that constrains us second finds us and when we undo the lock and we look inside ourselves and realize the abilities that we have to make an impact we all have it I believe that that is the secret to bringing mushiya bezar Sheamus broth with the help of a shown that this day should come speedily oh we needed so badly more than ever that we should see that thing in by Ashley xi3 building of the third temple and witness Ashiya cicada the righteous mushiya been here of amino speedily nowadays our main Canyon ruts own thang ladies and gentlemen here we are yet another Tisch above one more year of mourning for the Exile for all the tragedies that befell the Jewish people throughout our history and there has been many Tisch above at times has been observed in places like the United States where we are living where compared to much of Jewish history it's almost paradise it has been observed in places like the Warsaw Ghetto during the Second World War it was observed in places like Spain during the time of the Inquisition in northern Germany during the during the Crusades and every year Jews have hoped and we pray this will be the last one so right now we're hoping and praying that this will be the last issue of can we guarantee it I don't know if we can guarantee it but there are certain steps we can take to certainly go in the direction of seeing the last of tisch above when tish above will return from what's a day of mourning into a day of festivities and yoga and law simca from sadness to happiness may fail Allah or God all from darkness to great like as we say in the haggadah so that's what we really want so in the light of that I want to present one idea which is not my idea it has been mentioned by many many great Jews throughout the centuries and it is probably one of the most basic ideas in all of you escape it is the idea of Sh'ma Israel has sham elahi no hash ml HOD hear o Israel what is our God Lord is one we talk about our Shem being one when we say a sham is one ruler arm Carl tells us that pasa does not mean he's the only God there are many other sukham that say that that's clear he's the only guy Gloria ha ll him a harem el punto as it says in the Assessor Deborah's no other gods and so on and so forth what is this pasta cutter saying is the gosh em how college boy who for those who understand God is the absolute unique oneness the only one who has that type of unity that type of oneness and because of that because I sham is one and because our job in this world is to become closer to Hashem to have a relationship with Hashem to bring the whole world closer to a sham so therefore the only way we can do that is if we are compatible and similar that is to say that we also exhibit oneness we exhibit that unity and we live in a sense of unity the tanya tells us that the scheana the Divine Presence wants to dwell in this world amongst us but the Divine Presence only can dwell in a world in a receptacle in which there is oneness in which there is unity a receptacle which is not unified is not a receptacle that can in any way be receptacle for the Divine Presence the Jewish people to be a CLE a dwelling place a home for Hashem we have to be unified we have to be one that's the only place where the Divine Presence can really dwell we also know that the success of the Jewish people in every way is dependent upon our unity the Madras rubber tells us in davorin it contrasts two generations of the Jews it contrasts I have who is an evil king by any standards and it says that the Jewish people at the time were old day avoid Azara they worshipped idols choose worship idols I Daltrey's one of the worst sins in the Torah and yet we are told that says how your nights yolks in the milk Hama they used to go out to war the night skin and wind they were victorious no casualties no one captured victorious in war why because it says very interestingly even though they worship idols laje oba handle turin there were no informers there was unity no one was talking about each other no it was informing upon each other there was cohesiveness and unity amongst these people on the other hand it says in the generation of Sheol homily so during the time of Sheol the Jews were not I've devil as though they are not worshiping idols on the one hand juice were apparently I guess they're eating first nicosia keeping Chavez's Harold not worshipping idols but on the other hand it says hey uber handle Turin there were informers amongst them there were people who informed on da vidim LF in King David who was running away from the shore there are people informed on each other there was a lack of unity and if there's a lack of unity it says how your knife limber milk Homer they suffered during the war there was they were wounded during the war there were people who they did not win they did not have that victory and so the contrast what's the difference between those two generations the difference is was their unity or was there a lack of unity and that was the key to their success you know in modern times we had a similar situation in 1967 the six-day war was miraculous without any doubt was an amazing amazing thing six days there were a bottom of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel who were going around to parks in Tel Aviv consecrating them as batik virus as cemeteries because they expected massive casualties there were people who believed that it was the end of the Jews in Israel the end of the State of Israel and in six days in the first two days the Israeli Air Force destroyed the Air Force's of Egypt and Syria to the most powerful enemies it was unbelievable the brisker Rob says Hashem smiled at us and I think why did I smile at us he gave us a glimpse of the redemption a glimpse of those miracles because there was unity even the Knesset notorious as a place of disunity arguments I mean that's it's a government that's what they do they argue with each other there are parties that a national unity government they were United everyone was united and that's fairly that unity was the reason for the success I believe the reason for those miracles it was the same as in the days of the days of the Tanakh where we are told that it was primarily the unity of the Jewish people we also know that the secret of redemption is unity we are told that yeah Kavya crack of a bond of Yaakov called his sons he says he asked full ver guida love him gather together and I'm going to tell you what will happen in the end of days and Russia tells us he's going to tell them about the Messiah but many many of them are farshchian point out that he was telling him not just that there will be a redemption he was giving them the secret of it what was the secret he asks for her us for means gather together get together recognize yourselves as being part of one unit gather together and that's indeed the it says also in their goddess voracious he Cubs silver Schimmel he says he Alec I've told him it says didn't they are got it to the following our puppy shany or dare Amos ayana didn't even though I don't know for sure when that final day of judgment when that googler will come one thing I can tell you any imma love him one thing I can tell you to us for the capsule I so sure Artem neegalum when you get together when you unify when you become a one group that's when you will be redeemed I was talking to someone today he is a person I study with alone with he doesn't look religious I think he is religious he doesn't look at he says sometimes he walks along and he says hi or shall I malade him to religious Jews and they type of ignoring they don't respond to him he said what am I not Jewish what what why don't they say hello to me why don't they smile at me I said yeah it's a great question smile or someone greet another person first of all it says in / Kovas having the kabbalists khalid on the server pounding the office you should greet everyone nicely should greet everyone pleasantly but certainly a fellow Jew who says hello who says good shabbos who says shall know him or who says hi or is this g'day whatever they say greet people he asked for he Cubs will gather together and that's when we'll have the redemption indeed one of the most common phenomenon of the Jewish bit and I'll show everyone's familiar with this is begging no bagel in years I'm sure everyone knows that this is it's when when who looks obviously Jewish is within proximity of a Jew who is not obviously Jewish looking they're not obvious Jewish looking drew will have an overwhelming urge to identify themselves to you as Jewish if you look Jewish they'll say some random phrase in Yiddish or Hebrew they'll say something in order to say yes I'm Jewish as well because they want to identify they want to unify and that is a beautiful phenomenon I was in I was in I mean many places I've been bageled all over the world I was in Shanghai last summer and I had a group we had a group of 60 American religious Jews mostly American we stood out a little bit in Shanghai as you can imagine we're walking through the Imperial tea gardens and I see coming towards us another group of tourists they were obviously tourists and they had a look a bit of an Israeli look about them they looked Israeli and they come towards us as they come closer to us they burst into a song the worst juris song ever written hava nagila right granted it's a terrible song but it was an amazing it was amazing it was a group bagel here these israelis see this group of Jews in the middle of Shanghai they burst into song they're identifying as Jews that was beautiful because that's a display of unity which we don't often get we have to go to China to feel that but we should feel it in Brooklyn as well we should fill it in borrow part which are fill it in Israel we should fill it everywhere it's an amazing amazing feeling of unity and one of the reasons for that is and this was pointed out to me by my good friend Ruby tuck feldheim is one of the reasons that we want to do that that we'd like to unify that we want to be part of a group is because the soul wants to make contact with God making contact with our shame is making contact with oneness unity every time we get a little closer to unity every time we will get a closer to oneness we're getting closer to a Shem and that's really what it's about this fuss ms says an amazing idea he says there are two times that a Jew can get Anna show me your Sarah wasn't a show me your Sarah now show me your Sarah means an extra level of soul an extra level of it doesn't I don't think it means an extra soul although there are some commentaries and say that I think neshama you Sarah means more soul meaning more intense spirituality more intense closest to a Shem one of those times is on shabbos as we know every shovers we get an extra level of soul thus far semer says we also get that neshama you Sarah when we are united with other Jews if we're in a group and we united with these other Jews we get the neshamah you Sarah because in both situations this fuss ms says we are a little closer fact a lot closer to our chorus portal a lot closer to a Shem and as we know the base our meat dish was destroyed we are told by huzzah by our sages it was destroyed because of sin us Keenum baseless hatred and if you look in the Nets even his introduction to be racist his commentary on voracious the hammock Davao he has an amazing amazing section there in which he discusses the barrages are called safer how yo sure the book of the upright or the just but he explains the word yo sure he doesn't explain it exactly as we normally understand he explains it as people with a positive disposition towards humanity they like people he says look at Oprah ham avena the first time we have to fill er mentioned in the whole tour of the first prayer we have in the Torah is overrun praying for who Saddam despicable sociopathic homicidal evil group of people corrupt perverse you name it and Avraham is praying that they shouldn't die he wants them to do true ver he doesn't want them to die and the desert points out case after case in the book of bere she's we're supposed to learn from that to have to like to love people to be positively predisposed and he says the sin of sinister denim in the second base of me does meant he says and he says an astounding thing he says people who were very froome there were religious cus and shabbos and they'd learn Torah and everything else but he says they weren't positive towards other people and because of that anyone who disagree with him who had a different way of doing something a different way of feeling etc they said he's an upper chorus he's a heretic he has to be killed his money can be taken etc etc he says all the various sins avoids argue LaRoche was doing all of the various sins he says actually came from hatred they came from hatred if you're full of love if you like people if you're positively predisposed if you have Yash what he calls Yahshua's straightforward honest love he says then then even if there are differences you'll still love the person you want to clear them as being invalid passel etc you'll see them okay accept them do you disagree can disagree we all disagree with everyone but you can disagree i still love someone you can disagree and still feel them as part of you she says that was a sinner Skinner and many many of our great sages have said that the way to fix sinnis venom is Ahava Skinner what does Ava's can amaze me is baseless love that's a little weird was a baseless love love without a basis I think it means love without having someone doing something to deserve it as there are people they love because they do X Y or Z there are people I love because they give me this there are people are love because they give me that etc arvest unum I don't think means baseless love what I think that a better translation would be it's it's it's free meaning I don't know it's free in the sense that no one has to pay me for it I give that love without being I'm not because I'm getting anything from you and that is the type of love that I xem has for the Jewish people the Maharal points out that before Hashem spoke to Abraham the partial starts by your martial art on loeffler my eyes of her her shell said to Abram go from your land interesting there's no introduction we don't know anything about Abraham aside from the fact that his father was terror and he started moving towards the east from where he was living that's it when Noah we have an introduction when he was born his parents say this guy will comfort us he is described as a righteous person he described as perfect he's described as walking with a shame before it behind us or in front of us same right as si lo keem with Hashem but and then I shall speak soon we understand with Avraham it's just out of the blue so the Maharal explains he says because Hashem didn't love around because of something specific that he did for a sham he loved him because of who he was so our love has to be similar to that that is to say love because you're a human being because you're a Jew because you're part of the family so love you have to do anything for me be nice if you do you don't have to do anything for me the fact that you exist is sufficient reason I have us cleaner and therefore just as the temple was destroyed because of sin us sinem because of hatred even though someone didn't do anything to me and it's interesting was when I end there's a famous story of cancer and bowel cancer this guy invites his friend comes out to the to his wedding and the servant messes it up and he invites the guy he doesn't like bear cam sir so on and so forth and and what ensues this guy's humiliated at the wedding he throws him out the rabbi's don't say anything and he takes and this guy who's throwing oh the wedding takes vengeance by informing on the Romans and precipitated a whole chain of events that resulted ultimately in destruction of the temple the base I mean does terrible stuff but the question you have to ask is so why is it blamed on cancer and boca cancer was the guy who was invited who didn't actually even get the invitation he seems to be a good guy so one of the answers the morale says is when you're when you have a group of friends and and and it's the exclusion of everyone else Kamsa who was one of the friends of the guy whose wedding it was but it was a friendship that was an exclusion circle if you weren't in the circle you weren't in the group you're out of here so therefore even those who her friends were blamed because their friendship was exclusionary of everyone else their love was very very limited to their explicit people who look like me people who'd oven the sameness of people are super the same sure that's it anyone else you look a little different yeah a little different you speak a little different sorry you're out of here that is sinners Keenum even though it's expressed by love for this other person but if that love excludes everyone else that's in a spinner our bus kinam is you don't have to do anything for me you'd have to conform to me you have to agree with me of course if you agree with me your life will be much better but you don't have to agree with me Jones to conform love that's what that's the message i wish i could have that but we can all work on that our vows finem I don't expect anything anything from you we just want to be one because we're part of the Jewish people and when we do achieve that that oneness and we become a CLE a receptacle for the Skinner for the Divine Presence and we practice her ass full will gather together like yeah covino told us then assoc you caress came by our essay on him what will happen to us will be the end of days the coming of the Messiah tsukino been higher of you may know I mean you