The 3 Weeks: Adam HaRishon and the Churban - "Hands" Off the Beis Hamikdash

Okay, we have an amazing topic today. Welcome everyone to the Monday afternoon national agashir. We're going to be speaking about the three weeks and a very interesting aspect of the destruction of the B mikdash and we're going to begin with ailah that we say every shabas and ail very closely associated with the bdash that is where hashem may the pleasantness of hashem our god be upon us. And our handiwork should be affixed upon us. Why the emphasis on our handiwork? Why is it not enough to say? Why the emphasis on? Why do we say the activities of our hands as opposed to what? Our ears. What would you have thought that we're asking Hashem to bless the efforts of our ears, of our nose? Why the emphasis on the hands? We find that the first time that of was said was when blessed the people upon the inauguration of the Mishkan says raised his hands to the people and he blessed them. What is the braha that he said? Rashi says the braha that arin said to the people was by the way that's another instance where there's an emphasis on the hands. Why do the kahanim lift up their hands when they bless the people? What? There's something holy about hands. Hands are holy. Actually, we're now learning. By the way, just as an aside, I want to ask you a personal question. You ready? You don't have to answer. We're But I'm I'm, you know, we're friends. I'm asking, "What do you do every day from 9:00 a.m. till 9:15? You're busy." I didn't think so. I didn't think so. Right. So, make sure you tune in uh to our Mish every day. It's really good stuff. I'm telling you, I'm learning now. We're learning. It's not the first time I've done in. It's as if I never saw it before. The minutia is really we have a very 9:00 a.m. We have amazing am so you want to join us 9:00 anyway why do the kahhanam raise their hands to bless the people what's holy about hands actually hands are but the kahan when they bless the people they da raise their hands what's significant about the hands furthermore rashi says that on the next p What did they give the people? Rashi says why the emphasis on the hands. You know Rashi and says Rashi says means two times it says one on Israel. So one of is going on the Mishkan and one is going on their activities. But why the emphasis on Yadav? Okay, there are by the way other things that we could focus on where the emphasis is on the hands. We find by David. Look at number 25. David was playing with his hands, meaning he was playing a musical instrument with his hands. Really? No kidding. What what he was playing with his nose or his ear. I'll just uh I'll mention um my grandmother Allah Shalom passed away this past Friday. Not not 4 days ago, 11 days ago. And my grandmother Allah Shalom, she was a very learned woman, a very righteous woman. She worked with in the public school system with handicapped children. That's how she started. And when I was a little kid, she would bring me to the school when I was off. And she taught hand when I say handicapped, I remember there was a child with no arms. And my grandmother taught the child to write by putting a crayon in between the child's toes. And I remember this kid coloring with his toes. I only bring that in because the Pik says David was playing the instrument with his hand. What else? What else was he playing with? Why does the Pik need to say that David was playing with his hands? Or it says into says Hashem reward me in according to my righteousness according to the purity of my hands. Why the emphasis on the hands or there's a d we there's a rulem does not bring takah to the hands of why the hands or to top it all off and this is the biggest clue of all when reached from the eight had hashem said, "Uh-oh, Adam's going to be like one of us." And now what it's going to be if he sends forth his hand. Okay, why does it say lest he send forth his hand? Okay. So why do we find so many references where the emphasis on the hand says going on to that who built the base says I think there's a Ysi green song with these did. You know, it sounds like if there's not, it sounds like there would be, you know, but it says you did. Let the friend the son of the friend build the friend for the friend in the share of the friend and let the friends be atoned. The Gar explains is called Yeah, that's the name. Some people are called because the name of and so is Abraham and he'll bring the like it says that's the mikdashid is like it says is like it says like it says very unusual that in the context of the B mikdash everyone and anyone is given a new name Yid. Nowhere do we ever refer to Schlime as Yadid. We we're called Schlim. He's called Kyel. He's called Bend. We'll never call him Yadid. Only in reference to the Ba Mikdash. Nowhere is Abraham called Yadid except for in the context of the Ba Mikdash. Nowhere is the B mikdash called Yadid except for when we're referring to it as its location as the sanctuary. Nowhere is Hashem called Yadid except for in the reference to the Ba Mikdash. is not why when it comes to mikdash everything is labeled the name yadid by the way the gar even says that when the b mikdash was destroyed hashem found abraham who was in the bikdash and yidi interesting why is abrau given specifically the name yadidi in the context of the b mikdash fine By the way, also interesting in the talks about the mikdash look um is talking about why he has to build. Even a bird has a house. So fortunate are those who sit in the house of Hashem. This is a perk about building the Bikash. What does Bd refer to as why all of a sudden in the reference to the Bikdash is everything called now we know that Migillas ends with the following. Literally it means Hashem return us to you and we we will return. Renew our days like yester year. Simply it means renew our days like yester year when the bdar stood. But the med says no yester year doesn't mean when the temple stood. It means renew our days like like it says. Isn't that interesting that when we're referring to rebuilding the we say like Adam and Ghan? What does Adam and Ghan have to do with the Bameikdash? So interestingly the med says is called like it says but the medish draws another analogy between and the destruction of the B mikdash. The med says just like when the B mikdash was destroyed, Klis cried out. So too whenish was chased out of Ganed, we all know says the Brew Brris Shamdi that when the B mikdash was destroyed, they were like Adam who violated the covenant says the bris. This is I brought him into and I commanded him. He violated my my command. I judged him with divorce, with banishment. I brought him into like it says and I commanded him like it says and he he violated like it says and I judged him like it says and I gave him like it says that means the medish is comparing the sin of Marish to the sins that destroyed the B mikdash and the banishment of Marish from Ganedan. It's comparing to the destruction of the B mikdash. And this gives us an understanding why mikdash is in per is in because the destruction of B mikdash was a get just like Hashem divorced Adam. He banished Adam. The destruction of B mikdash was a banishment. This is also brought in boracious rabb that when hashem sent out of it was analogous to the destruction of mikdash. Moreover, Hashem lamented that's so here's the million-dollar question. What is the comparison between Adam and the sins that destroyed the first and second B mikdash ate a a fig or a grape or a wheat or an esrog that's a lot of people I know they they're mak they don't eat fruits cuz they're it's like a they might eat from the or something but other ate a fruit how does that compare to a desiled oram How could you compare the sin of other Marishan to the sins that destroyed the first and second B of mikdash? What's the comparison to what other Marishan did? How do we compare other Marish sin that caused him to get thrown out of Gan to the sins of you saw during bayishi that caused the destruction of the B mikdash? Okay, so that's what we need to try to discover. Now one thing that we know and this is a concept we've spoken about a lot over the years is that on the day the Mishkun was built it was like reverting the world back to before the it says that when the Mishkan was inaugurated what's the mentor says the Raji says something that was it stopped and it was reverted when when we built the Mishkan says the medish at the beginning of the creation. Theina resided down here in this world like it says Hashem is and when the departed when sinned the did not come back until the Mishkan was erected. So the Mishkan brought the world back to the Madre was on before the cinema the Marishine. So that's another comparison that when the Mishkan was built it brought the world back to the way things were before Adam sinned. That means Adam's banishment from Ganeden in a way is analogous to the destruction of the B mikdash. But how in terms of the a of can it be compared to the sins that committed that destroyed the ba mikdash whether it was bas which was the big three or whether it was now if you look in the gr reveals a little bit of this the gr is quoted in the safer are hea brings from is shin and he quotes a from David of and of says the from the sin of other marish encompassed the big three and because of that other marishian came back as a gil goal three times as Abraham asitak and as yakov Abraham was thrown into fire. Why? Fire is a punishment for a des like it says That's why he became blind became blind. The eyes are the spies when it comes to arayos. Jacobu went into gullos that atones for. So Abraham atoned for a desit atoned for Gileas. Jacob atoned for. But all the is revealing is that the atoned for marisha violating the big three. But still we don't have any source that Adam in fact did violate the big three. We understand he must have if he needed atonement in reincarnating as to atone for. But where do we find that violated these sins? comes the schlahadesh and the kadesh quoting the medish that Hashem put Adam into Ghana similar to the building of the ba mikdash and hashem commanded him and then was nisgares and sent out and hashem lamented says the schlaham violated the big three why first of all kazal say was a min. He was an obviously it doesn't mean blatant. It was according to his very lofty madrega that it was reckoned in the eyes of Hashem as heresy and say he was furthermore say when the lived with the injected kava with zuama. So that was a form of arayos and so so far that's um it's he that's and the schla doesn't say exactly How we have the says the is it brought. If you look in the of the um he says something amazing. He said the that brought me which is so all three aos were involved in the sin of theas namely theus um which the says the fact that Adam and violated the son of that And and bringing and says even in terms of even in terms of the the spoke. So the and the sin of encompassed all the aos that destroyed the basikdash both bay rish and bayeni bayeni the big three I'm sorry bias the big three and bayeni lashinhara um it's by the way it's interesting that the maral says says a rationale why the first Bikdash was destroyed because of Gile and the second Bdash was destroyed because of he says the reason for that is the first Bikdash was in the of the three Abrahamus was he was pinha Because we know that Yo, even though he was very circumspect in what he looked like, but at least But I still gazed at a basula. I'm sorry. Yo, although he did not gaze at a basula, he did not gaze at a basula, but from his own family, he did. By Abraham, wouldn't even gaze at his own wife. So Abraham was the paragon of being discreet and being modest in Arayosk was from a deserv because they were weak in these These three areas to the B mikdash had to be destroyed. But the second B mikdash was connected Kessus Israel themselves is connected Israel. Therefore once nullified the status of Kessus Israel they're no longer considered Kness Israel. They lose that madrega of Kessus Israel. And therefore the second B mikdash was destroyed because of now what we're bringing out is that there is a uncanny parallel between Hashem putting Adam Marishine into Ghana where the Shina dwelled and Adam Arishine was there with Hashina in Gan Aen. And then when he sinned with Gilas and as the explain and also there was a sin of lash. So this these were the seeds of the sins that destroyed the first and second B mikdash his banishment from Ghana and Hashem's lamenting was the predecessor of the destruction of the first and second Bikdash where we lament. So when we say we're saying put us back into restore us to the status of other marishian in ganed before the and now we come to an amazing revelation. This revelation is quoted by the beneskai in the safer on parasperacious theueskai wants to know why once ate from the does it say oh be careful we got to get him out of here lest he send forth his arm and eat from the eight why the emphas emphasis on and in explaining this we'll explain Why when the why when the blessed the people they raise their hands? Why do we why the emphas and says the in the name of the in the name of the in the name of none other than Rabenuario that when Marishin ate from He ate hadas. It says that he ate it and it says he consumed it. But one thing it doesn't say, it doesn't say he took it. And the reason it doesn't say he took it is cuz he didn't. He never touched the eight hadas. He never laid his hands on the eight hadas. The one limb of Adam Marishine that did not participate in the sin of the eight hadas was his hands. His hands never gripped the fruit. His hands never touched it. And therefore, even though by eating from the eight had it sent the whole world down the drain and everything, all of existence plummeted and everything was downgraded and everything was lowered. Nevertheless, nevertheless, even though everything was downgraded and now man doesn't live forever, a man has to die and man has to work and everything life is difficult. There's one part of reality that retains its pristine state of purity and holiness and that is the hands. The hands retain the original state of Adam because the hands never touched the by the way. We once gave a shir and if you have the safer amberious I don't know if Aframe I don't not sure if I see it. You have the bicious one yet. Yeah. Let's Aphra is gonna whip it out now. >> I do. >> You have it. Okay has it. Very good. Very good. Turn to page. Turn to page. Sadi. Turn to page. Pay test. Pay test. You got it there. We bring this also. And we quote it's in it doesn't say by the sin of it says he didn't want to stretch out his hands. So therefore his hands remain tahar. There's an essay here on all the various parts, all the various things that did not become contaminated from the a few examples that we give are besides the hands, the k the windpipe, the l the the fingernails. I want to add in another addition. I want to add in another addition. You know what else I didn't put in there? The mitzvah of kim never became impuged by the because didn't have parents. There are various interesting things that were not affected by the sin of marishan. But one of the important ones are the hands. The hands were never affected. And therefore when the kahan want to bless the people they stick out their hands because there's a certain pristine holiness that the hands always retain. And therefore the emphasis on the bra is and therefore who is a gilgal of the emphasis was he always played majestic music with his hands. Maybe that's why hands are always associated with like we say yra means his hands will prevail inra. By the way, many bring that the hands of learning counteract the hands of there's a certain of the because they never participated in the therefore says ah if That's the case if the hands were never sullied by the sin of Marishine. Did you know that Isaac says you know why the Bikdash is called Yadid? All he says is the word Yadid is a compound word. Yad yad says the word yadid is a compound word yad yad hand one one of the explanations is because it says Hashem created the heavens um God created the heavens with one hand the earth with one hand and the mikdash that connects heaven and earth is yad yad. It's connecting one yad with another. But according to our direction, we could explain that there's one area in the world that retained its original status of holiness and was never impuged by the sin of adamarish and that is the basikdash. The Mishna says in a that 10 miracles happened in the ba mikdash that uh what were they? A woman never miscarried from decomposing meat. The meat never decomposed. They never saw flies. There was never a carry. Says the you know what all these miracles have in common? There was no decomposition. Nothing degenerated in the B mikdash. Nothing broke down. You see, as a result of the sin of Adarish, our world, our physical world begins to degenerate and decompose and break down and food rots and meat rots and people have illness and their flies. But says the s before the sin of marish there was no kil there was no corruption there was no decomposition nothing degenerated because hashem created the world masha to the tora. So in the bikash where the was it was impervious to the ramifications of the sin of marishine. In other words, if you wanted to know what is a ba mikdash, the ba mikdash preserved in like a bubble what life was like before the sin of adhar. If you want to know what a basiktod is with the ba mikdash preserves what life was like before the sin of marishon with this in the safer by the way in a footnote we tried to offer that maybe this is the reason why if somebody comes early to shul and stays late it gives yim because imagine if you spend your time in a bubble in ganed there's no misa there you're impervious to decomposition. You're impervious to something to degenerate. Therefore, what is a ba mikdash? Bikdash is like it's like the the garden of Eden before the sin. By the way, Ephraim, you have the safer over there in the safer. We we'll have to take care of that. In the in para we bring on page tough mammal that the target says it's simply understood that when hashem chased out of ganed he positioned there the kimashed. So we think there are two cherubs that with swords making sure didn't return. That's how learns but learns. No, the same way in the Mishkan there were twoim and kuim upon which theina dwelled. So the says Hashem banished Adam from Ghana where there were kuim upon which theina dwelled. that the town literally says there were crew of him in Ghana upon which the dwelt cuz the the Ganeden was the predecessor of the Mishkan and the Mishkan and the Mikdash were capturing what Ghana was before the sin. So that's why at the end of we say rebuild the mdash like because was the predecessor of the B mikdash. The B mikdash is just a bubble and capturing what Geden was. And therefore, if you needed to name a location that was impervious to the sin of Adam Marishine, if you needed to name a location that transcended how the sin brought the world down, what better way than to take the two parts of the body that didn't participate in the sin and refer to the basto as yadid. Yadid is yad yad. See because what the ba mikdash is it's the one area in the world that is above and impervious to the sin of marish. This perhaps is the deeper meaning of why in the context of the Bikdash everything is referred to as that's Abraham that's the that's you see what the Bikto is. It's an area in the world above and beyond the sin of marishine. It's impervious to the sin of Adam which is perhaps the reason why those who spend time in the Bakess which is a mikdash. So one is like the garra says they were old people in they told they're old people in says how could that be? says so they said no they come early to sh maybe because of hakus is mikta so it's like uh it's impervious to the cinema of the marisha and one is not subject to mis if one is in the bases so this gives us a little insight into the the status of the bases mikdash. Why the ba mikdash was one area in the world where the vicissitude the vicissitudes of this world were not really in effect and meat didn't decompose and the never became tame because all of the breakdown that came as a result of the was not present in the bdash and this is the reason the explains for the emphasis Which by the way, it's interesting if Tishab comes out on one of the kinos that's said is you know we don't say because it's almost like we it wasn't that is referring specifically to the base. It's yenu the two yads. It's the two yads that didn't participate in the cinema of the marishine is the reference to the mimikdash. Thank you everybody for joining today. I wish you all have a great day. It's great to see you and we'll see you next Monday. Thank you very much. >> Thank you. Thank you very much. >> Recording stop.