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a Torah anytime original series.
Listen to this. There's an interesting
gimm
that says that every single night of the
year, Hashem roars like a lion and he
says, "Oo to my children who have lost
the B mikdesh." Hashem is so to speak
bemoning the fact that we are still in
gullus and haven't rebuilt the bas and
while we do this once a year on tishab
hashem does this every single night of
the year but here's the part that I
thought was a little bit strange
why does say that hashem roars like a
lion about the b mikdash shouldn't it
say that hashem sits and cries about the
b mikdash it should say hashem is sad
why what does it mean hashem roars like
a lion
Perhaps the answer is that Hashem is
giving us the antidote to gullis and
that is to roar like a lion. We don't
limp our way through gullis. We don't
walk through time like pathetic refugees
running out of Gaza. We roar [music]
like lions. That's how the B mikdash
gets rebuilt. Not with fear, not with
apology, but with pride, with heads held
high, with fire, knowing that we are the
soldiers in the army of Hashem, honored
and charged to carry his name down
history's twisted road until this dark
world we live in lights up again.
There's an old legend that Theodore
Herzel once stood face to face with
Kaiser [music] Wilham II. And Herzel
looked at the most powerful man in
Europe and he said, "Mark my word, there
will one day be a Jewish state in the
Holy Land." And the Kaiser, he laughed
and [music] he waved his hand and he
said, "For that to happen, you would
need every major empire on this
continent to collapse. England, France,
Germany, Tsarus, Russia, the Hebssburgs,
the Ottomans, and that her Herzo is
impossible."
Well, history has a funny way of
answering arrogance. 50 years later,
every one of those empires [music] was
gone and shattered and broken and
stripped of power. And on the ashes of
their certainty, a Jewish state rose.
Why? Because Jews don't wait for
miracles. We become the people who
deserve them. Because when you carry
Jewish pride, when you roll up your
sleeves and [music] fight for your
destiny, history bends and empires fall.
And suddenly the impossible seems very
much possible.
