Tisha B’Av: Greatness Brings Geula
Bzchus Nashim Tzidkanios: the Ratzon for Greatness.
TishaBAv Is about one day in your life about being REAL. WHAT DO I WANT?”
WHERE’S YOUR TAMBOURINE?!
YOU’RE A JEW!
THIS IS WHO WE COULD BE!”
Charlie Harary
: Tisha B’Av: Greatness Brings Geula
https://youtu.be/uh7gZY6i_ig
“DESTRUCTION IS COMFORT. Cause greatness is difficult.
“My bracha, Tehilla, and greatest hope is that I DON’T DIE IN A GENERATION WHERE WE COULD HAVE HAD GEULA, BUT WE ARE JUST SO HAPPY WITH A LITTLE COMFORT. What a waste! Could you imagine if we get up to shamayim and G-d says, “You could’ve lived in a time of geula and YOU SETTLED FOR A FEW MORE DOLLARS! You settled for your family getting Shidduchim, when everyone in the world could’ve found their “one.” IF YOU JUST WOULD’VE ASKED ME FOR IT WITH A LITTLE BIT OF HEART?! YOUR’RE SO HAPPY TO BE COMFORTABLE WHEN I BUILT YOU WITH THE ABILITY TO BE GREAT!!!
My goal in life is to build a house that’s big enough to be comfortable.
I want my car to be comfortable. Just give me a comfortable life!
Not asking too much. You know what Miriam and those women said?
“Comfort?” You know what we’re playing for? We are playing for GEULA
You know what they made tamborine for?
Their tamborine was their way of saying “we are not playing for comfort. We are playing for geula”
Every time they stitched the tambourine they said “GEULA, BIG, GEULA”
Hashem said, ‘You have ratzon for geula? You’re not happy sleeping? You want the prize?
You tapped into kesser, the most highest sefira of ratzon?
You did it because you believe in ME?
Bezchus Nashim Tzidkanios.
That mentality triggered geula.
Moshe worked hard
Aaron worked hard
But you know who’s the catalyst for everything?
Those women who said “we are never giving up!”
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*The Air conditioner works. I have food in the fridge. No ones killing us
I’m good. G-d says there’s the promised land. There’s geula! Bnei Yisrael looked and said “I have to battle? I have to plant? I have to rely on rain… do you know how many years I have to work to get COMFORTABLE AGAIN?”*
The spies said “we’re gonna die! You know why? Because greatness is way too hard!.. and geula is way too hard. I’d rather be COMFORTABLY MEDIOCRE THAN UNCOMFORTABLY GREAT.
HKB”H Says "you want to know what tears of vain are? You know what HKBH is doing? He’s saying this is the DEFINITION of destruction. I’m not going to kill you. I’m going to teach you a lesson. I’m your dad!!*
You want to know what destruction looks like in your families? A destroyed life looks like… When you have this much potential, but you’re too scared to fight for it.
It looks like a nation that has the promised land in its grasp, but it too hard to fight for something that they're not going to know what’s going to go on, but they’d rather sit back in the desert, nowhere, than fight for the promised land. DESTRUCTION IS COMFORT. Cause greatness is difficult.
Bzchus Nashim tzidkanius: the Ratzon for greatness. TishaBAv Is about one day in your life about being REAL
WHAT DO I WANT? Do I actually WANT GEULA?
Do I know what that even means?
When I sit on the floor And say I really want the Bais Hamikdash do I really mean I want the fast to be over so I can eat?
When I say “IY”H We should all be in Yerushalayim… do I really mean I don’t know it’s really hot over there And my house is beautiful here.
When I say IY”H next year am I really saying “MORE COMFORT. MORE COMFORT!” What do I want?
Because … if we don’t want geula, we are not getting it. *I don’t care how much we are patting each other on the back and telling each other how great we are doing. Look how awesome we are.
But at the end of the day if you don’t want geula, WHY SHOULD YOU DESERVE IT?
Are we just sitting on the floor saying “Don’t kill us, just make us comfortable.”
Why do we think we are better than them (the generation of the spies) if at the end of the day we are making THE EXACT SAME CHOICE????
I do not want to get uncomfortable with G-d.
I do not want to learn something I don’t know already.
PERIOD…
Why don’t we be real for one day and say I don’t want geula. I want to be in galus. I want just more comfort. THATS WHAT WE’RE ON THE FLOOR FOR!
… your great grandmothers were sewing tambourines! You’re sitting on the floor because you don’t want to go anywhere. If you wanted to go to Yerushalayim for real. If you wanted geula for real… if you wanted Me To be revealed for real… you want the whole world to know Hashem… you want to walk the streets and see Hashem in your lives? … you want to be inspired 24/7. THEN WANT IT!!!!
And if you don’t want it, G-d says “get back on the floor, because it ain’t gonna come!” Cause I can see what’s in your heart!
We are walking around living a life of what we can be as a shadow of a nation. We are happy with the smallest of things. We think we have made it. G-d says “you’re watching it (on your iPhone) do you have any idea what you once had. Do you have any idea what’s in store for you? Do you know what it’s like to have Me in this world?! That’s why we are on the floor. Tisha BAv is for one thing. RATZON. What am I playing for in my life? I’m fine being mediocre. I’m fine being comfortable. I want geula. I want it all. I want YOU.
What is Hashem asking for? Not much. He is asking fo everything. He is asking for a few Jews to spend one day of their lives STOPPING TO FAKE IT. TO GET REAL ONCE. STOP PRETENDING WHAT WE REALLY WANT IS HIM.
What we really want is to be comfortable
Dig into your heart and say “I want more! Cause if we did want more, he’d bring it all.”
Nesivos Shalom writes: After chevlei Moshiach (which he says we have already gone through). We are in it… These pains of Moshiach, we now are worthy of yeshua/ geula. We are worthy to have Hashem her RAK except, Hashem is waiting for us to be mekayim the mitzvah of “I WANT IT”Tzipisa lyeshua means I am waiting for you, G-d. I want more people to know who you are. I want the world to accept you.
I AM BUILDING A TAMBOURINE! Because the continuation of yeshua. The way we bring it now is just WANTING IT. WE MADE IT. HISTORY IS FINISHED! WE ARE AT THE GOAL LINE. All we need to do is knock on the door.
The greatest thing the yetzer Hara does now to mebalbel / to confuse us, to bring our hearts down. The yetzer Hara says “they are ready to go! How am I going to stop them!?” They’ve done everything. How much more Torah, there’s kosher food everywhere, we can fly to Eretz Yisrael. We are there! We are at the goal line.
The Yetzer Hara works overtime on one thing: GETTING US TO NOT WANT IT! CAUSE IF WE DONT WANT IT, IT CANT COME. The entire effort now is to weaken us. To MAKE US FEEL COMFORTABLE. To allow us to want to just not be killed.. to allow us to want to be a little more comfortable. He put is right back to where we were (in the midbar, almost crossing into Eretz Yisrael). WE ARE RIGHT BACK WHERE WE STARTED.
ITS TIME NOW!!!! All that’s left are the NASHIM TZIDKANIOS, not the females in their bodies, the females in what they uncovered. What’s left is for us to get real. to stop faking it. To dig into our hearts and say IM NOT SETTLING ANYMORE. I’M DONE. I’M NOT DAVENING ANYMORE FOR ANOTHER “THIS”. I’m done saying can you give me a few more dollars! Come on… I’m Davening for YOU and geula. I want the whole world to know you! I want the whole world to be peaceful. I want it all. CAN YOU IMAGINE IF WE CAN BE THESE PEOPLE!
REAL PEOPLE. If we can step out of our shells of comfort, beat this Yetzer Hara called WESTERN CIVILIZATION (the best civilization ever) that beats us into a world where our goal in life is a couple more square feet!
The goal in life is to get something that someone else has. Can you imagine if we were those types of Jews that said in our core, “What do I want?” Everything. I want geula. And Im not going to stop crying, because guess what, G-d, I’m not giving up. Bring geula, or you’ll hear me kvetching till I die. That’s what it means to be a Jew. That’s what our nation needs. A FEW GOOD JEWS.
My bracha, Tehilla, and greatest hope is that
I DON’T DIE IN A GENERATION WHERE WE COULD HAVE HAD GEULA, BUT WE ARE JUST SO HAPPY WITH A LITTLE COMFORT. What a waste!
Could you imagine if we get up to shamayim and G-d says, “You could’ve lived in a time of geula and YOU SETTLED FOR A FEW MORE DOLLARS! You settled for your family getting Shidduchim, when everyone in the world could’ve found their one. IF YOU JUST WOULD’VE ASKED ME FOR IT WITH A LITTLE BIT OF HEART?! YOUR’RE SO HAPPY TO BE COMFORTABLE WHEN I BUILT YOU WITH THE ABILITY TO BE GREAT!!!
WHERE’S YOUR TAMBORINE! YOU’RE A JEW! THIS IS WHO WE COULD BE!
We should have the zchus to be these people. That when we get to shamayim and stand before G-d and can say, “Its not my fault. I gave it to you. Can you imagine your kids being like this. Can you imagine your family being like this? Imagine a family where the kids want something besides more distractions in life, where they want to actually live?
Can you imagine being this person. Thats why we are on the floor!!! Because G-d says, “until you become these people, I am not bringing it.”
Cause any father or any mother knows I WILL NOT LET MY KIDS BE WEAK!!! I WILL DO IT A MILLION TIMES, BECAUSE YOUR STRENGTH IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN YOUR WEAKNESS.
May this TishaBAv that we should stop faking it and start living it. Spend time (forget the bagel, we’ve consumed for food this past shabbos than people consumed in the Holocaust) we have a few more hours to spend a few minutes with ourselves to make sure this fast does not end until we are at least 1% more RATZON FOR GEULA. And we are promised that we are going to be the ones to draw the GEULA, may it come in our days bimheira byameinu. Amein