How the Missing Beis Hamikdash Fuels Today's Tragedies—and the Blueprint to Demand It Back

The Three Weeks And Loss

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We're back in it's the three weeks. It's the Baina Mitsorim, it's the time when the Jewish people reflect upon the poor decisions that were made that ultimately led to the downfall of the Jewish state, to the downfall of Tsion, to the downfall of the destruction of the base Hamgdash and the exile of the Jewish people. And it hurts to think about because Jewish life requires a base on Mi'gdosh. There's 613 mitzvahs. And I'm pretty sure that if you don't have a base on Migdash, you don't have Sion, you don't have Kohanim, you don't have Carbunos, you don't have Levium, I'm pretty sure that we can't fulfill even around a hundred of them. I think it's about 90 or so that we can actually do. So if we want to be good slaves to God, it takes a temple. And so we cry about what we lost. And we hope to recall the poor choices that we made so that we can unlearn them and then do the right thing to rebuild a Besan Migdash.

A Midrash To Feel Pain

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I want to tell you a medrish about the Khurban Besan Migdash that helps you to feel the pain of it, to help you pray that much harder for the rebuilding of it. It's a medrish in Eich, and it goes as follows: that there was a mother who was the mother of a Ben Tishoras of a young boy, Vamais, and the little boy died. It was a tragedy in the town. And it happened in the same town as Rabban Gamliel. Bengamliel was the one who said after the second of the s after the destruction of the second basal Migdash, Megamliel reinstituted and resat as the sonhedron and opened up the Jewish courts again in the town of Yavneh. So I'm imagining here the measures is happening in the town of Yavna. But Ram Gamliel is sitting in his house, he's learning Torah, and in the next door there's a mother who's crying about the death of her son. When Megamliel hears the crying, began as he heard to hear the crying, he began to recall the destruction of the Besan Migdash. And Vahya Boycha Imal Rabben Gamliel cried together with this sorrowful Jewish mother. They cry together. Sounds like this happened nightly until eventually Rabben Gamliel's eyelashes began to wilt and fall off. And the Talmudim noticed that that was problematic for his health. So Amdu Ufinuoso Mishkenuso, they moved the Jewish lady away from Rabben

The Root Beneath Our Suffering

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Gamliel. But what I want to talk about today is where did Rabben Gamliel see in the sorrowful and tear-filled eyes of a Jewish mother crying about her son? Where did Rabben Gamliel see in that destruction of the Basam Migdash? I always thought that the connection that Rab Gamliel had was that when you feel pain, you want to channel that to the source of Urban Basam Mikdash, and you want to feel bad for about it because this is what incites the pain, but that's not the understanding. Rab Gamliel, what was paining him, what he saw, said Rabbi Lezevnik, is that he understood the root of so much of our pain is from the fact that we don't have a base on Mikdash. Ramzu Baysa Mikdash, the hint that he heard from the mother was that if we had a base on Migdash, we might have the perfect Jewish life so we wouldn't have to suffer like this. We'd have this chusim to get our job done and we wouldn't maybe have to lose children. Rifkam Leo saw that if we had a base on Mikdash, we would have the clarity. We would have the clarity, the mindfulness to see God so the tragedies would be that much more palatable.

What Temple Clarity Looked Like

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But when you don't have a base on Mikdash, when you don't have the clarity of being able to see the smoke rising on top of the misbeach straight up, you don't have the clarity to be able to see the Levium on their steps singing. You don't have the clarity to be able to see the Kohanim doing their avoda. You don't see the miracles of how never the meat never spoiled. The fire, no matter how much it rained and monsooned in absolute torrents, it would not extinguish the fire of the Mizbayak. You don't have the clarity to see the Bash Mi'kdash, so the pain is that much more painful. Because it's harder to comprehend. You dive in for the Besat Mi'gdash because you want to serve Hashem properly, but if you want to feel it, know that if you had a Besan Mi'kdash, you may not have to suffer because you might have that much more of a perfect Jewish life, a perfect Jewish Commonwealth. And if you had a Basan Mi'kdash, even if you did have the pain, even if you couldn't build the business, struggled in Shaduchim, didn't have the child, struggle with raising kids. If you had a base on Migdash, at least you would have been able to see that Hashem's taking care of you and that there's a larger plan here and that there's something going on behind the scenes. But without it, we mourn in darkness. We mourn without a real sense of

Praying For Rebuilding With Focus

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why. So Davin, Davin and Shemona Esra, for the rebuilding of the base on Migdash, so your pain will go away. Davin, Hidur Shalyim Ircha, Davin Ritzei, Davin, Vsechazenah, the parts of Shemona Esra that we often just breeze through. Est Semach David, the flowering of Hashem's commonwealth, Davin, so that you'll have this chosem that you need to be able to not suffer Davin. Because if you had the Bay's H Megdash, you'd have that much more clarity, and the struggling would at least be a little bit more understandable!