The Three Weeks: Feeling the Churban and Galus

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

How can we feel the Churban when it comes around every year like part of the schedule? Feelings connect to detail, so we look at the Beis HaMikdash as the place that showed Hashem's closeness to Klal Yisrael, closer than any bond in this world. We learn that this connection is felt, not commanded, and that even golus comes from Hashem's love, to be seen when we look back.

Key points

• The bond of Borei and nivra is closest of all, since the nivra has nothing of its own.
• Avraham Avinu found the place of the Mikdash at the Akeidah, giving up his only son for love of Hashem.
• The Arizal said that since the Churban, Hashem had no such nachas ruach as from a simple Yid's lechem hapanim.
• The Torah gives no instruction to build the Beis HaMikdash, because a real connection must be felt.
• The Tzlach reads the Gemara: after Moshiach, we will say hatov v'hameitiv on the tragedies of golus.

In this shiur

1. 0:00Connecting to the Churban through detail
2. 2:44The bond of Borei and nivra
3. 6:58Beis HaMikdash as Hashem's closeness
4. 8:58The Akeidah and the Mikdash
5. 12:52The Arizal and the lechem hapanim
6. 19:22Dovid HaMelech's feeling for the Mikdash
7. 25:50Golus built on Hashem's love
8. 29:00The Tzlach on hatov v'hameitiv

Topics

• Churban
• Beis HaMikdash
• Tisha B'Av
• Golus