{"id":56337,"date":"2024-08-12T15:15:01","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T15:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/?p=56337"},"modified":"2024-08-12T15:15:59","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T15:15:59","slug":"are-we-ready-to-answer-yes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/are-we-ready-to-answer-yes\/","title":{"rendered":"Are We Ready to Answer &#8220;Yes&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span dir=\"RTL\">\u05d0\u05ea \u05e6\u05de\u05d7 \u05d3\u05d5\u05d3 \u05e2\u05d1\u05d3\u05da \u05de\u05d4\u05e8\u05d4 \u05ea\u05e6\u05de\u05d9\u05d7, \u05d5\u05e7\u05e8\u05e0\u05d5 \u05ea\u05e8\u05d5\u05dd \u05d1\u05d9\u05e9\u05d5\u05e2\u05ea\u05da, \u05db\u05d9 \u05dc\u05d9\u05e9\u05d5\u05e2\u05ea\u05da \u05e7\u05d5\u05d9\u05e0\u05d5 \u05db\u05dc \u05d4\u05d9\u05d5\u05dd<\/span><br \/>\nThe offspring of your servant David may You speedily cause to flourish, and enhance his pride through Your salvation, for we hope for Your salvation all day long<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>Torah,\u00a0<em>baruch Hashem<\/em>, has flourished to amazing heights, and though many do struggle financially, compared to earlier times most here in America are \u201cwealthy\u201d on a relative basis.\u00a0 We have never had the\u00a0<em>Beis HaMikdash<\/em>\u00a0in our time.\u00a0 We really don\u2019t know or appreciate what the\u00a0<em>g\u2019ulah<\/em>\u00a0will look like.\u00a0 How can we long for and anxiously await the\u00a0<em>y\u2019shuah<\/em>\u00a0and be emotional enough to even cry over Yerushalayim, the\u00a0<em>Beis HaMikdash<\/em>, and the\u00a0<em>y\u2019shuah<\/em>\u00a0if we are so distant from it? \u00a0Do we feel we are lacking so much that we are brought to tears?\u00a0 So what are we missing and why should we be \u201cshedding an endless stream of bitter tears\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>Rabbi Yisroel Reisman in \u201cWhy We Weep\u201d (a collection of essays by various\u00a0<em>rabbanim<\/em>, which is, in my opinion, a must-have for the Three Weeks and Tish\u2019ah B\u2019Av) cites the Gemara in\u00a0<em>Z\u2019vachim<\/em>\u00a0(24a), which credits David HaMelech for building the\u00a0<em>Beis HaMikdash<\/em>.\u00a0 The obvious question that\u00a0<em>Tosafos<\/em>\u00a0asks is that we know that David\u2019s son, Shlomo HaMelech, actually is the one who built the\u00a0<em>Beis HaMikdash<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0<em>Tosafos<\/em>\u00a0answers that the Gemara meant that David is the one who gave the\u00a0<em>Beis HaMikdash<\/em>\u00a0its\u00a0<em>k\u2019dushah<\/em>.\u00a0 What does that mean?<\/p>\n<p>Shlomo built and gave\u00a0<em>k\u2019dushah<\/em>\u00a0to the physical\u00a0<em>Beis HaMikdash<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 the wood, stones, gold, silver, etc.\u00a0 But David is the heart and soul of the\u00a0<em>Beis HaMikdash<\/em>\u00a0(and of\u00a0<em>klal Yisrael<\/em>); he had the\u00a0<span dir=\"RTL\">\u05d7\u05e9\u05e7<\/span>\u2013<em>cheishek<\/em>\u00a0and the\u00a0<span dir=\"RTL\">\u05ea\u05e9\u05d5\u05e7\u05d4<\/span>\u2013<em>t\u2019shukah<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 the desire and yearning \u2013 forming the\u00a0<span dir=\"RTL\">\u05e4\u05e0\u05d9\u05de\u05d9\u05d5\u05ea<\/span>\u2013<em>p\u2019nimiyus<\/em>\u00a0of the\u00a0<em>Beis HaMikdash<\/em>.\u00a0 He raised money and did whatever he could, even though he knew he would not be the one to actually build the physical structure.\u00a0 The essence of the\u00a0<em>Beis HaMikdash<\/em>\u00a0was not the physical structure, but rather the\u00a0<span dir=\"RTL\">\u05e4\u05e0\u05d9\u05de\u05d9\u05d5\u05ea<\/span>, the heart and soul that came from David HaMelech\u2019s great\u00a0<span dir=\"RTL\">\u05e8\u05e6\u05d5\u05df<\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0<span dir=\"RTL\">\u05ea\u05e9\u05d5\u05e7\u05d4<\/span>.\u00a0 The\u00a0<em>Beis HaMikdash<\/em>\u00a0was THE place to go to and connect with Hashem.\u00a0 The desire and longing to connect with Hashem was realized, to the greatest extent possible, in the\u00a0<em>Beis HaMikdash<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The physical structure of the\u00a0<span dir=\"RTL\">\u05d1\u05d9\u05ea \u05e9\u05e0\u05d9<\/span>\u2013<em>Bayis Sheini<\/em>, the Second\u00a0<em>Beis HaMikdash<\/em>, is gone forever.\u00a0 The structure of the\u00a0<em>Bayis Sh\u2019lishi<\/em>, the Third and final\u00a0<em>Beis HaMikdash<\/em>\u00a0will be a different structure.\u00a0 What is still alive? \u00a0It is the\u00a0<span dir=\"RTL\">\u05e4\u05e0\u05d9\u05de\u05d9\u05d5\u05ea<\/span>, the\u00a0<span dir=\"RTL\">\u05d7\u05e9\u05e7<\/span>, the\u00a0<span dir=\"RTL\">\u05ea\u05e9\u05d5\u05e7\u05d4<\/span>, and the\u00a0<span dir=\"RTL\">\u05e8\u05e6\u05d5\u05df<\/span>\u00a0with which, over the generations of this\u00a0<em>galus<\/em>, we have wept for the\u00a0<em>Bayis Sh\u2019lishi<\/em>.\u00a0 Through our heart and tears, we are rebuilding the\u00a0<span dir=\"RTL\">\u05e4\u05e0\u05d9\u05de\u05d9\u05d5\u05ea<\/span>\u00a0of the\u00a0<em>Beis HaMikdash<\/em>.\u00a0 It is the inner yearning to connect on a closer level to our Creator for which we weep.\u00a0 This desire and yearning to connect on a closer level is what we must rebuild within ourselves.\u00a0 \u201c<span dir=\"RTL\">\u05db\u05d9 \u05dc\u05d9\u05e9\u05d5\u05e2\u05ea\u05da \u05e7\u05d5\u05d9\u05e0\u05d5 \u05db\u05dc \u05d4\u05d9\u05d5\u05dd<\/span>\u201d is our daily opportunity to work on this inner desire and be able to sincerely answer the\u00a0<em>Tzipisa<\/em>\u00a0question with \u201cYES, I did anxiously wait for and long for the rebuilding of the\u00a0<span dir=\"RTL\">\u05e4\u05e0\u05d9\u05de\u05d9\u05d5\u05ea<\/span>\u00a0and physical\u00a0<em>Bayis Sh\u2019lishi<\/em>, where we will,\u00a0<em>b\u2019ezras Hashem<\/em>, experience the ultimate closeness with Hashem.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps we can now appreciate to a greater extent the advice of the\u00a0<em>Yaaros Devash<\/em>\u00a0to shed an endless stream of bitter tears while reciting the\u00a0<em>brachos<\/em>\u00a0of \u201c<span dir=\"RTL\">\u05d1\u05d5\u05e0\u05d4 \u05d9\u05e8\u05d5\u05e9\u05dc\u05d9\u05dd<\/span>\u201d and \u201c<span dir=\"RTL\">\u05d0\u05ea \u05e6\u05de\u05d7<\/span>\u201d (<em>Yaaros Devash<\/em>, mentioned by HaRav Avrohom Chaim Feuer in \u201c<em>Shemoneh Esrei<\/em>,\u201d ArtScroll\/Mesorah).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u05d0\u05ea \u05e6\u05de\u05d7 \u05d3\u05d5\u05d3 \u05e2\u05d1\u05d3\u05da \u05de\u05d4\u05e8\u05d4 \u05ea\u05e6\u05de\u05d9\u05d7, \u05d5\u05e7\u05e8\u05e0\u05d5 \u05ea\u05e8\u05d5\u05dd \u05d1\u05d9\u05e9\u05d5\u05e2\u05ea\u05da, \u05db\u05d9 \u05dc\u05d9\u05e9\u05d5\u05e2\u05ea\u05da \u05e7\u05d5\u05d9\u05e0\u05d5 \u05db\u05dc \u05d4\u05d9\u05d5\u05dd The offspring of your servant David may You speedily cause to flourish, and enhance his pride through Your salvation, for we hope for Your salvation all day long ***** Torah,\u00a0baruch Hashem, has flourished to amazing heights, and though many do struggle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133662,"featured_media":56339,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[360],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fast-of-tisha-bav"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Are We Ready to Answer &quot;Yes&quot;? 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