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0:01 Dear friends, today is Shivasamos, 17th of the Mishna Mase Tinus goes through all of the events, the tragic events which unfolded on this day. But most notably, today was the day in which the walls of Shalim were breached and that began a 3-w weekek downward spiral ultimately again till we get to the 9th of A when the Ba Mikdosh itself was destroyed. 0:24 This is the beginning of this tragic journey. But I'll just point out something amazing. You know walls do two things. Walls on one hand protect and obviously again the breaching of the walls of yushim represented the fact that the city was breached and once the city was breached it opened the door open the walls catastrophic destruction but walls also sometimes could be 0:46 limited and when there's a breach in a wall there's an opportunity for expansion as well. When we go into the three weeks, there are two different tashkafas, two different mindsets a person can have. We can make it three weeks of mourning and we can make it three weeks in which we reflect on everything that went wrong, everything that's just unfolded for our people and we could lose ourselves in the morning 1:08 and the sadness or we could recognize that sometimes when we see the mistakes of our people, it gives us the opportunity to course correct. It's no secret what's what went wrong. It's no secret again where our historical national and individual failures have been. We know that. We know that baseless hatred a rupture in our 1:33 relationship with each other and with again it's not a mystery why things have gone off the rails and when the walls are breached that represents ultimately again a certain lack of security but also when walls are breached it means they could be rebuilt in different ways. These three weeks also represent opportunities. Opportunities to identify what's gone wrong and how can we do better going forward. Sometimes when you 1:58 lose something, it gives you the opportunity to figure out a brand new strategy how to regain it. Today is the days in which the walls were breached. Security of our people, security of our nation, security of our land was compromised. But when the walls are breached, it offer also offers us the opportunity to rebuild something else to 2:21 reforge something else. Where there is loss, there is also opportunity for beautiful gain. Where there is loss, there is the opportunity to rebuild. Where there is loss, there's the opportunity to figure out how can we do better in the future. The three weeks need not be characterized only by mourning. Yes, there is an obligation to mourn, but there's also an obligation to 2:46 take a step back and to figure out, okay, now that the walls have been breached now that the walls came down, now that all has been lost, you know, again, like we read in we read in that when our enemies destroyed the base, they went ahead and they plowed over the entire area to make it as if there was no remnant, there was no strace and that's tragic to erase. But on the other hand, what a plowed field also 3:10 represents is boundless opportunity. You could do anything in an empty field. You could build anything in an empty field. And as we go in to this period of the three weeks, as we go into the bayard, as we go into this painful period for our people, a period of of much conglomerate historical loss, 3:34 let us also never lose sight of the incredible opportunity. Cuz when the walls are breached, when the walls come down, when the field has been plowed over, it's heartbreaking. But it also sets the stage for unprecedented growth and opportunity. Let's lo use this time to contemplate what we have lost, but also recognize the opportunity to rebuild, the opportunity to recreate 3:58 both in our personal lives and in our national lives. And if we use these three weeks not only to mourn which has been lost, but to really create a plan for what we can build, then there is no telling the incredible potential that these weeks ahead hold. There is no telling what the journey of the next three weeks could represent. And maybe the end of the three weeks journey 4:21 doesn't end with tishabove as a day of mourning. But if we use this time constructively, if we use this time properly, then maybe the 3-week journey ends in maybe the 3-w weekek journey ends with a brand new beautiful third bdash. 4:38 Maybe the 3-w weekek journey ends with the Melik Mashiach with all of Cloud Israel together and with the beautiful gula which we have waited for for so long. May our journey end that way. 4:54 Amen.
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