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0:01 Defense three weeks of 17th of Thomas the mission of Messiah's time is goes through all of the events, the tragic events which unfolded on this day. 0:09 But most notably, today was the day in which the walls of Yerushalayim were breached. 0:15 And that began a three-week downward spiral ultimately again till we get to the 9th of Av when the Beit Hamikdash itself was destroyed. 0:24 This is the beginning of this tragic journey. 0:26 I'll just point out something amazing. 0:28 You know, walls do two things. 0:31 Walls on one hand protect. 0:33 And obviously again, the breaching of the walls of Yerushalayim represented the fact that the city was breached. 0:38 And once the city was breached, it opened the door, opened the walls to catastrophic destruction. 0:44 But walls also sometimes could be limited. 0:47 And when there's a breach in a wall, there's an opportunity for expansion as well. 0:53 When we go into the three weeks, there are two different hashkafahs, two different mindsets a person can have. 0:59 We can make it three weeks of mourning. 1:01 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 can lose ourselves in the mourning and the sadness. 1:10 Or we can recognize that sometimes when we see the mistakes of our people, it gives us the opportunity to course correct. 1:18 It's no secret what's what went wrong. 1:21 It's no secret again where our historical, national, and individual failures have been. 1:27 We know that. We know that. 1:29 Sinat chinam, baseless hatred, a rupture in our relationship with each other and with Hakadosh Baruch Hu. 1:35 Again, it's not a mystery why things have gone off the rails. 1:39 And when the walls are breached, that represents ultimately again a certain lack of security, but also when walls are breached, it means they can be rebuilt in different ways. 1:48 These three weeks also represent opportunities. 1:51 Opportunities to identify what's gone wrong, and how can we do better going forward? 1:57 Sometimes when you lose something, it gives you the opportunity to figure out a brand new strategy how to regain it. 2:06 Today is the days in which the walls were breached. 2:09 Security of our people, security of our nation, security of our land was compromised. 2:15 But when the walls are breached, it offer also offers us the opportunity to rebuild something else, to reforge something else. 2:23 Where there is loss, there is also opportunity for beautiful gain. 2:29 Where there is loss, there is the opportunity to rebuild. 2:32 Where there is loss, there is the opportunity to figure out how can we do better in the future. 2:38 The three weeks need not be characterized only by mourning. 2:42 Yes, there is an obligation to mourn. 2:44 But there's also an obligation to 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 Slichus, 2:56 we read in Eicha, that when our enemies destroyed the Beis Hamikdash, they went ahead and they plowed over the entire area to make it as if there was no remnant, there was no trace. 3:06 And that's tragic to erase, but on the other hand, what a plowed field also represents is boundless opportunity. 3:13 You could do anything in an empty field. 3:16 You could build anything in an empty field. 3:20 And as we go in to this period of the three weeks, as we go into the Bein Hametzarim, as we go into this painful period for our people, a period of of much conglomerate historical loss, let us also never lose 3:35 sight of the incredible opportunity. 3:37 Cuz when the walls are breached, when the walls come down, when the field has been plowed over, it's heartbreaking. 3:44 But it also sets the stage for unprecedented growth and opportunity. 3:48 Let's use this time to contemplate what we have lost, but also recognize the opportunity to rebuild, the opportunity to recreate both in our personal lives and in our national lives. 4:02 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. 4:14 There is no telling what the journey of the next three weeks could represent. 4:18 And maybe the end of the three weeks journey doesn't end with Tisha B'Av as a day of mourning, but if we use this time constructively, if we use this time properly, then maybe the three-week journey ends in Yerushalayim. 4:33 Maybe the three-week journey ends with a brand new beautiful third Beit Hamikdash. 4:38 Maybe the three-week journey ends with the Melech Hamashiach, with all of Klal Yisrael together, and with a beautiful Geulah which we have waited for for so long. 4:49 May our journey May our journey end that way. 4:53 May it happen in our days. 4:54 Amen.
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