The Reason We are in Exile
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1:39Sex crimes and murder. But 70 years later, Hashem built the Beit Hamikdash again. This means that Am Yisrael did teshuva. 70 years later, we did teshuva, and we got the Beit Hamikdash back. Because if we didn't do Teshuva, Hashem wouldn't have built the Beit HaMikdash. The second Beit HaMikdash was destroyed, and Hashem hasn't rebuilt it for over 2,000 years. For what? What they call baseless hatred—hating for no reason. hating for the wrong reason, hating more than justified, which the Chachamim explain in different ways. Some say it's hating because of lashon hara, some say it's hating because of lack of rebuke. You see your friend sinning and you don't say anything. But most importantly, the common denominator is...
3:04Among all of the Chachamim that discuss this, baseless hatred is often exercised with our mouth. We cannot control our speech; we say foolish things and we say the wrong things. We have a very, very difficult time humbling ourselves when we make a mistake and saying, "I'm sorry." Two thousand years. Two thousand years. Two thousand years, we still haven't done teshuvah for one thing. Murder, we did teshuvah.
4:04Rape, we did Teshuvah. We did Teshuvah. We did Teshuvah. All the things that we did in the first Beit HaMikdash, we did Teshuvah. Seventy years later, Hashem brought the Beit HaMikdash. But 2,000 years, we cannot fix our mouth. 2,000 years, we cannot fix our mouth. Imagine. Why? Why? Why can't we fix a few words that come out of our mouths every day? Because it requires humility. Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi says in Gemara Masechet Megillah, page 18a, slander—saying bad things about anybody, regardless of whether they know Torah a little bit or a lot, as long as they're a kosher Jew.
5:06Saying bad things about them is as if you have violated the entire Five Books of Moses, meaning you have just violated the entire Torah. Kal v'chomer, needless to say, if the person is a mezakeh harabim, if the person is a kosher Jew that knows Torah, if the person is somebody that cares about Hashem's children. More importantly, rabotai yekarim... Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi says that if saying one word was worth a gold coin, in Shamayim, they'll give you two gold coins for saying nothing.
