Hey there and welcome back to Take One, the podcast that brings you just one

holy page of Tom with each day.

And on today's stuff, Menachot 53,

we get just what we need in times like these, times of war and uncertainty with so many of

our family members and loved ones in Israel still sitting in shelters and praying for the best.

We get a story, story about divine love and mercy, and it revolves

around a person referred to as the Adid or God's beloved one. Who is he? And why does it matter to us?

To answer that question, we are going to slow things way down, dim the lights, pour ourselves a hot cup of good tea,

and jump right into a segment we love to call,

Slow Jam the Todd.

Ready and away we go.

It was stated above that the verse,

What has my beloved to do in my house, is a reference to Abraham of Vinu.

The Gamara homiletically interprets the complete verse and the one after it.

What has my beloved to do in my house,

seeing that she has performed lewdness with many, and the hallowed flesh is passed from you.

When you do evil, then you rejoice. The Lord called your name a leafy olive tree.

There with good leaf fruit, with the sound of a great tumult, he has kindled fire upon it,

and its branches are broken. Jeremiah 11, verses 15 and 16. Beautiful haunting phrases and the Talmud continues to interpret them. Rabidzhak says, at the time when the first temple was

destroyed, the Holy One, blessed be he, found Abraham standing in the temple.

He said to Abraham, what has my beloved to do in my house? Just like the verse says.

Abraham said to God, I have come over matters concerning my children to discover why God is destroying the temple

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