Another year we sit on the floor again if mashiach does not arrive.
Chazal say:
כל המתאבל על ירושלים - זוכה ורואה בשמחתה. ושאינו מתאבל על ירושלים - אינו רואה בשמחתה
Hopefully this will be the last tisha B'av we have. We await the geula and hope for the day to become a moed speedily in our days. It should be the last Tisha B'av because we don't know what to mourn and how to mourn.
Unfortunately we are at a time in history that the sad day of Tisha Bav is sadly no more. Sitting on the floor reading the kinnus in shul is not what the children are growing up with today. The day has been taken over and abused.
Ask a kid today what they know about Tisha B'av and see what the the first thing that comes to mind is. It has become a movie day of video binge watching, marketers use it as a release date for high end productions, premiers and to at times, to push agendas.
(Modern technology allows us to sit in the comfort of our homes and listen to inspiring shiurim and speeches live streaming online. These programs are not entertaining in nature its a live drasha broadcasted)
The messages in these videos may be sincere in spreading ahavas chinom, the ills of Lashon hora and sinas chinom. Perhaps all this preparation should be done before tisha bav in the days leading up to it so people can utilize the day properly. It should not be a day we look forward to, but as a day we look forward to become a Yom Tov משום דאיקרי מועד
Wow so special
ReplyDeleteMarketers produce whatever sells. If your point resonates with the tzibur (as I humbly believe it should) we should cease buying into the glitz and glamour and daven and yearn חדש ימינו כקדם
ReplyDeletethis is one of the biggest reasons why we’re still in golus today, cause we’re missing the TZIPISA LEYESHUA.
ReplyDeleteHashem says I see no reason why i should give the בית המקדש back to my loving children klal yisroel. Hashem goes to one person sitting in this corner, he has beautiful children he already bought his house he has a car, he’s so happy he’s not grieving over my בית המקדש that’s 1 less person for my בית המקדש. The next person sitting at this corner has beautiful children he loves to learn & has a rich Father-in-law supporting him he’s so happy hes not grieving over my בית המקדש thats 1 less person for my בית המקדש. what is Hashem saying to his Malachim? just look at my children down there look how happy they are i gave them everything cars, planes, computers, Electricity & phones Etc… forget if they are Makir Tov (Grateful) for everything i give them that is not today’s lesson, Let me leave my בית המקדש up in heaven with me when my children cry for it i will give it back to them, but right now look how happy they are. A perfect Mashal would be if a Principal in a Cheder took away a ball from a boy, because he was hitting people with it. If he went to the Principal & said i’m sorry i just want to have fun i won’t hit anyone with it. I give you my word he will give him his ball back. Do you think the Principal needs it? He already has a whole basket of balls sitting in his office. Hashem is waiting for Klal Yisroel to wake up & do תשובה, the gates of תשובה are never closed, the worst kings of Klal Yisroel did תשובה at the end of their life yes, Achav & Menashe look at them, after 30 years of avoda zora Menashe cried & wept out all the way from his heart for teshuva from Hashem & Hashem accepted it WHY? Because he really meant it. Hashem is waiting for Klal Yisroel to do תשובה. Hashem is waiting for the day to put his presence back in this world & bring us back the Bais Hamikdosh but we just don’t seem to be ready.
Agree. All the cheap"We need to moshiach badly"is just that.
ReplyDeleteR' A M put it:More than your expressed desires to Heaven is your activity
Further proof of cheapness that won't get us far masquerading as pious yearning:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/jerusalem/this-tisha-bav-mashiach-we-are-ready/2024/08/12/