On Tisha B’Av we were expelled from our Father’s home. It’s not just the Holy Temple that we mourn. We grieve for ourselves, for our people, for our mighty connection to all that was sacred and now lost.
Mourning for our Temple means that we feel that something is missing, something is just not as it should be. We feel the solitude, the loneliness, the heartache of being a Jew in the world today. We have been scattered around the four corners of the earth and taken into exile. And though we may have settled in our countries and made vibrant Jewish lives we are really spiritually homeless. We are lacking the Beit Hamikdash and H”S Glory.
May we mourn what once was and pray fervently to regain what was lost.
Tonight let’s fast for twenty five hours, let’s get into the mood of the day, don’t use leather shoes, don’t take baths, sit in low chairs, read the book of Eichah (Lamentations) and let’s pray that our fasting should turn into feasting.
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