Exploring the Spiritual Enigma of Mourning: A Deep Dive into Jewish Heritage and the Significance of Tisha B'Av

How do we cry authentic tears and mourn the loss of a holy temple in which we never witnessed it in its glory? How can we sit on the floor and commiserate with the pain of the Almighty and all that we have lost, if we've never seen the base Habi'hira with its grandeur, we've never been able to see the Kohan Mula V and Bashirah Mula Zimram? How do we connect with something Seemingly that feels so untouchable? Step one it's already important I'd imagine I heard this from a great person that a person should know that it is very hard and a little bit of pressure should be put. It is important, but it is very hard. So to feel inadequate, it's just too hard to therefore feel despondent. That is neither the right of Aida and perhaps should most definitely be refrained from. However, with that being said, any step forward in the connection to what we have lost is probably very valuable in the eyes of Akhada Shpara. And here's one approach. Now, just really kick this idea off. The great Reb Ruvane Leuchter, the main disciple from Reb Shlomo Vova, the great Masha Giyach of the Kharin Levarachah. He told us that, truthfully, there are countless structures and ideas in Khaliyasuril that we are asked to connect to that we cannot touch? How many times are we told to get into our souls? Can't touch the Neshama. You're supposed to connect with the creator of the world. You can't see him or feel him in a very corporeal, practical way. It takes work and this is the job of a Jew to make spiritual concepts in that world into a practical reality. So with this idea maybe it'll add some fuel to the fight to help us really get and visualize the base, amigdash and all that it was. One approach comes from the great alter of Kelm, reb Simchaz, yisul Ziv, whose yard site actually is today. Reb Rukhim would talk ceaselessly about this idea. The alter of Kelm told us that Moshe Rabbeinu, the quintessential Jewish leader, showed one very strong Mida in his climb to greatness. And that small part of the story that we are privy to in Moshe's upbringing Moshe Rabbeinu, growing up in Pharaoh's house See as the Hebrews outside schlepping packages says the verse that Moshe Rabbeinu, he felt very connected to their struggles. He went outside and he saw their pain. He was no, say, be'ol Chaviro. He put their packages on his back. He felt their pain, he felt their anguish. And the measure says quite literally that Moshe Rabbeinu, he actually went outside and to get into their shoes and to feel his fellow's pain. He picked up a package, put it on his back and started to schlep so that he could practically and tangibly feel the pain. The job of a person to make the imaginative, the dim-yon, the concepts that we cannot see into our reality is a job that is all-encompassing Avoda in the life of the Jew. So perhaps the reason that we sit on the floor on Tisha Bov mourning, growing our beards, eating ashes and eggs, singing Eicha in a very somber tune all to set the mood, using items to make it practical. So we should strive to be present to these actions, to let this set the mood, because there's an unbelievable and majestic gift that the Almighty gave us called imagination, and you can literally live in a world In 2023 testifies to this. You can live in a world that is totally fake, but in this case, you can recreate the life of Avrum, yutruch and Ya'kob and recreate in your mind the Holy Harabayah and what it stood for To be nice to the Ayuchhavero. Sometimes it even means to do something practical to fear the ill pain, to feel their pain. Bring packages on your back, like Moshe Rabin, to feel Hashem's pain, this Tisha Bov, and to understand what we have lost, be present and privy to all that we are doing to set the mood and the tone and, as that parochas is taking down from the Yoran Kodesh, then see it and then feel it, and then imagine it, and then visualize it and make these imaginative, superhuman, supernatural, celestial concepts of Ruchnias as practical as we can With this amazing playa called Imagination.