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קטגוריה: Parashat Hashavua

פורסם בשבת, 21 נובמבר 2020 17:15

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9 av - a happy shabbat or not? 9AV - but a happier and holier one?

why did the rabbis ordain that 9 AV on Shabbat be observed the "next day" (called nidcheh or pushed off)?

Since the temple was burning for 2 days they COULD EASILY have said
observe the fast day on "9 or 10 of the month of AV" - rather than 
"observe it on the 9th of Av -
"but if" it's a shabbos ... on the 10th...

So - Here we can see the GREATNESS of our sages -

who were DEVASTATED when the temples were destroyed -
BUT NOT DESTROYED by the devastation!

( the destruction of the temple on 9 AV -

first by the babylonians 586 bce

then by the romans about 70 CE!)

And why not?

Because our Temple stood for both great holiness - and great wisdom - so I'm sharing 2 thoughts from 2 sources.

From my friend Rabbi Brodt who reminds us -
this shabbat is called
Shabbat Chazon -
the shabbat of VISION -
not just prophecy - 
but depth of VISION so we can ALL see G-d's 
HOLY long-term plan for our world.

to make us all HOLIER people

And from the weeklydvar website

he quotes King Solomon
"A conceited fool has no desire
for understanding, but only wants to express his own views (18:2)."

What's the point of a past if we don't learn from it? Let's integrate what we learned from the past
into our future!

So - let's FAST this Tisha Bav -
do deepen our understanding and widen our vision
of what's happening in the world-
and learn from the Sages to
make the world both wiser and holier.

Shabat Shalom from Jerusalem

Rabbi Andy Eichenholz

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