Beit Midrash
- Shabbat and Holidays
- The Three Weeks
- The 17th of Tamuz
In other words, it was precisely the breaking of the first tablets that allowed the forces of the Oral Torah to be manifest. A great disaster that extinguishes the sun, makes it possible to see the light of the stars.
In meetings with groups around the country, I ask people to try to define for themselves benefits that have grown in their lives in the last ten months since the outbreak of the war. The answers amaze me time and time again: from those whose economic or social situation was positively affected by the war; to the previously unimagined resilience that families and couples found within themselves; through the people for whom long reserve service defined for them and their families a connection to something great and meaningful.
We are not asking for the tablets to be broken; we are fasting on Shiva Asar b'Tamuz to atone for this. But in retrospect, out of the pain, the second set of tablets emerge.
The bad will pass
The good will prevail
With God's help.
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