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The verse in the Book of Lamentations summarizes the purpose of the scroll: "What shall a living person bemoan? For their sins!" (3,39). A living person, unlike the dead, is supposed to complain about only one thing: "For their sins!". The purpose of mourning is to take responsibility for past sins and to mend the future. A position of faith and hope.
There are two stances when taking responsibility; crying and whining. The gauge is very simple: whether one is preoccupied with their own personal responsibility or busy placing responsibility on the other ("You are the head. You are guilty").
We have no certainty whether the actual Temple will be built on Tisha B'Av 2024, but we are certain that every personal and public correction, every tear and every prayer builds another stone in the Temple in our heart; and from all these stones, the Temple will be built.
Have a healing fast. Have a consoling fast.
The bad will pass
The good will prevail
With God's help.
Rabbi Haggai Lundin
Family and Society There Will Not Be A Civil War!
(Told to the students of the Hesder Yeshiva in Holon)
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Various Events FOR WHOM NOT TO VOTE
Rav Zvi Yehuda Kook stressed that Israeli politics is G-dly, so I have no problem answering this common question on a Torani blog. Also, Free-Will is a G-d-given right and obligation, to "destine one's fate" (R. Soloveichik, Kol Dodi Dofek, 67), so I obviously don't tell others how to vote. But once not a few (especially young) have already asked, a couple of personal words from experience and thoughts from chazal & Rav Kook which may be of help to others, mainly for whom NOT to vote.
P'ninat Mishpat Fallout from Failure to Install Elevator – part II
based on ruling 85007 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts
