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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
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Moreshet Shaul Hashem Is your Shadow – part I
Based on Siach Shaul, Pirkei Machshava V’Hadracha p. 420 – an address from 1941
P'ninat Mishpat A Non-Contractor in Changing Times – part I
(based on ruling 85128 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts)
Moreshet Shaul Our King on Rosh Hashana, Our Father on Yom Kippur.
Based on Aroch Siach, p. 221 (Rav Shaul Yisraeli)
P'ninat Mishpat A Non-Contractor in Changing Times – part II
(based on ruling 85128 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts)
Moreshet Shaul Hashem Is your Shadow – part II
Based on Siach Shaul, Pirkei Machshava V’Hadracha p. 420 – an address from 1941
Parashat Hashavua Happiness for the Right Reasons
[With painful longing, we share these divrei Torah from our co-Rosh Kollel for close to 40 years, Harav Moshe Ehrenreich zt”l.]
