I found this article very good for Tisha B’Av .
(Quoting Section of article)
If only we felt the simple pain of not saying hello to each other and internalized the meaning of this mournful act, perhaps we would then be more careful to warmly and lovingly greet each other and not hurt each other.
With no Temple, we have lost touch with the presence of G-d within the world and within each other. This is the real tragedy for which we mourn. The more we understand this spiritual loss the more we appreciate the enormous significance of the Temple to the Jewish people and the intense pain of living without it.
We did not simply lose a great work of architecture. The Temple reminded us that we are the living sanctuary for the presence of G-d on earth— G-d is manifest within us and within the world. When we lost touch with this fundamental truth about ourselves, each other and G-d, we lost the Temple.
Therefore, on Tisha B’Av, we do not cry over real estate but over the real and sad state of the world.
The Oral tradition teaches that when the enemies destroyed the Temple, G-d told them that they only destroyed a building already in ruins. The Temple was really the externalization of our inner awareness; our spiritual orientation to our selves, each other and G- d. When we spiritually destroyed our selves and denied the presence of G-d within our selves and within each other, the external manifestation—the building— had no meaning. Therefore, since what the Temple represented was no longer a true reflection of the spiritual level of the people, it had to be destroyed. The Temple could not remain standing once it lost the meaning for what it stood.
On Tisha B’Av we celebrate our pain by transforming it into spiritual cravings and yearnings for the restoration of the Temple and everything it stands for.
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My Note:
Tisha B’Av one day will be filled with joy, and celebration and food. It will be the time when the Messianic era has broken forth. It will be a time when there will be true peace (Shalom) in the world, there will be no more violence, no more war. No more sin… With no more sin,which will mean that all diseases will stop, things will come to the the fulfillment of what the Prophets of the TaNak have spoken of.
Read Isiah Chapters 40 to the end of the book of Isaiah. This is the “Comfort my people” . Many of these prophecies have not been filled or fulfilled yet. The book of Ezekiel with chapter 40 has the building of the 3rd temple.
The number 40 is a “Completion” number.
So much to be said for this date, but not enough time to fit it all in one post.
miryamdevorah 