Erev Tisha B'Av
Today is Erev Tisha B’Av and once again we are facing a war for our right to live peacefully in our homeland. We watch the news and find the whole world condemning us for responding to the kidnapping and murdering of Jews. Having just spent a week in Poland with some of the most terrific Jewish teens in the world I find myself entering this Tisha B’Av with mixed feelings of pride and apprehension.
The feelings of pride are easy to identify. After the Nazis, YM"S, kidnapped so many of our bretheren and slaughtered them, it is a very different story to see our reaction now to three Jewish boys being kidnapped. Despite these feelings of pride, feelings of apprehension still fill me when I ask myself, “When does this end?”
When do we get to be left alone? After 2000 years of exile and persecution when does the world say, “enough” ? This Tisha BAv I will ask the creator to say “enough”. Enough exile, enough persecution, enough suffering, enough lacking a beis hamikdash. May it be His will that THIS year we all go back on the wings of eagles and celebrate on the 9th of Av by rebuilding His home. Amen Kein Yehi Ratzon.
If we don’t rebuild it now, do you think then they will stop hating us and start liking us?
So if not now, when?Posted by grant on 08/03 at 01:36 PMThere will always be those who hate us because it is a spiritual issue. These hate us because of our special relationship with HaShem. Rather than look at their own condition and see what G-d is doing (as many- not all- Christians who support Israel have actually done) it is simply easier to hate us than to look at themselves and where they stand with G-d.
Posted by Aly on 08/19 at 10:54 AMDo you mean just some but not all Christians specifically, or did your meaning imply other groups as well would do well to consider where they stand with G-d?
Posted by grant on 08/21 at 02:05 PMOf course, each person stands before HaShem and indeed would do well to consider where they stand (in this context, I believe how one views Israel and the Jewish people is often a reflection of what is going on in their own heart- again, easier to blame and hate another rather than look at ones’self and deal with the darkness that is there). Given the role of Israel in G-d’s eyes and plan for this world, it is no wonder we are the constant target of many. I mentioned Christians because many are friends to the Jewish people precisely because they get what G-d is doing and they get the spiritual aspect of anti-semitism.
Posted by Aly on 08/30 at 09:56 AM
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