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When we come to Tisha B’Av, now, in 2015, we truly need to ask, Why are we mourning? For Zion is repopulated and the city thronged with people.
Yet when we consider what the presence of the Temple meant 2000 years ago before the destruction we begin to understand what this day of mourning is really about.
“Make for Me a Sanctuary and I will dwell within” ( Exodus 25,8) says the Scripture. The sanctuary in Jerusalem was a living experience of God’s presence within the city and the nation.
Since every human being is considered as a whole world, each one of us needs to embody a sanctuary for God’s living vital presence within ourselves. Yet mostly we don’t experience God’s light as such a reality. Why not? Why did God go? Why is our inner sanctuary not functioning?
These are the questions we need to ask this Tisha B’Av and through our mourning create a desire, a vessel for God’s inner light to shine out form within each and everyone of us. Thus fulfilling the dictum of the Sages, ” All who mourn for Jerusalem will merit to witness her joy.”
This podcast is based on the teachings of Rabbi Baruch Ashlag Sefer Hama’amarim and is dedicated to my mother Chaya bat Sara for a Refuah Shlemah
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