# @jacobgzaldin on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2020-07-29T15:14:37.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Jacob Zaldin | יעקב זלדין (@Jacobgzaldin) — https://gondola.cc/Jacobgzaldin

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It all comes back to this place. It looks a little less full this year...

״אם אשכחך ירושלים תשכח ימיני...״

Difficult, sad, and challenging. Those words appear time and time again when discussing the events of the ninth of Av. But how do you picture something you’ve never witnessed being destroyed? How can you mourn something that seems so long ago? Why do we even care? 

Tisha B’av is one of the toughest days on the Jewish calendar. There is so much destruction, so much death, so much torture. From ancient times through the middle ages until the modern-day, the ninth of Av is the main symbol of all the bad things that have befallen the Jewish people. While Tisha B’av is a day to mention the other nations and people who have tried to destroy us, that is not the goal. Tisha B’av is not Jewish history day. It is a day of reflection and introspection. We don’t fast and follow all the restrictions of the day in order to think about others, we do it to think about ourselves. 

One of the main themes of the day is that actions have consequences. There are various times that we discuss this. A good number of the kinos (special lamentations) focus on events that happened between Jews and what lead up to some of the tragedies that we speak about. In the many opinions given as to the reasoning behind the Beit Hamikdash’s  (temple’s) destruction. Those reasons aren’t that the Romans were too strong or the Babylonians were better prepared for battle. We say that it was us, the Jewish people, that brought this destruction on ourselves. Through our actions, and specifically what is known as sinat chinam (baseless hatred), we see just how important it is to do the right thing. 

Tisha B’av is a day of mourning. It is the day we take a look at ourselves and think. What have we done to improve the world? What actions might have been inappropriate and probably shouldn’t have been done? How can we change and become better in the future? By answering those questions we can take a little something out of such a meaningful day.

#koteł #tishabav #fastdayideas #israel #jerusalem

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tishabav, fastdayideas, israel, koteł, jerusalem

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