Yesterday was a beautiful day! I'm sure there is some pop culture song which is barely at the edge of my memory that I cannot remember but it was...take my word for it and the best part was... it was Tish B'av and we were happy and feasting on delicious food, sweets, good wine and good times.
When Tish B'av falls on Shabbos... we are given a preview, like in the movies, of what Geulah is all about. No fasting, no mourning, no sadness and no tears... only tears of joy and happiness.
Everything is turned upside down ...the way they do that in camp "topsy turvy day" I think they call it... upside down... on Shabbos we are not allowed to mourn for the dead...not on Tish B'av and not while sitting shiva. It is erased as if it did not exist.
A taste of the ultimate redemption. A preview of the what it will be like. A taste of things to come. A taste of chocolate and wine and challah and an array of delights that were set on the table, elegantly set with lace table clothes and Shabbos silver... roses on the mantel and happy faces everywhere you looked.
This is what is it is all about... nothing can better explain that.
The sadness of the holiday of Tish B'av erased and changed over to a holiday of joy. And, if you can't imagine that... then remember what this past Shabbos was like and use that as your blueprint for how your new life should be.
People fast today, it is a fast that was put off...not the real day. It's a pretend day for many, we pretend it is Tish B'av as yesterday we were forbidden to fast and we were forbidden to mourn. Pretend today all you like, but remember.... in the same way we feasted yesterday...so should we continue to feast and the Golus should be permanently over, erased and replaced instead by joy, happiness and eternal life... complete with the reawakening of the dead.
You want to really rebuild the Beis HaMikdash? The first start is to seeing it come to life in your head, in your mind so that it is not a distant memory in your genes nor just a picture in history books. Spend some time today meditating a bit on the picture above and picture yourself going into the Holy Temple. There is something wonderfully 3 dimensional about this image... your eyes are drawn inwards.... it almost comes alive and jumps off the page and into your heart and soul.
A link is going around today on Facebook...
"If you will it, it is no dream"
Don't just sit around wishing it was true, make it true. Do a mitzvah, help another person, give charity, learn more ...do more... make it happen!
A really beautiful video to watch and enjoy, inspiring and so very true...the children are ready, are you?
http://redemptionwatch.blogspot.com/2012/07/tisha-bav-children-are-ready.html?spref=fb
And, remember yesterday and the joy of sitting at your Shabbos table with your friends and family and may that me a constant reminder that we should do that every year and Golus is but a bad dream and Geulah IS a reality!
B"H
ReplyDeleteHow inspiring. As we are in the days of Moshiach, let's look forward, not back. We're going to a wedding....the wedding of Hashem and the Jewish people. Let's not go to the chuppah with an attitude of mourning. Let's prepare appropriately with happiness.