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Hashem is in More Pain than us

We begin tisha bav with those words. How could it be? How can you Hashem leave us allalone? Generally have an overwhelming sense of loneliness. The feels theloneliness.

Widows have been heard to say " how can he leave me

this way.

There is a feeling that Hashem has left us. If we live in a place of depth and not skimming

the surface when it comes to tisha bav we feel a sense of loneliness that Hashem has

forgotten us.

What is the simple meaning ofam yisroel with a beis hamikdash as opposed to without;Not just a difference inHalacha. What's pshat?

Rav Mattel Zilber says . It is . When one walked into the makom you

would FEEL the presence of Hashem. In a very real way the immeasurable love Hashem

has for us. It didnt matter on the type of person you were you automatically felt the

presence of Hashem. When they would hear the music of the all the hidden kochos,

the would explode. Not possible for us to understand. Only a person who was

there can comprehend.

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Everybody who lived there saw it.

We keep asking . We say bring back the ahavas tzion.Bring back the bris of love. We shouldn't feel forgotten. When there was aBeis Hamikdashwe understood the songs ofDavid Hamelech. In theBeis Hamikdash a simple Jew had anahavas olam.

Tisha Bav meansgalenu martzenu, vnisrachaknu. Hebrew grammar tells us it was us whobecame distant.

Inyan ofchurban an andgalus. By the rivers of bavel. Chazal say that Nebuchadnezzarstarted to scream at leviyim sing songs of Zion. A goy could understand this? Such songscan only be appreciated by all Yisroel. Feel the fire of ahavas olam.

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Nebuchadnezzar wanted to hear the songs of the leviim from theBeis Hamikdash becauseeven to their filthy ears the songs were famous.Leviim began to cry '

.TheLeviim cut off their fingertips. (Keep in mind these are the same Jews whobrought the Churban.) The only place they could sing these songs which is theBeisHamikdash. Place of intimacy between Hashem and klal Yisrael. While the blood flowinginto the river of Bavel they asked .Wasn't about the talentedmusician etc. was clear they can't sing the songs again until back in

What is the shoresh; The beginning? Avraham Avinu was called Avraham ohavi; the onewho loves me. He was the first one to feel the love. When he took his son YitzchacAsher

ahavata. Take the inner point of his heart. All of the love of all of history is what Avrahamfelt for Yitzchak.1The Shevet Sofer asked the Divrei Chaim " how is it that everybodygoes to the Radziner when you are greater in learning than him?" Divrei Chaim said thereare two mountains.Har Sinia and Har Hamoriah. The Torah is given at Sinia but after theTorah was given the Shechina left. But there is another mountain, which the Shchina neverleft . Divrei Chaim says true its possible that I know more Torah but the mountain inYerushalayim is a place where a sacrifice was made. The Radziner lives in that place ofmesiras nefesh ofAhavas Hashem. Chazal tell us the angles began to cry and Yitzchakissac couldn't see this world anymore bc the angles couldnt believe that there is such aplace ofahavas Hashem. Avraham took what he loves more than anything else tosacrifice? Ever since that day the makom hamikdash is filled with love and al tischkachlnetzach. Even today we can feel there is something different.

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1Once when the holy Divrei Chaim of Tzanz ZYA returned from a trip to his Rebbe, Rebbe Yisroel of RizhinZYA, the son of the Chasam Sofer, Rabbi Shimon Sofer, asked him why he travels to Rizhin. After all, theDivrei Chaim was a tremendous Torah scholar. Rabbi Shimon Sofer could not fathom why the Divrei Chaimwould need a Rebbe. Rabbi Shimon Sofer, himself, did not travel to the Tzadikim of his generation for thisvery reason.

The Divrei Chaim responded that there are two mountains of importance in Judaism, Har Sinai and HarHamoriah. Har Sinai represents the Torah and Har Hamoriah represents the sacrifice of Yitzchok. Onemight think that the Bais Hamikdosh should have been positioned on Har Sinai in order to honor the Torah.Yet, Hashem chose Har Hamoriah, the mountain of sacrifice, to establish His Bais Hamikdosh.Emphatically, the Divrei Chaim concluded by saying, Now, when I saw the way Rebbe Yisroel of Rizhinsacrifices his every motion for the honor of Hashem. I reasoned that I am Har Sinai, an erudite Torahscholar. However, Rebbe Yisroel of Rizhin is a Har Hamoriah; his sacrifice for Judaism is exemplary.

Hashems holy presence, therefore, resides upon this holy Tzadik.

Taken fromhttp://www.skolyatorah.com/parshas-hashavuah.php

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The song of Yerushalayim is no longer heard. Chascha einenu. We don't have palaceanymore to see clearly. Hard for us to hear this. Rebbe says not a drasha. We are talking inpshatalone. The Medrash says Egyptians hated us but we didn't feel lonely. hatedus but we didn't fell bad but when we felt that you Hashem don't care for us than we feellonely. Eicha yeshiva badad. The nations hate us we aren't surprised. Even in Bulgaria they

found us. We can sovel that the goyim hate us but not that you hate us Hashem. yourhatered we can't be sovel. Rebbe gives example of a bully in school. Feel like you couldn'tgo on when people exclude you. No matter how bad the day was as long as you had a hometo go to. ( Rebbe discussed with his family what was it like not to have a home. Hisparentsgrew up like that) means alone. Homeless. Terrible when kids don't have it.Terrible when nation doesn't have it.

What do we do about loneliness? Jewish poet Uri Greenberg came from a chasideshehome. He wrote a poem called Levi yitzchak is standing at the Ketz. He was demandinga tshuva from above. Uri greenberg was imagining Levi Yitzchok right after the holocaust.Ribinon shel olam I am in a world and may be the only Jew left. The whole world is only

goy. Yehudim are all buried. And me Levi Yitzchok there is no greater sadness than this.What was sadness? No more Shbbos , yom tov, Shachris, no more Tallis and Tfilli , time isfinished there won't be more Jews to wash from the water of the well for motzi. Crumbs Togive to birds. No more songs. In summary saying I am lonely but the one who is lonelierthan me and that is you, Hashem. This world is now only goyyim. I will keep on crying asmuch as a heart can cry He then says I refuse to accept that my blood will continue to flowlike this. Galus where bodies stay on fire will not continue. We won't be Ashes on the field.I Levi Yitzchak demand an answer. Answer me where is this all going? Hashem tell theJewish people demand an answer. 2

With the pain of Tish Bav Hashem is in more pain than us. If he cant live like that thanwe have the right to daven for an answer from above. The ultimate Should come in a wayofrachamim.

2 Very powerful poem. It can be found in Hebrew here. http://www.uri-zvi-greenberg.org/negohot/peled_tziona.htm

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