Do they think starting immediately the day after is so much different? The time after is supposed to begin a healing process, it is a time of hope and comfort, wherein we pray that we should be relieved of our sadness and that we don't have to suffer though another Tisha B'av.
This year will be different. This year, I don't expect to feel comforted in any way, shape or form. Regardless of the tactical issues, whether it is in the long run a good idea, my heart will bleed at the site of Jew fighting Jew, Jews being dragged out of their homes, and Jews possibly being harmed or killed, whether by fellow Jews or by Palestinians who choose to ignore the PA and the latest fatwa of a Muslim 'cleric', who said that it is forbidden to harm the disengagement as it is a step towards getting back all Islamic land (which includes, of course, all of Israel).
Lamentations, the scroll read on Tisha B'av starts with the word "Aicha"; How. So I have to ask...How will I be able to be comforted watching Hamas and Islamic Jihad dancing, parading, shouting they have driven the Jews back with the blood and their heroism? How will I be comforted listening to both the GOI and the United States and the Palestinians all figure out how to give or give back more of the Land, how can I be comforted knowing there will be a terror state on the edges of Israel?
Perhaps this will turn out well, and perhaps this will be the last Tisha B'av we have to mourn on. The Prophet Zechariah prophesies that our Fast days will turn to joyous holidays, and we'll hope for that in spite of the expulsion/disengagement, pitifully starting to take place the very day after Tisha B'av.
How Sad
There is something so sad, whatever the arguments pro or con about the disengagement/expulsion, about the edicts given by the GOI to start dragging away those who do not want to leave their homes in Gaza on the day following Tisha B'av. On the holiday, it is appropriate and mandatory to cry for our loss of the Temples, and other tragedies that have befallen us on that day, according to tradition.
Though the GOI "wisely", as I read somewhere, realized that expulsing Jews during the three week semi-mourning period prior to Tisha B'av was insensitive. And now?
Do they think starting immediately the day after is so much different? The time after is supposed to begin a healing process, it is a time of hope and comfort, wherein we pray that we should be relieved of our sadness and that we don't have to suffer though another Tisha B'av.
This year will be different. This year, I don't expect to feel comforted in any way, shape or form. Regardless of the tactical issues, whether it is in the long run a good idea, my heart will bleed at the site of Jew fighting Jew, Jews being dragged out of their homes, and Jews possibly being harmed or killed, whether by fellow Jews or by Palestinians who choose to ignore the PA and the latest fatwa of a Muslim 'cleric', who said that it is forbidden to harm the disengagement as it is a step towards getting back all Islamic land (which includes, of course, all of Israel).
Lamentations, the scroll read on Tisha B'av starts with the word "Aicha"; How. So I have to ask...How will I be able to be comforted watching Hamas and Islamic Jihad dancing, parading, shouting they have driven the Jews back with the blood and their heroism? How will I be comforted listening to both the GOI and the United States and the Palestinians all figure out how to give or give back more of the Land, how can I be comforted knowing there will be a terror state on the edges of Israel?
Perhaps this will turn out well, and perhaps this will be the last Tisha B'av we have to mourn on. The Prophet Zechariah prophesies that our Fast days will turn to joyous holidays, and we'll hope for that in spite of the expulsion/disengagement, pitifully starting to take place the very day after Tisha B'av.
Posted by Maurice Sonnenwirth at August 9, 2005 07:17 AM