Eicha - Tisha B'Av - Good Mourning?
Two thousand years after Destruction of the Second Temple , and 2600 years after the destruction of the First Temple , and now returned to the Land of our Fathers, our generation inevitably struggles to feel the tragic loss of the Mikdash, even on Tisha B’Av. No-one understands the workings of Hashem’s plans. There is no avoiding the fact that, even since the chorban/destruction, the period around 9 th Av is particularly tragic for the Jewish people. The timing of our tragedies, during Av, sharpens our otherwise-dulled sensitivity to the true source of grief on Tisha B’Av. ----------- In my lifetime, I have felt no more miserable Tisha B’Av than five years ago, during the destruction and eviction from Gush Katif. The year-and-a-half I had devoted, with so many thousands, to stopping the Disengagement, turned to deep grief at the moment of our failure, on Erev Tisha B’Av, and at the resulting scale of human suffering and political/military catastrophe. The weeping girls, si...