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Jul. 16, 2021 3:38 AM
The main thing to remember when asked to think about Tisha B’Av, which falls on this Sunday, is that the destruction has nothing to do with God. That is, everyone talks about God and fights in the name of God and claims ownership of God, but really, on a deeper level, this destruction is one that happened to people at the hands of people because of people’s actions.
The process of disintegration continued for years, for generations, stone after stone, speck after speck. The one who ultimately put it into action, who did the burning down, is much less important. To a large extent, the destruction that begins with the fast of the Tenth of Teveth, continues with the Seventeenth of Tammuz and reaches its peak on the Ninth of Av (Tisha B’Av), is a consequence of the disintegration of people’s trust in the symbols that purport to represent God in the world, the disintegration of people’s trust
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