EXCEEDING EXPEC ATION9.
For several days,
the world may very well
revolve around you.
facts of the Second Temple era, in a
determined effort to prevent archae-
ologists from confirming the facts of
history.
Earlier this month, Jerusalem Police
Commander Niso Shaham told a
Knesset committee that a large elec-
tric saw is being used to destroy
stones every day on the Temple
Mount. Helicopter photographs of
such destruction and a bulldozer on
the Mount, which also were present-
ed to the committee, confirm that
charge. -
Nor are our own people immune to
the rot of revisionism. The most ele-
mental events of Jewish history have
been denied by even by some Jewish
religious leaders, several of whom
have famously gon, on record reject-
ing the historicity of the Exodus, the
revelation at Sinai and the conquest
of the Land of Israel at the time of
Joshua.
Judaism, however, has always been,
and remains, a religion based on a
historical tradition. We Jews recall --
indeed, relive — our genesis as a peo-
ple each Passover, and mourn the
tragedies of our past each Tisha b'Av,
when our tradition asks us to forego
food, drink and other comforts.
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This year, Tisha b'Av falls this coming
Sunday, July 29 (the fast begins
before sundown on Shabbat, July 28).
Let us all, regardless of our level of
observance or affiliations, reconnect
to Tisha b'Av — and through it, to
each other and to the entirety of
Jewish history.
Let us begin to recapture unity by
joining together in the solemn obser-
vance of the millennia-old day of
national Jewish mourning.
Let each of us find a place where
Jews spend Tisha B'Av eve sitting on
low chairs or stools and mourning,
where images and feelings of JewisE
tragedies, both distant and near are
called up and bemoaned.
Let each of us set aside the day to
fast, to pray, to reflect on our collec-
tive pain. And let us all, thereby, be
joined by our fasting and praying —
to one another, but also to our fellow
Jews across the ages — and to our fel-
low Jews living in the Jewish Land
today.
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Rabbi Avi Shafran is public affairs
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