The Three Weeks: Connecting to Avelus for the Beis HaMikdash

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Why keep the Three Weeks when the mourning for the Beis HaMikdash is so hard to feel? The practices Chazal set up show respect for the loss and create the right setting for connection. Yearning for the Beis HaMikdash and Moshiach connects a person to them, and the pain all around us, all from golus, can wake up that aveilus. A vort on the parsha adds that consistency in avodas Hashem reaches levels nobody thought possible.

Key points

• Even without feeling the loss, the mourning practices of Chazal are an avodah of respect.
• The discomfort of the Nine Days helps a person think beyond himself toward the loss.
• The Baal Shem Tov said a person is where his thoughts are, so yearning connects.
• The seforim hakedoshim call the Three Weeks a preparation for Tishrei and the Yomim Noraim.
• A vort on the parsha reads the korban tamid as teaching that consistency reaches great levels.

In this shiur

1. 0:00Why the Three Weeks feel hard
2. 1:21Mourning practices as respect
3. 3:02Chazal create a setting for aveilus
4. 5:18Why mourn the Beis HaMikdash
5. 9:12Three Weeks as a time for Moshiach
6. 11:23Awakening aveilus through the pain around us
7. 17:22Three Weeks as preparation for Tishrei
8. 19:47Parsha vort on the korban tamid

Topics

• Three Weeks
• Aveilus
• Beis HaMikdash
• Moshiach