<div dir="ltr"><< <span style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Which brings me to what I think the essence of Tish'ah beAv. Not churban</span><br style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">bayis. In a sense, churban bayis wasn't tragic, as the whole point was to</span><br style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">make the point on eitzim va'avanim and avoid churban Benei Yisrael ch"v.</span><br style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">But the human cost as a consequence of churban bayis has been huge. And</span><br style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">as you note, that's exactly what we talk about. Not the loss of qorbanos,</span><br style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">but the loss of the consequent sheleimus and shalom we could have used</span><br style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">the BHMQ to develop.</span><br style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Rather than seeing this as a question, I see it as a disproof of your</span><br style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">assumption.</span> >><div><br></div><div>My strong suspicion is that if one were to take a survey asking what we mourn on tisha baav most people would answer the physical destruction of the two Temples.</div><div><br></div><div><< <span style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">he loss of the consequent<span> </span><span class="gmail-gr_ gmail-gr_22 gmail-gr-alert gmail-gr_spell gmail-gr_inline_cards gmail-gr_run_anim gmail-ContextualSpelling" id="gmail-22" style="display:inline;border-bottom:2px solid transparent;background-repeat:no-repeat;color:inherit;font-size:inherit">sheleimus</span><span> </span>and shalom we could have used </span><span style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">the BHMQ to develop.>></span></div><div><br></div><div>That is a modern concept Eichah mourns the destruction of the city of Jerusalem, the killing of its population leading to the exile.</div><div><br></div><div>In fact this discussion has "halachic" implications. There are some groups that downplay the meaning of Tisha Baav since now we have a rebuilt and vibrant Jerusalem with a Jewish government. Thus, for example some shuls make changes of one type or another to Nachem.</div><div>I am told that even RAL made some small changes claiming that saying the original version would be a lie today. Again, his changes were very minor but others suggested major changes</div><div><br></div><div>RYBS OTOH pushes the notion that Jerusalem without the Temple is a desolate city without inhabitants and so he objected to any change in Nachem. It would seem that according to RYBS it is the destruction of the physical building that we memorialize and my question is that this is not the thrust of Eichah.</div><div><br></div><div>As to the kinnos there are a variety of them (in addition to sefardi wants). Even <span style="font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Ahalah and Ahalivama</span> stresses the shame we feel rather than the physical destruction.</div><div>As I mentioned I would have expected to see some equivalent to Mareh Cohen on Tisha Baav.</div><div>Perhaps one exception is the comparison of the exodus from Egypt to the exile from EY<br style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">
<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000099" face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif">Eli Turkel</font></div></div></div></div>