<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="font-size: 19px;" class="">For some reason I couldn’t sleep most of the night.<br class="">I find it interesting that it occurred on Tisha b’Av.<br class="">So as a result, I studied many different aspects about<br class="">the saddest day of the Jewish year.<br class=""><br class="">I came across the following insight which I found amazing.<br class="">There is a halacha that if you have a bad dream Friday night,<br class="">you are not only allowed but should fast (the rest of) Shabbos.<br class="">The reason given is that you feel so badly for whatever this dream<br class="">signifies or symbolizes and you have to fast as an atonement of sorts.<br class=""><br class="">So the question is asked: What about when Tisha b’Av falls on Shabbos?<br class="">If someone feels the same pain and anguish for the Destruction of the B”H,<br class="">why is he or she not allowed to fast on Shabbos and must observe Tisha b’Av<br class="">on Sunday, whereas if that same individual has a bad dream on Friday night,<br class="">he must fast on Shabbos? Certainly the pain of mourning the beis hamikdash<br class="">equals or surpasses that of a bad dream.<br class=""><br class="">The answer given is that on Shabbos, the Beis Hamikdash exists. In other words,<br class="">on Shabbos, there is a construct of the beis hamikdash extant which adds to the<br class="">kedusha of Shabbos. So there is no reason to mourn the destruction of the beis hamikdash<br class="">because it has been temporarily restored. On the other hand, a bad dream on Friday night,<br class="">specifically has to do with Shabbos because that is when the person had the dream.<br class=""><br class="">May we see the coming of the Moshiach, bimheyra b’yameinu, Amen!</span></body></html>