The Right Tears | Tisha B'Av - Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair

Every tishabove I have the same thought. I think to myself, we were sitting here last year, weren't we? And we were sitting here the year before that. And the year before that, we were saying the same keynotes. We were crying. And we've been crying. We've been sitting here for nearly 2,000 years crying. How long is this going to go on for? The Gomorrah says, "My shakarova migdash, from the day the holy temple was destroyed, the gates of prayer were locked. Nevertheless, the gates of tears were never locked." So why aren't those tears working? Why aren't they coming before Hashem before his holy throne and begging him to bring an end to the endless torture, the endless anti-semitism of a world that gets darker and darker for Jews everywhere? The Kodskarba asked a question on this Gamarra. The gates of tears are never locked. So why do you need gates at all? A doorway that's never closed doesn't need a gate. The Ka Rebba answered that there's one kind of tear that cannot pass through those gates. A tear of yosh of despair. A person cries for many reasons. You cry from sadness, from loss, from joy. You can cry when something happens that's so unexpected, overwhelming, the words are no longer enough. But you can also cry because you've given up. Given up hope. Maybe we've been crying the wrong tears all of those years. Maybe we need to cry with true imuna and belief and faith and say I believe with a perfect faith that you will bring the redemption. Your love for us for the Jewish people is the greatest, the most passionate, the most faithful love the world has ever known. May our tears, this tishabove, be the tears of longing and absolute faith. And may those tears finally pass through the sha deote to the gate of tears and open all the gates of heaven. And may we very soon rejoice together in the rebuilding of the basa mikdash the holy temple.