Shabbos Nachamu | Rabbi Efraim Twerski

The shabas shabas the name shabas indicates that shabas kesh is somehow supposed to give us the for the mikdash two holy brothers and it is known that they accepted upon themselves golos an exile they would travel from village to village city to city they wouldn't sleep in the same village or the same city for two nights in a row. In one of their travels, people didn't know who they were. They were accused of some kind of crime and they were thrown into a prison cell. In this prison cell, there was a pot in which the inmates would relieve themselves. Obviously, there was a terrible stench coming out of this pot. And the is that in such a situation, one is not allowed to davin. One is not allowed to learn Torah. One isn't even allowed to think thoughts of Torah. Looked over at his brother and saw that he was very sad, very dejected. And he said to his brother, Zisha, why are you so sad? So said to how how should I not be sad? I can't learn. I can't d I can't even think thoughts of to which responded I don't understand you. The same that says ordinarily to learn and to daven now says not to learn and not to dav. So what's the difference if we fulfill the hashem by learning and ding or you fulfill the hashem by not learning and not ding? The main thing is we're doing the hashem. When theisha heard that he stood up and started dancing that he's able to do the hashem. During the weekday we tend to get frustrated when we can't serve Hashem the way we would like to serve Hashem. Everyone has their ideas of what is the preferable way to serve the and when they can't do so people get bent out of shape. Teaches us that a person needs to realize that whatever situation they're in whatever circumstances they have it's the telling them I want you to serve me within these circumstances in the situation that you're in. So during the week when we think about the B mikdash and the fact that they were engul and we can't serve Hashem at the BA mikdash and we become sad and we mourn the destruction of the B mikdash becomes shabas kesh we all get an insight into the nish of the bria into the panmius of creation and we suddenly realize that the same that says to serve him in the bdash is telling us right now to serve him in gulus. So what's the difference if we serve in the B mikdash or we serve the gulus? We're doing the hashem and this insight gives us tremendous comfort. We should be comforted with the fact that right now we're serving Hashem exactly the way he wants us to serve him. So I go