Tisha B'Av: A Jew Never Loses Faith

Tish is the most tragic day on the Jewish calendar from time of Memorial tishu has been a lightning rod of disaster for our people from the very first Tish when the maragam came back with their bad report about is the first bdes was the the second B and throughout history the Spanish expulsion was scheduled for tshav the Jews were banished from England on tshav from France on tshav World War I broke out on Tish Yia who was born on tshav cursed the day of his birth and even so Tish is given a very unusual title in is called how is Tish a mayed refers to a festival a holiday Tish is anything but a and this is not just a figure of speech but this has implications we don't say on because it's amay we don't even say the before how isay the following story that I'd like to share with you about my grandfather gladin gives and provide some insight into the festive nature of tshb you see after the war was over my grandfather of L of memory was interviewed by the secular media my grandfather had been in all the dark places in aitz and daa and radam and he was asked by the interviewer Rabbi you saw the massacre of your people you saw the murderer of your family you saw the destruction of European jury did you at any point in time lose faith in your God did you ever lose faith in the promises of the Tyra and my grandfather responded did I lose Faith yes I lost faith in man I lost faith in mankind How could a civilized society like Germany shed their conscience and become barbarians how could the United States of America turn the other way when they knew full well what was happening in the death camps so did I lose faith I lost faith in man but never for a moment did I lose faith in God never for a moment did I lose faith in the promises of the T in fact my grandfather said that every single day in Ashwood he believed shal that Messiah would come that day who could fathom the deep-seated amuna and soaring faith of these Giants of spirit who could even begin to describe cribe The Towering Anda of these sikim and when we study the soaring Amah of these great Jews we begin to understand that perhaps Tish is a celebration of the unwavering unbending indomitable Spirit of the Jewish people that despite everything that we've seen and gone through are amuna Ines in the T and in the coming of the Gula has not wavered one ioda thus Tish is a great y it's a celebration of the unbreakable of Cl is and that is worthy of commemoration and celebration and in this Merit we will be to see Tish in fact transformed into a full y for