The Nine Days - Feeling the distance

The nine days is a very difficult time. It's like there's a cloud over all of it's like we're walking around under a cloud. When PUM comes and you can feel it in the streets, the happiness, everything that goes on, how beautiful it is. Project inspire which is a program in America just started in England. I just did a shabas for them. They started with a shalakus campaign where they would go to a non-religious neighbor and give them a shalakus. And one person said, I gave it to them and he started crying. He says, I would see on Purim the Jews walking through the streets with their costumes delivering shakman and I were always hoping that one day I'd be included. And now I finally got a shakus. And that sim that you can feel in the streets, that's the opposite that we feel during the sim is lowered. There's a cloud over us. It's dark. to say a time and we have to understand that there are two aspects to our veilis. Part of a veilis is because we're in pain and part of a veilis is because we're benidoi. Hashem put us in. And so there's aspects of mourning that are because we know hashem has moved away from us. And if we have to feel any bitterness during the nine days, it should be the bitterness that we used to have this closeness to that we don't have anymore. And if we can start looking for in the darkness, if we can start to feel in our lives, then we can turn even the month of of from a time of sadness into a time of we should be z to Yeshua. That