The Saddest Day For A Jew

“Achdut” is the Hebrew word for “unity” - a feeling that Jews of all backgrounds, styles, and outlooks experienced together at the Kotel during this Tisha b’Av (9th of Av).

It doesn’t matter where you were born, raised, or live. It doesn’t matter how you look, what you like, or believe. Jews are not a combination of different individuals from other nations practicing the same religion. Jews are one Nation - one civilization - one family.

Although Jews have spread to the four corners of the Earth, no Jew can ever fully be detached from the collective they belong to. Jerusalem is not just a capital city of an ancient Hebrew civilization, but the source of the fire that keeps Jews going.

Tisha b’Av marks the date on the Hebrew calendar where both Temples in Jerusalem were destroyed, and where many other tragedies to the Jewish People have occurred.On the date of Tisha b’Av, Jews remember the suffering they’ve endured caused mainly by forgetting that they were all a part of One.

Division within the Nation has always been the variable which has brought the Jewish People down, wile unity has continuously been the successful key which has allowed Jews to overcome every major trauma of their past.

Let’s focus our energies on spreading “ahavat chinam”, unconditional acts of kindness aimed at creating a spark of light wherever you feel it is needed.

Narration by Rav David Bar-Hayim of Machon Shilo
Link to original presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C47sh-Y7DlY&t=0s

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