 | As the month of Av is coming to an end, here is a retrospective on the month’s main, seemingly contradictory events: Tisha BiAv, the day of sadness and destruction, and Tisha BiAv, the day of love. But is there a deeper reason why such conflicting days are observed in the same month? Is the theme of Av closer to sadness or love? And how does this all relate to the Rabbinic tradition of Moshiach being connected to Av? I hope you’ll join me in searching for the answer, peeling through not just the traditions from the period of the Churban, but even how those traditions were relayed! Within this journey, we’ll overturn the general understandings of fundamentals, such as: What is confusion? What is joy? Did the prophets ever have conflicting, complicated feelings about God? And after all that, where do we go from here? Enjoy! submitted by /u/TheOneTrueTrueOne |
Source: Reditt
