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It is not Difficult to Mourn Jerusalem - A Thought By Rav Asher Weiss Shlit"a

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Rabbi Asher Weiss

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so instead of shabbos once again and once again i would like to share some thoughts and some feelings the indiana diamond this coming shabbos is called shabbos khazarin and we read the painful hazard division of it is already for the show these are days of mourning days in which we long and remember you shall i miraculously it is something which is imperative it was a town of righteous people so why was it destroyed in days of your he filled the cup with his tears and he drank that cup of tears and that was the last puppy grant before tisha brooke and that happened every head of the ship dry bread and ashes and tish above he cried bitterly all day and all night and passerbys on the street the pastor's house who shot to hear he's crying our generation has difficulty we live in an age of plenty most jews live in democratic decent societies based on movies we have amassed amazing world more than jewish people ever had in the past so we have difficulty with the vedas when you go to schools the yeshiva is crying because we're good jews we believe in it we tremble but you don't see that many people crying and mourning for you because it seems so distant but when we learned the gamora and senator and kundalini base it shouldn't be difficult at all to cry for usually so let included and i asked what does it have to do with foreign human tragedy the child died and his mother is crying and his mother is crying when a child dies yes mothers cry hello become leo the neighbor years to cry in the middle of the night and he can't sleep and he cries with her what does it have

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