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0:00 One who prays with tears over the Beis HaMikdash, the Holy Temple, and cries over the Beis HaMikdash, He cannot understand what his level is. This virtue is great and immense, without end. We need to know tomorrow, with Hashem's help, The eve of Tisha B'Av, all night, that there be no lights burning in the house. Why? There are destructive angels, wherever they see light at night, on the night of the ninth of Av, only to leave a light so that a person can speak, and to do everything we can to share in this sorrow and in the pain of the Beis HaMikdash, Especially on this day tomorrow, on the eve of Tisha B'Av, to take the ashes and place them where the tefillin go, and to say, 'To place on the mourners of Zion glory instead of ashes.'
0:39 Place it also on the place of the arm tefillin, also on the place of the head tefillin, as is done for grooms, In Tractate Bava Basra, page 60, side b. 'To place on the mourners of Zion glory instead of ashes.' The Gemara in Tractate Taanis, page 30, side a, The Gemara tells of Rabbi Yehudah bar Ilai who would sit in great sorrow, [unclear] and salt, and he would sit in truly great pain, crying tears over the destruction of the Beis HaMikdash.
1:09 How much we need to learn an example from our forefathers, from our rabbis, to grieve, to understand what hurts on Tisha B'Av. How much sorrow, how much pain. One must truly cry, truly cry, to shed tears. How much this is the root of all our troubles, in all the generations, in all the exiles, all our pain, everything we go through, at this time to pray, and also to pray what we learned from Rabbi Shimshon of Ostropoli, a segulah from Rabbi Shimshon of Ostropoli, that he said, we learned this at his hilula, to pray at a time of favor. There is one time of favor to pray: during the Priestly Blessing, when the Kohen says 'May He give you peace,' when the chazzan says to him 'May He give you peace,' at the end, one must have intent in thought. The second time of favor is to pray when the Ark is opened,
1:56 the third time of favor is when the Torah scroll is raised. So this is a very great time of favor, so every person should use it and ask during the Priestly Blessing, when the Ark is opened, and when the Torah scroll is raised, ask from the heart for the redemption, for the Beis HaMikdash. In the morning, on Tuesday morning, until 10-11 in the morning, there is a very great time of favor that is recommended for every person to sit on the floor and ask all the requests, Cry truly before Hashem, ask every private request you need - this is a kind of pain of the Shechinah. Ask all the requests, everything you need.
2:33 All morning is a time of favor. Until 11, until 10, before midday, two hours before midday, this is a time that before everything is done, there are actions happening in the upper worlds, According to the Arizal, that at this time it is good to pray, after the Shacharis prayer, after the prayer is already done, after the person has prayed, and after the Kinos and everything, a person can sit on the floor.
2:58 To sit on the floor, of course to be careful about it, there is a very great matter in it. It is very important to be careful about this, not to sit on a chair until midday. If a person can, to sit on a mat, that is best, to sit on a kind of rug, a kind of something low, really, really low, as low as possible, and that is the best way to sit. And it repairs a person's mind, a mind that was damaged and spoiled. The moment a person throws himself down on Tisha B'Av, low, low, he is together with the pain of the Shechinah, and truly feels this pain, and he sees this sorrow, and he feels this pain, so that is what can lift him up and raise him.
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3:33 The more a person strives to pray more, to ask before Hashem about the destruction of the Beis HaMikdash, and to throw to the heavens, that the Holy One, blessed be He, answers him, that the Holy One, blessed be He, hears his prayer, that the Holy One, blessed be He, helps him, to use every moment, every moment, every moment, not to stop for one moment. To use it as much as possible, and if a person does this, he will see miracles and wonders beyond nature.
3:58 If he sits and prays and has intent, not once again will he ask for private troubles, He will have intent for private troubles, but will say that this pain he has is the pain of the Shechinah, and he does not want the Shechinah to have pain any more. He knows that the pain he has and the lack he has is the pain of the exile, the pain of the Shechinah, and he asks before the Master of heaven and earth that there be no more pain of the Shechinah for Him. For this he asks, for this he cries, and this is what he asks of the Holy One, blessed be He.
4:26 So this is a very great thing. Whoever asks this way, will know that this is certainly, certainly a time of favor. The most important thing is, as we said, tomorrow to turn off the light, to drink a lot, a lot, a lot of water, as much water as possible, so that a person will be calm of mind, that he not be thirsty, not to use salt, tomorrow from the morning not to use salt, not to eat salty things, especially now that it is still hot, it is not like Yom Kippur. Heat now, the fast is harder than on Yom Kippur, One must also be careful to eat one cooked dish. It is forbidden to mix.
4:54 That is, that a person also not eat cakes, not drink sweet things before the fast, also to identify with the sorrow of the pain of the destruction of the Beis HaMikdash. Not as a matter of strict law. If a person can, if a person wants to eat some cake, but not so that now a person makes of it like the eve of Yom Kippur, so that he dines and tastes and expands his mind. The whole purpose is that a person be lowly and despised. And also of course to take a piece of bread, a bit, to dip it in a few crumbs of salt, and then to say, 'To place on the mourners of Zion glory instead of ashes.'
5:30 and to take from the ashes and to place a bit on the piece of bread, this is something many tzaddikim used to practice, already from the 17th of Tammuz, the early and the later authorities, they used to do this a lot. This is a very great matter and a very great virtue. Whoever wants to do it, there is a kind of segulah in it, not to eat the bread just like that, simply, only to put a small piece in the mouth with this taste, in order to feel the pain and the sorrow of the Beis HaMikdash. As much as we pray and try to do mitzvos and good deeds, and help one another, and strengthen one another, and cheer one another, and pray that the Holy One, blessed be He, will hear us, and understand at all what this is that we see, what are these heavens that we see,
6:13 what is happening here in this place, how many tears in this place, how many heavens here. It is impossible to explain at all. First of all one must ask forgiveness on the eve of Tisha B'Av and at the end of Tisha B'Av, to ask, Master of the World, 'I hereby reveal my mind before You,' that I do not understand at all what this day is, I know that on it our Beis HaMikdash and our glory were brought down, and I ask forgiveness and pardon, that I do not mourn properly on this holy day, as one must mourn over it, and grieve over this day, and I reveal my mind concerning the mind of all the tzaddikim in every generation, in all the generations, who knew how to conduct themselves properly on this day, and mourn before You properly.
6:53 and I direct my mind to their mind, and according to their mind I accept upon myself this day of Tisha B'Av. and with this mind I mourn on Tisha B'Av. Say it like this. Therefore on the night after Tisha B'Av, At the close of the holiday, with Hashem's help, Master of the World, forgiveness and pardon before You before You that this day passed over me like this, forgiveness for every thought, for every movement, for every word, for every deed that was not according to Your will on this day, and I ask forgiveness - that I turned my mind away from the mourning on this holy day, on which in fact a person can, If we knew on this day what can be attained - after all, on this day learning Torah is forbidden, and there is great fear in this, that we do not learn Torah on this day.
7:39 But on this day a light is in fact revealed that Hashem, blessed be He, is with us here. Is with us right here, and all the worlds and all the angels are all with us. In fact on this day, if people knew what can be accomplished on Tisha B'Av, one can accomplish on Tisha B'Av more than in the whole year on Tisha B'Av. More than the whole year. because you are with the King and you ask for the purpose, because this is the lack of everything that passes over us.
8:05 All the salvations of the singles are found on Tisha B'Av. All those who have no children, on Tisha B'Av, every lack of livelihood, lack of housing, the situation in the world, the situation, everything is found on Tisha B'Av, everything is found on this day. And when one accepts this day and cries over the Beis HaMikdash, and when a person says Kinos and arouses weeping, and arouses people to weep, perhaps we will be redeemed by then, with Hashem's help, but he will do everything in his power at least to be collected within himself, of course not to return a greeting to a person, not to say hello, we show a slack lip to every person, so that every person will be shaken, will say what happened on this day.
8:40 Every person will take an interest: what happened, why are you like this? Explain to him: the Beis HaMikdash was destroyed. And the moment this is done properly, then all the treasures are revealed, and one can even see all the miracles and wonders. Rabbi Avraham HaMalach, when Tisha B'Av came, would sit with his head between his knees, and would cry and would lift his head several times and say, 'He has still not come,' would cry and wait for Mashiach.
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