This Tisha b’av feels different

amother

OP ↓

Mon, Aug 12 2024, 1:52 pm

Anyone else feel it. Like some anticipatory excitement. Almost feels like yom tov is coming. Where I live the weather is gorgeous.
Just gorgeous. Not too hot, sun out, birds chirping. I keep saying “after yom tov” by mistake instead of after Tisha b’av. Anyone else?

amother

↑ OP ↓

Mon, Aug 12 2024, 1:53 pm

amother OP wrote:

Double post don’t know why

amother

Apple

Mon, Aug 12 2024, 1:58 pm

amother OP wrote:

Yea, feel the same way. I had this sudden urge to clean my house. Almost like nesting. I had to remind myself to scale it back.

BadTichelDay

Mon, Aug 12 2024, 2:00 pm

agreer wrote:

Decidedly not.
I'm petrified waiting for Iran to strike.

I'm wondering if they will strike. But the threat of it brings me somehow closer to Tisha b'Av. It makes me realize more deeply that we are still part of the very same story going on. All we are going through today as a nation is still connected to the destruction of the Beit Hamikdash and the expulsion of the Jews from EY. I hope that the present scenario is not just the continuation of the past but also the treshold to ge'ulah.

amother

Firebrick

Mon, Aug 12 2024, 2:20 pm

amother OP wrote:

Nope, just nerves for what may or may not happen over the next 24 hours or longer, in israel.
Literally no excitement. Or a yom tov coming.
But maybe it will be a different feeling in and out of israel.

amother

Watermelon

Mon, Aug 12 2024, 2:20 pm

It’s my first Tisha Bav that I don’t have to force myself into the mindset of mourning what we lost. I think all of klal Yisroel are feeling Tisha Bav and feeling true galus right now.
I do have a massive hope that it will be a Yom Tov and I did have the passing thought going through my head today that the house is a wreck and nobody has clean laundry, but maybe such things won’t matter on that special day . May we be zoche to see Tisha Bav turn into a happy Yom Tov .

amother

Stoneblue ↓

Mon, Aug 12 2024, 2:21 pm

I wish I felt this!
I wish I felt excited about mashiach, but I'm more terrified of change than anything else.

I'm scared to open the news, I'm scared everytime I think bout the explosion of antisemitism since 10/7....

I'm scared for Israel, I'm exhausted and feeling hopeless from praying for the hostages day in and day out. I know tefilla should energize me, strengthen me... But it's been a long time since I've felt a glimmer of hope.

🥺🥺

amother

Tuberose ↓

Mon, Aug 12 2024, 2:22 pm

It is gorgeous weather in Lakewood Nj
But that’s not why it feels different for me

For me it feels different bec thousands of years later we are sitting in the same spot in Yerushalayim (those who are able to be there now) and crying over the loss of the same BHMKDSH in the same land… and yet people have the audacity to question our legitimate ties to the land…

churban and galus feels more real than ever

amother

↑ Stoneblue ↓

Mon, Aug 12 2024, 2:23 pm

amother Watermelon wrote:

It’s my first Tisha Bav that I don’t have to force myself into the mindset of mourning what we lost. I think all of klal Yisroel are feeling Tisha Bav and feeling true galis right now.
I do have a massive hope that it will be a Yom Tov and I did have the passing thought going through my head today that the house is a wreck and nobody has clean laundry, but maybe such things won’t matter on that special day . May we be zoche to see Tisha Bav turn into a happy Yom Tov .

Yes my house is so messy, I'm tired, my mashiach bag isn't packed, Im laying in bed now with depressed feelings...

I wish this excitement people are feeling is contagious, and we can all feel it

the world's best mom

Mon, Aug 12 2024, 2:31 pm

I feel a sense of nervous anticipation. It seems like an attack is imminent. Obviously, Hashem will protect us. But in some attacks, we clearly see His protection, when hundreds of rockets land in open areas except the occasional one that kills Arabs.

In other attacks, like October 7, Hashem allows tragedy to occur. Obviously, that is part of His plan for those times and places. Many areas in EY were protected by their shmiras Shabbos on October 7. Other places had no obvious protection.

I hope this attack will happen and we will have open miracles this time around. We are all frightened and we will say Tehillim and beg for Moshiach and do teshuva. And then it will all lead to Moshiach's arrival sometime during the day of Tisha B'Av.

yudiyu

Mon, Aug 12 2024, 2:35 pm

I feel like it's different this year and I've realised that it's felt a bit like tisha b'av every day since October 7.

Tisha b'av is usually the only day of the year when I really think about the devastation that had happened to us and our precarious position in the world. I feel like that every day, every time I daven, every time I open up the news.

As we say, this too shall pass. It will come to an end eventually.

amother

↑ Stoneblue ↓

Mon, Aug 12 2024, 2:46 pm

amother Beige wrote:

Did anyone see about the earthquake?
It feels like HaShem is showing His Power.

What earthquake?

amother

Papaya

Mon, Aug 12 2024, 2:51 pm

amother Watermelon wrote:

This. No need to read holocaust stories this year to try to feel golus. We've been feeling it all year.

I'm also looking forward to giving proper expression to the pain we've been feeling with the new kinnah for Oct. 7, written by Rabbi Dovid Goldwasser. (I understand there's another one in EY, but that's the one I'll be saying here in the U.S.)

amother

↑ OP ↓

Mon, Aug 12 2024, 2:54 pm

amother Papaya wrote:

Can you share it

613mitzvahgirl ↓

Mon, Aug 12 2024, 2:54 pm

I feel it so strongly.. I just feel like something big is coming, like a different type of emotion I’ve never felt.. it’s a very interesting feeling.. and this time the feelings are getting stronger and stronger.. like take a birth/ the contractions