This Tisha b’av feels different

iammom

Mon, Aug 12 2024, 5:55 pm

Yes, I’m just worried to get into that mindset and be disappointed.
At the same time I’m worried about the attacks but I'm thinking maybe it’s part of Hashem’s Mashiach plans… a girl can dream.

amother

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Mon, Aug 12 2024, 5:56 pm

613mitzvahgirl wrote:

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

Yes! Yes! Yes! I want to sing and dance. (I’m not a singer or dancer). It’s a weird feeling, like anticipatory feeling more than excitement even is just the anticipation of sitting back and watching what’s coming

amother

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Mon, Aug 12 2024, 5:57 pm

iammom wrote:

This mindset is different though I felt it many times and then was let down. This feels like it’s coming, there is no turning back we are on the way. If it’s not today it’s very soon, but we are right there

write4right

Mon, Aug 12 2024, 6:03 pm

iammom wrote:

I think it's worth it to feel disappointed. Not the type of disappointment that you are so sure now you lose your faith. But the type of disappointment that means you really believe it could be real. It could really happen. And it will. Maybe today. Maybe a different day but it will.

↑ 613mitzvahgirl ↓

Mon, Aug 12 2024, 6:03 pm

I also keep wishing ppl gut Yontiff, and ppl here in my area are also saying this..and in my local grocery the workers were saying have a good holiday.. and they never said this before.. and as I was hearing about the earthquake a few minutes ago near Eretz Yisroel it hit me so hard that HaShem is surely going to take us home before we know it..

amother

Lily

Mon, Aug 12 2024, 6:06 pm

The main difference for me this year is that my brother is spending Tisha B'Av in Gaza (as a soldier). It's a weird feeling.

amother

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Mon, Aug 12 2024, 6:17 pm

613mitzvahgirl wrote:

I’m taking a shower now. A cold one because it’s the 9 days, but I want to feel clean. And I am putting on a dress I love (not freshly laundered) I just am in a yom tov mood now. It is such a strange feeling

amother

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Mon, Aug 12 2024, 6:18 pm

amother Lily wrote:

The main difference for me this year is that my brother is spending Tisha B'Av in Gaza (as a soldier). It's a weird feeling.

Hashem should protect him and let him be successful in his mission

amother

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Mon, Aug 12 2024, 6:20 pm

write4right wrote:

Right and even if he doesn’t come today we know what the anticipation feels like we know we are so so close and that feeling is just so real and so raw I know it’s the truth. So even if it takes a few years we know what it feels like to be so close to moshiach. It’s the first time in my life that I actually believe that this may be our last Tisha B’av ever. Hashem your people are ready to come home

amother

Poppy

Mon, Aug 12 2024, 6:23 pm

I just gave birth recently and I don't fit into much do I've been wearing sweatshirt and long skirt. My wig hasn't been done in a long time. Haven't showered since erev shabbos.
I don't feel respectful to greet mashiach. I'd love to be freshly showered, fresh wig, nice clothes...

amother

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Mon, Aug 12 2024, 6:28 pm

amother Poppy wrote:

No jew will be left behind Hashem will make sure every single Jew will be able to greet moshaich bchavod

↑ 613mitzvahgirl ↓

Mon, Aug 12 2024, 6:29 pm

Poppy I had a wild dream a few weeks ago that someone saying what you said and someone said don’t worry once Moshiach blows the shofar we will all have up to 48 hours to get there, and that’s why he will come by surprise bc we are all going to have to freshen up from being in galus to long, so maybe this time it’s the real deal..

PinkFridge ↓

Mon, Aug 12 2024, 6:31 pm

amother Tuberose wrote:

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

Don't you love the buzz about Iran picking Tisha b'Av, the day we mourn the two imaginary (sic!) Temples?

↑ PinkFridge ↓

Mon, Aug 12 2024, 6:32 pm

yudiyu wrote:

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.

You're not alone. That's why Rabbi Chaim Aryeh Zev Ginsburg entitled his film, A Year of Tisha B'avs. (On Living Lchaim.)

↑ PinkFridge ↓

Mon, Aug 12 2024, 6:33 pm

amother Papaya 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.)

Do you have a link? There's one from Rabbi Hauer of the OU too.
I guess we're not waiting 40 years to do this anymore...

↑ PinkFridge ↓

Mon, Aug 12 2024, 6:34 pm

613mitzvahgirl wrote:

Near Eretz Yisroel? I heard about one in California.

amother

Blush

Mon, Aug 12 2024, 6:34 pm

I just think about how the Jews must have felt on the night of 9 av. They were huddled in their homes, haggard and weary, anticipating the end. Just waiting for the doom. This year we have a small taste.

↑ PinkFridge ↓

Mon, Aug 12 2024, 6:35 pm

amother Lily wrote:

The main difference for me this year is that my brother is spending Tisha B'Av in Gaza (as a soldier). It's a weird feeling.

And I'm sure we all davened for him, even as part of the collective army. Hugs!

↑ PinkFridge ↓

Mon, Aug 12 2024, 6:35 pm

amother OP wrote:

It's what we should feel every day when we say Es tzemach Dovid Avdecha...

amother

Amethyst

Mon, Aug 12 2024, 6:36 pm

Thank you, I’ve been feeling so nervous, sure they’re waiting for Tisha Bav to attack. These posts are actually getting me excited Smile