Rabbi Roston writes of the need for resiliency in our lives. She observes that one generation of the children of Israel were not ready to achieve their dreams because they lacked resiliency, whereas the next on was ready for battle and the conclusion of the journey.
Rabbi Gottleib writes that on Tisha B’Av, we mourn for catastrophic destruction. Yet traditionally, our communal mourning also includes teshuvah. She states that while we observe the mourning of historic events from 2 millennia ago, as well as more recent ones, we absolutely must consider our own teshuvah for the more contemporary ones as well.
The Talmud implies that the single most important issue at the end of our lives is whether we acted honestly in business, rather than did we study Torah regularly. Rabbi Sacks references Isaiah, who said that Jerusalem’s fate “was sealed not by conventional religious failure but by the failure of people to act honestly.” Please follow the link below to read the full article: