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[Chabad.org] [Magazine] [Dedicate an email] Tammuz 28, 5776 · August 3, 2016 Editor's Note: Dear Friend, I don’t like the [Three Weeks]. I don’t like the [Nine Days], which start this Friday. And most of all, I don’t like [Tisha B’Av]. It’s the lousiest holiday on the Jewish calendar. Tisha B’Av is a fast day. It commemorates the destruction of Jerusalem and our entry into exile. Exile of the body, exile of the soul. Mainly of the soul. At first, I found Tisha B’Av an enchanting, living theater of the absurd. People sitting on overturned chairs. The curtain removed from the ark. Lights half off, half on. [Everything deliberately put out of order], just to remember that this is not how things are supposed to be. But by now I’ve had enough. I don’t need a day designed to make me depressed. I don’t need a day to remind me that things are not the way they are supposed to be. I need a day in which to make things the way they should be. A day not for mourning, but for fixing. A day to take this day away. Well, maybe that’s what Tisha B’Av is meant to be. [It’s meant to motivate us to fix up the situation and get out of this rut]. After all, we were the ones who made the mess; we should be able to get out of it. All the same, I’ve had enough fasting and mourning, exile and darkness. I’ve had enough of a world that is not the way it is supposed to be. I don’t like Tisha B’Av. Dear G‑d, this year, please take it away. Tzvi Freeman, on behalf of the Chabad.org Editorial Team [Post a Comment »] This Week's Features [Printable Magazine] [Conclusion] [A scientific postscript to the significance of the ever-expanding Jewish Library.] By Michael Chighel The 9 Days [9 Little-Known Facts About the Holy Temples in Jerusalem] Cool facts about the theology, function, layout and significance of the holiest spot on earth. 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