When walking out of the Kotel on
the men’s side if you look to your right you see many shelves of Siddurim
(prayer books). On one of the shelves today both when I had the zchut to walk
into the Kotel and walk out the books were so tightly squeezed together that I
had to actually force my Siddur into the pile of Siddurim.
What can we learn from this and
what does this have to do with the Fast of Asarah B’tevet on Thursday?
The Yetzer Hara reminds us over
and over again (and he does not forget to miss a single day) “there is no room
in the religious world for you,” “there is no chance you of all people can get closer to Hashem! Are you crazy?! Look at
all the Averot (sins) you have done!
Just continue going with the flow of society and everything will work out. I
promise.” We need to know that the zchut to enter into the world of Torah and
Mitzvot is indeed out there and we need to ignore the Yetzer Hara’s claims!
Every Jew has a chance to do Teshuva everyday and get back on track in regards
to gluing oneself to Hashem, our Father in Shamayim! We are exactly like a
bunch of books on a shelf. The Yetzer Hara tells us: “There is no space left
for you, sorry.” And then we just give up and forget the Teshuva we wanted to
make.
But we are wrong! The shelf is
actually filling up and there is always room (until Mashiach comes)! Hashem
does Chessed (great unimaginable kindness) with us and always gives us a chance
to really change our lives and just swing into His arms with love and
repentance. He stretches the shelf so we can fit, no matter how much we
spiritually stink with sin.
What does this have to do with
the Siege on Jerusalem that occurred over 2,000 years ago; which is the reason
we fast on Thursday? A big challenge in life is to feel the pain and suffering
the Shechina (Divine Presence) goes
through everyday by there being no
Bet HaMikdash in the world. There is a need as a Jew to feel the pain that
Hashem goes through by having no home, no Bet Mikdash. We tell ourselves: “Me?!
How can I out of all people feel the pain that Hashem goes through. I am so
distant from Hashem. After all, when was the last time I put on Tefillin, when
was the last time I listened to a Shiur Torah?”
We need to turn around and just
like the books on the shelf tell ourselves that if we try Hashem gives us a
helping hand and helps us by opening our hearts to Him and just making
everything so much simpler and easier.
Tzom Mo’il (have an influential
fast).
It
is not as difficult as the Yetzer
Hara tricks you to think it is. We can do it.
Judaism=Think.
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