Why are they fasting?
Last night, at dusk, just minutes before the end of the fast, I walked in Kikar Hamedina in Tel Aviv, surrounded by many who were marching because there was a demonstration there against the dismissal of the Attorney General.
I spoke with several protesters, it was interesting and diverse, and to my surprise, several told me they were fasting on Tishrei B'Av... They were non-religious both in appearance and at least two of them explicitly stated this.
I left there and I still can't understand. Maybe the rabbi knows an explanation?
Why should secular people fast on Tishrei B'Av?
This Yom Kippur filled the depths of the Jewish soul and what is the Torah?
But 9th of Av?
In exile now in the land of our ancestors, there is no sense of exile or persecution, and they are not religious, which by definition is bound by Halacha.
It's possible to dismiss the fact that they lied about me, but I don't think there's any truth to it.
Does the Rabbi know the meaning?
I don't know. Traditional, but national.
Yes, it's exactly like Holocaust Remembrance Day. The destruction was truly a Holocaust, in terms of the murder of the Jews.
Only almost 2000 years before me. Avri Gilad, to his credit, said this too.
That's why I didn't understand why two years ago in Tel Aviv they decided to despise this day. They probably didn't understand it.
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