Opinion Those who want to remember the Holocaust, should sit on Tisha B'Av | Israel today

The public space in Israel recognizes the existence of Tisha B'av.

Not everyone is aware that this is a national day of mourning or its historical significance, but this date rings familiar.

If there was a TGI for fasts, it is clear that they would have rated it long after Yom Kippur, but still in the time index most of the respondents would answer "of course I heard about it", although only 30 percent would admit that they bring it home.

Secular and religious alike hate Tisha B'av.

It does not have the holiness of Yom Kippur nor the relief at its end - there is no healing after the catharsis, no one forgives, and nothing falls into place peacefully at 20:12 when the fast ends.

The observant do not listen to music until the 10th of Av and do not eat meat or cut their hair, because Jerusalem went up in flames until sunrise.

So how can you really be happy when you are allowed to eat and when the mourning customs end, leaving us every year anew with a terrible taste in our mouths (yes, smell too) and a feeling of depression, because nothing - that is, because we - do not really change.

"Gentlemen, history repeats itself",

The members of the center command band sang happily, and they did not know that the center-left would repeat history simply because it would show no special interest in it.

History repeats itself when the same mistakes are made.

Katznelson did not fly in T. Bab

Yair Lapid intended to go on vacation abroad in Israel. It may be that the booking is not his fault and the calendar is full, and it is possible that even if he had booked alone, he would not have known that this year August 7th is that national day of mourning, all of Israel, which they like to say that the religious They appropriated for themselves even though this is a historical time, which secularists have decided to neglect for the last two generations, but the torch is so flimsy that if they had called him TGI Moedi Israel, he would have flipped this fast on.

Eve Tisha B'av at the Western Wall, archive.

A feed so loose, that if they had called him at TGI Moadi Israel, he would have flipped through this fast, wouldn't he, photo: Oren Ben Hakon

I don't know who the thinkers are that the Yesh Atid party relies on, but another small party that supports Yair Lapid - Labor - relies, among other things, on Berel Katznelson.

Katznelson - a leader, politician, thinker, writer, journalist and completely irreligious, just like Lapid, apparently - as if he predicted in an article he published in the "Davar" newspaper in 1934 the disgrace of the Prime Minister's conduct.

Under the heading "Demolition and Destruction", he wrote that he had heard that one of the youth "histadruyot" (movements) had scheduled a trip to a summer camp on the night of Tisha B'av.

"It is inconceivable," he wrote, "that any of the youth guides knew what he was doing when he set this particular date as a suitable time for a summer camp.

However, this ignorance, when it is to itself, is what evokes mournful thoughts about the cultural level and the value of the educational activity of some of the youth guides." Berel Katznelson wonders in this article, which would have been published anonymously today and was possibly associated with Daniela Weiss, "What is the value and what is the fruit of a movement Liberation, with which there is no rootedness and with which there is oblivion... Would we still be capable of a revival movement, if the people of Israel had not kept in their hearts the memory of the destruction?

Had he not singled out the Day of Destruction in his memory and in his feelings and in his ways of life?". I don't know if Lapid guided a youth movement, but there is no doubt that Katznelson's definitions of talisman sit firmly on him. In his article, Berel links between the exile and that return to Zion, and the modern day return to Zion. He brings up A deep question about the education of the generation and the possibility that the vision will fail, if we do not know how to instill in the youth the memory of the National Day of Mourning. He closes his words with an offer to forgive the youth guides, because they do not know what they are doing. But, he says, "to the people who trust the guidance of the guides,

Even 17 years ago, we encountered a leader with a problem with his moral calendar. Well, that was not his only moral problem, but it seems that leaders who have lost their way flood the distress through the diary. Ariel Sharon scheduled a criminal anti-democratic activity for "August", And so, symbolically, the deportation from Gush Katif and northern Samaria was set for Tisha B'Av. The consultants postponed the day. There is a "booking" that is easy to move.

Prime Minister Yair Lapid. Katznelson's definitions of "destruction and destruction" fit Lapid precisely. Photo: Gideon Markovich

Berel Katznelson, photo: KLUGER ZOLTAN

Holocaust of the Temple

Lapid has another religious day in the calendar, it is called Holocaust Day.

The return to Zion began long before Auschwitz, the people of Israel began before the death march and continued to go after it, but as far as Lapid is concerned, this is only the legacy.

Father Tommy told about the Nazi persecution in Hungary, and the son starts the counting from there.

Who needs a wall when there is Yad Vashem?

That's why it's interesting to remember that the Prime Minister already had such a booking spree, when she scheduled another vacation for Holocaust Day.

In that case too, at the last moment someone leaked to the media and the scandal remained within the family.

Is anyone willing to download an app with a Hebrew date?

Or at least an applet with Jewish consciousness?

What is Israeli in your eyes: an application that helps the Prime Minister of Israel to be connected to the basic dates in the country he heads.

And if possible, the toolkit will contain individual hours that will mediate for the Prime Minister between the fragments of recent and distant history.

In the scroll of Lamentations, read on the night of Tisha B'av, the story of the destruction is described in horrifying verses.

As in Holocaust movies, I close my eyes and ears when I get to the description of mothers who ate the flesh of their sons due to poverty and madness, war and madness.

I used to think it was a metaphor.

Until during one of the trips in Poland, my grandfather said that on the death march he saw something like this with his eyes.

Jews who soon die of hunger, go crazy from the cold, from the murder, from the abuse.

You no longer know what you see and what you feel, whether you are a man or an animal, dying or a corpse.

"But when I saw what was happening next to me," said grandfather, "I realized who I was, and I got up from there with the rest of my strength."

Those who want to remember the Holocaust in a decade, in 50 years, in 200 years, until the end of all generations, can practice Tisha B'av.

With all the customs, the mourning, the sadness.

Because the fire continued until morning.

The fire that destroyed the house continues to this day. 

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