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9/11 this year will be the 14th year anniversary. i remember it clearly, but if you think about it , the vast majority of high school and even seminary or yeshiva bachurim have no recollection of the twin towers,either before 9/11 or even memories of the actual day. it’s like the gulf war for my parents, and kennedys death for my grandparents, a history lesson for me, but for my parents, it was part of their life
it got me thinking (yes ,i know, surprise) if i get so amazed and nostalgic about the twin towers, why do i find it so hard to be nostalgic and be sad over my own lost heritage? here i am, sitting in a nice air conditioned basement, remembering that day and feeling a twinge of sadness, but my sensitivity towards what I as a yid lost with the destruction of the bais hamikdash, the loss of so many gedolim in the past few years ,and my sometimes apathetic approach towards yiddishkeit doesn’t make feel the same way? why cant I feel the same pain for the shechina being banished from her home waiting, just waiting for us to do what we need to do to get out of this golus? what is wrong with me that when i hear of chillul shabbos or see a fault in my middos i just shrug and go on? how do I get out of this apathetic ,over-materialistic spiritual rut? (I dont think i am depressed or anything, just a little down on why this affects me more then spiritual things, or is that normal/)
skripa
There is nothing wrong with you. You answered your own question
“the vast majority of high school and even seminary or yeshiva bachurim have no recollection of the twin towers,either before 9/11 or even memories of the actual day. “
Im willing to bet you have no recollection of the beis hamikdash, nor do you have a recollection of a time that chilul shabbos didnt exist.
I’m not saying you shoulnt care about the above ch”v. just why it is hard to feel the same way you do about 9/11 as the churban
its MUCH harder to feel bad that your missing something (i.e. the bais Hamikdosh or neviyim or even just what life was before the spanish expulsion with the rambam) when you have never experienced it. you need to be on a very high spiritual level to really mourn the bais hamikdosh on tisha b’av while the words of aicha are being said. even though the trup is a trup of mourning (just like yomim noraim chazanus is a more serious tune to wake us up to a feeling of teshuva)
may we all work on ourselves to start feeling our real losses that have still not been returned to us yet thousands of years later
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