Reply To: Short & Sweet

How can we cry, they ask – it’s been so long.

How can we not cry – it’s been so long! So long since we were where we’re supposed to be. But more than that; so long since we were who we are supposed to be.

We are supposed to be not just in Yerushalayim; we are supposed to be of Yerushalayim. We are supposed to spend every second of every day improving ourselves and improving our connection to Hashem. We are supposed to be constantly in a state of being מתענג מזיו השכינה. Instead, we spend the vast majority of our lives doing things that are at best mundane, and often far worse.

What we cry about isn’t a building from thousands of years ago. What cry about is ourselves, and how far we’ve fallen. We’ve fallen so far that we barely know who we are supposed to be.

על אלה אני בוכיה, עיני עיני ירדה מים…