What a Hall of Fame post!

IWL, your exuberance, tenacity, and drive to KOMT is eminently evident and a tremendous chizuk to me (and probably anyone reading your post)!

The RBS"O should continue to give you much Divine assistance in this battle and all facets of your life!


We should be zoche to be on the way to Yerushalayim before Tisha B'av arrives tonight.....

With much brotherly love,
Muttel 

Amazing stuff Reb IWL, keep it going!

Your dvar Torah is spot on. What you have is connection. The closer we are to Hashem, the more we can feel the pain of the churban and galus. You can 'celebrate' on Tisha b'Av because the sadness comes from the deeper relationship that you are developing.

Continued hatzlacha!

Beautiful vort! And MAZAL TOV! 

Aveilus is a step in building what we've lost. If we don't care for it, we don't mourn it. Therefore, Chazal say, Moshiach was born on this day, as it's a day of rebirth. 

Celebrating a month doesn't have to be with extravagant parties, it's a deep and personal celebration of growth, purity and rebuilding. 

There's no bigger day to celebrate it than Tisha b'Av, when we begin the process of rebirth and rebuilding. 

Obviously, we're mourning the incomplete geula, but we're showing that we want it fully. We want the ומלאה הארץ דעה את השם, and והא ראיה, look at the רצונות of ours! 

KOMT!

What a beautiful, emotional vort!
You've made my eyes teary... and that's with me being some 3500 miles distance from you... but we're in this struggle together and our Neshamos are all connected!

As we'll be laining tonight: 
חסדי ה’ כי לא תמנו כי לא כלו רחמיו. חדשים לבקרים רבה אמונתיך
There is no end to Hashem's רחמים, so we'll never give up, every day is a new start..

Keep up your great work!

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