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The contrast between the way things started when we leftMitzrayim and the disappointment asto what happened is so sad. What could have been and unfortunately it didn't work. Things

became twisted and perverted. Initially we hadAz Yashirand then left with aKina ofYirmiyahu. This is the kina which contrasts the optimism of and finishes with thesadness of .

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Rav Soloveitchik (who will be referred to as the Ruv from here on in) said a drasha onParshas

Behaloscha in the 60s which doesn't mention this kina, but the entire drasha reminds Rebbe ofthis kina and helps us feel this pain of what could have been vs the way it turns out. Moshe was

trying to convince Yisro to stay with the Jews . The offer was . Moshe said

come with us to the special place and we will be good to you. Moshe was filled with optimismand certainty. He told Yisro you must come with us. The lack of doubt Moshe displayed is

amazing. He thought the entire generation who leftMitzrayim will enter Israel in 3 days. The

Ruv always gets upset when he reads thesepsukim. We will build theBeis Hamikdash and bring

Mashiach. Moshe thought he would lead the Jews to an era in which there will be YovelandShmitaetc. It will be an era without war, peaceful and quiet where the Kedusha of Hashem will

be obvious. They were marching and singing in celebration with the blowing of the chatzotros.

There was no talk ofmeraglim.

Suddenly everything changes. There are the misoninim, complainers people talking about the

good times inMitzrayim, reminiscing about the fish back in Egypt. Then we have Parsha of

. Everything becomes displaced. A journey of 3 days becomes a journey of thousands ofyears. Even when we are there we don't have everything. The Ruv describes the scene as a

sudden change in the march. What happened? TheParsha of is displaced and the

journey becomes long. Moshe felt that the great march came to an end. There wasnt agezeira

yet but Moshe knew it wouldn't be simple. Intuitively Moshe knew that the wasdone. The Ruv then got personal. The Ruv doesnt have to say Moshe was a great Navi but here

he knew even tough not revealed, The Ruv says he felt that way when his wife got sick. She was

sick for four years but he was convinced that she would be able to overcome. He lived with hopeand faith but something changed in the Ruvs hope which was not in her health. Last

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1The Ruv said this drasha the year after his wife and brother died

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Kippur the Ruv was holding a Sefer Torah duringKol Nidrei and when he gave a Talmid theSefer Torah to place back in theAron Hakodesh. When he put it back in it fell in theAron

Kodesh. The Ruv said then I knew that nothing would help my wife.

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Back toBehaloscha. When people began to cry and weep about meat and Mitzrayim even

though they saw the miracles Moshe knew this was the end. He knew he wouldn't see Eretz

Yisroel . Moshe declares if this is what it is kill me. Why do I have to go through this wholebusiness with them. .

Chazal say by Eldad and Medad were prophesying in the camp. Yehoshua got angry. What did

they say; Moshe will die and Yehoshua will take over. In short what it means willnever happen even though he said it 24 hour earlier. Moshe knew that what Eldad and Medad

said would be true.

Then Parsha of is displaced as shown by the two invertedNuns. The march wasinverted. The whole trip was inverted and Jewish history became inverted. We could never say

. Our entire life ofGalus is inverted nuns. The Ruv was explaining the root of Tisha

Bav. Expectations and hope and the shattering of hope. Contrast of hope and how quickly thatbecam unraveled. That is Galus. It begins with the optimism of and finishes with

the sadness of .

Chasan andKalah under a Chupa are at the beginning of a journey. . They go through

the dancing and are anxious to start their lives. Then the same Chasan andKalah are inBeisdin

scheming against one another. The reality is the nuns are now inverted. The hasbecome the and the has changed to .. The sameKalah who

used to brag to her friends is now ranking on the husband..

Another interrupted journey. Happy couple. They stay . They have a kid and he has

a great name. Kid goes to a great cheder. Turn the page. The boy is now 15 and the mother

discovered the boy left his iPhone out and it is filled with shmutz. . Baal tshuva

was on their way and and now a disaster. Yesterday Rebbe got a call for a woman inEretz Yisrael. They have a son in the army and when he came home for Shabbos he announced

he doesn't believe in Hashem anymore. The optimism of is replaced with the

sadness of .

In 1967 Rebbe remembers his father sitting with a transistor radio. Mordechai Gur announced

Har HaBayit Byadeinu. Every Jew was on fire. People thought lets daven and learn the end of

theRamabm Hilchos Melachim and the Galus is over. And what became of that2. The precious

children are stabbed to death. It still hasn't worked out.

2Rebbe referenced quicky Tehilim kpitel 31 but I missed it

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():When we see a child dying it is another example of thegalus. . Young

kids get cancer. has changed to when the child is in the cancer ward.The deaht of young and righteous is more difficult than the destruction of theBeis Hamikdash." . Rav Shlomo Zalman Aurbach used to tell kids you dont

have to go to Tzfas to daven byKivrei Tzadikim you can go to Har Herzel where all the dead are

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Its hard to repair because the Nuns are inverted. It was a Journey interrupted. Rebbe visited

Auschwitz and Birkenau where there was one huge room behind glass filled with suitcases.

There were also dolls behind the glass. Rebbe couldn't forget or forgive the interrupted journey.The disappointments in life, overcoming difficulties in life. all go back to inverted nuns.

This is Tisha Bav. We have to feel the pain of the interrupted journeys and the inverted nuns inhistory. Davening to Hashem that we should see the day when the suitcases are replaced, thesoldier will believe and the 15 year olds brain will delete the memories of the shmutz on his

Iphone.