בית תפילה לכל העמים - House of Prayer for All Nations

There is a day in the lunar calendar in which we make space for grieving, sadness, pain and acceptance. That day is today, the ninth of the month of av/lion. A different version of the story:

Ok my holy friends
Give me permission to say a few more words
It's a prayer, but it's a story of a prayer
Everybody knows
The first tragedy in the world
Cain and Abel
Cain and his brother Abel
And now the truth is
Cain never wanted to kill Abel
He just got angry at him
He didn't know there was such a thing as killing somebody
It's the truth
He didn't know
He didn't know there was such a thing as dying
Now listen what our holy rabbi's tell us
Abel fell to the ground
And Cain regretted already that he hit him
He fell to the ground next to his brother
And he began to cry from one corner of the world to the other
And he said
My dear brother my most precious brother
I'm begging you please open your eyes
Please forgive me
I'm begging you I'm begging you a million times
Please come back and open your eyes
And our holy rabbis tell us that for three days
for three days
Cain was lying next to Abel begging him
And our holy rabbis teach us that all of nature the whole world was crying with him
Now my most darling friends
On the great day on the great day
On the great day we are waiting for
The most unbelievable thing will happen
All the Cains of the world will lye next to all the Abels they killed
And they will begin to cry
And they will say my precious brother forgive me forgive me
I am begging you forgive me forgive me for being angry at you
I am begging you come back
I am begging you come back
So on the great day the miracle will happen
Abel will open his eyes
And he and Cain will have another moment
The words has not been privileged
To feel the love between brother and brother
Between one human being and another
As it will be on that day
Then Cain and Abel will begin to dance
And the whole world will join them
And all the creatures of the world will begin to dance
Let it be soon
Let it be soon
Let it be soon
Let it be soon
Let it be soon
Let it be soon

On the ninth of av, Joseph’s brothers threw him into the pit and sold him into slavery.

On the ninth of av, the spies used their tongue for evil to report bad news about the land, about the earth, about the trees and the stones and many of us used our ears to listen and our hearts to believe.

On the ninth of av, the first temple (house of prayer for all nations) was destroyed.

On the ninth of av, the second temple (house of prayer for all nations) was destroyed.

I shared this with Alicia Keys in Jerusalem as she asked me about the ruins we were walking upon from the first and second temple era. On the ninth of av, Napoleon stumbled upon a group of mourning Israelites. He asked them what they were mourning to which they replied, the temple. Napoleon, assuming the temple had been destroyed recently asked when this happened. The mourners replied 1,600 years ago. Napoleon exclaimed,1,600 years ago and you are still alive and mourning!? You surely will live to return to the land and rebuild the temple.

Friends, it’s been 1,948 years. I’m crying and I’m not alone. There is so much pain in the world and all we need to do is get it together, and in come all the questions. Whether or not we have the answers, it is OK to feel and OK to question.

One thing is for sure, we are here. Back in the spot it all began. Hoping, trying. There is no sin. Sin is a miss translation of the Hebrew word Chet which actually means to miss, as in to miss the bull’s-eye. We will never stop trying and will never give up. Today in prayer we omit the section in which we ask forgiveness and for a moment treat this day as celebratory because as we all know - from the darkness comes the light, from dust and ashes come the most glorious of creations, they buried us and didn’t know we were seeds and we would grow, and today my friends, the very same day our walls were breached, the day our city the fires reached, old and young among us captive, joy of Jerusalem let live, the groom and bride put into chains, the day they burnt our laws in flames, I became terrified on this day, the day the almighty pushed me away but you will turn to us oh One who dwells on high, and you will say dust off and rise, to a day of joy and salvation - this day will become the ultimate celebration.

בית תפילה לכל העמים - House of Prayer for All Nations

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