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Devarim - When Love Feels Like Hate: The Wound Behind Tisha B’Av
How could Klal Yisrael look at everything Hashem had done for them—the miracles of Mitzrayim, Krias Yam Suf, the mann in the desert—and conclude: “Hashem hates us”?
And why did one night of misplaced tears become a night of crying for generations?
In this shiur, delivered at Michlelet NCSY, Rav Burg explores the deeper wound behind the sin of the Meraglim. Their fear was not merely that they would lose the battle for Eretz Yisrael. Beneath their fear was shame—the belief that because of their past, they were no longer worthy of Hashem’s love.
When a person believes he is unworthy of love…
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