Every body knows that in a few days it’s already Chamisha Asar b’Av (Tu B’Av). Gevalt! You know what the holiness of us Yidden is? – that we can get up from the floor (from mourning on Tisha B’Av) and expect Moshiach to come the next second! The holiness of us Yidden is that [immediately after Tisha b’Av], we are ready for the highest!

You know some people when they are ill it takes them so long till they get back on their feet, but “Hein Am K’lavi Yakum” (“They are a nation that arises like a young lion.” Bamidbar 23:24) Gevalt! We can lie down on the floor and be in the lowest lowest places, but the next minute, what do you think?! – we get up! From Auschwitz we walked straight to Eretz Yisrael, straight to Yerushalayim Ir Hakodesh, straight to the Holy Wall. So I want to bless you and all of us, whenever any of us is a little bit down, don’t wait ten years till you’re back on your feet. The next second – “Ki Shocha L’afar Nafsheinu Dovko L’aretz Bitneinu Kumoh Ezrosah Lonu” (“Even when we are lying in the dust, even when our stomachs are attached to the earth, [we don’t give up] we still pray to Hashem: ‘Arise [Hashem] deliver our help!'” Psalms 44:26). The holiness of us Yidden is the very second it’s over, we’re already getting up.

In honor of Shabbos Nachamu, enjoy this audio of Reb Shlomo on “Nachamu Nachamu Ami” – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dptj7zzIig

Today’s post is b’zchus my father-in-law, Eliyahu ben Eliezer Moshe.  May his neshama have an aliyah.