10 Kavanos To Have While Fasting on Tisha B’Av

Tishab is the most tragic day on our calendar. And yet fasting on tishab is a mitzvah. It's a mitzvah. A mitzvah. It's practically almost like a we generally hold even require certainly. So here goes 10 cavano that you can have to enhance your mitzvah of fasting on tishav. Firstly to have in mind you're being the mitzvah. This is the fast of the fifth month. One should think they're fasting to be the mitzvah of listening to the number two tshouva. Whenever a ma mitzvah one should be as they perform the mitzvah so that the mitzvah is done with the greatest purity the teaches invarking on the performance of a mitzvah one should be maharuva in preparation kabano number three to do the mitzvah we're fulfilling the mitzvah with love of hashem as a safer teaches that mitzvah is greatly enhanced when or mime to do it with reverence to do it with awe. That's another important ingredient in the fulfillment of a mitzvah. Number five, and it may come as a surprise to do it. We don't have sim, but still there is a that we of fasting on. That is a fifth when we're six. to bring to Hashem. It gives rebas when we fulfill his commands. That's a sixth kavana that we can have. The Mile Susharm teaches from Tana Yahu that a great level of kavana a great a great madrega a great intention to have in the performance of mitzv is that it should be an elo kavoid to theina it should elevate the honor of theina. So this is yet a seventh kana to have in the performance of the mitzvah. Then to do it is you're doing it on behalf of the Jewish people to protect them to bring them merit. Not every Jew necessarily will be fasting this tab. But we fulfill the mitzvah to bring merit to the Jewish people to protect them to bring zukus to them. Shame is then Musam teaches that whenever we perform a mitzvah we should have in mind to do the mitzvah in order to expedite the coming of the redemption. Whenever we perform a mitzvah it brings the gul a little bit closer. So a great kabana to have in the performance of fasting on ishua. And then finally there is a mitzvah to remember in the kashm. He brings from the student of the Rashi that the commands us in always to remember according to this is a mitzvah always to remember. What better day to remember you than on tishab. So we have in mind we're being the mitzvah of fasting on number two love of hashem fear of hashem with five we're doing it six teaches number eight we're doing it bashame kal for the sake of all of kalis number nine we're doing it to expedite the redemption And finally, there's a mitzvah to remember. If we have even some of these, we will catapult our mitzvah of fasting on to new heights. And may it be that this should be the last time the is a day of for it should become a day of. Amen.