Tisha B'Av: The Only Consolation

the does not allow a Jew to learn t on Tish Tish is a day of mourning of sadness and the Tyra engenders happiness and joy and those who learn it P but I would like to share with you another dimension of why we're forbidden to learn Tyra on Tish I would like to share with you a story about our revered grandfather har glad and what his response was to Liberation at the end of the war Germany had a make a very crucial decision the American and Russian armies were fast approaching and the Germans had to decide whether to allocate resources to the war front to try to win the war or to use the resources to exterminate whatever Jews were left in the camps and they chose the latter so they rounded up whatever Jews were left in the camps our grandfather included and they packed them like animals onto cattle cars where they were shipped to the tyo mountains where they were to dig their own Graves and they were going to be shot and the American Army was hot on the trail and the American Army bombed the railroad track thoing the pl the plan of these rash and with the help of the almighty led by American General Henning Linden Jor the railroad tracks were bombed and when the SS officers realized that the American Army was coming they quickly took off their uniforms they gave it to the survivors and they put on the prisoners uniforms but the American Army was not duped by the scheme because the German officers were fat and robust and the Jewish prisoners were skeletons they were walking cabers and the general Henning Lindon Jr came over to my grandfather and he handed my grandfather his pistol and he said Rabbi here's the gun now's your opportunity to take revenge and my grandfather said Revenge I leave Revenge to the almighty it's been 5 years since I've been together with my beloved talm now I can be reunited with my gamarra with Basra that is my freedom that is my Liberation I leave Revenge to the rebish the greatest consolation for the Jew the greatest for the Jew says is the of the to is is the consolation of the Jew the toy is what gives the Jew the Serenity and the security in difficult times and therefore anti it's a time of AOS we can't partake of the to we can't enjoy the it's the one day of year we cannot take part and take advantage of the that we have to reserve for the shabas after TSH shab but on Tish we are forbidden to learn T it's a day of AOS it's a day that we give up so to speak the great consolation of our beloved toyra may we be to only have