{"id":58129,"date":"2017-07-25T11:11:29","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T16:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/?p=58129"},"modified":"2017-07-30T06:43:17","modified_gmt":"2017-07-30T11:43:17","slug":"tisha-bav-turning-mourning-actiontisha-bav-turning-mourning-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/inspiration\/tisha-bav-turning-mourning-actiontisha-bav-turning-mourning-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Tisha B\u2019Av: Turning Mourning into Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On April 11, 1944, a young Anne Frank wrote in her diary:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Who has made us Jews different from all other people? Who has allowed us to suffer so terribly until now? It is God Who has made us as we are, but it will be God, too, who will raise us up again. Who knows \u2013 it might even be our religion from which the world and all peoples learn good, and for that reason and that reason alone do we now suffer. We can never become just Netherlanders, or just English, or representatives of any other country for that matter. We will always remain Jews.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Anne Frank was on to something. The Talmud asks, from where did Mount Sinai derive its name? After offering a few alternatives, the Talmud suggests that Mount Sinai comes from Hebrew word \u201c<i>sinah<\/i>\u201d which means hatred, because the non-Jews\u2019 hatred of the Jews descended upon that mountain when the Jewish people received the Torah there.<\/p>\n<p>Torah demands a moral and ethical lifestyle, an attitude of giving rather than taking, a life of service rather than of privilege, that has revolutionized the world. The Jewish people have been charged to be the moral conscience of the world, a mission they have not always succeeded at, but that nevertheless drew the ire, anger and hatred of so many. For two thousand years the Jews were bullied and persecuted simply because of their Jewishness and all that stands for.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rabbisblog.brsonline.org\/tisha-bav-turning-mourning-action\/\">Continue reading the full article here\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 11, 1944, a young Anne Frank wrote in her diary: Who has made us Jews different from all other people? Who has allowed us to suffer so terribly until now? It is God Who has made us as we are, but it will be God, too, who will raise us up again. Who<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":733,"featured_media":58149,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspiration"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tisha B\u2019Av: Turning Mourning into Action - OU Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Torah demands a moral, ethical lifestyle, an attitude of giving, not taking, a life of service, not privilege, that has revolutionized the world.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/inspiration\/tisha-bav-turning-mourning-actiontisha-bav-turning-mourning-action\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tisha B\u2019Av: Turning Mourning into Action - 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