We know we’re supposed to be sad on Tishah B’Av, but it’s hard to figure out how to feel
The Beis Hamikdash was destroyed because of sinas chinam. The antidote to sinas chinam is ahavas chinam. It may be hard for children to relate to losing the Beis Hamikdash, but you’re never too young to work on caring about other people. To the contrary, if you don’t start noticing other people and caring about them when you’re young, it’s much, much harder when you’re older. Look around for opportunities to help a friend. Try to make someone else feel good. Even if you know you’re right, you can give in to another person for shalom. No matter how old you are, this is the time to accept upon yourself to try to be nicer to people.
Try to remember a time that you lost something important to you, or something important to you got ruined. Remember how you felt.
You felt terrible, didn’t you? You thought about it all the time.
We had a Beis Hamikdash that was more important than a thousand shuls. We can hardly grasp how special it was. Even though we weren’t there, our souls and spirits and people were there. We can use our imagination to feel what it must have been like to be there. Then we can remember that we once had our Beis Hamikdash and we can daven that Hashem give it back to us.
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