Fundamental Growth: She Sits Alone

She sits alone at the family simchah though she is surrounded by people. She has a deep hole in her heart though she is beloved by many.

She is our sister — our unmarried friend.

She is our city — Yerushalayim.

Yerushalyim — we love to walk her paths find comfort in her stones. She is our home our light the source of all brachah the most beautiful place in the world. However Yerushalyim is crying for what has been lost for that which is sorely missing. Twice in Tehillim David HaMelech promises us “Tismach Tzion” (Tzion will be happy). He couples that with another happiness — “Tagelnah bnos Yehudah.” There will be a time that all Jewish daughters are able to rejoice.

It is clear that the intense pain of the many Jewish daughters who are waiting for what they’re missing is not random and has a very specific purpose. Their pain is part and parcel of the pain of our galus the pain of our forlorn city. Just as Yerushalayim mourns the proper presence of her “spouse” — Klal Yisrael — in the full glory of the Shechinah we can parallel that experience to our daughters sisters and friends who are missing their spouse the one to whom they could be a helpmate as prescribed by the Torah.