! On!the!occasion!of!the!naming!of!Yael!Zipporah! Shabbat!Parshat!Chazon!2015! ! This! year! Shabbat! pushes! off! the! fast! until! Saturday! night! and! Sunday! and! also! cancels! all! of! the! restrictions! concerning! the! meal! before! the! fast.! In! a! regular! year,! we! enter! the! fast! with! a! meal! of! bread!and!eggs!dipped!in!ashes!and!eaten!in!solitude.!This!year,!we! can!eat!meat,!drink!wine!and!rejoice!because!of!Shabbat.!There!are! many!explanations!why.!The!simplest!is!that!Shabbat!is!so!important! (it’s! one! of! the! Ten! Commandments)! that! it! outweighs! the! mourning! for!the!Temple.! ! !!A! deeper! approach! is! offered! in! the! teachings! of! Chassidut.! The! Prophet! Zechariah! teaches! that! the! ninth! of! Av,! together! with! the! other! fasts! that! are! connected! to! the! destruction! of! the! Temple,! will! be! transformed! to! rejoicing! and! great! holidays.! Seemingly,! these! fasts! should! be! canceled! in! the! future,! not! changed! to! celebration.! Zechariah!is!teaching!us!that!when!Moshiach!comes,!we!will!realize! that! every! step! in! the! exile! was! a! necessary! preparation! the! redemption,! much! like! the! Egyptian! exile! was! a! necessary! step! in! order! to! receive! the! Torah! and! the! Land! of! Israel.! Until! Moshiach! comes,! we! feel! the! destruction! and! therefore! we! fast! and! mourn.! When!we!will!receive!the!third!Temple,!we!will!see!the!ninth!of!Av!as! being! a! happy! day,! the! beginning! of! a! new! and! higher! connection! with!Hashem.!This!is!alluded!to!in!the!Jerusalem!Talmud!that!refers! to!the!ninth!of!Av!as!Moshiach’s!birthday.! ! !!The!day!of!Shabbat!is!a!taste!of!the!times!of!Moshiach.!The!soul!is! on!a!higher!plane,!and!perceives!the!deeper!meaning!of!this!period.! Therefore,!just!as!when!Moshiach!will!come!these!three!weeks!will!be! a! time! of! rejoicing,! we! rejoice! now! on! Shabbat! during! the! three! weeks.! When! Moshiach! will! come! Tisha! B’av! will! be! a! celebration,! and!so!when!it!falls!on!Shabbat!we!rejoice.! ! !!Shabbat!Chazon!gives!us!an!additional!reason!to!rejoice.!The!word! Chazon!means!vision.!Rabbi!Levi!Yitzchak!of!Berditchev!taught!that! on!Shabbat!Chazon!every!soul!sees!the!third!Temple.!He!explained! by!a!parable:!! !
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