Tisha B'Av post from 2015
http://evolvingjew.blogspot.com/2015/07/a-lesson-of-tisha-bav.html A separate thought - the loss of the Beit Hamikdash is very abstract. We mourn, but many of us who mourn struggle to feel it personally. But in this year of mourning for my father, I suddenly understand what loss is on a new level.