Today is the The Fast of the 17th of Tammuz and starts the 3 week period of mourning which ends after Tisha B'Av..On this day 5 specific tragedies hit our people.Moshe came down Har Sinai and broke the Tablets after the Cheit Ha'Aigel (Golden Calf),the Korban Tamid (daily offering) ceased during the siege of th First Beis Kamikdash,the walls of Yerushalaim were breached during both Batei HaMikdashim and apostomus burnt our precious Torah and placed an image in the courtyard of our Bais Hamikdash.The pleadings of our prophets that we get back on the road went unheeded for so many years,that eventually tragedy struck.I ask and plead with all,that for the sake of HaShem and our precious Yidden that today you think very deeply about this day and its meaning and see how you can correct yourselves and others so that we can all get back to showing faithfulness and love for HaShem and His wishes.This is a day to return to the right path of Yiddishkeit.This is a day to leave other beliefs behind that appear to be correct but are not and to return to the true Torah path of Yiddishkeit and our One and Only HaShem.
May all stop straying and return to the preciousness of our Torah and do the courageous thing and stand up and say ,'HaShem is One and HaShem is the only way and the only path to HaShem is the Torah true path.Let us stop placing an image in the Temple by bringing in foreign ways and religions into our precious beliefs that do not have their basis in HaShem's Torah Yiddishkeit and ways and were never there when HaShem gave us the Torah for all time.Let us clean ourselves and our people.Not just for ourselves must we do this,but we must return for the sake of every fellow Yid and HaShem can return His Shechinah to us and our enemies near and far will disappear.May HaShem send us finally the true MaShiach whom we await who will come ,according to Tanach in Yechezkel,for the first and only time, before the Third Temple gets built and end all suffering and pain so our people can finally dwell in safety.May HaShem come and light this world again when we follow Him again faithfully.There is always hope,for it was also on this day,that Noach sent the pigeon.Hope for humanity rests in our choices and in our hands.Let us give up all erronious belief and return to the way of the One True G-D.I wish those who are fasting, a Tzom Kal and to those who are not, or to those who have strayed from the path of Torah true Judaism,today is your special day to return.