Ninth of Av which was

The Alef Kabbala Group (28 July 09) explored a discourse for the Ninth of Av which was said by the Lubavitcher Rebbe when that sad Fast fell on Shabbat in 1971. (The Fast was pushed off till Sunday). The discourse begins with the opening words of Lamentations: How the city - ie Jerusalem - dwells alone (desolate).. The discourse points to texts in which the same term 'alone' does not mean desolate, but something very positive. This chasidic kabbalistic teaching is about the negative leading to the positive, one of the ongoing paradoxes of life...