TISH'A B'AV TESHUVAH:
Jewish sages all agree: the reason for the destruction of the Temple was due to the baseless hatred and the lack of love between people in Israel at that time, and the lack of balance between ritual and relational commandments. History describes it as a time when brother stood against brother, a time of unrelentless killing, with the different factions of the zealots pitting Jew against Jew.
The Nazarene Movement which until that time was working as a faction of Judaism received the first fatal blows of this fratricide, first with Herod killing the disciples, then with the Roman appointed High Priest Ananus ben Ananus who had James executed.
Judaism agrees that the full re-establishment of Israel demands a reversal of the baseless hatred that created it. It is right, except for the fact that Judaism believes this except in the case of the 1st century ostracism of Jewish believers in the King of the Jews: Yeshua Ben Yoseph.
Ironically, the words of Yeshua were words of warning against the lack of balance between ritual and relational commandments and teaching people to love. Had His words been heeded, the Tisha B'av tragedy of the second Temple being burned could have been avoided.
May we pray this year that Israel at large, the Knesseth, and the Israeli Supreme Court reverse this inhumane and intolerable decree against Jews because they happen to believe in the Jewish Messiah.