And here we are now, with Tisha B’Av looming and rumors that Iran and its proxies are planning to launch an attack on Israel on that very day next week! I never knew they were such good students of Jewish history.
This Shabbat is known as Shabbat Chazon, from the opening line of the third and final Haftarah of Rebuke read at this time of mourning, Chazon Yeshayahu—“The Vision of Isaiah.”
We may not be prophets, but we must all be visionaries.
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