The Torah reading for Tisha B’Av comes from Parshat Va’etchanan. It speaks of the time when we will be living peacefully in the land for an extended period of time. It is described as a time when you will be, “Old in the land.”

There is a warning here to stay away from complacency. There is a natural tendency of forgetting the source for the good life we are living. When things are going well, and we are living on a........

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