As a child, I very much enjoyed playing with lego.

Until today, I love to watch my sons enjoying to build and create. I often find myself joining them on the floor as we build something together.

Mendel is especially fascinated with building tall towers which he calls microphones and then he sings and dances around them.

All is calm and happy until the tower falls and breaks. The sadness, the tears, and the pleas for help to rebuild are overwhelming.

And the only comfort is when we build something even taller.

Why am I sharing this with you?

Today is Tisha B'av, the saddest day on the Jewish calendar. It is the day that the holy temples in Jerusalem were destroyed and this long ongoing exile and persecution began.

Throughout the generations, even in the darkest of times, the above analogy comforted our parents and grandparents as they grappled with antisemitism and hardship.

G-d will not destroy, if He did not intend to build something greater in its place. The longer and more difficult it is, the greater and more beautiful the outcome will be.

Just as it is in the Macro- the world, so too in the Micro- any challenges life throws at us, throughout all the ups and downs, we need to remember that demolition is a part of construction. G-d is a master builder. We may not know the plan, but He definitely has one.