I stand with my little brother Nitzan and cousin Aravah on the I stand with my little brother Nitzan and cousin Aravah on the Mount of Olives and look through my binoculars at the city of Jerusalem Can you imagine what this used to look like long ago Aravah says There were no cars or roads All of Jerusalem was inside those walls The rest was open fields and trees And the Temple stood over there in the Old City
Did you ever go to the Temple Nitzan asks her Aravah laughs No It was destroyed thousands of years ago But we remember it every year on Tisha B’Av which starts tonight calls It’s time to move on to our next stop in our Tisha B’Av tour Before we go Aravah snaps a selfie of us with Jerusalem in the background How can we remember something we never experienced I wonder Let’s go kids my aunt
