 Kinah 5. “B’leil zeh yivkayun v’yeililu banai – on this night, my children weep and wail.”
This Kinah is recited by the Ribono Shel Olam, the Creator of the Universe and the Orchestrator of the Destruction of the Temples.
“On this night, my house was destroyed and my Palaces burnt down; so let the whole house of Israel moan in my grief and bewail the burning which the Lord has kindled.”
And the refrain:
“B’leil zeh yivkayun v’yeililu banai – on this night, my children weep and wail.”
When Miraim and Aaron spoke Loshon Hora (gossip) about Moshe,
“The wrath of Hashem flared up against them, and He left.
The cloud had departed from atop the Tent, and behold! Miriam was afflicted with Tzaraas, like snow!
Aaron turned to Miriam and behold! She was afflicted with Tzaraas.” (Numbers: 9,10)
The last sentence is superfluous. The Torah (written by God) already testified that Miriam was a Metzorah (one afflicted with Tzaraas). Why was it necessary to tell us that:
“Aaron turned to Miriam and behold! She was afflicted with Tzaraas” ?
This verse tells us the punishment of Aaron for listening to his sister, Miriam’s Loshon Hora about their brother Moshe.
Aaron’s punishment was that he had to declare his own sister a Metzorah.
I believe Aaron’s punishment was greater than Miriam’s, because his declaration caused her to have to leave the camp for seven days and the entire Jewish Nation had to wait for her.
So I ask you:
Whose punishment was greater when the Beis HaMikdash was destroyed – ours . . . or the Ribono Shel Olam’s?
Psalms 91 says:
“Emo anochi betzarah – I am with him in times of distress . . .”
Hashem is crying – He had to destroy his own house because of our sins.
In the refrain, “B’leil zeh yivkayun v’yeililu banai” , the first word, b’leil and the fifth word, v’yeililu, are both rooted in the word lailah meaning night, darkness, suffering.
This is a very dark kind of wailing – one of total despair, anguish, of desperation, of giving up hope.
The same kind of crying and wailing the B’nei Yisroel did in the Wilderness when the Spies gave their evil report.
We are reliving the event. We are in our Limbic systems, stuck in the emotions, the torment and the anguish of the Night of the Spies.
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