It takes a lot longer to clear up a mess than it does to make one

1. It takes a lot longer to clear up a mess than it does to make one

2. “The meal's complete when the kitchen's neat”

6. The worst environmental disaster in US history

8. It takes a lot longer to clear up a mess than it does to make one.

10. בַּחֹדֶשׁ הָרְבִיעִי בְּתִשְׁעָה לַחֹדֶשׁ וַיֶּחֱזַק הָרָעָב בָּעִיר וְלֹא־הָיָה לֶחֶם לְעַם הָאָרֶץ: ז וַתִּבָּקַע הָעִיר וְכָל־אַנְשֵׁי הַמִּלְחָמָה יִבְרְחוּ וַיֵּצְאוּ מֵהָעִיר לַיְלָה דֶּרֶךְ שַׁעַר בֵּין־הַחֹמֹתַיִם אֲשֶׁר עַל־גַּן הַמֶּלֶךְ וְכַשְׂדִּים עַל־הָעִיר סָבִיב וַיֵּלְכוּ דֶּרֶךְ הָעֲרָבָה: 6. And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land. 7. Then the city was breached, and all the men of war fled, and went out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king’s garden; now the Chaldeans were around the city; and they went by the way of the Arabah. Jeremiah 52:6-7

11. 9th Tammuz On the 9th Tammuz in the year 3338 (586 BCE), theBabylonian armies of King Nebuchadnezar breached the walls of Yerushalayim and King Tzidkiyahuwas captured and taken to Bavel. A month later the capture of Yerushalayimwas finished with the destruction of the First BeisHamikdash and the exile of most Jews to Bavel. The 9th of Tammuz was observed as a fast day until the second breaching of Jerusalem's walls by the Romans on the 17th of Tammuz in the Hebrew year 3830 (70 CE), at which time the Rabbis moved the fast to that date.

12. It took a month to capture Yerushalayim, but 70 years to rebuild the first BeisHamikdash

13. It took a just 3 weeks to capture Yerushalayim in the second BeisHamikdash period, and we have waited nearly 2000 years for a third BeisHamikdash .

14. We sinned against G-d and the first BeisHamikdash was destroyed. We sinned against each other and the second BeisHamikdash was destroyed.

15. It takes a lot longer to clear up a mess than it does to make one