Magical Awakenings The 9 Days & Tisha Ba'Av

וַיִקַץ , "And he woke up" – Magical Awakenings! We find this word associated with individuals who took their dreams and immediately put them into action. In each case, it was carried out through an act of tefillah (prayer). While many understand the words, הָיִינוּ כְּחֹלְמִים, "we were like dreamers", to mean that when Mashiach (the Messiah) comes we will look back to the years of exile as a mere dream, we can learn from our Patriarch Jacob and King Solomon that the way we wake up from a dream contains the key for us to grow within the greatest challenges. — HaRav Simcha Leib Weinberg Partners in Prayer attempts to reify those moments of “magical awakenings” from all these dreams. הָיִינוּ כְּחֹלְמִים, all our transcendent moments will be guiding us in furthering our dreams and transforming them into the most beautiful prayers. Each prayer serves as a brick in physically rebuilding the Bais Hamikdash (the Temple), in which King Solomon planted in our souls.