English translation — עמוד 1087

Furthermore: the Shabbats during the Three Weeks, their content is

(as the Tzemach Tzedek said)

healing

(before the blow)

– they must heal the blow of the destruction: it is not merely a matter of Shabbat,

in whose level there is no destruction,

rather the Shabbats come and are drawn down into the Three Weeks,

in order to make of them a "boundless inheritance".

That is,

that the Shabbats are higher than the Shabbats of the entire year.

All the Shabbats of the year are above the chain of descent,

and therefore no sin touches them and they have nothing to do with exile,

but these Shabbats are also a healing,

they heal and transform the Three Weeks,

the exile itself; they reveal the inner content of the exile itself,

how it is a preparation for the redemption.

They are a foretaste of the "day that is entirely Shabbat",

about which in the future they will say "I will thank You, Hashem, for You were angry with me",

that the inner quality of the "You were angry" will be revealed,

of exile.

And also this matter is hinted at in the revealed [aspect of Torah],

until it is also expressed in a halachah: during the Shabbats of the Three Weeks one must, more than on other Shabbats of the year,

guard against the concern of mourning

(Someone who used to wear wooden shoes on Shabbat, and, may the Merciful One save us,

he asked his father,

whether he may wear the wooden shoes on the Shabbat that falls during the week of mourning.

His father ruled for him,

that he should not do so,

in order not to give any place for a concern of mourning on Shabbat)³².