Amidah-Tisha b’Av-Rashbi: Yerushalayim: Rest Your Presence

“V’Tishkon b’tocha,” Rest Your Presence in Jerusalem: Rabbi Shimon was one day walking through the gate of Tiberius when he saw some men drawing the bow tight over earthenware pots. He cried: “What! Do these miscreants dare to provoke their Master so openly?” He scowled at them, and they were thrown into the sea and drowned. Take note that every sin which is committed openly repells the Divine Presence and causes her to remove her place from this world.