Always Following The Correct Path

השם בדד ינחנו - Hashem guides us alone [Dvarim 32/12] - Even in the galus as it says איכה ישבה בדד  - How did [Yerushalayim] sit alone? Regardless, Hashem is with us always, as it says [tehillim 139/10] גם שם ידך תנחני - Even there [in the galus] Your Hand will guide us. Only Hashem guides us. ואין עמו אל נכר [Dvarim 32/12] - There is no foreign god. 

בדד is an acronym for בכל דרכיך דעהו [Mishlei 3/6] - In all of your ways know Him. "All" includes the galus where the path is often crooked. Nevertheless, the Jew follows Hashem there too, and that will result in והוא יישר אורחותיך [Mishlei 3/6] - He will straighten your path. All of the crooked paths of the galus were given to the Jewish people so that they can straighten them out.

Shabbos is the witness that we always follow Hashem, as it says ביני ובין בני ישראל אות היא  - Between Me and the Jewish People it [Shabbos] is a sign. That explains why if Tisha B'av falls out on Shabbos it is pushed off until the next day. On Shabbos we are already following Hashem and we don't need the painful lesson of Tisha B'av and following Hashem even in the galus.....

[A Torah said by the Sfas Emes, Parshas Dvarim in the year 1900]

לע"נ ידידי אהובי ר' יואל בן ר' פנחס הלוי שאתו התפללתי בתשעה באב