Rabbi Chaim Ilson: Tisha B’av Kinot 5775 – Part...
According to Rav Soloveitchik, Tisha B’Av is about crying. Kinot is supposed to bring us to fully understand the real calamity – the absence of Divine Providence. Click here for part...
The Person-to-Person Dimension of the Churban (Tisha B’Av 5769)
Of the many dimensions to the loss of the Beit HaMikdash the person-to-person aspect that it represents – discord and disharmony is the most tragic and it is this last aspect...
By Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb
Churban HaBayis: Severed From Our Anchor
What is it about the destruction of the Beit HaMikdash that makes it the beginning of the exile, the Jews still lived in their land? What is galus (exile)?
By Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer
Crooked Perspective: The Cause of Destruction
The meraglim didn’t lie when they reported back to the people on the first Tisha B’Av. If so, what was their sin? How does this relate to the destruction of the Beit HaMikdash?
By Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer
Crying Over 2,000 Years Later – Why?
Chazal say that any generation that doesn’t merit to see the rebuilding of the Bet HaMikdash it’s as if they destroyed it. Why is that fair?
By Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer
Tisha B’Av: The Day the Wormhole Collapsed
The Beit HaMikdash is transdimensional; it is at the center of all the dimensions. As a result, it acts as portal to tap into other, metaphysical dimensions.
By Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer
Tisha B’Av: The Destruction is Here and Now
Plato asked Yirmiyahu why he continued to mourn over the Beit HaMikdash -it’s not the way of wisdom? Why do we, in fact, mourn over the churban more than we do for...
By Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer
Tisha B’av Webcast 5776 – Rabbi Steven Weil
Mourning The Victims of Entebbe 40 Years later and the Holocaust victims of Lita 75 Years Later with Rabbi Weil from Boca Raton Synagogue (HD) In his intro to Kinot Rabbi...
VaYigdal Moshe on Tisha b’Av
Seichel and Beis HaMikdash Chazal say that someone who has deiah it is as if the Beis HaMikdash was rebuilt in his days (Sanhedrin 92a). How are we to understand this? Why is...
By Rav Mosheh Twersky HY"D
Tisha b’Av Kinot 5776: Rav Chaim Ilson
In his introduction Rav Ilson asks several questions: Tisha B’Av is a day of mourning yet the practices & halachot of Tisha B’Av seem to go against all the basic rules...
