Rav Chaim Ilson: Tisha B’av Kinot 5774
Rav Chaim Ilson presents insights of The Rav, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, into the Kinot of Tisha B’Av including some of the sources for his insights.
Hilchos Tisha B’Av
The following is meant as a convenient review of Halachos pertaining to Tisha B’Av. The Piskei Din for the most part are based purely on the Sugyos, Shulchan Aruch and Rama,...
By Rabbi Y. Dov Krakowski
Confronting Exile, Seeking Redemption
When we ask Eichah we are asking: “how did we get here”? We’re reminding ourselves that we weren’t always here & that we shouldn’t accept life in exile as the status quo....
Tisha B’av: A Day of Mourning and Fasting
Tisha B’Av is a day of mourning (aveilut) but is also very much a fast day (ta’anit tzibur). How do these 2 motifs interact? A shiur based on insights from Rav Soloveitchik.
Tisha B’Av: Personal Mourning & Communal Mourning
Rav Ilson discusses individual/”new mourning” (for a relative) and communal/”old mourning” for historical events, such as Tisha B’Av. The challenge of Tisha B’Av is that we can’t truly mourn what we...
Tisha B’av Kinot 5773: Rabbi Weinreb
In his introduction to Tisha B’Av Kinot, Rabbi Weinreb focuses on tzedakah & mishpat (righteousness & justice) as tools for recovery, tefillot for redemption.
By Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb
Tisha B’av Kinot 5773: Rabbi Weil
On Tisha B’Av we relive history we don’t merely recall it, similar to the Pesach Seder. Tisha B’Av is also a day of growth. Rabbi Weil focuses on the later kinot.
The Tisha B’Av That Wasn’t There
It’s about time. Megillas Esther is all about time. It’s all over the entire sefer, the whole book is chock-full of times. Everywhere you look in the Megillah, there is another referent to time....
Tisha B’Av: History and Laws
Tisha B’Av – The “ninth day” in the Jewish month of Av, which starts at sundown on the eighth day and concludes at sundown on the ninth day of Av. This...
Tisha B’av Kinot 5772: “Woe to the Children”
“Woe to the Children”: The kinot make almost little mention of the loss of the Bet HaMikdash. Most focus on 2 themes: Jewish suffering & desecration of God’s name (chillul Hashem). Recorded...
By Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb
