Av: The Month of Love
The first day of the month of Av appears in the Torah as the day of passing of Aharon, the High Priest. When Aharon passed...
Category : Av
The Lowest of the Low
On Tisha B’Av we reach the low point of the Jewish calendar. We sit on the ground and read the Book of Lamentations describing the...
Baseless Love?
During the days of mourning for the Temple, we must rectify the reason for the destruction. Our sages teach that the destruction of the Temple...
Can we be Happy and Sad Simultaneously?
How can we transform the mourning and sorrow over the destruction of the Temple into joy? The prophecies of doom to prophecies of comfort? The...
Ascent and Drawing Down of the Lion on Tisha B’Av
The sages say that the Mashiach is born on Tisha B’Av, the ninth of Av, the Jewish national day of mourning for the destroyed Temple....
The Arizal's Secret of Contraction and how to Talk to Souls
Rabbi Ginsburgh explains how we can apply the lofty teachings of the holy Arizal in our daily lives....
Up, Down and Mashiach on Tisha B’Av
The sages say that the Mashiach is born on Tisha B’Av (the 9th day of the month of Av). It is written that every new...
Shabbat Chazon: A Vision of the Temple
Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev taught that on Shabbat Chazon, the Shabbat that precedes the Ninth of Av, every one of us is shown a...
The true meaning behind our sorrows
After Tishah B’av we will entered the seven weeks of consolation, seven weeks in which God is viewed as comforting us for our losses, both on...
