The Three Weeks: What A Mistake
On Shabbat Mattot — which always falls during the days of The Three Weeks, in which we mourn the destruction of the Temple — we...
Category : Av
Parashat Devarim-Chazon: From Destruction to Redemption
This Shabbat has a special name, Shabbat Chazon, the “Shabbat of Vision,” named after the Haftarah, the reading from the books of the Prophets, which...
Insight Into the Three Weeks
This past week, we commemorated the fast day of the 17th of Tammuz, Yud Zayin BeTammuz, and in another three weeks, we will commemorate another...
Av: The Sense of Hearing
Among the twelve soul-senses, the sense corresponding to the month of Av is the sense of hearing. What does a soul-sense of hearing mean? At...
Crying Ahead
The days of destruction are days of weeping – "She weeps bitterly in the night and her tear is on her cheek; she has no...
Do We Really Yearn for the Past?
Kedem or Kadimah? On Tisha B’av we read the Book of Lamentations,[1] the scroll composed by the prophet Jeremiah about the siege of Jerusalem and...
Partzuf: The Three Main Defense Mechanisms and Ending Exile
Projection and other Defense Mechanisms In parashat Devarim, we find a verse that reflects the psychological defense mechanism known as projection, “Because of God’s hate...
Mourning and Inner Return
Is mourning a release of tension and raising of hands in surrender, a time of processing, or a call to a different kind of inner...
The Good of Av
According to Kabbalah, each month of the year was created with a special letter, and the letter of the month of Menachem-Av is Tet (numerical...
A Match Made on Earth: The Forgotten Jewish Matchmaking Festival
Ever heard of Tu B’Av? Alongside Yom Kippur it was once a joyous Jewish matchmaking festival. Comparing the two days teaches us profound lessons on...
