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...
Category : Tisha B'Av
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...
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...
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 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...
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....
