Introducing you to deeper interpretations of the Three Weeks and Tisha B'Av.
Why We Mourn on Tisha B'Av - Fasting helps us deal with tragedy and to re-examine our lives by R. Shlomo Riskin, Founder and Dean of Ohr Torah Institutions and Chief Rabbi of Efrat, Israel.
The Aveilut/Mourning of Tisha B'Av: The aveilut of Tisha be-Av is patterned after the period of shiv'a. At first glance, no disparity between the two is noticed, but closer inspection reveals significant differences which help focus on the essence of moourning on Tisha be-Av aveilut and how it differs from individual aveilut. By Rav Moshe Taragin, Yeshivat Har Etzion. For Har Etzion's Three Weeks site, see Har Etzion's "If I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem".
Tammuz: Destruction & Correction: Rabbi Shimshon Raphael Hirsch comments that this Jewish mourning period of three weeks, beginning the seventeenth of Tammuz and lasting till the ninth of Av is to be taken as an unfolding
drama and not as high points of isolated afflictions. In other words, the very historical fact of military defeat at the hands of the
Babylonians or the Romans was not the last word...Find out more.
And Rabbi Akiva Laughed - He understood the real meaning of laughter by Rabbi Reuven Subar, Yeshivat Ohr Somayach
Burn, Baby, Burn - You can burn books, but not fire, with fire by Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair, Yeshivat Ohr Somayach
"Thoughts on Tisha B'Av" - What is the real meaning of sinas chinam, unrespited hate?
Based on a lecture by Rabbi Yochanan Zweig, Yeshivat Ohr Somayach
Tisha B'Av: Spirals in Time - The tragedies of Tisha B'Av seem unending Compiled by Rabbi Mordechai Becher, Yeshivat Ohr Somayach
Aish Hatorah's Tisha B'Av & The Three Weeks site: Discover what, when and why, Jewish Unity, Antisemitism & Suffering, The Holy Temple, The Western Wall, The Western Wall & Jerusalem with Aish Hatorah.
