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| A Letter to Jerusalem |
| By Yehudit Levy |
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| How does a person come to terms with the loss of his very life-source? Fortunately, we don't realize the true meaning of Tisha B'Av, or we'd lose our sanity... |
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| Up in Smoke |
| By Rivka Levy |
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| The "Chida" - Rabbi Chaim Yosef David Azulai, of blessed memory, says that by getting rid of needless physical excesses, we rid ourselves of spiritual excesses... |
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| Why The Three Weeks? |
| By Rabbi Shalom Arush |
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| To this day, we as a nation are still suffering. Why? Hashem said the the Jews would be punished for posterity because of crying, whining, and complaining… |
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| Between the Days of Distress |
| By Rabbi Binyomin Adilman |
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| The Three Weeks is a time to strengthen ourselves and not to allow sadness and despair to let us fall into the trap of laziness and neglect in our Divine service. |
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| Radiated Pain |
| By Rabbi Lazer Brody |
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| We all have our ills, whether physical, emotional, spiritual, or interpersonal. Many think that a raise in salary or relief of our localized problem will end our ills. Wrong… |
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| The Three Weeks Again |
| By Rabbi Lazer Brody |
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| The ugliest phenomenon around is intramural Jewish hate. So many Jews allow themselves the luxury of hating other Jews that don't look and think like they do… |
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| Carton of Eggs |
| By Chaya Golda Ovadia |
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| Why does the meal we eat before beginning the fast of Tisha B’Av, the Seudat Mafseket, customarily includes a hardboiled egg dipped in ashes? |
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| Pay Attention, Child! |
| By Rabbi Lazer Brody |
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| Hashem wants us to assess ourselves daily and try our best to understand, internalize, and implement His Divine messages that come to us via the stimuli of our world… |
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| The Lesson of 17 Tammuz |
| By Rabbi Pinchas Winston |
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| Half-kosher is both beguiling and ultimately destructive because it is the biggest threat to Jewish continuity, since Jews pursue it with a false sense of confidence… |
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| The Treasured People |
| By Rabbi Pinchas Winston |
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| “Tzion”, or Zion, may be truly defined as a Torah nation living within the borders of Eretz Yisroel, uncontested by ANY nation. Tzion is the ultimate state of the Jewish people… |
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| Jerusalem, Center Stage |
| By Rabbi Pinchas Winston |
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| Whether we like it or not, and whether we are ready for it or not, Jerusalem and the Temple are drawing Jews after them onto the world stage, and back into our past… |
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| The Egg and Tisha B’Av |
| By Rabbi Lazer Brody |
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| What’s behind the centuries-old Ashkenazic custom for the Seudat Mafseket, the concluding meal before Tisha B’Av, of eating hardboild eggs dipped in ashes? |
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| The Heart of Judaism |
| By Rabbi Lazer Brody |
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| The heart’s pain radiates throughout the body. In similar fashion, all of a Jew’s troubles are radiated pain from the destruction of the Holy Temple. |
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| Exile and the Dove |
| By Rabbi Pinchas Winston |
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| Here, in Israel, we know we’re in exile. We can feel it. The worst exile is the one you don’t feel, for that means you’ve lost touch with Jewish destiny. |
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