http://www.breslev.co.il/rss/articles.ashx?id=180&language=englishenBreslev RSS Feedshttp://www.breslev.co.il/Images/breslev.jpghttp://www.breslev.co.il?language=english<p><a href="http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/three_weeks/carton_of_eggs.aspx?id=16535&language=english"<img border="0" src="http://www.breslev.co.il/FilesUpload/Articles/16535.jpg" alt="Carton of Eggs" title="Carton of Eggs" /></a> <br clear="all" /><br clear="all" />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?</p><br clear="all" />http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/three_weeks/carton_of_eggs.aspx?id=16535&language=englishhttp://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/three_weeks/carton_of_eggs.aspx?id=16535&language=english<p><a href="http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/three_weeks/pay_attention__child.aspx?id=16469&language=english"<img border="0" src="http://www.breslev.co.il/FilesUpload/Articles/16469.jpg" alt="Pay Attention, Child!" title="Pay Attention, Child!" /></a> <br clear="all" /><br clear="all" />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…</p><br clear="all" />http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/three_weeks/pay_attention__child.aspx?id=16469&language=englishhttp://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/three_weeks/pay_attention__child.aspx?id=16469&language=english<p><a href="http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/three_weeks/the_lesson_of_17_tammuz.aspx?id=16190&language=english"<img border="0" src="http://www.breslev.co.il/FilesUpload/Articles/16190.jpg" alt="The Lesson of 17 Tammuz" title="The Lesson of 17 Tammuz" /></a> <br clear="all" /><br clear="all" />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…</p><br clear="all" />http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/three_weeks/the_lesson_of_17_tammuz.aspx?id=16190&language=englishhttp://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/three_weeks/the_lesson_of_17_tammuz.aspx?id=16190&language=english<p><a href="http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/three_weeks/the_treasured_people.aspx?id=12429&language=english"<img border="0" src="http://www.breslev.co.il/FilesUpload/Articles/12429.jpg" alt="The Treasured People" title="The Treasured People" /></a> <br clear="all" /><br clear="all" />“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…</p><br clear="all" />http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/three_weeks/the_treasured_people.aspx?id=12429&language=englishhttp://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/three_weeks/the_treasured_people.aspx?id=12429&language=english<p><a href="http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/three_weeks/jerusalem__center_stage.aspx?id=12305&language=english"<img border="0" src="http://www.breslev.co.il/FilesUpload/Articles/12305.jpg" alt="Jerusalem, Center Stage" title="Jerusalem, Center Stage" /></a> <br clear="all" /><br clear="all" />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…</p><br clear="all" />http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/three_weeks/jerusalem__center_stage.aspx?id=12305&language=englishhttp://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/three_weeks/jerusalem__center_stage.aspx?id=12305&language=english<p><a href="http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/three_weeks/the_egg_and_tisha_bav.aspx?id=9623&language=english"<img border="0" src="http://www.breslev.co.il/FilesUpload/Articles/9623.jpg" alt="The Egg and Tisha B’Av" title="The Egg and Tisha B’Av" /></a> <br clear="all" /><br clear="all" />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?</p><br clear="all" />http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/three_weeks/the_egg_and_tisha_bav.aspx?id=9623&language=englishhttp://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/three_weeks/the_egg_and_tisha_bav.aspx?id=9623&language=english<p><a href="http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/three_weeks/the_heart_of_judaism.aspx?id=9566&language=english"<img border="0" src="http://www.breslev.co.il/FilesUpload/Articles/9566.jpg" alt="The Heart of Judaism" title="The Heart of Judaism" /></a> <br clear="all" /><br clear="all" />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.</p><br clear="all" />http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/three_weeks/the_heart_of_judaism.aspx?id=9566&language=englishhttp://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/three_weeks/the_heart_of_judaism.aspx?id=9566&language=english<p><a href="http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/three_weeks/exile_and_the_dove.aspx?id=9517&language=english"<img border="0" src="http://www.breslev.co.il/FilesUpload/Articles/9517.jpg" alt="Exile and the Dove" title="Exile and the Dove" /></a> <br clear="all" /><br clear="all" />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.</p><br clear="all" />http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/three_weeks/exile_and_the_dove.aspx?id=9517&language=englishhttp://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/three_weeks/exile_and_the_dove.aspx?id=9517&language=english<p><a href="http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/three_weeks/kamtza_and_bar_kamtza.aspx?id=9518&language=english"<img border="0" src="http://www.breslev.co.il/FilesUpload/Articles/9518.jpg" alt="Kamtza and Bar Kamtza" title="Kamtza and Bar Kamtza" /></a> <br clear="all" /><br clear="all" />When spiritual insensitivity festers it poisons the entire mind, until one's belief in G-d becomes terribly distorted. This leads to destruction…</p><br clear="all" />http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/three_weeks/kamtza_and_bar_kamtza.aspx?id=9518&language=englishhttp://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/three_weeks/kamtza_and_bar_kamtza.aspx?id=9518&language=english<p><a href="http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/three_weeks/napoleon_and_tisha_bav.aspx?id=9519&language=english"<img border="0" src="http://www.breslev.co.il/FilesUpload/Articles/9519.jpg" alt="Napoleon and Tisha B’Av" title="Napoleon and Tisha B’Av" /></a> <br clear="all" /><br clear="all" />Jerusalem is the central issue as history winds down; more specifically, the Temple Mount. Jerusalem and the Temple draw Jews like a magnet to the center of the world stage…</p><br clear="all" />http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/three_weeks/napoleon_and_tisha_bav.aspx?id=9519&language=englishhttp://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/three_weeks/napoleon_and_tisha_bav.aspx?id=9519&language=english<p><a href="http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/three_weeks/prophesies_of_redemption.aspx?id=1587&language=english"<img border="0" src="http://www.breslev.co.il/FilesUpload/Articles/1587.jpg" alt="Prophesies of Redemption" title="Prophesies of Redemption" /></a> <br clear="all" /><br clear="all" />A voice cries out: Clear a way [for] Hashem in the wilderness; pave a highway for our God in the desert. Every valley shall be lifted up, and every…</p><br clear="all" />http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/three_weeks/prophesies_of_redemption.aspx?id=1587&language=englishhttp://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/three_weeks/prophesies_of_redemption.aspx?id=1587&language=english<p><a href="http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/three_weeks/national_recuperation.aspx?id=12493&language=english"<img border="0" src="http://www.breslev.co.il/FilesUpload/Articles/12493.jpg" alt="National Recuperation" title="National Recuperation" /></a> <br clear="all" /><br clear="all" />A person with a fever becomes weak, droopy-eyed, and unusually tired. He’s forced to take it easy until he regains his strength once again. A nation is much the same…</p><br clear="all" />http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/three_weeks/national_recuperation.aspx?id=12493&language=englishhttp://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/three_weeks/national_recuperation.aspx?id=12493&language=english<p><a href="http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/three_weeks/news_in_the_mikva.aspx?id=12362&language=english"<img border="0" src="http://www.breslev.co.il/FilesUpload/Articles/12362.jpg" alt="News in the Mikva" title="News in the Mikva" /></a> <br clear="all" /><br clear="all" />The world wants to take Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria away from us, and uproot 300,000 Jews from their homes, G-d forbid! Can we afford the “luxury” of intramural hate?</p><br clear="all" />http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/three_weeks/news_in_the_mikva.aspx?id=12362&language=englishhttp://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/three_weeks/news_in_the_mikva.aspx?id=12362&language=english<p><a href="http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/three_weeks/waiting_for_the_redemption.aspx?id=1581&language=english"<img border="0" src="http://www.breslev.co.il/FilesUpload/Articles/1581.jpg" alt="Waiting For The Redemption" title="Waiting For The Redemption" /></a> <br clear="all" /><br clear="all" />When the Temple was destroyed, we didn't just lose a magnificent building, we lost a spiritual connection to the Almighty, a closeness that we can only yearn...</p><br clear="all" />http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/three_weeks/waiting_for_the_redemption.aspx?id=1581&language=englishhttp://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/three_weeks/waiting_for_the_redemption.aspx?id=1581&language=english<p><a href="http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/three_weeks/a_model_lesson.aspx?id=1582&language=english"<img border="0" src="http://www.breslev.co.il/FilesUpload/Articles/1582.jpg" alt="A Model Lesson" title="A Model Lesson" /></a> <br clear="all" /><br clear="all" />We must not cry over something that we put together over a few weeks. We must cry tonight for the loss that is close to 2,000 years.'</p><br clear="all" />http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/three_weeks/a_model_lesson.aspx?id=1582&language=englishhttp://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/three_weeks/a_model_lesson.aspx?id=1582&language=english<p><a href="http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/three_weeks/yearnings.aspx?id=1583&language=english"<img border="0" src="http://www.breslev.co.il/FilesUpload/Articles/1583.jpg" alt="Yearnings" title="Yearnings" /></a> <br clear="all" /><br clear="all" />The sun was rapidly setting. Some of the passengers started davening Minchah. Others were quietly reciting Tehillim. And some, like me, were sitting...</p><br clear="all" />http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/three_weeks/yearnings.aspx?id=1583&language=englishhttp://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/three_weeks/yearnings.aspx?id=1583&language=english<p><a href="http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/three_weeks/the_halachot_of_tisha_bav.aspx?id=1584&language=english"<img border="0" src="http://www.breslev.co.il/FilesUpload/Articles/1584.jpg" alt="The Halachot of Tisha B'Av" title="The Halachot of Tisha B'Av" /></a> <br clear="all" /><br clear="all" />The third chapter of the Talmudic tractate Moed Katan, which deals with mourning and excommunication, and other parts of the Talmud dealing with the destruction of the Temples...</p><br clear="all" />http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/three_weeks/the_halachot_of_tisha_bav.aspx?id=1584&language=englishhttp://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/three_weeks/the_halachot_of_tisha_bav.aspx?id=1584&language=english<p><a href="http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/three_weeks/time_line.aspx?id=1585&language=english"<img border="0" src="http://www.breslev.co.il/FilesUpload/Articles/1585.jpg" alt="Time Line" title="Time Line" /></a> <br clear="all" /><br clear="all" />The major events leading up to the destruction of the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem...</p><br clear="all" />http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/three_weeks/time_line.aspx?id=1585&language=englishhttp://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/three_weeks/time_line.aspx?id=1585&language=english<p><a href="http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/three_weeks/the_tragedies_of_tisha_bav.aspx?id=1586&language=english"<img border="0" src="http://www.breslev.co.il/FilesUpload/Articles/1586.jpg" alt="The Tragedies of Tisha b'AV" title="The Tragedies of Tisha b'AV" /></a> <br clear="all" /><br clear="all" />The First Temple was destroyed because the Jewish people had consistently violated three major prohibitions: idol worship, murder and forbidden sexual relations...</p><br clear="all" />http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/three_weeks/the_tragedies_of_tisha_bav.aspx?id=1586&language=englishhttp://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/three_weeks/the_tragedies_of_tisha_bav.aspx?id=1586&language=english<p><a href="http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/three_weeks/what_you_see_is_what_you_get.aspx?id=2178&language=english"<img border="0" src="http://www.breslev.co.il/FilesUpload/Articles/2178.jpg" alt="What You See Is What You Get" title="What You See Is What You Get" /></a> <br clear="all" /><br clear="all" />Yet what was so terrible about not understanding the Divine command? Don't we all sometimes mistakes? Why should the entire Jewish People have had...</p><br clear="all" />http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/three_weeks/what_you_see_is_what_you_get.aspx?id=2178&language=englishhttp://www.breslev.co.il/articles/holidays_and_fast_days/three_weeks/what_you_see_is_what_you_get.aspx?id=2178&language=english