3 weeks (Torah)

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17 Tammuz - 9 Av

These shiurim are dedicated in memory of Dr. William Major z"l.

Special Tisha B'Av Journal

Click here for audio shiurim on Megillat Eicha, by Dr. Yael Ziegler

Rav Yitzchak Levi	The Causes of the Destruction of the First Temple - Part 2
Rav Yitzchak Blau	Songs of Innocence and Experience
Rav Yitzchak Levi	The Causes of the Destruction of the First Temple - Part 1

In tribute to Gush Katif

Archives

For Mount Zion,
which is desolate;
foxes walk on it.

You, O Lord, rule forever,
Your throne for generations.

Why do You forget us forever,
Forsake us for so long.

Return us to You, God,
And we shall return;
Renew our days
as of old.

Halakha

Rav Avi Baumol		Tisha B'Av: A Day of Mourning, A Day of Teshuva
Rav Mordechai Friedman		The Three Weeks and the Nine Days
Rav Moshe Pinchuk		Tisha be-Av as a "Mo'ed"
Rav Shabtai Rappaport		The Ninth of Av and Rebuilding the Temple
Rav Yosef Zvi Rimon		Tish'a Be'av That Falls out on Sunday
Rav Yosef Zvi Rimon		Some Laws of the Nine Days
Rav Binyamin Tabory		Tearing Garments Upon Seeing the Cities of Judea
Rav Binyamin Tabory		Tisha Be-Av on Shabbat
Rav Moshe Taragin		Torah Reading at Mincha on Fast Days
Rav Moshe Taragin		Torah Study on Tisha B'Av
Rav Moshe Taragin		The Aveilut of Tisha B'Av
Rav Moshe Taragin		Blowing Trumpets on A Fast Day: Prayer and Unity
Rav Moshe Taragin		The Issur for an Avel to Attend a Simcha

Jewish Thought
Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik zt"l		Avelut Yeshanah and Avelut Chadashah: Historical and Individual Mourning
Rav Yehuda Amital		Why the Temple Was Destroyed
Rav Ezra Bick		Nevuchadnezer and Chizkiyahu
Rav Yitzchak Blau		Responding to Catastrophe
Rav Yitzchak Blau		The Placement of a Blemish and the Placement of an Aggada
Rav Gad Eldad		Tish’a Be-Av as a Festival
Rav Yitzchak Etshalom		Sinai and Tziyyon
Rav Yair Kahn		The Secret of Jewish Regeneration
Rav Elyakim Krumbein		You Comfort Me in Vain - A Clarification of the Connection Between Pesach and Tish'a B'Av
Rav Yaakov Medan		The Oral Law and the Secret of Eikha
Rav Yehuda Shaviv		Punishment and Hope: The Haftora for Tisha B'Av
Rav Yehuda Shaviv		"And Your Faithfulness in the Nights": Faith in Times of Distress
Rav Yehuda Shaviv		The Seven Haftarot of Consolation
Rav Yehuda Shaviv		From Mourning to Comfort
Rav Meir Spiegelman		I Am With Him in Distress
Rav Moshe Taragin		"Shall Kohen and Prophet be Slain in the Sanctuary?"
Rav Moshe Taragin		Eikha: A Verbal Capsule of Jewish History

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