Tisha B'Av is the saddest day on the Jewish calendar because of the incredible series of tragedies which occurred on that date throughout Jewish History. The following collection of educational material should help your observance and understanding of the day and the City it stands to mourn.

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Tisha B'Av 5767 - July 24, 2007
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Source Material
Kinot Resource Booklet
Full Rabbi Weismandel Kinoh

• Audio programs
• Video programs
  Includes past presentations by Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb

What is Tisha B'Av - What are Her Customs and Laws?
The Story of the Churban
Kamtza and Bar-Kamtza
The Love Story - A Tragedy with a Happy Ending

• The times of the "Avot," the Founding Fathers and the "Imahot," the Founding Mothers, of the Jewish People
• The period of the "Mishkan" in the Wilderness
• The "Mishkan" in "Eretz Yisrael"
• The attempt by David HaMelech to build a Temple
• The period of the First "Beit HaMikdash," the Holy Temple
• The period of the Second "Beit HaMikdash," the Holy Temple
• The period of the Third "Beit HaMikdash," the Holy Temple

Tiger at the Gates
The Fateful Meeting
Destruction and Desecration
Tragedy in Perspective
A Chronology of Destruction
Megillat Eicha
What Mourning Means: Reflections of Rav Soloveitchik zt"l on Tisha B'Av Rabbi Eliakim Koenigsberg
Commemoration of the Destruction Rabbi Asher Meir
It's a Mitzvah To Be Sad Rabbi Yaacov Haber
Tisha B'Av and Parshat Va'etchanan Rabbi Avrohom Gordimer
Tisha B'Av  and Sefer Iyov Rabbi Avrohom Gordimer
Tisha B'Av - The Haftarot of Consolation Rabbi Avrohom Gordimer
Tisha B'Av On Shabbat Rav Binyamin Tabory
Why The Land Was Lost Dr. Meir Tamari
Tisha B'Av & Pesach Rabbi Yehudah Shaviv
Visit Yerushalayim - Take an audio/visual trip through parts of the ancient Jewish Capital
Is Eicha" an Internal Jewish Matter?
Aveilut of Tisha B'Av Rabbi Moshe Taragin
Kinot Concepts Hebrew Institute of Riverdale
Reciting "Nachem" in the Grace After Meals
Shabbat Chazon
Tish'a B'Av Water Miracle of 1944
Words And The Ari's Last Days
Three Weeks at Har Etzion
Tisha B'Av at Ohr Somayach
Live Image of The Kotel (Western Wall)

AUDIO MATERIAL:
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Lectures on the Kinot and other Tisha B'Av topics on OURadio.org

Thoughts on Tisha B’Av
Rabbi Moshe Zywica

Kinnah #20 - “Hatei Elokai Oznecha”
Rabbi Aaron Cohen

Rosh Chodesh Menachem Av
Rabbi Yosef Grossman

Kinnah #25 - “Mi Yiten Roshi Mayim”
Rabbi Yaacov Lehrfield

Mourning Over Churban Pt 1
Rabbi Yosef Grossman

Kinnah #7 - “Eicha Atz’ta B"Apechah”
Rabbi Yehoshua Grunstein

Kinnah #21 - “Arzei HaLevanon”
Rabbi Shai Finkelstein

Kinnah #8 - “A’adeh ad Chug Shamayim”
Rabbi Elazar Muskin

Embrace Of The Angels
Rabbi Daniel Yolkut

Tisha B’av
Rabbi Moshe Krupka

Tisha B’Av
Rabbi Genack

Tisha B’Av
Rabbi Feivel Wagner

Tisha B’Av
Rabbi Hershel Welcher

Tisha B’Av
Rabbi Michael Taubes

Three Weeks
Rabbi Joseph Grunblatt

Three Weeks
Rabbi Larry Rothwachs

Three weeks
Rabbi Dovid Weinberger

Tefillah Shiur - Tisha B’av
Rabbi Weinreb

The Laws of Tisha B'Av
Rav Ovadia Yosef, Shlit'a

When Jews are Brothers
Rabbi Yaacov Haber

Megillat Eichah
Cantor P. Rabinowicz

What We Lost With The Temple
Rabbi Union

The Causes of Catastrophe
Rabbi Union

A Lack of Torah
Rabbi Union

Mourning The Churban
Rabbi Yosef Grossman

HARAV YOSEF DOV SOLOVEITCHIK ZT"L
THE RAV'S TISHA B'AV (1978):

The Rav sings Elee Tzion
Final Song of Tisha B'Av

Part 1 (85 minutes)
Part 2 (85 minutes)
Part 3 (85 minutes)
Part 4 (85 minutes)
Part 5 (33 minutes)

VIDEO MATERIAL:
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5763 - Living and Reliving the Experience of Catastrophe Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb View video and suggested readings

"Privileged to Grieve - Empowered to Grow" Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb Audio & Video   |   Audio Only

Piercing the Mechitza - with Rabbi Weinreb Part I Kinot from Baltimore on Tisha B'Av 5758 (1997) - Introduction

Piercing the Mechitza - with Rabbi Weinreb Part II Kinot from Baltimore on Tisha B'Av 5758 (1997) - Introduction

Tisha B'Av 5765 Mourning for what was, hurting for what is, believing in what will be.

Be Good for Nothing G-d built the whole world around chessed. Just like He gives, so too, He expects us to give.

Jerusalem Connections This program aims to inspire each and everyone of us to focus on Yerushaliyim and its meaning to the Jewish people. So that next year will realize the millennia-old dream of next year in Jerusalem.

Rabbi Jacob J. Schacter Part I Insights into the Kinot of Tisha B'Av with Rabbi Jacob J. Schacter - Introduction

Rabbi Jacob J. Schacter Part II Insights into the Kinot of Tisha B'Av with Rabbi Jacob J. Schacter - Part II of 2

Kinot
Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb
Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter

The Essence of The Two Temples
Shira Smiles

What Is A Jew?
A shocking documentary showing the level of Anti-Semitism of the public

Why Jews Make News?
A testimonial documentary on philanthropist Aaron Fuerstein

Some differences between Judaism & Christianity
From the Understanding Judaism Video Series

The OU would like to thank 613.org, Yeshivat Har Etzion, The Tanach Study Center, Yeshivat Ohr Somayach, and Yeshivat Or Hachaim for contributing to the content of this section.

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