Rabbi Weinreb: Tisha B’av Kinot 5766
Based on a verse in Isaiah chapter 40, the Midrash says that the Jewish people sinned double, suffered double, and are comforted double. What is the significance of the double motif? Recorded...
Jun 29, 2010
By Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb
OU Tisha B’Av Video 5765
Mourning for what was, hurting for what is, believing in what will be. The OU’s Tisha B’av Video for 5765 featuring Rav Hershel Schachter, Rabbi Dr. JJ Schacter, and Rabbi Dr. Tzvi...
Jun 28, 2010
By Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb
An Analysis of the 10th Kinah: The Mishmarot Kehunah
Mourning the Loss of the Communities: On Tisha B’Av we mourn the loss of individual communities, including the 24 communities of kohanim, priests, who were the leaders & educators. Presented by Rabbi Steven...
Jun 24, 2010
By Rabbi Steven Weil
Rabbi Weinreb: Kinot 5760 – Old Fires of Destruction...
Rabbi Weinreb’s Kinot on Tisha B’Av 5760 (2000). The cycle of Jewish History begins with the covenant (brit bein habetarim) God made with Avraham. A central concept in Judaism is covenant. But...
Jun 8, 2010
By Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb
Rabbi Weinreb: Tisha B’av Kinot 5757
Piercing the Mechitza Shel Barzel: From the day the Bet HaMikdash was destroyed an iron wall separates us from God. What does this mean to us living in this generation? Delivered in Baltimore...
Jun 6, 2010
By Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb
Rabbi Weinreb: Tisha B’av 5769 – Evil, Our Enemy...
In his introduction Rabbi Weinreb quotes the Maharal. He says that redemption cannot come from falsehood; only from pure unadulterated honesty; from the simple truth. “Evil, Our Enemy” – Tisha B’Av Kinot...
Aug 12, 2009
By Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb
The Sinai Connection: Parshat Devarim, Shiva Asar B’Tammuz &...
What is the common theme among the 5 events that happened on the 17th of Tammuz? What is the common theme among the 5 events that happened on the Tisha B’Av?
Jul 23, 2009
By Esther Wein
Devarim: Serenity and Desire
Tisha B’av and Devarim (the parsha) make appropriate bedfellows. Chazal find in Moshe’s eicha complaint echoes of Yirmiyahu and future lamentations. Thus the prevalent minhag of chanting that verse in the...
Jul 22, 2009
By Rabbi Asher Brander.
A Nation’s Loss: National Mourning in the Jewish Tradition
NATIONAL MOURNING IN THE JEWISH TRADITION The news of a loved one’s death utterly transforms us and our perception of the world. A young man, returning to his studies after being...
Jul 7, 2009
By Rabbi Eliyahu Safran
Sleepless Sermon: Shabbat Nachamu 5768
How do we call the Shabbat after Tisha B’Av “Nachamu” if we stated in Eicha “Ein Menachem”?
Aug 14, 2008
By Rabbi Shalom Hammer
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