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Tzom Gedaliah 20 articles

Jewish Holidays

Haftarah Helper: Fast Days (Ashkenazim)
Haftarah Helper: Fast Days (Ashkenazim)
Download PDF Fast Days (Ashkenazim): Isaiah 55:6–56:8 Ashkenazim read this Haftarah at Mincha on all fast days except for Yom Kippur.  (Sepharadim generally recite no Haftarah on these days.) This is...
Aug 3, 2020
By Zachary Beer and Rabbi Barry Kornblau
Creating a Legacy if One Has No Children
Creating a Legacy if One Has No Children
Haftorah for a Ta’anis Tzibbur Shiur provided courtesy of Torah Anytime
Oct 2, 2019
By Rabbi Daniel Glatstein
The Torah Reading Reveals Our Deficient State
The Torah Reading Reveals Our Deficient State
An Original Thought Shiur provided courtesy of Torah Anytime
Oct 2, 2019
By Rabbi Daniel Glatstein
The Failure to Mourn for Gedaliah Properly
The Failure to Mourn for Gedaliah Properly
The Failure to Mourn for Gedaliah Properly was Preserved in the Times of… Purim – The Astounding Revelation of the Chasam Sofer Shiur provided courtesy of Torah Anytime
Oct 2, 2019
By Rabbi Daniel Glatstein
The Four Fasts, Then & Now
The Four Fasts, Then & Now
The Gemara in Maseches Rosh HaShana (18b) says that there are three categories regarding the four fasts (of Asarah b’Teves, Shiva Asar b’Tamuz, Tisha b’Av, and Tzom Gedaliah) : 1) when there is gezeiras malchus (persecution) all four fasts are obligatory...
Nov 30, 2017
By Rav Mosheh Twersky HY"D
The Four Fast Days and Sefer Zechariah
The Four Fast Days and Sefer Zechariah
Why do we fast on Tisha B’av?  The primary answer, of course, is to remember the destruction of the Bet HaMikdash and Yerushalayim. Yet, according to the Navi Zechariah, not only...
Oct 3, 2017
By Rabbi Menachem Leibtag
Tzom Gedaliah: Liberating the Soul
Tzom Gedaliah: Liberating the Soul
Sep 24, 2017
By Rabbi Yochanan Bechhofer
Discipline: For the Sin We Committed Through Food & Drink
Discipline: For the Sin We Committed Through Food &...
“For the sin we committed before You by eating and drinking.” In the “Al Het” sin list we read multiple times over Yom Kippur, the appearance of a confession about eating...
Aug 23, 2012
By Dr. Erica Brown
Selichos Sichos: Tzom Gedaliah
Selichos Sichos: Tzom Gedaliah
Selichos Sichos: Tzom Gedaliah – presented by Rabbi Gavriel Price. An explanation of selicha #53. Between Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur Hashem makes his presence more accessible and therefore repentance, is...
Sep 7, 2007
By Rabbi Gavriel Price
Tzom Gedaliah
Tzom Gedaliah
Tzom Gedaliah commemorates the assassination of Gedaliah Ben Achikam, the Governor of Israel during the days of Nebuchadnezzar...
Jun 22, 2006
By OU Staff

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