Video 1128 articles

“Woe to the Children”: The kinot make almost little mention of the loss of the Bet HaMikdash. Most focus on 2 themes: Jewish suffering & desecration of God’s name (chillul Hashem). Recorded...

“Grappling With Destruction”: On Tisha B’Av we re-experience a funeral, the destruction of the Beit HaMikdash & other tragedies throughout Jewish history through the kinot & prophets. Rabbi Weil’s Kinot from...

Presented by Rabbi Steven Weil as part of the World of Western Mediterranean Jewry Series.

The personal losses of the churban – The Death of the Righteous: The Tragedy of the Deaths of Yoshiyahu HaMelech, The Children of Rabbi Yishmael, and the Ten Martyrs – Presented...

In Tisha B’Av Kinah 25 we mourn the loss of the Jews of the Rhineland, the center of Judaism, including Speyer, Worms, & Mainz in the First Crusade. OU Tisha B’Av...

In the first Haftarah of the 3 weeks preceding Tisha B’Av Jeremiah is called upon to warn the people that the destruction of the Beit HaMikdash is coming. Haftorahman brings you...

We don’t know where Har Sinai is, unlike most other places in Tanach. This deemphasizes the location and further emphasize the content. Rabbi Taub also discusses similarities to the mishkan. A shiur...

The Haftarah for the first day of Shavuot is Yechezkel’s vision of the Merkavah (chariot). Haftorahman explains why Chazal choose it for this day. Haftorahman brings you a shiur on this...

In the haftarah the Jews complain Hashem is abandoning them. God responds: “I didn’t abandon you, you didn’t follow the Torah which I gave you!” Haftorahman brings you a shiur on this...

The two faces of Eliyahu HaNavi: We are presented with two diametrically opposed pictures of Eliyahu HaNavi (one in Tanach and one in Chazal). How do we reconcile the two opposite...