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Jeremiah’s Journey: ruin, resilience, and redemption. How can we relate to aveilut yeshana? By realizing that all Jewish woe is interconnected. When Jeremiah expresses his pain, he is expressing our pain,...

Why do we read the book of Ruth on Shavuot and how do we understand the whole seduction story. Where is the story coming from? Learn the Book of Ruth with...

Rabbi Weil discusses 4 more Purim themes. Topics include Purim vs. Yomim Tovim and why didn’t Esther have to give up her life rather than sleeping with Achashverosh? For part 1...

Rabbi Weil discusses 6 Purim themes including who was Amalek and what was their philosophy. The label Amalek is not limited to a specific biological or ethnic group. For part 2...

On Yom Kippur at Mincha we read the book of Yonah. The message of Yonah is that even if your teshuva isn’t 100%, it still has an impact, you have to do something...

The Haftarah for the first day of Sukkot is taken from the book of Zechariah. It discusses the war of Gog uMagog & its aftermath, which the rabbis say will take...

The Poetry of the Pain: An Analysis of the Kinot. An analysis and exploration in themes of Eliezer Hakalir, one of the earliest and most prolific liturgical poets in Jewish history.

Rav Chaim Ilson presents insights of The Rav, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, into the Kinot of Tisha B’Av including some of the sources for his insights.

When we ask Eichah we are asking: “how did we get here”? We’re reminding ourselves that we weren’t always here & that we shouldn’t accept life in exile as the status quo....

Tisha B’Av is a day of mourning (aveilut) but is also very much a fast day (ta’anit tzibur). How do these 2 motifs interact? A shiur based on insights from Rav Soloveitchik.