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Beit Midrash
- Shabbat and Holidays
- The Three Weeks
- The Ninth of Av
For this reason, the month of our greatest calamity, the month in which the Beis HaMikdash was destroyed, is called Av (father). It reminds us that we have an Av HaRachaman, a Merciful Father in heaven, who cares enough about us to punish us in order to prevent us from committing spiritual suicide.
Perhaps this is one way to explain the concluding verse of Eichah, "For if You are truly disgusted with us, You have been excessively angry with us." If G-d were disgusted with us and sought to destroy us - then why the extended exile? Why bother with us so long? Destroy us and get it over with! From the length and extent of G-d's involvement with our exile, it is obvious that His intent is not to destroy us, but rather to guide us back to Him and to the Land of Israel and rebuild the Beis HaMikdash.
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Moreshet Shaul Hashem Is your Shadow – part I
Based on Siach Shaul, Pirkei Machshava V’Hadracha p. 420 – an address from 1941
P'ninat Mishpat A Non-Contractor in Changing Times – part I
(based on ruling 85128 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts)
Moreshet Shaul Our King on Rosh Hashana, Our Father on Yom Kippur.
Based on Aroch Siach, p. 221 (Rav Shaul Yisraeli)
P'ninat Mishpat A Non-Contractor in Changing Times – part II
(based on ruling 85128 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts)
Moreshet Shaul Hashem Is your Shadow – part II
Based on Siach Shaul, Pirkei Machshava V’Hadracha p. 420 – an address from 1941
Parashat Hashavua Happiness for the Right Reasons
[With painful longing, we share these divrei Torah from our co-Rosh Kollel for close to 40 years, Harav Moshe Ehrenreich zt”l.]
