Beit Midrash Shabbat and Holidays The Three Weeks

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Av 4 5776 | Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff
Do the Clothes Make the Man? Not if They are Washed During the Nine Days!
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Av 1 5775 | Rabbi Eliezer Melamed
When Av Arrives, We Curtail Our Joy - but How?
A careful elucidation of the various expressions of ‘curtailing our joy’ - what is allowed and what is not.
Revivim The Three weeks
Av 1 5775 | Rabbi Stewart Weiss
Nine Days In Av
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3 Av 5768 | Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff
Where’s the Beef? - Eating Meat During the Nine Days
Halachot regarding the Nine days: marriage and Seudat Mitzva, eating meat and drinking wine, Shabbat leftovers, Havdala wine And the reward for observing the Nine days.
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Av 2 5768 | Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff
Explaining the Other Laws of the Three Weeks
Halachot that apply during the three weeks: marriage, dancing, playing and listening to music, singing and reciting the Shehechiyanu Bracha.
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Sivan 5768 | Rabbi Eliezer Melamed
Customs of the Three Weeks
The three weeks that begin on the night of the Seventeenth of Tammuz and continue until the Ninth of Av are days of national woefulness. The sages therefore advise being especially careful during this period, for it is a time designated for calamity.
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5768 | Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff
Shaving and Haircuts during the Three Weeks
When during the three weeks can I shave and have a haircut? What are the laws of mourning with regard to shaving?
The Three weeks Various Subjects
Rosh Chodesh Av | Rabbi Shlomo Fischer
The Significance of the Three Weeks
Mourning the Temple's destruction must be internal. A person cannot simply jump into the Ninth of Av. One must enter it gradually in order that his mourning be earnest. Therefore, the intensity of our mourning over the Temple's ruin grows gradually.
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Rabbi Eliezer Melamed
Remembering the Temple's Destruction
The sages ruled that when a person builds a house for himself and arrives at its final stage, the whitewashing of the walls, he must remember that the Holy Temple still lies in ruins. He must therefore leave a square cubit of wall without whitewash.
The Three weeks Jerusalem and The Holy Temple
Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu Zt"l
Laws Relating to the Three Weeks
If, during the Three Weeks, a person accidentally blessed "boreh pri ha'etz" over a new fruit, some authorities hold that the fruit should not be eaten. Others hold that pronouncing God's name in vain is a greater offense than eating the new fruit.
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23 Tamuz 5765 | Rabbi Yossef Carmel
Parashat Matot The Words of Yirmeyahu
Matot The Three weeks
5754 | Rabbi Yechezkel Frenkel
On Memory and Disengagement
One disengagement leads to another, and those who disengage themselves from the past cannot bring us to our true future. Perhaps they can bring us to a Swedish or Luxembourgian version of the future, but not to the real destiny of the Jewish people.
The Three weeks Coping with Difficulties
5765 | Rabbi Aryeh Hendler
The Lugubrious Bed
The Chozeh of Lublin senses that the bed which has been prepared for him by the carpenter is not a rejuvenating bed but a bed of lugubriousness and anxiety. From such a bed it is impossible to rise invigorated with a thirst for renewed creativity.
The Three weeks Chassidish Stories
5764 | Rabbi Gideon Weitzman
The Three Weeks Rebuilding the Temple
The Three Weeks between the 17th of Tamuz and the 9th of Av are a time of sadness and danger. Rav Kook shows that they are also a time during which we can rebuild the Temple if we learn the secret of Causeless Love.
The Three weeks The Holy Temple - Beit Hamikdash
Av, 5960 | Rabbi Shimon Klein
The Meaning of the Three Weeks
: In mourning over the Temple, we refuse to come to terms with the destruction. We begin with a life in which the Temple plays no role, and, in stages, return to the feeling of "one's dead lying before him."
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tamuz 5755 | Rabbi Chaim Katz
"And Zion said, 'God Has Abandoned Me!'"
It is forbidden to use arrogance in a contemptuous manner, placing oneself above others, yet there are certain situations in which one has to be bold, not reserved, and to know one's self-worth. Our sages teach that in the generation of the messiah chutzpah will abound.
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tamuz 5761 | Rabbi Eliezer Melamed
The Four Fasts of the Destruction
After the First Temple was destroyed, the Prophets instituted fasts marking the tragic events surrounding the Destruction and the ensuing exile of the Jewish People. This step was taken in order to prompt the nation to grieve and mourn over the Destruction and Exile.
Articles on the 10th of Tevet The Three weeks